#does that clarify anything

[andhumanslovedstories]

trying to explain my spiritual beliefs like "yes I believe in God, yes I am an atheist, we exist" but if anyone asks a follow up question, I throw chair through a window and jump after it

#yes it's all a lie yes it's all a story yes it's all profoundly true yes it is an explanation we made up yes it something we discovered #yes it is undefinable yes i know what isn't god yes i think the universe is essentially neutral yes it loves us yes it hates us #yes it doesn't care yes i don't believe anything i just typed yes it's so deeply true to me that i can never explain it #no god is not real yes i love him #does that clarify anything

[mtndw-whteout]

Serizawaweek day 1!!! Friends/hobby

I didn’t mean for this to be angsty but I wanted to draw Shou and Serizawa and their friendship

#art #artists on tumblr #mob psycho 100 #mp100 #shou suzuki #serizawa katsuya #serizawaweek #NOT SHIPPY #I hate that I need to clarify but I don’t want anyone confused #I feel like at some point Shou would see Serizawa as a father figure more than his own dad #even tho Serizawa doesn’t feel like he does well at literally anything #let alone raising a kid #hhhh

[writer-room]

I had an idea, and so I made some low effort memes. Happy Dragons Rising everybody

That is all

#EDIT: i added pixal in the lineup cause i FORGOT HER FOR SO LONG #PIXAL YOU DESERVED BETTER THAN THAT IM SORRY WELCOME IN- #ninjago #lego ninjago #ninjago kai #jay walker #ninjago cole #ninjago zane #ninjago nya #lloyd garmadon #ninjago wu #memes #shitpost #ninjago memes #my post #i say all of this with affection to clarify #listen 2 me if zane is/was your favorite theres a high chance you're neurodivergent now #but also it looks like zane is most peoples favorite #so if that dont say anything about this shows fandom idk what does-

[technicolourtelevision]

gerri doesn't owe roman shit

#there are just so many thoughts i have about this #im fine with people shipping whoever they want but roman has been a pos to gerri ok #gerri doesn't owe roman a hug why does she need to be his caretaker #anyways just succ sesh discourse lol #also let me clarify i'm not against roman and i def think he needs comfort and he is heartbroken #i just dont think gerri needs to be that person for him #she doesnt owe him anything #roman roy #discourse #succession #succession spoilers #4x03 #season 4 #episode 3 #connors wedding #gif #my gif #gerri kellman

[dazais-guardian-angel]

Chapter 110 is 13 pages long welcome to hell!!! so in a lot of ways this is just more fuel for a theory that I've had for a few weeks now, that's only gotten stronger with each recent season 5 episode, which is that the last episode of the season is gonna end on 110, and that Asagiri/Harukawa and Bones have been collaborating to make this happen, specifically because it's a major turning point that would be the only good place to end the season on.

When we started getting especially long chapters again (like from 25-35ish pages, with the exception of 107.5, the last two being some of the longest we've ever had), at first I just assumed that Asagiri/Harukawa got freed up from some other obligations they'd been having to cause the extremely short/half chapters, like promotional stuff for the anime/Beast movie, or working on light novels. But then 109 happened, with the "supposed" death of Dazai, and heavy emphasis at the end on how literally everyone is at their lowest point right now, and I got to thinking. 11 episodes is a strangely specific number for an anime season -- why not 12, or 13, or even 10, like you'd usually see? Why have we gotten suddenly gotten two 35 page chapters out of nowhere, that's almost unheard of at this point? They're both beautiful chapters, don't get me wrong (as always), and maybe A/H simply just didn't want to cut them in halves because they felt like the full emotional impact wouldn't hit/that there were no good cutoff points in them, but you can't deny that it's surprising, after all the shorter chapters we've been getting. Why has the anime been going at such insanely breakneck pacing for the most part ever since around the Sunday Tragedy chapters, even more so than it has in the past? So much so that it feels dangerously close to overtaking the manga?

