#keeping this post to just general information

[otdiaftg]

WHAT'S NEXT:

The out pouring of love for this blog has swept me off my feet. I knew the logic behind the follower count, but this weekend proved to me without a shadow of a doubt just how much this fandom cherishes these characters and this story.

I am overwhelmed with adoration towards every. single. one. of you.

I took the weekend to finally recoup after the whirlwind of this past year but wanted to take a moment now to answer some of the questions I've seen pop up and to inform you all of what my plans are for what's next.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

WILL YOU CONTINUE THE ACCOUNT THIS YEAR?

This took me a long time to ponder and I wanted to make sure I was in the correct headspace to answer it. Short answer: No.

Long answer: All For The Game is near and dear to my heart. And the reason I began this account was because the dates for 2023 matched that of the dates they were meant to be in 2006. To continue it in the year 2024 would mean the dates would be completely wrong and a lot more logistics would have to occur beforehand.

But also-- I'm not the best when it comes to technology, especially when it comes to BOTS so every post that was published was typed out, formatted and scheduled by hand by me. I did not have help. I did not have proofreaders, or editors, or managers. I contacted all the artists myself, sorted through every single page of the artists to find matches to the story, read and re-read the books for exact or guesstimation of dates/times, and made a hell of a lot of typos on the way through all that.

There was probably an easier way that I could have done all this. But I didn't/don't know it. So that all boils down to: It’s a long and tiring process.

Don't get me wrong, it was worth all the hours. And all the sleepless nights I had getting everything done and out. I already thanked my support network, but without my wife and my best friend being there to make me another cup of coffee, walk our dog, do the chores and generally make sure I didn't crumble from the pressure -- none of this would have happened.

So, putting myself through that again, after everything that has happened this year alone-- felt like it would cheapen the experience I had when the dates won't even match.

That being said.... 2034 isn't that far away. >__>

WILL YOU BE DOING AN OTDITSC?

Short answer: No.... sorry.

Long answer: As stated, it is VERY hard to organize what and how I did. HOURS spent researching, organizing, scheduling, etc. Time spent away from my family and other hobbies. NOT time I regret (need to keep prefacing that) but time I want back now. At least for a little bit.

It also doesn't sit right for me to start an OTDITSC when I know some people are still waiting for their copies. There are so many of us out here (as I've come to find out) and I don't want to exclude people's enjoyment and connection that this account gives. I also feel like the more posts about TSC out there, the harder it is for those who are (lets say) waiting for the physical copies to block/mute spoilers. We can say a tag is enough, but this is the internet. And that's not always true.

And lastly, personally, TSC is still SO VERY NEW. It's not even complete yet and we don't 100% know when the next one will be published. I don't want to start something, get to the end of the timeline, and than have a huge gap between posts that will potentially be moments in the second book. It doesn't feel fair to their story, to myself, or to the followers of this account to have incorrect information for something I love so dearly. If I'm doing it. I want to do it right.

SO, WHAT'S NEXT?

Well. A lot. For me personally, as well as this account. I don't want to leave everyone in such a finite way. I love this fandom. I love its art and writings and the abundance of talent and joy that it exudes.

So first, for myself, as well as those artists who agreed to help with this account, I want to post, for the next 40 days Artist Highlights (that means this account will still be active until Friday, May 24th).

Every day, I will post about an Artist and the work that I wanted to post but couldn't fit in. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, these artists are the reason this account thrives. Art, in a multitude of forms, speaks in a way words can not. And these artists prove that.

I'm excited to show them off for a couple more weeks at least. They are all wonderful people.

AND, FINALLY:

To also tie us over, I am opening both my personal account as well as this account to questions.

Questions regarding the process, the story, the best movie out in theaters, whatever. I will be answering your questions (as fast as I can) until that last Artists Highlight day (Friday, May 24th). After this day, I will leave the questions answered up for a week, and then remove/delete them from this account. I want to make this more of an archive of sorts and will be updating the Timeline Page as this progresses as well, so you can move freely within the timeline.

Keep in mind that I am only one person, have a family and a full-time job-- so answers may be sporadic, but I will answer them.

This has truly been such a pleasure. And whether I get questions or not, I see you and I appreciate you. I hope your life is filled with everything you ever want, everything you need, and that you never let it go.

🦊 🧡- Kelysium

#aftg #all for the game #neil josten #tkm #the kings men #the foxhole court #andrew minyard #palmetto state university #psu foxes #andreil #on this day in aftg #otdiaftg #palmetto state foxes #otdi all for the game #nora sakavic #the foxes #on this day in all for the game

[galacii-gallery]

Shattered Lore caught in 4k. May contain Shattered Fates AU spoilers so...

