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Are people allowed to request more than one creature?
If so please consider sham hatwitch from the dragon quest series ^^
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Yes absolutely!!!That is 1000% okay as long as it doesnt become spam (my definition is like ~5 requests for 2 or more of the same guy in the span of 1-2 days)
Ok review time
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SHAM HATWITCH FROM DRAGON QUEST!
From @spoofsies
Design; 9/10 - stub legs!! he's doing a little dance!!! He reminds me of lechonk from pokemon but that might just be me idk. One of my favorite character design tropes is "little guy hides under disguise"!! Also I love the hats scary face!
Purpose/Effectiveness; 8/10 okay i still dont know anything about dragonquest but i did a lot more research this time!! The wiki said that it was a monster with a low-level attack, making me think that it's probably one of the first you encounter in the game. Honestly this is really good low-level enemy design! It isnt that scary or imposing, but still enough to let the player know it is gonna attack you. Also wizard hat + using magic! We stan magic boars here!! From what the wiki also said it looks like it has other varients?? So as you go into more dangerous places you encounter more dangerous hatwitches?? That is actually really cool if it's true
Overall; 9/10 - this little piggy cursed your entire bloodline
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kitten3-3 · 4 months
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Hiii!! Kitten-33 here!!
!!Please read this post before engaging in my content!!
Please don’t interact with my content if:
•You’re under 18/are a minor
•You don’t like nsfw content (block don’t report)
•You’re and your blog includes: racist/racism, homophobic/homophobia, transphobic/transphobia, fatphobic/fatphobia (esp ed blogs), and/or you’re just generally a prick
-Now time for a little intro!!-
Hi! I’m Charlie!! Also know as Kitten3-3!!
I’m 18, Bi and use She/They pronouns!!
I am currently single however unless I’ve spoken to you and gotten to know you I won’t want to date you.
~My kinks~
Degradation, Praise, Dumbifications, Objectification, CnC, 0rgasm Control, Marking, Pet play, ddlg and mdlg, Begging, Being shared, Exhibition, Dacraphillia, And many more (I can send you the full list if you would like ^^)
~My Hard limits are~
Scat, Being a bully (I like degrading but don’t call me ugly and such), Gore, Manipulation, anything to do with feet, Unsolicited pics, Incest, Cheating, fetishisation of WLW or MLM (if I make a post directed to women please don’t try and get me to talk about/explain further the things I want another women to do to me if you’re a man!! It makes me uncomfy!!), And everything that is in my dni section
(More may be added later and I will tell you if you do something to upset me, if you break any of these limits/boundaries you will be blocked and possibly reported!!)
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•I love receiving pictures just please remember to ask if it’s okay to send them first!!
•If you don’t like nsfw please just block me! Don’t report me!!
•I love dms and talking to you all!! However please don’t get mad at me if I don’t respond! Also if you’re not following me I probably won’t say much!
•I may love talking about wanting to be stalked and/or kidnapped but don’t actually try and stalk and/or kidnap me!!
•I don’t and will not show my face!! Please don’t try and pressure me into sending you a picture of my face!!
•I dont and will not go to other platforms!! Please don’t ask me to!
•don’t spam my dms!! I love hearing from everyone but please understand I do get a lot and it’s hard to reply to all of them!! I do try my best but please be patient otherwise I will block you!!
•Please don’t tell me to dm you!! If you wanna talk to me that’s fine!! I love receiving dms!! Just dm me first cause I probably won’t dm you just because you told me to!!
•You’re not my Dom, and I’m not just going to submit to you because I’m a sub. You don’t own me and you probably never will.
-That’s all I hope you enjoy my blog!!-
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krispyykrab · 4 months
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heya my name is kris!! you can also call me metta if you like. i post a lot about undertale/deltarune but really this is an everything blog, so expect anything that my brain decides to fixate on at the moment lmao
some cautions before i get into my intro- im an adult, so i wont hesitate to reblog suggestive things now and again. however i will *not* be reblogging nsfw or anything of the sort, but anything suggestive i reblog will be tagged with "(suggestive)". follow at your own discretion. i may reblog posts regarding mental health topics now and again, so keep that in mind as well.
all in all, however, i prefer to keep this a generally positive blog all around.
things about me-
* im nonbinary, i use they/them pronouns, sae/ser neopronouns or no pronouns
* im bisexual, aroflux and on the ace spectrum
* i bounce around fandoms a bit but im generally interested in ut/dr, steven universe, and pokemon
* i love animals very much!! i have 5 cats, 3 dogs and 2 pet rats named melli and juno (they are my babies)
* im in college and im a cashier so im busy a lot of the time, please dont take it personally if i take a while to respond to anything
*** mutuals, i love tag games and tag a lot of my mutuals when i play them, please let me know if you do not want to be tagged in tag games ^^
** i spam likes and reblogs, again let me know if this is something you'd rather me not do
* on that note, i love making new mutuals, and current mutuals dont be afraid to reach out and talk to me :D
i think that about sums it up!! thanks for reading my intro and thanks for checking out my blog, hope you stick around :3
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(not a kris rp account by the way, thats just my name and i also love them dearly)
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phantastus · 11 months
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id come off anon but i dont have a normal tumblr blog jsut an rp blog, so i cant really just blog back and forth that way. i was hoping you had a public discord or something. to be honest i only know you for the silent hill stuff anyways, randomly found your blog here on a whim and im just lonely and been enjoying rereading the your fic 10 or however many years later. id be a lame friend anyways since im a surface level fan so its okay. thanks for replying
First off, don't put yourself down-- that's not cool! I doubt you're a lame friend to anybody. (Also, I don't judge people for not being as obsessed with Silent Hill as me-- I have plenty of friends outside the fandom who are very patient with me when I go into a Silent Hill fugue state and can't think about anything else, lol.)
I'm honestly not particularly picky about who gets to chat with me (obviously barring TERFs/nazis/etc/the usual) or what kind of blog they have-- all I really care about is that I can tell they're not a bot account. (I do have a Discord and don't mind handing it out, but because I use it to communicate with customers too I usually avoid posting it publicly in order to avoid lots of random/spam friend requests).
It's cool if you don't want to communicate through your RP blog or create a personal one, I'm not judging either way.
And lastly, thank you so much for reading my fic! I've been really excited about editing and posting it anew and I genuinely have no idea if anybody's reading it unless they say so, so I'm glad to hear you've been enjoying it!
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kodev · 2 years
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re:ocs
what's their story? how are their relationships with each other?
sooo sorry for the late reply, i was drawing up a diagram lol... my apologies for the sketchiness
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ANYWAYS oc dump below the cut so i dont spam people haha.. btw i appreciate ur asking so much i love talking about my silly guys thank you so bad
Game (tentatively titled appetite) revolves around Sedespa with Cailean being the arguable second main character. And perhaps love interest but I don't know if I want to go that far yet
Anyways Sedespa's backstory is basically thus: born with twin brother (not identical, sorry) in Eastern country in coastal mountains, raised by great-aunt who is a witch (I forgot to mention that a lot of this will not make sense without prior mahoyaku worldbuilding knowledge but if needed i can provide. actually i would LOVE to provide i love you mahoyaku. anyways carrying on) great aunt dies, house burns down in a fire, aapeli and sedespa join central rev after sedespa suggests it, sedespa begins to specialize in medical magic whereas aapeli is apparrently gifted with scrying magic and quickly rises up the ranks much to sedespa's chagrin, sedespa's girlfriend dies and aapeli eats her (again wizard lore) as her last request as sedespa didn't make it to the battlefield in time, aapeli is able to foresee the failure of central rev and suggests they leave, sedespa kills aapeli in a fit of.. well... jealousy anger resentment but he says its because he didnt want his brother to die a traitor, gets scarred and eats aapeli (more wizard lore), begins to travel the world but is never able to find peace, stops by a place in south where hes advised to return to his childhood home, and mysteriously finds it intact with someone else living inside...? he also has a brief stint with northern gang during which he transgenderifies
Sedespa is like 400 yrs old at this point give or take a few years
Cailean is the guy who randomly took up residence in the house.. Um... Cailean backstory: born on the border of Central/East/North but he was basically born in Central to like.. idk what the mahoyaku version of middle class is but basically that human family... his brother is a successful business man who migrated to east and his family are tradeworkers/merchants. Cailean's always been kind of awful at traditional school so despite his parents' best efforts he went into apprenticeship with a botanist. He hid the fact that he was a wizard until someone ratted him out and then he got kicked out, then went to his brother's for like support, his brother also tells him to fuck off (putting it nicely), and he finds this random house in the woods in which he lives by himself for the next like, 20 years. he's currently attempting to self teach botany while also having like zero idea of how to use magic at all... however he still cares abotu his family so he finds this random orb in the basement through which he is able to check up on them from time to time.. the house in which he resides is also almost sentiently taking care of him as well
Wow that was a lot of backstory anyways they meet up Sedespa spends three days of insanity trying to figure out why the entire house seems to be taunting him with nostalgia and guilt and eventually finds a fragment of his brother still residing within the magic tool he had (Hint: scrying orb), Sedespa and Cailean get along famously well before Sedespa discovers the orb and then Sedespa tries to explode Cailean so he can break the orb, Aapeli is taunting Sedespa from the orb the entire time, Sedespa and Cailean get into a scuffle and accidnetally break the orb and then I haven't written anymore.
