#-like. a random twitter user saying some dumb shit is not the same as a republican senator saying that they want to murder trans people

[phoebespenglers]

if your "activism" is more focused on sending death threats to and bullying the people with opposing viewpoints to your own than actually helping the marginalized people you claim to care about, then you're no activist. you're just a dick and a bully

[ssamie]

epilogue. “your girlfriend’s kinda hot”

kozume kenma x fem dazai!reader

(bsd x hq)

tw: mentions of suicide and suggestive themes + dirty jokes

masterlist.          suicide freak!

"hey uh, welcome to my stream i guess" he said as he spared the camera a quick glance "im not really playing tonight because an incident has recently occurred in this household" kenma said with a tired sigh 

nobody else knew it, but the said 'incident' was y/n accidentally setting half of their living room on fire 

the reason? apparently, she wanted to try burning herself to death in the furnace. obviously, it didn't work. and all that's left from that is more shit for kenma to clean up and a trip to yosano-san. 

kenma is stressed. and y/n is still alive. both of them are facing problems. 

"can you please wear a maid outfit- no."

kenma shook his head as he continued playing, glancing at the chat once in a while to read the veiwers' questions and comments

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user: how about cat ears?! 

user: ^^ cATBOY CATBOY CATBOY 

user: u suck at this game wtf

kuroo.tetsu: hey kenma ;) 

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"first of all, i do not suck at minecraft thank you very much" kenma scoffed 

"second of all, go away kuroo. im still mad at you" 

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user: LMFAOOO kuroo what did u do?? 💀💀

user: he probably broke kenma's pc 

user: PLSS he's the one kenma’s throwing shade at on twitter 

kuroo.tetsu: STOP THE SLANDER 😔✋🏼

user: rooster head lookin ass 

user: ^^ NOT THE HAIR 

kuroo.testsu: 😃😃

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kenma sighed as he continued building a cute little cottage. he was currently vibing, just building y/n a cute cottage for her to probably burn later on. 

and he decided it would be nice to go on stream since his oh-so-lovely girlfriend was still out for work. 

ah yes, kenma has somehow kept y/n alive all those years. 

barely. 

hence why his phone was being bombarded with messages from her, all of which being blurry selfies. 

the photos had her sporting a huge grin while atsushi panicked in the background. 

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user: ayo, ur phone's blowing up 

user: do you have a girlfriend? 

user: KODZUKEN LET ME SUCK UR TOES 😋😋🤩

user: ^ ayo chill 😃

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kenma simply ignored them and continued on with his task. all was going well until a loud slam was heard. his cat-like eyes widened as he heard a familiar voice singing from downstairs, it was undoubtedly y/n. 

kenma chuckled nervously and muted his mic. 

but of course, cute dumb catboy didn't actually mute his mic. haha <3

he ignored all the questions in the chat, all of them being  speculations that he has a girlfriend. which he does, but they simply did not need to know that <3

"kenma~" she yelled out "i have a surprise for you!!" she said, followed by menacing giggles. 

kenma glanced at the camera before hopping off his gaming chair and peeking his head out of the door. 

"y/n, im streaming!! stay down there!" he yelled out in panic 

"aw, you're playing hard to get aren't ya?" she chuckled 

kenma deadpanned as he saw her limping up the stairs, with her bandages torn and unravelled, same with her clothes. he didn't really think much of it since this is usually how she comes home. 

its most likely just due to work and/or another suicide attempt.

"so, kenma.. you'll never know what just happened to me today" she started off with a goofy grin 

"im streaming, atleast let me turn it off first-" 

she paid no mind to him as she peeled off her ruined coat and pointed to her poorly bandaged stomach

"i got stabbed!" 

"you got what?!"

kenma furrowed his brows as he immediately rushed over to his side, cradling her face and waist as he inspected her injuries

"are you okay, kitten?" he asked worriedly 

"yep, apparently it wasnt deep enough to be fatal" she sighed dejectedly 

"please don't be sad about that." kenma groaned "can you undress?" 

"ara ara~ whats this?" she cooed "you're getting real bold, kenma" she smirked at him 

she unbuttoned her shirt and started pulling down on her skirt "but since you asked so nicely-" 

kenma simply sighed and shook his head. "i was gonna prepare you a bath but now im considering leaving you here to die" 

"but the second option would've been better though" she smiled at him 

"oh my fucking god." 

kozume kenma. (22)

╰─▸ university student, stock trader, pro-gamer, youtuber, ceo of bouncing ball lpt. 

╰─▸ y/n's struggling boyfriend. definitely needs a pay after all he's been through.

╰─▸ currently panicking because his girlfriend got stabbed.

l/n y/n. (22)

╰─▸ operative/member of the armed detective agency. 

╰─▸ kenma's girlfriend. kinda dumb, very hot to compensate for it. still hasn't died yet. 

╰─▸ currently bleeding and wounded. also hoping for severe blood loss.

"kenma, did you know" she mused in a teasing tone "lack of sleep and too much stress could possibly lead to poor memory and lack of awareness" 

kenma looked up at her with a look of confusion. he was currently kneeled down before her while she was sat on the bed as he cleaned her wound up with a damp towel. 

"why are you telling me this?" he asked 

"i just thought it probably applied to you" she snickered 

"why? i didnt forget anything-" 

he cut himself off with a huge intake of air. he slowly turned his head to look at the screen which still had his stream going on. to make it worse, the camera was on and they were both clearly in the camera's field of view. 

to make things worse worse, his mic was on the whole time and the live chat was in shambles. 

"i hate it here" he sighed 

kenma laid his head on her lap as he continued on patching her up, honestly not caring that this whole scene was being recorded for thousands or millions of people to see. 

