#just in case so if you have the tag blocked you don't have to be bothered by it

[lumiereswig]

I'm still seeing a lot of angry takes in the tags about how excessive Watcher's current costs are and how all fans really want, apparently, is "just shane and ryan sitting in a basement" back again. While I do think Watcher is probably spending over budget and that's a real issue, a lot of the takes I'm seeing show a fundamental misunderstanding of how video production works and where costs actually lie. So a few quick things that I just keep seeing that are bothering me:

It was never just Shane and Ryan in a basement. BFU did a great job selling that conceit and making sure you never saw anyone beyond them and maybe TJ, but they absolutely had other crew members with them on ghost hunts and they didn't do all the work on BFU themselves. This Q&A from Season 2 lists 36 people on staff for Buzzfeed Unsolved. It's fair to make arguments that Watcher may or may not need 25 people, but those arguments should not be coming from a place of "before it was just Shane and Ryan and nobody else."

If you don't know how many people are needed to make a professional video from a TV/film standpoint, you will not have a reasonable grasp of why Watcher wants to keep 25 people on staff. Sure, some YouTubers get by with a ring light and a contracted editor. The Watcher team have stated repeatedly that they do not want to work as just YouTubers and see themselves more as a production studio—so why do people keep referencing the YouTube model to understand their business? This is like asking the local shake shop why it doesn't function like the kids' lemonade stand down the block. The item category is similar but they're not trying for the same products or process.

The "gold dusted food" is not the big budget sink you think it is. On most TV shows I've worked on it's normal to partner with businesses that are shown onscreen and work out a deal where the price of the product (in this case the gold food) is reduced or eliminated in exchange for the free publicity. Watcher very likely made a deal with every restaurant it worked with to make the Korea trip affordable for the company. The real budget spends are on things you're probably not seeing but that still matter: camera and lighting equipment is expensive, insurance for that equipment is expensive, business overhead and paying your staff are expensive. So again—it's fine to critique Watcher for the streaming plan and the perceived budgetary issues, but go into this knowing the costs might not be coming from the things you see onscreen.

My source is that I work in TV and film and actually have a clue on how the industry functions. Again, 36 people worked on Unsolved (and those were the people mention in Season 2—who knows how big the team blew up past that in later seasons). Entertainment work is real work, and demands decent equipment, competent staff, and the same types of business and budget problems you'd find in any other business (overhead, staffing, etc.). Feel free to critique Watcher's business model, but first try to understand where that model is coming from and what goals it's attempting to serve.

#watcher #watcher entertainment #rant! sorry! couldn't see another take from someone who clearly thinks video work is just fun and games because “it's entertainment right” #funny how people expect normal business costs and problems for any other career but if it's involved with production they think everything #just magically happens and is made entirely by the onscreen talent. nutso #anyway i think watcher is probably trying its best; maybe got too overexcited; but cares about quality of life for its employees and #wants no one working to the bone. which is admirable! the streaming service was a bad idea but they're not the literal devil like some thin #they're 3 self described idiots doing this for the first time. they backpedaled. i don't see this as the death of the company & i'm gonna #keep supporting them :)

[canonicallyobserving911]

STOP TRYING TO ERASE EDDIE DIAZ!

This is a CANON FACT!

📣📣📣 Eddie is Chris' FATHER!

He's his biological father.

I added most of the latter part of this post to a reblog of a post I did last year about Eddie being an awesome dad but I decided to do a separate post because it's getting real interesting out here in these 911blr tags especially since BT shippers and former Buddie shippers keep trying to ERASE EDDIE DIAZ so Buck and T*mmy can raise Chris.

Like what the actual F%ck?

I've been on a blocking and tag filtering spree for more than two weeks so anyone posting BS like this and any negativity about Buddie have been BLOCKED!

Here's my original post that I added to the tags.

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Ok... I saw several posts on main that were VERY DiStuRbiNg! Therefore, I'm reblogging this just in case there are some new people who recently joined 911blr and they're unaware of this especially since Chris has only been in one episode this season (7x1)!

If you're new here... Hello, hi and welcome.

Now on to the business at hand!

BE CLEAR!

EDDIE DIAZ IS CHRISTOPHER'S FATHER!

Buck is ONLY HIS LEGAL GUARDIAN and that's in the event that Eddie's dies so don't get it twisted.

There's NO way Buck and T*mmy will be raising Chris together like Chris is their son.

