#How does the internet work

[gagoochi]

Ayo what's the right way to reblog stuff?

I'm not really familiar with Tumblr etiquette (I'm mostly on Pinterest and Youtube) and I keep wanting to share the cool posts I find and like but also I read one (1) post several years ago that said not to reblog things and now I'm really anxious about it because Idk if that's just for their stuff specifically or if it's more of a "only reblog if it says you can on the post" thing.

I don't want to cause any problems or stress for anyone, I just sometimes find posts I REALLY like or REALLY agree with and I want to share them on my blog but is that a thing people do here? Sorry if this is a dumb question I've been wondering for literal years but I'm just now getting the nerve to ask. Also if someone could explain other Dos and Don'ts on here I'd really appreciate it because I just wanna hang out and make/interact with posts.

Also how do the tags work? Tagging on websites in general has always confused me but Tumblr seems to take the "rules" and put them into a blender and then dilute it with Monster Energy to make some unknowable mixture of whatever they want and I'm just kinda confused on what is and isn't normal or ok? Like am I gonna go to Tumblr Hell if I mess up the tags?

Also if anyone has any OTHER social media advice to share that'd also be nice I wasn't allowed to make accounts on stuff as a child much at all and I'm very confused by it all and I've tried to look up tutorials but they just make my brain feel like cheese and I'm left with only a vague idea of how things might hypothetically possibly work. Or is that just how it works? Like, am I SUPPOSED to be this confused?

Thanks to anyone who responds in any way (unless it's to be mean to me without even giving me any answers) any information or advice helps

[helianthus21]

once again marveling at what a miracle it was that Armand, who wanted to examine a blood sample of the first vampire he knew, who eagerly debates philosophical questions until sunrise, who wants to get to the bottom of every new thing he discovers, got to find Daniel Molloy, the investigative journalist whose literal job and life mission it is to explore and uncover truth and meaning like?? can two people be more perfect for each other??

[strong-with-the-sarcasm]

Social Media Time #2

[What else is going on over on Gotham Twitter?]

Main Masterlist Regent Masterlist Mundane Macabre Social Media time #1

[#1: Danny confirmed troll on Gotham twitter.]

[#2: Phantom is confirmed troll.]

[#3: Gothamites stan a badass regent]

A/N: yes many gothamites simp over the regent, this has officially be confirmed. It's not just Jason anymore :)

AU: #3

[ganondoodle]

got this comment on my answer to the anon asking me why i hate totk:

" @comentter

I feel all of this so much, especially the not just lack of connective tissue, but the active dismissal of any connection to BotW, let alone any past Zelda games. That Ganondorf was just a name nothing more... I've only recently been able to enjoy BotW stuff again. I have a question though. Can you elaborate about doubling down on the flaws of BotW (or point me to a post where you talked about this?) I've seen a lot of criticism of the game, but never this specifically"

(seperate post bc i didnt want to add to an already longer post and i will keep it "short" bc i HAVE talked about it before but idk how the hell to find it either lmao)

what i broadly called 'flaws' were pretty much all things that were critized about botw and/or were lacking in general that i do not believe totk fixed at all, they either doubled down on it, made it just as bad, or pretended to fix it but didnt (and often made it even worse)

im just gonna give some of the biggest examples bc i want to keep it shorter and maybe you get the idea:

the dungeons (titans) in botw were too samey and the whole terminals thing werent the best puzzles, plus the very same kind of boss each time; on the plus side the little gimick of each titan was neat, their introduction great, they looked intimidating, its generally just .. very cool bc its a giant MECH and also it made sense in the story even if there were missed opportunities with the bosses -like making them be the possesed remains of the champions for exampls- BUT they still have the benefit of you knowing they are what killed your friends, theres a personal connection here- and you cannot climb them bc all shiekah stuff is not climable (so restricting you which is GOOD), and they got the bonus of all shiekah thigns as in they saw the future and the things are meant to be doable for you and since its been a hundred years theres people around that still know your friends of the past, you get your dead friends ability at teh end, a part of their spirit really

