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ellzilla · 2 months
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An extreme warning for everyone in the Creepypasta community, especially the Creeps Comic sub-community
This is a post 6 years too late, but I've finally gained the courage to speak up. Trigger Warning for: Pedophillia, child grooming, suicide and beastiality There are two manipulative pedophiles in the creepypasta community that go by the name Kori [Konpeito-Starfox on tumblr, korgifemboi on discord] and Michael [kitsuneaniki on discord] who have: Dated a minor, have been sexual in the presence of minors, exposed minors to hardcore pornography and have drawn pornography FOR minors. When I was 15 back in 2018, I was invited to a creepypasta discord after I was found because of my Old LJ ask blog. I remember Kori and Michael [Trixi at the time] were 21 and 24-25 and were 'tame' at first, but they slowly became more and more sexual as months went by. A few raunchy jokes turned into full on porn posting. They talked about sexual situations with Creeps characters with two 16 year olds and a 17 year old. I felt uncomfortable with it, but I couldn't get why. This next part may be worded poorly, as it's extremely emotionally hard on me to bring up the memories, but I'll try my best and will be the most coherent I can make it. As a dumbass 15 year old, I didn't get the difference between being gay and being sexual due to the homophobic town and family I've grown up around I had never been told otherwise, so I thought it was fine, that lgbt people in their 20's being highly sexual around and directly to lgbt teenagers was fine! Everyone was happy! And me bringing up the uncomfortableness was just me brining everyone down! But then Kori and Michael made porn for a 16 year old's oc having sex with their sonas. And something in me finally shouted "Something is wrong." I didn't know how to word it, but I approached my family [good!] and said "My friends are being a little too gay, what should I say?" [bad!!!] and so I was told "tell them to stop that." And so, in I said "can you stop being gay?" in an attempt to say "hey stop being sexual" [I know, I know, point and laugh at 15 year old me for being confused] and obviously got kicked out for that. There was shit said by them that made me want to commit suicide [thought I must stress they never directly told me to kms] And then got death and rape threats that MIGHT have been from them on my old LJ ask blog after that, but that's a side note. In the same year, the 16 year old who was given porn of their oc, [who I will refer to as Victim 1 and censored in black] started dating Kori and Michael. Note: Victim's 1's birthday is in October and this screenshot is from September
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It is of note that Kori and Michael are extremely manipulative and hav convinced Victim 1, that it's better to lie to me and tried to say they were 17 when they started dating, despite me knowing their age and not correcting another [I will refer to as Victim 2 and censored in red] mentioned it in a conversation. There are two other victims who I will also censor the names of.
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Below is a continuation of this conversation to show that Kori and Michael have convinced Victim 1 that them showing porn to minors is okay.
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I also showed Victim 1 that what Kori and Michael did is VERY ILLEGAL, let alone immoral, but was brushed off. Granted, I should have showed him more but I was rushing to the hospital because of my heart issues and was not thinking straight due to the stress.
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Michael has also been proven to quite literally speak for Victim 1 as well. [The sibling comment was because they thought Victim 2's [trans] sister was Victim 2 referring to me]
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This is the end of the post, and I hope this is enough to show how much of a threat Kori and Michael are to minors, but I physically cannot show the mountain pile of trauma without putting myself in a medical emergency. There is far more receipts of Kori and Michael's emotional manipulation, but again, if this post went on for too much longer I could end up in the hospital because of them and I don't want it to be a fourth time. If you or someone you know are friends with Kori and Michael, please distance yourself from these pedophiles and show your friend this post. If I could, I would personally report them to the police, however they are in America and I am in Australia with no knowledge of how to report across-seas. If you can, please report them to the proper authorities, although I do not know if they can get into legal trouble for what they did to us years ago, it will stop any on-going child grooming. Please note, I will not be mentioning this or replying to anyone specifically IN MY INBOX until AFTER I recover from making this post. Do not send me anon messages if you're going to tell me something private, instead, message me. If you have a public issue with this post, say it with your chest and off anon. Before this hell is through, I have three more screenshots to share. One of Victim 2 being shown drawn Beastiality while they were still a minor [I have been informed Victim 2 was still 16], one of Kori [with a pfp of LJ having sex with Will in a server full of minors] mocking me while I was still 16 and against them being sexual [and mocking me for my LJ design and having a non-sexual lizard hyperfix], and a miscellaneous message of Michael admitting he likes dog genitalia and mocking me for not liking porn but being fine with gore. WHILE I WAS STILL A MINOR. I will put them under the cut as two of them are censored but still visual images of nsfw. IF YOU ARE A MINOR, DO NOT CONTINUE THE POST AND PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM THESE PEOPLE.
