#fandom problem 9217

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Fandom Problem #9217:

All the fucking posts with normal-looking polls (like "is it rude to play music on speakers in public?") that you scroll down and realize they have Gaza related gofundmes, usually fake, under the poll. I'm not donating to questionable shit just because you managed to fake me out with a poll post, fuck off. Especially if you tell people not to tag it as a fundraiser. I'm here for fandom stuff. I'm already burned the shit out from everything else that's happening in my country let alone the rest of the world.

[aeon2407]

WIP Snippet #1: Thrawn: Of Metal Beasts and Void Fury (Star Wars X Warframe)

Just a little something I've been working on in my spare time. Nowhere close to finished. A surprisingly rare crossover given the similarities between these two fandoms and the sheer potential of it all.

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Proxima Centauri B, Alpha Centauri System

Two Months After Lothal Massacre

Yissa Hammerly had accepted that she might die in space the day then-Commodore Thrawn made her his second officer, fast tracking her promotion to Lieutenant Commander in the process. She’d swore to herself that it would be this particular ISD after that night phase with Yana in the observation deck. She just hadn’t expected her death to be this slow. Or stressful.

By some miracle, the Chimaera was mostly intact, and the few remaining staff that arrived with them from other ships, all critically breached and therefore a death sentence for most of the crewmembers, had moved in. On the flip side, the sections on the Chimaera that were damaged meant that there was nothing they could do to survive sustainably.

The water recycler was placed near the engine room and therefore had a giant hole boring through it, so water was being rationed. The engines themselves were completely destroyed, collateral in the purrgils’ scramble for Clouzon-36. Half of the aft was permanently sealed off, so were the ensign dorms and cargo bay. If the shields had failed to reactivate all of them would’ve had radiation poisoning after the first hour of being in this kriffing system, irradiated as it was. At least the excessive radiation helped power what meager equipment was still functional and kept them from freezing.

And then there was the crew, or at least what’s left of them. A Class-II ISD, as the Chimaera was upgraded into some years ago, was designed with a crew of at least 40,000 in mind, not 9217 injured or recuperating personnel. But their Grand Admiral was a survivalist as much as he was a strategist, and his crew strove to be nothing less, so he’d organized everyone into something resembling a functional operation. All four remaining TIE/Ds went in shifts to scout the planet they were orbiting. Bless, they’d found water, enough to double their stock from one year to two.

Food was an issue, though. The Seventh was an expeditionary fleet as much as a warfare unit, so there were some grains and livestock on board in case they stumbled across an inhabitable planet and wanted to test the composition. The problem was all of those things were obviously considered cargo, and the cargo bay was sealed for a reason, so all they really had were some MREs from the enlisted and noncom mess and some pre-made meats and greens from the officers.

She had scheduled for the meat to be eaten first, being ranking officer while Thrawn was still recovering in a bacta pod and Artur was busy keeping the political ones in line at the end of a blaster, but they’d burn through those about the same time he woke up a week later, right before they put that devil child on ice. The MREs they had, even rationed to three people per pack and one meal every other day, would only last them three months, so three weeks from now they’ll have to start considering… alternatives. There hasn’t been time to send off their dead yet.

Her mood has been in shambles for weeks, and only her little dovi and her loyalty to Thrawn kept Hammerly from making her way to the airlock. Xoxtin didn’t have that same support network, and Pyro, Yissa’s poor, traumatized princess, had found her floating past a viewport, clutching her family crest with tear streaks frozen on her face. A pragmatic, cynical corner of Yissa’s mind tried to look at that particular event as having one less mouth to feed, but she was too damn sympathetic for her own good and couldn’t keep up that line of thinking, not even when it was Xoxtin.

It was six days before Skerris followed her.

She pressed an ear to the wall of her bunk, Pyro snuffling her neck as her princess gently snored, and listened to the faint vibration of the ship as the comm tower broadcasted a customized message on all frequencies. It was a long shot, Thrawn’s far-fetched theory being put to the test. Regardless, the one thing that wasn’t running out was power, thanks to the double-edged miracle that was cosmic radiation, so it was left on. Hammerly already accepted her death as a real and very likely possibility, but for the young lieutenants like Lomar, Fentaugh, Agral, and Pyro, a slimmer of hope, no matter how small, keeps them going.

For their sakes, she hoped Thrawn was right.