Well, maybe, just maybe, it's because..... Asagiri decided a long time ago that whatever happens in 110 is the only point that feels "season finale"-worthy enough, in an arc that still isn't anywhere close to being completely wrapped up, and so both the manga and the anime have been specifically coordinated to reach that part within 2 and a half weeks of each other?

I've seen a lot of people now think season 5 will end with 109, and as much as my sadistic side would find that hilarious, I honestly don't think they'd do that and realistically don't want it to happen; it'd be so cruel to cliffhanger the anime for years like that, and just doesn't feel like a season cliffhanger BSD would do, a series that is ultimately hopeful and uplifting. Seasons 2 and 3 had a positive, conclusive ending; the only reasons seasons 1 and 4 didn't was because they're technically not really full seasons of their own, and are more like the first cour of another "season" that also came out that same year (seasons 1 and 2 both aired in 2016, so they're more like one big season, and seasons 4 and 5 have both aired this year, so they're also more like one big season, again taking into account how episodes 12 and 50 are not satisfying finales like episodes 24, 37, and hypothetically, 61, are). I really can't see season 5 ending with Dazai and Fukuzawa's supposed deaths, Sigma being unconscious and maybe close to death, Atsushi being vulnerable and limbless again, everyone we love still vampires, and the entire world being basically doomed; that's just too depressing and not like BSD at all. However, having said that, if it doesn't end there, there really isn't any good place to end the season before that, either, that feels in any way satisfying or like a finale at all. And so, to me, that only leaves after 109: chapter 110.

I think things are really gonna turn around next chapter. Like I said, everyone is at their lowest point right now, it cannot possibly get any worse, the framing of Dazai, Fukuzawa, and sskk at the end of 109 is telling us that; this is the time for the heroes to finally start winning again, with Aya being so close to pulling out the sword, and for all the thematic reasons other people have talked about to death that I don't need to go into here again. This upcoming chapter being so short again makes a part of me wary of 110 being "the one", so to speak, I won't lie, but at the same time, it's very possible that it needs to be that short because that's all the final episode of the season will be able to reasonably fit in, since it's already gonna be VERY close if they do make it all the way to 109. And at the end of the day, I don't doubt at all that Asagiri and Harukawa can make these the most monumental and game-changing mere 13 pages ever if they wanted to; a chapter does not at all need to be extremely long in order to be an important and impactful one, even if short ones we've gotten in the past haven't felt the most important.

An additional thought I've had, though this is much more crack territory than all this already is, is that since we know from Anime Expo that a Stormbringer movie at some point is highly likely (judging from Asagiri's reaction when someone brought it up), it's possible that chapter 110 and thus the final episode will involve the long-anticipated return of Verlaine and/or Adam, or at least some other major reference to Stormbringer, that would naturally and smoothly lead into a Stormbringer movie to explain things to people who haven't read the novel. It would make a lot of sense, especially since the s4 OP has the Old World sign behind Chuuya, which might be a hint that this has been in the works ever since seasons 4/5 were first in planning with Asagiri. We also know that Dazai and Chuuya's voice actors apparently struggled to record their lines together this season, which probably relates to 101 and possibly 109, but it could be 110 too.... I could be very wrong, as I'm no expert on this kind of thing, but I kinda doubt they would bring Chuuya's actor in for just the vampire growls, and Asagiri placing heavy emphasis on Chuuya's importance this season in that one interview gives me the impression that he's talking about much more than just 101/109. But that's the least solid evidence I have, that's just mostly based on vibes I get.