"well, atleast the internet could finally see my beauty before i die" she laughed 

she ran her fingers through kenma's hair as he grumbled under his breath. kenma was a pretty private person. he made sure not to overshare, given his current 'influencer' status. and he was planning on keeping his relationship a secret, though it seems he can't do that anymore. 

"might as well say hi" she shrugged 

so of course, she then decided to walk up to the camera looking utterly dishevelled and roughed up. 

for context, the newly wrapped bandages around her stomach was being stained already by a crimson red hue and it was only getting worse the more she moved, undoubtedly messing up her wound. 

"hi, im kenma's girlfriend and if i see you flirting with him i will make you regret it" she grinned 

"y/n!" kenma groaned from the bed "you're close to dying right now, turn the stream off" 

ignoring him, she proceeded to read the veiwers' comments, laughing at some of them while she joked around. 

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user: heLLO?!?! 

user: GE HAS A GIRLFRIEND NOOO

user: bruh, did i just hear that right? were you fuckin stabbed? 

user: ur kinda hot tho

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kenma furrowed his brows as he reluctantly walked up behind her, reading the comments with varying reactions 

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user: well damn, hot bloody girl comes in and suddenly im lesbian

user: kenma looks so done

kuroo.tetsu: hi y/n ;) 

user: HER NAME IS Y/N

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"jesus christ shut up, kuroo" kenma grumbled out with a sigh 

"yup! yup! im y/n, and no, i am not a criminal. i swear." she shook her head 

"i got an injury from my job, that's all." she cleared up 

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user: tangina nyo sana ol

user: MSKAKAKKA

user: THIS IS LOWKEY ICONIC

user: time to scratch another gamer boy off my possible bf list 😔

user: girl wtf happened to u

user: that's wack bro 🚶‍♀️

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"great question, random person from the internet!" she beamed "see, what happened was.." 

"i went on a certain mission and got severely injured. though, when i called for help nobody responded" she said 

kenma furrowed his brows at her words. "why didn't anybody respond?" he asked. she sighed and fiddled with her torn bandages, pouting her lips as she does so. 

"well, when i told them that i was finally on death's door, all they said to me was 'congratulations!' and all that.." she said "what's your take on that, hm?" she asked kenma 

"im not surprised" he said 

she grinned at his words and leaned in for a kiss. "you're so mean to me, kenma~" she whined 

she licked her lips as she held his blushing face in her hands, she nuzzled their noses as she leaned in closer to him. 

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kuroo.tetsu: oh shit 😳

user: we all know where this is heading ;) 

user: sana ol talaga punyemas 

user: AYO CHILL 

user: why we goin so fuckin fasstttt 😳

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kenma hastily turned the camera off as soon as y/n's lips touched his. 

"kitten, were still- hmph-" 

he was only silenced as she slipped her tongue in his mouth, smirking lightly as she ran her fingers through his hair 

"thanks babe." she said as she pulled away, giving him a soft peck on his cheek and a nod "anyways.." she hummed as she turned the camera on once again 

she looked through the chat while kenma slaps his face to get rid of his blush. 

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user: ur fuckin freaky 

kuroo.tetsu: oya oya 😼😼

user: MS MAAM I JUST MET U AND I LOVE U ALREADY WJABSJSJJS

user: not me blushing chiiilllleeeeee 🏃‍♀️

user: KENMA IS FLUSTERED

kuroo.tetsu: kenma, i didnt expect this from u 😼

user: im so fucking JEALOUS GRR😡

user: girl r u bleeding rn 😃

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upon reading a certain comment, she subconsciously grazed her fingers against her bandaged wound. her eyes slightly widening as she felt a concerning amount of wetness seeping through

she glanced at kenma who was still calming himself down and inspected her wound 

"oh my.." she muttered, though she couldn't help but let a smile slip through 

so like any normal person would do, she simply ignored her bleeding wound and the fact that she was getting a bit lightheaded. haha <3

"anyways, let's answer some questions!" she beamed 

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user: what's ur full name

user: what's ur job miss girl 

user: are you possibly looking for a gf, because i am more 

than willing to take the spot 🚶‍♀️

user: how did you meet?? 

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"alright, those are all very nice questions" she chuckled. kenma, who's now calmed down, sat down beside her to look at the chat. 

"first, im l/n y/n" she mused "nice to meet ya" 

"second im a detective! mhm, im cooler than your fathers" 

"third, it depends, belladonna" she cooed as she sent the camera flirty smirk "are you perhaps willing to join me in a double suicide?" 

"oh god.." kenma grumbled. he pouted at her and shook his head in disapproval. "don't flirt with random girls" he whined 

"why not?" 

"uh- because i am your beloved boyfriend, is that not good enough of a reason??" 

"... anyways, we met at a cafe way back in high school" she said with a smile "also, i asked him to join me on a double suicide" she said 

she was smiling and nodding as if it was the most normal thing in the world, all while kenma nods along 

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user: wtf are u okay 🗿

kuroo.tetsu: teenage romance 🤩

user: cute ❤️

user: im concerned ❤️

user: ur a detective?? cool

user: LMAOO I'LL GO ON A DOUBLE SEWER SLIDE 

WITH U MOMMY 😩😩😋

user: ^^ SAME 😩

user: CHOKE ME WITH THOSE BANDAGES MOMMAE 😩

user: u r still bleeding 🚶‍♀️        

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kenma was simply glaring at the chat as more compliments and flirtatious comments came flowing in, all of which were directed to his girlfriend. 

