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thenickgirl · 3 days
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bsf!nick x blackgirl!reader (part two)
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okay so some of y’all were wanting more, and i was happy to oblige. still just winging this shit btw 💕
inspired by own unhealthy delusions 😘✌🏾
part one
warnings: cursing
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justy/n: i let chris dress me
liked by nicolassturniolo
christophersturniolo: W move
-> justy/n: real, i’m obsessed with these pants kid
nicolassturniolo: yessss bestie bae
matthew.sturniolo: L fit, i would’ve done better
-> justy/n: alexa play jealousy jealousy
luverboychris: 🫳 gimmie the fit
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nicolassturniolo: bathroom mirror kinda cool idk
liked by justy/n
christophersturniolo: bro there’s so much going on
justy/n: ARF ARF ARF 😍
-> nicolassturniolo: LMAOAOA you’re actually insane 💗
matthew.sturniolo: chicken strips
-> nicolassturniolo: what 😭
-> matthew.sturniolo: i didn’t know what to say
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justy/n: tfw your bestie filmed with your favorite youtubers and didn’t invite you #blocked
liked by nicolassturniolo
nicolassturniolo: cause i knew you were busy!!!
nicolassturniolo: unblock me hoe!!
-> justy/n: NO
christophersturniolo: i wanted to tell you, but they wouldn’t let me!
-> justy/n: chris, you’re my only friend, now give sam my number 😈
-> christophersturniolo: bet!
-> matthew.sturniolo: CHRIS! 😨
muwapsturniolo: YOU WATCH SAM AND COLBY??
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nicolassturniolo: i’m the burger bot 🤖
liked by justy/n
justy/n: it’s the way you didn’t offer me any..
-> nicolassturniolo: i’ll buy you as many burgers as you want
-> justy/n: forgiven 🫱🏾‍🫲🏼
guccifrog: yes but was the burger good?
matthew.sturniolo: burger bot is stupid
-> nicolassturniolo: your mom!
-> christophersturniolo: WE HAVE THE SAME MOM!!!
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nicolassturniolo: 🕶️
liked by justy/n
justy/n: WHAT SHDFHCJFNCM
justy/n: can someone help me off this floor? 😍❤️‍🔥
-> nicolassturniolo: STOP ILY
matthew.sturniolo: 🔥
christophersturniolo: bro killed it
justy/n: hi i’m back again 🧍🏾‍♀️
-> nicolassturniolo: 😭 bitch i love you!
nickuniversity: it’s a good day to be a nick girl
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justy/n: nothing felt cute might delete later
liked by nicolassturniolo
mattslolita: so pretty wtf 😍
christophersturniolo: can i raid your fridge?
-> justy/n: chris wtf 😭
nicolassturniolo: so absolutely gorgeous i can’t 😍
matthew.sturniolo: i already screenshot it
-> justy/n: what?
-> matthew.sturniolo: huh?
-> christophersturniolo: what?
-> nicolassturniolo: WHAT THE FUCK?
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tagsss: @muwapsturniolo @guccifrog @luverboychris @mattslolita @demistyles @matty-bear @ohmtoff @nicksmainbitch @patscorner @soursturniolo @sturnioloshacker @freshloveforthefit @angelcake-222 @a13ssandr4 @sukiipjs
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update on the good omens grieving process
Hello hi yes maggots your mascot sacrificial goat here, none of your ominous bloody warnings prepared me for this. On the advice of one of you I took a break from tumblr today so I thought ah, yes, I shall not think about Good Omens during this time. Hahahaha bet. This is a long post, about a series of disturbing good omens moments that haunted me anyway. Proceed with caution.
It was nine hours away, out of which I slept through four.
During the first nap, it became clear how tumblr brainwashed me. You'll never guess what I dreamed of. If you said Good Omens the answer is no.
I dreamed that someone on the television was reading out an audiobook of a nature arts and crafts book I had as a kid. And there were six pages dedicated to praising Neil Gaiman.
So then in the dream I wrote a tumblr post about it saying, "I thought y'all were kidding about the whole Neil being in our falafel thing but goddamn he really is everywhere".
Then, still in the dream, I remembered I wasn't supposed to be on tumblr, so I tried to delete the Neil Gaiman falafel post. Instead tumblr fucking glitched and set the post to 'lo-fi mode'. I kept trying to delete it.
At this point my screen was covered with pop-ups of tumblr yelling at me and a goddamn timer counting down from 41,000 minutes. Tumblr informed me that their 'delete post' function is actually run by BitCoin.
Currently due to their skeleton staff and the fact that this hellsite is held together with washi-tape and queer trauma, they were having negotiations with BitCoin and so I could not delete my post. I tried again anyway and the entire site hung. Then I woke up. This is some @one-time-i-dreamt shit.
The only social interactions I had were with the two irl good omens fans I know, whom I informed that I had finished Good Omens.
One of them sent me an audio clip of him screeching about trauma and six months and children of divorce at the top of his voice.
The other one texted ASMIIII YOU'RE A CHILD OF DIVORCE HOW ARE YOU COPING WITH THE PAIN. Two hours into my tumblr break I was already facing withdrawal and I wanted to sob that's what the maggots call me but that would have led to them saying BECAUSE THAT'S YOUR FUCKING NAME and I didn't wanna descend there yet.
I then went on Amazon and tracked my good omens book package like a creep. I then went on the US Amazon to cry over all the Good Omens merch that I cannot buy and isn't available here.
I then went on Pinterest to look at Good Omens tumblr screenshots. It was all going well until I found a stupid fucking post that said the duration of the song playing in the Bentley during the final fifteen and the duration of the kiss are the same. So he was replaying the kiss in his head before stopping the music.
Naturally, this then made me cry over Crowley. Painfully.
I looked up Good Omens ambiences on Youtube and cleaned a whole half of my desk while an Aziraphale's bookshop ambience played with rain and shit and when the lockdown audio came I smiled again.
And now here I am. Back. In pain.
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genericpuff · 5 months
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The Mishandling of LO’s S3 Mi(n)season Hiatus - Part 3 1/2
Here we go, Part 3 of my analysis of the current FP episodes - a three-parter episode set leading up to the midseason finale of LO.
Part 1
Part 2
Truth is, I had actually forgotten a lot of the weird (and very stupid) shit that happened in this episode, that I thought Episodes 251 and 252 had already offered up the worst that this three parter set could dish out. Boy, was I wrong, because when I went back to check out Episode 253, I was reminded of a reality that my brain had wiped out in an attempt to protect my withering psyche-
I also forgot just how long this episode is. It's so long that I frankly can't even fit it all into this post, so this is gonna be part 3 1/2.
Anyways, let's just get on with it. This is the final stop on our trip into absolute nonsense.
CAUTION: THIS IS PART 3 OF A 3 PART SERIES IN WHICH I WILL BE SPOILING MUCH OF EPISODES 251-253. THIS WILL BE A LONG POST. BRACE YOURSELF.
Well, it's the midseason finale, and what better way to open it up than with the final title card-
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Typo and all. It wouldn't be an LO episode without one. Granted, IIRC this typo has been edited out, but the version of the screenshots I have from it feature it in all its original unedited glory. So enjoy that.
And yes, just like the last two times, the title itself only applies to the final cliffhanger, which is an absolute doozy especially for those who were there to experience it in real time.
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This is already a bit of a wild opening compared to the last two episodes, but it's quickly revealed that this is laying the foundation for the prophecy that Psyche gave to Apollo back in Episode 252. In true LO fashion, the story can't actually be linear in any regard, we're always segmented from pieces of information at a time. Loyal fans will call this a "writing style", I call it Rachel just trying to get another 70 cents out of me.
That said, I will say the art here is fairly decent, but I think that just goes to show that LO's one of worst features these days - ironically enough - is its coloring. What began as its strongest feature has now become one of its biggest weaknesses due to the sheer laziness in its rendering and the colors become more and more saturated into the grotesque over time. So at this point, you pretty much have to rob these characters of their colors to make them look decent, and of course at that point it just further highlights Rachel's same-face problems. She definitely tried to make them look distinguishable here, at least, with Hestia and Poseidon being the most unique.
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Now, this isn't the first time that we've heard of this herb being referenced - it was stated by Hades that Hera was the one to originally poison Kronos with the herb after gaining his trust - but to see it suddenly just pop up and play a role again out of nowhere already gives me a bad feeling in my stomach. It feels like yet another plot device - especially when presented in this type of format - that Rachel is suddenly using to try and seem "unique" in her writing, much like the strange narration we got back during the "Run For Your Life" sequence. It's just once again LO lacking any specific identity, it's always trying to be a million other things at once.