Disclaimer: He's not in the OG Dreamtale, I'm not the Creator of Dreamtale... Shattered belongs to the Shattered Fates AU, a Dreamtale AU; differing from the original. [ It holds some aspects from the original, but it is very different in terms of story.... worldbuilding etc. ]

May or may not contain spoilers for the Shattered Fates AU Fic! ( This was shared on discord but I'm here to share it here as well! )

Here's some general information on him...

He's a Dream who experiences 'Dreams' and in most of them it ends up with him dying, or worse. [ Similar to Resets, but on another level. ]

Having gone through several failed attempts he finally figured out another path for the betterment of his world, for their brother and himself.

with how much resentment he held, it unlocked new paths... even he was surprised by this change, being able to tap into more 'Negative' aspects of himself like Nightmare. Of course, he couldn't tap in fully to the abilities granted to him unlike Nightmare, but he most certainly could use this new version of himself to his advantage.

After becoming this, a new point was appointed to him as well... he couldn't exactly go back to the very beginning again... dying would just set him back to his first experience as this 'Shattered' version of himself.

forever starting out in a position where he'd be fighting himself emotionally. The scarlet rage within ready to pop at any moment if things didn't go his way... he had to make do with what he now had and was stuck with.

( He sometimes gets jealous of versions of himself who have a better life then himself, like Post dark cream Dream/Shattered and the Studio version of himself. )

Shattered uses his knowledge from previous 'Dreams' to sway those who he knew... for those he doesn't know he gains a great interest in them; the same goes for those who have the potential to change. With this as well, he finally took advantage of his natural strength, preferring hand to hand combat up close, rather then the bow which did little to no help to him before.

There's rumors that he takes those with that potential under his wing, and re-directs events or deaths towards others to keep a particular crowd alive... he can't exactly be everywhere at once saving those that he needs.

having been... through a lot, he lost the reason why he continued to be like this and eventually just saw himself as Shattered and not so much as Dream anymore. he's doing this for the world... for himself, and his brother right? he's the hero in his eyes, but not in others...

Shattered is very confident in himself; to the point it has become the catalyst to his 'Negative' sense of self. Charismatic, but not intentionally... it's actually hard to tell if he's flirting or not with another. Unlike Nightmare, Shattered tends to Lie more; mainly to keep himself together... to keep others in positions where he believes they need to be. sometimes he can be Sassy or more so Sly. when he's beginning to go over the edge, a scarlet hue begins to set in. the hidden and concealed part of him that he tries to keep buried is Aggressive, Argumentative, Violent and Uncontrollable. There's little moments where he ends up slipping into this 'Fully corrupted' version of himself, once in it- it's hard to escape this intrusive thought of a form.

...more will be shared and explained with the Fic! but this is primarily for those wanting to overanalyze Shattered or possibly write him more accurately!

#here's ur lore for the day #Shattered!dream #canon info #spoilers #shattered fates au #shattered fates bios #shattered!dream info #not dreamtale #utmv #undertale au #myart #art

[bitimdrake]

(re: your tags here)

do you know if any character has ever experienced "pit madness" in canon, or if it was completely fabricated by canon? (i know it's a thing on the cw shows, but i'm pretty sure the jason headcanons came before that)

OKAY it's been twelve years since you sent this, but I'm back to dc brain so let's go.

So if the question you're asking is if a character has ever experienced something that fits the common fanon applied to Jason--an effect referred to as "pit madness" that lasts for years after being dunked in a Lazarus Pit, causes sudden bouts of dissociative rage, and may or may not make eyes glow--the answer is a flat no.

But if the question is if characters have experienced any negative aftereffects of the pit, the answer is yes definitely!! If your story has something that can bring back the dead, it's gotta have drawbacks. (Though on occasion a character will avoid all drawbacks entirely.)

The Lazarus Pit is a magical plot device, so it has a range of effects depending on the story. But they can be divided into three categories, which map to three distinct narrative purposes:

Uncontrollable violence and anger right after being dunked, BUT!!! for minutes at most. A Lazarused not-Bruce gets dunked and then flies back to Gotham in Batman & Robin, and Damian explicitly says that he can't possibly still be under the effects of the pit because it would have long-since faded after an international flight. Cass goes through it in Batgirl, and is snapped out of it in like one minute. Dinah starts canary-crying her head off and nearly killing her friends in Birds of Prey, but she gets knocked out and is totally fine once she wakes up. (narrative usage: for heroes who will soon return to their status quo)

A long-term shift in personality towards, vaguely speaking, something more evil--but specifically after repeated exposure. Ra's's continual usage of the pit is on-and-off theorized as part of the reason he is the way he is. This effect might be referred to as madness by some characters, but, you know, not the angry type of "mad". (narrative usage: for villains)

Extreme awful fringe-effects, typically on bodies that were way too far gone for the pit to be a reliable method of resurrection. It's why Bruce was (at least?) once extremely against his parents being dropped in, because who knows what might have come out. Mr. Freeze used the pit for his wife in Batgirl and she came out a firey rage monster reanimating zombies. Sometimes bad shit happens. (narrative usage: for minor characters who will be quickly dispatched)

The overall outcome is that (a) characters are very nervous about using the pit, because there's a chance it might just turn its victim into a horrible twisted evil version of themself forever, and (b) when that doesn't happen, the victim is pretty much fine after a few minutes.