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Grown ass adults talking to and about children...
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quixtrix · 2 months
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let's talk BL manga lore; on grooming, identity, and racism
spoilers for the official captain laserhawk bl manga ofc, plus brief discussion of grooming I've refrained from speaking about it because of spoilers, but it's been well over a month and I believe that it's time to openly discuss it. if you would still like to read the manga before reading this discussion, here's the link to buy a physical copy and you can search up 'Captain Laserhawk: Crushing Love' in your digital book store for it. okay time to talk about two, basically three subjects; racism, identity, and grooming. i'm starting with the grooming first, because that's the main focus of this manga. i would have to preface this by saying i've already discussed this topic in an earlier post (albeit it is a prediction, but it is a spot on prediction.) i'll briefly elaborate on it right now with what we know.
dolph's very first day with alex was carefully calculated to where dolph would be exposed to the world, but heavily rely on alex. he is shown around to alex's friends and is able to buy his own clothes, but it is under the heavy scrutiny of alex. alex ultimately decides what dolph wears, alex decides how the day goes, alex leads dolph. even when they have a beach day, take note of how alex holds dolph, dragging him around.
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even the romance and the events leading up to when alex takes dolph's virginity are calculated. note how alex grasps dolph's hand, grabbing on tight enough to almost press down on his knuckles, loosening his hand, making dolph relinquish control. the context for the fight page is that after their sweet lil beach day, alex takes dolph down an alley where alex knows that he'll come across people who aren't the fondest of him. this event was calculated, alex knew it was going to happen, and he used it to test out his new lil boytoy.
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also, alex taking dolph out to fight isn't just so he can get in the pants of a barely 18 year old. while holloway notes during this flashback that adrenaline is the greatest aphrodisiac, this is a test to see how good the new weapon he picked up is. how the new boy works, to see how eden's boy robot can benefit his group, not just him. its literally in the morning panels we get where alex talks with that woman, anna. they're talking about how loaded he is with tech, and while alex does consider that, he still actively thirsts over dolph.
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also im jus saying if i personally was talking with one of my greatest confidants and they refer to someone i'm thirsting over as KID, i would personally be icked out. i would have a conscious and not do some weird shit, like literally refer to dolph in passing as kid in the next page. dolph aint even the first one who alex has done this shit to, as evident by this line by one of his friends, grace.
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alex is a groomer and groomed dolph, case closed.
anyways! time to get on with what i really wanted to talk about, how racism and loss of idenity ties into dolph's character!
in this manga, during pillow talk between dolph and alex, we get dolph's backstory. dolph literally has only known this man for a day and he's giving him lore because alex treats him more normal than eden did. god. ANYWAYS ENOUGH DWELLING ON DOLPH BEING A VICTIM IN ALL WAYS INCLUDING BEING ONE OF THE OXFORD STUDY, we get to know about his brief life before eden took him in.
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now let me turn for a moment to the show, and how we were told about dolph's backstory. this is VASTLY different than what we got in the show, with it being implied that dolph's parents were a white prostitute and a darkskinned immigrant man. this adds onto the idea that this supposedly impoverished, crack addicted boy came into this world not as an act of love, but as a mistake. not just a mistake though, his parents are supposedly the epitome of immoral, a prostitute and a criminal. not to mention that this also ties into the idea of the uncultured brown man and pure white woman, basically a racist idea that the scary immigrants who aren't like us good white christian americans (and honestly jus any homogenous group in general, though in america its ofc more applicable to white people), are corrupting our mother marys, our women. eden takes on this perspective in order to subconsciously frame in the minds of post american viewers the idea of this man as an other that they are helping and didn't at all snatch up from his mother for child experimentation. the concept of other is something that finds it's origins in fascism, and in order to mask the presence of said fascism, someone who is seen as apart of the other is given a seat at the table with the collective us, (as in the majority, or the ones that are supposedly superior), and will ultimately serve as an example of why the other are labelled as such. i go into this more with my rayman analysis. I brought up the specific portrayal of dolph's backstory from eden's documentary to showcase how eden has manipulated the view people have of this man. eden has not only manipulated the view of the in universe audience, but eden has manipulated our view.
