#the people had spoken

[fishbloc]

day 1: dancing and holding - pas de deux

@triplehearts @desert-duo-week

#grian #goodtimeswithscar #desert duo #3rd life #trafficblr #trafficshipping #scarian #<- this isnt ship art but. since the people have spoken to tag it #desert duo week 2023 #咸鱼.jpg #shoutout to my friend who does ballet and had to deal with my 100 questions about the accuracy of the pose

[thosewildcharms]

I was being completely normal (not) and was scrolling through your old posts in your richonne tag, and I saw an interview Andy gave in 2017 where he said Michonne was the love of Rick's life. And we have bitter antis in 2024 with their panties in a twist because Rick actually says it? I have to laugh. Anyways, thanks for being as unhinged about Richonne as I am. I'm glad tumblr made you a fan way back when (I watched the show from the start and began shipping them in s4).

listen idk how to be normal either, so i'm definitely not judging! i'm pretty flattered in fact and I hope you enjoyed my 2017-era richonne brainrot! I think it's only gotten worse since towl took an already God Tier ship to an entirely different level lol so thank YOU (and everyone else who understands the obsession) for being unhinged with me ❤️ and just because I'm always curious about what made richonne click for people. what made you start shipping them in season 4?

yeah, people have always been bitter and/or confused about richonne and ESPECIALLY about how in love rick is with michonne. and while I think there are some people who might have genuinely just not have been paying attention because those characters are not their priority (which I get personally, as rick and michonne and people immediately tangential to them are my ONLY priority so I completely missed the sasha/abraham build up for example) as we all know most of the time the bitterness stems from thinly veiled (and sometimes not veiled at all) racism and misogynoir. which makes it all the more satisfying that andrew lincoln is not only patient zero of richonne brainrot disease but has exponentially doubled down about it over the years. idk how much that was an intentional response to the pushback richonne got since he's famously offline BUT it's still endlessly gratifying that he's constantly and unfailingly vocal about how much he loves the ship, michonne, and danai to the point where just as rick grimes isn't doing shit without his soulmate michonne, andrew lincoln isn't doing shit related to twd without his leading lady danai gurira. the second that man had an ounce of creative control he had rick declare his undying love for michonne at every available opportunity so if they haven't gotten the point by now I guess their panties are staying twisted forever. sucks to be them I guess!

#richonne #the ones who live #now as a privileged white girl i'm not gonna sit here and claim to be an authority on racism #but i've lurked in many a fandom and ANY time there's a ship with a white person + a poc #people inevitably get incredibly nasty and transparent. it's just observable #what is LESS observable is the white lead in question showing vocal support of their counterpart so i will always admire andy for that #again other people have spoken far more eloquently about this than me but #i just don't think a good faith conversation can be had about the pushback richonne gets without acknowledging the racism tied up in it

[brooklynisher]

Boop Thanks You!

Happy birthday!

#I decided April Fools Day is now her birthday #thanks a lot tumblr #I promise this wasn't supposed to be a self-indulgent post it was thankfulness I promise #also new canon info: Boop can talk. but she's very soft-spoken #she feels most comfortable talking to GG. which resulted in her main communication tool being GG #essentially #GG talks for Boop #but aside from that #ty people so much for all the stuffs! #This is probably the best April Fools Day I've ever had! #granted April Fools Day isn't really too special aside from the jokes #but I guess that's what made it so special this year #one big coincidence and a lot of dedication! #hehe #thank you people #I love all of you very much #<3 <3 <3 #my stuff #art #spg fanart #spg fanbot #boopsy doodle #boop #spg #steam powered giraffe

[trainingdummyrabbit]

in conclusion the most poignant thing about ruina is its running theme of Imperfection. imperfection, focused not on its flaws, but on the miracle of it existing to begin with. imperfection not as a failing, but as a triumph. its cracked, broken, deeply in need of repair-- but it's real and its ours and it exists. despite everything it exists and that enough is a relief beyond words, beyond expression. to present a toppled structure not as a conclusion, but an opportunity.

its the choice-- and the joy-- of looking forward, unflinchingly, and facing it. one step at a time.