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Grand Admiral Thrawn of the Imperial Navy has never been to this system before, but Senior Captain Mitth‘raw’nuruodo of the CEDF has, a long time ago. Thrawn remembered the event vividly as one of the rare times when his intelligence and deductive reasoning utterly failed him.

Beasts of morphed flesh and hardened steel, numbering in the thousands and coordinated by a woman of unmatched power, there is indeed a powerful faction in a nearby system, on this side of the Chaos. And now, with retrospect and the knowledge of Lesser Space mythology, he firmly believes that the system his ship had been dragged to for questioning was what the humans called the Origin.

Their technology was advanced, their powers frightening, and Thrawn was taking a gamble and hoping that they still monitor this system. Having met the Lotus, she most likely still has at least a scout ship nearby. He had taken gambles before, but this is one he cannot afford to lose. Not his crew.

Not his family.

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem 9217 generated a lot of replies so I'm going to round them all up in one spot here. And because I see this as being one that could potentially go on forever, I'm going to ask that all replies be handled as comments on existing posts.

Anon:

Hi, OP here. I'm from Canada, dude. Nice try though.

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Anon:

Lol, of course the one person who assumed the submitter is American when the entire world has kinda been blowing up the last few years is the person with the EXACT poll-type scam posts that the submitter is talking about. Friendly reminder: people have problems with their own countries even if they aren't in the US. Also: this problem was probably submitted like a year or two ago, before the total firestorm in the US with the orange turd. Also: Your bigotry is showing.

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Anon:

Going down the rabbit hole in the post notes here is a trip. A person in the comments assumes OP is from the USA, then you go to their blog where (apparently) OP tells them they're from Canada, then the person goes on a rant: are you fucking shitting me. for real? you think ‘actually, im not from the us im from canada 🤓☝️’ is a good reason to let palestinians die? canada? you think being canadian is worse than being palestinian? you think you’re suffering more? canada? oh my god poor you, it’s so hard to be canadian. fucking canada?? canada???? This is like quintessential tumblr. It sounds like the Miette meme. I'm dying. I don't know whether I should cry too.

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Anon:

Did the person commenting in 9217 forget their meds or something. Unplug. Go outside. You're severely grass deficient.

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Anon:

In response to the "usamerican spotted" comment thread You really gonna call someone else a cunt while being xenophobic towards both Americans and Canadians? I hope you're just a troll, I don't want to believe someone that stupid exists.

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Anon:

"A xenophobe denying the personhood of Palestinians" is a wild ass, chronically online take for a post that just says they're burned out and don't want to get tricked into reading posts that are, like it or not, usually scams.

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Anon:

Hi, OP of 9217 here. Since there seem to be multiple people assuming I'm American, I just want to say, again: I am Canadian. Stop assuming everyone who mentions the state of their country is American. Or that everyone who is stressed out is American. Between our maple MAGA, Proud Boys, and racism, we've had a massive radical problem here for years, and it's only getting worse. I've been profiled. I've been followed to my car. I've been threatened with swatting. We have hate groups trying to ban books from our libraries. We have a TFW program that companies left and right have been exploiting, and leaving hundreds of thousands of people without properly-compensated work despite months of full-time searching, and abusing the employees they do hire. We have a healthcare crisis, and you can't get life-saving medicine fast enough. Our cost of housing is through the roof. Even after I found a job, I couldn't afford to live where I grew up, so I had to move back to a province where you're completely isolated from literally everything unless you can afford a car. That shit is expensive. We're threatened with constant talk of annexation from our neighboring country. Everything is up in the air. We haven't seen this much instability in decades. If you think "a Canadian can't be stressed out" for some ungodly reason, maybe because oh, joy, we have free healthcare, which is great if you don't need surgery yesterday and can afford to wait a year in a massive backlog, and a year for a damn referral, sure, that's great. I'd rather be in debt than die. So forgive me, and everyone else who understsnds that submission, for not wanting to deal with more shit. There are starving kids in Africa, there are people dying in genocides. We all know. Forcing ourselves to never take a reprieve from the shit news doesn't help them, or you, it only helps you feel better about your own uselessness, and I'm a pragmatic, not an idiot. There is still an invasion happening in Ukraine and problens in Uyghur, and some of you have been awful quiet about those because all you care about is clicking a button for the current Thing. Miss me with that.

Hi, crap, I'm OP of 9217 and I meant to say Xinjiang, not Uyghur in my ask. Is it possible to add this to that compilation post? Won't respond to anyone else either way, I've said my piece.