"this is why i didn't wanna let people know about you.." kenma grumbled 

"aww, why not?" she asked with a playful pout 

"people are flirting with you." he sighed "also, stop asking for my girlfriend's onlyfans! she doesn't even have one!" he snarled

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user: LMAOO CATBOY IS ANGRY 😩

user: y/n-senpai spit on me 😡😡

user: drop the onlyfans 

user: chupapi munyanyo 😩

╰─━━━━━━━━━━━━─╯

"anyways, i'd hate to ruin the mood" she chimed in with a sluggish giggle "but im so wet kenma" she whined out 

a menacing smirk was etched on her lips as kenma spluttered in response, a bright red hue covering his face almost instantly as he faced her with widened eyes 

"y-y/n! why would you say that?!" he whisper shouted 

"cuz i am" she whined out as she grabbed his hand and trailed it down her abdomen 

she faced the camera and gave them a shit-eating grin as kenma mumbled out incoherent words 

"y/n we should-" he cut himself off as he felt the concerning amount of blood drip down his whole arm 

kenma's face paled as he looked up to see her smiling like a kid in a candy store, completely unbothered. 

"y/n, you idiot! why didn't you tell me!" kenma exclaimed 

"um- my girlfriend is bleeding. excessively. so uh- bye i guess" it was all he said before hastily ending his stream and turning off his computer. 

"y/n, let's get you to a hospital" he said as he reached down to carry her away. though she simply slapped his hands off and closed her eyes. 

"nope. this is my time, kenma. don't ruin it for me" she said 

"you're fucking dying!!" 

"well, would you like to join me?" 

"no"

"damn." she muttered in response 

"so...wanna fuck?" she asked sheepishly 

"for the love of god-" 

this was so messy :/

[vnshkk]

Let's talk about Kyo's media blackout.

It is with a slight reluctance that I post this. It's not wise to mention Tanuki online nor share what they talk about within the overseas fandom for a multiple of reasons. 

1. I don't want them to get angry at me

2. I don't want the overseas fandom to flip out and judge the Japanese fandom

3. I just want everyone to be chill and happy and flowers

But I've seen a lot of people freaking out, a lot of random theories floating around and people worrying so I wanted to post this theory and open it for discussion. 

Of course this isn't fact. It's pure speculation. But given the timeframe, PERSONALLY I feel like this may have had something to do with Kyo decision. 

So I post this with two DISCLAIMERs. 

1. As mentioned this is not in any way fact. There is no proof that Kyo does or doesn't look at Tank. I simply find it interesting the sequence of events, the timing of the media blackout and I am only translating this for those who are interested. I hope this doesn't cause any huge arguments or any bad blood. It's simple here to discuss and consider.

2. Please do not judge the whole fandom based on Tank. Just like any forum, any comment section on the world wide web; there will be people who leave negative feed back. It is a tiny portion of people and not a reflection of the Japanese fandom as a whole. Judging them based on what they said would be like someone looking at negative comments or sarcastic jokes on Tumblr and judging the English speaking fandom. That's not to say what they post is okay, but it's just dumb shit posting and shouldn't be taken to heart. 

you get me fam?

Okay, so I contemplated posting screenshots and translating what happened immediately after Kyo changed his profile picture up to when he deleted everything but as I said I don't want to be taken out by angry tank users so I'm just gonna translate a selection of posts. 

These posts are taken from the Meg thread (remember the girl linking arms with him at a concert? That's Meg.) which to be honest is a shit show. It was a thread born from those notorious pics and for over a year now has remained a place where people post rumours, shit talk, complain and just make shit up a lot of the time. So please, AGAIN, bare that in mind. It is a place of negativity born from a scandal that shocked a lot of the fandom. Aint nothing nice ever gonna be said there. Periodt. In reality a lot of the people who post there are still fans of Kyo. I think they're just still a little hurt by the way it came to light about Meg. 

After Kyo posted his new picture I checked tank before going to bed because I was curious about what their reactions would be and everyone had exploded. During the 7 hours I was asleep Kyo deleted everything and left the internet forever so tbh given the fact he was probably bored in a hotel in Fukuoka, just did a radio show, probs wanted to see peoples reaction, etc I personally, believe he was on Tank. This is a running theme in the thread itself and people often say he actively browses it (this is not a major thing, a lot of guys in bands browse tank same as celebs browse twitter. Why Kyo would look at the meg thread in particular? idk. ) 

SO TLDR 

Yesterday around 7pm the thread suddenly changed to mixed reactions after Kyo changed his Twitter pic. 

"His new twitter icon had me shook lol" 

"I hope he changes his instagram one too" 

"Idk I don't like how quickly he's become some kind of social media old fogey" 

"Kyo's turned into a social media monster too" (*edit; my bad Yuchi is beer monster, Shinya is social media monster lol)

"It's kinda cheap" 

"I get you, it's like he's lost his values" (probably because Kyo has always made big deal about how much of himself he shares) 

 It continued like that for a while with people more or less saying the same thing until he posts about leaving social media.

"He just suddenly said he's not gonna do social media anymore" 

"lol after he went to all the effort of changing his profile picture" 

"I'm shook" 

"annoying 40 year old nut job" 

"Bet you he came on here"  

"Do you normally change you icon then quit" 

"Join Kyo online" 

"idg why even though Kyo's had so many haters since he first started twitter he's suddenly affected by it??" 

"I still think he's cute even when he's sulking like this lol" 

"I knew he was looking at Tanuki"

"I don't get why he's suddenly deleting it after all this time?? It's like what is this old man on about?" 

"It's lame how he's making such a big deal of out saying he's quitting" 

(lots of people agreed with this post saying that he's acting childish)

"I wonder what happened? Like everything seemed fine recently. I mean we'll never know but like I'm sure he has a lot going on.." 

"I can't believe he basically wiped his instagram clean but left all the pics of cake and omurice lmao" 

"If only he'd go to sleep earlier and eat a banana the serotonin would fix everything" 

The random comments and mixed reactions continued for all of Friday.  One of the main points that stuck out after the initial reactions was how people began to become suspicious that this was merely a tactic to get people to join Kyo online with people claiming this was typical of business man kyo,  that it was about that time of year where they usually begin to advertise and promote in order to get new members. 