#piktalk #projmoon #didnt want to . make a bigger tagwall than i already made . ae if ur reading this uhhhhhh sorry <33 hai KSJNFD #anyway one of these days i might get th voice to really truly put down everything and what it means in regards to . [motions w hands] #but this ones just on my mind right now. something abt the presentation of ruina just fucking Kills and this is the big reason why #ilike. had to take a good couple hours after th finale to just simmer with it. because well.. #again. its imperfection. every other story has such stark; lined up beats and paths and Messages Youre Supposed To Take #which ive spoken on before-- and it isnt a bad thing necessarily! but it does really speak something; quietly; #for those whose development Isnt That Neat. that Isnt That Kind. to themself or to others. im no expert; but it really does mean something #that ruina is written in such a way where there is no 'this is wrong and heres how they fix it to be forgiven' #or 'this is right and what everyone should do to be a Good Person' #angela simply Is. roland simply Is. they all simply Are. they make choices; have hopes; dreams; things they care about-- #and theres no overarching echo of What Should Be. simply what people do; and what people hope for. #um. anyway. tag wall again; in conclusion: Why Dont You Go Listen To Poems Of A Machine And Maybe Then Youll Calm Down

[gideonisms]

My other piece of advice for young people besides you can't force others to like you is that you CAN make it significantly harder for them to take advantage of you and one of the ways you do this is by never acting too desperate around a potential employer, boss, professor, or anyone involved in your housing situation. Explain as little as possible. Give them that "I'm busy that day" treatment. "My apologies for the late response here is the report" type communication. Pretend you've got options lined up all the way out the door. Make them work for you. Girlbosses (gender neutral) only ♥️

#sometimes stuff that doesn't work interpersonally DOES work when you're trying to get the money you need to survive #the reason this works is because scammy companies prey on desperate people and you don't want to seem like an easy target #embody that 'my dad's lawyer had some advice about this' energy even if you haven't spoken to your father in years #gaslight gatekeep girlboss

[emry-stars-art]

MY HEART??!???!??

M Y S T A R ? ! ? ! ?

I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

I ALSO LOVE U AND THAT BIG BEAUTIFUL BRAIN OF YOURS FOR COMING UP WITH THESE

🥹❤️

YOU CAN THANK @jtl-fics FOR ANDREW CALLING ABRAM THAT (and also to a degree for Abram’s name for Andrew so like. Thanks Ash 💕)

Dramatized rendering of the two’s letters at whatever point in the timeline idk

Script/cipher under the cut

One fancy version and a simpler handwriting one ✨

#ash the people have spoken #your brain is full of good ideas #sorry I don’t make the decisions that’s just how it is #on another note. if I had drawn these bigger the writing might be to scale #Andrew’s handwriting is nice and discreet I think #and his lil name for Abram might be on the front sure but it would be small #Abram’s can also be small handwriting but it’s all uniform and very careful #not as fancy #but deliberate #meanwhile me #over here figuring out monograms for the twins aughhhhhhh #it’s okay I can enjoy this #AND I LOVE TOU TOO ANON #TY 🥰 #fan art #my art #aftg #all for the game #andreil #royal au #royal au script #asks #anon

[thedawningofthehour]

Okay, I need a think tank here. This has absolutely nothing to do with anything and will likely never pop up in my writing, but I was thinking about it in the shower and now I can't leave it alone.

So that concept art of apocalypse resistance fighter Draxum.

I mean, yes, he looks way older in general. But the greyscale shows that his hair has definitely gone completely grey.

The 'future' scene we see in the movie takes place in 2044, only 24-26 years after the series if we consider Rise to have taken place over 2018-2020. And Draxum likely died before this, considering he's not seen in the final battle.

