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queen-of-scissors · 2 years

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I saw your "god of the multiverse" thing where reader tells them abt the other games theyve played and i just-- JFJSJFJEBOFJSNFEOFN I AM JUMPING SO HARD ON THIS HYPE TRAIN--

I only have two words for you.

Among. Us.

You're welcome.

BUT LIKE FR FR THO-- HOW WOULD THEY REACT?? Since the entire thing is literally cooperate or die for crewmate, or Eat Hot Chip And Lie / Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss for imp

And like, imagine them being named Dolos or Apate as a new epithet if they enjoy lying as crewmate to stir the pot or just regular lying as imp (dolos was the spirit of trickery, apate was the personification of deceit-- you can make either kaeya, albedo, ruebedo or dain give the title since theyre all from khanriah)

Or like-- they could also be rlly uncomfy with being imp and just being a model crewmate and they could be given the epithet Eleos or Anteros because of it

Just-- THSKFJSKDJWJ soooo many possibilities for reader/creator

And like-- oh my gOD IMAGINE THEM TRYING TO MAKE THE ACOLYTES PLAY IT AHAHAHA

The murder?? Theres gonna be a LOT

Sorry if there was a lot, i just rlly enjoy what you've written so far!! Have a nice day :))

GOOD SHİT GOOD SHİT THATS SUM GOOD SHİT RİGHT THERE!!!!

First, explaing the game.

Everyones reactions will be diffrent about it, no matter how you explain it;

The scared ones

Noelle, Diluc (brother flashbacks),Barbara, Bennett, Razor (lupical PROTEC lupical!! NO KİLL), sucrose, Jean, Yelan (you... Kill your friends??)

The impressed ones

Kaeya, Childe, Venti, Hu Tao, Yanfei (sees it as a usefull skill), zhongli (MF is impressed by anything u do smh), Lisa, Ei, Yae miko

The confused ones (what why would you?)

Ganyu, Xiao, Diluc, İtto (doesn't even understand the rules), kuki shinobu, Kazuha

"İ WANNA TRY!!! oh wait does this count as blasphemy-"

Childe, Venti, Albedo, KLEE (actually thinks it like a game), Yelan (ok since you said its not actually killing them i wanna try), İTTO, Nahida (knows its a game), Heizou

Now if we were the imposter you are right. İt doesnt matter if you are bad at it, they are going to call you as some god that has been assosiated with trickery.

İ wrote a story about it. But didn't make the reader as imposter because no one wouldn't dare to say you are an imposter. Even as a joke

ESPECİALLY if it was a traitor!AU. Tough im not sure that they would even play if that were the case

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İ made the story of how you got the title a bit long, i hope you like it :)

More under the cut!

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"Have you guys ever played 'vampire'?"

Your voice echoed in the throne room, they looked confused, they weren't expecting your answer to be another question.

You were bored out of your mind. Watching people come and go in the room just for them to ask for your guidance about daily stuff was a pain, both phsicaly and emotionaly. So you opened your phone to get a bit of a downtime while no one was there to ask for your divine wisdom.

"Forgive my rudeness, Your highness. But... What does that have to do with it?" Said Albedo, who got there for your divine wisdom.

"You asked what i was doing in my device, so in order for me to answer, you must for answer my question."

"Vampires..." He mumbled "aren't those imaginary, humanoid monsters that drink blood to survive?"

"Ah, ok. i see that you never played."

"Play what exactly?"

"So its a game about a group of villagers trying to find a vampire/werewolf among them.

You choose one host, and that person controlls the whole game, The other players all close their eyes and the host walks among them, and picks a vampire.

Each night, the vampire chosses someone to kill and that person is eleminated, and each day, the other players try to find the vampire and kill them.

İf they choose the wrong person that person is also eliminated."

Acolytes look at eachother, that sounds so fun?!(deffinetly not the kill eachother without killing eachother one is the reason not at aaaallll)

"Ohh, İ see," Kaeya said, impressed "so this game also tests you ability to not get caught and lie, as well as finding lies. This is interesting!"

"...turnes out, you might have a chance after all, since the creator favors imposters and all." Diluc half whispered to him.

Lets pretend we didn't hear him for his sake.

"Yeah so on my phone im playing it but this version is harder."

"OHHH i wanna try!" Klee said exitedly!

Jean stoped her "Klee, the creators device is a holy one, so we cant just ask them to give it to us for our desires."

"Actually i dont mind! Does anyone else wanna play?"

The smartest yandere ones were having a light yagami moment ("if i agree to play they might think im a murderer and discard me but if i don't play they will think im avoiding these types of games because im a murderer myself and i would get discarded again. Oh i know, i will wait someone to take the bait and say 'of everyone is playing then i will too' then no one will suspect me hahahahHAHAHA İTS ALL ACORDİNG TO PLAN-)

"İm... Sorry your Grace but... İ think i will just watch." The depressed Yaksha said, he hates to dissapoint you but he doesnt want to kill people that he concidered friends, even if its fake.

Zhongli looked at you and his gaze softened.

"İ shall join if Your highness would join as well."

"But of course!!" There is no way you're going to miss THİS OPPORTUNİTY.

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The game.

This isn't the game where you taught them how to play. (Which... Took like.... 3 whole days. İm not writing that)

Yae and Venti (a dangerous duo smh) asked for your permision to make the event prised. You agreed, this might make things more fun! They didn't told you what it was though.

PLAYERS: ChildE, Bombombaku (Klee), windbornbard (Venti), foxlady (Yae miko), Rockhead (zhongli(venti messed it up)), (your choise of player name), COOLGUY (itto), Al Haitham, Ei, Dreamy (Nahida)

İt started as you being a crewmate. The god team were immediatly on your side, attempting to keep an eye on you. But as soon as you shot them an angry glare from across the room, they left you alone.

you were a bit worried that the imposter was going to get too scared and not kill you for the whole game just because you are the creator, and having the gods in Real life be at your Side even in the game might scare them even more.

You watched as rockhead leave the caffeteria, Ei going to the opposite direction from him. But windbornbard did not move at all. Not even an inch.

You made your character walk up to him, wondering if he is having connection problems, just as you tried to get him to move, he killed you and ran away.

..... That smart mother fu-

Honestly, you weren't mad at all, (just a bit if you game rage alot like me) because this could help to ease tention in the first few rounds.

You followed windbornbard a little, wondering if he is going to get another kill. You both passed the boiler room and through security camera room. Seeing other players and fake tasking.

DEAD BODY FOUND

Your toughts were cut short as they discovered COOLGUY's body.

Windbornbard gasped "the creator is dead?!"

Your throne room was filled with whispers, and angry mumbling, completely forgetting that COOLGUY is also dead (poor itto).

"Who would dare such a thing?! İ tought the gods were going to be at their Side the whole game!" ChildE said panicing, as if you actually got killed.

Al haitham picked on quickly, "if there was an agreement on protecting them. That can only mean that one of the archons is the traitor."

"Maybe, both of the imposters are gods?" Foxlady spoke in her teasing voice, profably to see Ei's reaction. "After all, theres only one way that they can get away with this, trap them and leave no witnesses behind."

"What you are saying is unlikely," Dreamy objected. "if that were the case, one of the archons would be dead as well, as all of us promised to protect them, one of us would have to witness the murder and the second imposter would kill the other god."

"Uhhhh... Guys?? İm also dead??? HELLO???"

Rockhead cutted in. "Sadly, we cant make any assumptions on who killed our creator, since we all parted ways to do our tasks by ourselves when..." He trailed off in the end, Coughing to hide his emberrasment, he didnt want to admit that he got scared.

"Then im voting to skip the vote." Windbornbard said. Someone find this man, you can't deal with his smug face if he wins!!

And thus, everyone skiped the meeting an no one got voted out.

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Next round you decided to do your tasks. That might help the crew a bit. While you go through the corridors you noticed Al haitham and windbornbard is going to somewhere together, and its not the first time you caught them walking Side by side. You're not sure if Al haitham got suspicious of venti or he is an imposter as well. Either way its an interesting duo. Maybe you should check the cameras.

You went to security room and looked through.

Blockhead was standing in the corridor, watchin Ei from a distance.

