#whos number one anymore

[fearlessoverwatch]

APAC doesn't make sense

#vicky talks #overwatch league #whos number one anymore

[see-arcane]

Having just finally listened to the new The Magnus Protocol and getting introduced to Needles the 'What Do You MEAN I'm Not Scary Enough!?' Avatar of Sharp Poking, I have to say right now that I know in my heart of hearts that he must have so many terrible nicknames among the other avatars

"Hey, Pinhead, how goes the phone spam?" <- stings because originally he chose 'Pinhead' on purpose to reference Hellraiser, but absolutely no one got it until he spelled it out and by then the name was ruined

"What's up, Prick?" <- lowest effort, but still goads him into raising a single massive darning needle middle finger in response

"Kebab, can you hold onto this for me?" <- said before having assorted foods speared on him; fruits, sausage, cheeses, etc. Takes forever to pluck everything off. Even worse when someone just ambushes him with a down comforter and pillows

"This you?" <- no name involved, but always a prelude before being shown a picture of a porcupine

Just. There is no way this faintly jingling pile of pointy things has any respect among the rest of the bogeymen in this universe. I love it

#I also know that he swapped to emergency services calls because 1) no one answers their phone anymore #2) unless they're a place of business and they'd immediately hang up one edgelord sentence in #3) the last resort before the emergency services was an absolute fluke of a wrong number #4) in which the bored office worker was a horror hound who 100% missed the context and assumed the caller was a horror podcaster #and just spent the whole call alternately role playing along or complimenting the sound effects or thanking him for sponging up the time #the magnus protocol #needles

[monarchisms]

i wanted to make a (slightly more) proper post to explain why rooster teeth decided to just leave their main twitter up as an archive, but the thing is: i don't know why they did that. almost nobody does!

they just edited their bio and dipped!

funhaus and dogbark's account bios updated to say the same thing, that they're still posting on instagram and tiktok, and the stinky dragon account made a proper tweet about it with the additional social media platforms they're on, but all of these accounts offer no information as to why they're now inactive on twitter. a guess i have is that it's a combination of their engagement numbers just naturally declining over time and the mountain of issues twitter has as a platform, especially after musk took over. however, these are just my personal speculations because rt seems so allergic to sharing anything with their audience lol

#i just Feel like these managers aren't talking with each other lmao #rooster teeth #roosterteeth #i personally found out through reddit #but that's not anything new anymore #when i'm a in a piss-poor communication contest and my opponent is rooster teeth: #[insert squidward shattering glass gif here] #also andrew (not panton. the other one) made a joke tweet 'mocking' #people who were shock that rt decide to dip despite the numbers being noticeably low #that tweet is not included bc because i simply think it's kinda Cringe

[hussyknee]

#you never had any intention of pushing the Dems left #you just don't want your lives upset by having to stand in solidarity with the people already losing everything under them #add one more and one more and one more to the number of people run over by the democratic trolley #until it's just you left #and you don't get to pull the lever anymore #martin niemöller who? #twitter #vote blue no matter who #genocide joe #fuck joe biden #shit liberals say #white supremacy #white queers #us politics #knee of huss #gaza genocide #free palestine

[a4lesbian]

It’s like i want to be the most important person in your life but I don’t want to kiss your lips or have sex with you

#i wouldn’t mind you dating someone else if you still shared a home with me and we lived together #you can kiss someone else if I’m the first one you tell big news #but I’m scared one day you will marry someone and move to live with them and your wife will be your number one person #but I’ll still support you because i want to see you happy #even if it means you’re not sharing your life with me anymore #queerplatonic attraction #i guess? #who knows? not me #alterous attraction #alterous yearning #qpr yearning #qpr #queerplatonic relationship #platonic attraction #aroace #oriented aroace #wlw

[pallanophblargh]

Had a bit of a “regression” this past week where I had stumbled upon and subsequently ripped open an old wound.

I’m always trying to shed my grudges, but their claws are sunk pretty deeply nonetheless. Between the gaslighting and the casual disregard, it’s hard to find any closure. I have to make my own.

