Hey so not to be dramatic but has anyone else come back to this site and rediscovered the joys the internet has? Like, I've been active recently but today because of the reddit protests, I couldn't do my mindless scrolling there. Because of that, today I've been really digging in here and there's so much??? stuff??? and it's all beautiful and funny!
Anything I've seen before feels nostalgic instead of bots reposting for internet points, and whenever I finish the stuff on my dash I just find a new blog and suddenly I'm in a whole new world! I've had this blog since August of 2014, and over those 9 years I've forgotten that the internet can be good!
So thank you all for keeping the old internet alive and well in places like this hellsite, and here's to watching it lap other social media platforms by doing absolutely nothing
no but can you imagine being frank iero right now. he can literally do anything and suddenly a stampede of mcr5 truthers are knocking down his door reciting their encyclopedic knowledge of every thing he has ever said and done leading to this moment and why it means mcr5 is happening. he probably doesn't even remember any of that shit. this becomes 1,000x funnier if mcr5 is actually happening because gerard would be like "frank c'mon not again we promised to keep it secret" and frank is over here like "motherfucker I'm not even TRYING"
AITA for building a tunnel into my neighbor's basement?
I (30'sM) always intended to get along well with my neighbor (40'sM). We already knew each other through mutual friends and previously all our interactions have been positive.
The issues arose when I needed to build a bridge to reach my house. I live on an island and wanted to bring my horse over. The nearest route to the rest of the neighborhood is through my neighbor's back yard. He has quite a large property and the bridge wouldn't come near his house so I thought it wouldn't be an issue.
I spent hours building the bridge only to be told by him the next day that he doesn't want it there and I'd need to tear it down. I tried to be civil and I did as he requested, rebuilding the bridge elsewhere and making it more boat-friendly. But, now it takes twice the time to get to my island as you have to go all the way around.
So, needless to say, I wasn't happy.
I never planned to get revenge, it just kinda happened. When building my storage room, I realized it lined up almost perfectly with my neighbor's storage room. I knew then I had to make a tunnel going underneath the river and leading into his basement. This wasn't a basic tunnel either, I went full out and spent a lot of diamonds to make it pretty and it's a lovely tunnel if I say so myself. I even did him the courtesy of not breaking through his chests and instead staircasing up into his storage room, using the same block palette he uses. But it ended up 1 block off-center so it looks pretty horrible anyways.
He did end up discovering it and we chatted. He seemed pretty surprised and I got the feeling he's planning to do something back to me.
I feel a lot better now that I've gotten back at him, but now I'm wondering if I overreacted. AITA?
What do proshippers generally believe about shipping real people? Stuff like creator x creator or celebrity x reader?
That it falls under the umbrella of "you should be allowed to write anything you want". Once again, it's not my personal thing. There's no real life pairing I read for, and the whole "blank x reader" is not appealing to me at all.
But I have no problem with people writing that stuff, or knowing it's out there. I saw someone a while back say that it's basically just writing about another character, and I agree with that. No matter how much a creator posts or how open a celebrity seems with their personal life, we're still only seeing a tiny snippet of their lives. We have no clue who they are when the cameras aren't recording because we just don't know them. And whatever someone chooses to write about is mostly stemming from that particular persona that they happen to put on for the world and that's it. It's completely separate from our reality because they're basically just writing about another made up character
The problem I have, and it's what I imagine most proshippers also take issue with, is when people start blurring the lines between fiction and reality. To me, there's a world of difference between posting something on ao3, and speculating on secret relationships in the comments of someone's youtube video. Or between talking about something on tumblr, and tagging the person directly on twitter.
I just don't understand people who condemn rpf and talk about how gross and invasive it is, but think it's funny to tag celebrities on twitter to bring up (what they think is) cringe-worthy fanfic tropes that people have written them into. Or people who print out fanworks to shove into an actor's face at a meet and greet and ask them what they think about it. That's where the lines get crossed, to me.
I think ao3 and tumblr still have an air of mysticism to them. A little secrecy, a little privacy. In the sense that someone in the public eye would have to put in a little work to find this stuff for themselves. They'd have to go to the site and search themselves up to find anything. As opposed to just about anyone in the world being able to force this content in their line of sight with a simple @ on a site like twitter.
So to me the problem isn't that this content exists. The problem is when people don't know how to keep fandom stuff private. Write all the rpf you want but remember at the end of the day these are real people, not your blorbos. You don't know them. It's inappropriate to say these things to them personally (which yes, also includes tagging them on twitter or in the comments of their videos). But it's also inappropriate to run up to them with other people's content just to say "look what these FREAKS wrote about you!!" And I think people either forget or just genuinely don't care about the latter.
carlyraejepsen: New York City! What just happened? I think we just played a sold out show at Radio City Music Hall. I am almost certain but I’m glad these pictures exist incase I don’t believe myself later.
A new sculpture! Finally... I feel like I never sculpt anymore since I'm always sick or have some 500 other things going on or projects to finish, but I'm trying to schedule time to do it more often this year hopefully..! Just a generic fantasy creature as usual, but did try making the eyes a little more sparkly this time.. hrmm..