#repeat after me:

[getvalentined]

I love when folks ask me Fandom Old questions and I get to be like "Yeah, uh, that's from my old online RP group, no it's not canon at all, yes we just made it up, no we did not claim it was canon but the mid to late aughts were a strange time."

It's honestly a shock to realize how often this has happened. I mentioned earlier that Reno's fanon surname came from this same group, but that's not even the half of it. I once made a bunch of screenshot manips based on the most ridiculous ships anyone could think of—someone slapped a random line of text onto one of them and to this day it's used as a "cringe FF7 fandom" meme. I saw it on the twits a bit back and almost fell out of my goddamn chair.

If you've ever heard Scarlet referred to with the surname "West," read about Tseng fighting with metal fans, seen Elena's older sister being called Anna instead of Emma, come across Vincent portrayed as having a PhD in spite of being a Turk, or caught references somewhere to Grimoire experimenting on Vincent as a child, that started with this group. That was us.

One of the funniest examples of this, for me specifically, is that we don't actually know which arm Veld is missing? The fandom generally goes with his left because that's how I drew him in the first picture of the guy ever posted on devart way back in 2005, but it may very well be his right. I've seen people offer "proof" that it's his right based on a scene in the opening cutscene, but you can't tell there either, and with BC's graphics there's literally no way to tell on his sprite.

Hell, this year we found out everyone's assumed timeline of the Kalm fire is wrong, and that's our fault too because we made some assumptions about Felicia's age for an LJ RP that were entirely wrong. She's around Zack's age, not Sephiroth's! She's old enough to run with a terrorist group in BC, but she was a child when Kalm burned, and that happened in 1997—we know this because NPCs in Rebirth literally refer to the fire in Kalm having happened "just ten years ago." Veld has only had his prosthetic for three years when BC starts. (This also implies that, contrary to popular belief, Veld may actually be younger than Vincent. Vincent may have been the senior partner, and that's why he was sent to Nibelheim alone while Veld was left at headquarters.)

We were really wrong on this! But we were working with what we had. There's no canon evidence for the vast majority of these things (the most notable exclusion here is Vincent being educated) but we weren't claiming there was. We were filling gaps, and canon was so sparse that we had a lot of gaps to fill. So if it turns out that Veld lost his right arm, then I'll just have to start drawing him that way—because losing his left was never canon.

Tragically, there's nothing any of us can do to make people stop assuming these things are canon at this point; there aren't a lot of us still in the fandom, and it's not like any of us have those old chatlogs anymore. People from this RP group have DIED since those days. It's been over 20 years since most of us met, and around 15 since most of us were in a public fannish space together.

"Prove it," people say, and I literally can't. Do you know how many computers I've been through since then? 75% of the platforms we used no longer exist. This all started on a BBCode forum! There is no proof!

But...there's no evidence any of these things are canon, either, so maybe think about that? The Kalm fire, Tseng's weapon of choice, Veld's arm, character surnames—none of these are retcons because there was no lore there to retcon. We made it up for our specific purposes, and it escaped containment in an era when there was really no way to do online contact tracing.

It's just one of the weirdest feelings in the world to see younger folk arguing about A or B point in canon, about X or Y retcon—referencing something my friends and I thought up at like 10 o'clock at night on a now-defunct IM client in August of 2005, because we needed something to refer back to for a specific scene in an RP and the source material had nothing to offer.

Absolutely fucking bonkers.

#fandom bullshit #kinda #headcanon warning #also kinda #repeat after me: #'fanon is fanon and that is not canon' #I don't really know how to tag this tbh #personal #the MHS crew #old guard ff7 fandom #vincent valentine #veld of the turks #felicia ff7 #elfe ff7 #before crisis #bcff7 #final fantasy vii #ffvii #final fantasy 7 #ff7 #final fantasy 7 rebirth #ff7 rebirth #ff7rb #ff7r

[scorndotexe]

people referring to me as a man because i use he/him pronouns is equally as annoying as people referring to me as a woman because i'm a lesbian. gender is just one cage disguised as two.

#repeat after me: #''who am i now--woman or man? that question could never be answered as long as those were the only choices; #it could never be answered if it had to be asked'' #one of my favorite quotes from stone butch blues #the one i think about the most #also YES i *do* call myself a man and a guy and stuff sometimes. and sometimes i'm okay with people doing that as well #as long as we all understand i'm not male. i'm not a man as in male. #and because i'm a lesbian sometimes ''woman'' applies to me even if i'm not one #and i'd never call myself a woman #i don't want to be a man and i don't want to be a woman. i'm not a man and i'm not a woman. #and i don't think of myself as being in the middle of man and woman either #i'm something else. i'm butch. #persimmon's rambles

[here2bbtstrash]

real talk jungkook is waaaaay too polite abt people circulating pictures of his private time in qatar. i need taehyung to hop on live like 😡 leave 😡 jungkookie 😡 alone 😡

#mposting #repeat after me: #if u see bts on their private schedules #NO U DIDN'T #KEEP IT PUSHIN #LEAVE THEM BE

[ub-sessed]

Not only did I somehow manage to not join my selvages AGAIN, but I forgot to check if I'd joined my selvages until I'd changed yarns TWICE. The bright green is Loops & Threads Soft & Shiny, which is a bitch to work with, so I'm going to put in a lifeline before I frog it.