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I will say, much of this in and of itself is panel filler. Why? Because the location of the herb doesn't matter. You'll see what I mean in a moment, but the mentioning of Anthedon plays no role here, it's just yet another obligatory "see, I know how to Google things!" lip service moment from Rachel "self-proclaimed folklorist" Smythe.
Anyways, Eros is perplexed by this but Psyche immediately catches on, knowing right away that Apollo is going for Zeus. And this is where we get yet another one of the dumbest sequences in this comic.
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(see what I mean that the location of the herb doesn't matter? Because Apollo already got it and laced it into the cupcake).
Now, first of all, the fact that Eros and Psyche believe Kassandra's prophecy is already hilarious in and of itself, because ... well, because it literally defeats the point of her establishing it as a curse in the previous episode. Unless it only works on mortals? It never stated as such, so we literally just have to go with it and pretend not to notice that.
But most of all, of course LO had to play this off as some joke. Like, "hahaha how awkward! I've already eaten the cupcake!" and he still doesn't seem to really be in shock. Zeus has seen what this herb has done to gods before him, and yet his reaction to this is akin to a dad getting upset that he stepped LEGO's that he asked his kid 20 times to pick up off the floor. The whole "record scratch" style formatting of this followed by Zeus' lack of reaction just really makes me not care about any of this, because clearly the story doesn't care either.
But we don't see who he makes these calls to because the comic, of course, can't spend any longer than 10 panels on a single scene, so we cut to Hades and Persephone.
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Again, I don't know what the point was of having Hera relay this information to Persephone for her to relay to Hades, aside from the fact that Rachel needed to act smart with Therapy Speak that didn't even apply to Hera's situation (as we talked about in the last part). They gotta make Persephone the center of everyone's world though, so it's Persephone who's delivering this info and trying to come up with the solution.
Hades, though, wants to focus on his wife's birthday the commemoration of spring.
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SIR. THE WOMAN YOU WERE IN AN AFFAIR WITH SINCE BEFORE YOUR WIFE WAS BORN IS CURRENTLY GRAPPLING WITH YOUR FATHER WHO ABUSED HER AND IS NOW HAUNTING HER. THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR FLUFFY ROMANCE TIME. THERE IS A CHILD BEING HELD CAPTIVE IN TARTARUS AND LITERALLY NO ONE SEEMS TO CARE.
Anyways, apparently (for some reason) Hades is the one who has to go meet Demeter out front. Even though Hades has literally NOTHING to do with this ceremony, it's not his domain, but Persephone literally says "yep, that's correct" when he asks if he needs to go out to meet Demeter.
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This just feels like such a pointless conversation and I don't get what the point of this exact exchange is. Again, this isn't Hades' domain, so I don't see why he needs to be the one to go meet with Demeter.
But then, of course, to make matters worse, this man has the absolute audacity to pretend like he's never done anything wrong to Demeter. As if she should be obligated to be cool with sharing a bench with this man who literally terrorized her for years and then essentially groomed her daughter.
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I hate him so fucking much and I can't believe we're supposed to be rooting for him. He has not undergone ANY of the character development necessary for me to want to care about him.
Anyways, Hades has a seat with Demeter, and the conversation is very brief before Hades says that he has a gift for her. And what is it, exactly?
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Oh great, Hades. Sure wish you would have had this consideration hundreds of years ago. I fail to see what good this does for her now because it doesn't change the fact that he still cost her the role of Queen of the Mortal Realm and treated her like shit for hundreds of years. This comes across as such a shallow and empty "apology" because it's barely even a "gift", rather something she was OWED back then that he didn't want to hand over for his own selfish reasons. He still comes out the winner here because he's gotten to spend thousands of years being a rich slave-driving oligarch while Demeter has had to maintain the Mortal Realm on her own even without the glory of having a title.
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I especially detest this "twist" because it's less of a twist and Rachel finally accepting the fact she couldn't come up with anything better than what her fans had to come up with for her. If this had been the fact the whole time, we would have seen it established back when we first got those flashbacks showing Hades being a total prick to her over the volcanoes. Instead, Rachel dragged it out for weeks and weeks until finally dumping this "twist" that her fans had been talking about all that time. This is yet another one of those "Rachel used her fanbase to come up with her ideas" moments. I know that that seems a little mean and presumptuous, but the fact of the matter is that the writing in this story is such an absolute mess that you just know Rachel's writing by the seat of her pants and has to rely on her audience's headcanons to actually fill in the gaps of her story. Most of the time when people commend her for the "great storytelling" in LO, what they're referring to are things they came up with entirely on their own because of how easy it is to just make assumptions about LO's storyline. Rachel benefits off the story being as vague as possible because then her fanbase will fill in the gaps with their own assumptions and give her all the credit for an idea they came up with.
By the way, to the "self-proclaimed folklorist" who wrote this, the volcanoes were really just entrances into the Underworld. Hades did not own them. They were owned by Hephaestus. And I would argue that the volcanoes were only seen as "entrances" into the Underworld because, fun fact - if you jump into a volcano, you die!
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Hades frames his reasoning as feeling like Demeter was pushing him out of the Mortal Realm, but this makes no sense because none of that is on her. He claims that he felt like an "outsider" but the reality is that he made himself that way. He resigned himself to being King of the Underworld, he ate the pomegranate and made the deal with Erebus, and even he stated that he could still actually leave the Underworld, just not for long periods of time. So he was the only one keeping himself away from the Mortal Realm, not Demeter. We even see that in the VHS tape flashbacks where Hades stumbles onto Demeter's property and she lets him sleep it off in her home. So this whole sob story about how he felt "pushed out" by Demeter is such a bad take from someone who's routinely known to make himself out to be the victim. Because Hades can't have an actual reputation for a reason, no, this is a "retelling" told by someone who got all their Greek myth info off Tumblr circa 2016 and the front page of Google, so Hades has to be the misunderstood uwu sad underdog. Even though he routinely does things that reinforce the reputation he has within the comic, like being a slave driver, abusing lower class nymphs, and grooming teenagers.
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Minthe showing up for a split second in the background is the best this comic has been since S2. We stan our girl Minthe, fucking run girl, do what Persephone couldn't do. She's the real hero of this story (。・∀・)ノ゙
And honestly, I'm sorry, but Demeter really SHOULDN'T be taking the high ground on this. She has more than enough reason to be upset. For a comic that tries to celebrate feminism and holding abusive men accountable, it sure is willing to make the women - often victims of the men - the real villains who have to "do better". Except for Persephone of course. Persephone is married into the system now, she doesn't have to "do better", she's a "boss babe" for being abusive and petty and undeserving of her status because she's the self-insert Y/N character.
So the ceremony for commencing Spring begins. I gotta say, for the final major scene of the mi(n)season finale, the art is severely underwhelming. You can really tell the difference between S3 and S1 art here, there's barely anything extra done to make this scene even half as impactful as the most basic of scenes from S1.
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Like, it's fine, but it still feels so half-baked and rushed to attempt to replicate the kind of art that's been gone from the series for years now. The full sequence itself is actually quite lengthy, with a lot of nymph hands just moving around and playing instruments, but it's about as bland as any other panel, so it makes the sequence itself feel dragged out and boring.
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This is about as pretty as the sequence gets and it's still not even as good as the original Dread Queen transformation. There's barely any rendering in the skin, and they couldn't even be bothered to make the hands look normal. It's like it's trying so hard to be "original LO" but is fundamentally missing the point of what made the original LO so captivating.
But oh noooo, looks like Persephone did a bad!
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Are they actually gonna give her some kind of flaw? Are we gonna FINALLY gonna find out what she traded to Erebus?
No. We're just gonna make her the cause of winter.
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Spaghettios.
And that's where I'm leaving this review for now because, as mentioned in the beginning, this episode is a LOT longer than I remember it being. There's still a whole ass segment with Apollo that we need to cover and I don't want to leave it out but I also don't want to do it entirely in text format and I've hit that pesky image limit. So I'll be posting that second part as soon as I can!
That said, I really can't stand this "subversion" by making Persephone the reason for winter.
First of all, because this is a common problem in a lot of H x P "retellings", as many of them fundamentally miss the point of why Persephone is the "Goddess of Spring".