I broke my carbon pencil 3 times, at which point I had to call it quits.

#personal art #vent art #grudge #self portrait #sketchbook #traditional media #carbon pencil #corvids for their memory of those who wronged them #it’s been 8 years and I still find myself furious #worst part is it’s a fellow artist I graduated with and whom everyone else likes #death by a thousand cuts #I want to heal but at this point I’m worried I never will #anyway don’t verbally or emotionally abuse people who thought you were their friend #I did absolutely nothing to deserve this treatment #when you’re the only one who knows someone is an asshole #and possibly a narcissist #this would be Hot Tea if I were in regular contact with a larger number of my fellow college graduates #not like it matters but this person is a better artist than I will ever be and that stings #even if I know art isn’t really my future anymore

[elenyafinwe]

AI bullshit stay the fuck out of ao3

We reached a point, where people unironically post AI genereated fanfics on ao3. ChatGBT was and is trained by exploiting the works of writers like us. It scrapes pages like ao3 for literary work to learn from it without the consent of the authors. (That’s why I locked all my works an ao3 to only logged in users.)

Fandom these days is not a friendly place anymore, where people come together and celebrate their favourite stories and characters by being creative. I wish it were and in the small circles I move it is. But here it is: Those are only small corners of a technically much wider community. But to be seen in this community, you need to churn out content and more content and more content. Especially us writers have it very hard in this enviornment. We can’t easily share vips like an artist can, writing is mostly done in solidarity. I can’t stream my progress on Twitch or any other platform. How boring would it be to watch me typing words into Word without saying a word, because I have to concentrate on what I’m writing? It often takes me day, weeks, months or even YEARS to complete even one single work and most people are even too lazy to click one button for a kudo.

Fanfics are one of the backbones of fandom and we writers are so utterly poorly treated. Artists beg for years now that you share their content, and they are absolutely right to do so! But when I post updates on my writing here, I don’t even get likes. Likes do nothing to bring my content to a wider audience.

Fanwork is done out of a passion, and shared because we want to share this passion with someone else. Is has no value, if no one interacts with it. Write for yourself is bullshit. Yes, I do create the content I myself want to see. But if that would be my only motivation there is no need to share it online, to go over it dozens of times to polish it to the best of my abilities and spend dozens if not hundrets of hours upon it, to create it out of nothing.

Fanfics have it much harder than fanart due to the nature of the craft. It takes only moments to look upon a fanart, but hours, even days to read a fanfic. Not everyone is willig to invest so much time into something. So I understand, where it comes from, than fanfics don’t get that much interaction than fanart. Doesn’t say I appreciate it. But a total lack of interaction is utterly discouraging.

To stay on top of a timeline, you need to put out content regularly. For some reason I was obsessed enough to be able to post rather regularly over the past two, almost three years. But even one chapter per week or one every two weeks apparently is not fast enough for some, despite this being an utterly crazy schedule.

Because those now go to chatgpt and tell this monstrous thing “hey, write my fanfic. I just click a few buttons and then c&p that shit into ao3 and call it a day.”

Writing is about creativity, about sharing a passion, about telling a story. Art is inherently a human trait. What value has it, if some machine does it for us and apparently is very bad at it? You stole our works and now you even steal our passion just for some fast clicks on tiktok or whatever.

Honestly, the only time where I think a mean comment ist justified on ao3 is when you encounter any AI written bullshit. Roast them, roast them to hell. May you stup your toe every morning and may your sleeves slip down every time you wash your hands, you soggy toasts.

AI bullshit is utterly missing the whole point of fanfic and it steals from us writers in every possible way. It steals our works, it steals our place in fandom, it steals our audience.

AI kills creativity. Stop stealing from us.

