#uh reblogs are???? idk

[peachteaships]

Had one drink so far, so it's time to post a sneak peek of the upcoming angst. Lmao

Cw for blood mention under the cut.

That's all you're getting for now!!! Hope ya enjoy the little sneak peak!!

#peach speaks #peach's wip #peach writes #cw blood #uh reblogs are???? idk #lmao

[the-merry-otter]

One of the gang sent this uquiz to the chat, and fkskfkskfjsg I highly recommend it, it’s funny as fuck

#UPDATE: if this post reaches 12k notes I’m gonna turn of reblogs because that is simply Too Many #I’m happy y’all are having fun but Jesus Christ lads #UPDATE: #reblog privileges have been revoked sorry gang #I’m simply not prepared to deal with this many notes #feel free to repost the quiz if you wanna #i’ll be on my merry way now #warning it has mentions of uh… intimate activities (not in depth or anything) #so if ur squeamish prolly stay clear idk

[bowelfly]

COMING THIS SUMMER:

7 MONTHS 36 ARTISTS 1 REALLY PERSISTENT SKELETON

IT'S THE 2023 TRUNGOTHON MEGA ART TELEPHONE GAME

[RATED R]

RIDICULOUS. this was so big that even with tumblr's recently expanded image limit i still had to weld every other image together to fit it into one post, but if you want to see every image in its full glory, i made a page for it on my website (jankily hand-coded and probably not very mobile friendly).

it was so fun to see which elements stuck around and for how long. i still can't believe the skeleton got banished and then resurrected 15 iterations later!

huge thanks to everyone who participated. in order:

@mobileleprechaun, ink drinker, @dimetrodrawn, @escherbug, @gachimushi, @ikrutt, @dunwichdrawsstuff, @mathpope, @bedupolker, @solidagold, @a-beepbop, thenauticalwarlock, @ohpsshaw, @eisly, @juenavei, me, @librivore42, @greedol, @mechabutchzilla, @phanta-friends, @tickfleato, @skelizard, elixer, @espimyte, @noctomnis-art, @bluedotjpeg, @fetus-cakes, @iguanodont, @flame-shadow, @kombuchaclock, @slimekingmike, @crtastrophe, @leona-florianova, @skelebee, @nutspider, @palossssssand, and gachimushi again for the header image to this post

whew! now time to seriously consider a yearlong 72-artist game...

#not actually rated R #bflyart #art telephone #if were mutuals and you're interested in joining the next one of these you should definitely hit me up #man idk what to even tag this with #i'll uh add some other tags later i think #im fuckin exhausted #also i dont care that this is a long as hell post im definitely gonna reblog it a couple times

[ghxstoll]

#gregory house #house md #greg house #james wilson #hilson #please help #please reblog #funny post #funny memes #meme #shitpost #idk what else to tag #haha #uh #im so normal #idk how to tag this #lisa cuddy

[felsdumpsterfire]

Headcanon: Cahara is not a morning person. Also he gives many kisses. Because he's a whore like that

#not a reblog. #my art. #cahara #the girl #moonless #fear and hunger #ragnvaldr #enki #d'arce #I fucking #the poly idea is eating me up ALIVE ok??? #I just want them to be happy #ALSO IDK WHAT CAHARA'S WIFE'S NAME IS #BUT UH #SHE'S THERE AS WELL #anyway #them being domestic #inject it straight into my viens #funger #funger poly

[nero-neptune]

idk how much stock i put into those "gen z is more conservative than past generations" think-pieces from a few years back. but it's very possible for a person: to believe that climate change is a problem, to support (or be part of) the LGBT community, to believe in universal healthcare and social services, to support religious tolerance, to fight for expanded housing and labor rights, etc etc etc, and still, like, unabashedly hate women on a level you wouldn't believe existed