Apologies for the wall of text, but let me know if you would want to know anything else!
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blushstories · 1 year
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hi! hope you're okay! :)
i just wanted to maybe explain a bit of the perspective of people who don't reblog stuff on here, not trying to justify anything because i'm aware that writers deserve to be recognized for their work and people should share it when they're able, but there are a lot of reasons why people don't reblog anything!
in my case i used to not reblog a lot if not at all because i read like 50 things a day and i felt like it would be annoying for the people that follows me to have their timeline full of my reblogs, especially because most of them were from different fandoms and had completely opposite interests, also it made me feel so anxious because there's stuff i don't want people to know about me that's maybe visible on the things i read (or at least it felt like that in my anxious brain) and i'm sure other people have other reasons and again, i know it's not fair and it doesn't justify anything, but everyone is different! as for me, now i reblog everything i read/enjoy, but it was really hard to let my anxiety about it go!
anyway, maybe this won't help at all and i'm sorry if it's inconvenient or upsetting!
i absolutely love everything you write and i hope i can read more of your work soon! :)
hello! thank you!
i do understand that perspective, and i absolutely can see those fears but i think it’s more than just being ‘recognised’, and i’ll explain why!
firstly, yeah being conscious of your followers is totally fair, however the beauty of tumblr is that you can make sideblogs, or tell your followers to blacklist/filter a specific tag so that their timelines arent clogged! even just queuing the posts gives a chance for them to scroll by if they want. ofc certain tws make sense to not share with followers who know you tho.
sometimes it isnt even about reblogs specifically; if someone left a comment or ask instead of a reblog that’s more than enough! the problem with just liking posts is that it creates a really consumerist experience on tumblr, which is first and foremost a blogging platform: so when i see empty blogs and their like pages are just full of fics i bluescreen a bit. these days, the like to reblog ratio of literally every artist (writer, fanart) is really really sad to see, their audiences just consume it without even sending a kind thought to the creator!!! doesnt that make your heart ache??
imagine a small town. everybody knows everybody, small businesses everywhere trading their own products to share the love and hyping up each other’s babies (their passions). that’s how i imagine blogs, and so when i see spam likes without reblogs, or a “part 2 when??!” when said person hasnt even commented before or reblogged, it transforms my blog from a community space where we share thoughts about blorbos into a product that only serves to entertain.
i really dont care about followers or note counts; i do care about having conversations with anyone who decides to hang around, if that’s a reblog chain or an ask or a comment thread then that’s how it is! we can talk headcanons or daydreams (within reason) or just generally chat!
i just cannot describe how crushing it feels when i open my notifs and only see likes. it makes me close the app straight away because there’s no one to interact with. also, it gives the message that someone read my fic, and liked it, but not enough to share it with their friends.
i hope that clears it up a bit more! it’s not a vanity or note count thing, if you comment or send an ask about a fic that’s exactly the same thing! thank you for reading and let me tell you i say this with nothing but love.
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campesine-moved · 1 year
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Hey I'm starting a new cottagecore blog and I'm sorry if you receive this a lot but this is so big and i don't know how to start thanks anyway byee now
aahhh dont worry, i havent received any asks like this, thanks anon ^^
So, I guess it depends if it's your side blog or your main blog. But I guess the only major difference is that if it's your main blog, just make sure to follow and like/reblog with similar blogs. Don't just like posts, reblogging them too is key for the tumblr ecosystem. adding tags is also a guaranteed way to be noticed.
If it's your side blog, then the only differences is that you can't follow/like, but you can still reblog and add tags. Just make sure your cottagecore blog is linked somewhere in your main
uploading is a good way of getting noticed HOWEVER you need to follow these two rules
ALWAYS CREDIT YOUR GIFS/VIDEOS. DO NOT REPOST WITHOUT CREDIT. AND PLEASE DON'T REPOST FROM TUMBLR THAT'S WHAT REBLOGGING IS FOR sorry it just infuriates me whenever people dont add any sources or just say 'not my post/credit to the owners' or when people just repost instead of reblogging. the cool thing about tumblr is that there is a specific place where you can add the source link
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please use it. or you can just add the link on description, but people can delete your captions.
2. please don't spam tags. I get it, you want to reach the largest audience as possible, but please make sure it stays relevant. I usually add around 15 tags to my post, i recommend keeping a max of 20 tags
and those are my tips!! you can send me the name of your cottagecore blog if you want! :D (i follow from conejxs)
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infranthrax · 1 month
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please take the time to read my guidelines before sending in a request. this post may change in terms of new boundaries, events, request statuses, and so on.
all first to know information can be found here.
UPDATED :: 28/3/2024
my requests are currently: open
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i will only write for my listed fandoms found in the memory bank.
for any and all requests, please allow me a maximum of five days to complete them. however, i do have jurisdiction over what i want to write versus what i dont want to write. (i have a job. that’s why i ask this.)
do not spam my inbox. this is self explanatory. if i see a repeat ask, i will automatically delete which ask is newest. this is also in regard to chain asks, such as “send this to a blog/person that x,y,z.” as an extension, please do not give me likebombs as this is known to hurt engagement over a vast majority of platforms.
if a specific gender/sex of the reader isn’t specified, i will automatically assume it to be gender neutral. this extends to headcanons as well.
i will not write oc x canon, though i can write canon x canon and reader x canon. oc x canon may be reserved for commissions only.
attaching to the previous bullet, i will not write the following topics: sh/unaliving or childbirth (general,) scat/urination fetishes, pet play, tickle play, or agere when used in a fetishized context. (smut.)
when reblogging, please do not use my personalized tags to reblog my content. to me, this is considered to be a soft repost. any attempt at reposting any of my work is prohibited! if i find it, im reporting it.
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i will write for any character listed in my memory bank, with some exceptions if i feel as though i am not ready to write out a character. these exceptions will be outlined accordingly and may change with my own learning.
infra’s trigger warnings
please respect my triggers. if i see a request that has one of them or multiple, it doesn’t matter, i will not complete the request. i don’t have a lot of them, but they are:
domestic violence
substance abuse
sh/auto unaliving
please keep these in mind when you make your requests. i do not owe anyone an explanation— any word on this matter is final.
smut files
🔞 any blog that is a default, ageless, or a minor that interacts with any post of mine— whether it be liking or reblogging, commenting or what have you, with a post that is nsfw, will be blocked immediately. 🔞
if needed, the tag to block is #infranthrax after hours.
please state the gender/sex of the reader as strictly male or female. i can easily write gender neutral work, however in this context it’s easier if i have a gender alignment for anatomical purposes. if specified i can separate it out as both male and female in sections. (headcanons only.)
it is a requirement that you state if you’re 18 or above in your ask, if you ask as an anon. If you ask for a smut request with your account name present i will give you an age check. i will reject any smut ask from a minor, an ageless ask, or from any account whose age i cannot identify.
got questions?
send any direct questions my way! i’ll be more than happy to answer any questions you have about anything listed here. any other questions can be answered at my other blog.