#fanfiction #fanfic #fanfic writing #writing #ai #chatgbt #fandom #fandom meta #ao3 #archive of our own #this whole development has honestly killed my motivation for writing #even working on uts is not so much fun anymore #i have literally two people who still interact with the story #(gives hand in marriage to those two) #you know who you are <3 #but I still see the clicks going up #and since the story is locked those clicks are all humans #the numbers are good #lots of clicks and bookmarks and even more subscriptions #but no one cares about even leaving a kudo #don't look at the numbers bla bla #no I don't but I look at the interactions and those are almost 100% missing #why am I doing this anyway if I just could tell some stupid ai to tell my story for me? #ugh #i'm utterly frustrated by this and how poorly fandom treats writers #we keep fandom alive and that's how you thank us? #wow #thankos for nothing #fuck ai #now you even steal from us and happily contribute to our exploitation

[bratprivilege]

I am like literally begging the Internet to write image descriptions at this point

#sometimes I swear when a fandom gets an ID blog the individuals who had been writing their own just stop #just assuming the ID blog will pick up the slack so they don’t really need to worry about it anymore #how many times do we have to say an ID on the original post is 1 million times better #than going dumpster diving in the notes of every single mystery image on the dash with little to no context #hoping for the off chance that somebody somewhere has actually written one in a reblog #I see descriptions way more often than I did 10 years ago but still not nearly often enough #and I feel like the number of descriptions I see on my own dash has dropped significantly while I was gone #during those several months where I straight up couldn’t use Tumblr because they broke any excuse for accessibility on the app #don’t know if people just went ‘hey that one blind person I know is gone so I probably don’t need to bother with this anymore’ or what #but my dash is once again flooded with images that mean nothing to me and I seriously need to do a big unfollowing

[moe-broey]

HEARTBREAKING

Worst Dad You Know Has an Extremely Endearing (Now) Reoccurring Character Trait

For further context: this whole FB involved Sharena and Henriette seeking out lockpickers in the Order of Heroes to open this VERY SECURELY locked box from Gustav's room that took Tina's special staff to finally crack open (or rather -- "steal" the contents out of. No one could actually break the lock!)

And the first instance of this!

It makes me wonder if he saved anything related to Sharena..........

#fire emblem #feh #man. henriette's sad portrait w 'yes. he must have' carries so much bittersweet grief. augh #when it comes to sharena idk if i would be more angry if he did save something or if he didn't. i'm almost leaning towards the first though #like. idk if i can even word it but it fucking sucks when you have family that 'loves' you and they do actually genuinely love you #but they just. do it wrong. and fail you severely in the process. you think to yourself it would have been easier actually #if they had simply never loved you at all. or if they were upfront and told you they don't love you anymore. #at least then you can be as vindictive as you want and hold a grudge forever and be completely justified #but extremely begrudgingly this DOES make gustav a compelling character. in so many ways #you can see where it all went wrong. you can see henriette sees something in him that no one else can. and she's not crazy for it #she was probably there. she probably saw it all happen. she knows him w a level of intimacy no one else does. #and now you see these little humanizing traits. he loved his son. he loved his partner and wife. #juries still out on his daughter. #but you get what i'm saying right? it's terribly tragic. it's painful. #man. #i'm still gustav's number one hater though. just so we're clear. #AUGH IT'S JUST. THE PLAYFULNESS OF IT. IS ACTUALLY SO PAINFUL. LOOKING AT EVERYTHING WE KNOW #they had a rock competition........ to find the roundest rock.......... and she won....... and he saved the rock she found...... #THAT'S. AAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #you cannot fucking IMAGINE gustav doing that. and yet. in another time. he did. and that's who henriette fell in love with #and that's who herniette still sees. and she's not fucking wrong for it. not entirely. he still has that fucking rock. #dude i'm gonna be sick. #fe gustav #fe henriette #sharena #fe tina #fe alfonse #he's. mentioned. might as well tag him LMFAO

[frecklystars]