Just maybe don't make a habit of it.

Jason Todd Addendum: Contrary to popular fanon, Jason never even went through the first option! (Nor, obviously, the third.) He was one of the lucky ones to come out of the pit seemingly normal. The pit never gave him any anger! at all! ever! His anger is 100% homemade!

However, Talia in Lost Days notes he's disconcertingly cold and uncaring, which could be an indication he's experiencing option two despite only going in once--but that could just easily be explained by trauma. We'll never know for sure.

#* #ask #anon #*dc #dc #dc comics #dc meta #keeping this post to just general information #but since i get to go on tangents in the tags... #just wanna mention that my hatred of the fanon 'pit madness' is not because the concept of the pit causing rage is bad #i DO think there should be a significant drawback here #honestly the fact that 1 is so mild kinda fucks with the narrative and makes you wonder why people don't use the pit more #which is only somewhat balances by the risk of 3 #BUT NO the reason that i fucking hate the fanon #is because it is 100% used to exonerate jason of actions that in canon he took WILLINGLY and OF HIS OWN VOLITION #he was not forced into any of it (by magically pit means nor by human manipulation) #he decided to do that stuff because it's what he wanted to do #and ignoring that is imo sooooo much less interesting for the character and story #like idc him suddenly snapping out of it and having perfect morals is boring. force him to actually change his mind and grapple with it #(not to mention that this made up 'oh but he wasn't in control' shit is often used to unfairly throw others under the bus #when their actions DO make sense in the context of canon jason doing bad shit intentionally) #oh fuck this tag ramble was long oops #...fine #jason todd

[runawaymun]

i really need to do a post about how Rivendell is run at some point

#i'm realizing now that I have a very firm picture of how the house (and surrounding supporting city and farmlands) are managed and that #this is possibly quite specific to me haha #and it informs a lot of very minor stuff in my fics but it's worldbuilding that informs the fics nonetheless #and i ought to probably write it down rather than keep it floating in my head #and just in general i should really do some rivendell posts because i have super firm headcannons about the geography and culture too #and the makeup of the people that live there

[icewindandboringhorror]

recent lounging babey images

#he's so floppy recently and I hope it's just the heat. I think wamr weather makes everyone floppy and loungy #a beauntifulle boye... #cats #STILL working on posting some drafts. finishing new poll adventure.. other things... It's just hard with the weather and other things going #on. I've had a few more doctors appointments and other things to do recently that have to be done in a time limit #so I hvae to use my extremely limited energy working on that instead of doing the things I'd really rather do. :T #Main focuses though are keeping up better with doing and posting costumes + sculptures as main creative things. at least finishing the #main poll adventure story. Reworking the game I kind of abandoned for a few years. keeping up with game videos and a few other side things. #Especially the game though. I've been in a really worldbuildy mood recently. I just wish that was easier to manifest into something. I've #now put the worldbuilding slideshow reading video on pause for a while because it's SOOO long to do #and I think I should prioritize making games and stuff instead. but still other things. IT's just kind of like.. I have a whole world and #everything very built and planned out but now.. what do I do with it? what's the best way to share that? factual slideshows just going over #the information like a dictionary? make it into a game? write short stories? do art attached to the world? etc. etc. ?? There are so many #potential avenues I end up kind of flip flopping between them a lot because none really seem more beneficial than the others and they all #seem equally enjoyable and also equally hard so. It's like?? I guess just do what the hell ever and hope I made the right choice in terms o #cost benefit and reward for my time lol. ANYWAY.. Also why I'm in my 'trying to make friends' era still because I think having other creat #ive friends can help you find direction like.. people will meet each other and then go 'hey lol just for fun lets start a project together! #and then like 5 years later it's genuinely become something. etc. having other people to help weed out ideas and start small creative teams #together and etc. I feel is a very beneficial part of networking or whatever but also I have the social capacity of a stale bread roll and #am also inherently unrelatable to seemingly a majority of people due to my hermit wizard swag (detachment from general society and hyper #focus on fantasy worlds in my head gjhghj) so trying to meet people as a grown adult with social issues is Very easy and fun (it is not) #even very basic things like my core communication style is so incompatible with a lot of people it's like.. hhhh... People in this modern #age have GOT to stop being afraid of phone calls and/or text that is longer than 6 paragraphs. Work with me here. I WANT to talk to you. bu #I do not know what your emojis mean and it's physically impossible for me to type less than 85 sentences. please.. hhjgjgb #AAANYWAY!! I am working on things when I can given the circumstances (SUMMER).. hopefully some costume pictures and stuff soon. :'3 #I've not forgotten about my art and etc. - as usual I just am bad at social media and also functioning if it's above 65F lol

[roseverdict]

i've previously gone insane over NFC stuff and 2D barcodes (amiibo tech and QR code tech, basically) so now i have a plethora of leftover knowledge and also a few nfc tags i never got around to giving a purpose.