in the propaganda documentary, we are shown photos of this man being a captain, someone of relatively high rank in the military. you can't even normally earn that through having an education, you'd have to have years of experience. he's portrayed as older than he is.
another thing, dolph fans, let's be honest with ourselves; before the manga, it was not uncommon to headcanon that man as a FREAK. with both the supposed images of dolph at a nightclub and the flashback of alex and dolph meeting outside a club, it wasn't too hard to think that the hottest man alive in that show who was fully born human was a freak. a sexual deviant. someone that a christian mother would be horrified enough by that she faints. the manga however, shows us that dolph really isn't any of that. hell, he didn't even get to go to a club before he met alex. in reality, he's around 18 years and his only sexual experience is his groomer.
say that again with me, he's around 18. he's just around 18, he's a young adult, and the environment he's grown up in has stunted him by treating him as a subject, a thing, cutting him off from anything that would humanise this child by not allowing him to see his mother. hell, even his childhood best friend serves eden by being the one in his ear, having him at her beck and call all in the name of eden.
we get none of dolph's true backstory in the show for any number of reasons. maybe it's on purpose, maybe it's a result of having to possibly cut down episodes, who knows? what matters though is that this adds a layer to the core problem defining dolph's life; the perspective others have on him warping who he is.
back to the pages with dolph's memories of his mother, we see dolph as he was when he was just a boy. he's his mama's boy, her son, a child. even when eden takes him in, he stubbornly clings to that bit of him that's pure, untainted by the idea of him being an experiment, a tool. this bit of him, this hint towards who he is supposed to be as a person, is something he clings to desperately. it leads him to follow eden's orders again because they promise that they've found his mother.
and yknow what happened with who dolph was told was supposedly his mother?
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she was just a random ass indian woman.
wasn't even the right woman. they just used his identity issues because he's indian, and she was indian and in a cult that eden needed to take care of.
this, while admittedly is kind of funny, (like the confusion is funny in the moment look at ts) is actually fucked up crazy racism. they literally said that this random ass woman who happened to be indian was his mother like HELL!?!??!?!?
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this insane fr. lucy didn't even double check LIKE GIRL THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE YOUR FRIEND'S MOTHER WHO HE HASNT SEEN SINCE HE WAS LIKE 6 AND YOU DIDNT EVEN DOUBLE CHECK IF SHE'S THE RIGHT PERSON?!?!?!?
moving on from that, this actually brings up a deeper layer of dolph's identity issues; the lack of cultural identity.
i want to preface this by saying that i am not entirely sure if this is the right term for this identity issue nor am i claiming to be an expert on the type of identity crisis that i am about to discuss. that being said, this specific disconnect of cultural identity that dolph has is actually reminiscent of those adopted from other countries, or transnational adoptees. there seems to be a need within these adoptees to find out more about their own heritage or their own mothers and families that they now struggle to find. while dolph does not actively go out to reconnect with his heritage, he does exhibit desires to find his birth mother. this type of identity issue seems to ask the question of 'what could I have been if...?,' and it tends to mess with the idea of the self. adoptees that struggle with this question hold a desire to go back, to almost reclaim what would have been. yes, dolph is not adopted into a family, but he is still a child under the care of eden, which became like his family, which is why i believe that this kind of identity issue could reasonably be applied to dolph. it explains why he does what he does in the manga, and how it's ultimately wrapped up by him losing this desire and moving forward. albeit he moves forward by alex instead becoming his main purpose, but this serves as the first chain of the past that he leaves behind. with this, he severs a tie that would have made him continue to be stuck under eden's control, and possibly find himself. he answers the question of what could have been with 'it doesn't matter anymore.'