ChildE was avoiding everyone, immideatly leaving if the room has a player inside, he is taking it so seriously, he is profably not an imposter, you thought.

Klee was getting in and out of the rooms, Following random people and waiting just besides the door. İt suspicious but it could be that she is just exited to play.

You closed the security camera window, and looked across the real world room instead.

İtto placed the phone you gave him to his side and crossed his arms, pouting because he was the first one to die. Trying to look at other peoples phones from where he stood, to find the other imposter.

You could see the sweats forming at zhongli's forehead. He was SUPER concentrated. Why was he, amongst all of the other acolytes, being so serious about it anyway?

You looked at the traitor, who realised you were looking at him and smiled at you. You smiled back, at least one of them is having fun!

Suddenly his smile grew bigger and went back to his phone. Uh-oh he has an idea doesnt he.

EMERGENCY MEETİNG

"AL HAİTAM STOP FOLLOWİNG ME" he partly screamed.

"You misunderstand me, i was just following to make sure you are not a traitor."

"Oh realy?! Then explain why while we were in the room to the east, the doors were locked and you started to chase me?"

"...that did not happen."

Foxlady cutted in "now that you mention it, i do remember that one of the rooms that had my tasks was blocked by a door."

"İM VOTİNG AL HAİTHAM" windbornbard said. İts all going acording to plan hehehehehe. Some other started to back him up as well.

"Wait."

Everyone in the room turned to Blockhead.

"İ understand that all the evidence seems to be targeting hım. But i know my bard friend here for quite long, i can tell when he is being serious." He looked at windbornbard, "could it be that you are trying to blame Al Haitham for your crimes against our creator?"

"You seem to have quite the imagination old friend" he said calmly, imitiating him "it is as you say, we've known eachother for a few thousand years after all. So i too, can read your emotions."

Venti once again turned to you "your highness said so themselves, it is just a game afterall, so theres no need for me to treat it as a war between rivals. Of course im not in my serious mood."

He turned back to him "now thats out of the way, i must ask, why did you gets so offensive and tried to protect Al Haitham? Kind of... What was the world? SUS? don't you think?"

You almost burst out laughing, it was so funny hearing it from him, he sounded like a grandpa who is learning internet lingo, despite his youmg voice.

"Are you suggesting that, i am the one who killed the creator?"

"Now i didn't say that, you could be the one that killed 'COOLGUY', since you have strick policies when it comes to the creator."

They glared at eachother while Ei voiced her opinion. "What bard sais sounds very belivable, while mr Zhongli also made a convincing point. İ suggest that we vote Al Haitham, and if he does turn out to be an imposter, we can figure out from there."

"Well, it seems i can't get myself out of this one even if i try. İt was a very fun game." Haitham sighed. He accepted defeat, just like that? This isn't like him.

"İ expected for you to fight a bit more over this, not gonna lie"

"İ was more interested in the gameplay, rather than the prize itself. So being able to see the working mechanics was enough for me."

"Ah i see, maybe i can teach you sometime?" You asked innocently, not caring of the angry glares that turned to him as soon as you said that.

"İ belive the academia would bother us as soon as we got out, so that wouldnt be productive." He crossed his arms, knowing that this knowladge could profably get him killed. "But i do appriciate the tought, thank you, your highness"

Everyone hold their breath as the result was written in the stars.

AL HAİTHAM WAS THE İMPOSTER

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Everyone, including the ghosts stayed in the positions they spawned in. What now? Do they do an emergency meeting again and vote zhongli off? But is this right to assume right away? Should they wait a bit longer for evidence?

Before the meeting cooldown ends, everyone finally made up their mind. They all went back to their tasks.

You almost finished all of them, but the bar was only half full. Acolytes are too busy trying to find the last imposter that everyone seem to forget doing tasks causes instant win.

This round was worse, the lights go out, random doors closing and opening, causing panic among people, but venti was nowhere to be seen. Maybe he is doing this because he paniced, He has to kill 6 players all by himself afterall.

EMERGENCY MEETİNG

Ei, Klee and Dreamy died

"hOLY shit- 3 people died?!" İtto screamed.

"This can only mean one thing.." childE said, he was the one that pressed the meeting button. "Mr. Zhongli, care to explain?"

Everyone in the room looked at both of them

"İm not sure what you mean, Childe, would you be as kind as to enlighten me?" He said calmly, but it was obvious that he was getting irritated.

"The whole round, the rooms were randomly opening and closing. İ can tell that was a trap to create confusion, windbornbard has experianced the same thing. Only the smart ones that are experianced with faking their identities can think of this trick."

Oh this was a personal attack-

"İ agree with your opinion, however, i suggest that you choose the next words carefully, afterall, there is only 3 players left. İf we happen to fail finding the imposter now. We might not win this game."

Foxlady stoped both of them, realising this conversation contains topics from Real life"now now, lets not fight, even though the prize is grand, it is just a game after all."

Yeah what is the prize anyway?

She added "But i must say, what you said is quite right, only the ones that has an experiance to fake their identities can in fact create confusion skillfully"

"See? She agrees with me-"

"Hey now, have some manners. Don't you know that it's rude to interrupt while a lady is speaking?" She teased. ChildE cursed himself for being overly exited while she continued;

"However, the reasoning for you to claim blockhead- ah i meant Mr Zhongli- is an imposter is not realy a strong one. Since everyone in this room have experianced acting as another person."

Venti jumped in "yeah, aren't YOU the one that uses a fake identity in the first place? Harbinger of shneznaya?"

"How curious," zhongli added "blaming people is exactly what the imposter would do. İf i hadn't known better, i would have said that you are the imposter that is trying to cover up."

Yae raised a Brow "hmm? Do you have something else to say?"

"Not that it matters of course, but i have noticed that my usually talkative friend seem to be rather silent." He eyed Venti "And we have accused hım for being an imposter before."

"İm just watching, as you guys make this whole game about yourselves. İ have been having fun with my tasks!"

"Oh realy?" Yae teased, "what was the last task that you have done?"

"İ... Uh... The wires?"

"Which ones?"

"İn the.... Upper part of the ship."

"İs there even wires on there?"

"Yes there is! İ meant the caffeteria!"

"You were having fun with matching colors? My aren't you childish~"

"İ uhh well- you asked me the last task i've done! Not my favorite one!"

"Why are you stuttering bard?" Zhongli pressed on.

"You never got questioned by the shrine Maiden?! She is scary" he whispered

"Of course not, unlike you, i am not someone that causes trouble."

"OH come on! Why are you all mean to me all of a sudden?!"

"Yeah im voting him." Said childE.

"İm only voting for you because you told me im scary and that hurt my feelings" she laughed.

"Well, Barbatos, any last words?"

"İ was sooo close, thats not fair ;;"

WİNDBORNBARD WAS THE İMPOSTER.

Crewmates win!!

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Childe stoped you from leaving. "Your highness, do you have a moment?"

"İ guess? What is it?"

"Since this competition doesnt realy have öne winner. How do we know who won?"

"Zhongli, Yae miko and you won, because all of you survived untill the end."

"....does that mean you will go on a date with all of us..?"

"Wait what-? A date??"

"Fox lady said that the winner is going to have a date with you."

"İ DİDN'T KNOW THAT????"

"THEY DİDNT TOLD YOU?!"

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The whole tevat was mourning their loss. The day you were killed by the hands of someone they knew you held dear, there were offerings to your shrine, silent appologies were made.

The weather was rainy, as the world cried with your followers.

This is the scene you were greated with as you walked towards the shrine that made for you, after giving the winner the... Prize...

"Uhh guys.. im not dead?"

"Sometimes we can still hear their voice..."

Your acolytes was eternaly happy for your short visit ("guys i didn't leave-"). You never died. Anyone could still feel your presence when they looked at the sky, to the infinity.

You are the

İnfinity.

The undying one...

"Oh your Grace welcome how have you been? :D"

"The game was fun and all, but do you guys have to make everything dramatic?"

"Speaking of the game, were you the one that found the imposter? But got killed because of it? "

"Man i wish. Maybe next time i won't die immediatly!"