#rosie babbles #technically #word nerd #but only in that 'word nerd' is my general catch-all tag for 'the great and powerful information encoding special interest' akdjaodjaksa #random polls #my polls #tumblr polls #polls #somebody peeks at my room and sees a recreation of that one VR test room and thinks i'm doing some mad digital science #but actually i'm just audhd scatterbrained and need a physical representation of things to look at that stimulates the fixation zone of my #brain if i want any hope of ever actually acting on that thing. and i have more tabs open than i'd care to admit dedicated solely to very #in-depth ao3 searches that i keep losing track of and trying to recreate #this post goes out to 'i just filtered the tmnt bayverse category so i get solely bayverse teetles w/o smut or incest and slashed the numbe #of fics down from like 1.5k and change to 324' skdjsodnskdjaa #nightblogging

[rohirric-hunter]

Also I'm vaguely offended at the implicit assumption that hobbits as a general rule don't already know who Morgoth is

#this is about something i posted a long time ago but its been eating at me #like obviously they know who morgoth is #they know who sauron is #or at any rate have as much of an understanding of him as anyone else who isnt a scholar or resident of gondor #so it stands to reason that they would also have a basic understanding of morgoth #a dark lord who has just about the same amount to do with them and their lives #i mean i think people get this impression that hobbits are dumb and dont know things from pippin and sam #pippin is a child #and while sam himself is curious and smart and eager to learn and know things #i would put money on it that you could tell the gaffer that the earth was round and he would immediately forget that information #because it doesnt have anything to do with his life and he therefore doesnt need to know it #so sam hasnt really been told as many things as a lot of people #both of them are bad examples #compare them to bilbos ability to infer things in the hobbit based on a general background knowledge of the world at large #like he knows what a furrier is! i dont even know what a furrier is! #but anyway the point is i think the hobbits know how the world works #they keep to themselves but theyre not isolated lmao #like idk if yall are aware of this but theres this road that runs right through the middle of their country called the GREAT EAST ROAD #they turn suspicious people back at the borders but there are plenty of perfectly respectable people who come through #down. you know. the GREAT EAST ROAD #they know whats out there. they just dont care

[spacedlexi]

Hiiii, your art is gongeous first off

Second, you have any tips for getting good at anatomy and proportion? I see your sketches from your wips and streams and the figures and poses look so spot on always

thank you!!!

the best way to get better at anatomy and proportion is to do some life studies. there are a lot of sites you can use that will give you (generally) good poses to work with. if its at all possible for you though i Definitely recommend taking a life drawing course. one of my favorite classes was the life drawing class i took where i was the Only actual student in the class and everyone else were people in their 60s+ just taking it for fun. my prof was incredible and would give us really great demonstrations and knowledge about skeletal and muscular structures. also the models we got in class were way more diverse than a lot of the models online sites use

life studies can be hard when you first start though. it really helps to understand sighting (which is where you use your pen/fingers to figure out angles and sizes and stuff). heres a more detailed explanation

i did some figure studies the other day and i left a lot of my sighting lines. i use them not only to figure out the angles of limbs but also to help me keep things in proportion. ALSO watch your negative spaces!! that will help you get forms/proportion right too

there are also a lot of "proportion rules" that can help you when just drawing bodies without a reference. A Lot of rules.... the face alone has So many..

when i draw figures without a reference (which is..most of the time..) i think in terms of tubes. really helps with foreshortening (so do contour lines). but i still operate under the guidelines i learned from life drawing in terms of proportions/muscle/bone structure. ive gotten to the point where i just eyeball it while sketching but if something looks wrong i just check my proportions. the more you do it the more second nature it becomes which helps you focus on learning new parts of anatomy. i usually draw these figures first then just draw clothes over them, which then helps with folds/draping and stuff like that

i hope this is understandable lol............ these are all just the vague rules i remember im sure theres so many more and i am still learning myself but i hope this helps you get started. trying to find good proportion sheets/tips online can be hard and just result in some really basic stuff like the 7/8 heads tall rule which is sometimes 7.5 and i just 😵 not helpful, especially since its not even always correct. i still basically use the same general rule but slightly modified (in red). in green are some proportion rules i know (plus a couple in red), and in blue is just a little more detail

again if you have the opportunity at all i Really recommend taking a life drawing class. you might be able to find some good videos on youtube or something too. ALSO look at yourself in the mirror a lot! like really analyze yourself, the length of your limbs, where your hands fall, how wide your shoulders are, stuff like that. just Look. whenever im stuck on a pose i always go and pose in a mirror for reference. in general im always just trying to learn from the world around me :)