So basically, I think a lot of factors -- the unusual episode count, how close the anime is to catching up to the manga with three whole episodes left, the seemingly arbitrary recent chapter lengths, and the climactic events of 109 -- can tell us that 110 might be a very, VERY big deal. Again, there's of course no way this arc is anywhere near close to being finished, with so much left to address and resolve, but since it is currently incomplete in the manga, unlike the previously adapted arcs, if the anime was going to adapt it at all, they'd have to find a place that feels satisfying enough to end this season, knowing there won't be more anime for a long time after this, and so I think they specifically planned for that, from both Bones' and A/H's sides. 10 episodes might not have been enough to reach that point, but 12 or 13 might have been too many it wouldn't have been if Bones actually decided to slow down and let the story breathe the way it needs to, but this post isn't meant to criticize the anime, so maybe 11 was just right. And maybe Asagiri and Harukawa specifically pushed to make recent chapters longer than usual, in order to make sure that the manga reached the story content in 110 the monthly release right before season 5 was to end.

Is this just copium? Absolutely. Am I going to look like an absolute clown in two days when this post ages like milk? Probably. But the evidence is There, so let me just enjoy my delusions until Sunday, okay 🥂🫡

#bungou stray dogs #seriously call me a clown and point and laugh at me if I'm proven wrong all you want #but I really feel like there's solid evidence for this #either s5 isn't gonna reach 109 at all (but I seriously cannot fathom where you would want to stop before then) or they'll go beyond it #if they really do end it with 109....... well i'll give Bones kudos for having the balls to do that ig lol #maybe i'm underestimating (overestimating???) them idk #also just to clarify I don't wanna make it sound like I think Asagiri let the anime/Bones dictate the manga's pacing #like I'm sure these were his/their (him and Harukawa's) own decisions first and foremost #not that (if this theory is true) the anime had a major impact on how the chapters were split and that it- #-would have been extremely different otherwise #i'm pretty confident in that Asagiri does not do anything with BSD he isn't comfortable with #and he doesn't let anyone tell him how to write his story #I just feel like he worked with Bones to make this near-simultaneous release happen #BUT if this is the case I don't feel like it had any major effect on the writing/final product that is the manga #like the last handful of chapters have been so incredible #so I at least am still perfectly happy lol #(i mean i'm devastated and a nervous wreck but u know 🫡 in a good way lmao) #anyway 110 in two days please let this theory be true because I need some fucking hope already #please let Oda show up as Dazai's guardian angel to help (see what I did there-) #it would be the perfect way to end the collective season that is 4/5 with s4 beginning with Oda and now ending with Oda #Asagiri are you reading me are you picking up what I'm putting down please please a ghost Oda is long overdue please- #Oda Verlaine Adam just GIVE ME SOMEONE ALREADY 😭😭😭 #MAYBE EVEN A TASTE OF THE FYODOR BACKSTORY TO TIE INTO HIM BEING IN ANIME UNTOLD ORIGINS. THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS

[wordwovencackle]

This is what's happening in the Netherlands.

Municipalities see illegal sex work hundreds of times a year.

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Mattress on the floor.

The working conditions are very variable. "From workspaces that are very professionally and neatly furnished to spaces where there is only a mattress on the floor in a polluted room," says the municipality of Sittard-Geleen.

Examples of workplaces that the municipality of Tilburg found during inspections: (see pictures above.

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Many sex workers move around and camp somewhere else every week. "They often come from abroad and live out of a suitcase," notes the municipality of Dordrecht.

The origins of the sex workers (usually women) are extremely diverse, but most come from South America, Eastern Europe or the Netherlands itself.

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Chances of being caught are small.

Amsterdam has the feeling that the illegal circuit is growing. "A conservative estimate is that approximately 6,000 sex workers were active on regular sex advertising websites in Amsterdam last year, the vast majority of which involved illegal prostitution. During inspections we regularly find abuses and exploitation."

Due to a lack of supervision, many municipalities see illegal prostitution as a risk. "The earnings are high, the chance of being caught is small and there is no prospect of voluntariness or [whether the sex workers are underage or not]," according to the municipality of Almelo.

Enforcement officers regularly wonder whether prostitution is forced. For example, Amersfoort came across a Romanian sex worker without papers and a tattoo with the name of a suspected pimp. Sometimes someone other than the sex worker speaks, which municipalities find suspicious.