#like you really can't underestimate how far someone's hate can go for a specific group of people #while also believing in otherwise 'progressive' values idk #maybe i'm being a pessimist about these things #this is related to the last post i reblogged but now it's just on my mind #i understand that polls show (at least in the us) that gen z votes more blue than past generations and that's commendable #but you can walk and chew gum yknow. you can believe in progressive stuff while also being a massive sexist #and idk if these 'woowoo ~~trendy~~ sexism stereotypes but 'alternative and rebellious' bc i'm owning it' shit is uh. helping. #especially when you're too young to discern what is and is not 'ironic' or a 'joke' and you take it at face value #certain stuff is formative bc you're exposed to it young. and then BAM. it shapes how you see the world for a Very long time #sexism #rambles

[astronomodome]

Tumblr Poll Tournaments & MCYT

So a while ago I made a post expressing my frustration with the way a lot of tumblr poll tournaments seem to exclude mcyt characters- or if they are included, people in the notes are rude about it. The first situation of these- the poll organizer including rules against submitting characters from mcyt- is something I can easily quantify. I've crunched some numbers in order to find out two things:

How common is this phenomenon, really?

Why does this happen in the first place?

A note before I start: I'm not blaming the poll organizers for this, and I don't want anyone to get angry at them for excluding mcyt. At the end of the day, it's up to them to curate what they want their poll to be, and if they don't want to deal with the toxicity that often comes with letting mcyt characters run (or if they just don't like it for whatever reason), that's their decision. Trust me- poll organizers have to put up with a lot of shit already, and I don't want to add to it, regardless of their opinions on mcyt. If any poll organizers recognize their own words in the later part of this overview, they can contact me and I'll remove it. This is also why I have chosen not to identify the blogs from which I took the examples- I mean no harm to any poll organizer. They are a symptom of a much larger problem and they haven't done anything wrong except be a little misinformed at worst.

Excluding mcyt characters from poll tournaments really isn't that big of a deal on its own- though it is frustrating- but it does speak to the larger attitude of the general tumblr population towards mcyt. While not without its flaws, this can be used as a metric to measure the extent of this attitude and maybe get a hint of why it exists.

...Please note, also, that most of these polls date back to around March-June 2023, when poll tournaments were a big thing on Tumblr. Not super outdated, but I still should note that opinions might have changed since then.

Also also, be warned that there are examples below of some organizers being pretty toxic! It's not a whole lot, but if you don't want to expose yourself to that, maybe pass on this post!

With that out of the way, let's get started.

Part One: The Numbers

The first thing I decided to do was figure out a rough percentage of how many poll tournaments have a rule that excludes mcyt characters from being submitted. To get a sample batch of poll blogs, I used one of the blogs that pits the winners of tournaments against each other and checked each blog included in that. This ended up being a more tedious process than I had thought, since there's a lot of variation in the way poll organizers, well, organize. I ended up with 123 blogs sorted into three categories.

The first category included tournaments where a rule for or against mcyt characters wouldn't really make sense, for a variety of reasons. Most commonly, the tournament was between letters of the alphabet or animo acids or government agencies, not fictional characters, so I counted them out. There were also a handful of blogs where the contestants were determined by the organizer, not by nomination at all. Combined, blogs that did not fit my criteria made up 60/123 of my samples.

The second and third categories were the blogs that either had a rule against mcyt characters, or didn't. Most of the blogs I looked through had rules I could find, and some were more thorough about it than others. For my purposes, I counted the blog as a no only if they explicitly had a rule against mcyt characters, or clarified later that they weren't allowed. Most poll blogs didn't mention mcyt at all. (This will become relevant later.)

Of the 63 blogs that fit my criteria, 11 (17.5%) of them had a rule against mcyt characters, while the remaining 52 (82.5%) did not.

To me, this seems like pretty good news! I had honestly expected the percentage of blogs that excluded mcyt to be much higher. This is definitely a good sign! But I wouldn't really jump to assuming that mcyt characters would actually be accepted in all of these blogs. I will explain this in the next part of my research.

Part Two: The Examples

The second thing I wanted to find out with this research was why organizers end up having rules against mcyt in the first place. Is it just the bad reputation the mcyt space has (largely a result of one green man in particular)? Let's look at a few examples of poll rules against mcyt characters. Some of them are from my sample blogs and some of them aren't.