So, allow me to play devils advocate for a second. As someone who is a member of Kyo online I have to admit since he started posting more and more online (compared to hardly ever on Kyo online), the membership has become more or less invalid. In the past it was worth the money for the videos and pictures that as fans we rarely saw. But if he's going to post them online then it raises the question (tickets to concerts aside) is there any point in being a member if you can just get the content for free?  I'd imagine that this plays some kind of role in why the reactions are often negative. Members of Kyo online have suddenly gone from having something exclusive that was only for them, to simply being a part of something anyone can access. 

Another point someone brought up is that whilst it's acceptable for Kyo to be upset. It is very, very childish and the timing is selfish.  Sukekiyo literally made their instagram days ago and suddenly Kyo states how he isn't going to post online anymore. This act instantly casts a negative feel on Sukekiyo's insta. It almost gives a vibe that any picture Kyo is in might be "against his will". Kyo is not new to criticism. He's been in this game for 20 plus years. Everyone who is in the Indies scene knows about Tank. Every fan, every bandmen, knows it's a bad place filled with mostly shit posting and rumours and doesn't represent fans a whole. 

The meg thread is simply fans flogging a dead horse, posting any poor Japanese girl with a straight fringe and some tattoos, anyone who looks even a little like Meg and saying she MUST be a groupie of Kyo. Which begs the question why would Kyo go there? Why would he look at that? Why would he want to subject himself to that kind of thing and then punish the majority for some dumb comments a few bored fans made? What was he expecting by going there?

Of course there is no proof Kyo lurks. But the reality is he probably does, I mean he's only human, he' s bound to be curious about fans reactions for Madara, etc and where else to get honestly reactions than an anonymous forum? Personally, as someone who has lurked tank for a few years now, I think he reads it. There have been times in the past where he's mentioned certain things, done certain things and I've thought "hmmm that's weird tank was literally talking about that". But once again there's no proof. It's just one of those vibes you get sometimes. (one major one I can think of is during the interview for mode of gauze where he said everyone massively complained about it. I know people can submit questionnaires after lives but I feel that a lot of Japanese people are more brutally honest when they can hide behind anonymity. ) 

Considering the "staff" posted a pic of his feet on the sukekiyo instagram today, I feel like this is just Kyo being (sorry to say) butthurt and it might just blow over.  A lot of the comments mention his age, mention how he's clearly trying and failing to copy 20 year olds by using insta, that he's lame or cringe and that's gonna hurt anyones pride. But I honestly think Kyo should be looking at the billions of comments on instagram of people who love him rather than a few trolls online. 

So with that being said I hope this was an interesting read and gave a little insight into why Kyo is often private. It was a big deal that he was posting so much and actively using instagra. I for one was very happy. I believe that in this day and age it is something that is required in order to engage with your audience and keep a good relationship. Hazuki and Ruki are good examples of this and Ive been saying for the longest time I wish Kyo would get more on board with it. So it's a shame he's left at the first hurdle. 

Oh well. This is why we can't have anything nice isn't it. 

[picsofshiro]

You said you have a person on trial. How do you test someone to make sure they are trustworthy enough to run your blogs?

I run a 2 week-1 month trial from the moment they start posting on the blog to see a few things. but before that, here’s what I do. This is based off of how I also handle other social media pages as someone who handles 5+ facebook pages as a chat/post moderator, 5+twitter accounts, and 2+instagram accounts. According to fans/followers who follow our professional work, it helps them feel safe to interact with us as staff doing our job (radio/reporting) and interact with fellow listeners/viewers consuming media, processing it, and discussing it. The same can be applied to other public spaces like these fan blogs. 

1. What’s the person like?

I check out their blogs/have seen them interact before with other people in other online spaces in and out of fandom. This means how they interact with other fans, with interacting with staff/voice actors in public spaces. I love Voltron as a show, I just personally focus my love where it counts. Lots of people complain when interviews come out, hate what happened in canon. Can you be critical of things said? Sure. But the thing is, it feels weird to take anything said at face value when Voltron as it stands is not a completed project so things can change and how we see them as the missing pieces come together. I take everything with a grain of salt and see where things go and I hope the people I work with are the same way and are cordial when interacting with others on their thoughts on characters, ships, the show itself and when interacting with the kind people working on Voltron.

More for what I look for and how I run stuff is under the cut and the standard I try to set for myself and for others who wish to work with me cause this is more volunteering to help out, it’s not technically our content to own, its fan run, and nobody is paid. But if you’re gonna do it, you gotta give it the love it deserves.  

2. Enforce set rules.

I got common sense stuff like don’t let bigotry slide when it’d directed at us as mods and people interacting on the posts that are hosted here. Block ant!’s on site since they are a source of a lot of why our fandom is accused of being garbage vs any other group within the fandom that’s chill, especially those who still currently openly hate/dehumanize other fans minding their business. Block them if they interact with the blog via reblogs/likes if you catch them cause that stuff spreads to other blogs who assume our fandom experience is for them — it’s not. For the most part, blocking is good if I’m/the mod running a blog is just tired and doesn’t wanna deal with inane bs or things we’ve already answered if a user or anon didn’t do their research to look through my history of asks and whether or not I’ve addressed their question/didn’t read our response because they’re not looking for our actual answer, they’re looking for something else. I don’t deal with people spreading misinformation like pushing br0ganes which is currently confirmed never a thing by staff repeatedly, pushing whether or not a ship is canon (I have even politely said that I appreciate sheith’s bond over at pics of sheith but never said it was canon as a ship), and I definitely don’t like individuals that shit on characters/ships or how others express their excitement over content or their interpretations or fanon fun. And I don’t appreciate when people get upset with staff for saying something wrong when the show is not completed and they can only say certain things in a certain way if they choose to answer questions at all then attack other fans and justifying it because they’re upset. Nobody gets to throw a tantrum and hurt others. Take responsibility for shitty behavior