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Different perspective.

It rarely happens that someone admits to working under duress. "There are often suspicions of a network, but not much information emerges in conversations or interrogations," says the municipality of Assen. "It also plays a role that sex workers sometimes have a different perspective on exploitation," says the municipality of Hilversum. Female sex workers often come from abroad to earn money for their families. "They have more income here than in their home country, even if they have to [pay a part of what they earn.]"

When municipalities discover illegal prostitution, they often choose to warn sex workers and possibly offer help. They can also close properties or impose a so-called cease and desist order on the owners.

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Link to the full article below. It's in Dutch, but it isn't long so an online translator will go a long way for you to get the gist of it:

#anti prostitution #illegal prostitution #anti sex work #anti sex industry #yes this is the illegal part #but it is a *growing* illegal industry in a country *where there is legal prostitution available* #this is by design #legal prostitution does not help the women being exploited by prostitution #most of this is online translation btw I'm sorry #I hope it's all legible #if I need to clarify anything please let me know #radical feminism #radblr #radical feminist #feminism #feminist

[shanastoryteller]

You: ngawb is in fic jail because i need a break from people leaving dumb comments

Me: *stares at your 78 other fics that aren't part of a private collection*

are you ... going to leave dumb comments on those??

#someone help me what does this mean #also i've gotten a lot of sweet messages but i feel the need to clarify that it's not trolls or flames or anything like that #it's actually lack of reading comprehension lol #hate comments mean very little to me but stupidity is exhausting #asks #anon

[corviiids]

happy homestuck day to those who celebrate

#homestuck #rookposting #i did elaborate if anyone wants to see the elaboration but i will be transparent now. it does not clarify anything

[aurorangen]

Bryce thinks he set them up lmaooo

Transcript:

Jay: Your Dad is right behind you and he's umm wearing a wetsuit? Renee: No I'm pretty sure I locked my door.

[Bryce can obviously see and hear Renee talking to Jay, so he goes on to embarrass her] Bryce: [winks at Jay] Hey it's Jay! What's up? You guys continue talking, old me isn't interested-

Renee: Dad I told you to knock…ah you're wearing that wetsuit! Jay you're seeing nothing! Bryce: Hey! I just got home from work. Jay how's your Dad [gets pushed out of Renee's room]

#ts4 #sims 4 #ts4 gameplay #ts4 legacy #postcard legacy #postcard gen 2 #renee reichmann #bryce reichmann #jay pollock by duusheen #her door was actually open bryce was like hold on a minute 🤨 #he was the one who told them to keep in touch and they chat often #so hes like hmm is this what i think it is? bryce getting pushed out #clarifies it for him but renees thinking why dad 😩 not infront of jay #he does the most random things and renee actually loves that!! and #im feeling uninspired again #currently planning the posts but idk #i dont want to miss anything important and want it to flow nicely... #so creating this little extra was fun to do!!

[itsamenickname]

Ooo, I got a fun Bowuigi plot twist for y'all:

Instead of Luigi influencing Bowser to become a better person/Koopa, what if Bowser accidentally influenced Luigi to become more like him?

How do you think Mario would react to finding out that his sweet and innocent baby brother isn't so sweet and innocent anymore?