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#genshin sagau #sagau #sagau brainrot #self aware genshin #sagau x reader #genshin impact sagau #genshin isekai #genshin impact venti #genshin x reader #genshin x you #genshin impact x reader #genshin impact #yandere genshin x reader #genshin cult au #genshin imagines #among us

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teabreakpancakes · 1 year

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GENSHIN SAGAU Headcanons

hopping on because @mirology explained lmao, why HCs only? too lazy to write rn, ill do it tmrw or some other day, this is the old SAGAU btw, not the one wherein they're the creator n shi

Genre: Fluff

the characters become concerned with how much space the game is taking up so nahida ends up tampering with the code so you have more storage

rlly appreciates the fact that you still do your commissions and farm despite it being 1am alr, especially since you have school/work

you have more crystalflies than usual, not that you notice, but diluc collects the ones at dawn winery for you, albedo collects the ones he comes across in dragonspine and in general, they all just, collect the crystalflies they see

they argue about who deserves the good weapons lmao: beidou subtly flaunts her feats when the claymore users talk abt it, diluc acts like he's done with em but he also acts like he's most deserving of it, eula is indifferent but when they try taking hers, she gets defensive, you gave it to her, why do they get a say in it?. Meanwhile, itto is ranting abt how he obviously deserves it, chongyun is just silent but he does want the weapon too, dori is rich enough to buy anything, xinyan wants it too and sayu is just, tired why claymore? i love claymore

they're concerned abt your health, have you seen how tired you look? they wanna be able to take care of you irl :(

they send their letters even if you don't manage to log in, it's okay, they understand but don't leave them for too long

if you're rlly busy, you still try your best to play, they really love that

you always win the 50/50 or get them and a standard five star character

somehow, your mains rarely come home tho, esp(especially) if they're a four star. like, you've got the others c6 but they're still like, below c3, they're rlly sorry but they can't tamper with their drop rate like the five stars can :( chongyun main here : chongyun was so frustrated with himself when he didn't come home with shenhe to you, he didn't come home, not even once

eventually, when they found out how to watch you from outside the app, they took advantage of that: they save you from rlly awkward situations by playing your ringtone hehe, they're also capable of calling the police if you're in a shit situation

they like to remind you abt stuff you have in your to-do list

the harbingers, including the fatui and tsaritsa, were a bit.. eh with you, at least, until they heard you talk abt them, you wanted to pull for them?? meet them in game?? YOU WERE EXCITED FOR THEM?? HUH? wow, they felt shocked and maybe a bit flustered,, just a bit

man, they rlly wanna taste the food you have in your world, esp xiangling, the food looked rlly nice okay? oh and if you're bad at cooking, ei relates dw, even benny is astounded by how bad it is tbh

zhongli is embarrassed to hear you rant abt how often he talks when he's idle, childe actually teases him abt it no, we won't talk abt how people ship em, they're actually a bit.. eh abt that, like cmon, haven't people heard abt platonic relationship?

benny actually feels really upset when you get bad drops or artifacts and he's in the team, tho the others depending on who they are reassure him that the drops are even more bad occasionally even without him

okay, even without you having that five star, you've got their sig dish, like wha-

you like their clothing? man, they wish they could give you some of their clothes, they'll try their best to bring you into teyvat, besides, your world is shit anyways-

okay so, for context, i copied zhongli's red eyeliner thing and modified it to suit me if you copy their makeup look and you like it, they feel so flattered, they're so smug abt it too ahdajkdbkf

if you cosplay one of them, they're gonna B R A G, i mean bro, cosplaying takes so much effort okay

#lawless.writes #genshin.writing #genshin x gn reader #genshin scenarios #genshin x reader #genshin x gender neutral reader #genshin sagau #old genshin sagau #self aware genshin

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pinksmonkey · 9 months

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i have so many thoughts on this but i will try to make this coherent (re: trying to convince your friend).

a lot of mike’s character arc recently has been about insecurity and not feeling as though he has worth/value. will is the only character to address these feelings directly and dispel them.

also, we can gather that mike has been, to some extent, struggling with these insecurities as far back as season one. dating el in s3 and s4 has not relieved his insecurities — the relationship has made them worse.

every mlvn moment we had in s4, barring their fight, was centered around will’s pain/heartbreak. the way this love triangle was filmed in s4 makes it damn near impossible to root for the “happy couple,” because “oh poor will.” if people don’t think that was intentional then they’re just kidding themselves.

the painting is also a huge player here. mike felt insecure in himself and his relationship with el for the entirety of season four. he couldn’t say ily to her. the only thing that changed between their fight abt him not being able to say ily and him saying it was … will giving him the painting. el was arrested and then taken to nina — there’s nothing that happened between the two of them to change how mike felt because they weren’t in the same place. the painting and the following conversation were the only catalysts for the change in mike’s behavior. this storyline also isn’t resolved; mike made that confession thinking will’s feelings were el’s.

there’s just. a lot more i could say about this but i don’t want to go on forever and ever. there’s also a tiktok creator who i think does a very good job explaining what byler would mean for both characters’ arcs.

if your friend could agree it would make sense, but just doesn’t think ST would “do it” — they already are. will’s canonically gay and in love with mike. none of the cast shy away from this in interviews, especially david harbour, who infamously knows Some Shit. it’s already happening.

Thank you so much! This is awesome! ☺️

Yes, narratively Byler just makes sense. I don't understand why exactly but my friend just seems pessimistic about it, like he thinks the cast and writers are just lying about everyone getting a happy ending. Obviously I'd have to talk to him more about it to understand why he feels this way, but hopefully the more I can understand what he believes is happening/will happen, the more specific evidence I can use to change his mindset on it.

And thank you for linking that TikTok account, I checked it out and there are a lot of great videos I will definitely be showing my friend!

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70-percent-water · 2 months

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Hey, Hey!

Doctor Alexander Glass here with a PSA. ((RANT CW: RPF)

If you write RPF or make artwork in the same vein you're fucking weird.

I genuinely DO NOT know how some of you in the Ego fandom or just enjoy content creators can still make things like that and believe it's completely OK after what happened to a lot of creators.

It's 2024, I don't care if you're a minor, If you're old enough to be on this app, you should have the comprehension skills to understand that shipping real people in an explicit manner is incredibly disrespectful to say the least.

Especially in the most OBVIOUS case.

The two creators involved in the most talked abt example were so heavily impacted by that shit that it caused them to distance each other for a while, they're friends for fucks sake, do you have any understanding about how hard that is?

And I'm also going to point out, that there are a good chunk of accounts with this type of content, who do not tag it as RPF and instead use the main creator tags to put their work under, leading to it popping up on peoples FOR YOU PAGE, and making it so it can't be blocked outrught.

Not everybody wants to he exposed to that, I honestly think it's on the same level as someone not tagging triggering content like violence or hate speech.

Am I being overdramatic? Maybe, but I don't give a shit cause apparently neither do the people doing this.

((PSA OVER))

#anti rpf #please touch grass #youtube #fanfic #fanfiction #writers on tumblr #Markiplier #Jacksepticeye #rpf cw #rpf tw

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vintage-bentley · 3 months

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never thought id defend hazbin hotel but life comes at you from unexpected angles lol

I think a lot of the lesbian rep ive seen has been so chaste and basically besties bc otherwise ppl say its fetishising or appealing to men? bc when i was really into the harley quinn show there was a lot of accusations how the main romance (harley x ivy) was super fetishistic even tho the buildup was really good and the only thing that changed when they got together was that they talked abt their sex lives a lot, and sex is half the show's humor otherwise so it wasnt out of place at all.

idk i feel like lesbian rep is always damned if you do damned if you dont

Unfortunately I agree. And I would blame misogyny, but I see it happening with gay male representation as well. You either have uwu soft bois for straight women who want the romance but think gay sex is icky, or you have fetishised hot dudes for the straight women who are obsessed with what gay men do in bed.

So I think it just comes down to how poorly heterosexuals view homosexuals, and how our representation always has to serve them first and foremost. It can’t make them uncomfortable by being explicit…but if it is going to be explicit, it better make them horny.