but actually, he doesn't answer that question. he leaves it be.
i am reading way too into this tho lol. i would say that he doesn't explicitly say it, and that we do see a lack of dolph's past being used against him in that way because dolph has freed himself from that part, but in reality, it's because eden can't pull the same trick twice. im aware that the manga focuses HARD on dolph's grooming, but i feel like they really could have properly wrapped up dolph's identity arc with his mother if it was acknowledged at the end, but i fear we are left unsatisfied. that's one of my gripes with the manga. it gives us things that tie up loose ends, but some of these ties have entirely missed the holes they were supposed to secure. but what is done is what's done, and here we are.
tl;dr, dolph was groomed by alex. dolph's identity has also been warped by eden heavily, by how they dehumanised him as a child to be a weapon internally, to how he's shown to the public to be a case that they've saved, and yet he still becomes something that is "disgraceful." textbook example of this poor boy that we have saved that is actually jus like all the others that we know. dolph also suffers under similar identity issues as adopted children do, and this specific issue of his is let go in order to allow him to begin moving on and finding himself.
as always, im open to discussion and critique! my askbox is open as well if you want me to yap abt smth else in the show :P
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Imagine having someone who is basically your groomer just chilling right next to you in camp and taunting you for the majority of Act 3.
I really, REALLY hate how Mizora was handled (as well as most of Wyll's arc), and this never fails to give me massive ick.
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hydesjackiespuddinpop · 3 months
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2x04 / 4x19
i did it @randomwriter23
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lynnarang · 8 months
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Debriefing
"-169. Listen to me, 0169!"
The doll snapped back to attention, unsure of where it was, or where its mind had been wandering. Her eyes took a moment to comprehend the scene before her, but her nostrils recognized the overwhelming scent instantly. Blood.
Blood on skin, blood on fabric, blood on metal. Covering her limbs, matted into her hair, pooling around her boots, splattered across wall and ceiling alike. Then the bodies came into focus. There must have been at least-
"0169, have you come to your senses?" The familiar voice demanded attention from the depths of its subconscious. The doll turned to face it's handler and nodded it's head slowly, causing intestines she hadn't noticed were dangling from one of her horns to fall free and splattered blood on its handler's coat.
The doll tensed up, ready to be punished for sullying its handler, but she only smiled. With the tenderness one might expect when cleaning ketchup from their lover's cheek, her gloved fingers worked the last few bits of viscera free from its horns.
"Oh sweetie, what am I gonna do with you?"
The doll instantly relaxed, feeling a wave of pleasure course through it. The finger that had been instinctively resting on the trigger of its rifle finally relaxed and the doll spoke with a voice that was raspy and uncertain.
"Did I... do good...?"
The handler smiled in that beautifully wicked way that only she could, reaching down to stroke one of her doll's ears while cooing.
"Oh you did excellent sweetie. I'm very proud of your work, 0169."
The handler gestured to the corpses that littered the floor, prompting her doll to tear its attention from her. It's initial count had been off, there wasn't two dozen or so corpses but one larger entity that had been formed from them stitched together. The doll stiffened as it recognized a few of its peers among the casualties, but it's handler must have noticed because she rested a hand on its back and whispered softly. "It's okay 0169. You did the right thing. You were so good for me."
With a gentler smile resting on her lips, she turned her doll away from the carnage and started walking it away.
"We'll let the cleanup crew take care of the rest. You need a bath, and afterwards I think a reward is deserved for a job well done."
The mention of a reward made the doll perk up, and it couldn't hold itself back from asking for what it wanted most.
"C-Can I sleep in your bed tonight?"
A brief flicker of something hungry flashed across the older woman's face but the doll pretended not to notice.
"Of course dear. But bath first. It's gonna take a lot of shampoo to get all *that* out of your hair."
The doll smiled, and for a moment, she was able to forget all the faces of the bodies still smiling at her from the back of her mind.
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sp00nful0fsuga · 3 months
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LoveWinsChallenge Day 3 : Teacher X Student
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Accidentally groomed my apprentice in lifegen oops.