I am not up to dealing with this tonight though. This is a tomorrow project.

#double knitting #and i was so pleased with how this square was turning out #repeat after me: #i am allowed to be bad a knitting #knitblr #knitting #selvages #double knitting selvage #brain fog #i swear I've been so careful too make sure my yarns are crossed at the beginning of each row #but apparently i am a space cadet #double knit blanket #this is square no. 4 #it is very stripey #which means a million ends to weave in #my knitting

[steelycunt]

booktok influencers you are not a trusted mutual on tumblr with an impeccable taste in literature you will never be a trusted mutual on tumblr with an impeccable taste in literature. by the way

#one thousand booktokers could line up outside my door all to try and convince me to read the same book and they would not have a single #ounce of the success that a tumblr mutual would upon mentioning a book they enjoyed to me exactly one time #and That's just That. anyway #repeat after me: #lana tag

[dosestrellasbinarias]

WHAT IS THE HETEROSEXUAL EXPLANATION FOR THIS???1?1!1!

no bc WHY would ludmi look at naty like THAT when angie starts talking about feelings ~more specifically love~ ?????????

#you can't tell me she's not in love #repeat after me: #GIRLFRIENDS #luty #violetta #ludmila ferro #naty vidal

[treebranchy]

I am too hot to be crying like this.

#repeat after me: #i am a bad bitch #i have long locs and a fat ass and a killer personality #i cant be crying over people who dont want me #i am THAT girl #now once more like we mean it #personal? maybe #personal tings

[a-rock-nothing-else]

Life Lessons From Household Objects Pt. 1

Fork: Always stick together, even when things get tough. Just don't stick yourself in an electrical socket.

Toaster: Life is all about finding the perfect balance. Don't settle for lukewarm.

Rubber Duckie: Stay afloat, even when the babies want you to sink.

Stapler: Remember that it's sometimes important to look at the big picture. Singular pages won't cut it.

Mirror: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but a good hair day helps too.

#funny(?) #life lessons #repeat after me: #inanimate objects are our friends

[needlepine]

Needletail as Rootpaw’s ghost guide in TBC, episode 2: “my wine aunt’s spirit is haunting me and she’s also super annoying”

#i’ve had a sadder version of this in my head since i started this blog #before we knew rootpaw could speak to ghosts #i imagined a comic of violet unknowingly repeating after needle and then needle being sad they couldn’t laugh about it #well! good thing we have rootpaw to let me to make this humorous instead! #warriors #warrior cats #cat art #violetshine #rootpaw #rootspring #needletail #au

[lucabyte]

i feel like people are sleeping on the occam's razor situation of how buckwild it is to outright accuse a guy of being a clone of your friend even if you DO have a lot of circumstantial evidence. there's other options is what im saying. they could just be like. a guy. that's a sensible deduction. you should explore that deduction. ignore my shirt that reads I <3 RED HERRINGS.

i still think odile has the correct theory on lock but she's smart enough to know it needs like... a real smoking gun to be able to bring it up without sounding insane.

anyway. (mirabelle voice) i know its rude to speculate but has anyone else noticed the grieving? they seem to be grieving. does anyone have any thoughts on the grieving? i have some thoughts on the grieving.

#[isabeau voice] am i insane or does sometimes loop talk like they might have killed their whole family. is that just me? just checking. #nille design highly inspired by @kiwibrain's since its the one that imprinted in my mind. liberties taken since i didnt look @ reference #anyway i have a lot more thoughts on this? i guess ill hide them in the tags...? scroll down i suppose. #isat #in stars and time #isat spoilers #in stars and time spoilers #isat act 6 spoilers #isat loop #isat siffrin #isat bonnie #isat nille #isat fanart #in stars and time fanart #doodlebyte #---------------------------------------------------------------------- #anyway the extra thoughts. are literally just my general thoughts on postcanon. (and thus are the context for all of my postcanon doodles!) #which is i think nille joins the party before loop reappears for a start (either from a period of nonexistence or just wandering around) #and that like. i think the party should be able to integrate loop as a completely new person. because they are! the secrecy isn't great but #They and Siffrin shuffle into different ecological niches in the party (eg. i think sif is more squeamish after it all but loop isnt) #and while it's not *exactly* what Loop wanted they get that beggars can't be choosers. and its pretty good #(i am glossing over how i think loop's reappearence drags both them and siffrin into a massive behavioural backslide and is likely a bit #distressing to watch go down. cycle of argument -> lovebombing -> normalcy -> repeat. etc etc. but since they are no longer literally #stewing in the worst pressure cooker of all time they do resolve it via productive conversation on their own time. its fine) #the party well-meaningly tries to deduce things from loop's vagueries and are able to pin down the DEAD FAMILY vibe pretty quickly. #but eventually the question of their prior identity falls by the wayside because well! they're just their friend loop! (also change belief) #as for how The Truth Come Out... this is what i mean by The Isabeau Torment Nexus(tm). which is that i think... isiloop should almost occur #BEFORE isabeau knows who loop is. he's just genuinely charmed by them eventually and tries to close the open end of the polycule #which FREAKS LOOP THE FUCK OUT because thats just too genuinely sick and wrong. and obviously w emotions high its not a great confrontation #ANYWAY told u i had more thoughts. if i were normal itd be a text post but.