I haven’t watched Harley Quinn yet (it’s on my list!), but if the whole show is full of sex jokes I don’t think I’d mind a sexualised lesbian couple. Although maybe it has to do with the genre…women in superhero shows are always going to be sexualised because those kinds of shows cater to a (straight) male audience. Although I’m not sure if that applies to HQ. I can’t really comment because I haven’t watched it.

With HH, I agree that they’d be receiving criticism either way. Who knows, in another universe a version of me might be posting about how much she hates how sexualised Chaggie was lol.

But I think the reason it stands out to me so much, is because of how sexualised the rest of the characters are, especially the gay and bi men. Vox and Val are shown making out with tongue in the finale song. Angel Dust is the embodiment of what I would show as an example of how straight women fetishise gay male characters. So Chaggie really stands out to me as being sanitised because they’re an F/F couple, considering nobody else gets that treatment.

It comes off to me as a straight woman (or a bi woman with a heavy preference/bias towards men, idk the creator’s sexuality) who reallllly wants to think about men kissing and fucking each other, but doesn’t give a shit about or is uncomfortable with the idea of women doing the same together.

#you’re right though sadly #it seems like there’s no good way to represent lesbians #but in the ‘we’re in hell and everyone is so so horny’ show?? idk I’d be fine with them talking about eating each other out lol #asks #anon

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mayax81 · 3 months

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"in the mid 2010s most filmmakers switched from film to digital" like okay yeah but just lighten it though like if ur starting darker why not lighten & saturate it afterwards because u just said you can do that w digital so why aren't you Doing it

don't make excuses ur Bad *spraybottles u*

and also stage lighting where did that go

ur still leaving things dark on purpose and it's bad fuck realism give us art & entertainment

your audience is still losing information either way especially if they're not 20somethings with flawless 2020+ vision like ur statistically screwing over 90% of your audience out of the story you're allegedly trying to communicate to them wtf r u doing eat sand

like why do your Artistic Intentions involve just showing ppl a black screen and why is it happening so often now and why are soso many of you coincidentally doing it at the same time all the time forever

i Get focusing on & just trying to portray 1 thing i really do and it works in specific limited instances but i feel like a lot of the dark stuff does Not achieve its intended purpose and is just Plain Dark and Communicates Nothing like u have to look at the aggregate here u have to say hmm is Everything dark? why? and take a step back & be like maybe stage lighting is not my enemy fraidycats i just think "dark can be good" suddenly gave everyone license to be like "use it all the time"

like every single thing i look up explaining the transition to more darkdullundecipherableness overlooks the problems it's posing to everyone to just be like Actually no ur not allowed to complain abt it (despite so many ppl complaining abt the OVERSATURATION of darkness in films to the point of not knowing wtf is going on) and digging their heels in being like No i don't wanna change my methods (whereas first it was all "the pattern isn't there it's just u" and now "yeah so what a pattern's there live with it it's artistic choice for u to not be able to follow the story i'm trying to tell u" like okay man shit whatever)

and it's all the big articles doing darkfilm apologism too it's small creators and average joe (i.e. the majority of humans on planet earth) being like Hey this is bullshit please Show us a film instead of seating us in a dark theater blasting nonsense noises at us

there are allowed to be 2 darkfilms that are hard to visually follow every 10 years and that is the maximum. i make the rules. i am declaring it.

it's 2k24 it's time to bury darkfilm apologia once and for all

IF UR ACTUALLY GOOD AT YOUR JOB YOU CAN HAVE BOTH A DARK MOVIE/SHOW AND AN AUDIENCE THAT FOLLOWS WHAT'S HAPPENING ONSCREEN it's just an excuse

worms. u r beneath me.

#filmography #lighting #rant #mypost #and the examples they give for why darkfilm is suddenly so popular are cherrypicked Good examples whereas the vast maj is Bad #i declare: darkscreen has to be good & useful or else it's not allowed

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neoriots · 2 years

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are you still gonna consume dteam content while taking a step back from the fandom or are you completely breaking with it? just out of interest

im gonna be honest, this is a really hard question to answer. im gonna drop a cut bc i’ll probably ramble for a moment.

okay so i think for dream specifically, i don’t think i could go back to consuming his content to the level i was before like, ever. i think this was a rude slap of the rose colored glasses off my face that i can just.. never reconcile with, at least for like.. many years. i think i could stand to see him around, i think i could look at smth he’s posted and see it as i see Any person on the internet but i think that Connection with him is personally severed. i think most of that is less what Happened and more his reaction. i think it was irresponsible at best, gross and manipulative at worst.

i unfollowed his accounts, his notifications are off, i just cant let myself be part of His community that allowed a situation like this to even happen in the first place yknow? especially the reaction from the twt community at large, i just cannot support that. it disgusted me and it still Does disgust me. i think he needs to either completely step back from his community or massively rework it to fix some of the glaring issues in it because the way it runs is not healthy or normal at all anymore and i only realized that truly once i stepped back myself. i think a big part of being in his fandom Is defending him, justified or not, and i just can’t look at the past two years and the past week and do that anymore. i cant.

i think for snf i still have an attachment to them, that unless something drastically changed (god forbid.) i think i will continue to consume them but more casually than i did before. they are, as always, tied to him and its delusional to think i could completely support them and be in their fandom without being tied into dreams fandom as well. so i think i will consume their content and whatever else they do, but i wont be engaging in the fandom aspect as i did before publicly. it just seems irresponsible for me and i stand by that still.

i’ve been in the mcyt / gaming creator scene for over a decade now and it would be silly of me to act like i haven’t watched creators who did bad things in the past or even were friends with ones who did (not to drag him but markiplier is my boy and his relationship with pdp Still weighs on me sometimes—and im a rtah watcher and have been for a long time, have you seen the shit thats come out abt them every couple years? yeah.)

the truth is we don’t know these people, they are people on our screens making entertainment and you can never truly know whats going on behind the scenes and as a single person i know my opinions will never change anything so it’s stupid for me to pretend i have some moral high ground for being aware of glaring issues when theres millions who will move on in ignorant bliss of anything going on with their faves, but were watching it just the same. and its always been this way, its just easier to see the problems now with the connection social media gives us.

tldr; yes i will to an extent, but that could change as things change and develop and id be a hypocrite to act as if i wasn’t going to.

#the art of the ask #dream situation #please forgive me for this long ass rant it probably makes no sense but i hope it lays out some of my thoughts #i literally started shaking writing this and thinking abt posting it so sorry if this makes no sense

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lovearne · 1 year

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I dont want 2 make U upset or anything, but fr0ntier keeps make post about ppl who talk abt re-blogs, n im p Shure they meen u n others :/ may be block them n their frends just in case becuz they act like bullies

That's really funny, because they actually blocked me over some shit that happened in a server because this theory isn't confirmed but I think it was because we were talking about interacting and how true gender and body neutral writing is better.

But anyway, them and their friends blocked me, so I'm pretty sure if they are talking about me they need to grow the fuck up and stop stalking people they blocked. It's not cool and hip.

It's giving obsession vibes. I am very much not into that. But yes I talk lots about interaction and shit, because legit I get 700 to 800 notes on a fic and 695 to 795 of them are likes. We've talked about how bad interaction is as opposed to how it was back in wattpad and fanfic Era fics.

But as far as them making vague ass posts about how we are causing discourse. It's because it makes them uncomfortable. And good! They should be uncomfortable. If you consume but never interact that makes you a piss poor person. Even if you just leave a fucking heart emotion as a comment, or just rb with no comment I'd be happy.

Anyways. Thanks for letting me know, I appreciate it, and I think it's probably a good idea for any Fandom that fr0ntier is in to have a good look at them and how they act. I'm not trying to say they are a bad person. I'm just saying that causing drama over someone asking for interaction is not a good look. Especially because they have the interaction we vye for. They are ontop of the proverbial soap box telling us to calm down because not all creators have bad interaction.

They need to do some serious introspection tbh. I don't have any beef with them. But I have very good reason to believe them and their friends are the source of the hate anons and messages I get. So they need to grow up and stop being so middle and high school.

Asking for reblogs isn't weird.

You want discourse. Unblock me and fucking message me like an adult. Don't be a pussy and hide behind anon hate.