You can find the challenge prompts here.
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dwellordream · 6 days
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- Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
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d4rk-x-w0lf-17 · 5 months
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was debating on uploading this cuz i don't want this to be seen as an insult or excuse to harass the artist in question but i'm bringing up the issue i have with their au
i'm very certain that it was completely unintentional on their end but it's still creepy and weird for them to have shadow, who would be in his 30s-40s in their au (but they chose to remove his age), romantically pursue a character once they hit the 'legal age'
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eleiyaumei · 1 year
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Grooming in Hakuouki: Sweet School Life: Harada
Everything here is my personal interpretation and opinion. I am not declaring anyone to be a groomer, I am just looking for signs that one might interpret as signs of grooming. Also: Feel free to criticize and correct me.
Eventually, I will take a look at Hijikata and Kazama as well.
Sources: HSSL translation by @hakuogakuen​.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/protecting-children-sexual-abuse/202010/how-recognize-the-sexual-grooming-minor
CW: Discussions of grooming of minors.
If you do not want to read about this topic or about Harada’s potential involvement in it, do not read any further. Take care of yourself and be safe.
 Note: I do not intend to attack you or your love for this fictional character. My intention is to educate others in this fandom (esp. minors and people that are close to their underage relatives) on the characteristics of grooming.
I am not saying people shouldn’t fantasize about (their) teachers (as a teenager I also had a crush on a teacher – who was a tiny bit like Hijikata, actually) but I am recommending anyone to watch out IRL for warning signs of grooming concerning yourselves and the minors that are close to you.
Yes, fiction is not reality. But it can inform and/or warp our perception of reality. Many of you are probably able to distinguish between the two and would not endorse this behavior IRL. And this game might have already taught you about this topic. (Toma’s route in “Amnesia: Memories” taught me to recognize the warning signs of abusive relationships and even though he was my favorite love interest there, I knew what he was doing was not okay.)
Still, I wanted to make this analysis. Because as a teenager, I only knew that that one teacher in our school shouldn’t be touching his students in the manner/frequency as he did. But no one, including me, felt the need/ was confident enough/... to report this behavior to our parents, other teachers, or the director. And there are so many other ways that teachers (or in general people in power) can be inappropriate.
Analysis below the cut.
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I know there are many bad takes about Gale on this site, but the worst takes I’ve seen on another social media site in another language are much more abhorrent than anything here tbh, the recent one I’ve seen even gets some popularity among his “fans”... They were basically saying it’s Mystra who make him the humble man he is now, without her influence on him he would be as egotistical as in his god ending, and more than a hundred of reblogs are all thanking Mystra for “training her lapdog so well” for them🤢
Did we even play the same game? Isn’t his god ending a direct result of Mystra making him think he will never be enough as he is, and he can only find his self-worth through gaining more power? Didn’t Tara say he’s not himself anymore and she would no longer be his companion in his god ending, she knew him long before Mystra made him her chosen, he was powerful enough before his relationship with Mystra, if he’s anything like god!Gale at the time wouldn’t Tara just leave him? I’d imagine he would have been more confident and had a more stable self-image if Mystra had never contacted him, therefore he didn’t even need the Gale of Waterdeep persona. He would always have been Gale Dekarios in that timeline. And people glorifying Mystra’s grooming and abuse towards him and unironically calling him “her lapdog” is just... I have no words. But what do you expect from an online space that’s infested with terfs and radfems? They just won’t recognize or acknowledge any abuse from women towards men...
