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NEW BLOG!

This is a message to all my followers! I came to warn you that this blog is not going to be active anymore. Due to some technical problems I decided to change. The new one is now @egomaniac1998 All of my original posts are reblogged there so, no worries on that regard.

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Just Another Anti Theory

So, as we all know, Anti is back. In fact, he never left. Just let me share with you a little headcanon of mine.

In my mind, Anti is a Tulpa. What is a Tulpa, you ask?

“Tulpa or thoughtform, is a concept in mysticism of a being or object which is created through spiritual or mental powers. The term comes from Tibetan "emanation" or "manifestation". Modern practitioners use the term to refer to a type of imaginary friend.” - Wikipedia

In summary, a Tulpa is something or someone created with the conjoined force of people’s imagination.

In my opinion, that’s what Anti is. Yes, all began with Jack, but we made Anti what he is today. Without us, Anti would be nothing. We are the ones who give him power, who create headcanons, write fanfiction and make fanart. All of that has immense power, power that serves as a life source. That’s what keeps him alive. All of them alive.

A hand that gives is a hand that can take. My point is, if the glitch bitch can play, so can us. What do you do to a spoiled, impetuous brat? You take their toys and send them to their room. What I mean, is that we’re the ones with the power to control, not the other way around.

This is just ramble, tho. Feel free to discuss with me about the subject, I would love to hear your theories and headcanons!

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OHHHH FFFUUUUUUUCCCKKKK!!!! I’M NOT OK!!!!!

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Life of a Fanfiction Writer

Starting like:

Needing to write quickly before you forget:

Needing to remember all the small details:

Losing your train of thought:

When it’s going well:

Writing smut:

Not able to fill in the gaps from one scenario to the other:

Serious writers block:

Reading through finding you’ve gone wrong:

Finding all your spelling errors:

Finally Finished:

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This is just... Wow! Give it a good read and apreciate the beautiful art work.

Anti: The Death (and Rebirth) of The Author

#SepticArt + #AntiTheory = THIS AMALGAMATION

Since I am not really that great of a visual artist as I’m more of a wordsmith, in honor of the #SepticArt movement that Jack started, I would like to try something different. I’m gonna incorporate both artistic (visual) and academic (textual) elements in this post.

All the theories I have seen about Antisepticeye so far are “lore-based”, focusing on deciphering Anti’s plans, behavior, background, and all that juicy stuff. So to freshen things up, I would like to call into attention the genius of the Antisepticeye fandom that Jack nourished well and explore how all this craziness really works in an academic perspective.

To start off, I’m gonna say this right away: Antisepticeye is a creative genius.

And not in the ways you are probably thinking of right now. Although the idea of Anti is the same as Darkiplier and any other “shadow personas” with some sort of a fanbase, what makes him stand out is the way the fandom makes him “grow”.

As an intellectual, I love theories and frameworks that help me understand the machinations of complex concepts, which is why I’m gonna remove my “conspiracy theorist” goggles for now and put on my academic glasses. 

(I’ll be borrowing a lot of ideas from literary criticism, semiotics, sociology, and psychology. If you don’t like that stuff, this might not be for you.)

Okay. Let us begin the examination.

The Creative Machine

The Antisepticeye community is one big, living machine that is self-sustaining. We could never know if Jack intentionally created it to be like this or not, but that matters not. What you just need to understand is that Jack managed to make an engine that makes its own fuel.

Let’s break down how this works.

Step 1: A Spark

An idea. It’s really hard to tell exactly when and where the concept of Antisepticeye started and who formulated him, but we all know that he must’ve originated somewhere. Jack says it all the time in vlogs that the idea was created by the fandom, so that could be a good start.

Regardless of his exact origins, what matters is that we have this spark of a flame. People can interpret the idea of Anti whatever way they want because there is still no canonical concepts about him just yet. However, there is one uniting idea about him that everyone at this point agrees upon: that he is an exact image of Jack.

Step 2: A Flame

A solid concept. The spark became a flame when Jack started canonizing Anti through his entire October Halloween scheme last time. Because of that, Anti finally had some canonical attributes we can identify (the throat slit, the gauges, the Zalgo text, and the iconic glitches). It was a flame fueled by the sparks from different minds, as evidenced by Jack confirming in his vlogs that Anti’s characteristics were based on multiple ideas from the community.

Step 3: Interpretations of the Flame

In literature, when an author releases a piece of work, its meaning no longer belongs to them; it belongs to the audience. There is no “proper way” to react and experience a piece of work; no individual will react and experience a piece exactly the same, which is why people appreciate different types of stuff.