Also thank you very much anon.

#anon #this is a biggie #ask #answered

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memryse · 2 years

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(kind of a rant abt hermitshipping discourse, feel free to scroll past i forgot how to do a readmore on mobile. don’t reblog please!!)

godspeed to that one hermitship artist who continues posting on twitter despite all the normalised harassment towards them. that’s brave

i’ve had to unfollow literally every hermit/traffictwt main i used to follow on twt for publicly being like “hey i think harassing this person is okay bc they post ship stuff” like. i’ve said this a billion times but i am not a shipper, if anything as an aroacespec person i prefer to interpret dynamics like desertduo as queerplatonic and i filter a lot of ship tags bc heavily romantic stuff is just not my thing. but the absolute nerve you have to have to speak on behalf of content creators who are not only grown adults but probably twice your age, many of whom have already expressed their opinions towards ship content. i hate this idea that anything you’re personally uncomfortable with has to be morally wrong, you can’t just not like it. hermitshipping does feel like it blurs the line a little too much to me personally but that doesn’t mean i think shippers think irl shipping is okay like… everyone here is entirely aware of the difference between character and cc and nobody gives even a single shit about the irl ccs. it just blurs the line too much for my personal comfort. and with trafficshipping i care even less because it’s easier for me to see that as a whole narrative with even greater character-cc separation than hc so i do rb trafficshipping content on occasion

i’m a big proponent of “don’t rely solely on boundaries for everything, use your common sense to determine if something is okay or not” but here we are talking entirely about fictional personas that the irl ccs are largely okay with ship content for (and those who aren’t, the majority of the fandom avoids shipping). especially when the works in question are tagged so that they can be easily avoided by anyone at all who is uncomfortable with them

yeah apologies for the rant it’s just so fucked up that people will be like “i don’t like this person’s art. time to post about how much i don’t like it and think it’s morally wrong so that everyone else can know how bad and morally wrong they are and how morally correct i am even though i’m exposing you all to this supposedly ‘bad’ thing for my own validation”

#discourse #ship discourse #hermitshipping #trafficshipping #<- for blacklist #don’t rb

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equalseleventhirds · 3 years

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fdsjflsk hello i have had the magnus archives and the web specifically on my mind AGAIN and this is only tangentially related to the convo last night BUT

a lot of ppl have shown up on my & other ppl's posts abt 'wow manipulation and spiders? why??' going 'well but there are spider tricksters in mythology'

and like... yeah, ok, there are. but are there that many, compared to other animal tricksters, and spider not-tricksters? enough to justify the exclusivity of spiders to the one entity??

so i. made a list, as i do. (you can't judge me for this you should know by now i make lists at the SLIGHTEST provocation) actually i made TWO lists, one of spiders in mythology & how they line up with tma's entities, and one of tricksters in mythology. (i knew some of these already but i also got a lot of them off of wikipedia. also tried to avoid detailing the uh. worse aspects of mythologies. we all know abt it but that isn't the point here.)

(we are ignoring for now my theory that the web's actually shit at manipulation and mostly just does control, and considering any spider that does manipulation OR control to be web-aligned)

spiders in mythology (and how they align w/ tma's various entities, if they even do):

anansi: okay i'll give you this one! yeah he is the trickster spider! yeah he lies & manipulates! he's not really uhhhh evil in any way or would inspire ppl to generate fear for the entities to shape themselves to, but ok yeah i'll give you that one as web!

arachne: she literally just wove tapestries? got into a competition with athena and wove a tapestry detailing the infidelities of the gods. like, if anything she is eye, going around revealing truths and stuff.

uttu: mostly seems to be about creation? weaving & plants. hid herself in her web, which isn't manipulation at all, it's just hiding. not rly entity aligned at all, at worst she's probably a victim of like, the hunt? maybe?

iktomi: another trickster! p much the same boat as anansi, where he's not particularly evil, but we'll let him be web.

spider grandmother: she just is helpful!! she creates & guides & protects! no entities.

ai apaec: creator & leader god again. only sometimes a spider.

djieien: just a very strong spider who hid its heart so it couldn't be killed? like, if anything, end.

great goddess of teotihuacan: associated with spiders, maybe not a spider herself? doesn't seem to be much known abt her, but potentially underworld, darkness, earth, creation, lots of things. no mention of manipulation or control.

nareau: another creation god. i guess he does do some arguably flesh-aligned stuff in that creation, but like, so do a lot of other creation myths.

areop-enap: again creation! hmm what a pattern emerges. doesn't seem particularly aligned with any entities.

tsuchigumo: ok i can give you web here i guess? bcos it does trick ppl, even if that tricking also kind of slides into spiral/stranger territory. and hunt territory obvs it literally is there to consume prey. also can give you evil here.

jorogumo: can also be web! there is lying & shapeshifting here, like the tsuchigumo, but slightly less pure evil? there's like, a couple of neutral depictions, but also evil ones. anyway. web.

gamba: not on wikipedia but wikipedia only talks abt the filipino story of the spider who wanted to marry the fly, NOT gamba, and i LOVE gamba. anyway she just created things. got too into her work and turned into a spider. idk what entity is 'fear of being a workaholic' but it's not the web. maybe lonely, since she neglected her family relationships abt it?

conrad of constance: not a spider himself, but drank out of a cup with a spider in it, showing that the cup was not poisoned even tho ppl thought spiders were poisonous. i don't... i don't think this is an entity. hey jonny maybe take some hints here, spiders are not that bad--

robert of bruce: my dude saw a v persistent spider and was inspired! it's chill it's cool! spiders helped scotland gain independence one time! wow no wonder fucking smirke hated them--

pan twardowski: again not a spider himself, but he lives on the moon and a spider hangs out with him and brings him news. a friendly spider! pan twardowski himself can be lonely ig, maybe the spider is eye, but like, a friendly eye.

vedic philosophy: now this is not technically mythology but i thought it was interesting, in this one a spider's web hides the true reality from ppl. could be argued as web but seems pretty much spiral to me? but like, a not v evil spiral, just like. neutral? it's fine.

overall... majority creation gods, actually. very few even evil depictions? wow jonny, rude.

anyway, list of animals (besides spiders) shown as tricksters in mythology:

humans! majority humans!! also like. specifically clowns several times? like, specifically clowns.

just kinda non-animal spirits/beings/whatever? sometimes vaguely humanoid.

rabbits & hares

foxes

coyotes

wolves

g...goats? sort of?? half a goat, anyway, thank you pan.

cats

ravens

mouse-deer! look up mouse-deer you will LOVE them.

monkeys

raccoons

also raccoon dogs

snakes

horses

praying mantises

tortoises

lizards

also a bunch of tricksters who shapeshift into like, a multitude of animals, but given that those are not their primary or even main secondary forms i guess we will not go into those (mostly that would just. take so much time omg.)

i didn't do a full tally, but foxes especially show up a TON, and rabbits or hares quite a bit, so either of those could've been the fear-god of manipulation. if like, we're relying on the 'there are stories about spider tricksters' thing (which we are not, in fact, i think jonny just picked a Cool Literary Symbol and did not think abt the worldbuilding implications so much)

EDIT bcos ppl keep misunderstanding: i don't think tricksters are the main source of the fear of manipulation. i don't even think tricksters should be considered a reasonable source for the web's manifestations. BUT people kept bringing them up when i had issues with the web's spider exclusivity (when both spiders and manipulation SHOULD have multiple metaphors and not be exclusive to each other) and that is why i made this list, thank you.

(also i'm aware there are ways to justify spiders meaning control sometimes. given the worldbuilding of tma, i don't think there's a way to justify them meaning control always. but that's a different post.)

#fdskjlfs hello good morning i'm making lists again #but ppl bring this up SO MUCH and like... it's not as relevant as they seem to think?#like STATISTICALLY spiders should not have wound up where they are in the tma fear pantheon #but oh well

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Could u elaborate about the dsmp story being bad? Not a rabid/brain dead fan, just genuinely curious and I enjoy reading people's rants lolol

oh you dont know the floodgates you just opened

a few things:

1. despite not liking the creators of the dsmp anymore, I don't actually hate most of them. [the ones that are particularly unsavory fall outside of this of course] so all that I'm saying i truly mean in a critical sense towards the story, its also just all purely my opinion as someone who enjoys fictional and fantasy stories and who like criticizing works to see what it does well and what it doesn't do well

2. for clarification I'm going to use the c![name] to indicate when I'm talking about the characters. Don't get me wrong, I think its annoying too but its the only way I'm gonna be able to write this thing without getting something across the wrong way yknow?