#rant#cw: grooming#cw: abuse#fandom critical#and I lost count of how many takes calling him an abled person on that site#they were like#I don't care that he’s suicidal depressed autistic and chronically ill#compared to a certain elf he’s an abled person and trauma-free!#yikes zero awareness of their own ableism#fuck mystra#don't want to put this in his main tags#I didn’t mean to say that every person who praised mystra here is a radfem/terf#but most people there do share essentialist view about gender and sex#they are very hostile to queer men in fandoms as well#there are anon confession blogs and most of them are males dni#and there’s almost zero content of wyll in the fandom there#racism here is already bad but it’s much worse there and no one talk about it#they liked it when larian made gale doesn’t leave when you denied him medicine#they liked it when they removed the persuasion check in the drow twins scene#it’s kind of a power trip to them#they liked it when they can bully a man they claimed to love and face no consequences#it’s not d/s it’s downright abusive#they’re really saying mystra did nothing wrong in another garbage take#they’re going to excuse a god who sexually exploited a mortal like a tool and then cast him aside because a honest mistake he made#which the said god could easily prevent it by telling him the knowledge he didn’t have about the true nature of the orb#then tell him to kill himself for forgiveness when the god can foresee the outcome which would be unleashing a illithid infestation#the power inbanlance between them is so enormous that no real life situation can be compared to it#he literally can’t say no in that relationship#they’re going to excuse all these just because the god is female presenting#women can’t cause serious harm as men do isn’t a feminist stance at all as they think
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enneamage · 9 months
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This is the same anon who was a part of SBI writing spaces. This is another addition to the use of family dynamics in the fandom, and it's like with fetish/kink material
This is pretty grim, but I was sexually abused and groomed in the fandom, by an outspoken adult fan, who had a decently sized account (think 1-2k), using the idea of "family dynamics" to hold control over me, the things I did, and the people I talked to. I was directly compared to Tommy (in references to RPF, DSMP, and "AUs") multiple times
I am no longer in contact with this person and am now safe, but I saw the exact same thing happening over and over again in the fandom. Big, adult SBI accounts with suspiciously young friends who they parade around as "younger siblings," compare themselves to Crimeboys (the same.... weird, touchy, possessive crimeboys they're writing)
it's an epidemic that nobody wants to address because it's kept behind closed doors, since nobody wants to accuse anyone of being "weird". Plus, the "are you implying family stuff is romantic/sexual?!?!" train of thought that is slung around at any questioning is still a really prominent part of the fandom, even if it seems to be getting better
People don't like to acknowledge how the idea of a "family dynamic" is an extremely common abuse tactic because that would bring up how weird their writing is and how weird they interact with their underage fans.
it would also acknowledge how weird the Wilbur and Tommy relationship got (especially in 2021), even if that isn't to the same extent of the widespread normalization of fetish materials in a fandom full of vulnerable, lonely teenagers
Presented without comment, thank you again anon.
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nin-varisse · 10 months
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screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr
Thank you so much for asking! [violent asks here]
3 - Screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr Wasn't on tumblr but the worst silmarillion take I've ever seen was about how Feanor was a creepy uncle that tried to groom Galadriel by asking her for a strand of her hair. There are so many levels to this...
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Was anyone going to tell me YandereDev or Alex or YanDev or Alexander or Whatever the fuck his name is, the creator of Yandere Simulator and a confirmed gr00m3r, wrote a NSFW Persona 3 fic or was I supposed to find that out for myself?
I am not joking btw, someone uploaded it to Wattpad and I did not sleep because I pushed through to read it. The worst is that ITS WRITTEN SO WELL??? LIKE WHAT
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mayxthexforce · 7 days
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"I know almost everything that goes on here on Corellia. I know who's lost and who's found, who's for sale and who's sold, and where all the bodies are buried. Matter of fact, I've had my eye on you. You seem like a smart lad. Are you smart?" "Yes, Captain. I'm smart." "Good, that's the lad! Well, I could use a smart lad to work for me. Why don't you come with me? I'll give you a square meal and a warm place to sleep. And I just bet you'd like to see my ship." "A spaceship? Yes, Captain! I want to be a pilot when I grow up!" "Well come on, then!"
― Garris Shrike and Han Solo. Star Wars - The Paradise Snare.
Me, every time I grab The Paradise Snare and get to Shrike finding Han when he's 6 years old:
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foolofworms · 14 days
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developments in late capitalism in 2024
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beyourlionheart · 22 days
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lamb to the slaughter
WHAT IS THIS?!??