25-ish years is nothing to a Yokai. Draxum is confirmed to be a few hundred years old himself. So it's highly unlikely that he just happened to go grey during this time.

Possibly the stress, we see that Huginn and Muninn have obviously died (and demanded to be forever immortalized as his shoulder pads) and depending on when he died, he might have outlived Cassandra, Raph, and Donnie. So losing three of his kids, plus whatever Splinter was to him at the end. That'll age someone. And then there's whatever mystic nonsense that caused Mikey to age rapidly, potentially Draxum was overusing his powers to fight and keep the colony safe and ended up drawing on his own lifeforce.

But I thought of a funnier explanation.

Hair dye.

Do you guys think maybe Draxum is already going gray? And he's just too vain to admit it, so he dyes it back to red so nobody notices. But in the apocalypse he can't justify scavenging for hair dye or wasting their water supply on something so frivolous. Or whatever potion he used, he didn't have the ingredients/couldn't waste resources like that.

I dunno, what do you guys prefer? I kind of like imagining him carefully dyeing his roots before every Major Villain Thing so nobody realizes how old he actually is.

#i'm hoping i'll inherit my mother's good genes and just never go grey #she has a few silver hairs here and there but she's mostly her original hair color #my grandma had brown hair until she died #she actually got a part in a commercial and the director was annoyed that she didn't have gray hair #“this is my natural hair i don't know what to tell you” #“you need to look like a grandmother!” #“i am a grandmother and i am old. what else do you want” #my grandma was very soft-spoken and it surprised people because she did not mince words #baron draxum #rottmnt

[threefuckencrowsinatrenchcoat]

Hi ppl who are nosy and want to know ur grades so they can judge how smart u are are annoying as fuck

#this is ab a guy from my math class who just texted me #I’ve never even spoken to him before he just asked what I’m averaging in that class #I didn’t tell him cuz I’m honestly not doing as well as I want to be and it’s a super competitive class #and so he starts asking ab all my extracurriculars #and the programs I’m applying to #and I’ve been so stressed over this because I don’t even know myself #so I don’t want some random fucking stranger interrogating me #and he goes ‘most people in the class are failing’ cuz only one person is averaging 100 #‘the smartest guy in the class is only averaging 98’ well clearly he’s not the smartest but also 98 is amazing and I wish I had that #I’m going to punch him when I see him tmr get the hell out of my dms bro #vent post #mathblr #mathematics #math #grades #school #high school #irritating

[thedreadvampy]

The thing is I am definitely not happy or chill in the Immediate Sense lately but I am, big picture, so fucking happy with the person I am.

It's like. My brain was made by and for consistent trauma and since that trauma stopped about 5-7 years ago, it is incredible what the amount of resilience and cleverness and flexibility and thoughtfulness I developed to survive can do when it's not being all spent on surviving. like I had a hundred ton weight on me so I had to get REALLY STRONG to stay in the same place and not get 100% crushed, and when that weight came off I found I can use the strength it used to take to stand up and I can leap tall buildings in a single bound.

I was talking to my mum the other day and she said, "you've got the 'fuck it' energy at 30 that most women don't find until their fifties at least" and I'm like yeah man. Imagine how unstoppable I'll be in 20 years.