-totks dungeons .... well, they LOOK different from each other, but its just the surface really, each of them is 5 switches (that feel very artificially inserted since its supposedly race specific dungeons but those things are clearly sonau (zonai)) and none of them (or only the thunder ones? barely?) are connected to each other at all, so its terminals again, BUT they are also static (in contrast to botws moving titans), the already easy puzzles can be skipped easily (via totks horrible building shit that invalidates so much of the world it was inserted into bc it simply wasnt made for this), you can also climb walls so even more ways to cheat (in a boring way, having to do glitches to cheat is cooler), they also lack a personal connection, all these dungeons, especially the ones in the sky, appeared out of thin air really, and while thy try to make your friends and their villages in distress the tension it falls very flat- and it detracts further that they are in almost the exact same LOCATION AS IN BOTW (more repetition), you have NO connection to the nameless ancient sages or reason to care about them and the whole thing about your friends awakening as sages feels very ... well, bad, their stone ability makes little sense and it also seems to override what made the champions, your old friends, significant (who cares about champions? sages are way older and more important)- i will give them credit for the bosses beign different but ... its got less weight too, these monsters are just mosnters summoned there, they didnt kill the sages they are just there to supposedly stop you from gettign the stone which, i dont think is ever stated as the actual goal by anyone so it doesnt even make sense!! the only reason you go there is BECAUSE there are monsters threating the villages now! (also the sonau didnt have the future thing and also .. when were those things built? who cares, why are the fish in the sky WHY DO THE WATERWORKS IF- etc)

so overall, looks fixed on the surface, but its actually worse

weapons breaking! while i didnt mind alot of people did but it was essential to botws exploration drive, there were lots of cool weapons whose appearances changed fit to how far you were in the game (meanign they went from weak to stronger ones) and it makes sense they are all over the place with monsters using them etc

-totk then .. well the weapons still break, their base version are now all ugly rusted and very shitty for no sensical reason (its jsut to force you to fuse), you can fuse stuff to them, you HAVE to, bc id bet they are even more brittle than botw ones in their basic version, fusing uses up materials (which you also need for armor upgrades), often looks stupid and is a hassle to do espeically in mid fight, monsters and people also just do it even without having fuse and ........ strap fruit to their shields or sth instead of fixing their weapons bc i guess no smiths exist ever?

so appears fixed, but isnt actually, and i would argue, made worse (this is were i would for once say a more classic crafting system was THE fix but thats for the rewrite now lmao)

shrines! in botw there were mayn of them, often rather short or underwhelming, all look the same and tehre many that were jsut a fight which is a little boring but it made sense with the shiekah having them made for you in the future (also theres a bit of personality bc each has its own monk that made that puzzle for you and giving you their bit of spirit) and they were well integrated into the world (also the monks talk to you! they are still sittign there after all!)

-in totk, well, theres EVEN MORE OF THEM, EVEN SHORTER, and with totks building shit that they barely restrict at all (weirdly though you cant climb walls here either ....hmmm inconsistencyyyy) extremely easy to cheat in a boring way that feels less like you are cleverly exploiting the game and jsut that they didnt care, all look the same AGAIN, just with a different paint job from botw, they just ... came out of nowhere, their placements are like .. the same just a little to the left, at the end its a static statue of the main guy and his fridge wife every single time, they give you .. a .. light orb? the shrines purpose is very non sensical (banish monsters? literally how and were lol, also you need a rauru arm to get in? also where were they before? and uuh .. is the puzzle the security????i dont see mosnters running around with rauru arms?? nothign changes after you do them so banish evil how what??) and they are very much just .. put there, you know they werent there before, like the world easiest mod jsut moved them a little (they .. talk? to you? prerecorded? somehow?)

so the same but worse than in botw

krogs! (koroks) in botw .. were too many, i get it, it was a joke and something you werent meant to find all of (nintendo shoudl have known better tbh) and they were sth to fill the gaps, i dont like that they are what exapnds your inventory but its more forgivable since its the firrst time here

-now totk ... just did the krogs again, with the SAME purpose (instead of bringing back pouches! easy better rewards!!!) and EVEN MORE OF THEM, the backpacking ones have literally no reason to do what they are doing (i thought they were fleeing the forest but .. they arent) and are just there for you to fuck with them, thats the whole reason

so .... made worse, just doubled down and worse

the story/memories! in botw the main story takes place more in the past than the present, many didnt like that even if i too say it worked very well for botw, they were short but well made and skillfully gave you a glimpse of the past, enough to care about the chaarcters even if only a little and as its been long but not too long there are people still talking about it all or knowing you and what happened and getting them out of order didnt have any consequences sicne they were all more about the chaarcters rather than a story with lots of different beats, they all made sense as in you had to explore and find the places where they are with very little hints given if any, you had to explore and rememebr places! engage with the world!