So when I found out about Gale's backstory with Mystra and how Elminster was involved, I hate-wrote a scene with them. I never finished it and it'll probably never see the light of day beyond this, but here's a snippet. (CW: Grooming)
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“Gale, my dear boy, look at you!” Elminster Aumar stands tall and proud beside his pupil, his spine straight despite his advanced age. The number is even higher than most people would assume — magic can afford one many things in life, if one is eager enough to grasp at the branches of its power.  Gale beams at his reflection in the tailor’s mirror. It’s far from perfect, but perfect hadn’t attracted the mother of all magic herself, had it? Even the glorious purple robes that Elminster had ordered for him can’t hide his acne, his perpetually greasy hair, or the way his belly protrudes in the wrong places. Yet, for some reason, Mystra had plucked him from all the competition in Faerûn.  Well, Gale knows the reason. He’d been well beyond his peers from the moment he could have peers. While they had been busy slaving away over spells that they would never fully grasp, magic had come to him with the same ease as breathing. At seventeen, he was about to do what no one else at Blackstaff Academy could ever even dream of accomplishing.  He was about to become chosen. Gale of Waterdeep had never been chosen before. Not by anyone — certainly not by a goddess. “What will it be like, Elminster?” Gale asks, turning his head to look at his mentor. It’s hard to imagine the old man standing where he is now, once upon a time, but Gale imagines it must’ve happened. He must’ve been eager and young and ready to meet the goddess of magic. He, too, must’ve felt as if the whole world was at his fingertips.
“It will be all you hope for and more, Gale,” Elminister says simply. He’d said something similar each time Gale had asked, and yet Gale keeps asking; constantly living in hope that Elminster would shed new light on what his life is about to become. There’s a pause, and Gale can tell that the old man is contemplating something. “Come on, Elminster! Out with it!” His smile is wide as he digs for more knowledge, bearing slightly crooked teeth. “You’ve been her chosen. You know what it is to sit in front of a goddess!” Elminster busies himself with the fabric of Gale’s chimere, which glints with gold inlays in the Waterdeep sun. Gale can’t help from tapping his feet impatiently while the man frets, ignoring the question posed to him at least a dozen times.  Finally, finally, Gale gets his answer. “You should be prepared for her to want things from you, my boy,” Elminster begins to explain, “she will expect them.” He doesn’t fill in the blanks, and despite Gale’s innate ability to parse magical texts as quickly as reading the morning copy of the Waterdeep Sentry, he lacks the social awareness to catch his meaning. “She will want me to perform magic for her, you mean? I’m ready for that. I’ve been practising.” Gale twists his hand through the air, watching as light dances between his fingers. It’s a paltry little show in comparison to his full power, to say nothing of Elminster’s, but he’s happy to demonstrate the ease at which the weave responds to his call.  Elminster seems completely unphased by his little show of magic, and instead merely shakes his head and lets out a chuckle. “No, no, my boy. Well, yes, she will want to train you to become more in tune with the weave than you could manage to become without her guidance, but that’s not what I am referring to.” Gale lets his hand fall back to his side. “Like what?” Elminster seems to be chewing on his words. Plucking them out carefully, one by one, so as not to offend. “She will… invite you to her chambers, before long. You will experience pleasures that you will not be able to comprehend until you have experienced them.” “What, like sex?” Gale balks and sputters. Distantly, he’d been aware that gods would, from time to time, have relations with mortals, but he hadn’t thought that to be part of what he was signing up for. He had had sex before — a sweaty, sticky, hurried experience with a fellow student from his year whom he had tutored for a semester. He hadn’t enjoyed it very much, and he simply cannot imagine the Mother of Magic wanting to replicate such a thing with him. The chuckle that comes from Elminster’s throat is nearly convincing. He does a good job of pretending to be on Gale’s side. “In a way, yes,” he replies. Gale stares at him with his wide eyes. Elminster stands straight again and sets his wrinkled hands on his hips. “It won’t be like anything you might think you’ve experienced before, if that’s what you’re thinking. She will want to experience you the way that gods do. In Elysium.” Gale’s heart beats fast in his chest, thrumming like a war drum. He’d been preparing for this for his whole life, or so he thought. Nothing about magic had ever frightened him, but… this? What was he to expect? What if Mystra wasn’t satisfied with him? Should this have been a subject of his studies for all these years? He gathers the edges of his robes into his sweaty palms.
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