#red said #i don't know that i can express this clearly but it's the most encouraging thing in my life #my mum's always been proud of me but just lately she seems to actually really admire me #like she's genuinely impressed. she thinks I've surpassed her. i don't necessarily agree but it's a really nice quiet joy. #anyway like this sounds super up myself and it kind of is. #but also it's part of realising just how heavy the weight I've been carrying around with me for 25 years was #like not to be ridiculous but i have realised again this week. that it isn't that everyone's been raped that much and doesn't talk about it #i just have been raped an Unusually Consistent Amount. i have spoken to a lot of people who have had much more horrifying things happen. #I'm not sure I've talked to more than a couple of people who've had a similar level of total consistency of abuse from all angles #and the one is not heavier or harder to bear that the other. but. i think i spent most of my life listening to people's awful experiences #and going ok well nothing i went through looked that bad so it's microtrauma #obviously microtraumas build up but still. #then the older i get and the more i have these conversations the more I notice that stuff which to me is a microtrauma #is a lot of people's defining trauma. and they're reacting appropriately which means i am SO SEVERELY UNDERREACTING #told my friend the other day about a time someone who i still like and respect was having sex with me when i paralocated my hip #and then just kept getting really annoyed with me for not being ready to have sex again while i was literally crying with pain #until i caved and just tried to find the last painful position #and my friend was like pal what the fuck that's horrific #and i was like i mean no that's normal I've had sex with like maybe 3 or 4 people in my life who i haven't had similar stuff with #like i am genuinely thrown when i am allowed to say no to sex and have it be the end of the conversation. and not end up having sex #out of guilt or out of physical coercion or through physical rape. and i have had sex with probably like 40 people at this stage? #and I'm not sure it's as many as 4 i haven't had that experience with tbh #so like. I'm slowly coming to terms with the idea #that i may have actually been doing a hell of a lot of heavy lifting. #like i developed a sense of self that can survive being constantly crushed and at this stage is fucking diamond.

[optiwashere]

How do you manage to write smut that's like, actually arousing? What's the secret?

Well, first of all thank you! I'm glad you enjoy it, I really am. Happy to hear from you here as well 💜

Also, I'll let you in on my secret — I can't stand almost anything I write after it's posted. I see nothing but the flaws, grammatical choices, and technical foibles. This extends triple, quadruple, to smut. So if you're feeling the same kinda way, that your writing feels somehow off, then just know you're not alone.

I could give some pointers, but I don't really know how much benefit anyone will get hearing these from me of all people. But in my opinion it's a lot of the non-smut aspects that highlight the smut and make it shine. So here ya go.

Keep it in-character. I'm not out here talking as an authority on anyone's characterization, nor am I saying I'm some master of it and there are plenty of people out there with differing opinions, so take this with a colossal mountain of salt. But you should focus on making the voices, internal thoughts, and prose in keeping with the POV character. This is something called "POV control" and it's a very useful skill. Be able to flow in and out of a character's POV as the need arises. How Shadowheart interacts with sex is very different from Karlach is different from Orin, for example.

Strong focus on dialogue. This is a sorta addendum to the first point. Characters shouldn't suddenly turn silent when they're having sex. That is, unless that's the point of the story! They should also be speaking in-character even (or especially) during sex. Also, "porn dialogue" is something that gets brought up a lot in writing, and I think we all know it when we read it. That being said, people in the real world do say things during sex that, out of context, are hilarious. So it's a balancing act.

Fitting descriptions. This is actually one of the more important ones! If a scene is very romantic and meant to be light and fluffy, maybe avoid words for genitals altogether and focus entirely on simple visual aesthetics (how moonlight plays on a body, to give an example). If it's meant to be rough and focused on bodies or the mechanics of the scene, ham it up on those words. This also isn't a binary. Things flow back and forth all the time.

Firm language. I don't mean, like, power dynamics "firm." I'm talking about a willingness to use the words that fit the descriptions and sticking to it. Some people despise certain words, but other people will find the alternatives hilarious and completely tone-breaking. Find the words you like and stick to them; consistency gives your voice strength.

Don't try to appease everybody. You just can't. You have to write what you personally enjoy reading/writing/doing/thinking about, and go with it. If you try to cater to everyone's whims with any of the above, you'll wind up with a beige platter of nothingness. That doesn't mean you can't explore other tones or flavors, but don't try to do too much in one story.

Focus on emotions. Emotions could mean anything from love to lust to anxiety to fear to uncertainty and so on and so forth. My strategy is to center a fic on a theme/emotion that resonates with the characters involved and then I explore the smut around that central point. Revisit the idea between the action. Show how the characters' feelings around the theme change or how they're reaffirmed.