No one can erase Eddie!

Buck WILL NOT be raising Chris with T*mmy🤬😡.

T*mmy is A PLOT DEVICE and HE IS NOT part of The BUCKLEY-DIAZ FAMILY.

Eddie added Buck to his will not Buck +1. Therefore Buck will only be raising Chris with EDDIE DIAZ, Chris' biological father. They've already built a family and it's been 6 years. Eddie told Buck, "There's nobody in this world I trust with my son more than you".

He didn't say that to T*mmy! Hell, T*mmy wasn't even around back then. He's only been in like 3 episodes and he'll be gone soon!

Stop trying to ERASE EDDIE BY UNALIVING HIM so Buck can raise Chris with T*mmy.

It's ludicrous and asinine and down right ridiculous!

Seriously!

#buddie #eddie diaz #evan buckley #christopher diaz #the buckley diaz family #buckley diaz family #911 abc #911 on abc #911 spoilers #911 speculation #911 season 7 speculation #911 season 7 #911 meta #ryan guzman #oliver stark #gavin mchugh #anti tommy kinard #Anti bucktommy

[tei-to-tei]

December 3 - Morning Cartoons

#rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #rise fanart #turtle tots #big thanks to everyone who's been kind enough to encourage me on these so far ;u; incredibly sweet of you guys #kissing all of you on the forehead politely #i'm gonna try really hard to keep it up for december but i do have a final tomorrow and the day after so fingers crossed it goes well #gonna start tagging my personal art challenge as tei's dec23 to organize sjkfjsld #and also to give people a tag to block if they don't want to see it just in case #teidoodle #tei's dec23

[trafficshippingtournament]

WELCOME, TO THE TRAFFIC SHIPPING TOURNAMENT OF 2023!!!

Where 32 trafficblr ships will be going against each other to find out who comes out on top, so vote for your favourites!!!

The 32 ships chosen for this bracket are the current ships with most fics on 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series fandom on ao3

All of the ships were arranged randomly for the bracket

Every round of polls will last a week

Finally and most importantly, be kind to each other. This is just a silly tournament

Tags for easy navigation:

The actual match polls -> Polls

The propaganda made by people with hopes to sway your votes! You can support your ships with your own propaganda by sending this blog an ask with the link to the propaganda post you want to be reblogged! -> Tournament Propaganda

Fun stats about the polls for those who enjoy them! -> Tournament Stats

The tournament is over and our winner is GemPearl!!!

#trafficshipping #traffic shipping #trafficblr #I don't know if this needs to be said but: All of these ships are of the fictional characters not CCs #Another thing that I don't know if needs to be said is: Do NOT tag CCs about the polls. Your purpose does not matter. don't bother them #If a CC finds this on their own and wants to engage with it that's fine they can do what they want #Not that I think this tournament will get big enough for that to happen anyway but I am simply prewarning just in case #This is just a silly tournament about block people ships I've decided to make so we can all have some fun as a fandom #So just remember to be nice to other people and their ships. If you see one you don't like simply root for your own ship harder #Also if you do not like this blog or tournament simply blocking this blog will be better for us all

[thegunslingerletmedrop]

"You don't ship Buddie?"

Then: Meh, don't have no dog in that fight. Just here for Firefam.

Now: Ngl, kinda rooting against it purely because of shippers. Some of y'all are cool AF and make me want to ship them, but some of y'all make me want to make a blood sacrifice to ensure it never happens.

#911 abc #bucktommy #tommy kinard #evan buckley #kinkley #tevan #buck x tommy #idk what ship name we're gonna use #i just know im ride or die for buck and tommy #tagging this #anti-buddie #just in case so if you have the tag blocked you don't have to be bothered by it

[aq2003]

1x69 // 1x89 or; keyleth and percy and "i need you"

#keyleth #percy de rolo #critical role #vox machina #criticalroleedit #marisha ray #taliesin jaffe #cr #cr1 #my edits #percy and kiki #sorry i have diseases. i put the last 2 gifs next to each other and teared u]p #'i need you. but we're not all going to make it' . god. top 5 things percy has said that make me mentally ill #ALSO. THE FACT THAT CHARISMA IS KEYLETH'S WORST STAT. SHE HAS A +0 TO THAT. AND SHE ROLLED A 19 #these gifs are so crusty i love them so much tho #if you're seeing this on mobile i am sorry the alt tag is covering like half of the percy dialogue text </3 just click on th gifs to see it #rohan don't look #<- this gifset doesnt have overt spoilers but in case ur seeing this. block that tag for the future lol