3. I stopped watching the streams after November 16th, [save for one Techno one but I closed out after a particularly bad story beat lol] and so all information coming afterward is all second hand from either me seeing people on twt talk abt it or people dming me. All i really know is up to dream's imprisonment and some stuff past that.

4. This is mostly aimed towards the "main" story, so stuff abt the badlands, eggpire, and whatnot are briefly mentioned.

anyways uh, i'll try to be brief but also include enough information to get why i feel the way i do on some stuff across

A. Performances Alright obviously these people are all streamers, so obviously they might not be the best actors, and hell no one is even asking that of them. However, when you're telling a story that's based on the audio with the visuals kinda coming to a second, it's gotta be pretty strong. I will say, some of the best actors in my opinion are Wilbur, Tommy, and Tubbo. I would include Ranboo but I never watched any of his story bits or story streams so I can't say much. Wilbur and Tommy are excellent in selling their character's emotions and feelings, when I watch the stream I don't feel like I'm watching an rp but an actual thought-out story yknow? And one of my favorite Tubbo examples was in the Hog Hunt video whenever Techno attacked him, he sounded genuinely afraid and I believed everything his character was feeling.

However, unfortunately, not everyone is gonna be that good. And I'm gonna say it; Dream and Techno have to be the worst out of the entire cast. I understand Techno's whole character is this monotoned badass, however, when really emotional moments hit I feel like he never lets that fall, and a lot of intense moments just ring hollow. And I'm sorry but Dream's attempts at being intimidating leave me laughing whenever I watch them. It feels like he watched that one scene from The Marriage with Adam Driver and Scarlett Johannson and said "Oh this is what good acting looks like! Just yelling." His whole "I don't give a FUCK about Spirit!" speech isn't as great as people keep making it out to be. And whenever he tries to act coy when being a villain it feels like a guy reading the script for the first time, a bit like he's trying too hard. I have more problems with his character but his portrayal certainly doesn't help.

Everyone else is fine, and I don't feel strongly either way about a lot of them.

B. The "Lore" Okay first off, I can't be the only one who thinks it's silly that people are calling the dsmp's story "lore" when it's not, it's the fucking story. Lore indicates backstory to either the world or the characters, which a lot of the streams don't really pertain to. This is a really petty section but god it's a weird pet peeve of mine.

Other than the misusage of "lore" vs "story", the actual lore and world-building of the world are so lackluster that new elements can be introduced whenever and it often feels cluttered or not well thought out at all. And here's the thing, I feel like if the writers sat down just for a few minutes to establish world rules and general history, a lot of this could be solved! but so much is made up on the spot that it starts to feel like they're grabbing at straws to keep people invested, trying to reach that next high and intense story beat without actually earning it.

C. The Egg / Eggpire This is a pretty minor note since I was only invested in the Egg storyline for a little bit, but god it's so underused that it's almost embarrassing. Bad has provided this super interesting antagonistic force that's infecting the SMP, can control people, and who one of our main character is immune to, and it's just never used or even talked about again? Now I understand if he wanted to keep it to a side storyline only, however, to introduce this borderline eldritch creature and force within the world and then never have it dealt with is so weird.

D. The Writing Oh boy this is. kinda a big one. Now I'm not gonna lie, it's pretty obvious I have a bias for the Wilbur writing over the current team [that consisting of Dream, Quackity, and Tommy mostly]. I don't this his writing is perfect by any means, the characters constantly bringing up traitors got obnoxious after a while, and writing Hamilton but in Minecraft really isn't the modern Shakespeare or anything. However, I think his exploration of characters and plot progression was a lot more thought out and well planned, like he actually had two brain cells behind the story yknow? The current team I think fails to be as emotional or even impactful, things happened too fast and my god was everything drowned in angst for so long.

Don't get me wrong, you gotta have your characters face hardships to make them reach their goal believable, but some of the shit they put the characters through just felt like too much. From c!Tubbo's constant comparison to c!Schlatt [who btw, fucking ordered his death and kept him from his friends in a nation he felt trapped in] and on a side note, i kinda really fucking dislike the "c!Schlatt dad!!" au's or the au's where c!Tubbo inherits some of Schlatt's features, it would be like c!Tommy getting a c!Dream mask after his exile, it's feels so weird yet people eat that shit up for some reason.

But god, did c!Tommy get the brunt of it all and in retrospect after his final death, it kinda feels really fucking gross. Now obviously, I'm not trusting any of these people to write decent mental health representation, but c!Tommy's PTSD and how it was explored was just degrading. [Specifically the scene in that one Techno stream where he saw the final control room from the first war, and had a flashback / panic attack where he started calling out for c!Dream. I understand this is an actual thing people with PTSD will experience, but it felt so fucking stereotypical it got on my nerves. I actually had to close out of the stream because it made me feel sick, fiction shouldn't leave you feeling that way.] And don't get me started on how they basically reused the formula from the previous arc. [Problem introduced -> Tensions rise as things start to fall apart -> Big confrontation -> Exile -> Return from Exile -> Blowing up L'Manberg, again.]

And speaking of characters-

E. Character Arcs, or the lack of them In my genuine opinion, some of these characters' arcs are so disappointing. Especially c!Tommy's. I'm not one to believe that he was a "selfish" character or anything, however, his goals were simply set on his discs and maybe c!Tubbo, he didn't have much outside that. However, L'Manberg gave him something to care about, he gave up his discs for it and he fought for it tooth and nail, I think it taught him to open up to others and trust more. It was a great character arc for him to have, seeing him still fight even after his first exile alongside c!Wilbur, to return safely to the nation that he and his found family had built.

But then his second exile happened, and I feel like all of that was undone.

c!Tommy's exile genuinely pisses me off for so many reasons. It's not that characters can't have their low points after reaching a major change or feeling like they've "completed" their arcs or anything, but it's more of the fact that it seems like he's never going to heal that feels like a spit in the face, especially to people who might have had setbacks like that before. Progress isn't linear, sometimes things happen and you get knocked back down, it can take a while to get back up, but I don't think c!Tommy's character is ever going to be allowed to get back up. From c!Dream, who pretty much was a constant abuser in his life, killing him then reviving him, and his still fractured relationship with c!Tubbo, which by the way I have a had time believing they would still be friends after all that happened, it feels like he can never get a win and it's generally kinda a shit way to treat your characters who have been abused. Of course, not all abused characters are going to get happy endings, I'm not trying to dictate that they all should, but c!Tommy deserves one and the fact that it's so obscure feels shitty.

Side note: we still don't have a canon reason to give a shit abt the discs. Like I'm sorry but without some sorta connection to the MacGuffin why should we give a shit about him getting them other than "he wants them lol". Like hell, I would even accept the classic "they were the last gifts from his parents" or something, but we still don't have a reason.

c!Tubbo also lacks a fulfilling arc as well, from someone who started out as a yes man, he has progressed a bit into having his own interests first, but besides that sometimes his character makes me so. depressed. He's easily one of the most pushed around and hated characters within the story, all for being a kid who didn't know what to do and he's in the same vein as c!Tommy; these kids can't get a break. Also, his anti-violence beliefs morphing into the "lets kill c!Techno lol!" bit was so out of place and without proper build-up it was like. what. And now he's building nukes?? god c!Tubbo makes me so sad because he's kicked around constantly and never given a chance to grow.

Another small note, I also don't really enjoy c!Techno at all. Besides the previously stated reasons of lack of emotions when they're really needed, I find his character to be weirdly pretentious. He talks as if he's constantly been betrayed and hurt but I personally, don't see it? Like, I think one of the main examples was the Pogtopia vs. Manberg war, yknow he wanted to end the government but they just reinstated it after they won = c!Techno upset. But this doesn't make sense to me because why did he think otherwise? The entire time c!Tommy had talked about taking back their nation and starting again, so the fact that c!Techno suddenly thought there would be a sudden change is, to put it bluntly, kinda fucking stupid. I don't want to say that he "plays the victim" or anything because that feels a bit harsh, but his character feels so far up his own ass that I can't enjoy him.