[damnfandomproblems]

Not related to the debate around this specific problem, but something I've had in mind for several months now and have been debating the best way to handle it.

For a while I've been considering whether it would be overstepping to put a hold on submissions related to Israel-Palestine. I try very hard to keep neutral as a mod, but that's regarding fandom debates, and several submissions have pushed into the territory of genocide denial and that's something that would be very irresponsible to try to act neutral about. It's disingenuous to try to paint the situation as "both sides" issue when the violence is disproportionately coming from one side. It is not antisemitism to want peace in Palestine.

Having said that, it is a fact that many fundraisers getting passed around are in fact scammers looking to profit of tragedy, so I suggest keeping a critical eye if you do chose to share or donate to fundraising posts.

This will be my last word on the issue. Problems that were already queued will still come out over the coming weeks, but any further Gaza-related submissions will be deleted. (And just in case anyone is unaware, you can block blogs from anonymous asks.)

Fandom Problem 9217 generated a lot of replies so I'm going to round them all up in one spot here. And because I see this as being one that could potentially go on forever, I'm going to ask that all replies be handled as comments on existing posts.

Anon:

Hi, OP here. I'm from Canada, dude. Nice try though.

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Anon:

Lol, of course the one person who assumed the submitter is American when the entire world has kinda been blowing up the last few years is the person with the EXACT poll-type scam posts that the submitter is talking about. Friendly reminder: people have problems with their own countries even if they aren't in the US. Also: this problem was probably submitted like a year or two ago, before the total firestorm in the US with the orange turd. Also: Your bigotry is showing.

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Anon:

Going down the rabbit hole in the post notes here is a trip. A person in the comments assumes OP is from the USA, then you go to their blog where (apparently) OP tells them they're from Canada, then the person goes on a rant: are you fucking shitting me. for real? you think ‘actually, im not from the us im from canada 🤓☝️’ is a good reason to let palestinians die? canada? you think being canadian is worse than being palestinian? you think you’re suffering more? canada? oh my god poor you, it’s so hard to be canadian. fucking canada?? canada???? This is like quintessential tumblr. It sounds like the Miette meme. I'm dying. I don't know whether I should cry too.

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Anon:

Did the person commenting in 9217 forget their meds or something. Unplug. Go outside. You're severely grass deficient.

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Anon:

In response to the "usamerican spotted" comment thread You really gonna call someone else a cunt while being xenophobic towards both Americans and Canadians? I hope you're just a troll, I don't want to believe someone that stupid exists.

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Anon:

"A xenophobe denying the personhood of Palestinians" is a wild ass, chronically online take for a post that just says they're burned out and don't want to get tricked into reading posts that are, like it or not, usually scams.

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Anon:

Hi, OP of 9217 here. Since there seem to be multiple people assuming I'm American, I just want to say, again: I am Canadian. Stop assuming everyone who mentions the state of their country is American. Or that everyone who is stressed out is American. Between our maple MAGA, Proud Boys, and racism, we've had a massive radical problem here for years, and it's only getting worse. I've been profiled. I've been followed to my car. I've been threatened with swatting. We have hate groups trying to ban books from our libraries. We have a TFW program that companies left and right have been exploiting, and leaving hundreds of thousands of people without properly-compensated work despite months of full-time searching, and abusing the employees they do hire. We have a healthcare crisis, and you can't get life-saving medicine fast enough. Our cost of housing is through the roof. Even after I found a job, I couldn't afford to live where I grew up, so I had to move back to a province where you're completely isolated from literally everything unless you can afford a car. That shit is expensive. We're threatened with constant talk of annexation from our neighboring country. Everything is up in the air. We haven't seen this much instability in decades. If you think "a Canadian can't be stressed out" for some ungodly reason, maybe because oh, joy, we have free healthcare, which is great if you don't need surgery yesterday and can afford to wait a year in a massive backlog, and a year for a damn referral, sure, that's great. I'd rather be in debt than die. So forgive me, and everyone else who understsnds that submission, for not wanting to deal with more shit. There are starving kids in Africa, there are people dying in genocides. We all know. Forcing ourselves to never take a reprieve from the shit news doesn't help them, or you, it only helps you feel better about your own uselessness, and I'm a pragmatic, not an idiot. There is still an invasion happening in Ukraine and problens in Uyghur, and some of you have been awful quiet about those because all you care about is clicking a button for the current Thing. Miss me with that.