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here's the obligatory rules post!
sorted by basic stuff that's on most blogs and EVIL stuff that's NOT ALWAYS MENTIONED
the tl;dr is be respectful please , but if you want to you can go ahead and read it regardless!
i use the bold to make it easier for people with ADHD/DDD and such to read, ! yeah
basic stuff
for like stuff I see on every blog. still important reading but you can skim a bit more it's ok
that thing you see everywhere. if you're a bigot go explode your preferred body part and then go on a journey of self discovery before coming back to me
unlike most other blogs , im chill w you sending suggestive asks here..please make sure to only send suggestive asks to my ocs who are old enough (if you aren't sure feel free to ask in dms) and id also prefer if mostly only friends sent me anything Really suggestive.
do not send any asks that contain jokes about or references to pedophilia or incest.
if I don't like your ask im hitting you with THE BAT.thank you!
M!As and giving physical gifts to my ocs is always allowed and honestly encouraged!!!
additionally, oc interaction is COOL AS FUCKING HELL!!!! this also includes canon au interaction! if you want a proper RP w any of my mobile iterators or anyone in group oceanic, check out @oceanremnants
please don't take everything I say here as canon to the games!!! I have a lot of specmech and specbio stuff and i dont know 112% of the story yet so i sometimes say things that Just Aren't True one way or another. if you're curious abt in canon stuff, check out the wiki or ask my blog @threedeliciousflavors !!
sending spam asks is completely okay!!! this blog is low stakes fun for me and I like answering a lot of asks at once
evil rules
for all the ECIL rules that are EVIL and not super regular
referring to any of my ocs, or any canon characters, as "chonky" or "larg" or any actively negative or infantalizing descriptor term for "fat" will get you blocked immediately. idc!
if one of my ocs sets a boundary in character, even if i do not state i am setting it in the tags,.please follow it!
everything here is more or less canon t my oc au unless specifically stated otherwise or it would actively contradict smth else (M!As can be explained prolly I'll try to do that . later
if you mention interactions between my ocs with others ocs , you get a free 1 affection of your choice
resending asks that have been asked in the past to characters that didn't answer them would be cool....... btw.....
all of the ocs in my rw toyhouse folders are askable and interactible at any given time!! keeping this in mind, however, I generally will answer for them in the current timeframe of whatever rp I am focusing on
please try to avoid mentioning irl stuff!
ans th most IMPRTrule....
gay men
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nikkiissleepy · 1 year
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Hello ma'am,
I'm a fellow Love Nikki player & would be interested to know what your favorite non-limited edition suits are! I want to craft some (I play purely for aesthetics, not a completionist). Please, feel free to elaborate as much as you want.
Sincerely,
FishHater
hi hi! so i typed up a much bigger (nvm this got longer than expected again) answer but tumblr hates it when i add images on data lately so um. take two
some of my favourites that cost diamonds to craft:
lost in dreamland + starry fantasy
they both have really cute hairs and i love starry's makeup. i got dreamland ages ago when the event ran but i still use her pieces often, especially her dress and hair accessories. starry is at the top of my crafting wishlist rn, im missing five items and theyre all top tier.
rosy waltz, prayer dancer, starry mentor
from the og and best garden secrets event. rosy waltz is cute, i dont use her dress as much as i thought i would but her hair and makeup and background items are great. prayer dancer has these super fun water sleeves that im obsessed with, and her top works great with mermaid tails and the centaur body. starry mentor is another i havent finished but i have up to her hair and i have to keep myself from using it all the time.
rose adventure + night rose bride
i wish nrb wasnt tiered over rose adventure bc i dont really use her much, tho her pieces are cute. nrb is amazing however and worth the price to me, her dress is stunning and the castle background is so cool. i also really like her crown and makeup.
and craftable welfares:
ode to dawn
has a cute coat pose, i spammed it a lot when i first got it. the flower hairpiece and waist piece are nice too.
shadow fiend
her wings, horns and shoes are so usable. i originally wanted her for the coat, tho i dont use it that much anymore.
ballad to adeline + sunny's windowsill + prime + starlight psalm
this set is pretty grindy bc its four suits tiered one after the other but all the suits in the series are pretty nice so its worth it. psalm is the one i use most but i like the hairs for all the other sets too and sunny has a cute little coat piece.
lantern fair
i love her red coat, and it comes posed too! also her hairpiece is kind of like drooping bunny ears, very cute.
luna angel
very old but still very cute set! all the recolours are lovely.
red-haired asura
iconic gun holding pose. thats about it.
these are all i can remember at the moment. hope you find something you like! if all else fails, theres always the lifetime suits...
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cumdumpsye · 1 year
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Hiii!! Skye here!!
!!Please read this post before engaging in my content!!
Please don’t interact with my content if:
•You don’t like nsfw content (block don’t report)
•You’re and your blog includes: racist/racism, homophobic/homophobia, transphobic/transphobia, fatphobic/fatphobia (esp ed blogs), and/or you’re just generally a prick
-Now time for a little intro!!-
Hi! I’m Skye!! Also know as cumdumpsye!
I’m 18, pan and use She/They pronouns!! ^^ (I’m also okay with it/it’s if it’s in relation to objectification!! ^^)
~My kinks~
•Degradation
•Praise
•Dumbifications
•Objectification
•CnC
•0rgasm Control
•Marking
•Pet play
•ddlg and mdlg
•Begging
•Being shared
•Exhibition
•And many more (I can send you the full list if you would like ^^)
~Pet names I like~
•kitten
•bunny
•puppy
•mutt
•baby
•Darling
•pet
•slave
•whore
•slut
•little one
•princess
•babe
•hun
•good girl
~My Hard limits are~
•everything that is in my dni section
(More may be added later and I will tell you if you do something to upset me, if you break any of these limits/boundaries you will be blocked and possibly reported!!)
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•I love hearing rape threats and any fantasy you have!! So please send them!! But make sure if you’re sending them in asks to censor the word otherwise I can’t post them it!! >.<
•I also love reviving pictures just please remember to ask if it’s okay to send them first!!
•I said this before but please if you don’t like nsfw please just block me! Don’t report me!!
•I love dms and talking to you all!! However please don’t get mad at me if I don’t respond! Also if you’re not following me I probably won’t say much!
•I may love talking about wanting to be stalked and/or kidnapped but don’t actually try and stalk and/or kidnap me!!
•I don’t and will not show my face!! Please don’t try and pressure me into sending you a picture of my face!!
•I dont and will not go to other platforms!! Please don’t ask me to!!
•don’t spam my dms!! I love hearing from everyone but please understand I do get a lot and it’s hard to reply to all of them!! I do try my best but please be patient otherwise I will block you!!
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torunarigha · 2 years
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I need advice! So the guy I’ve been interested in for a really long time now (but there’s always been some sort of reason why i can’t talk to him - i’m too shy and miss my chance or he goes home which is overseas and i dont see him for months at a time)… His friends think we’d be great together. I got my hopes up bc they said when he came back they’d help set us up. I’ve heard women he’s gone out with before say how kind he is but he wants nothing serious. He’s not ready for a serious gf. Which I get. However…. while he’s been home, he’s been doing some really confusing things. He’s been following and spamming guys on his social media. Strange since I’ve heard multiple women say they’ve been out with him. And it’s especially strange because he’s a super private guy and rarely uses social media. Now suddenly, he’s following SEVERAL men (I say men but they’re 18-22 years old usually) each day… he’ll follow them, spam them, then sometimes they’ll follow back. Sometimes even if they follow back, he still unfollows them. And a lot of these guys are in countries or cities he’s not anywhere near. So I’m confused. A super private man publicly flirting with teenage men and young men on the social media he rarely used til now? But he’s not hacked. He’s been posting…. I don’t get it. I’d ask our mutual friends but if he’s coming out or something, they may not know. I just don’t understand what’s happening. And idk what to do. He’s followed a few women too and spammed them… but it’s not nearly as often as the guys he does that to. Perhaps he’s bi… Idk. But I don’t understand why suddenly in the years I’ve known him from afar, he’s publicly doing this? He’s never so much as spammed a single guy before. And suddenly it’s all he does? The worst part is, the rare occasion we did talk… I thought we hit it off. I genuinely thought he liked me. Now I feel like a fool.
wow that's a lot, anon! i think you're asking for advice on... what to do?
i'm all for open and honest communication :) if you like the guy, ask him out! and if he really is more into men right now, he may decline you for that reason. as humiliating as that will feel, it also feels so good to be open about your feelings (trust me, this exact thing happened to me). but it does seem like you don't know him that well, especially because you said you rarely talk to him and are confused by this whole spamming thing. so maybe it would be a good idea to try to get to know him outside of a dating context first! then you wouldn't have to confront him with your feelings right away.