#vent art #first time drawing starscream in uhhh. hot. hot fucking minute there #i was shaky the entire time but drawing plankton helped a lot. plankton is safe #theyre both my number one main f/os. and idk i feel like... if you're starscream and if ur wife looks at u #and her ptsd is suddenly triggered. well. now she cant look at u anymore. that cant feel good can it #who else knows her and loves her like you do? some loud human-ish lifeform with a long ponytail #he sees you hurting. he sits in that grass with you. and you let him. bc he knows what it's like to miss her too #she doesn't fear him. but she doesn't see him as often. and he misses her terribly just like you do. #just as much as you miss her. even if it's a different kind of yearning. and he's hurting now too on her behalf #and you bond with this. this. pathetic lifeform. and youve become this. this. this... pathetic. pathetic! broken thing! #you know she'll come back you know she'll come back you KNOW IT #because doesn't she find you in every universe? and didn't you make promises? and doesn't she always keep them? #but maybe this universe is too broken and maybe she's too broken. maybe she *can't* come back #she's trying. you know she's trying. you FEEL it. what are you supposed to do in the meantime #you're starscream. you're lord starscream and you're lonely and your starflower can't fucking look at you #to no fault of hers and to no fault of yours. it's just what happened. you're in shock. and you're hurting. #this love still isn't temporary. and you still can't imagine your life without her. #and you wish you could obliterate whoever made her feel so fucking scared of you #fuck the person who dared to hurt that one good thing you ever had #you arent a religious mech but you pray and beg to primus your starflower comes back #because you dont know what youll do if she never does #and frankly. she doesn't either. you were her favorite weren't you? and suddenly you're something feared #you've always wanted to be feared but NEVER by her. she is the last person you'd ever want to be feared by #doesn't she miss your voice? haven't you told her with your own vocalizer how much you love and miss her? why doesn't she hear you anymore? #you don't know it but she is terrified of losing you. but she isn't here to tell you that. is she. #it's just you and this stupid nicely dressed copepod who wants to dominate the fast food industry #while your little starflower is laying in a pink bed in a pink land with pink people. and she's crying over you #throwing herself at universes with brooding men with soft voices. but none of them are ever going to feel as good as you made her feel #she misses you but you don't know it because she. can't. even. fucking. look. at. you. #what do you do. what do you do. do you come back? please come back. this ache in your chest is too fucking much. come. back.

[mmikmmik2]

Even though it aired ages ago I'm still not over Yesterday's Lie being such a buck wild episode. Just imagine what it's like for Vee to have never met Luz, to have barely even seen Luz, and then suddenly to live within the negative space around Luz's existence. Hearing this stranger's name constantly, seeing her picture in every room of the house, haunting her room like a ghost, learning every intimate detail of how her mother talks to her and dotes on her when it's just the two of them, and trying to square it with the secret knowledge that Luz abandoned this life and no matter how long Vee waits on tenterhooks Luz keeps not coming back. Looking in the mirror every single day and meeting Luz's eyes and thinking "how dare you" and "please don't ever come home."

Eventually, she finally starts feeling like this could be permanent. She tries to change her style, make this face and body and life into something that's hers instead of a stranger's. This is her best possible outcome and the closest she can come to being loved for who she is - stealing Luz's life and identity, but remaking it how she likes. The idea of being cared about and accepted as basilisk number five, as Vee, is something she can't consciously want because she can't even imagine it as a possibility. (Really, she even likes getting to pretend not to be a basilisk - fourteen years of trauma who? She's an ordinary teenager with nothing to unpack.) She tries to destroy her guilt by destroying every reminder of Luz - everything that's undeniably Luz's, that she can't steal and make her own, has to go. (The way she pauses at the picture of Luz as a child, before sweeping it into the trash box with everything else. Ice cold.)

And like some divine punishment or cosmic joke, Luz immediately returns. Vee looks into the mirror and sees a stranger again, and this time it's literal.

#the owl house #the first time vee looked in that closet mirror and saw herself as a basilisk in that room she must have felt like 50 different emotions #i think this is why vee sticks with 'vee' as a name and has that 5 ball charm on her phone #like it's the idea that the person who was locked up in a lab w/ a number instead of a name is the same person living her life #remembering that helps remind her that she doesn't have to hide or disguise herself anymore to have a family and be loved and safe #at least not at home or in front of her loved ones #'I can pretend as long as I want'/'but that's not what you want is it' applies to like. so many different characters. #vee noceda

[shadowusagiart]

Happy Holidays, V~! - J.A.