-so totk ..... did the memories AGAIN, doubling down on that system, but also worse bc, now the memories are THE story, a LINEAR story that doesnt work out of order since its not about the characters but what is happening ... or HAS happened, they are EVEN MORE in the past than in botw, far far more even, no one knows or cares about these characters, there is no connection and even zelda doesnt feel like botw zelda at all, you can still find them all out of order though massively spoiling and confusing anyone (even if the story itself its pretty bad), also they are marked with ENOURMOUS GIGATOMANIAC glowing glyphs on the ground, you dont even need to think or find anything you just .. look. fly up and look, you dont have to engage with anything AND these memories are very ...... idk, flat, they somehow manage to tell you too much about the past (removign the mystery and sense of time/distance) and also not enough to make you care (its all just plot, clumsy plot) and with there being pretty much no connection to the current time (like with people knowing the champions in botw still etc) its just ... might as well be a random AU

so, memories and story in the past again, even moreso too, call that a double down

theres more obviosuly (like the tutorial being the same but worse, the abilities too being done so similarly isntead of bringing back main items, the clunky ASS UI that was bad in botw but still okay bc first tiem and also meant for the wii u- totk though?? worse, they made the shitty UI WORSE, quest rewards being a fucking joke, all the GRINDING totk is so much stupid GRINDING) maybe people dont realize this, mabye calling it doubling down isnt right but to me this is all the same, but even worse, instead of correcting and taking a few steps back to how it was before and see theres value in all those older games systems they did botw again, but worse, so .. doubling down on all the things that were bad and making them worse too, even if on the surface it may look "fixed", instead of correcting their parking by carefully going backwards they were still in first gear and slamming GO to hit the wall when you where literally telling them they werent in the backwards gear

so so many thigns in totk are just, botw again but worse, more shitty shrines instead of less, more krogs isntead of less, worse rewards, more grind, the shiekah tech again but worse, malice is miasma, the same but also worse (its not even a 3d model ... ), luminous stones are sonanium (zonaite), its everythign again but worse ........ (and also invalidates so much of botw, its jsut ... infuriating bc it FEELS so mean spirited, its just all beign overridden, nothing of botw matters bc look! look all that stuff came BEFORE THEM actually, and that was way more important ..... even down to the sonau designs its overriding so much of shiekah stuff, and im not even that big of a simp for shiekah stuff but this was supposed to be a botw sequel, the game with the shiekah tech?????? anyway ..)

(yes this is as short as i could make it on the spot, already spent two hours on this so sorry but i wont go over it to edit for another one dfnjknhdfjkbdfjk)

[curarems]

Sam Vimes deserves to have a blog. That man spends every second of every day thinking. He has Opinions. His inner monologue is a treat. No no, let him cook. Let him speak

[beepboopappreciation]

Say hello to ELM-3R. Quite the darling Luminoscope, is he not? 💙

[stanshikabutreddie]

you know what i just realized. when richie is going on about being married and he asks eddie "did you not hear this?" obviously we're all like well duh he didn't hear this because they didn't remember each other but instead eddie answers no so honestly that it makes me think that not only was this man hate watching richie's specials but he was also keeping tabs on him to the point where he was genuinely suprised to hear that richie got married. that's right guys. eddie was is a huge richie "trashmouth" tozier fanboy.

[swordscleric]

I can't stop thinking about the post from a few days ago about how Critical Role has been great at doing personal faith but didn't put the necessary work in to discuss the religious/god angle of c3 in-depth. Like the fact that Cardinal Respa was linked to both the Dawnfather and the Chained Oblivion is, on a personal level, very interesting (fallen/corrupted priest goes hard) but like does that mean that there's a Papacy somewhere in Exandria dedicated to the Dawnfather? If so, are there more cardinals who ordain the bishops of the Dawnfather? Are there Conclave-level intrigues going on in the Dawnfather's Sistine Chapel? Why is the Dawnfather so Christianity-coded in vibes alone if there's no actual outline of his religious organisations? With Downfall the Dawnchild/Dawnfather thing makes the allusions to Christ as Son of God co-existing with the Father textual - was there a Dawnfather Schism around whether the Dawnchild was a separate mortal? Was there a Reformation about how the Dawnfather's Pope kept selling indulgences? Is that why the priest of the Dawnfather Grog & Pike offer a drink to doesn't partake because of a cultural shift between Protestant-Temperance-League-coded and Catholic-coded Dawnfather congregations? Why do I have so many questions about the religious organisation of one of the most important Prime Deities in Exandria and to Critical Role's 3 campaigns? How on earth were the cast (and us as the viewers!) meant to care about the gods if all they had were "really tall kings" instead of interrogating how religious organisations provide both a place of healing and community to a wide range of people and also a place of horrific harm and abuse for a wide range of people?