I have a major grip with c!Dream as well, but that's getting it's own fucking section.

F. L'Manberg This is a quick note before we get into the, forgive me for this, endgame, of this entire rant, since the next two sections are tied together. But god, L'Manberg makes me upset because it feels like they gave up on it.

Don't get me wrong, I understand that it is supposed to be c!Wilbur's "unfinished symphony", the thing that destroyed a once charismatic and widely loved man, his attempt at power that utterly ruined him. But the fact that it just got blown up in the end after everything and left to rot felt like such a waste of time. From the first war, to Pogtopia, to even c!Tommy's exile, it all felt fucking worthless in the end, and the story is actively closer to how it was when it started now more than ever. I wished it was actually allowed to exist and continue to be a peaceful place in what is a chaotic world, but no it was just snuffed out because why dedicate to this concept of finding others you can band together with and feel safe. fuck that noise apparently?

G. The Villains Now villain-wise, I'm only talking about c!Dream [during the first war], c!Schlatt, and c!Wilbur. And believe it or not, this is actually mostly positive.

Now I'm not gonna lie, c!Dream as a staring antagonist wasn't bad actually, he posed a genuine and threatening opposition to L'Manberg, even if we didn't know his real intentions or motivations as to why he was against it. He's lucky in this sense because he didn't have to be good, he had to be passable. If anything, he felt more like an anti-hero than a tyrant or traditional villain, and my god do I wish he kept this theme going forward.

Now quick disclaimer, I don't like JSchlatt as much as the next guy, he's an adult man who should know better than to joke about some sensitive topics and act the way that he does. But the one thing I'll ever give him is that damn, was he a good actor for his character.

Now here's the thing, c!Schlatt wasn't particularly deep at all. He had no real motivations behind his exile of c!Wilbur and c!Tommy other than getting competition out of the way, had no reason to act the way that he did and yknow? that's fine. The reason why he worked was from his performance alone, he was actually intimidating. When he came onto the stream and was doing his typical bad guy stuff, it was actually intense to see what he would do. Whenever he would almost catch c!Tommy back in Manberg, whenever he would begin to pressure c!Tubbo, it put you on the edge of your seat and it felt like everything would change at the drop of a pen. He's a villain to be a villain, and this works out because he's just charismatic and well put together enough to make it interesting, even without the backstory or motives.

c!Wilbur however, is much more tragic, and the best villain of the story. He essentially was the "mentor turned evil" trope and it felt terrible watching him descend into madness, unable to trust barely anyone except for c!Techno and c!Tommy. Hell, in the end I think he still cared about them both, despite losing everything. Sure, he blew up L'Manberg, but there was still a smidge of the old c!Wilbur in there made everything he did feel melancholic. His death at the hands of his father after achieving his final wish was chilling, and something I still think about.

Until yknow, Ghostbur came back way too soon to let people feel his loss as a character within that world. And then he got revived, pretty much-undoing everything that moment meant for his character lol.

And then there's the worst one:

H. Dream. I'm going to be completely honest, c!Dream is one of the main reasons why I dislike the current dsmp stuff so much. Outside of his actions as a person, the way Dream decided to write his character as this overpowered madman of the dsmp really just. destroyed any intrigue that he could've had. Perhaps this is from my growing dislike towards him, manifesting into a bias towards his character, but god I cannot fathom why people try to insist he's interesting when he has as much depth as a fucking puddle.

And here's the thing, I'm not even entirely against c!Dream being a villain, hell I think he would've been great as an anti-hero if anything. Make him sympathetic but not through c!George to get your precious "DNF" points or anything, but show him actually caring about the people within the dsmp, including c!Tommy and c!Tubbo. This would make his rival status with them just a bit more complicated, sure they're enemies, however, he doesn't want to hurt or kill them, and there's still a level of friendship there that keeps them bonded when things get super bad. This could've been super interesting to see, the first villain of the story receiving a sorta redemption arc then descending into madness as he started to fixate on being a god. This is all how I feel personally, but god do I feel like it would've been better than his current character, and hell would've worked with how he was during the Pogtopia arc, before the war that is. I'm not trying to tell Dream how to write his own character, but there are so many other ways he could've done the madman seeking to become god rather then. whatever the hell we got.

Because instead, we got this power-mad asshole who does things... because he can? And that's one of my major issues: he tries to surround his character in mystery to make him "intriguing" but it's kinda like c!Techno, it comes off as pretentious. Not only that, but you cannot keep waving around this mystery of a backstory without ever actually revealing it. I know the story isn't over, but c!Dream is effectively at his lowest point, now would be the time to reveal his backstory. But no just keep it in the dark and keep everyone guessing, that's totally fun and not at all tiring and annoying. (sarcasm, if anyone needs it)

And back to his performance, he doesn't sell this aloof, cynical and strategic warrior that has perfected the blade or some shit, he comes off as some angry guy yelling on reddit. which i don't need to tell you, isn't intimidating. It feels like he's trying to have c!Schlatt's intimidation combined with c!Wilbur's depth, but instead he's like a little brother who's trying to hard to mimic his older brother and is kinda embarrassing himself.

but other then that i dont feel too strongly abt the dsmp lol

but seriously, these are the main complaints I have abt the story tbh, I could probably talk about more but I wont because man. this is probably gonna get me in trouble if any of the hyper-dsmp fans actually read it.

#wow this is long #txt #anti dsmp #anti dream #dsmp crit #dsmp critical #yeah im tagging it i dont give a shit #dream crit #dream critical #the story is shit yo!

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t-lostinworlds · 2 years

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Hi t!

I've been seeing the rebloging thing alot now, and I have been on the app for almost 2 years now. I do have some reblogs of spreading awareness and shit and my account is customized. The thing is that I don't reblog at all because I have internet paranoia and sometimes it gets bad lol, I do like stuff and ppl's work and sometimes if its a blog I'm comfortable with I comment and if I'm extra bold I dm the author

Anyways I do feel bad abt not interacting with ppl who make content and spread shit around but it makes me uncomfortable to do any of things ppl keep talking abt and I just wouldn't enjoy being on the app cuz of the paranoia. Is that wrong of me? Genuine qs :((

hmm, i guess first and foremost, your mental health will always come first so don't feel bad if you're trying to just have a good time on here by curating your experience and such.

but like the few posts that's been going around have said, there is an option of making a side blog dedicated to just reblogging stuff all while remaining completely anonymous. you also have to factor in that it's mostly the feedback that keeps content creators going because we do do this for free. and you can give feedback all while staying anonymous, too. that's what the ask feature is about. there's also the option of using a vpn where it changes your location every time you use the internet if that's one of the things bothering you about it. if the main thing you're purely uncomfortable about is interacting with blogs, trust me, the only thing you'll be getting if you show some love is love back.

look, i see both sides of the here. and i'm not going to sit here and force people to reblog stuff if they don't want to. BUT people also shouldn't expect the content to keep coming if they're not showing content creators some love you know? it's a two way street. and the thing with tumblr is that, there's literally no other way for us to know if people enjoyed our work if we're explicitly told so.

and as for the likes thing, it's a case of it meaning so many diffrent things. a like can me they liked it, plain and simple. a like can also mean they're saving it for later. a like can mean they're just scrolling past it, doubled tap and moved on. or a like can mean some bot is just trying to spam our notif to get attention. especially when it's spam likes. whereas reblogs AND comment tell us, okay, they enjoyed it to a point that they went out of their way to let us know, let me reward them by putting out more content.

i guess what i'm trying to say is, it's not a one size fits all. you're not wrong for wanting to do what's best for you and your mental health. but there are also lots of options for you too to make it comfortable all while still reblogging and sharing the things you do love and enjoyed.

#that's totally up to you want you want to do with your online experience #answered: anon #answered asks

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furnass · 2 years

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7, 8, 9, 10, 15 and 17 :3

7. if you were a quest character, what weapon would you fight with?