[lanaevyssmoved]

i keep getting so tempted to talk about the exploration of toxicity and abuse in fiction and how it can be a genuine recommendation from therapists to help you heal and talk about your experiences while othering yourself, and how if you do it online you're going to make people uncomfortable and you will be judged, so you need to learn how to balance these things, to do what you want to do for yourself while also being mindful of those around you.

but then i remember how disasterous this conversation is whenever it seems to be brought up and i change my mind

#fray.txt #something something exploring dark themes saved my life when i was younger #something something it doesnt give you the right to do this without appropriately tagging your stuff or keeping it private #as its generally more advised by professionals to do it privately and thats also how i would advise it #something something but its also good that people can explore these things if theyre incapable of creating it for themselves #so having the resources out there like fanfiction for example is good for those cases #something something instead of wishing death and the social collapse of people doing this just block and move on #something something sometimes the weirdo freaks you want to cancel on the internet are people trying to heal from their own trauma #idk. i don't have the strength #i should go to bed this is the past 9pm fray talking

[sweatandwoe]

some of you need to learn how to be haters in private. it's okay to privately say "hey I hate this [widely accepted headcanon] can I vent/know how you feel about it because that may help me understand" to a buddy/friend group. shitting under someone's post is like shitting in someone's yard, you can't blame it on the dog when you've got the whole neighborhood watching you do it

#it is okay to not like everyone or everything #that's normal you are human #shout about things you love tho cause it creates a better experience and it's better FOR YOU!!! #block people you don't like and mute tags please #block me even please if I annoy you #I drafted this post a few days ago after seeing some ghost fans being yeah and yeah I still feel this way so hitting the post button #its a me sweaty #vent #<- just in case peeps got that muted you don't have to see me being a hater

[yume-danshi]

Disclaimer: This is mainly me venting. I KNOW I'm biased due to personal factors, but I needed to get this off my chest.

Ever since Season 4 of Black Butler has been announced, I've been seeing a resurgence of Dad!Seb posts/content, and I just...

I understand simping for Sebastian, having AUs, all that - but when did we as a fandom start pretending he's not a soul hungry demon who'd eat OCiel the microsecond he got the chance? Did we all forget what happened in the Green Witch Arc, or...?

Sebastian isn't some loving demon who took pity and wanted to raise OCiel and love and protect him. He's a demon who made a contract with a human who happened to be a child, an Earl who needed said demon to take the guise of a butler. The other servants may love OCiel and want to protect him for having a hand in saving their lives, but Seb? Seb just wants dinner. We're reminded of that constantly.

Not to mention, OCiel doesn't trust him at all. One of Seb's literal contracted conditions is not to lie to him, not to betray him. You think if OCiel trusted Seb that he'd have done that? If memory serves, there's a number of times OCiel states, very plainly, that he doesn't trust Sebastian at all. Again, I'll reference the Green Witch chapters even if OCiel wasn't exactly clear minded for that - no spoilers, but manga fans will hopefully know what I'm talking about.

My point is, OCiel doesn't trust Sebastian. Sebastian doesn't see OCiel as his kid who needs to be protected. They both know exactly what their arrangements are, and both of them want it done and over with. OCiel isn't drawing it out, he's trying to fulfill his revenge as close to "on his own" as a literal child can, and utilizing the demon he has while he also balances his duties as an Earl (albeit poorly in some cases). The only reason he keeps Sebastian around is the contract, and the only reason Sebastian hasn't eaten him yet is because the terms of said contract aren't complete.

So please, can we at least acknowledge that Dad!Bastian is just an AU? Please? Cause it really makes me sick to see people saying Seb genuinely cares for OCiel like that.