#misfit draws #judy alvarez #cyberpunk 2077 #oekaki #indulgent art of my favorite fictional lesbian and number 1 comfort character!!!!!!!!!! #i love and relate to her so fukin much that it's hard to draw her and be happy with it but i had to finish this one SDJFDJDF #me: i will not draw big pieces on the oekaki anymore because i promise to love myself #also me: draws big pieces on the oekaki #if Sai 2 had a brush like this i would be unstoppable in my quest to draw more fanart since its so crunchy and fun we love square brushes #anyways happy holidays to the cyberpunk 2077 fandom esp to those who respect judy alvarez

[system-architect]

thinking about the mlm and transmasc rep situation again and i think the thing that gets me about it is how exceedingly easy and completely inconsequential it would be for a single writer to just sprinkle in a bit of rep. like a bulk of the queer rep we already have is via random npc dialogue out in city maps or festivals or something and is not even voice acted. you literally have to change NOTHING and dont even need to pay for extra voice lines to just change a single pronoun or word in some npc's pop-up text from "girlfriend" to "boyfriend". this is not a replacement for centered, featured representation with actually memorable chararacters played by queer actors or so on, but it'd be SOMETHING and it's amazing in a sad way that we have like actually nothing right now

#my stuff #sorry this is one of the very few gw2 things i still start getting a little tilted about #they should make chul-moo gay i think. #he has kind of a Quality to him #edit: forgot my train of thought hang on #i forgot to say that part of why this would be so easy is that its how this happened in the past #sya was added to the game by a dev named teddy who im unsure if she still works at anet anymore #(im unsure if she still goes by teddy but thats what i remember her by so) #teddy herself is a trans woman and wrote in sya when she was assigned to add npcs to the new lions arch #teddy worked on a number of areas of the game over the years and she was ALSO responsible for the onscreen kasjory kiss #(and also for making raids work. which isnt lgbt but like good for her) #so it was this one dev who was trans and iirc gay? maybe? who took it upon herself to add the rep she wanted to see #which is so fantastic and i just wish like #that we could get More Of That #its possible that anet doesnt have mlm or transmasc writers atm but i feel Doubt about that #i think a lot of it has to do with games still being a 'boys space' and making mlm rep a hard sell #its sad

[coquelicoq]

real-life adulting, man. i'm still my ex's emergency contact 6.5 years after we broke up and he just gave me his new girlfriend's phone number so that i can contact her if something happens to him. this is in lieu of making her his emergency contact, which may seem like it would make more sense, except that he hasn't told his parents about her. so i get to be the emergency contact who then would contact both the girlfriend and the parents. this all makes total sense to me despite the fact that i don't even live in his city. it's whatever! we've known each other a long time!!

#he could make her his emergency contact and give her my number and i could then call his parents #but he's only known her for two months so honestly this makes more sense to me despite the fact that if there were an emergency #the only one who could go to where he was at all quickly would be the new girlfriend #(his parents live on the other side of the country and i live several hours away) #also i have met his girlfriend. this would probably be weird if i hadn't met her but i have so it seems fine #also i'm a child of divorce so the whole 'not telling some people about other people' thing is completely normal to me #i've already got it planned out. i would call her and she would go to the hospital or whatever right away. i'd call the parents #and by the time they could get there i would already be there. then i could run interference in person #and i would do this for him happily because i 100% understand why he hasn't told his parents about her #it's too late for me. they already know me. and they know i'm not with him anymore. so i can take it #if they stay together at some point he will have to tell them about her and i assume at that point he'll switch the emergency contact #but it's still early so this makes total sense in the meantime

[iceeericeee]