Uhhh I think a sword is cool!! Or uh fighting using fists & shit. I also Really love the idea of music and magic being combined so, my own instrument clarinet :]

8. if you have one, tell us about an oc x canon ship that plagues your brain (doesn't have to be romantic! doesn't have to be yours either). there's no such thing as cringe, we are all here to have fun

MAN fuck you okay /lh/j. Okay so I’ve posted abt Viol here maybe once before. Copernica has two hands. One for Viol, and one for Armilly! I have a whole thing abt them in my brain that I’m too embarrassed to talk abt publicly atm </3 what I Will say is that they meet at the college, Viol knows Copernica when she was first in the college! Copernica left, Viol stayed. They re-meet when the quest crew comes back, and Viol is working for Hyapathia.

9. give us an overly specific headcanon that you have

Unsure how specific we are talking abt so. I do have some specific ones for t&t, like Thayne being selective mute & having sensory issues :]

10. Orik Tits out Tuesday, Copernica Gay Wizard Wednesday or Furnass Friday?

As the Creator of Furnass Friday I’m biased :] but Tits Tuesday is like. The classic.

15. if you draw, what's your favorite steamworld piece that you've made? if you write, what's your favorite fic that you've written?

I’ll do both!!! I will always love my first art of Krona even though her design Has changed some bit. Fic wise… my new quest one Berserk is def one of my favorites. Krona’s fic, The Red Queen’s Scientist, will always have a special place in my heart, as it was my First Steamworld fic.

17. gush about your favorite character. just do it

UHHHHH I have multiple I’ll do Copernica tho bc lesbian solidarity. I adore Copernica’s character so much bc like. Man I can’t even begin, her stuff w Armilly, she cares for the crew but she’s still like. Sigh why did you do that?? Or !!! this is Not supposed to be happening!! And I like that abt her. I love during the college how like. With Hyapathia she’s like. She is so betrayed and it Shows in her sprites and her words when Hyapathia is defeated. She’s smart and she Knows it, she’s a bit too confident at times but she really loves to learn and teach others which is shown at the end of the game. I see her with like an older sister relationship with T&T especially when she kinda butts in during the orphanage scene with Galleo’s comment. HER GLASSES! I love her glasses characters with glasses :) and Since I’m Gay I ship her with armilly so. The duo cards they have. Oooh my god those are so fucking cool, and then like. The way Copernica reacts in support to Armilly when she learns abt gilgamech???? They are gay sorry I don’t make the rules.

Armilly next only bc I relate to her a lot with ADHD. I like understand her desire to be included especially with the guild club, her want to be one of the Cool people and she keeps on Trying. She doesn’t understand why they don’t want her! She’s doing her best to be a hero and is supported by her friends and family. During the game she learns about like. Being who you are I suppose, and just embracing yourself. I’ll always love her scene with Gilgamech, the angst is just. Chefs kiss. When she just learns that she doesn’t need anybody approval it makes me :] She is trying her best, and has the best of friends to be with her :)

#!!!!! thank you sarge <3333 #furnass.txt #steamworld #steamworld quest #!!! sorry this took so long LMAO #I was busy this weekend u know what was happening #but :] thank you thank you

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epikulupu · 2 years

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pt 3/3 of ykw2 anon trilogy you find a way to get back to the past and stop the dedcloud by LITERALLY DESTROYING MASSIVE MACHINES?? SOMEHOW>>?> reminder nate and katie, the canon protags r 11???? and only have their ghost friends????? so the creators are nuts with that one then u go to dame dedtimes hq which is a coal factory i *think*??? i cant remember lol but like its some kind of factory. think 50's japan factory then ur grandpa who doesnt even have ghost friends that he lets help him bc hes a loser tries to fight kin and gin with hovernyan , whle hes doing that u try to fight dame dedtime but shes basically immortal bc kin and gin can rewind time. and then hovernyan gives ur grandpa milk bottle tops w those classic yokais names on them nd ur grandpa finally lets them help him so he calls out for help with the milk bottle caps and they turn into yokai medals (how>????) and his yokai watch just appears on his wrist??? again, how??? he then permanently destroys kin and gin (in psychic specters he seemingly does not actually do this) and then u destroy dame dedtime who starts absorbing springdales life energy to become dame demona bc shes mad abt having her joy ripped away after being convicted of a crime she didnt do in her human life. u then defeat her and restore humanity (this bossfight is the hardest mf thing. it is so painful im not even kidding.) to turn ur time back to normal. afterwards ur granda vows to finish the yokai watch and u go back to the present the end not rlly the end bc theres sm postgame. in all 3 games especially psychic spectres. anyway who did u think we were at the start lol (|)u(|)

holy fuckibg shit this game sounds wild skdgjfhdg i can barely handle pokemon bosses lmaoo

also i thought u were an irl who follows me on here but perhaps not /lh i just know he knows more about ykw than i do

#epiki;#⭘ ask

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daydadahlias · 2 years

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I just read Showing Hearts and wanted to say thank you for writing such a beautiful story. You’re one of the few fanfic authors that I trust to write about topics like that since you’re always so respectful and have so much tact. No pressure to write anything but I always look forward to reading your stories and can’t wait to see what you write next! (Also I had an ace awakening reading Bug’s Life lol)

Hello, hello!! sorry in advance for the amount of words I'm about to say

I don't really know why I had the urge to put this under a line break lol but somehow I didn't really want this ~out in the open~ as much. I would like to say thank you very sincerely for this ask, it really does mean a lot to me.

There's a lot of anxiety that comes with posting sensitive material like SH (and y'know I really do post a fair bit of this type of content. Since SH has been posted, that means a little over 10% of my fics deal with the theme of sexual assault) and so I worry a lot that it will be poorly received by people or that at some point, y'know, people will start giving me shit again about talking about this too much. But I really... want to talk about these things and I think these types of stories are very important to tell. Considering statistical information, everyone at some point in their lives will be impacted by sexual assault or some form of sexual trauma, whether it occurs to you or someone close to you. It will always be - and should always be - a part of the conversations this world will have. And I wish there was a way for it to be... More talked about than it is. Because, even though it happens so frequently, I feel as though it's very often overlooked or that people find themselves uncomfortable discussing it because they feel they're not educated enough to contribute to the conversation. And the reason for that is because mainstream media doesn't discuss it in any way other than for it's tantalizing and taboo effects (and makes it even harder to talk about because the characters in those media find it hard to talk about!!). I mean, 13rw was one of the most popular shows for some time, right? And it was marketed to a teenage audience and discussed the trauma of rape. So explain to me why that series needed to have three extremely graphic rape scenes to depict that topic?? It didn't. And, in terms of healing arcs, how often do you see a rape recovery narrative where a woman (bc it's pretty much always a woman) doesn't turn into a vengeful, spiteful person?? Sexual trauma doesn't make an aggressive person. And I'm sick of seeing rape narratives where a woman's only way to reclaim her safety is by taking others’ away, if you know what I mean. To be frank with you, I have yet to see a fulfilling narrative surrounding rape and rape recovery in media. The only place - the ONLY place - that I have read an emotionally fulfilling rape narrative has been in fanfiction. And that's a fact. So,, I want to be able to be part of that conversation - and open people up to that conversation - if I can.

I really do, very genuinely, very deeply appreciate you saying that I handle this respectfully. And I always so appreciate being a creator who people can trust, especially with this content that I create with so much of my heart going into. I wish that there were more creators in general (not necessarily in this fandom) who created rape recovery narratives. I think they’re really important.

Also, ACE AWAKENING!? I am honored! I’m so glad Bug’s Life could be that for you!! If I had a nickel for every time someone told me they thought they were asexual after they read smthn by me or after having a conversation with me abt asexuality lol... I’d have a handful of nickels. Any time that I can help people with anything in terms of... self-identity, I guess, I’m really happy. I really love that. I’m always here for conversations regarding any of these topics and I’m always happy to have them, y’know <3

#this is like. the sweetest thing ever #abridged version of my blabbering is: thank you #pigeon #very sincerely thank you #i care so much about that fic

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