Persephone was not born the "Goddess of Spring". She was born Kore (Κόρη), a maiden born from Demeter. It wasn't until after she was taken by Hades that Demeter, in her grief, took away the harvest and created winter. It was the return of Persephone every six months that brought about the spring, hence, she earned the name, "Goddess of Spring". What these retellings COMPLETELY MISUNDERSTAND is that the gods aren't 'born' with their titles, they're granted these titles by the mortals who comprehend them and write of them as harbingers of their respective elements, stories, and messages. Zeus wasn't "born" the God of the Sky and Heavens, he was granted that title after he overthrew Kronos and took the Heavens for himself. Hades wasn't "born" the God of the Underworld and the Dead, he was granted that title after he became the ruler of the domain of death.
Where these retellings really fuck up is constantly trying to "subvert" the H x P myth in an attempt to romanticize it, thus undoing the point of why Persephone is called "The Goddess of Spring". A Touch of Darkness also made this mistake by putting a "twist" on Persephone's character by having her start out as someone who couldn't make things grow. But if she sucks at making things grow, then why is she still referred to as The Goddess of Spring? In LO, Hades is referred to as "Grandpa Winter" and the seasons already seem to exist as we saw in this episode through the ceremony, so why has she been called "The Goddess of Spring" this whole time?
But I also can't stand this "subversion" because it fundamentally misunderstands the very myth it's trying to "retell". By giving Persephone the "curse" of creating winter, it further robs Demeter of her own agency in this story, more than it already has. It wasn't enough to make Demeter a helicopter mom, it wasn't enough to drive an actual rift between her and her daughter, they had to take away Demeter's entire role in the story and the creation of the seasons and give it to Persephone.
And this is, surprisingly enough, NOT the first time the comic has done this. There are many traits associated with different gods that have been given to Persephone and Hades. The volcanoes belong to Hades rather than Hephaestus, Persephone is "more beautiful than Aphrodite", Thanatos' and Psyche's butterfly symbolism is given to both Hades and Persephone, Aphrodite's symbolism of roses is given to Persephone, the list goes on. Every single plotline has to involve Persephone as the hero, and every single attribute that's commonly associated with other gods has to be granted to H x P in some way to make them better and more interesting than every other cast member in the comic, and yet they still come across as vapid and boring protagonists with nothing to show for themselves.
So to give the ONE thing from the source material that made LO what it is, it comes across as so unbearably cruel.
But then again, we should have seen this coming. After all, Rachel does not cite this as a retelling of The Hymn to Demeter. She simply refers to it as its more unofficial name: The Taking of Persephone.
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Look, I get it, the story is meant to be told from Persephone's POV (or at least through the lens of her being the main character) so I can understand why Rachel may have chosen to reword this to make it more clear. But it's really depressing that she went to such an extent with making it about Persephone that she had to rob one of the most integral character of her moment and retribution. Especially when one of the only books in her cited "research" that's primarily about Persephone is, shocked, The Hymn to Demeter, which is listed at the very bottom of every "research" list you can find in LO's history.
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LO should have just stayed as self-indulgent fluff. This isn't "subversion", this isn't a "twist", it's just yet another item on the list of making Persephone the most Important One of all. Even when it attempts to be a 'flaw', it fails tremendously by acting as yet another aspect of her being a Mary Sue, because her 'flaw' has come at the cost of another character's story, identity, and strengths. What was originally a tale of grief, retribution, and standing up against a patriarchal system, has now been warped into a consequence of a muddied plot that doesn't have anywhere left to go. For a story that claims to be "feminist", it has ironically missed the original point of its source material entirely, and completely robbed itself of the feminine strength it could have had if it hadn't tried to be "subversive".
I don't really have anything much more to say than that. I could leave it here for good, but we do still have that extra segment to talk about that covers the actual final cliffhanger in this episode, so... we'll see you on the other side.
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aitadjcrazytimes · 8 months
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It's been a good run
But it's time to bring this to a close!
The saga is over, C, T and I are all together. T and I are in the swing of it, C approves as much as it is possible for him to approve of anything, everyone knows about the blog and is chill.
C is back at his rightful place of walking his sister down the aisle.
I'm getting everything I want, and we're all free to make each other miserable until the day we die.
I'm not going to be updating this blog anymore! Nobody else involved with the situation will be submitting any more AITA posts either, because they are either not on tumblr or agreed it would be annoying.
I will say that there is some stuff on here that I've alluded to that isn't necessarily 100% in the spirit of things, so I've included some stuff below the cut for the folks who have caught onto that. I would not suggest reading it if you like how all of this played out and want to keep it that way. I know that's incredibly vague, but I'm not sure how to phrase it without making it weird?
Thank you all for listening and talking to me over the past few days! That's where I'm leaving it!
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...Is everyone who wants to keep believing in the disaster polycule gone? Yes? OK!
So, this was fake. I made up the whole thing. TK and C and T and everyone else are fictional characters. Did I lie? Yes. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
Q: All of it? Even the og AITA post? The followup AITA post? The screenshots?
A: All of it.
Q: Wh... Why did you do this...?
A: Well, first this all started as a Red vs Blue fanfic for the ship Chexer (Church/Tex/Tucker)-
It started as a fanfic for Chexer. However, I was already working on a different fanfic for RVB that was totalling about 15k words at this point (+ at least 90k to go), and I knew I would never have the time or energy to write this one. I thought: yknow. this would be really funny as an aita post.
Q: It was a fanfic of a Halo fanfic series.
A: Yep!
So, I submitted Tucker's perspective. I did not expect for it to get more than maybe 100 notes at most. I totally thought someone would call it out right away.
The funny part is, if I'd dedicated all this energy to a fic instead of this blog, I'd probably have about 15-20 thousand words of fic already, but whatever, can't ruin my personal day!
Also, I wanted to see how many people would figure it out/how long it would take for it to become too obvious that this was a fandom thing. I was dropping names and RvB lore since the beginning. A few people did figure it out, and I DMed them in private to let them know.
Q: But why make the blog then?
A: Because I love to lie and be a nuisance to the general populace! <3
It was always my intent to wait until Carolina's perspective got posted (i am honestly still shocked i got away with "Carey/Georgia/West Virginia/Alabama/Miss Louisiana 1988"), let it simmer for about a day, then come clean. Which is what I'm doing now!
The reason I'm coming clean now instead of dragging it out is because I don't want anyone to feel stupid or like they got duped. You're not stupid! You were a part of this story! This was, as one anon said, a creative writing project. It was a collaboration! Thank you so much for helping me!
That said, I'm sorry to anyone that finds this disappointing! I had a blast doing this, but I will not be doing it again. I have gotten my fill. I have had my taste of being an influencer, and now I can go on with my life without ever feeling like I need to start a youtube channel.
Q: How did you keep up with a consistent timeline?
A: I didn't, especially at first. But in my time as a liar who lies about things, I have found that usually people are willing to believe you when you say "yeah, i lied about that".
Q: Wait, what about the thing with your kid?
A: Yeah, I fucked up on this one. In the other fic I was/am writing, Tucker was around 33. So, when I was saying what Junior's age was, I subtracted it from 33 and got 18. It wasn't until I was showing my partner the blog and they said "Wait, he had his kid at 13??????" that I realized I had fucked up. Oops!
Q: Was it really ALL fake?
A: For the most part. I will say that I did actually drop chocolate cake all over my tits that one time and had to shower by myself like a fucking loser. That one was true. I did also get my nails done for the first time ever, which did actually affect my typing. And I am in a band (but so is Tucker, canonically)! There are a few other things as well, but I don't want to list all of them.
Q: DID you ever read homestuck?
A: Nope. And I never will.
Even the title, though I will say that the title I came up with was "Leonard "Alpha Bitch" Church's Decidedly Not Lo-Fi Beats to Get Nasty and Get Clean To: The Movie"
Q: So there was never a combination sex/bathtime playlist?
A: Maybe! But perhaps more accurately: the combination sex/bathtime playlist was inside of you all along. You can make it. There are only three songs on there that are canon to the lore of this blog. Those are No Children by The Mountain Goats, Take It Out On Me by Thousand Foot Krutch, and one unknown song from the album Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV by Coheed and Cambria (Yep, the call was coming from inside the house, I gave Church my music taste). I had intended this to be Wake Up, but it's out of my hands now. The rest is yours to fill in.
Q: What's your main blog, so I can follow you?
A: Hi, this is aitadjcrazytimes. You're not getting that.
Q: Your AO3 handle?
A: Nope, not that either.
You will never find me. And that's the way I want it. You will see me in every blog. Every new follower. Every stranger you meet on the street. You will look into your discord kitten's eyes, and you will absently wonder if he was the one behind aitadjcrazytimes. And you will never know for certain.