#hey you can ask me things! #random rambling about writing #i just write a lot i'm not the queen of anything (re: an anon that I fear answering calling me the queen of shadowheart smut) #everyone's voice will be different #so just remember this is My Style and not a Universal Constant #that bit in the “keep it in-character” bullet point is not a call for comments on my characterization #it's just a note on what I've noticed and the people I've spoken to OUTSIDE OF this very curated space #a space that is obviously much more likely to enjoy my characterization #so I'm also not saying I don't appreciate folks' comments on the matter! I love hearing that y'all enjoy my characterizations 💜 #I had some more Tips 'n' Tricks but they wound up being personal quirks more than anything else tbh

[hella1975]

there's a very specific kind of vibe that comes with living with your friends in final year that it just does not have in first year or even second year. like as a fresher it's usually the first time any of you have lived away from home let alone with SO MANY people your age and it's terrifying and exciting and randomised to boot so it's generally carnage for a whole year in the best and worst ways, and then second year you pick who you're living with and it feels like for the first time you're doing this adult thing PROPERLY. you have a place of your own now. these are the people you've chosen to live with. studying gets serious etc. but it's still fresh. it's still new. you still don't know how to navigate it. but final year? final year is when you actually get it right. you know how to manage your time better. you know what works for you and what doesn't. studying is the main focus and you've been out in the world for three years now and it's not loud and boisterous like it was in first year and you're not exciteable and awkward like you were in second year. you're comfortable. every single one of my flatmates has their own friend group and we mainly keep to our own social circles, but we'll still meet each other back at the house after a night out and sit in the kitchen or my room to do the debrief. sometimes i'll go days not seeing either of them despite sharing a house but every now and then someone will softly call up the stairs that 'the heating's on!' or one of us will sneeze and the other two will yell 'bless you!' through the walls. the lack of interaction isn't interpreted as dislike in ways it would have been even last year, because we're all just old enough to be past that now and settled enough in our friendship not to worry about it. idk. uni is very loud and unsettling a lot of the time so it's been really sweet to see how almost boringly comfortable final year is.

#like my day today was literally drag myself out of bed at 10am to meet my econ friends bc we're in a group together #and i spent two hours with them writing a fucking TRADE REPORT before coming home #and the rest of the day was kinda lost. i showered. i put a wash on. i had a nap. i mainly stayed in my room #which sometimes is the End Of All Things but today was quite nice #and i can hear in their rooms how my flatmates are doing the exact same thing. pottering about and getting on with uni #and we've barely spoken all day but earlier my one flatmate ran into my room all excited to show me her nails #bc she's been teaching herself to do gels and it took her 2 hours but im still one of the first people she wanted to show #and just now we all went to use the bathroom at the same time and it led to one of our Stair Sessions #where we all inexplicably just gather on the stairs and chat for no reason with a cup of tea #idk it's just nice. it's such basic shit but i can't belive in first year i used to spend EVERY DAY with these girls #and we were one single friendship group and that was all we had #and then in second year one girl branched off bc she lived in a studio and got into her societies #but me and the other girl lived together again and it was the same thing of she was a friend before she was someone i lived with #and weirdly that can actually be detrimental to a dynamic. but this year we're all just very solidified and confident in ourselves #and where we stand and yes we all have our own friendship groups outside of the house now #but there's still that love and simple comfortableness around each other that you only get with time and a hell of a lot of proximity #and a sense of being settled that maybe is just what happens as you get older #idk it's just really nice. if i had this exact same day in first year (doing economics and barely leaving my room) #it would've been a really bad depressive day for me so the fact i can find such contentment from it now is really heartening #i love my little life here im very proud of what ive been able to achieve :) #hella goes to uni #feeling nostalgic because SOME BITCH decided to ribs post

[pussywiki]