3. Choose your battles - carefully decide what discourse to address.

I understand that a lot of people don’t have the time or mental energy to do what I do when I happen to bring down people who claim to have some higher morality/authority to speak from. Sometimes it’s outright bs and I block immediately, not giving my attention, move forward, nobody has to know about it unless I want them to. Maybe I joke about it. But that’s it. I’ve actually just skipped out and blocked some IP’s on this blog cause it was a “nah” kind of day. But I make sure to get a screencap, maybe even post it to my main blog because my main blog is linked in the description of these blogs so people can dispute why they were blocked from interacting with the blog. Then we can examine how I misunderstood a message if that’s the problem, cause that happens. It’s the internet so people’s tone of voice is lost, people might have brain issues that cause them to type up the wrong stuff or they insist they said what they said and I have to see if I’m not the only one “misunderstanding" it cause we’re all trying to communicate here, in the common English language which his a clusterfuck anyhow. It happens where I just can’t read shit but I have and try to rectify my mistakes.

And when I do address it, I do so point by point, concisely. That’s what I get for having a mother who is a paralegal and helped write legal arguments, deconstructs her child’s stupid arguments when he got in a dumb ass fight with her. I learned from it and now I can frame my arguments properly to follow logical structures based on truth, understanding how the English language works to examine what they said and what it sounds like, and show the true meaning of what was said which is often something pretty screwed up. They usually (as far as I know between one anon and the next) never come back to bother me again. Mods have to be able to have the stamina to handle it, and run it by me to make sure the argument is sound because we try to keep ourselves and everyone else safe.

4. be open to opportunities

If they continue to argue with me on my main blog which is where I’m fine dealing with discourse unless it turns into violent threats/harassment, I’ve already blocked them across the board at all the picsof blog urls I have in my account. But let’s say this person has come to understand why they are wrong…then I can find their name, unblock them hopefully, and everything moves forward and I keep tabs to show that they’ve changed their behavior. Hopefully because tumblr tells me if i block an anon, that i can’t ever undo it but I’ve also heard it’s still possible so who knows really on this broken website?

How I run this tight ship and expect others to run it (no pun intended).

1. Screencap for an hour or two - organize by character/ship -> season -> episode folders and number the images so that it’s in order frame by frame, then play around with the same image and crop accordingly just for fun. This gives random choices and variety for the next part.

2. draft and tag - for characters I use canon voltron legendary defender names

#keith #voltron legendary defender #voltron #vld

vs keith kogane which his defender of the universe. I’m a stickler for canon which is why i also tag

#shiro (how he’s often referred to) #takashi shirogane (in written canon and uttered by his own character in the dnd episode) #voltron legendary defender #voltron #vld

for a ship blog, i follow a similar formula but people get upset if they are looking for 1 character but don’t care for the ship so i try to be courteous and leave out characters and focus on the ship - hence the following:

#sheith #voltron legendary defender #voltron #vld

then as a mod, i have fun and put my thoughts into the screencap at the end of all that when I feel like it, for example #keith looks cute here / #shiro just [redact] me / #wow they hold each other so tenderly

Do this until i get between 90-200 posts in my drafts, then hit queue at random to scramble up the order in which they queue. Will the blog visitors see a screencap from episode 1? or episode 10? nobody knows. But it gets boring if i just queued everything in order which is why I do this. Predictability is boring.

3. Set queue post to 3 posts a day and leave, this is a fucking hobby and isn’t your life - focus on what needs to be done, this is just low maintenance fun. (Look at me rhyming!) Follow the stuff above with how you handle discourse and of course the mod who should obviously love the blog of their focus can have fun with any individuals asking about headcanons/ideas about ships. I wouldn’t give someone who doesn’t ship Allurance because it will show in their work that they don’t care when they’d rather have Shance and vice versa. Or a Pidge fan running a Hunk blog when they’d rather do Pidge. For these other blogs outside of the 3 I’m managing right now, i might have teams of people simply because we can all keep tabs on each other and be held accountable for our actions if we make mistakes. 

[missandrogyny]

The first time he sees it, he’s scrolling through Instagram while eating his breakfast.

Tag someone who would love it here, the caption on an Instagram post says, accompanied by a thumbnail of a lady straddling what looks to be a giant rod. Louis stops scrolling out of habit, taking a bite out of his bowl of cereal.

He doesn’t realize what, exactly, he’s watching, until the one minute Instagram video starts replaying itself. This time, Louis finds himself marginally more awake, watching a bunch of people straddling giant penises, taking photos of giant penises, reading fucking signs from penises on the side of the road. Because, apparently, Instagram decided to show him an ad about a penis park in South Korea.

“What the fuck,” he declares, “is this.”

From somewhere to his left, Clifford barks. He’s eating his breakfast as well, the dog food Louis had put in his doggy bowl, but he always likes to bark whenever Louis talks out loud. He probably thinks Louis’ offering him leftovers or something.

“Good boy,” Louis says absently, his eyes still glued to his phone. He doesn’t really understand why he’s seeing this right now. It’s arse-o’-clock in the fucking morning. He doesn’t wanna see any penises while eating breakfast unless he’s about to get laid.

Besides, how does Instagram even know that he likes dick, anyway?

“Cliff, do you think Instagram knows that I’m gay?” He asks absently, his thumb keeping the screen lit up. The video is playing for the third time, now. It’s getting really weird. The people at Instagram probably think he’s never seen a penis before. Louis should really scroll past now.