#its weird writing all this out because it makes me realize how much information just sits in my head while i draw and i dont even realize #i really just feel a lot of stuff out i keep the 'rules' in my head generally but dont be afraid to break them sometimes too #the more studies you do the more youll be able to just tell when somethings not right #once you know enough you can make up your own guidelines too #whatever helps you remember/visualize #anon i hope you see this its been like 3 hours since you asked #ok i think ive said everything i can think of?? #replies with lexi #incognito #good luck anon i hope this was helpful #long post #i also made a head proportion sheet with the 'right' way and my own modified version but this post is long enough and you asked about poses #now i gotta get back to finishing this still life lol #i should be working but i love to give art tips when i can

[happypeachsludgeflower]

@staff i suggest that year in review should include a personal analysis section in our settings.

Like how many people unfollowed me? How many times was I blocked? I need to know how many people I successfully pissed off without trying, okay??

this is vital information.

#tumblr review #year in review #tumblr suggestion #like sure I can keep general track of how many people unfollow me -ish #I know I regularly get unfollowed #but I also amass back that number plus some so my follower count looks like it’s growing #like this week alone I think 30 people unfolled me maybe but also I gained 37 followers so it looks like I just gained 7 #it’s the murther post I made I think #why do my merthur posts always do well?? the og content ended over a decade ago #I suppose I can’t be talking tho since here I am a clown also making merthur content #I don’t normally get that many people following me at once #I want a chart graphing the line of posts that were popular vs posts I lost followers over #I’m just curious okay #I’d make the chart myself but I don’t think I can download the raw data to do it #would I change my posts to reflect the data?? nope #the analysis would have no value besides amusement #my blog is for just posting stuff that pops in mind not being popular #that I even have a following still surprises me actually #but I STILL NEED TO KNOW OKAY?? #okay so knowing which posts did well would actually be useful information but really I just want to know what I lost the most people over #seriously tho #I don’t actually try to annoy people #it just happens anyway ig

[harrowharkwife]

swear to god if i open a fanfic ONE MORE TIME only to be greeted with an author's note saying "i asked chatgpt to tell me a story about-" i am going to go fucking NUCLEAR

#it's NEVER tagged!!! #i am so sick and FUCKING tired of hearing about chat bot shit. it's irresponsible tech that is only gonna help spread misinformation #/be used as a tool by corporate America to crank out shitty computer generated content #bc anything is better than having to hire people and pay them what they're worth am i right guys! #my job won't shut up about chatgpt i don't wanna have to see this shit on AO3 dot gov! please! is anything sacred! #I've already started running into endless variations of the same regurgitated paraphrased clearly AI-written garbage misinformation article #half of the time whenever i try to google something! i just keep getting AI generated garbage instead of any actual helpful information #side note: is Google like... super fucking broken for anyone else in terms of 'i can't find any useful information about anything anymore'? #or is it just me? #but AUGH. tech bros will be our downfall i swear to god #keep the AI shit out of art and creative endeavors it's a slippery slope and it's not leading anywhere good #this is fucking nfts all over again #or at LEAST if you're gonna be posting chat gpt prompts to ao3 fucking TAG THEM AS SUCH #I'm at the point where i hear someone say AI or chatgpt in an excited tone of voice #and i just consider it an immediate red flag #I'll delete this later it's unnecessarily cunty and i realize that but my GOD im sick of it #is it not enough that all of these writing bots are training on ao3 fics without the authors consent or permission? #now we have to encourage it by putting AI shit on there to begin with?

[quick-drawn]

forever walking the line between selectively sharing bits and pieces of jesse's backstory for the secret agent cowboy vigilante aesthetic & just spilling it all in one long, detailed hc post so i'm not the only one suffering with this information.