#luigi #luigi nintendo #bowser #bowser nintendo #bowuigi #bowser x luigi #super mario #super mario bros #mario au #now just to clarify on what I mean by “more like Bowser:” Luigi wouldn't become evil or anything like that #I would instead think that he would have a somewhat more chaotic nature #for example: the normal Luigi wouldn't even think to tie a Toad's shoelaces together in hopes of making them fall (because that's mean) #but under Bowser's influence I would say that the new Luigi would not hesitate go along with that idea (or any of Bowser's ideas really) #does that make sense? #the new Luigi wouldn't want take over any kingdoms or seriously hurt anyone but I would say that he wants to kind of ruin people's day #I can also see the new Luigi swearing #now he wouldn't have a sailor mouth like Bowser #but I can see something going wrong for him (like a dish didn't turn out right or he breaks a plate) and he just casually saids a bad word #and both Mario and Bowser would be completely speechless because the normal Luigi would never swear (even if he was angry) #and then like 10 seconds later Bowser starts laughing his ass off while Mario gives Bowser a stare that would kill him in an instant #think of the normal Luigi as lawfully good and the new Luigi as more towards chaotic neutral

[uncanny-tranny]

Is that person truly "glamourizing [bad thing]" or are they just existing and not hating themself in the way society demands them to?

#body shaming #i suppose? #like... are they truly glamourizing fatness or (more likely) are they existing openly as fat #or... are they glamourizing scars or are they simply mentally ill and live in that body? #like i hate the whole 'their existence is GLAMOURIZING [thing society and them hate]!!!!!' #exactly how? is it glamourizing to not kill yourself to try looking anything else than what others want you to look? #i guess so in their eyes huh #like shit. how does that not feel disgusting to think y'know? #i had a much bigger post about this so if somebody needs this clarified i can just copy-paste the rant lol

[shower-racoon]

the wizard roguelike where you can kill your enemies, eat their corpses, and drink their blood

#noita #not sure if noita means anything else but if it does then I will happily change tags to clarify that I mean this game #don't want any confusion when I'm talking about the most feral wizard game I've ever played

[optiwashere]

Since work is very much not on the front of my mind, I'm constructing my "NYE 2023" playlist instead of creating profit for my employer. I think ringing in 2024 with some Godflesh, Rotten Sound, Gravesend, and Hellripper will be the right choice.

Nightsongs Shadowheart prefers a playlist of modern Ulver, that new Predatory Void band, and old Katatonia albums. She sneaks in a few Lacuna Coil and Nightwish songs. "Oh, I didn't mean to put those on there," she says while never once skipping those songs. If Astarion happens to be at the same party, he gives her shit all night about it. He asks where the Birthday Massacre and Bauhaus went.

Meanwhile, Nightsongs Ash just wants to listen to some Sturgill and go home. Then she hears a Panopticon song from Kentucky and thinks, "oh, maybe I like this??? Appalachian protest black metal??????"

#personal nonsense #nightsongs au #oc: asheera #I feel like at some point in the fic I should clarify that Ash likes GOOD COUNTRY #none of this shitty pop country dogwater - johnny cash and the aforementioned sturgill simpson and merle travis and yeah some dolly parton #an Appalachian trans country girl butch is just what Shadowheart needs tbqh #oh and that new Godflesh is pretty good ngl! but anything that isn't Streetcleaner does sadly wash off my brain quite quickly #christbait rising is *the* industrial metal song and I will not hear otherwise

[katsigian]

Context and Dispelling Misinformation

There was a vaguepost shared within the cp77 fandom by another person and it really needs some context and clarification. This is the only time I will talk about this and after I share this, I am moving on with my life and not returning to it.

I am going to say this first: do not use this a reason to attack others. This is not drama or discourse and once I share this, I will be moving on and not adding more to it. Do not take this as an attack or an attempt to stir up shit, because it is not in any way, shape or form. All this is, is to clarify a vaguepost that concerns me and other people who have the same concern as me.

This vaguepost was directed towards me and a post that I had made in a small, private server consisting of people I considered to be my friends. The basic context of this is; I made a post expressing my feelings of loneliness and isolation and it was completely misconstrued and then vague-posted about in a very invalidating and hurtful way. The post in question invalidates all the other people who have also expressed their feelings of being left out and unwanted before. Because I am not the only person who has talked about feeling like they don't belong in the fandom. Are all of those people 'whiny asses' too? (Check alt text for description of images)

My post had absolutely nothing to do with this person. I did not mention them, I did not refer to them, I was only expressing something that I had been worrying about in a channel dedicated specifically to offering support in my small, personal server. I genuinely do not know why they felt the need to make this vague post and say the things they said in it.