Clifford barks again. Louis hums. “Yeah, maybe,” he says nonsensically, before scrolling down. He’s about to look at the next photo on his feed when he catches sight of the account that posted it.

“Ladbible,” Louis frowns. “Huh.” Guess it’s not an Instagram ad after all.

That’s strange, because he knows the ladbible Instagram account--he’d followed them a few months ago, because they’d been posting videos about football and other things related to Louis’ interest. Now, when he clicks on the username and scrolls through the account, he finds nothing but pictures of memes. And not even good memes.

“Huh,” Louis says again. He’s about to click unfollow when Clifford starts whining, scratching at the door. He sighs, sets his phone on the table, and goes to let his dog out.

---

He promptly forgets about the ladbible until a few days later, while sitting on Liam’s couch and watching a film. It’s one that Louis has seen countless times, so he has no qualms about opening his various social media. He only ever likes the action scenes anyway.

He’s doing just that now, opening Instagram and liking a bunch of photos when he spots it. I care deeply about like 5 people in my life and about 500-600 dogs I’ve never met on Instagram, the photo reads.

He frowns at it, confused, before he realizes that ladbible posted it. “The fuck,” he mutters to himself, then leans over to elbow Liam. “Liam, look at this.”

Liam, who’d been watching the film, turns to look at Louis’ phone. “Um?” He says.

“Isn’t it dumb?” Louis asks, clicking on the comments and scrolling through it. He can’t believe this shit even got 82,000 likes. There is a lot of better content out there that deserves 82,000 likes.

“It’s relatable...?” Liam replies, sounding a bit unsure. Louis huffs.

“No, it’s not,” he says. “You’re telling me you only love six people in your life and six hundred dogs?’

Liam shrugs. “Dogs are cute.”

“Yes, but that doesn’t mean you only care about six people,” Louis argues. “Like, you’ve got your mum, and your dad, then Ruth and Nicola. Then you’ve got your nan. Your aunts and uncles. Your cousins. Andy. Me and Zayn. That’s easily more than six people.”

Liam looks amused. “Tommo, you do know what a meme is, right?

“Of course I do, Payno,” Louis says, rolling his eyes, “but this is really just shitty.”

He doesn’t really think much about his next few moves, just taps on the comment bar and types out, As much as I love dogs, it’s posts like this that show how the Lad Bible is going down hill. Sad to see ! He presses send, then scrolls past the post, going back to liking a bunch of photos.

---

After that, ladbible pops up much more frequently on his feed. It’s really rather annoying, because Louis will just be scrolling peacefully down, trying to update himself on the lives of his sisters and his mates, when there’ll be a random meme in the middle of it all. And it’s not even good memes--they’re shitty ones, some of them even screenshotted and reposted from Twitter or Facebook. Louis finds himself irrationally annoyed by them.

He knows, at the back of his mind, that the logical thing to do here is to just unfollow, so he never sees their content again. But Louis has never been logical, and hate-following someone just sounds like a lot more fun than unfollowing. At least there’s something he can take his annoyance out on when he’s had a pretty shit day.

It’s pretty obvious to Louis that the person currently running ladbible knows nothing about being a lad. Lads often talk about football and sports and doing fun, adventurous things. Lads do not post six versions of the Spongebob meme, or videos of fluffy kittens and puppies. Lads also do not post videos about eating penis cakes.

(Although Louis admittedly watches that one.)

It’s not all bad, though. There are times when ladbible posts something relevant to Louis’ interests. A video of some blokes doing pretty sick skateboarding tricks. A video of a bunch of men doing stunts for an action film. A video about a drive-through for Gregg’s. 

Louis shows his appreciation for that by commenting Finally some REAL news on here.

Ladbible follows it up by posting a photo of lightning hitting water with the caption Fuck these 6 fish in particular - God. 

Louis rolls his eyes. Not funny . he comments. Get better.

---

It all comes to a head a few days later, when ladbible posts a photo of Drake. Why does Drake look like he bought a drink from across the bar and now he’s just waiting to be acknowledged, the caption says, and okay, fine, Louis can kind of see it, but really, this is just unnecessary. What did Drake even do to ladbible? Drake is more of a lad than, well, ladbible.

Who runs this shit ? He comments, during the half-time of a footie game. Content used to be looooooooooads better.

He locks his phone after that, focuses his attention back to the game. Man U is currently tied with Chelsea, and they’re about to do some penalties. There’s a big chance that Man U might lose this match. Louis might actually cry if they do.

Luckily, they don’t, and Louis finds himself jumping on his sofa happily, celebrating the one-point lead Man U had. He pulls his phone out of the couch cushions, just so he doesn’t actually crush it, pauses when he sees he’s got a reply from ladbible.

@louist91 This is Harry :D it reads. Who are you?

Louis blinks at it, slowly settles back down on the couch. Ladbible replied to him. What the fuck.

He’s never really thought about what he’d do should this happen--Ladbible has about four-point-five million followers on Instagram, after all. Each of their posts gets an average of eight hundred comments. Louis had always thought his comments would disappear under all the others.

Except. Ladbible saw his comment and replied. What the actual fuck.

There’s only one thing to do. Louis takes a deep breath, taps on the comment bar. He’s never been one to quit when confronted, and he’s certainly not one to run away with his tail between his legs.

Hi Harry, he types out cautiously. I’m Louis . Why is the content on here shit ?

He sends it, watches as it appears under the other comments. The post he’d commented on is getting quite a bit of attention now, so Louis thinks that maybe ladbible--Harry--won’t find his comment anymore.

But he does. Hi Louis! the comment says. it’s not shit, it’s funny. :D

Apparently, Harry is an avid smiley face user. Who knew. It’s shit, Louis replies, his fingers flying furiously over the keyboard. What happened to all the content about footie and going on trips around the world?