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vergeofpanic · 2 years
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Ok, but since I keep remembering tumblr exists every few weeks/months, it's time for me to spam posts to make up for the time that goes by where I forget that this cursed platform is somehow the best place for me to rant about fandoms nobody asks about since I personally know absolutely 0 people on this app so I don't have to worry about things like I do absolutely everywhere else
Anyway, time for me to talk about the relationship between Diluc and Kaeya and how the fandom misreprests them a lot.
Firstly, before I start, I dont care about ships in the fandom and only go by what I know is true, such as the mistranslation in the English version where they are called adopted brothers, instead of sworn brothers. (Sworn brothers are a popular romance troupe in China as well as a lot of eastern countries. I'm not overly knowledgeable in what countries and regions have sworn brothers, but if you want an example of sworn brothers in other fandoms, the only example I can give you off the top of my head is Cale and Alberu from Trash Of The Count's Family)
Anyway, just wanted to first clear that up. I understand if the ship makes you uncomfortable because of the English version of the game/translation, but don't attack KaeLuc shippers for it.
Anyway, onto the actual reason for this post. In the Genshin fandom, it's extremely common for people to make angst about Diluc and Kaeya's relationship, mostly showing it from the POV of an Adult Kaeya reminiscing about his time with the Ragnvindr's. My issue with the fandoms portrayal of their relationship, however, is the way they make Diluc act towards Kaeya, as well as Kaeya's reaction to it all.
Just a little heads up as well, this post gets derailed very quickly from how the fandom misinterprets Diluc and Kaeya's relationships with each other into an analysis on the characters instead. By the time this post is fully written, it will hopefully come back around to the original point of the post, but who knows. A lot of stuff I analyse in this post can also just seem like a huge stretch and something that doesn't matter at all, bit my brain has already decided I need to write about it, so that's what I'm going to do.
I will be discussing the backstory of both these characters, so if you don't want spoilers, please don't continue to read this post. I am also not fully sure of some events in the backstory, so please let me know if I made any mistakes with some parts of this.
As most of the lore-followers of Genshin know, Kaeya was welcomed into the Ragnivindr's family by Diluc's father, Master Crepus, after his father left him there and declared him as Khaenri'ah's last hope.
From what we learn in Kaeya's character story, he and Diluc were seen together constantly back when they still got along. Diluc, at the time was also described as a warm individual (and many people believe he used to be a lot more similar to Bennett and the other extremely bright and cheery pyro users), and Kaeya was described as his eccentric friend and supporter, making sure they got through each challenge they faced smoothly.
We find out in Diluc's character story that he was the youngest ever Calvalry Captain of KOF, who worked hard to achieve the dreams his father had for him.
After Master Crepus was killed by the backlash from using a Delusion, described as an "unknown evil power" and dying in Diluc's arms, he left the Knights after having been given an unspeakable order from Inspector Eroch to "conceal the truth" from the citizens of Mondstadt of what had happened to his father.
From what we can tell from Kaeya's character stories, which give the most information on the relatio ship between the two of them, Diluc became angered by Kaeya after he stood behind him as Master Crepus died, instead of being by their sides in the man's final moments. I believe it is also said that Kaeya could've saved Master Crepus but had hesitated for moments to long and by the time he took action it was already to late (i'm not completely sure on this one but I've seen a lot of people talk about this being the main reason Diluc was angry at Kaeya so yeah).
After Master Crepus' death, Diluc left Mondstadt to fight the Fatui, leaving his vision behind and instead using his father's Delusion, before returning back to Mondstadt years later (also i believe he got blacklisted from Snezhnaya which i find hilarious and I hope that when the game finally adds Snezhnaya that we can see some of the townspeople speaking about it)
Anyway, now that I've discussed their backstory, I'm going to discuss how we see them interact with each other in dialogue and scenes throughout the game. I'm mostly going off what I can remember and find online, but if you have any more examples let me know and I'll be sure to add them.
Let's start with the first ever scene we see with the two of them. Just after Kaeya and the Traveller defeat the Hilichurls at one of the 4 winds domain. We see Kaeya interact with the Abyss mage that had organised the ambush. After learning that The Abyss are the citizens of the fallen nation Khaenri'ah, the homeland of Kaeya himself, we can see that he seems to be one of the only characters in game who interacts with the Abyss as more then monsters. While this is going on and the Abyss mage starts to cast a spell, Diluc comes storming in, fist and sword blazing. We don't really get much from this cutscene, however, we do see that the two characters know each other, in a less then friendly relationship.
Throughout what I believe is the only other cutscene from the actual archon quests in the game, we finally get to witness the hostility between the two characters. While Diluc is the one who seems the most hostile out of the two of them, it's clear to see that Kaeya is at the very least, intentionally annoying Diluc. He uses the nickname the Diluc himself expresses his dislike for (in what I believe was part of the scene just before Kaeya joins in on their conversation), as well as talking in a way that mislead both the Traveller and Diluc multiple times by leaving out certain information that made him seem as though he was going to report it to the Knights. In the end of course, Kaeya does agree that he won't tell anyone about Diluc's nights as batman, however, you can clearly see how he messes with Diluc through the conversation.
Next up is the Golden Apple Archipelago 1.6 event. Firstly, we find out that Kaeya ice-bridging is canon, and secondly, we get a lot more insight into the relationship between the two, getting what is our first moment of understanding and agreement between the two in the form of one of the Echoing Conch Shells found on the beach.
Looking up the event on YouTube (because it's been 6 months since the event and I'm gonna be honest, there is no way that hell i can remember any of their dialogue off the top of my head) I have been able to find multiple compilations of the two of them interacting (a favourite of mine being "Kaeya mocks Diluc for 2 minutes straight") we can see just how bad the animosity between the two of them can be. Just looking at the fact they both scoffed at the idea of having to travel to the Archipelago can be a big enough clue that the two can't stand to be around each other for long.
Kaeya also makes the observation that Cryo and Pyro are incompatible, both a reference to Diluc melting Kaeya's ice-bridge, as well as a dig at the fact that the two of them can't get along because of their clashing personalities; where as how used to get along because both of them were much friendlier and warmer towards themselves and others, were as now both of the are cold towards everyone, with Kaeya enjoying watching others struggle and Diluc not letting himself get close to others in fear of losing them or being betrayed by them. (And yes, it is extremely hard not to smile when Diluc says Dodo-King)
When we find an Echoing Conch Shell on the shore of one of the archipelago's shores, we get to finally learn about how Kaeya and Diluc used to be. It's not a long scene, but it's something that highlights a part of the divide between the two of them. When Kaeya makes a comment about them collecting shells, or sea-bird hunting like they used to, Diluc seems to almost be in disbelief at the idea that Kaeya still remembers how they used to be when they were younger, which seems like it may be part of the reason the two don't get along now. We can interpret this as the reason that Diluc has been so cold and easily angered by Kaeya is because he felt betrayed by the idea the Kaeya didn't care about the memories they shared from when they were kids. This can also lead into why they had the fight that unlocked Kaeya's vision.