This same principle applies to Anti, which we can interpret as a “character” in a narrative. People have their own theories in their heads when reading/listening/watching narratives since meaning-making is a very instinctual and integral part of a person’s experience of a piece.

You might not be aware of it, but creators just provide us blueprints of a piece’s meaning and we, as the audience, have to build it in our heads with our own materials and own interpretations of the blueprint’s instructions. They communicate this “blueprint” through language, may it be the language of film, of music, of gestures, of text, or whatever form of language.

We can get incredibly close to what the original creator intended for us to perceive and understand, or our interpretations might be incredibly far-fetched. Either way, none of that truly matters since YOU made your own theory and you get to keep it in your head. You can’t ask the author what they mean and they can’t force you to experience their work a particular way. The way you see flame may be similar or completely different to mine.

Art interpretation is collaborative, but at the same time, one-sided.

Step 4: Clash and Union

Things start to get interesting when people share their theories and interpretations to other people. Obviously, some interpretations would contradict one another while some will complement. This “clash and union” of ideas gets even crazier when the subject piece is ambiguous (i.e. the narrative of Anti).

Let’s tale Romeo and Juliet for an example. (I assume everyone already knows how this story ends. If not, then SPOILERS AHEAD.) If the story just ended openly with Juliet contemplating suicide instead of actually doing it, the audience can interpret it in different ways. Some may say “Juliet lives and carries on with her life” while some may say “Juliet will totally kill herself.” Perhaps someone would even be crazy enough to say “Romeo gets reanimated into a vampire and they live together happily through eternity.” 

That last one may sound way too unlikely, but since the hypothetical Romeo and Juliet had an open ending, all three theories I mentioned are just theories with no real confirmation. The same goes with all the theorizing about Anti. They all have truth-values, but just like Schrödinger’s cat, without someone/something to collapse both possibilities into one, these theories would remain simultaneously true and false.

Step 5: Intertwining

After a repeated process of clash and union, like natural selection, some theories would die off while some would remain triumphant. These surviving theories then intertwine to form a narrative of its own based on both canonical aspects and theoretical aspects. 

It is important to note, however, that these theories would remain in this stage without confirmation from the original creator, may it be direct (actual statement) or indirect (solid clues).

Step 6: Communal Agreement

The group reaches communal agreement when the intertwined theories finally acquire a solid foundation through confirmation from the original creator (as mentioned in Step 5). However, just because a particular group has reached communal agreement about a certain subject doesn’t mean the group communally agrees to all the other similar aspects.

Nonetheless, a group that has united strong enough to form a communal agreement is not a small deal to be brushed off that easy. At this point, it’s not just the people that are alive; the theories are now living and breathing, too. With a mind of its own.

An Unlimited Creative Source

If there’s a Holy Grail of artistic creation, Jack might be onto something. You see, at this point in the Anti fandom, Jack could just tease us with anything Anti-related and the community would spit out TONS of theories and artworks. And you know what that means?

Harvestable content.

Jack provides us content, but in a sense, we provide him content to work on as well. It’s this amazing, collaborative, mutually beneficial relationship between a creator and his community that makes this whole thing unbelievable.

I actually strongly believe that the current climate in the Antisepticeye community was never intentional. If I’m not mistaken, all the craziness started when Jack started playing Epidemic and Bio Inc. Redemption. Ever thought if maybe Jack just wanted to play these games? Nope.

Well, the community blew this way out of proportion by vomiting out theory after theory. Judging from the origins of Anti, Jack used the ideas of the community as inspiration for the pandemonium we are in right now. The timing of this Anti stuff is too sudden and unprepared to be intentional but since we inspired him to pursue this craziness, we got what we wanted. 

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Before you reached this part of the post, you were probably wondering about the relevance of the title: The Death (and Rebirth) of the Author. Well, The Death of the Author is basically a concept that originated in Roland Barthes’ essay of the same title where he argues that the writer and piece of work are two separate entities. Although the essay actually goes deeper into The Intentional Fallacy and how the author’s biographical background and intention should not be used in interpreting a text, I’m using it here just for the elegance of the term.

When Jack released his canonical version of Anti, the moment it reached us, its meaning no longer belongs to him (as I said earlier). The author is, in a sense, “dead”. We cannot just ask him what he meant and even if we do, it shouldn’t even matter anymore. We create our own meaning. However, since the community’s concept of Anti acts like a self-sustaining creative engine, the author is “reborn” as Jack reclaims his grip of the content by releasing new canon stuff based on the products of the machine.

This creates the conundrum of whether Jack’s authority over the concept of Anti was ever really “dead” (and now reborn) or just “lost” (and now reclaimed). We all talk about Anti controlling Jack and the other Egos when in reality, this entire chaotic masterpiece is all just Jack pulling the strings and controlling Anti (and inadvertently, us).