#✯ — [ ʰᵒʳˢᵉˢ ᶤᶰ ᵗʰᵉ ᵇᵃᶜᵏ ] ⨯ ooc #in talking with spacy today i realized #just how much there is to my jesse's backstory. #some of it i've never shared publicly on here. #it's not posted as general information because...well #it's NOT general information. #there's a lot of stuff about him not even my closest rp partners know yet. #( keyword: YET. ) #i don't hold this information hostage. if it's asked about i'll talk about it. #but in a certain aspect...doesn't that keep things exciting with him and his character ? #always learning about him #finding these new bits and pieces about him every day... #in a way it's just #true to his character. #idk #we'll see — #because i also just love babbling about him so it's getting hard to keep my mouth shut LMAO #tbd

[snekdood]

Given how toxic this website is and the people on it... And how proud they seem to be about being toxic... Its like. Why should i stay on here? Whats the benefit? Yall constantly have this vibe about you that if you're not part of the Special Good Person Tumblr Circle then you're missing out in spite of it being nearly impossible to get in or stay in such a clique. I dont know why i put so much value on this website outside of it sometimes being usefully educational, but mostly its just drama and discourse ppl are arguing over that doesnt meaningfully do anything in the real world since its discourse about a distant world and reality we dont even live in rn. And the people on here are just absolutely rancid sometimes. Its so obvious plenty of yall demonize therapy, given the way you act. And you act like thats a good thing too, like you're supposedly rebelling bc you make people feel uncomfortable or think you're a dickhead, which i guess is worth it?? Idk. But this websites bad and i think im finally becoming disillusioned with it, bc in spite of people pretending theres some sort of special knowledge you can only find on here, i cant seem to find anything special or unique about it, you're not all somehow more woke than other ppl because you use tumblr, other people are not somehow less progressive bc they dont spend time on tumblr reading niche shit abt shit that hardly effects anyone. Im so tired of ppls superiority complexes and narcissistic attitudes on heres. Its exhausting and none of the ppl described seems to want to be self aware enough to recongize when theyre doing it and stop. I dont know how you're supposed to deal with someone whos so toxic and embraces it and finds some way to rationalize why its okay for them to be toxic, idk, bc of their trauma or whatever. And thats not a fucking excuse. I dont fucking care what you went through its not an excuse. This is just a genuinely miserable ass website with miserable ass people on it.

#ppl almost try to manipulate me to convince me theres something worthwhile on here so they can keep beating me with a stick #but theres nothing on here. a lot of ppls opinions on here dont mean shit or is something ive come to the conclusion of on my own #yall have nothing to offer so why do you keep trying to convince me theres something here for me to learn? #the only good thing about this site is the aestheitc posts and wholesome posts. and the rare actually informative post #which you might not think is rare looking at my blog but thats only bc i generally sift through the bs to find actually informative shit #yall also act so proud when you're able to run people off this website and dont do any intospection at all in the realm of whether or not #what you're doing is actually Cool or Beneficial at all to people like?? how do yall not recognize that as a toxic trait?? literally #driving people away and for what? literally how does that envoke pride in any capacity #its hard not to feel like yall just want carbon copies of yourself around and its so tired like dawg. you're not somehow more special and #important that the world would be better off if everyone was just like you. lol. lmao.

[legofemme]

Something something "parasocial relationships extend to animals in media as well. and people who violently defend shit like big fl/ppa or shitty reptile/fish accounts do so on the assumption of if they can convince themself that its fine, then morally its fine and the animals are fine as well. All because they have a strange, parasitic attachment to the concept of these animals being treated either like human children or like well dusted glass trinkets with no inbetween. Usually because nobody knows how to treat animals as animals and default to dangerous anthropomorphizing or dangerous objectification. And it all boils down to being unable to separate what they support from their own morals and theyd rather die defending subpar animal care rather than admit its bad. Because in their minds admitting they liked something that they learned was bad is equal to supporting it having known it was bad all along." Aaand post

#vani verbals #was going to respond to someone who debated me on someone elses post #but out of respect for op i didnt say anything! its my place to respectfully inform. not to argue w someone in another persons notes lol #also this is just my general take. #youre ALLOWED to have liked something that you later learned was terrible care for the animals #learning from mistakes as a viewer is not morally reprehensible. its normal and should be encouraged! #but i cannot respect defending poor animal husbandry and then labelling the mistreatment as 'meeting supply and demand' #those are LIVING BEINGS you fucking DONUT. they arent SUPPLIES. they arent a fucking PRODUCT to be kept on shelves for 'storage' #if puppy mills are terrible because they keep puppies in 2x2 cages until theyre sold then WHY is it acceptable for snake breeders to do it! #stop defending it!!!! if they dont have the space to properly accomodate each incoming animal then they shouldnt keep breeding buddy!! #its that simple!!!!