Type 1: Not understanding the difference between real people and characters in mcyt

The majority of the rules against mcyt I saw were of this type, and honestly, it's pretty reasonable. It's a pretty major debate in the mcyt community over whether mcyts' characters are separate enough from their content creators to count as fictional. However, there are a considerable number of mcyt characters who are explicitly stated to be different from their cc in the same way as a character in a movie played by an actor is different from the actor playing them. Excluding all mcyt characters for being 'real people' is just incorrect, though I can kinda understand where the organizers were coming from with this one.

It should also be noted that the vast majority of poll blogs had a rule against submitting real people. There's a possibility that some poll organizers might have lumped mcyt characters as real people even if they didn't specify it explicitly. Therefore, an attempt to actually submit an mcyt character into one of these tournaments might be against the rules based on what the organizer thinks. I have no way to quantify this, which is why I said earlier that the results of my initial test might not be accurate.

Type 2: 'Problematic fandom' (toxicity warning for some of these)

This type of rule is usually broader than just mcyt, but lumps it in with other fandoms known for being associated with bigotry (often hp, which is... yeah i'm definitely not going to argue in favor of harry potter but yikes. really? we're as bad as terfy potter? really.) At least one of them let dsmp characters in with the exception of dream, which is a lot fairer than... some of the others.

If we want to give the organizers benefit of the doubt here, we can say that these rules are made to keep the poll less toxic than it would be otherwise... but to be perfectly honest, some of these might be more about that phenomenon of purity culture that has had a habit of popping up in fandom spaces since forever. That's a whole other conversation I'm not ready to have now, but it comes as no surprise to me that mcyt has become a little taboo in some places (likely to a large extent because of dream and all the drama he's generated). There's also no telling whether the poll organizers in these cases even know that there are other smps besides dsmp... but that's besides the point, since there are other dsmp characters that aren't associated with dream at all. Excluding them reveals a misconception about the mcyt genre anyway. And of course, I think we can all agree that some of these are just pretty rude.

Which brings us to our conclusion.

I feel like a lot of the toxicity towards mcyt as a genre and mcyt characters boils down to people either not really understanding what mcyt is (i.e. mcyt -> minecraft youtubers -> real people) or hearing stuff about dream and assuming the entire mcyt space is reflective of that. Of course, it's a frustrating issue that some people think this way. I think it's nice to be reminded, though, that this sort of thing isn't very widespread. Alongside the bad examples, I saw a lot of organizers confronting their preconceived notions: one organizer let in an mcyt character after admitting their 'unfamiliarity with the source material', another allowed mcyt characters 'on the condition that you can explain how they are a separate character' and a few others fiercely defended mcyt characters against toxicity in their polls. Every day we grow as a community and we can't let a few people with misguided notions of what we are keep us down. Keep watching, keep creating, and as Zedaph once said, It's okay to be silly!

#this ended up being a larger project than i expected. i hope it doesnt ruffle anyone's feathers too much #i don't like dipping my toes into discourse-y stuff but i thought this was pretty fascinating #if anyone has any questions or imput feel free to speak up #i don't bite and i love discussion #mcyt #astro speaks #idk what else to tag this as. i dont want to be spamming fandom tags for this #but i also want people to see it since i worked really hard on it #so uh. i dont like to beg for reblogs but if you find this interesting at all please consider reblogging

[gremliinsart]

Tell me something I don't know...

Posting this again cause the original post just...ate itself...happy Thanksgiving I guess? NFHDNDMN

Anyway I've just had this idea floating around that, because Bubble is an ai used for information (there's quite a lot in that little brain!) that someone like Jax, if given the opportunity would use that to get info on Caine for drama or perhaps more nefarious reasons...

And while Bubble is loyal to Caine (he did make them after all) they don't exactly understand that just because you know something, doesn't mean you should tell. Can you blame them though? It's in their programming...

As always, the Amazing Digital Carnival au belongs to the lovely @sm-baby 💖

#art #digital art #gremlins art #the amazing digital carnival au #the amazing digital carnival #I'm just a bit salty about the original post but whatever #it is what it is #anyway I have more stuff planned that isn't just this au but man I can't help myself #they're PINK #anyway uh enjoy the rabitoid man #hehe nefarious anglerfish #and yeah I could have just reblogged it or something but idk I just figured I'd repost it whatever

[gramophoneturtle]

"It will be alright, Mini-moto..."