And so I leave you one final question: is Jack an accidental creative genius or is he a masterful strategist all along? 

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Brace youselves for what’s coming! (Or be like me and make stupid memes to distract myself from the fact that I’m getting crazy with all the teasing and waiting.) Thank you SO much Sir @therealjacksepticeye

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ze good doctah has fallen…

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͏T͢h̸e͞ Doc̶t̨or͢ Is In͘…̵̵

The doctor was tired.

Because of his shady record in medicine, no hospital or clinic would accept him. As a result, he didn't have money to support his family and they were now buried in debts. His relationship with the wife was also hanging from nothing more than a few strings, and he feared the day she would leave and take the kids with her.

So yes, the man known as Dr. Schneeplestein was exhausted. In a not so distant time ago, he would have kidnapped someone and do experiments just to blow off some steam. Well, not anymore. Not since his wife found out and made him promise that he wouldn't do it again.

One thing that used to calm his spirits was painting, and that was exactly what he was doing. A mostly white canvas was in front of him, while he colored it with strokes of red, green and blue.

A flickering light caught his attention, and the hairs on his arms and neck rose up in warning... and he knew. Suddenly the cold metal of a knife was pressed against his neck.

"Hello, Schneeples." Said the glitching voice of a man. "Did ye miss me?"

"Anti! I vasn't expecting you. Vat are you doing in mein house?"

"I need ye help, old friend."

"Mein help? For vat?" Questioned the doctor.

The knife at his neck disappeared and Anti glitched, reappearing on the doctor's office chair.

"Ye know, our Jackie boy and some lads decided that it would be fun to make a video mockin' me. Let's just say that I ain't the only one that got mad." said Anti, propping his feet on the desk.

"What do I have to do vith it?"

"We have a plan, Schneeps. And you're part of it." Anti glitched to stay in front of the doctor, making him take two steps back. "You're gonna help us. One way...or another."

"I'm afraid I will have to zay nein. I'm dedicated to mein family now."

"Well then, hard way it is."

Anti’s body started to glitch violently, and a toxic green aura started to surround him. Schneeplestein tried to run, but it was too late. Anti grabbed his head with force enough to crack his skull.

"I ain't gonna lie. This is gonna hurt."

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They Are Not Happy

A scream of rage and a loud noise could be heard coming from an abandoned house somewhere in the world. Luckily, no one was around to hear it. The fate of the curious person that decided to investigate would be worst than death. Inside, two men could be seen.

No, those beings were not men.

One of them was black and white, like he just walked straight out of an old photograph, and was dressed in a impeccable suit. A vibrant red and blue aura surrounding him.

The other could be described as the complete opposite. Shocking green hair and eyes, completed with a pale green skin. His clothes were black and ripped and he used gauges in his ears. His body was constantly glitching, just like a computer malfunction, and a big scar on his neck could be seen.

But they did had a thing in common. They were both mad with rage.

“How dare they do this!?” Screamed the black and white man, his aura breaking around him as the walls of the old house trembled with his power. “Mocking us like we were nothing more than a joke!”

The green man was constantly glitching and so was his voice, screaming in a high pitch. “Your creator was the one to start all of this shit! I’m so close to get what it’s mine, and it’s not a fucking video that will get in my way! Those imposters are gonna pay!”

The monochromatic man snapped his neck to the side and fixed his already immaculate suit.

“My creator - as you like to put it - make me look like a coward and a fool in front of millions of people, instead of someone to fear and tremble at the mention of. If you think I will let this go unpunished you are mistaken.”

He controlled his aura and got closer to the glitching man.

“I called you here, not because I need you, but because we’re stronger together. So, I’ll make you a proposition, Anti.”

“What kind of proposition, Dark?”

“Something that should have been done a long time ago. Something that will make them regret this excuse of a video. Something that will make us take what it’s rightfully ours.”

Anti grinned. “I’m coming home.”

He quickly disappeared in a glitch, the laugh of the madman echoing in the empty space. Dark smirked, the sweet taste of vendetta closer than ever.

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Twister

googs didn’t deserve this I’m sorry

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Jack: *posts video of saving birb*

Also Jack: *does this shit*

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“Hard Times, gonna make you wonder why you even try”

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im happy that i run a blog about this man

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Antisepticeye trash here, just patiently waiting on my evil green boi to show up again

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I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS VIDEO!!

Well this was a adventure to draw ^^ Hope you like it @therealjacksepticeye!

This is what I drew for the #septicart event, and it was such a blast to draw this ^^ I wasn’t motivated to draw anything for so long and finally i got to finish a sketch I had lying around my folder for so long ^^

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