Like I had mentioned, Kaeya had stood behind Diluc and his father during his death, so he never said his final goodbyes to Master Crepus. From the way I had read the character story, this was the main reason why Diluc was furious at Kaeya. This may mean that Diluc felt that Kaeya didn't care about the relationships and memories he made with Ragnvindr family because he didn't come to say goodbye to the man who treated him like his own son, and that may be where the resentment and animosity that Diluc held for Kaeya has stemmed from all this time. Diluc could have just been holding onto this version of Kaeya that only used the Ragnvinder family for food and shelter, instead of seeing them like a family as Diluc had.
Finally, the last scene I can currently remember that exists in the game. Venti's story quest. Venti's storyquest is rather innocent at the beginning, with (I believe it's Venti himself but I think he might of also tagged along for shits and giggles) asking for help with something. He asks the Traveller to go around Mondstadt with him to witness and record the imaginary friends of Mondstadt's children. After we see just how messed up Timmy has gotten after being abandoned by his father, along with having all his pigeons being slaughtered in front of him daily, Venti asks us to see if Mondstadt's adults also have imaginary friends. We end up spying on Diluc and Kaeya + some NPC's in midst of one of their conversations. This is probably the best scene to showcase that Diluc isn't the only extremely hostile one in the relationship, along with us witnessing who normally escalates the arguments between the two.
"Oh? And if I did have one too many, what then? You'd throw me out along with the trash, is that it?"
"'Throw you out'?"
"You know... the same way you threw out father's legacy? You sold off his mansion - or maybe you've forgotten?"
This scene right here, in what will forever be one of my favourite story quests in the game, is what got me to start think about the fandoms portrayal of these two.
If you remember the way I described the fandoms most common/popular interpreting and content surrounding the two (which you probably don't), I explained that their relationship is nearly always made into angst.
However, in angst, no matter the fandom your in, there is nearly always an antagonistic of some kind, though lots of the time that antagonist is something like depression, mental issues, self esteem issues, etc that often end in hurt & comfort scenes. But when it's angst about two people with a bitter history together we often see one of the two characters involved being portrayed as the villain in the relationship, and in Genshin's case, it is nearly always Diluc who is given this role.
People chose the character they make into the villain in a few ways. Some people do it based solely off of which character they prefer over the two. A case of this in another fandom would be c!Tubbo from the DSMP roleplay, who is often turned into a villain like character for the sake of making c!Tommy or c!Ranboo look like they are completely in the right for all their actions.
Another common reason for making a character the antagonist in the relationship is by how they react to certain scenarios. It's best to describe Diluc as a character with a short temper when it comes to dealing with Kaeya, especially when a lot of people don't pick up on the more subtle reactions and antagonising that characters do, which is something that people don't notice Kaeya do often unless they are someone who is just extremely good at picking up on those kinds of hints.
The final reason I can think of that applies to this is the fact that most people believe that Diluc is the one solely at fault for how the two of them are no longer on good terms with each other, and yes, this is true to some extent, however, it's also obvious to tell that Kaeya is making it difficult for Diluc to even think about rekindling their relationship with each other, especially when anything Diluc says anything that Kaeya takes in slight offence, he seems to bring up Master Crepus as a way to make Diluc seem like a horrible person for selling the mansion they all used to live in together. If anything, the reason why Diluc did that is because his coping mechanism for grief is to get rid of anything that may end up reminding him of that person.
I remember seeing someone comment something on a Diluc and Kaeya angst tiktok that has stick with me ever since I saw it.
"It's not that neither of them care, it's the fact they have different coping mechanisms"
As some context to this comment, the tiktok was just a little animatic where Diluc and Kaeya seem to be getting along, until Kaeya makes a joke about Diluc trying to kill him in the past, and it ended causing Diluc to shut down and put all his mental walls up again. I believe the idea itself was inspired by the echoing shell from the Golden Apple Archipelago, and this video and comment was what inspired me to finally make a post/rant about this solely so I can finally stop having this whole thing loop in my head constantly.
Anyway, this comment is what led me into a huge deep dive into the relationship between these two.
The reason that they seem to be unable to get over their grief when it comes to eachother is because of the way each of them cope. I mentioned this a little earlier, but Diluc's coping mechanism is to avoid memories of the person he's lost. It's a common coping mechanism and you'll often see people move away and sell the house they lived in with their loved one because they can't think of living in a house without that person anymore. Maybe if I'll and Kaeya had started to get along more before Diluc left to hunt down the Fatui then maybe he might of kept the mansion, or maybe he wouldn't of left, but again, this is just how Diluc handles loss.
Kaeya on the other hand is someone who seems to make jokes and uses humor to cope with these kinds of things, which is another common coping mechanism that is often looked down on. People who cope like this are viewed as insensitive and even are accused of not caring for the person who passed away. He is also very open when talking about Master Crepus and even utilises his death as a weapon against Diluc, but Kaeya is also someone who never got to talk about the deaths of his lived one's from Khaenri'ah, so it's not a huge stretch to assume that he is open about Crepus because he never got to open up about his own family dying and leaving him alone. He may be constantly using Master Crepus' death against Diluc as a way to say:
"Hey, you may have lost father, but I lost him aswell, along with my motherland"
Its because of how much these two coping mechanisms clash that their is so much animosity between the two. Kaeya thinks that Diluc is being selfish for leaving Mondstadt so soon after Master Crepus' death, when he himself also lost someone who was a second father to him, and is probably angry that Diluc sold the Ragnvindr Mansion without consulting him first, but at the same time Diluc is angry at Kaeya for treating Crepus' death as a joke, constantly being so open to others about it and using it against him and acting as though he deserves to be upset over it when he didn't didn't care enough to say his final goodbyes to Crepus before he passed.
Its clear that even with the hostility between the two they still care for each other; at least a bit. Even though they constantly fight, Kaeya chooses to go to the Angel's Share for his drinks, even though he could go to Cat's Tail to get the perfect drink without the added hostility, and Diluc doesn't kick Kaeya out of the tavern unless he's drinking far too much and needs to be escorted outside for safety purposes. It may just be the Angel's Share is a place they have a truce at as it was their father's tavern, but it's still nice to think that they are willing to put their differences aside in order to honour Master Crepus' legacy.
This went on way longer than expected and I don't think anyone is going to bother reading it because of how many spelling mistakes and errors their are bound to be in this post, but I spent 2 hours on this and put way to much work into it for me to just delete it. I applaud anyone who actually read though this whole thing because it was a pain in the ass to write, and its all been typed out on my phone because tumblr on my computer is way to confusing. If you want me to make more super long winded rants about more topics, from Genshin or other fandoms you'd like to see my perspective on, let me know and I'll look into it at some point.
- Amir
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List of Boundaries: Tubbo
• Profile pics: Tubbo does not mind profile pictures of himself as long as he doesn’t look “a right state” (UK slang meaning “a mess”). He also asked fans not to have him as their profile pictures if they are “chatting sh*t” about or “trying to cancel” his friends.
• Phone backgrounds: Tubbo has told someone on stream that he is okay with having phone backgrounds made of himself.
• Cosplay: He has also said that he’s fine with people cosplaying him!
• Shipping: Tubbo has expressed discomfort with the idea of being shipped in two separate sources - one more directly and one in agreement to TommyInnit asking if he’s not okay with it. Ranboo and Tubbo have both implied that their characters are romantically married, indicating that general ship content of their Dream SMP characters is fine; however, Ranboo has stated that he and Tubbo are unsure of their boundaries regarding this situation, so be cautious when making content of them. There has been no update since.
• Fanfiction: Tubbo does not like nsfw/ship fanfiction and has expressed discomfort with x readers, but has said he thinks any creative writing about him is “dope,” indicating that general fanfiction is fine.
• NSFW: TommyInnit has stated that Tubbo and him share the same view on NSFW of them - they are both uncomfortable with it (and are also both minors, so don’t condone it on a moral level). Tubbo was not there at the time of Tommy saying this but it can be assumed that they have talked about this off stream. Tubbo has also expressed dislike for nsfw fanfiction.