Q: But-
A: Let me live on in your memory. The only person who knows both who I am and the fact that I did this is my partner, who is not into RvB or commonly on tumblr. I am not a RvB blog. I am not a writing blog. I am a nobody on the fringes of tumblr society who's been here long enough to know how to remain in the shadows.
And, even if you do manage to find me, against all odds:
No one will ever believe you.
I am closing my askbox. I am also closing my messages. If you have anything to say to Tucker or Me (tumblr user aitadjcrazytimes), you are welcome to do so in the replies or reblogs, but you will not be receiving an answer. I'll keep this blog up for anyone that wants to go through after the fact and do a deep dive or what have you.
Thanks to everyone who made this into the wild ride it was! Live long and get fucked or whatever! Xoxo <3
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uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuughhhhhhhhhh
so here's the deal re: this fucking horseshit. god i hate this.
i, personally, have mostly given up on trying to dodge inclusion in AI datasets. the stuff i make generally isn't what they're looking for anyway and there's no real way to 100% avoid being scraped short of becoming entirely invisible online, which would um, lead to me having no money and dying. that's part of the cruelty of all this, but also, in a way, it's the same risk artists online have always taken; if you want people to see your work, you have to post it knowing that some of those people are fucking lowlife piece of shit scumbags who will try to resell it on redbubble or something for a quick buck. AI is just a new and exhausting way for garbagey people to stink worse. i am not in any way excusing that behavior or trying to imply people should not be mad about it or that we shouldn't condemn this move and fight back. "if you don't want your work stolen, don't put it online" is the kind of shitty Internet Tough Guy talk i've always hated since my dA days. it's as useless and heartless as telling people that if they don't want their bikes stolen, they shouldn't leave them at the bike rack. i'm saying that i, personally, will not let a bunch of soulless thieving shitheads drive me offline. i belong here. they belong in a wifi-proof dumpster.
nightshade and glaze eat my artwork alive. they make it look terrible. when you have to sell things on the basis that they look nice, it's a big problem when protective measures make them look like dogshit. my work is not a good candidate for these processes. even if that weren't the case, i don't have the stamina, especially right now while my chronic pain is flaring for the third month in a row and my adhd meds are scarce, to go back and shade/glaze everything, and it wouldn't work on reblogs anyway. given the way midjourney and its equally stinky siblings have already scraped years and terabytes' worth of image data from popular websites, it doesn't seem worth my time. if you think it is worth yours i am not going to like, yell at you. i am just one person. but i want to be clear about the kind of situations some of us are being forced into.
i think some of the doomsaying about AI and what it will do to us has been overblown-- they need you, for marketing purposes, to believe that someday their shitty robot will be as good at "drawing" and as practical to work with as a human-- but the consequences of "AI" (which is not even actually AI) are already real and visible and obvious to anyone paying attention. i unfortunately am not infinitely wise and powerful and therefore do not have an ideal all-encompassing solution to this deeply stupid problem that the Most Unlikeable Manbabies On Earth have imposed on us after NFTs fizzled out.
what i do have is a very large repository of nice anime and game screenshots i've taken, knowledge of many archives of nice public domain images, a computer that can run nightshade overnight or while i'm off doing other things, and, most importantly, near-infinite capacity for pettiness. i do kinda feel like the jury is still out on how well nightshade/glaze will work in the long run, but in the meantime, i suppose it wouldn't cost me a lot to... perhaps... every time i get Mad About AI™, channel that anger into dumping some thoroughly-but-not-spammily-tagged, high-quality, inconspicuous poison onto this godforsaken hellsite via a secret side blog. i could make a batch of poison ahead of time, keep it on my phone, use my Toilet Scrolling Time or my Public Transit Time to post and tag up an image here and there. it could be a fun challenge to try to make some pretty robot poison that some humans will still enjoy.
the other thing we need to poison at this point, IMO, is the word "AI" itself, by being loudly and mercilessly critical of any company that dabbles in it, the same way we all clowned on any company that pushed their luck with NFT/crypto shit a couple of years ago. we need to have every corporation terrified that association with AI will tank their sales and hurt their brand. AI must = number go down and lots of people screaming at you. companies will fuck around. we must provide the finding-out. we shouldn't have to. but we can!
so make sure to let tumblr know you hate this. maybe you could include this interesting link (tw child abuse) about how Stable Diffusion was trained on some extremely serious crime. or these screenshots of Midjourney devs just sort of admitting what their whole thing is, which i got here but which have kinda been spread all over since January.
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spite and anger can be forms of hope. that's all i have to say, or at least all i'm willing to type with my left hand tonight.
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At this point, the hazbin/helluva critical community has fallen flat. And when I say that, I mean that it lacks potential. Like, I thought we were criticizing about the characters and the show itself. I thought we were talking about it's issues and what Viv could approve on it. But now, these people are just targeting fans of Viv's show who are just going on about their day, taking screenshots of harmful posts and posting it on the critical blog just to shit on them. You can't even consider that "critical" now when you're just being an asshole. They wonder why Viv and her fans think the critics are so bad. On top of that, these people love to make assumptions about Viv harassing Gooseworx all because she's a "terrible person" like please stfu. "She probably did this" and they don't even have any proof. Maybe consider that Viv actually enjoys tadc and it's success? What is all of this "viv is mad because the amazing digital circus is more successful than her shitty shows"? I dunno, man. That critical community is just so fucking dumb and stupid. They're not even talking about the shows anymore. They just bitch and fuss about everything.
For real, I had never seen such a critical community this much of a train wreck as the fandom is.
I mean hell, I engaged with the SVTFOE community before (and that show has the EXACT same problems as Helluva boss) and the critical blogs were very chill.
I feel like what didn’t help is how immature and unprofessional Vivziepop acts publicly. But at the same time…. I can’t really blame her for getting defensive when these antis dogpile her on everything.
And yes, the screenshots making fun of harmless posts of fans were red flags to me. Like dude, we have rabid fans and Stans do that to us, why the hell are you stopping to their level??? (I’m not gonna include the voodoo controversy because that to me needed to be talked about. A lot of POC fans and criticals had every right to discuss that and Viv should had given an apology or explanation over that. With closed religions that always got stereotypes due to colonizers, you need to be careful when writing about them. )
Oh God don’t get me started on the whole Vivziepop and Gooseworks relationship assumptions… that actually annoyed me too and I’m sure there’s no bad blood with them. I get she had bad blood with Tracey and possibly Ashley, but I don’t think it’s fair to assume she’s like this with every indie creator.
Honestly, its both of their fandoms that are acting unhinged. But I even seen hardcore fans of Viv like Dani praising TADC and Gooseworks, so I doubt the whole fandom are planning to sabotage them. TADC isn’t a rain full of sunshine either, they too have so much bad apples there.
Also my big issue with this community I’ve noted some critical blogs that claim they wanna make an original series (well one already made a webcomic) but they NEVER stop bitching about Viv and go on and on how they never do this to their project… unmmm dude? If you constantly compare your project to Viv’s, your gonna lose your audience this way. This can make you come off as an a logger and a very petty person to others. Trust me, this is NOT going to make people want to be interested in your original projects.
It’s also very unprofessional to do this publicly. I get looking at bad writing motivates you how to not to things… but the constant comparing is going to make you look like a very petty person to your outside audience. And they feel like your project won’t have agency on its own without being “better than Helluva/Hazbin.” I say this because I too am working on an indie project I want to make to a webcomic. And I REALLY don’t wanna ruin my reputation that way.
That’s what Zeartist did when he made his shitty ass books and would constantly hitch and whine about twilight on his life journals. And he would always bring up his original series and how it’s “better” and how he wouldn’t write such garbage like Stephanie Meyer.
And guess what???? His books are just twilight 2.0 but even worse 😂😂😂 he ended up doing the exact same thing stephanie did, bitches out over criticism, and yeah a huge hypocritical asshat.
That’s why constantly comparing your project to another person’s to seen as better is NOT a smart idea. Please have some self awareness there if your actually planning to make a webcomic or an original series.
Also… I’ve noticed people that have beautiful startled would waste it on blind hatred. Like that “I HAtE VIVZIEPOP” blog. Like godamn, their art is beautiful but they had an unhealthy hate obsession with Viv… why waste your energy on that when you can make something better?