[spitzyyyy]

rest in peace technoblade. proceeds from his merch store go straight to researching and developing a cure for sarcoma, which is the most common form of cancer in children and young adults. i don't have the link to his merch store on me right now, but i do have https://www.curesarcoma.org/donate/ which is where you can donate directly to the cause. there is more under the cut, this post is long, and it is more me documenting my life at the times where we got information.

it goes without saying that alex was a huge inspiration to lots of people, including me, so it's okay for people to mourn his loss, whatever their reason may be. i'd spend months forgetting about him and then suddenly one bad day i would go into his channel and binge multiple playlists. stuff from dream smp all the way back to his first available skywars video. i would binge streams for days, watch his content so much that my recommended would be filled to the brim with minecraft videos when i don't really watch that kind of content anymore.

i found out he had sarcoma through some of my friends. i hadn't watched him in about a year, and i found myself binging his content to try to support him in the little ways that i could. for once my anxiety didn't kick in, i didn't immediately assume the worst, the way he went about it made me not worry about it at all. it feels weird, being worried about a person i don't even know, but it seems like that's being felt all across the board. i wanted to support him. i wanted to donate, but i didn't (and still don't) have any money that i can donate.

the way he casually made jokes about it, treating it not as a death sentence but as a cause which still had hope, it let me dare to have hope for him. techno made it sound like he was making a recovery, it sounded like he'd survived the impossible. it felt like cancer was nowhere near enough to take on technoblade. that cancer, the one disease which universally signals the end, was not going to be the end.

fast forward about a six months, he posts the vr video. i've almost completely abandoned minecraft as a whole. the toxicity of some of the community and the recent mojang rules which are being forced through by microsoft, i no longer enjoyed playing the game that made my childhood, fun with friends and as soon as they left i would shut down the game and hide the launcher. i was easily distracted during school, the end of the year arriving and only having to push myself a little harder to get through a class that i was forced into taking because the alternative was just. shit. in between the times where i would get one well structured and written essay out of a hundred done i would watch youtube videos, since i was completely alone in a room, sitting at a desk by myself, because i'd completed my other classes about a week earlier.

i watched the vr video. i actually had hope for him, i genuinely believed that alex had made it out of the deeper waters and was wading into the shallow end, getting ready to leave the lake where so many had drowned before him. it felt like it was a victory story, maybe a video called "i survived" or "how i beat cancer". but no. it was cancer. it's never that easy when it's cancer. all four sets of my great grandparents had cancer. they weren't sarcoma, but they were all cancer. and the one thing that all cancers—lung, leukemia, brain, prostate, sarcoma, melanoma, throat, breast, and so many more—have in common is that they give you hope. they give you the chance to survive, to live one, five, ten more years, before, inevitably, it comes back.

now, i don't know if techno was lying in the vr video. he said his arm was functioning fine, he could raise his elbow to about his shoulder without severe pain, and he told us that he'd had most of the cancer surgically removed and the skin grafted from his quads and lower back to restructure his bicep. but he genuinely looked like he was going to recover. it looked like we'd hear from him again, that we'd watch him topple another minecraft government, that we would ever get to see his other elbow.

tonight, i was sitting on the couch playing terraria. i tried out modded, it's been awhile since i'd played mods and with tmodloader coming to 1.4 i decided i wanted to play some of them. an hour into playing overhaul, i got somewhat bored of early game expert mode, so i looked at my notifications, and, low and behold, there are notifs for another youtuber, and i assumed that it was another upload.

a server wide ping and the link to the video with the words "Technoblade has passed away. You may know, or may not know who he is. But Technoblade has played a big part in inspiring some of my work." was what met me. i almost didn't think it was real, at first, opening the link into youtube, and, sure enough, its from alex's family, his dad holding floof as he relays his final message to us. it got a slight chuckle out of me, somewhat, that among his final message's heartfelt words were "the best prank we ever pulled off was convincing everyone that my name was dave", even through the numbness that i felt while listening to his father. i cried when his voice finally broke, and it set in that one of the best content creators i'd had the fortune of stumbling across in my life was gone, just like that. someone that i admired, someone that i looked up to, and someone who's work would always help me when i was in a dark place. life is too short for the best people.

it seems so many people are in the same boat as me, wondering how this could've happened when he seemed to recover fine from cancer. but, that's just it. it was cancer. its often that we think we know something and we're proven wrong almost instantly. his family's letter to us explains what happened in two words. "stage four". the two words that nobody wants to hear put together in front of the word "cancer". and it hurts. we don't know when it developed to stage four, and it's not our job, not our place, to know. what we do know is that techno used what little time he had left to tell us, his audience, his fans, friends, and family, how much he loved us, and how grateful he was to have a supportive community who loved him as much as he loved us. it's our job as a community to show our respect to him and his loved ones, and everyone who surrounded him, not for his friends or people who looked up to him to find out that he'd died through twitch chat or memes.

we shouldn't only cry because he's gone. we should smile because of the great memories that he left us with, in his time that was cut way too short.

to whatever afterlife there is beyond the veil: be kind to him. he's a hero.

rest in peace technoblade, you will be dearly missed by family, friends, and everyone who loved you.