No context here. I needed some background texture, so I went to back these shapes. Maybe pretend they're glitches or something?

And where is his cap? Good question!

#ntwewy #neo the world ends with you #coco atarashi #sho minamimoto #my art #my twewy series art #twewy #neo twewy #i always want to give minamimoto a surprise hug but this mood just swept in and took that idea over #originally he was just going to be defeated like - arms hanging limply by the sides #so now we have...whatever the heck this is #colourful erasure of something? idk. i like these coloured shapes a lot #and i realized that coco hugging him like this is uh...maybe not the most reassuring. and saying that #side question: who would minamimoto like a hug from? like thinking in theory... If he's a hug person that is #edit: staff fixed the post not appearing in the search tags - and i imagine dashboards too #because the notes were suspiciously empty. even for low note art posts i usually get more than anyone i gave a direct link to the post #check the reblog for more additions :D

[qiekzart]

its october 3rd you know what that means. (day 3 of drawing kaiba everyday for each day of october)

3/10/2023 ignore the awful art my only reference was this one yugioh card i have . i am so sorry.

[plz reblog] [requests still open read pinned for info.]

#OUGHHHH i gotta do more as of posting this i only have one finished one left in the collection uh ohhh #art #my art #plz reblog #yugioh #yu gi oh #ygo #yu gi oh! #idk the tags u guys use i still fear ur fandom #yugioh kaiba #seto kaiba #yugioh dm #yugioh duel monsters #anime #anime fanart #yugioh fanart #ygo dm #if i live to see myself improve past this i wanna redraw this. this art isnt too bad #blue eyes white dragon

[mattodore]

lovesick

#hi 👋 i have a hospital appointment in two hours that i'm nervous about so here i am in my screenshots folder staring at mattodore #i really shouldn't be typing rn but i'm. a ball of nerves. like actually keep me in your thoughts... like please. jsfdhnkj #also i think i'm gonna start reblogging things untagged here for a little while........... bc like. #i really shouldn't be typing it fucks with my arms so bad..... i say as i'm typing #but ykwim like that's why i've just been avoiding tumblr lmao #um so if you for some reason care abt ppl not tagging reblogs of other people's sims content uh idk what to say bc i'm gonna do it anyway #so expect that from me until i (hopefully) get meds again #also............ i have not started editing theo's bday edit and it's literally tomorrow. Scream . #i finished the poses tho <3 but yeah... we laugh and cry #i want to say i'll just start editing after i get back from the hospital but. well. #it's okay tho bc if i'm late for theo's bday edit that's understandable bc of the Illness but also #matthias's bday edit was like a week late anyway so lmao #also no caption bc idk i can't think #wait nvm listen to this song #river dipping #ts4 #matthias evanoff #theodore doe #a burning house to live in #echthroi

[sparkdoesart]

Adds you to the broth

Nooooooooo i don wanna be boiled :'(

#give a creature a break mannnn #i just got done crying over fanfiction #it was about that video game ive been posting and reblogging abt btw #if you cared to know #one of the only 5 that have done that to me so far #what am i saying again? #uh #idk #pls dont soup me #asks

[chibishortdeath]

Ok stupid rant, but I’m sick of looking up a game and only being able to find guides and wikis made by people who obviously hate the game they’re writing information about.

I was looking for guides for the hedge maze portion of Castlevania 64 because I was stuck in it and couldn’t visualize what the layout of maze looks like (turns out, it’s not technically a traditional maze, aka one route to the exit, which helps a lot) and the only guide I can find is one on gamefaqs or something where the person cannot contain themselves from constantly interjecting to say how much they don’t like Malus cause “ugh overdramatic cutscene, his parents are dead who cares, he looks like a girl” or how they hate the game cause it’s too hard and annoying and “oh boy as if this game couldn’t get worse”.

And like dude! Sincerely! Shut up! I don’t care! I just want to know what I’m supposed to do! You are allowed to dislike the game and express your opinions, just please keep those to a little ending opinion section or a review!!! Stop breaking up actual instructions I can’t keep track of what you’re telling me to do!!!!!!!!!!!