• Fanmerch: Tubbo replied “I guess it’s fine” to a dono asking about selling fanart of him.
• Privacy: Tubbo has stated he would like to keep his sexuality private.
• Names: Tubbo does not mind being called his real name by fans.
• Reuploaded content: On his main Twitch, Tubbo has stated he is fine with clips of his content being reuploaded, but not full VODs. On his alt Twitch, Tubbo stated full VOD uploads were fine.
• Feminine depictions: Tubbo has upvoted fanart of him in a dress on Reddit and wore a skirt for a subgoal once, indicating that feminine depictions of him in fan content are fine.
• General PSA: Also don’t infantilise him because he’s a minor, a lot of you guys are younger than him so you should know that this isn’t okay! Not everything he does is worthy of spamming ‘awwwww’ in the chat, even if it’s just ironic it’s still infantilising a lot of the time.
Evidence:
Phone backgrounds
Cosplay
this tumblr post which includes a clip about shipping
Tommy and Tubbo talking about shipping/stans
implying the Beeduo marriage is romantic: clip 1, clip 2, and 14:48 - 15:08 of this vod
Tommy on his and Tubbo’s opinion of NSFW of them
Fanmerch
Doesn’t want to look “a right state” in profile pictures
Don’t have him as your pfp if you’re in drama: 5:20 - 8:00 of this vod
Clip about enjoying a dream smp dbh au fanfic at 10:22 - 11:00
Tubbo on nsfw fanfiction
Tubbo reacting to an x reader fanfiction
Tubbo about fanfiction: 1:45:10 of this twitter space
About sexuality/privacy (backup link) (backup backup link)
on fans using his real name: 1:25:53 of this vod
about clips of his content (on main)
about full VODs (on alt)
upvoting dress fanart: 1:18 of this video
subgoal skirt
Tubbo has also spoken about delusions of him in this clip, saying it doesn’t bother him. As this is not something people can control, we aren’t listing it as a boundary of his that must be followed, but we wanted to document it.
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[Image ID: a Twitter thread by Ranboo’s alt. He says “...Part and it is currently being handled. Secondly, NO MODS went behind my back to try and change it. I am not sure about the boundaries that both me and tubbo have in regards to this and we are both doing research in order to make the best decision both for us and the people that watch us We dont want to make anyone uncomfortable with how we portray our characters so I made the decision to not worry about changing the wiki until we both came to a decision on what to do I am sorry if this was not the correct course of action. Please let me know if it wasnt” /End ID]
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thoughts-on-bangtan · 3 years
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Let’s talk: Vlive Asks and comment/chat discussions
From @cottoncandykings​: Hello! As u probably know jimin just went live recently and again he mentioned mandaggo and discussing about doing it with tae. I just find it so weird though. I mean jimin keeps constantly mentioning it and its not like vminnies were begging or dying for a vmin live everyday even before jimin mentioned it last year. Even now most including myself dont really care that much ofc i m happy if they do one together. But the way jimin keeps mentioning it is so weird. Like surely if he wanted to do it so badly he could have talked to tae privately and arranged it by now. And if tae is the one that doesnt want to do it then idk why jimin is pushing it. But what was really weird to me this time was that he said there were lots of comments about mandaggo yesterday in zoom call and yet they didnt mention it yesterday but suddenly today without prompting he talks about it. I also hope no one spammed the zoom call chat or the vlive chat with requests for vmin live (i didnt see any) bcoz thats just unnecessary and demanding. I hope vminnies wont demand/ ask for another memeber when one of them is live. Its just disrespectful. This turned into a rant sorry. Do you think it was weird too?
Since Admin 2 can’t type their thoughts themselves, I’ll relay their thoughts to you instead, since they had more thoughts/opinions/ideas in regard to this than I do, to be honest.
Admin 2 is sure that there is a good chance that we will get a vmin vlive sometime soon, which I know contradicts their original opinion and post from a few months ago, but there’s a reason for it. During the zoom meeting between BTS and ARMY they noticed something I don’t think anyone else noticed, or at least neither of us has seen any vminnies mention it anywhere, which in conjunction with Jimin’s vlive today and saying how he’d talk to Tae about doing a mandaggo vlive again, as well as another observation a little while ago, leads them to this conclusion.
So, the observation from the zoom meeting. Basically at one point when the question of Jimin doing a vlive arose Tae looks at Jimin and then he nods while smiling which in turn makes Jimin smile as he turns away from Tae and back to face toward the camera before answering the question and saying how he’ll come visit us the next day. Which he did.
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Then the other observation from a while ago, this one being from their OT7 vlive celebrating their BBH100 #1 on June 29th where at one point Jimin says something but slips into satoori after which Tae encourages him to say that again but this time in the Seoul accent, so the way they actually should speak, which Jimin says isn’t difficult but he doesn’t actually end up repeating what he said.
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And lastly in today’s vlive Jimin mentioned how he’s using satoori quite often but that he isn’t all that good at doing it on command or at teaching it to others, which is something he’d have to do for mandaggo but I’m sure he’d manage just fine if the time came for it.
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Based on that Admin 2′s thoughts are basically that Jimin really meant it when he said, last year, that he’ll bring Tae around for a vlive, that it wasn’t a joke or a way to tease us with something he knew he wouldn’t be able to deliver, but rather that up until this point they weren’t quite sure how to do it. Which sounds a bit odd, I know, but what they mean is that if vmin were to just sit down in front of the camera and were supposed to just talk based on what the chat would give them, it would likely just turn out awkward and weird and no one, including them, would really have fun. Even more so when we take into account how idiotic the chat is during regular vlives so now imagine if those two were to do one together that’s just a casual chat. It would likely end up in disaster and honestly I wouldn’t wish it upon them to read all those awful comments that they would likely get, even worse ones than they already get normally, to be honest.
But now that the whole satoori thing was brought up, and Jimin actually mentioned mandaggo and wanting to bring it back after so many years, Admin 2 thinks that they must’ve finally figured out a solution to their problem, if you can call it that. Doing mandaggo would basically mean they would have an activity, something to do similar to how they did those ASMR videos for the Japanese Fan Club which were fun and cute, and so Admin 2 thinks that perhaps chances are we will finally get the vlive we’ve waited for so long (though like many others I’ve long given up the idea).
Another confirmation is that during his vlive today Jimin basically said that he only came by for a little while since they are quite busy and had to soon get ready for work with the other members but that he’ll return in two or three weeks for a more proper, longer, vlive. So, he could’ve treated today’s vlive as the promised one but instead he saw it more as a bridging one between the zoom meeting and the proper vlive he wants to do, so is it the farfetched to think that he had proper plans for a vlive, like doing mandaggo, but it just wouldn’t have worked out time wise today so he moved the actual vlive he wanted to make to a later date?
One last thing (well two actually) that has nothing to do with this question but Admin 2 wanted me to include it anyway is that one, have you noticed how Tae and Jimin were both on weverse around 3 am (until almost 4am (also both of them posting a comment to some post at 03:41 am KST)) one after the other (though with one day of a break in between them) recently and then also two, that Jimin was up until like 6 am (since he posted on weverse around that time) on the 8th and then during the zoom meeting Tae answered a question by saying that he’d been awake until 6 am the previous day (also the 8th) since he wanted to see the sunrise? Which is also something an anon mentioned to us. Curious, isn’t it?
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From anon: I request both admins to please post this ask. So jimin wwnt live today and one of the accounts on twt posted a screen cap of them commenting 'touch your hair if vmin is real' in the live chat and jimin's reaction to it. Now idk if it is an edit or real. No matter i just want to say its not ok to bring up ships in front of the members no matter which ship it is. We dont know the reality of their relationship so lets not make them uncomfortable. Its not a joke. Its not funny. Be respectful the members are real people.
(Admin 1 taking over from this point onward) This ask nicely ties into the last one that’ll be further down in this post since they cover a similar issue of sorts. But let’s start with this one asking about, essentially, vlive comments and the things fans ask/comment, which also ties in with the above ask as well.