#black butler #kuroshitsuji #ciel phantomhive #ociel #sebastian michaelis #sebciel #dadbastian #dad!sebastian #these tags are for reach #and nothing else #this post is neither pro nor anti ship #I'm anti bullshit #so if you wanna start a ship war #don't waste your time on me bc I'll just block and ignore you #or just troll you depending on my mood #context on the personal factors: #i have a fictional introject of OCiel and hes tired of seeing people say Seb cares for him when he knows damn well that aint the case #and also #i actually read the manga #all of you saying seb is dad #tbh #not to sound anti #but yall are gross #and i really want nothing to do with people who see how seb acts toward ociel and still opt to say thats genuine affection or love #if yall 100% really no irony believe that #then you need therapy

[neosatsuma]

obsessed with the people that put graphic, untagged reader insert smut in the main media/character tag, then you go to their bio and find "MINORS DNI" and "18+ ONLY" like. as if there aren't minors trying to scroll the main tag in peace. and they WILL see your content because your lack of tags makes it unblockable. you are pasting this unavoidably in front of every eyeball on earth and then begging minors not to see it? wh. my brother IN christ 💀

#sats speaks #in case it wasn't clear I ALSO don't want to see it but alas I must #because people don't TAG #their SHIT #listen I'll happily put in my blacklist the phrase '[media] x reader' #that's no problem #if people at the very least used that consistently we would be fine #but no #nono #if I actually want to escape this stuff I'd have to blacklist Every Individual Character x Reader #I do not have time to add 27 new tags to my blacklist every time i consume a media im sorry #so. each and every one of you are blocked on sight 😔 #and then there's the stuff that's just not tagged at all with anything except the media

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

what some of the undertale fandom did with grillby fucking fascinates me like my god

#random thoughts #he has 2 (two) count em TWO lines #and a bunch of people were just like 'yeah lets just shove him and sans together thats fine' #which like? it's cute and he has a cool (ha!) character design but WHAT #but i do feel like it's a case of fans taking a male side character and a male main character and shoving them together #instead of engaging with a ship involving a woman #or however you phrase that idk #just like. toriel was RIGHT THERE. #what the fuck was that other ship. grillster? that was even funnier #gaster doesn't even have any canon dialogue IN GAME #they really took the two skinniest (?) men in the game and slammed em together like barbie dolls #there are so many well written women in undertale god. just any woman. #and so many canon relationships that are so engaging like jesus #alphys and undyne. bratty and catty. those two gay guards. #hell if you want two characters who don't engage with each other and are basically blank slates do burgerpants and nice cream guy #WHAT IS SO INTERESTING ABOUT THE FIRE MAN #is it the suit #ALSO WTF WAS UP WITH FUCKED UP SANSBY WEEK #i still have that tag blocked yall were being mean to sans for no reason #grillby is such a fucking nonentity he doesn't even have his own fandom wikipage #he is lumped in with the drunk bunny who. guess what. canonically flirts with sans and has more than two lines #match made in heaven i tells ya #listen im not gonna act like i dont also think grillby is hot #oh wait hold the fuck on someone's on the roof of the apartments across from me #what the fuck #i live on the second floor how tf did they get up therr

[fuzzypuppybuddie]

WHY IS KING BOOM BOO ACTUALLY TERRIFYING???

I wanna take a screenshot but I'm genuinely screaming on his boss fight SJDGAJSHD

#alsoo I didn't really knew his name so I thought he was like- A female idk #hmmmmm #Maybe he is #Maybe he's neither #'you a boy or a girl' 'I'M A MONARCH (And a ghost)' #Don't mind me I'm just makingg time so I don't come back and fight him for a little more jshf #nicosez☄ #playingsa2☄ #<- Btw this is the tag you have to block to not see me commenting on the game or if you're here just for the art btw- just in case

[teaandinanity]

Sometimes I'm like 'oh, right, the inside of my head is Not The Standard Model' about the DUMBEST possible shit.

#there's some polls about non-canon pairings for the main characters of books that center a canonical pairing #and I'm just like '... why are y'all reading books if you don't like the pairing that's on the page????' #and a friend tried to explain that you can like more than one pairing because sometimes it's fun #and I just. it doesn't compute. my brain goes 'sounds fake. hate this.' #I have a tiny tiny handful of pairs where I'll happily read one of the characters with another person because I really like that ship too #but NONE of them are canonical so in that case both of the ships are fanon #and I have a few things where I went 'that's fucking stupid they have two hands and polyamory exists' about a canonical pairing #but for some reason the idea of doing that first thing when I love an official pairing makes me feel like I'm breaking out in hives #like to the point where I have a bunch of things blacklisted here and have just bookmarked my searches with all the exclusions on AO3 #anyway in conclusion I'm gonna find a way to block these hopefully without unfollowing anything I wanna be following #but sometimes people just do not tag and if I can't blacklist then it becomes Necessary so I can stop mentally wailing 'WHYYYY' all the tim #this is also me wailing ab having to unsub and never finish a fic #whyyyyy

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

"If you ship these characters together at all you've fundamentally misunderstood the plot of the story"

Bro I get this if like. It's a case where people genuinely are misunderstanding the story

But like bro you know shipping is inherently neutral and doesn't necessarily tell you anything about how someone interprets a piece of media, right?