One line in particular that has stuck in my brain aside from the obvious: Prapai’s “please don’t joke with me” after asking Sky what he meant. It’s so desperate but it’s also kinda vulnerable?? Like he wants Sky so bad but there’s something off about this and he needs to pause and the last thing he wants is for this to be some joke. Because that’s mostly what he’s gotten from Sky up until this point: teasing, sarcasm, just a lot of pushback and testing Pai’s dedication to him. He can’t read Sky’s mind and know that he’s falling just as hard, he’s just hoping against hope and just fucking “please don’t let this be another test, please don’t tease me in this way, please don’t push me away if I act on this, please let me love you how you deserve to be loved, how I NEED to love you, please please please”

#anyway I’m gonna go lay in the middle of the street and let the local birds of prey feast on me y’all want anything? #love in the air #love in the air series #prapaisky #lita ep 11 #prapai love in the air #sky love in the air #riddle.txt #also he knows on some level that skys trauma is around relationships like he’s for sure picked up on that #probably picked up on it being around sex specifically if he saw sky have multiple night terrors like that #like he’s gotten just enough breadcrumbs to probably piece together that sky had something terrible happen #so the last thing he wants is to be another thing that brings sky pain and suffering #and if he hadn’t paused in that moment he very well could’ve been #i honestly think that conversation went about as well as it could’ve #because a hard shutdown would’ve absolutely devastated sky but just going with it unquestioned would’ve felt very bad #sky needed to hear that Pai doesn’t NEED sex from him in order to love him even though he would still LIKE to have sex with him #like he needed to hear both and have that truth spoken into existence bc for sky that has not been true with other people #okay I’m like actually done ruining the tags on this post now sorry y’all mwah

[alexclaain]

being asexual, an adult and still never having had sex without wanting to change it, feels fucking lonely at times. Because majority of asexuals I met with similiar experiences as mine were of the sort of "golden star asexual" or whatever and that's just bullshit and I don't want to associate with that crap.

I just feel really really lonely among other asexuals who still, in the end, have more experience than me, because in this society that marks me as the "weird one", the "childish one", because sex is just connected to adulthood and without you're immature in this worlds eyes.

Adding to that, most representation I've seen of asexuals in media has been of the sort that still has (or had) sex - and that's great for them! But I wish people like myself would be more than the weird nerd person or robot sidekick. I wish adults who choose to never have sex would be treated as adults and full fletched humans too.

#also fuck every allo who heard some asexuals explain that part of us have sex #and now enter every relationship with an ace person expecting them to make exceptions #because some wont!!!!!! #and im tired of allos expecting it from the ace peeps who wont!!!! #this is a really fucking personal rant tbh #if any weird gatekeepy person feels spoken to please fuck off #i genuinely love my asexual pals who had or have sex and they deserve the recognition they all get #i just hate being so othered by society as a result of their visibility #but thats SOCIETIES fault and not of my fellow aspec people #claain rambles #asexual #asexuality #allosexuality #asexual discourse #sexuality discourse

[gaydogmarriage]

alhaitham is such a lying liar who lies dude. acting like he and the sumeru boys gang have always been besties since forever. "that's how it's always been with the four of us" - man who has barely spoken to most of these people before he decided to team up with them to overthrow the government and regularly skips social gatherings with them. yeah right buddy ok

#explicitly said that he's barely spoken to cyno before when they clash in the archon quest #will literally just skip or show up late when they do meet up #very notably had a huge falling out with kaveh that ended with them not speaking for years #does he even talk to tighnari?? like one on one???? do they hang out???? #i stg kaveh and tighnari are the glue holding the whole situation together #the other 2 are just off to the side being autistic #well cyno actually tries to be social alhaitham doesnt give a fuck lmao #alhaitham after speaking to people that do not annoy him about once a month: 'hmm. i love my best friends' #he adopted a status quo and now simply pretends there has never been a different one #hes so fucking funny #genshin fans who try to make him some kind of big dick sexyman you are so wrong hes a silly goofy clown to me #on a more serious note i do actually much prefer the interpretation of this being a friendship they formed as adults #and everyone involved has different levels of closeness with each other #rather than making them all mutual best friends with each other (even since school sometimes). i think thats a lot more interesting #and canon is weirdly ambiguous about it so shrug #like the current friend groups as it is seems to be a relatively recent formation based on canon bits but then the writers lean into it #so hard as their Thing its a bit odd. but also fun to play with. they dont need to have always been friends to be close