The thing with the vlive chat, and especially comments/questions that are like anon said, questions or “commands/requests” about touch your hair if XYZ ship is real or cough twice if you love XYZ member or, likewise, comments such as where is XYZ member or what are the other members doing, unfortunately those have been a steady and unchanging part of the vlive chat since basically forever. It’s been an issue on and off with different intensities though I feel like it’s gotten worse again this year. Particularly if we look back at the vlive Tae did with Hobi and Yoongi and how essentially the entire chat was filled with comments related to Xkook and not much else.
If my memory doesn’t fail me we once even had a situation some years ago (2016) where the chat during Hobi’s vlive was so bad, as in so full of questions about that other members instead of him, that you could see he was upset about it and eventually he handed over the vlive to Jimin, whom the chat had requested Hobi to visit, and Hobi just left. And I can’t blame him for it since the chat must’ve made him feel like basically no one cared about him so what was even the point of him being there, right?
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Personally I’ve long given up looking at the comments during vlive because they just make me cringe and feel bad for the members, especially when I think back to vlives such as Yoongi’s D2 one last year where he was so excited to talk about the songs and the process of making the mixtape and yet so many of the comments were just unrelated nonsense and annoying request like speak english or can you say my name or say hello in XYZ language. If it makes me question why the people posting those questions are in the chat, why they are fans to begin with, imagine what the members must feel like, how discouraging that must feel like. After all they are musicians and yet so rarely do they get questions about that. Or rather they do get them but they are just drowned out by nonsense. Which is a shame. And also very disrespectful but any attempts that were made to remind people to be respectful, to remember their place as fans, to focus on the member that’s doing the vlive instead of asking about the others, and to keep ships away from the members have failed because some don’t care and will continue to not care.
From anon: what are your opinions on the Qs that were asked during that zoom meeting thing between BTS and ARMY?
Now I’d like to preface my answer to this last question by saying that by no means do my grievances come from a place of jealousy or anything. I’m very happy for all the ARMYs that won their spot, that they got to participate in the event and that BTS got to see ARMYs again even if only on screens and not in person still. No, my issue stems from something completely different, and I don’t want to say that the system chose the wrong people, because that would be mean and also who even knows how the winners were chosen, if it was pure luck or there were some actual criteria that went into the process, but the fact is that only a select 200 ARMYs got that spot out of however many that applied, so basically for some this was a once in a lifetime chance, right, even just getting this close to asking Bangtan a question and have really great chances of having them give you an answer while acknowledging you somewhat instead of just seeing pure words on a screen, you know what I mean?
Now imagine you are one of those 200 ARMYs and you get the chance to fill the chat with questions along with the other 49 participants of your session and you decide that asking questions such as what it’s like for Jimin to work as angel, if Namjoon ever broke a bicycle, or why JK smells the crowns of the other members heads? Or even worse, you decide to ask about JKs shower routine and in which order he washes his body? And sure, the “fault” doesn’t fall completely on the ARMYs alone, after all it’s the members who read out those questions and not some magical off screen entity, and since I wasn’t part of the event I can’t say with a hundred percent certainty that no one asked any “proper” questions, but if those were the questions that ended up being read out loud, is it that hard to guess that likely all the questions looked similarly? 
Which brings me to my main grievance of it all: have you forgotten that you are fans of musicians and not reality TV stars or vloggers/influencers? I know there were likely no rules for what questions you could or couldn’t ask (except for probably ones that were 100% about shipping or far too personal), but really, you get to ask your favorite band a question, something you might never, ever get the chance to do again, and your first thought isn’t to ask about their music but instead about some unimportant nonsense like the angel question or if they differentiate between the clothes they wear at home and those they sleep in? Like sure the angel one was kinda funny, maybe, and Jimin handled it in a cute way, I applaud him for it, but was that really necessary?
I know someone asked JK about Decalcomania, as well as Tae about his mixtape, and Yoongi/Jimin about Tony Montana (season 2), but other than that were there any other questions about their music? Perhaps I’m overthinking things, maybe I’m exaggerating and maybe I’m the only one who sees an issue with this, but if I would’ve won a spot, I’d rather have asked something about their process when writing lyrics or creating beats or how they prepare when learning new choreographies, what it’s like to be on tour (though perhaps that would be a mean question seeing as tours aren’t really something that’ll continue being possible for a while still), you get the point.
It makes me wonder if it was just bad luck or if it had something to do with how old the participants were (I saw some being as young as fifteen), which isn’t to say that teens can’t ask smart questions because they definitely can just like adults can ask stupid ones as well, but somewhere something, in my opinion, just went weirdly. And maybe that was the point of it all, for the event to be casual, funny, lighthearted, but my question then is when is the time for music discussions? For fans to ask those types of questions that actually have something to do with the boys careers? When even journalists aren’t asking them proper questions, ARMYs aren’t either, so what is the point of it all then?
Then again, after the event concluded and Seokjin came onto vlive he seemed so happy and excited, so maybe they had fun (I mean they seemed to have fun) and didn’t mind at all that the questions were lighthearted and silly, maybe I’m the one making mountains out of molehills. I don’t know, but anon wanted to know my thoughts/opinions, and this is them. Once again, I don’t mean to be mean toward the ARMYs that got rightfully in, that won, and I don’t want to insult them for the questions they asked, perhaps I just expected/hoped for something a little different? And perhaps I’m the only one. I don’t know. 
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It's alright if u don't wanna answer this cuz this argument gets people really riled up but do you think c!Techno is a tyrant or nah?
Cuz many c!techno apologists argue that he isn't just cuz he's an anarchist but I've also read a lot of essays that go against it and it'd be really interesting to see ur opinion on this
i think he, in some contexts, can most definitely be called tyrannical, yes. a tyrant? no.
to avoid spamming ppl w discourse we've all def heard before (and bc this ended up MASSIVE (like 2.3k ish), but fairly in depth bc i didnt wanna speak out of bad faith and wanted to be EXPLICTLY clear-- oops), the rest will be under readmore
so heres the thing i want to preface: i used to really LOVE c!techno. i joined beginning of s2, right when exile started, and he was arguably my favorite character. since then though i've fallen out with him a LOT, to the point i almost... actively despite him at times (though mainly in a toxic kind of way which i can acknowledge is flawed).
in short, his actions started to speak louder than his words and i lost investment in his personal character struggles because of the actions he took (doomsday was my breaking point. i get feeling angry and betrayed, as well as seeking revenge against lmanberg, but his actions went too far for me to CARE and it hurt so many more characters as well.)
so when i speak, i come from a place of disliking him but also somewhat understanding the position c!techno apologists come from: i used to be one of them myself.
NOW, do i think he's a tyrant? no. for reference in my analysis, i try to look up the definition of terms to make sure they are utilized properly. while "tyranny" and "tyrannical" can have multiple uses, tyrant itself is a more specific term. to combine the top two definitions, a tyrant is referring to "an extremely oppressive, unjust, or cruel absolute ruler (who governs without restrictions, especially one who seized power illegally.)"
techno's position as an anarchist, imo, DOES indeed make him unable to be a tyrant. tyrants are rulers with very clear power over others from a structural way. anarchists are about the lack of structure or power over others and instead viewing the people around you as equals in power.
in forming the syndicate, they very explicitly worked to not designate a leader and instead make it so that no one would have any power over the others systemically. techno may have taken a integral role, yes, but it doesn't make him suddenly "the leader", its a role that wouldve had to be filled by someone (even if it was democratic to decide who to invite, they'd need someone to hand over the invite itself yknow? like no matter WHAT there needed to be A ROLE)
one could argue that he IS a leader in the shadow hierarchy of the syndicate (which, yes, is a real and professional term used in management courses despite sounding like it comes from a 4kids yugioh dub) in that everyone CONSIDERS and looks to him a leader without him having any actual structural basis behind it, but to argue that allows him to be a tyrant is in bad faith i believe. especially because to the people he would be "ruling", he ISNT oppressive, unjust, or cruel. they are his friends and support network and critical for a lot of his personal development (since feelings of betrayal and trust issues are critical to his character and why he acts the way he does). I wish we were able to SEE this develop more, but oh well.