I’m not talking about rewrites, AUs, or redesigns because to me those are like fanfics and for fun. The stuff I do is mainly just for fanfic fun and a writing/world building exercise for me. But also a little bit of self indulgence since I sitll admire Viv’s characters. You can enjoy something without giving your support to the actual creator. I’m trying to show my support to the team behind it.
(I’m even planning to buy fan merch from one of the clean up artists on their shop. To me it’s the ethical way of getting Hazbin/Helluva merch without directly giving it to Viv but to her artists instead. )
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Live-read: Trying to understand the Aux Tresors novels without actually reading the novels in question.
This is the last, and the most borderline-experimental and cringe-flop part of the reading break #1, because in this post, I will be discussing the five novels based on the show.
Without actually reading them.
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Nobody has seemingly ever scanned or copied them, and I don't have the ability to buy them. If you're French, or a rich person, perhaps you could get your hands on them and tell me how wrong I am, but until then, let's speculate.
You can find the... (sighs deep as fuck) Plot Summaries on Otakia. Everything I will discuss here comes from Otakia. You can find the books somewhere else. Perhaps Amazon, probably some other site too... Because as far as I remember, Ankama's literal official shop only has one of the five.
Roman Kerubim (Dofus) Tome 1 : Le ciel sur la tête
>Read about it here
To regurgitate a bit of info from Otakia: just like the Wakfu novels, which apparently also exist, these five novels are kind of like... a bonus episode in a written form, following the structure of the show.
When grabbing quotes from Otakia I will be putting them into a translator and then screenshotting, so that you can quickly read them, and so that I don't have to copy things.
But I won't be copying the descriptions or summaries of the books, just the bits I'd like to elaborate on. You can read them yourself there.
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To reference that one meme: Why didn't he start thinking about his dead parents? Is he stupid?
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OKAY, I really didn't expect this post to go anywhere, but it's funny that even in Dofus times, Porkass people were known to eat Twelvians.
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You will never fucking guess with what nation Bonta of the Waven era, is involved in a seemingly mutually cannibalistic war with.
Roman Kerubim (Dofus) Tome 2 : Une étoile pour le shérif
>Read about it here
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I want to thank whoever runs Otakia for uploading this image specifically. Thank you Monsieur/Madame Otakia.
You may notice that, I will be upscaling all the images I bring here from the Otakia articles. The reason for this is that I am a normal and sane person, and need to look at it in a crispier way.
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As you may remember, Kerubim already said that he used to be a sheriff in episode 16, West of Astrub.
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The writer of this article will literally be like "the book gives you candy, sucks your dick clean and dry, cleans up your home, and then it gives you a hundred dollars, so I didn't like it."
I wish Kerubim would be a fucking loser and a menace more often.
In the Judgement of The Twelve episode, Kerubim and Bashi had already mentioned meething each other many times as young adults, and having stories about it, so it's nice to see this factoid utilized for more than 2 episodes, if only in a book.
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Also, yet again, Kerubim literally doing his job and Bashi being fucking insane and hating him for it, despite doing far worse things.
Roman Kerubim (Dofus) Tome 3 : Panique à Astrub
>Read about it here
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Indie is insane for this btw.
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Joris canonically eats burgers and YES reading this article a while back is the reason I put burgers into my Joris fanart.
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You can see full art on my general artblog @atcham-crepin. Yeah, my blog naming scheme is very creative, I know.
I just think his refined ass eating burgers is funny, even though in canon he is only depicted doing this as a kid.
Roman Kerubim (Dofus) Tome 4 : Le décapiteur de soiffard
>Read about it here
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Including the cover art because it is very nice, and to draw your attention to THE best novel none of us will ever get to fucking read.
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My dream Joris & Simone story, and I can't even read it. Smh.
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List of things I love about this:
Joris stealing stuff.
Joris stealing stuff.
Joris stealing stuff.
Simone being a leader.
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Kerubim, as we had seen in the past episodes, literally the type to text something like "I am not long for this world.... tell my family I love them." over a tummy ache. I hate this man so much it's unreal.
Of Course he sent them on a wild goose chase over some random bullshit.
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Simone and Joris @ Kerubim at the end of this book:
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Roman Kerubim (Dofus) Tome 5 : Tous en piste
>Read about it here
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I will be real, I don't think any living being can tame that fucking beast.
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These books are just treating us with characters in outfits we hadn't seen them in, in the show. It would be... a better world, if these books were episodes instead.
Also, want to yet again remind you that I am upscaling the shit out of these images. Because I'm normal. But at times the results can be wonky.
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The World of Twelve has never seen, and will never see again, a couple more toxic than them. Sad!
Unlike the Simone & Joris book, I yet again don't have much to say, but, I'm sure I would, had the books been available to me.
This brings me to a close with the first reading break. After this post, I will resume liveblogging about the show. But I do have ideas of what the next reading break entail, and I think they're rather fun! Like "trying to read Dofus manga without reading Dofus manga" or "reviewing Dofus Aux Tresors merch without buying Dofus Aux Tresors Merch", or, perhaps, "scrying on a crystal ball to read Tot Ankama's thoughts."
...Yeah. Only the last one is a joke.
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Ok this is a bit of a wordy post but bear with me. I've been reading up on the tech literacy discourse and I thought I'd add my two cents, and how it connects to piracy. LONG post under the cut!
I was born in the year 2000, which puts me on the border of being a digital native. I was brought up on tech, but only in my later childhood and teens. I've always considered myself "tech literate," but no more than the usual kid my age.
The first time I ever truly experienced tech illiteracy with my peers was when I was 23, when in one of my college classes a MacOS update rendered the software we used for said class unusable. After a few days a temporary patch was released, which by that point an assignment that utilized the software was due the next day. I followed the patch instructions, which involved navigating to the software files and substituting a designated file with the provided patch. A bit more complicated than a simple update, but the instructions were clear and intuitive enough to easily understand where the file went. The next day, during a class study session, I overheard multiple people come up to the professor complaining that the software wasn't working. After the second person complained with the professor being clueless, I asked the student what MacOS version they were on. Sure enough they were on the latest version, which as we already know is incompatible with the software. I then walked the student through the patching process step-by-step, with them needing to essentially be hand held through the entire process (almost to the point of me doing everything for them). After the patch was implemented, the student thanked me and said "Wow! How did you figure all of this out?" and to me that question was stupid- I just googled "[software] [version] MacOS [version] fix", went to the first result (which was the company website), downloaded the patch zip file, and followed the instructions on the README.txt file. It was so easy, and I couldn't comprehend that this was somehow complicated for other people, especially those my age. I mean we literally grew up using computers. It wasn't until I started learning about tech literacy and learned helplessness that I finally started connecting the dots.
Tech in general is becoming extremely user friendly, almost to a fault. UI and UX simplicity is taking away any critical thinking needed to use any sort of tech. My peers are so used to one-click and/or automatic updates, so the fact that this required slightly more effort than a simple update triggered their learned helplessness. The professor was no help in this case either, since he just extended the due date for those affected with no penalty. I actually ended up making a very detailed (and I mean idiot proof detailed) step by step picture guide with screenshots on how to install the patch for the software for the class. Anyways, back to the main point- How can I blame my peers for not knowing how to install a "complicated" update when they're so used to being spoon-fed simplicity?
But hang on- how was I the exception? I'm just as used to tech simplicity as anyone else, it's not like I'm using anything differently or making things harder for myself on purpose (I'm looking at you, linux users). So why was I the only one who knew how to install this update? It wasn't until I had a discussion many months later with my mom about this tech illiteracy epidemic that I finally thought it through. I acquired problem solving skills through piracy. To start off: not piracy but adjacent- learning to install mods in Minecraft when I was 11 taught me file navigation and what a README.txt file was, as well as the importance of version specificity/compatibility. Figuring out how to play Pokemon roms on the family computer and my iPod touch when I was 12? That's piracy, and it also taught me how to work with different platforms and the art of jailbreaking. Installing custom firmware on my 3ds so I could pirate games when I was 16 taught me how to follow written tech instructions without any visual guidance. Pirating Adobe software on my MacBook in high school taught me about patching files on MacOS. All of this knowledge and inherent googling that came with it made installing the patch for my class software look like a tiny drop in the bucket in terms of complexity.
So why am I saying all of this? Am I suggesting people learn to pirate to become tech literate?
yes.
With everything becoming pay-walled, subscription services running rampant, the proliferation of closed-source "ecosystems" *cough* Apple *cough*, and (arguably) most importantly media preservation, piracy is a skill that will serve you well in the long term. It will teach you critical thinking in the tech sphere, and if enough people learn then we can solve this ever growing epidemic of tech illiteracy. I'm not really sure how to end this post, so if anyone has anything else they'd like to add please feel free to.