[thatoneluckybee]

Tell me about your OCs! (if you have any)

Good grief I have many an oc… I’ve spoken vaguely about my mains online BUT I keep it vague for privacy stuff lol. The main set are from a story me and a close friend began IRL years ago that was all but abandoned after the pandemic. They aren’t really into it anymore so essentially I’ve been given free reign over them. However… I have no set plan on what we’re gonna do. We both love art so we’ve considered making it into like a webcomic or a book but neither of us know. It’s just this series stuck in my head. I keep things vague with them love in case we ever do get around to making this a real published thing (also because I am… 60% sure said friend has a tumblr and Do Not Want Them To Find Me.)

#i have so many little people and characters in my head from things ive made over the years i love writing #there’s also a book i stopped writing cause my parents got too involved and it wasnt fun anymore but who knows i may finish i have too much #lore in my head. #my notes app is CLUTTERED with ocs and game ideas and comic ideas and book ideas and— #hmmm. ive been working on a new idea for a bit amnd there’s one thing ive had for over a year but it isnt fleshed out enough for me to have #like. oc introductions. #maybe i should finish fleshing out one of these half-finished prompts so i can tumblrify it. #OH AND #i DO have VERY vivid dreams often and if a character appears often I name them #so i guess those people count as ocs? #because theyre dreams they are very strange #i think dreams are so interesting. they can be such a deep dive into your inner self OR just essentially shitposting behind your eyelids #its so cool to me. maybe i should talk about those. #aight chat what do i do. who are my tumblr ocs gonna be. #flesh out the horror idea? flesh out the other milder horror idea? or talk about the dream characters? #those three i havent spoken much of irl who will be my Tumblr Ocs #i love them all so #asks #anonymous #I DID NOT MEAN TO RAMBLE i may screenshot this and make these tags a whole post

[californianedgeworth]

the amount of people who point out Steven as some kind of money hungry villain manipulating Shane and Ryan in the whole Watcher debacle is so annoying. clearly they just liked Shane and Ryan a lot better and want to take culpability away from them. but all 3 of them made this decision, as far as we know they're all equally accountable. stop making conspiracies based off people's lives you don't know so you can continue to justify your parasocial relationship jfc

#lol i never posted about the channel here so it's kind of out of nowhere. but idk if people rlly read most of my txtposts anyways #but it's so weird. like there are so many comments like “I bet Steven is the one pulling the strings” #like WHAT? #i wasn't really into Steven's personality or shows either. he does kind of give off a materialistic impression with the eating gold #and the Tesla i just found out he has #but you don't know Shane and Ryan either. just bcus they gave off a more favorable impression doesn't mean they can't possibly do this #i find it way more likely this was a decision they all agreed on. if one of them had deep-seated secret doubts they should've spoken up #i really liked unsolved and i watched watcher a lot at the start (all of puppet history especially) but i've barely watched in like a year #like the videos where they had on like bdg and jarvis johnson and the one where they played minecraft #and i started some of the ghost files and puppet history that came out last year but kind of dropped off through the halfway point #so when the streaming announcement came out thankfully i felt like “yeah i'm glad i'm not as into this channel anymore” #“so the idea of buying a streaming service of a youtube channel for $6 a month doesn't even cross my mind” #so the sense of betrayal doesn't really run as deep #imagine if i'd been more into the last season of puppet history or it came out more recently #how much more would i be devastated over this? #my txtstuff