Niall does those! :D comes the reply, a few seconds later.

Where’s Niall then ?

Southeast Asia. Harry says. He asked me to update his account while he’s there.

Louis hums. How long will he be there ?

Six months, the comment says. 

Louis’ eyes widen. Six months?! He has to deal with shitty memes for six months?!

I have to deal with shitty memes for six months ? he types out, because he’s not very good at keeping thoughts like this to himself.

If you don’t like them just unfollow the account , Harry replies, and the words in Louis’ head sound a bit angry. Condescending. or better yet, make your own account.

He’s so--Louis finds himself getting riled up. Is it so wrong to want good Instagram content? To get what he joined Instagram for? Harry isn’t even the original owner of the account. Who the fuck does he think he is, telling Louis to unfollow for not posting the content he wants? If anything, Louis should be the angry one. Louis knows what ladbible should be posting, and this guy Harry is out here, just fucking everything up. He signed up for cool, laddy content. Not shitty Twitter Screenshots and six versions of that damned Spongebob meme.

“Fine,” he mutters to himself. “Fine.” He comments the same thing on the post, locking his phone and placing it on the coffee table. If Harry wants him to make his own account, Louis will damn well makes his own account. And it will be much better than the shit Harry posts on a daily basis.

---

Which is why the next day, @betterladbible is born.

[trikkidetroit]

Social media & why the fuck am I even still awake?

I’m pretty sure, out of all social media outlets, Tumblr is the only one that actually makes me semi-happy…. it’s just a bunch unique people posting cool pictures & spouting off random musings & in it’s simplicity it is inspiring. Pinterest is cool & definitely helpful & a great source of inspiration, but it doesn’t ease my mind at all. In fact, it gets overwhelming. Frankly it becomes downright depressing when you realize 90% of the shit you’re pinning are the beautiful places you’ll never go, the wondrous marks on the globe you’ll never travel to, the amazingly unattainable things you’ll never possess, and the recipes that you are probably never going make…. for that dinner party that you’re never gonna throw…. in that custom kitchen in the dream home you’ll never have Facebook is much more self-explanatory in it’s misery. The more friends you collect, the less private your life becomes. There’s a fine line between harmless networking and destructive infringement on personal privacy in Facebookland that is skirted constantly. And there are those who think it’s okay to just completely invade another person’s private life (because they’re “on social media”, fuck their privacy right?) These bottom-feeder-esque leech people that choose to disregard the Facebook line of morality, and the difference between right and wrong altogether, & might act in a manner that is destructive in terms of lynch-mob bullying, deliberately attempting to ruin a person’s reputation, or saying things & acting in a way behind a computer screen that they wouldn’t dare say to their targets face out in public. Pussies. You hear more and more these days about kids that commit suicide, or are totally fucked up from this website due to malicious cyberbullying by their peers. Facebook users report FOMO, and tend to feel inadequate about their own lives when they see friends of theirs who think it’s a popularity contest, posting pictures of amazing things that they’re doing every single day, or the “super enlightening thing” that they’re going to say or do that’s going to change everybody’s life via a post. It’s OK to post pictures from the one.. or two.. or five….. or fucking 20 vacations one may go on a year…. or if one’s life is just a vacation, posting pictures from that sweet end of the deal in life they’re living….. but be mindful & attempt to recognize the line between “I’m posting this to feed my superego” and “I’d like to share this with my friends and family”. Not to mention the countless hours of mindless scrolling, liking everybody’s pictures, checking to see if your pictures got likes, and feeling the need to interject on some political issue you have no base knowledge of or some social issue that doesn’t concern you…. and I don’t mean to give anyone a complex (though if you’re that high & mighty to actually be offended by the things that I’m saying, you probably deserve one). I’m just using these examples because even I am guilty of these waste-of-time, dumbing-down-of-society-overall activities in my Facebook history. And there’s Twitter…. I for one think it’s kind of stupid. I mainly use it mockingly, or to share mindless drivel, or to post a shock-tweet here & there to see if I can elicit some type of indirect, latently passive aggressive online response from one of the trolls, or to share semi-pertinent news stories. But I will give it this: celebrities and even our commander-in-chief tend to love this platform to share information because it keeps them relevant… really if you use Twitter and you’re not a celebrity or a politician or a musician then you’re really just there to spectate on what the fuck those people are doing day-to-day or hour-to-hour. It’s a quick way to get straight-to-the-point information across assertively and decisively, which can become a problem because when one doesn’t use the adequate follow-up information via paragraphs to express themselves after making an in-your-face tweet, there’s a lot of room for misinterpretation on what the fuck they just said in that 140-characters space. Here’s why it is depressing to me: I feel that too much is going on in my head at any given moment to appropriately express myself in one brief, haiku-like statement. If social media was poetry, and the different forms of poetry represented each media outlet….Twitter would be the haikus. Sometimes a haiku is profound, but how much can you fucking express in such a small space? And to extend that thought on to multiple tweets just gets confusing in terms of continuity & it throws the reader off so it’s best to just keep it short to begin with. Also, who or what the fuck am I tweeting too? I’m not a celebrity, I’m not rich, I’m not famous. I’m not an inspiring author or an astrophysicist or a career politician. I’m just some asshole. Sometimes I just do it because… oh I don’t know…. I’m sick in the head and think somebody might be reading it that actually thinks I’m a celebrity of sorts… although I’m not. And if I tweet enough I could trick them into believing I was someone important. But even that wouldn’t fill the empty hole inside that twitter creates. Instagram is kind of like Tumblr in the sense that you’re sharing cool photos that you either find or you take yourself but you’re limited to a box format in terms of photos dimensions which is annoying, and a bunch of generic filters, and it’s not really a blog. I guess it’s cool if you don’t have much to say or if you do a lot of video blogging, but for those of us who enjoy good old fashioned writing as a means of self-expression, it’s kind of a sad media outlet. :( *edit: I have been able to find quite a few meaningful blog-like instagrams recently with purpose, mainly by people who foster animals or do charity work. Reddit is just a massive fucking forum board, and Snapchat is for college students & 20-somethings that want to show their friends the great time they’re having getting shitfaced but don’t want any record of it to remain so it doesn’t get out to mom. It’s also good for, I’m guessing, unimpressive dick pics from guys that are probably sending the same picture to their whole female Snapchat list. Which is a depressing thought in and of itself. I guess what I’m trying to say is social media sucks, I’m kind of an extroverted-introvert, so I tolerate the idiocy that breeds in these networks, but I feel my most at home & able to express myself amongst like-minded individuals on this particular site. I have been kind of melancholy over the past couple months… probably because I tried to shut my Tumblr down because I thought my life was going to get suddenly interesting enough to where I wouldn’t really need to blog that much anymore because I’d be too busy living my exciting life. Well, suffice to say that never happened, so starting back up is helping me cope… Besides the fact that (in the far reaches of the Tumblr universe) there is some great porn.. I mean.. erotic art. So thank you Tumblr for not sucking.. and for anybody who actually reads all of this, I’m sorry in advance.