but like i said: tyrant is fairly specific in definition. TYRANNY, and thus TYRANNICAL are not as limited. I've discussed their definitions here. originally, i made that post because i was angry at a take i had seen that claimed that, like you said, because techno was an anarchist and not part of any government or leadership position, he couldn't be tyrannical. to which i heartily disagree.
for something to be tyrannical, they simply must have an overarching/oppressive power over someone or something. it would not be inaccurate if i were to say that something is "under the tyranny" of a concept, because what it means is that something is under the power of another thing/concept. you can frankly call anything tyranny if it is widespread/overarching and you don't like it. mask mandates? tyranny, its forcing me to act in "rigorous condition". hell, theres even such things as tyranny of the majority in which people agree too much on one thing and it gives them unfair power or tyranny of the minority where people with minority opinions have too much power (thats a very grossly oversimplified definition of both, but it covers the base idea well enough for my point)
the point im making above isnt meant to be taken as "anything can be worked to be defined as tyranny thus it is a meaningless claim", it is that tyranny (and again, thus tyrannical) are very open and nonrestrictive terms.
to make it easier to define, alongside the definitions provided i want to add an explicit clause that is (imo) implied in the original definition: tyranny is... well, bad. that is to say if someone has power over a group but literally everyone is fine with it and agrees to it, its not tyranny. thats just a group of people getting along and one happens to have power over another. a leader does NOT equal a tyrant (as discussed above), so leadership should not be equated with tyranny.
thus as an example: wilbur acting as president (before the election) may have been "unelected" with power over his citizens, but no one was upset with that power. thus, he is not a tyrant and not acting tyrannically (as well as the fact his power was, arguably, NOT rigourous or absolute but thats another topic for another time). SCHLATT however IS a tyrant, as his power was absolute (he did not consult his cabinet) and forced people to comply instead of them complying willingly, thus he was acting tyrannically.
now to finally get to the damn point of this essay: where does c!techno lie? honest answer? it depends slightly on your perspective, but it depends a LOT on the future of the syndicate.
techno is incredibly clear in his goals: no governments, no corruption. in fighting with pogtopia, he is actively working to topple a tyranny-- he isn't tyrannical for doing that.
when he strikes out on nov 16th, it is because he opposes them forming a new government. when they oppose him and disagree, he launches an attack against them. is this tyranny? maybe, but probably not. he IS trying to impose his own physical strength and power (as well as his resources) over the others to stop them from doing what HE doesn't want them to do.
however its more nuanced than that:
1. hes lashing out emotionally as well as politically. he feels betrayed by those he trusted and he believed that they would destroy the government then go (i'm ignoring any debates on if he did or did not know that they planned another government, though it is a source of debate). but typically idk about you but i dont call tyranny for someone fighting with another person.
2. he also may be acting with good intent again, in HIS EYES. if tubbo was part of manburg, whos to say he wont be just as bad? he, in his pov, is likely trying to stop another tyrant before they rise.
3. and finally, and tbh the most damning from any perspective: he gives up. he quickly leaves then RETIRES without intent to try and attack again until he is later provoked. tyranny is defined by it not just being power, but power being USED. if he doesn't use his power to try and impose any will, then he's not tyrannical.
Doomsday I am also not going to touch very in depth on for much of the same reasons. My answer is again a "maybe", depending on the weight you personally place on each issue:
1. he's lashing out as revenge for the butcher army and as revenge against tommy for "betraying" him (though this one we explicitly know he was ignoring the fact tommy did not want to go through with it, however he still did trust and respect tommy regardless so his feelings are understandable anyway)
2. he sees new lmanberg as corrupt and tyrannical (which is undeniable: house arrest for noncompliance, exile without counsel, execution without trial, etc), and thus obligated to destroy it
but also, theres the implicit understanding he's doing this to send a message: do not form a government, or else. its a display of force that also works to warn others unless they want a similar fate. phil even explicitly states that he is doing so to send that message, so one could assume techno is doing the same alongside his personal reasoning listed above.
what i just described is the use of a oppressive and harsh (physical) power in order to gain compliance from people (that compliance being 'not making a government'). does that sound familiar? exactly. it follows the definition(s) of tyranny given previously. technoblade is acting in a way that is, by very definition, tyrannical.
so the debate shifts: is he valid in doing so because he is trying to PREVENT corruption and tyranny. like i said, new lmanberg was undeniably corrupt at points. i held nothing against techno for trying to topple manburg, so does that apply to new lmanberg as well? short answer: i dont know. it depends on your specific opinion of what is acceptable. its like the paradox of tolerance: to have a truly tolerant society, you have to be intolerant of intolerance. to have a truly non-tyrannical society, do you need to have a tyranny enforcing it?
personally (and bc im a lmanberg loyalist /hj) i say it is. regardless of the corruption of new lmanberg, they are also giving a threat to EVERYONE. even those who are innocent, they are presented with the exact same threat and rule set: if you make a government, you will be destroyed.
(which, small divergence here, is part of why debating c!techno is so frustrating. so many times you end up hitting a "well it depends on your political views" situation and there ISNT a correct answer there. im here to analyze characters for fun, not debate political theory)
so: the syndicate then. this is where this debate really "took off" and i think its due to one very specific miscommunication about its goals and plans. the syndicate, upon formation, declares itself to stand against corruption and tyranny. when they are found, the syndicate would work to destroy it. so heres the golden question: what do THEY define as corruption and tyranny? if you were to go off c!techno's previous statements, seemingly "any government" is a valid answer. however, he also states he's fine with people just being in groups together hanging together.
what then DEFINES A GOVERNMENT for them? what lines do they have to sort out what does "deserve to be destroyed" and what does "deserve to exist freely"
this is a hypothetical i like to post when it comes to syndicate discourse:
i have a group of people. lets say 5 or so for example. they all live together and build together. any decisions made that would impact the entire group they make together and they must have a unanimous agreement in order to proceed, but otherwise they are free to be their own people and do their own thing. when you ask them, they tell you they are their own nation and they have a very clearly defined government: they are a direct democracy. does the syndicate have an obligation to attack?
there is absolutely no hierarchy present. there is no corruption present. but, they ARE indeed a government. is that then inherently negative? my answer is fuck no (see the whole "difference between a tyrant and a leader" thing above).
but THATS where the issue of this discourse LIES. in some people's eyes, the answer to that is YES. techno's made it clear "no government" is his personal view, but does that spread to the syndicate as a whole? do they act preemptively in case it DOES become corrupt? is it inherently corrupt because its a government, regardless of how it is ruled? the fact of the matter is because of how little we've seen the syndicate work as a SYNDICATE, we don't know that answer. so we're left to debate and speculate HOW they would act.
if the syndicate were to let that government exist, then they are not tyrannical. they are showing that they are working to stop tyranny and corruption, just like in pogtopia again.
if the syndicate were to destroy/attack that government, then they are tyrannical. simple as that. they are enforcing a rule of their own creation without any nuance or flexibility under the threat of absolute destruction.
miscommunication in debates comes, in my opinion, in the above. of course theres more points of nuance. for example:
would the syndicate allow a government like i had described with early lmanberg, where there is an established hierarchy but everyone in the country consents to said leadership? on one hand, there is no tyranny or corruption present which is what they are trying to work against. on the other hand, theres more a possibility of it occuring. perhaps they'd find a middle road between the two binary options of "leave or destroy" i am presenting, such as checking in occasionally to ensure no corruption occurs.
but if they were to destroy it without, for lack of a better word, "giving it a chance" they would be, in my opinion, tyrannical. they would be going aginst their words of opposing corruption and instead abusing their power to gain compliance.
your/others opinions may differ, again it depends on if you see it as worth it to possibly stop future tyranny or if a hierarchy is INHERENTLY a negative thing.
part of the reason so many blog gave up this debate, beyond not getting very clear answers for the syndicate, is because of the nuance present. there. is. no. right. answer. every single person will view it differently, because there is no universally agreed upon truth of right or wrong here. BUT, i hope this helps shed some light on the discussion and my thoughts on it
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