And I saw something similar happen on a different smaller wiki-ish sort of website (it might have been the Castlevania Dungeon, I’m not sure. Definitely not Fandom tho.) on the Castlevania: The Adventure page when I was looking for some facts. Again, the person writing was constantly being all “not that this game is important anyway” and like! I literally don’t care if you don’t like the game that’s not what I’m here for!!! Heck the website even had some misinformation on the page too saying that Christopher was Simon’s grandson in that “or whatever, it doesn’t matter” kind of tone! Like!!!!! Shut up!!!!!!!!!!!! I am here for factual information! Not a review!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s just absolutely annoying and now I don’t even know what I’m supposed to do in CV64 cause I can barely process what this guy is saying ugh.

#castlevania #castlevania games #akumajou dracula #text post #incoherent rambling #Castlevania 64 #castlevania the adventure #other Castlevania games get this treatment too sometimes these are just very recent examples I’ve run into #if I find the pages for both of them I’ll reblog this and link them idk #I don’t really wanna put anyone on blast or anything #anyway AUGH #Like literally don’t write an informational article if you can’t keep it informational #making a couple jokes or something is fine just please do not break up the instructions for it #the one Adventure page also said some stuff about promotional material saying Chris was Simon’s grandson and nuh uh man #I’m not taking that as fact until you put some scans or some sources #I would understand if they had any mention of the development stages where Chris and Trevor were almost the same character #that was a weird developmental period where they then figured Trevor is 200 years before Simon and Chris is 100 years #but they didn’t even mention that??????? #nor did they mention any of the advertising with Simon instead of Christopher?????????????? #idk man I’ve seen a lot of advertising and media for the older classicvanias and never have I seen ‘Chris is Simon’s grandson’ #idk it’s weird if anyone can confirm or deny that claim I’d love to see it!!!! :3 #editing to add this here but like man we need a new wiki so bad

[young-botanical-genius]

important !!

so. um.

i'm sorry for my lack of activity lately. i honestly have no idea where my muse for seymour has gone and i also have no idea when it might come back. work/real life has been busy and stressful and it's all likely contributing to my lack of motivation to write

every time i come onto this blog i do want to do stuff, but when i try to write anything it all just falls apart and it's honestly stressing me out... so consider this an indefinite and hopefully brief hiatus.

sorry again to everyone i'm currently writing with. i love you all and i hope i can be back soon <3

#every other sunday off (ooc) #idk where seymour got the money to go on vacation but uh. he's gone now #might pop in to reblog a few aesthetic things every now and then #but otherwise i'll see y'all later #feel free to message me on discord if you have it!!

[nullsleepy]

The Strike of a Villainess

Chapter 5: An Old Face Of A Little Girl

Prologue, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5(HERE!), Chapter 6, Chapter 7

“Lady Eden…” The soft coo of her maid did nothing to move Marinette, who continued to lay in her bed. The smooth covers were soft against her skin, breathable even as she hid beneath them. Marinette did not react, her eyes clenched closed as she hid obviously from her maid. “Please, my lady. It has been days, at least allow me to bathe you and get you something to eat.”

“……” Marinette remained silent, still curled underneath the blanket. She wished heavily that this was all just a dream.

“…I shall return soon with food, my lady. Please eat it.” Marinette listened carefully to the retreating footsteps of her maid before sitting up. The blanket slid off her form and into her lap, crumpled. She stayed sitting there for a couple minutes, just staring at the mirror in front of her bed. She stared at the face that was now her’s.

“…why am I here?” Marinette croaked, voice shaky and rough from no usage. She bit the inside of her mouth, hoping to draw blood or wake up. Neither happened, so Marinette eventually just started crying. Streaks of tears stained her face, her eyes swelling red from abuse to her tear ducts. “Please, I know someone, one of you gods, hear me! I’m not supposed to be here! You made a mistake!”

Marinette felt out of character, being the one to call for help, but she was just so, so desperate for help. She knew someone had the answers and she needed them. She needed to know why she was here and how she could return home.

No one replied.