[aquanutart]

Nyaha~! Caught in my electroweb! ♡

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

This might be a bit random but would you say you have any thoughts on Neurodivergent readings of Zhongli (more specifically autistic)? I was thinking about it in the latest chapter of JG amd even before then too. as an autistic person myself i feel he reads very heavily as such, especially when talking about his human mask and feeling like he doesn't need to force it as much with childe, and his issues with human expression in smiling etc. but I think it's then an interesting debate between that and the fact that, well, he's just not human. that all comes from a place of being an entirely different species, unevolved and unrelated to human brains and how they think and read social patterns, and I feel we don't really have any way of telling if ZL has any divergent tendencies among dragons right? and even then he's half, too, so that affects things.

anyway sorry for the ramble I was mainly wondering if you had any opinions on the matter, or if you intended the parallels I definitely see while reading your Zhongli! love your work as always <3333

i think i might've commented on this at some point but never directly, so here – i do have thoughts on the matter!

as you mentioned, it's difficult to tell with characters that aren't human, because you can't call something 'neurodivergent' if the bases for their neurotypical-ity are not the ones by which we measure this stuff. so, to me, ALL non-human characters are neurodivergent-coded. they may not be neurodivergent, technically speaking (like how you mentioned, maybe all dragons are just like zl), but to us, they read as such. so, coded. ultimately i do think there is merit in labeling them as neurodivergent because, even if they, again, technically aren't; we are going to run into problems if we attempt to treat them as neurotypical, so we might as well say yeah, neurodivergent. it is also kinda correct anyway – they do diverge from us. that's a fact. it's like saying dogs are colorblind. if all dogs see in the same range, then you can't say your dog in specific is colorblind (unless it actually is but that's beside the point); but compared to us, from our perspective, for what it matters to us and how that will translate into how we treat them then yes! dogs are colorblind! i think i mentioned it once in conjunction with characters like alhaitham. to me, zhongli is neurodivergent-coded, while alhaitham is neurodivergent straight-up. because (as far as we know) he's human, so his brain should, in theory, be like ours.

as for which flavor of neurodivergency zl is coded to have in specific i would agree with you on autism! but then again, i'm not an expert on these things, i don't know the exact ins and outs and the specific characteristics that constitute an autistic character – i just write them the way i perceive them, with the quirks i perceive them to have. not to get preachy but i think that's the better way to write characters in general, since that's how real people work, after all. people with autism aren't born fitting some parameters that will make them autistic – they're born with specific quirks that we then interpret as autism, and even then you don't necessarily get two people having the exact same experience with this. most of these terms are umbrella terms regardless as to how well-defined or how big or small the umbrella is.

so yeah!

[purpurussy]

everything Dan said about labels in BIG was so extremely real and personal to me and people really gloss over a lot of it sometimes I need to talk about it more about it when I'm not exhausted

[ke1p0y]

It’s been *checks watch* a good few years since I’ve drawn something somewhat polished

Anyways got into danganronpa recently lolll hi

[team-chaotix-week]

May I ask what do you like about Team Chaotix?

Of course!

I was only somewhat recently introduced to them. As in I made this blog within two weeks of meeting them.

One of my friends, who really likes Heroes, hyped them up to me. Then I read the IDW comics and really started enjoying the characters. Some of the comic screenshots that go up have my ramblings in the tags, mostly for the Metal Virus one because that was the arc that really made me notice them and go back and look into them.

I've always been prone to liking groups of characters who come together to form a sort of found family. And while that might not be the exact dynamic they have, they're a Team and that's undeniable.

That, and the fact that they're detectives comprised of: a 20 year old crocrodile, who's honestly a bit of a tired dad and the only character to need to pay rent, and worry about bills; a 16 year old chamelon who's also a ninja and can turn invisible?!; and a 6 year old bee, who somehow has the strength to carry them all with his little wings. (I promise there's more to why I like the individual characters than this, I just don't want this post to be longer than it already is)

And I just love their dynamic. This months IDW issue (77) held probably some of my favourite interactions between them.