Thank you for coming to my ted talk.
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Opinions about Pyrrhic and Victoria
Tw for rape and victim blaming
For those who don't know what's going on, basically Pyrrhic and Victoria, two LO critics, are showing some... Disturbing takes on the rape of Persephone by Apollo. The og Insta post with all the screenshots got archived, but you can literally go to their latest video and you will see what this is all about. Keeping it short, they don't believe the whole thing was rape because Persephone said "okay" and because she was "thinking about losing her v card".
I hate all of this so much, it's like no matter where you go; LO or Anti LO; it's always somehow toxic. Their videos are genuinely SO GOOD. WHY do they decided to have such an awful opinion on something so sensive?
My theory is that they hate LO, RS and the MCs so much that they started to side with the villains, since we've seen a similar thing with them downplaying Minthe's slap just because she's a small woman, or saying that Persephone's childhood was completely perfect, purposefully ignoring the parts where Demeter forced P to be perfect in every single thing she does. And now all of this with Apollo.
I agree that theres a lot of stupid things with the SA (like how Persephone deals with it and how inconsistent her "uncontrolable powers" are) but it is still SA. And yes, the fact that the SA isnt "violent" or "super explicit" makes room for SOME discussions, but acting like it's invalid solely because it was a more "passive" type of rape than what we are used to see is just ridiculous; as much as I hate RS and LO, I'm glad Rachel chose to portray P's SA in a ""not physically violent"" way because it highlights that not every case is like that, and that RAPE IS RAPE.
And its all especially bad because LO stans already see us as "victim blamers" and misogynists, so one of the biggest voices in the Anti LO community doing exactly that is very infuriating. I hope it's not too late for them to see what they are doing and apologize for it.
Most posts on Insta abt this situation are getting taken down duo to legal stuff, but here are some that (luckly) are still up.
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omfg I swear this is the last post I'm making on this. I'm so tired of it going over screenshots sent in the discord in order so it might be off, sorry. I don't HATE anybody, im uncomfortable with people and thus don't want to interact. In fact I was one of the last people in the discord server to voice my concerns. It's not something to be 'fixed', it's simply a boundary. All I'm asking is not to interact, if you don't want drama change or just abide by our requests to not interact?? We aren't like banning you from roleplay or anything that'd be stupid. Just make your own space if you aren't going to change, please. Also. I've never told anybody specifically to avoid any of the blogs. This was a decision most of you collectively agreed on, this blog is just being focused on fsr so that's where we're directing the posts. 1// Queer erasure is essentially intentionally or unintentionally removing a character or person's queerness. This is a bad thing to do for tons of reasons which you can research on your own time. This post will be long enough already. They/them Clover IS strictly canon, as a quote DIRECTLY from the developers says. Please get your facts in order. The issue isn't that Clover's gender is being changed, it's that their pronouns are being changed from more genderqueer pronouns, to more cisgender pronouns. Regardless of if this is intentionally or not, this IS queer erasure, and makes a lot of people extremely uncomfortable. 2// Try not to think about yourself that way, it comes off as guilt-trippy to people. And I was trying to go over each of your points to debunk, it was just a short quip. Sorry. 3//"it's just the internet" is a bad way to excuse your behavior. Don't. 4//Aging up characters in order to ship them in a less controversial way is almost universally a REALLY gross thing to do for so many reasons. There are a ton of videos that dive really deep into this topic, highly recommend. No NSFW should already be a given. 5//I didn't say choose another ship, I said another character. Yaknow. An adult. Also yes PLEASE stop interacting with underblog. We are not attacking anybody, we've only been responding to when you guys come to us. Genuinely we just don't want to interact. We have never EVER wished death on anybody. Seriously if anybody has I'm EXTREMELY sorry about that, if anybody has please let us know that's literally the worst thing somebody could do. In the discord KYS JOKES are even banned. I don't hate you, I don't think any of us underblog folks really do. We just are genuinely really uncomfortable and don't want to interact but this keeps escalating. I assume it's because you guys are young but honestly, please genuinely grow up. I don't believe any of this was intentional but the way it was handled was extremely poor. I genuinely hope you guys realize with time because I know I was absolutely like this when I was younger. It's not an attempt to flame any of you, I've never tried to flame any of you, only responded in ways I wish I'd gotten responded to when I was like this. I don't think any of us on either side are bad people, I think reactions were just handled badly. You can make your own roleplay space, honestly we really just don't like interacting with you guys. It's extremely draining. Please stop. And this is NOT just from me. I review these messages with the rest of underblog before posting. We're all just really fucking tired. Speaking of any of you (underblog) are more than free to add on your own thoughts below just keep it respectful.
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daffi-990 · 5 months
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Hiiii 💕💕💕
Tell me more about the rival firefighters :)
Okay so I saw a post a while ago that was just these two pictures, and an idea kind of just came to me as I was commenting in the tags (and yes I took screenshot of my tags so I wouldn’t forget haha)
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It’s gonna have supportive wingwoman Shannon and a few canon events aren’t gonna happen, like stupid Doug (he’s already dead - hit and run, so tragic - so no kidnapping and stabbing) or the lawsuit.
Probably gonna alternative POV, or just go with Eddie cos I think he could be fun to write as openly gay and just done with this cocky probie who is super hot but stupidly reckless.
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juneandnick · 9 months
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Link : The Hollywood Reporter
As you have already read, Bruce Miller 'handed over day-to-day oversight to Eric Tuchman and Yahlin Chang' for the season 6 of The Handmaid's Tale.
Recap of their work as screenwriters on the serie about Osblaine.
Eric Tuchman
🎬 S1E09 - The Bridge
01. June asks to Fred to go back at Jezebels.
- Does not she look stunning tonight? He is so chill he is speechless. You are too much for him to handle.
02. In the kitchen, Beth and Nick chat.
- It is the handmaid? You are sweet on her, aren't you? It is dangerous, my friend.
03. We had a flashback with June, Luke and Hannah on the beach.
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🎬 S2E06 - First Blood
All the scenes below happen in Waterford's living room.
01. June and Nick:
- I think about us. The three of us. What we could be. I think about it all the time.
- Well, do not.
- Okay, I will stop.
- I think about it too.
02. June and Eden:
- I feel so stupid. He left again last night.
- Nick?
- He hates me. [...] He will not touch me. I am ugly.
- He is trying to be respectful.
03. June and Nick:
- You have to sleep with Eden!
- I cannot.
- Yes, you can. Because I cannot lose you. Do you hear me?
- I love you.
- It is your wife.
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🎬 S2E12 - Postpartum
01. First reunion of June, Nick, Holly (Nichole). With Fred and Aunt Lydia:
- Nichole ... This is Offred.
- Nichole?
- A beautiful name for a beautiful child. She looks just like her father.
02. June is back at Waterford's house after Holly's birth:
- Our baby is so beautiful. I wish I could hold her.
- Me too.
- We should just run away somewhere. Start over. Like a real family.
03. Nick and Eden in the changing rooms of the swimming pool:
- Tell them you might be pregnant.
- They tested me. I am not.
- Tell them what they need to hear. Say you sinned, you are sorry.
- I cannot.
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🎬 S4E09 - Progress
June, Nick and Holly (Nichole) meet at Maria Magdalena Academy:
- I should have run away with you when I had the chance.
- Yeah. We probably should have gone to that beach in Hawaii.
- She is stubborn.
- I am not surprised.
- How dare you?
🎬 S5E09 - Allegiance
June and Nick meet at Maria Magdalena Academy:
- It is gonna be hard for us to see each other.
- I do not want to make trouble for you.
- Do me a favor and tell Nichole that I love her.
Tell her I miss her and that I think about her all the time. You do that for me?
- Of course I will.
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Eric also wrote:
🎬 S3E04 - God Bless The Child
01. In a flashback, Hannah is baptized.
June, Luke, Moira and Holly (June's mother) were present.
Moira is Hannah's Godmother. Jerry, the Godfather, is absent.
02. Holly (Nichole) is baptized in Canada.
Moira and Luke are present.