Not a speck of sound was returned to her desperate plea, the only sound that was left was her own cries.

“My lady!!!” She could hear light footsteps rush towards her, making Marinette only cry more. “Oh, nonononono! My lady, what’s wrong?”

The maid carefully stroked her face, wiping away her tears. Marinette threw herself at the maid, hugging her tightly.

“Please! I just want to go home!” Marinette cried, causing the maid to worry more. Marinette sobbed unintelligently, using words the older woman wouldn’t understand. “I just want to go home!”

“My lady…” The maid just hugged her back and rocked back and forth. She didn’t understand what her lady meant by ‘go home’ but she comforted the girl to the best of her abilities.

As Marinette’s crying started to calm down, after a couple hours had passed, she saw something in the corner of her eye. Eyes still swollen with tears, Marinette turned towards whatever it was and made eye contact.

There it was, a screen with her, HER, name on it. Her real name. It read… “Welcome, Marinette Dupain-Cheng! Thank you for opening “Special Route” - Damian Wayne - Hard Mode. You have been transported into the game for an interesting experience. Please Enjoy!” And below it, an option to open a… menu?

Notes: Heyo! Hope you liked the chapter. Not much to say, I’m a big procrastinator with too many things I’m doing. I do have goals to get a chapter of at least one fanfic done once a week, so maybe I’ll get a better schedule going. Thank you everyone for reading, it means a lot. Even to those who don’t interact, I know you’re there and thank you<3

Now for a for funsies poll

Taglist(Open): @khneltea @shadosakushi @jeminiikrystal @fangirlingfanatic @kking13 @when-no-wings-do-broomsticks @xxcalypso-phoenixheartxx (also, if you’d like to be taken off or was put on her accidentally, please tell me in the comments! I think everyone in here asked to be on here?)

#maribat #dc x mlb #mlb x dc #mlb x batman #villainess au #villainess marinette au #uh uh what else #idk #child Marinette #Isekai kinda #ANYWAYS HIIIIII #I HAD FREE TIME AND WANTED TO WRITE #PLEASE LEAVE COMMENTS OR REBLOG TAGS #I LOVE READING THEM #THEY MAKE MY DAY #YOU ALL MAKE MY DAY

[presdestigatto]

hello guys, could yall help me with something 👀

some context for non-tennis people under the cut!

grand slams are the most prestigious tennis tournaments (award the most points, most watched etc). winning a slam is a huge career accomplishment

The Aus Open (which just ended) and US Open are played on hard courts, which are basically what you first think of re: tennis court:

They’re both quite standard, the main difference is the location

Then you have the French Open or RG, which is played on clay:

When you’re playing on clay, you can slide around a lot, which looks very cool. Here you can see current world no1 and clay court queen Iga Swiatek sliding on clay:

You also get clay everywhere on yourself with this surface, and it’s really physically demanding to play on

And lastly Wimbledon. Grass courts:

The ball travels the fastest on grass, and the crowd is really posh, usually. It’s held in London and a ton of celebrities attend 🤷‍♀️ (This year Seb, Charles and Pierre were there). This and the other most important bit in the fic writing realm is that there’s an all white dress code, from cap to shoes to bag.

So! a tldr

AUS Open: Held in Melbourne. Crowd is cool, event is quite informal. Hard court which favours an aggressive style of play

RG: Held in Paris. Clay courts! You need to be able to move well and you’ll be really grimey at the end

Wimbledon: Held in London. Somewhat a formal event. All white attire is a must, and the courts are grass. You need to get to the ball fast.

US Open: Held in NYC. Rowdiest crowd, with hard courts like the AO.

#ruwrites ref #idw to tag rpf stuff w the charles tag so reblogs are v appreciated!! #idk if my explainer helps w anything at all but i hope the vibes are somewhat conveyed #if i got some things wrong sorry i hastily put it tgt #im leaning towards wimbledon because the white is cute/its in europe/fits w the prince of monaco vibe #++ u need to be speedy which charles is #but at the same time his adaptability and excellence on street tracks could be translated into competence on clay #in a uh #firmly metaphorical manner #lmk what you think or even vote for your fav major lol