#technoblade #minecraft #tw death #tw cancer #tw depressing stuff #in general this post is me documenting my life around the time that this stuff was happening #i really wish it hadn't #i wish that i could've donated. #i know that even if i could've donated it would've been just a drop in the bucket #but i cant help but feel guilty that i wasn't able to. #this doesn't just affect his fans #this affects everyone both in this community and outside of this community #i left mcyt a long time ago #i would only come back occasionally to admire art or post something myself #but this was still something hard to wrap my head around. #i cant imagine what it was like for his family or friends. none of us can. all we can do is support them and keep their information safe #serious post #serious stuff #rest in peace technoblade #you will forever live in our hearts #and you will always be missed #spit art #spit speaks

[myfirstandlast]

I saw your post about self ID and if someone you're with came out as trans. Tbh I think that if you still love & care for that person, it shouldn't really matter. You can still identify as lesbian and be with someone who is trans (in my opinion). I get that it may not be a popular opinion but as a queer person who could literally give a shit less about a "title" or "label" anymore, I just kind of see it as...who the heck cares as long as you're happy lol

hi yea i hear u, a part of me does feel like if we rlly had a previous deep connection and love for one another i may want to make an exception for that case and ik a good part of lgbt discussion can concern an excessive sometimes obsessive over-concern w labels and labelling but my identity in this case and in my personal life is extremely important to me, and i feel like i’d want to be respectful of aligning w the way the lesbian community desires to be seen and not start falling into what looks like bi lesbianism or smth, and also consider how the relationship & situation looks from my partner’s pov. i talked to oomfie last night abt it and sitting down to re-evaluate our roles concerns both of us, possibly especially ur partner bc they know that coming out to u and socially possibly medically means the relationship most likely can’t or won’t continue how it had previously. coming to terms w ur gender identity takes immense self-reflection and i think part of that would involve their consideration of if they’d want to continue their romantic life in a lesbian oriented way as a transman, i also realise transmasc probably wasn’t the wording i meant in my original post as much as a literal trans man, being n-b transmasc is much more flexible to work w as far as lesbianism imo. all that bc i literally am a lesbian w a trans n-b partner who also IDs as a lesbian, my fault for not specifying better

#no offence to u personally but i also think it’s much easier to hold this view if u identity as queer #like it’s just like throwing a blanket statement over the situation to indicate some sort of gayness going on in the partnership without too #much clarification. which imo still kinda falls into identity politics or however u could better describe it idk rn #i do hear u on the who cares how others perceive ur rship outwardly as far as identity but. lesbianism is rlly important to me lmao #and preserving the importance of attraction to non-men. i think ur partner would also definitely be aware of this and would have some sort #of idea at that point how they wanted to approach their sexuality in conjunction with their new identity and tbh if they’re a transman #it probably wouldn’t be lesbianism anymore #id be v sad to lose the relationship but i don’t think i’d be happier feeling like i was keeping them hostage or they felt hostage in a #partnership that no longer aligned w their self-perception. and knowing im still a lesbian they’d probably reversely respect my pov on that #too ! so anyways i think i kinda have a clearer vision on how this situation would hypothetically go even tho ofc it’ll still depend #i’ll review this once i post it i cant read my tags on mobile lmao but thank u for sharing ik it could turn into something v complicated #v quickly but if my partner were coming out to me w that information i’d trust them to navigate how we went forward w some sense #oh also additionally again no offence but i feel like if they genuinely transitioned socially to a transmanand u were still IDing as a #lesbian while dating them i feel like that starts walking into afab amab discourse and i don’t like those terms i think they’re reductive #and defeating the purpose of transitioning as well as disrespectful to the person in general so . i guess it just isn’t smth id wanna do lol #answered #anonymous #WOW MY TAGS ARE SO LONG SORRY

[realpokemon]

we should criminalize ace trainers battling with their rhyperiors on the fucking I-40 when i'm trying to get to work on time. there is a goddamn BLISSEY on the road

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dear jirachi please send me 1,000,000,000p ^_^ (brink of tears)

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GUYS GUYS THIS POST WAS A JOKE

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i just saw another Youngster throwing a pokéball into the water and it completely missed and he didn't even bother to scoop up the broken pieces. i'm so fucking disappointed with this generation see this is why lapras are so endangered because they keep fuckin Literally Choking On Net Balls that you don't bother to clean up. this is one of the most bueatiful shores in the world and there are only 40 lapras left IN EXISTENCE and one washed up just last week please please please STOP SURFING and STOP BATTLING on the ocean

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Wait what is op talking about? Lapras officially stopped being endangered back in 2016 and are actually an overeffective predator that are driving gastrodon populations almost to extinction in some parts of alola. This is actually just blatant misinformation? I guess??

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can we please normalize battling people without making eye contact. "oh oh oh its polite to warn people before you battle them!!!!" L + ratio + skill issue + never let em know your next move + dragonite use hyper beam

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