[shegoesbyjoy]

listen LISTEN kim being amused by/going along with harry's dumb bullshit is so so important to me okay i want to them to spend the rest of their lives being silly IDIOTS together thanks

Bonus:

#disco elysium #this game is So! Silly! sometimes!!! #not esprit de corps REPEATING the fact that kim would die for you IMMEDIATELY after the most absurd nodding contest #this game istg it makes me lose my mind #kim kitsuragi #harry du bois #esprit de corps #harrykim #kimharry

[midnightfrappe]

I'm pretty sure there's a corner in the daycare where toddlers just play with this horrible things for hours

#fnaf sun #fnaf moon #daycare attendent #moondrop #sundrop #i wonder what sounds they make #or if its one of those things that repeat after you #anyhow #this is terrifying #for me

[aalghul]

my eyes start twitching every time i see someone say that Batman recruited jason to keep him from becoming a criminal when it was actually because an untrained, essentially unhomed (since the people he was trying to fight were from his new living situation, and by getting these people caught, he would once again be homeless), and tiny jason todd tried to stop a robbery that had nothing to do with him. batman saw jason’s strong sense of justice and that jason was a good kid in a tough situation (and batman had instantly taken a shine to jason at that point. he was just really charmed by him, and that part’s important too).

#me after repeating the same ive screamed about a dozen times on here: maybe now ill be normal #i never am bc i see one stupid comment and i see red #it’s like if fanon lazarus madness was real #jason todd

[deerspherestudios]

This ask is actually related to a dream I had about the boy. And I'm not quite sure if you've already answered an ask like this. How would he react to a yandere MC or an MC who's very possessive or obsessive?

Depends on how much; he'd like the extra attention but nothing too pushy or demanding from him. If you're subtle he's definitely okay with it but if it's over the top he'd have reason to recoil if I'm honest (which is ironic considering what he'll be later).

Don't be like this though:

#mushroom oasis vn #mychael ask #doodles #that one era of the blog where people asked me nonstop if mychael would want kids... #check the FAQ bc ive repeated myself so many times sdfhj #but hey feel free to ask the yan MC question again after Day 4 ::-)

[logicpng]

...at least that's the link order that made most sense to me

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Clownillustrations' Welcome Home fanart. Wally Darling is drawn at an angle slightly from below, lacking his mouth, and the eyes wide open and bright white looking the viewer. In front of him, along his height through the middle of his face, a long stripe made of the blurry Welcome Home website screenshots, glowing. Behind him is a vinyl record with a plain red label.

The background is littered with text, a wall of repeating "Let me in." from top to bottom to the left of the image, Wally's dialogue behind him, and the text on the foreground, slightly corrupted, says "I will help you understand neighbor I will find a way soon"

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#welcome home #welcome home wally #welcome home fanart #wally darling #welcome home wally darling #welcome home update #welcome home spoilers #wh spoilers #wh update #got this out of my system............ #i am correct about the word order dont @ me /joke #eye contact #scopophobia #cw eye contact #cw scopophobia #repetition #cw repetition #cw repeating words #additional tag ramble: i saw a word order that puts 'neighbor' at the end and i Respectfully Disagree. it makes far more sense for Home to #respond after wally literally says 'you can hear mine (my Home)'. like home even says Hello to you

[nosfelixculpa]

You think I follow you around because I like you? I'm not worried at all about you. What is there to worry about for you? I'm the one who should be worried. But do you know why I come to see you? Jungkook mumbled on about things which were all incomprehensible. It's because I like your music. When I listen to your music, I get all teared up. Me, I get all teary. I feel like dying about a dozen times a day. But when I listen to your music, I want to live. YOONGI 12 MAY YEAR 22 HYYH; THE NOTES

#creations #gifs #kpop #hyyh #hyyh yoonkook #bangtan #bts #yoongi #jungkook #hyyh the notes #im continuing to be abnormal abt them in the books can u tell is it clear can u tell #if i dont include the fire saving scene and the hug scene i will die btw so thats why there is a repeat gif #also like how i said i didnt like the grain and then proceeded to do it again #i cant decide apparently #i could rustle one of these up for all the pairs but they dont make me quite as insane inside as these ones so we will see #this quote is still so #the fact he says this after running into a burning building to save him #'im not worried abt u' me when i lie when im a liar #'u think i follow u around bc i like u' Yes