I wonder how many tags i can add on to this

#there must be SOME kind of a limit otherwise posts would get suuuuuuper duper long like is it just 30? #idk but i'm going to find out by simply maxxing out the character limit for each tag and finding out the limit of tags for each post lololo #this is gonna be great. i just have to remember to type without ever using the comma. it shouldn't be too hard right? fuck i almost typed #the comma i'm already bad at this smh my head. also if your still here i commend you. you have a better attention span than i do. #i'm already starting to get bored holy shit this is not happening. i gotta power through this. FOR SCIENCEEEEEEEEEE. or somethinggggggggggg #but fr idk what else to say. maybe just saying that i don't know what to say will be good enough? but does that even count? #I don't even know anymore. ffffffffuck. this is gonna be a while huh? also holy shit if you're still here omg u deserve like. a prize or #something because u definitely didn't have to stay and read all of this bull shit. lololol i typed out bs but decided to just spell the who #thing out just to make it go by faster. i'm so lazy. this is only the nineth tag HOW will i make it to 30. i am sobbing the adhd is adhding #very hard rn. are you still here? bruh this is insane. i have somehow managed to keep ur attention this long and it's just me spouting #absolute balderdash. wait do you know what balderdash even means? i don't care if you do already i'm gonna tell you anyway. balderdash is #basically just another word for nonsense. boom. you learned something new today. balderdash equals nonsense equals this damn post. #why did i decide to do this in the first place. it was a dumb idea. i don't know if i can even keep going. this is only the *counts tags* #it's the 14th tag. we've got a long way to go boys. men. soldiers. comrads. friends. besties peeps. marshmallows. #where was i going with this? oh yeah. trying to max out the limit for tags. dang i almost typed a comma there. i haven't done that since #i think the third or fourth tag. dang that feels like such a long time ago. not for you guys probably. it feels longer because i have to li #type it all out and stuff. so it's definitely gonna feel longer for me. are you still here? good lord don't you have better things to #be doing than reading all of this? we're already on tag number 18. it feels like i should be on the thirtyeth by now. or however it's spell #'toast' you might be wondering 'why are you typing out the names of the numbers instead of say '9' or '5'?' well you see. young one. #this is a strategy i'm using to make each tag slightly longer. even if i don't know how to spell it. it'll make it just a little bit longer #anyway. i got off topic. not that there was ever a topic to begin with. unless it's about making this as long as i can. #which i am apparently good at doing. i guess. are you STILL here? do you seriously have nothing to do? i guess i'm flattered you stayed thi #whole time. instead of reading something else you stayed here. with me. listening to me talk. on the twenty-third tag. oh yeah its tag 23 #except now it's tag twenty-four. how crazy is that. this little talk is almost over. only 6 tags away if memory serves right. this's strang #i kind of don't want this to end. but i know it should. after all there is a limit. but all things must come to and end at some point i gue #i'm running out of things to say. it's probably a good thing it's almost over. hahahahah............... but i don't want to go. i don't wan #to leave this post. i've worked so hard on it. and for what. just for it to end. are you still here? yes? good. i'd hate to end this alone. #thank you for indulging me and my craziness. the end is only 2 tags away now. you can go ahead and leave. i'll be okay on my own. really... #...you're still here? i- i don't know what to say. i suppose a toast is in order. perhaps. for this journey. this stupid dumb post i though #would be fun. i'll make it short. it's the last tag after all. this was fun. but i will never do it again. so long as a i live. i'll miss y

[rodrickheffley]

i desperately need friends but am incapable of making any

#my one friend is my sibling which im very grateful for but im not like talking to them abt my sex life. my only other 'friend' is the guy i #have sex with and we never like. talk. beyond like small talk. and i dont really care to engage more with him we just arent compatible #in that way. i think my issue is that i am surrounded by ppl who bug me (which. is a lot to due with how im 25 and uni is my number one #place where im interacting with ppl) and whenever i encounter anyone i think is cool my self hatred stops me from trying #but im incredibly lonely and have been for years. and ive never like. ive never had a friend my whole life who i felt comfortable talking t #abt my sex life/romantic life bc idk childhood repression and self disgust and just internalizing the idea that no one wants to hear abt it #ever and i would be making everyone extremely uncomfortable and i also have this feeling that everyone would just be like um you are so #gross i dont even want to think abt you feeling desire in any way. #so ive never. discussed these things with anyone in any detail. ever. and i think thats been damaging #which the disgust thing is funny cuz i really dont feel gross like that anymore i think im hot and desirable. but that feeling wrt talking #abt it is still very strong. #its been that way since early childhood i never talked abt my crushes ever