03. In a video, June sees Luke and Holly (Nichole) in a protest in Canada.
🎬 S3E12 - Sacrifice
01. Serena gets an hour-long visit with Holly (Nichole).
02. Luke meets Fred and punches him.
03. Eleanor Lawrence dies in her bed after she took to much pills.
Source Pictures: Screenshots (by me)
➡️ About Yahlin Chang, it will be in a next post. ⬅️
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dribs-and-drabbles · 7 months
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Laws of Attraction ep 8
I watched the ep on Sat as it aired but then forgot to post these notes. With it being the last ep, I didn't have so much to say...beyond screaming over the brilliance of everything, but here it is anyway.
(Oh god it's all over after this 😭 I miss them already).
That fight was actually great...even though I don't like boxing/fighting. I don't know why Navin isn't worried for Charn's safety though...
Those bruises on Tinn... 😂
I adore Rose and Maya as spies!! Spin-off series now with them as leads running an underground pi business with the bar/singing as a front! Thank you please.
What a fucking location. Out-fuckin-standing.
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I LOVE THE DRAMA OF THIS!! LIVE-STREAMING THATTHEP'S CONFESSION?! CHARN YOU FUCKING GENIUS!
Please Charn, please turn off your ringtone 😭🙏🏽
Oh no...Tinn's going to rush in there, get caught by Thatthep's men, and they'll use him to lure Charn out. No no no...
Oh thank god...but wait...
YESSSSSSS CHARN. YOU EVIL GENIUS. FOR ONCE SOMEONE GOING INTO DANGER WEARS A BULLETPROOF VEST. THANK YOU!
Oh oh oh, there's half the ep left. Please let it just be Charn and Tinn being stupidly adorably in love.
Well I was right that the evidence from the doll would be too weak for a prosecution 🤷🏽‍♀️
I can't believe Tanthai still wants to see his father. Smh. I guess despite everything Thatthep did to him, he still seeks recognition and...love?
Charn is such a little shit. I love him.
Not the post-it notes 😭
The marriage equality advocacy speech!!! 👏🏼😍
Glad to see as a collective fandom we are all ignoring the Chan and Tin spellings of their names the show is using. Also, the lettering is in blue! (And it's already been pointed out that it's the same date as the airing day).
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Galaxia!
Charn telling his mother that he's happy, with Tinn by his side, surrounded by All. That. Yellow.
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Navin! That's it. He's amazing. 10/10. No notes. The best ex-boyfriend we could have gotten for Charn.
I love how Thatthep looks out of focus and obscured (even more than Charn is) behind the metal fence, as though he's not a prominent presence in Charn's life anymore (these are completely unedited screenshots apart from a little crop).
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Oh my god the couple sweater vests 😂
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Tanthai (and Thee) are finally freeeeeee!
We're all Granny! Yelling at them to kiss 😂
Ugh people in love stink (affectionate)
Not the dolls! 😭
Maya and Rose and their rings!
Tinn still has the ring necklace, and Charn's using his evil babygirl lawyering for good now!
All in all, a fantastic last ep. I think they could have had the wedding date a few years in the future and left it ambiguous as to whether it was a legal wedding or not. But I'm SO glad that from the beginning they set up Charn as being a bit smug about how great a lawyer he was...then made us wonder if he was going to do something stupid and impulsive...but then followed through with Charn's brilliant plan to 'catch' and deal with Thatthep. Yes, he is brilliant and he was right all along about it.
I guess I should add a final note on the colours...which stayed pretty consistent through the series (maybe I'll write another post about just this later) but in short I felt like green represented Tonkhao; Tinn was definitely a loyal blue boy; both Thatthep and Charn also used blue but as a front/a mask to their true selves; Tanthai was generally black and white but was forced to conform to his father's (blue) wishes and tied to the accident of (green) Tonkhao; and Charn...was a bit of an enigma because as well as his blue, he was accompanied by the red of revenge...but under it all I think he was a soft pastel, earthy tones guy, much like his mother...and which is why the shot of the dolls at the end made me gasp so much. Because not only were they there to represent Tonkhao but they both also have Charn and Tinn's colours.
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radqueer-archivist · 1 month
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General PSA
The purpose of this blog is to catalogue the absurdness of this Tumblr trend known as "radqueer". Here is a post about why I have problems with it.
This blog by no means is meant to support the concept of it. My personal belief is that "radqueer" is harming queer, trans, BIPOC, disabled, and mentally ill communities. That being said:
I do not condone harassing anyone that calls themselves "radqueer". I cut out usernames on purpose; minor ages will be removed. If you reblog me and I posted your screenshot, think really hard about making yourself a target to people that DO want to hurt you.
I am queer. I am also mentally ill, disabled, and neurodivergent. I am also of native descent. This is why I look critically at "radqueer". Yes, I am an abuse survivor and I'll leave it at that.
No DNIs, they're useless, I'll just block you. I'm probably on your DNI, so if that's the case, you should just block me. I'm not offended and I don't care.
I find the concept of incorporating "trans" to disabilities, mental illnesses, race, etc, to be extremely problematic, and I am absolutely opposed to it. A mental illness is not a social construct, you cannot compare that to the trans experience.
Being a minor doesn't exempt you from constructive criticism, you're old enough to understand that some of these things will anger and upset people.
Fiction does not affect reality, I am neither "pro" nor "anti" when it comes to shipping, ship whatever you want. If you don't like the ship, block the person or hit the back button. Shipping wars are stupid. I'm a veteran of LiveJournal and fandom_wank, some of you guys take ship wars way too far.
Paraphile friendly. I firmly believe that people with paraphilias and/or paraphilic disorders aren't harmful unless they want to act out on their desires. We stan anti-contacts here. Being anti-paraphilia is stupid, a good chunk of them are normal, vanilla kinks. It's possible for people with the big three paraphilias to live healthy lives and never hurt anyone or anything.
I am openly skeptical of endo-systems, so proceed with caution if that upsets you.
Therians, xenogenders, and neo pronouns are valid to me, I believe it's a part of finding your identity and these concepts predate the internet.
And I cannot emphasize enough, if you're "radqueer", reblog or interact with this blog at your own peril. I highly encourage you to block and/or avoid me, I'm not offended. I will be cropping out your usernames, unless your blog has been deactivated.
Furthermore, I'm not here to argue whether you're valid, you can think you are valid. My personal belief is that this a phase that you're going to grow out of, so there's no point in arguing with you about validity.
But that does not exempt you from any type of criticism I give out. If you are not able to accept that the concepts of "radqueer" are ableist, racist, transphobic, and harming an already marginalized groups (during several genocides for that matter), that's your problem, not mine.
Again: you are not immune from criticism. You are responsible for your internet experience, not me or anyone else who disagrees with you. You chose the option to post controversial posts, you need to accept people will push back as I expect push back from you.
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blue-bubonic · 4 months
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On Today's Episode of: Are You Fucking Kidding Me
This is going to be a stupid long post, partially because we* screenshot an entire tumblr thread, and also we* have a Lot Of Thoughts(TM). Here's a link to our* portion of the post, since tumblr is ruining the hell outta the image we* tried smaller chunks but that didn’t work 🙃:
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There are 2 parts we* drew attention to in our* response. The first is part of the capitalized red text disclaimer we* started the post with:
‼️ WE* ARE A PERSODIVERGENT SYSTEM (A SYSTEM WITH PERSONALITY DISORDERS, INCLUDING AsPD). WE* USED TO BE STAUNCHLY “ANTI-NARC ABUSE TRUTHERS” BUT SINCE GOING INTO THERAPY AND DOING RESEARCH FROM SORUCES PROVIDED WITHIN THERAPY AND IN OUR* OWN TIME, HAVE COMPLETELY SWITCHED OUR* POINT OF VIEW.
The second is a sentence we* underlined in red.
There’s very, very obviously Narc Abusers on both sides of this discussion. Narc Abuse Truthers (NAT) who think they can hide behind the label Empath are no different than the Anti Narc Abuse Truthers (ANAT) who think they can hide behind the label Trauma Victim.
There two new additions in the screenshot that are not provided in the link:
quitblamingnarcabusevictims [ rb from hopelesslyyearning ] 16h ago @hopelesslyyearning this @/blue-bubonic motherfucker was one of the same bitches that was stalking my main blog because I was advising my followers to be wary of @/enigma-in-reality, another narc abuse apologist, AKA, his "hero." I know this because I saw the cocksucker's ask on the fake ass bullshit "@/schizotypal-culture-is" blog when I was on my alt one day to give the bastard a piece of my mind. hopelesslyyearning [ rb from quitblamingnarcabusevictims ] 10h ago BRO YOU'RE SO RIGHT BC YES i kept thinking that i saw this pfp spewing the abuse minimising bullshit like A WEEK AGO. Now i checked properly and THAT POST IS STILL UP. But i guess this person learned a bit or whatever but stalking and enabling abuse is still NOT OK.