Vector is making jokes while Espio makes a tired face cause come on Vector, we're the detectives here! Not Sonic!

And then a few panels later he makes Espio makes his own joke. I love Sonic's line here, and of course Espio remains serious. His skills are no joke guys (and well, based on the results I'm inclined to agree).

Charmy and Vector's interactions this issue were my absolute favourite. I don't have much else to add for these beyond the fact that I love this.

And then this exchange here too. He literally is your boss Charmy. Charmy's whole insistance on taking that board game was so much fun, but I won't keep this post going longer.

Anywho! TL:DR They are really interesting characters to put together and their dynamic is so fun.

Thank you for the question! And now I extend it back to you guys!

Why do you like about Team Chaotix?

[alaynestcnes]

Half of the evidence for jonsa is a reach, though...I do think they will reunite like in the show but to say that it will be romantic because Jon chopped of Jano Slynt's head /for Sansa/ (when he never even thinks of her) is a big leap. If anything, it's intended to show Jon embracing his Stark roots - which would mean he will definetly not want to be romantic with his sister.

if it was just janos slynt’s beheading linking jon and sansa then i would agree with you but the thing is that it’s not just that moment…there are so many combined moments linking them that i truly can’t interpret it any other way than romantic foreshadowing.

like there’s the ashford tourney foreshadowing sansa’s final betrothal to a targ. and jon and sansa having matching dreams about rebuilding winterfell and naming their children after their family (with the members not mentioned in sansa’s dream being mentioned in jon’s, so their dream is only ‘complete’ when placed together). and jon and sansa’s first loves resembling each other. and then there’s jonnel/sansa. and then there’s how the books are structured so jon and sansa’s chapters always follow each other whenever there is an emphasis on marriage/romance/children. and these are just off the top of my head, there are many more links that occur throughout the text.

i could dismiss janos slynt as just a reference to jon’s stark identity or a future familial relationship between jon and sansa. i could dismiss the ashford tourney theory as foreshadowing f/ageon not jon. i would have dismissed it if these were the singular, isolated instances that connect them. but when things begin to stack up and become a pattern rather than coincidence it starts to feel more and more like grrm is waggling his eyebrows suggestively and gesturing furtively all while mouthing ‘look over here’.

[shinesurge]

lrb ACTUALLY what really gets me is that SOME media does get a pass for Accepted Weirdness but it's completely backwards who it's extended to lmao. If Final Fantasy 7 was made by an independent creator today nobody would just play it, they would stop two minutes in because they have to know why cloud's hair sticks up like that, it's so crazy!! Hair doesn't WORK like that irl!!! they would post on reddit and email the author and it would be considered a story with an incredibly high barrier to entry because how are you supposed to engage with it when the protagonist's name is a weird thing like Cloud :(

but if it's Real Media made by a Real Company the narrative can hand us the entire event of Sephiroth several hours in and the audience is like "okay <3 yay"

[cheeseed]

Oh god i was tagged in this-

Karkat vantas- Homestuck

Caesar Zeppeli- Jojos bizarre adventures part 2

Gordon Freeman- Half life trilogy

L- death note

Pochita- chainsaw man

Cecil Palmer - Welcome to night vale

Giant Cephalopods- the ocean

Basil- Omori

Lance- deltarune part one

spamton g spamton- Deltarune

Ten characters, ten fandoms, ten tags

Tagged by the lovely @called-kept 💙 (thank you so much for the tag!)

1. Obi-Wan Kenobi - Star Wars

2. Jack Dalton - MacGyver 2016

3. Kaladin - The Stormlight Archive

4. Dick Grayson - Batman

5. Edmund Pevensie - Narnia

6. Angus M'Kethe - The Crown and the Covenant series

7. Robin Hood

8. Faramir - Lotr

9. Din Djarin - The Mandalorian (look I know it’s Star Wars but leave me be)

10. Remus Lupin - Harry Potter

THIS IS SO HARD!! ONE CHARACTER A FANDOM?? IT HURTS ME!!

Tagging (with no pressure!) @i-am-a-stupid-robot @madsophiehatter @impossiblepluto @a-marble @sliverswords @mrgartist @duchess-of-mischief @kazoosandfannypacks @let-the-whump-commence @lady-merian