[nightcoremoon]

looking for input on something

so currently in one of the fantasy series I'm writing the first installment of, I kind of noticed something... queer

so 7 of the characters are pyromancers and I accidentally made all of them gay. except one. we have:

-bisexual disaster dad, O

-steamship pilot lesbian, K

-florist panro ace, P

-armor knight lesbian, A

-royal guard twink, T

-a moth man, S

-the token straight, L

...

O is the kind of guy who encounters orphan kids and immediately adopts them-kinda like Bruce Wayne- because of a tragic backstory that killed his family- again, like Bruce Wayne- and he's bi but doesn't really think too much about romance- oh oops he's just Batman. and he is a pyromancer, but only in one arm since the other arm is prosthetic looking like sekiro.

K and P are sisters, major red oni blue oni but their palettes are more orange and green, and live a frugal life alone after losing their parents. K is soft femme awkward lesbean while P is a pan ace social butterfly. they're pyromancers.

A is the "oh shit we're being invaded" button, deployed via zeppelin airdrop with a fuckhuge flame claymore and emerald green armor; like if flame swordsman and gearfried the iron knight had a baby. she has an Eowyn reveal but it's when she kisses her wife. also she's trans. the sword's fire is powered by pyromancy.

T runs fast and leaves walls of fire behind him. he exists because he's part of a group whose names are based on the 8 horses of Helios so since he was Phlegon he... has fire magic. I coincidentally made him gay because why not.

S is not mothman, he is a moth man. he's an anthropomorphic man sized moth man from a race of anthropomorphic man sized moth men. but with that being said since mothman is an LGBT icon I decided to make him LGBT, which stands for Let's Get Bright Things. but also he has a husband. and he can throw fireballs. this is because that would be very fucking cool.

L is a merchant's daughter who has a strong affinity for dragons and it eventually gives her fire magic and the ability to

all of these were completely coincidental means of settling on their sexuality. them also all using fire magic and also being the only ones who use fire magic I am considering...

what if I used fire magic as an allegory for gay?

like, I'm not gonna make some huge political "being gay is okay" big deal about it because homophobia never existed in this universe so that's normal n shit like it is now without all of the fuckin post-british-colonialism degens. it's just a fact of life that some people are gay oh well who cares. which is i guess itself a political statement in this modern hellscape, you can't take five steps or say racism is bad without some boomer getting mad and crying because they can't be evil misogynists without getting criticized anymore. but I'm not gonna have an extensive preachy segment because we don't want that, we want dame archer and the pride knights fighting eldritch horrors. but but BUT!

what if I... sneak in some social commentary? like the only good part of x men 3, which used bobby telling his parents about his ice powers as a euphemism for coming out of the closet, except instead of being good in screenplay but clunky in execution and also brian singer being yucky, it's actually good because I wrote it? it's conceited to say that, yes, but I'm confident in my abilities. I already have there being distaste for magic users sorta like with korra's equalists and a segment where O takes a ride on K's air ship (the city is built in the side of a crack in a cliff and they use hot air zeppelins as public transport and pyromancers use their fire to work the hot air stuff) and she's all nervous because he's comin from the antimagic part of town but he sees that she's kinda uncomfy so he starts a fire and uses it to light his pipe and she kinda relaxes because oh thank god he's just like me, which as I was looking over that I was like. well shit that might as well be allegory for gay especially since I thought of mckellen's interview where he was nervous about telling this cab driver he was gay bht the dude was like "oh cool me too". and that prompted me to look at the rest of the pyromancers before i wrote this.

now obviously I know that the answer is most likely going to be a resounding, oh that may be cool if you somehow manage to not fuck it up. that's me using logic and common sense. but. at the same time, things like flaming and flamer being used as insults towards pyromancers is a natural consequence, and it will not end well. and there may even be a group of people who find it offensive to use the allegory, and even saying that it trivializes the struggles that gay people have gone through to just reskin it with something fantastical like magic. or whatever. because at this point I'm not sure what is or is not offensive anymore since 12 year olds will just say random shit on twitter and everyone goes along with whatever dumb shit they have to say for 5 minutes before moving onto the next thing to send death threats to people over. so I'm only asking this on the off chance that this actually is offensive in some way that I've not thought about because I genuinely want to seek out other people's perspectives on this.

TL;DR

would it be cool if I used the social struggles of those who use fire magic in a fantasy novel as an allegory for gay people in the real world,

or would that be dumb and stupid and harmful and bad?