You know that people who ship something don't always want the thing to be canon, right?

You know that people shipping something doesn't change canon

Right?

#Also as someone who is very very acquainted with the feeling of people interpreting a piece of media violently wrong AND saying that two #characters not only should or are basically canon‚ even in cases when it just straight up is a misunderstanding to say that it could #canonically happen #You have got to try to make peace with the fact that this will happen #Even in a fandom where you agree with 99 out of 100 people there will be one person out there who interprets the thing wildly wrong and #confidently asserts they're right #And from experience the best way to deal with this is by posting your interpretation out there and finding some likeminded folks‚ actively #try not to go out of your way to antagonize or be condescending to the people you disagree with (in this case interacting with them or‚ #tagging posts so they will see it)‚ and just block the people #You will never be free from ships you don't like or people who “have bad taste'' but making a post just to paint an entire ship as #inherently awful is not the way to handle it #anyways you shall be receiving no context for this post other than tumblr showing me discourse outside of my hyperfixation circle #And me enjoying an analysis post I saw only for it to lead up to an unnecessary 'X shippers die and have bad media literacy' as a punchline #fandom wank #i just be ramblin

[sals-soda]

"all of you are actually secretly one of us so you have to accept us, hehe" radqueers are literally insane. also, they used a map emoji and a paw emoji to convey "map zoo" so i think that's officially my second-least favourite censorship i've seen, next to antis referring to CSAM as "cheese pizza"

#sals-soda #rads can suck my nuts #I don't actually have any blocked on this blog because I'm lazy (block from my main) but fuck y'all like actually #also in case it isn't obvious (lol) this is a vague #but it was just classic ''you only fit in with us so you have to join us'' rhetoric #and also justifying their co-opting of the proship tag #so nothing new I just found that person's approach particularly insane. along with the way they censored things

[radioconstructed]

⌖ HI, HEY, HELLO! IT’S ME, hi, I’m the problem, IT’S ME, SIMULCASTING LIVE ON AIR and LIVE ON CAMERA! I almost NEVER DO THAT! Are YOU tired of scam calls? I SURE AM! Let’s make these CLOWNS our little APRIL FOOLS! TUNE IN for WILD IMPROV, VOICE ACTING, SCAMMER MALDING, and COVERS OF THE SCAMMER PAYBACK SOUNDTRACK! ALL DAY!

#// gonna drop context in the TAGS! #scambaiting is exactly what it sounds like! you bait scammers. for example pretending to be a potential victim to waste their time. some #people can go further and get their info to report to authorities or reverse connection into their computer and mess up their operations. #Al's goal here is to improv some insane scenarios (see link for an example) and have fun wasting these clowns' time so they can't make money #(this also saves victims but she is fueled mostly by pettiness and spite bc she hates robocalls) #they do get raging tho and she is gonna have so much fun making them rage. she has her own creative insults too. #(first link is long (but worth it) but the second two videos are short) #Her focus is improv but pls remember that she's pretty techliterate (like... her operating system is a linux and she set the hotel network #up with pihole to block all ads on the network) so she is running a virtual machine in case some scammer asks to remote into her computer. #Also! Scammer Payback is a scambaiter with a large following. He collabed with musicians to make a soundtrack. The songs pass as love songs #and stuff but they're about scammers/scamming/scambaiting and it's great. It's Al energy. #Anyway she VERY RARELY goes live on camera bc she dislikes being on camera in real time as there's no editorial control #but this is the sort of thing she wants to be on camera for! she's also broadcasting. #So. Lots of fun improv with live music between calls. It'll be fun. You'll get to see her make music live. Live looping and live instruments #(I don't think city lights & rain on me are officially part of the soundtrack. it's just the same artists collabing. but they have good sax #solos and I think april fool's is The day for Al to unironically refer to herself as h*rny in a song.) #⌖ online #⌖ hellfie #OH! THE FIREARM! I had drafted Al doing an iconic moment from a pengu*nz0 video and decided to use it for this. #She has that bisexual lighting going on too. It's to match the vaporwave music and also bc it's classic youtube.