We* just wanted to both debunk this claim that we* were stalking anyone, and also highlight that this is exactly the type of behavior we* were talking about when we said 'there are narc abusers who hide behind the narc abuse term' and we* believe this is why QBNAV has such a vehement response coupled with a victim complex claim.
So firstly, to debunk the claim. @schizotypal-culture-is no longer exists, but we* keep all email notifs we* get from tumblr. So we* have a copy of the ask that QBNAV is referencing.
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Two things. Unfortunately SCI wasn't backed up anyhwere for us* to double check what we*re about to say, but a tumblr user named vent-n-rant had sent an ask to SCI about narc abuse (the mod had NPD in addition to StPD). We* checked the blog out, and saw that the blogger reblogged from furiousgoldfish, a known TERF and Narc Abuse Truther and sent an ask to SCI as a heads up. We* had no idea that vent-n-rant was in any way tied to QBNAV, and it wasn't until QBNAB made the accusation that we* were "stalking their main" that we* even knew the two blogs were tied together (and if we* knew they were tied together, we* would've blocked QBNAV back then. Why would we* block their main account but not a side blog if we* knew they were run by the same person? But we* didn't. vent-n-rant looked like a loan account.)
Secondly, this is 1 week shy of being 2 months old. NOT a week ago. And we* already mentioned (and brought attention to) our* paragraph in our* disclaimer, which we* will be copy-and-pasting again here.
‼️ WE* ARE A PERSODIVERGENT SYSTEM (A SYSTEM WITH PERSONALITY DISORDERS, INCLUDING AsPD). WE* USED TO BE STAUNCHLY “ANTI-NARC ABUSE TRUTHERS” BUT SINCE GOING INTO THERAPY AND DOING RESEARCH FROM SORUCES PROVIDED WITHIN THERAPY AND IN OUR* OWN TIME, HAVE COMPLETELY SWITCHED OUR* POINT OF VIEW.
This really was more for our* mutuals tbh, most of whom also have Cluster B PDs. We*ve been in the process of warming up to the idea of Narc Abuse being a Real Thing for months now, and our* posts about our* abuser reflect that, but we* still wanted to make it clear where we* stood in all this and to make it clear that we* weren't just referencing "pop science articles" as "Anti-Narc Abuse Truthers" like to say. It is because of therapy and research that we* changed our* minds, not because it just conveniently fit a narrative (ie look at what a victim we* are uwu Aubrey’s A Narc™️ so we*re automatically the victim uwu)
People are allowed to change their minds, and it's really fucking weird that QBNAV is so against us* changing our* minds, and holding us* to a standard we* no longer believe in (while also making a baseless accusation to make themself look like a victim here, in a thread that had shit all to do with them, we*d like to point out. QBNAV really looks like they just jump in to attack our* credibility out of nowhere. Isn't people changing their minds to believe that Narc Abuse is real and to believe Narc Abuse victims something the community wants, and works towards? If not, then what"s the fucking point, unless it's just to harass a group of people that your group of people have deemed "acceptable" to harass?
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Who’s a stalker here?!
Listen. There’s sticking up for someone who’s being harassed, and then there’s fully inserting yourself into a situation that has nothing to do with you. QBNAV is bringing up harassment that has already happened to someone else, and is acting like an indignant martyr about it, as though they’re somehow more of a victim of @.nothingofn0thing harassment than @.nothingofn0thing is. Why is QBNAV so obsessed with someone else’s harasser that they have saved screenshots. Also the straight up assumption that @.clusterboyyy / @.clusterbboy / @.boyenjoyer doesnt have anything else to do except harass QBNAV. Like they really have a full blown martyr complex here, acting like they’re really doing something for narc abuse victims (while trying to start a smear campaign against other narc abuse victims who *checks notes* changed their+ minds about narc abuse and didn’t even do the thing they+re being falsely accused of 🤨)
And now, the last point.
This is the exact Narc Abuse Behavior Exhibited By Narc Abuse Victims we* brought up in the original post (and why we* believe QBNAV had such a strong reaction to our* response. It clearly hit a little too close to home there lmaoooo).
Firstly. As established in the original thread, Narc Abuse is a specific pattern of abuse where an abuser will do whatever it takes to protect their ego/self image. This includes anything from lashing out and cutting others down out of jealousy (feeling of sense of entitlements toward’s another person’s attention/praise/success/etc) to abuse tactics like love bombing, DARVO, etc.
Here, we* see QBNAV come out of left field, incredibly emotionally charged (over what, exactly? They’re obviously triggered, but it’s up to each individual to learn how to manage their own triggers. No one gets a free pass at shitty behavior just because they’re triggered). And the cussing is one thing (lmao Hollow uses nearly this same language too when upset) but the baseless accusation of something as serious as stalking is another. And that accusation is what sets this apart. QBNAV knows being upset that we* changed our* minds about Narc Abuse isn’t enough to “justify” this crazy ass behavior, so they need to add a little flare in order to show how much they’re really the victim here- by saying they were stalked by us*. Now, to a bunch of abuse victims who HAVE had to deal with Narc Abusers stalking them, this does very much not only sounds plausible but it’s sympathetic. And this accusation preys upon that sympathy. Victims (like @hopelesslyyearning ) are showing support for a fellow victim, because there’s that unspoken societal rule of always support victims, always believe victims. But as the world saw with Amber Heard, and as many Narc Abuse victims experience first hand with their own abusers, Narc Abusers absolutely know how to and do take advantage of that, just as we* see here. QBNAV had to add that they were being stalked because they know “someone I personally don’t like changed their+ mind and I saw their+ ask about me as a personal attack to myself and my character and my fragile ego can’t take that, so I need to come up with something else because that looks way too entitled, petty and personal.”
Secondly:
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Nope. No. Nuh-uh. No way. Hell no. Fuck no.
These are posts that come right before the emotionally charged and false accusation response to our* reply. QBNAV does NOT get to sit here and act like they’re gonna get a free pass for this behavior because uwu CPTSD. That is NO different than Narc Abusers saying they can’t be abusers because they’re victims of abuse themselves, or Narc Abusers acting like you have to put up with/excuse their abusive behavior because they’re abuse victims themselves.
Also that weird thing of… basically taking someone’s post?? Listen maybe it’s because James Somerton is in everyone’s mind but we*re 100% thinking of hbomberguy saying, “people steal things out of a sense of entitlement because they think they’re more deserving of the idea than the person who came up with it” [ hella paraphrasing there ] and NPD/traits and the same sense of entitlement [ that can also cause splitting/crash/jealousy/depression/etc ]. Why not just add that as a RB. Why make your own post and change the wording. The whole internet just watched 6 hours of YouTube explaining Why This Is A Bad Thing.
We*ll be more than willing to forgive QBNAV, but only after a public apology (once their episode is over). No one gets a free pass for this kind of behavior, CPTSD, NPD or otherwise, but we* are willing to extend empathy and compassion as we* know what it’s like to get triggered and angry and lash out, but ONLY once an apology is issued.
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y00t · 7 months
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how does that make sense in your head. no transphobia, they said. what they're saying essentially is that we should "keep it to ourselves" because "nobody wants to see that". is that a better explanation as to how this point is weird as fuck
as the people say, "apples and oranges" because comparing doing whatever the fuck i want with myself and sharing conspiracy theories which are often antisemitic and have an actual impact on people outside of me is, kind of fucking stupid if i do say so myself. kind of like comparing masturbation to genocide
where do you draw the line between harmful and "normal"? why do you get to be the arbiter of said distinction? you know what people think is also harmful to people? abortion, because it can cause infertility, or so i hear. no transphobia, since they asked not to bring it up, but I'm nodding my head at it and winking so they know what I'm hinting at. should it also be shunned and looked down upon even more than it already is?
yes, disabilities do what they're said to do, which is, disable a person. piercings also often make it harder to find a job, as do tattoos. they're "harmful" by their logic. so we should shun them more, maybe have posters on the harm of piercings right in the piercing places? how would you even fucking know if someone's disabled by choice or not, would you interrogate any disabled person you find and silently judge them if they tell you they chose to be disabled??? "oh well its not what III would do with my life, but I GUESS you do you, eye roll"??????
am i going insane? am i hallucinating? why wouldn't you give this shit any semblance of thought before pressing the big blue post button? the problem with radqueer is that we think what essentially is body modding should be okay??? not even the paraphilia stuff???
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