Also, nowhere in my post did I make any mention of being concerned about the number of notes. I did not say or imply anywhere that I'm scared of losing notes or reblogs. Because I'm not worried about that. What I said was that I'm scared I won't have a place to belong because I've always been an outsider. I'm not part of any cliques or groups and I never have been. I don't think it's me being a 'whiny ass' to want human connection and to want people I can talk to and be friends with. Is it stupid of me to want friends? Is it stupid of all the other people who have expressed similar sentiments?

I vented in my small, cp77 based server called Red Dirt to people that I believed were my friends about something that's been worrying me since late 2022. I wasn't aware that being vulnerable in front of my friends was "attention-seeking, whiny ass" behaviour and I didn't know that I'd be seen as annoying for getting something off of my chest. I genuinely thought that the people in that server were people I could trust and people I could be open with hence why it remained in the server.

This post invalidates a lot of people's feelings and it's just plain hurtful to name-call people for wanting human connection. It's not just me who has been open about feeling left out and ignored. I'm not the only person who has expressed that they feel unwanted and like they don't belong anymore in the fandom. Another person very recently has expressed similar sentiments and had valid concerns. Another vague-post by the same person was made in regards to that and was again, very invalidating and hurtful. It's ironic that this person, after targeting someone who has never done anything wrong to anyone, stated "stay kind" as if them hurting a large group of people was kind and peaceful.

Going forward, all I'm asking for are two things; some compassion and empathy for people who are struggling in the fandom, and to not resort to ranty, targeted vagueposts as a means to try solve personal-level issues. Vagueposts don't solve problems. We have seen this multiple times in this fandom. All they do is open up the doors to harmful assumptions and allow for misconstruing words/intentions into something they are not. This kind of misinformation creates more problems than it fixes.

#to reiterate #do not use this as a reason to start a fight and do not attack anyone over this #this is not some call to arms and I am not condoning any harmful and combative behaviour by any stretch of the imagination #all this post is is to clarify the vague post so people can make an informed decision rather than operating off of misinformation #as we've seen in the past #vagueing about people does not solve anything and just makes the matter worse #cbp2077 fandom bullshit

[hell-heron]

Obviously it's all in Doylist (heh) service of the plot in truth, but I must say I like how much... passivity/learned helplessness/indifference regarding their living surroundings on the part of the twins is essential to the story, accepting a bunch of random modifications to their rooms that they never inquire about what exactly they are for, the doorbell having been put in place years ago and never being used by either woman. Rings very true to effects of abusive situations the way it's so frustratingly obvious something is suspicious to the reader but it can't be to them, why would it be to them when vague control on their own lives in general was never an option

#letters from watson #the speckled band #its just the kind of thing that if it was a modern story paying attention to psychology you'd marvel at like this detail of insight that is #not really often talked about. but its a whodunnit with environmental based solution so obviously its not ghjk #op #to clarify it was specifically the fact of never having used the doorbell that struck at me more than anything that would actually require #questioning the stepdad - as something that would normally struck me as a plot hole but that here im just. yeah i get it. lack of control #on anything in your life and constant fear that anything new might bring danger does that to you

[guppie-draws-stuff]

guess what I’m obsessed with this time

smiling critters profile template by @localgremlinenthusiest , they’re cool check them out

EDIT: Changed her name because I realized it didn’t really fit with the other characters’ names

#guppie’s cool art #guppie’s ocs #smiling critters #smiling critters cartoon #smiling critters oc #smiling critters fanart #poppy playtime #poppy playtime chapter 3 #to clarify- I haven’t played any of the games or watched a play through or anything #my mind has zoomed in on the cartoon versions of the smiling critters #as one does #rozzie rockoon