#Make a private discord. Go on Twitter. Go on Reddit even.

[bijoumikhawal]

Ngl it is mad funny seeing some people get so mad about G/B seemingly solely as a spite reaction to it being popular... it's a relationship with obvious chemistry, a significant impact to both character's arcs, and wide support so thats egg on you, but also it's a 30 year old TV show. Not only is it not worth getting mad about there are plenty of other fan communities you can go to that don't focus on it.

[olderthannetfic]

I deeply do not understand fandom creators who try to get people to stop reposting their creations on platforms where the OP doesn’t have an account. Asking people to credit them - absolutely! It’s reasonable to want credit for your work. But to insist that the work only be appreciated by people who have accounts on the exact platform the OP has? And to ask followers to harass any re-posters en-masse until the re-poster and all rebloggers delete the content? I’m baffled by this.

How is fans sharing your work and linking fellow fans back to your account a *bad* thing?!

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Are you new?

Most creators don't want their work reposted. They may appreciate shares from Youtube and the like. They certainly do not appreciate someone making a separate video upload or whatever.

Fandom creators are even warier, particularly about their work escaping its intended context and finding hostile outsiders. Of fucking course they do not want their work on some other platform. That's the way to get waves of harassment sent back towards that fandom creator. It also often involves lots of asspats for the reposter and nothing for the creator.

I have no sympathy for reposters crying that they got harassed over art theft. Stop stealing if you can't take the heat, asshole!

Maximum audience is what shitty influencers want. It is not the ethos of fandom. Some people seek fandom fame more than others, but there has always been a strong sense of finding your corner, not of trying to get your shit out to the entire world.

WHY THE FUCK would I care about people needing the "convenience" of my fic on their own platform of choice? I use AO3 because I support AO3. I loathe Wattpad and will certainly not want to increase its popularity with my free labor and my content.

Yes, it does annoy me when people screenshot this blog and put it on twitter. I am intentionally not on twitter because twitter is garbage. I have no desire for my own writing to increase twitter's relevance. Fandom should stop treating twitter like The Place To Be. If people feel like they're missing out by being there and not here, good!

And obviously, I roll my eyes when some attention-seeker posts my shit to reddit and gets eighty billion upvotes. If you love me so much, go give my reddit account that karma. (If you're doing your own hobbydrama writeup or something, that's different though. I'm talking about c&p posts with little of your own content.)

There are different ways of sharing, and some of them are more annoying than others. Some platforms are irrelevant to a creator, while others they actively oppose being popular. Nobody is going to know or care if you post some fan art to a private discord with your friends.

Have some god damn sense, anon.

[day-mark]

Dream talking about his sexuality:

A reddit comment going in depth about how dream views his sexuality:

A tweet from Dream saying that he is attracted to both men and women:

Tweet from Dream's private twitter:

A clip from Dream's stream in 2022, transcript below:

"-never outwardly talked about my sexuality, or- in one of my public platforms. Like I've talked about it on Reddit before, I've briefly in a podcast said stuff. But I've never tweeted anything on any of my major platforms about anything involving my sexuality, other than just saying I'm not gay. Which is what I've said, always cause I'm not, I'm not gay. But people also take that to mean that, I'm straight. Um, and I don't know, that's the thing. I feel like everyone kind of- I mean not everybody, I feel awkward talking about stuff involving sexuality. But I feel like sexuality is a spectrum, so obviously there's straight, there's gay, there's everything in between. Um, and there's much more, and I'm somewhere. And I feel like I don't necessarily owe anybody an explanation of where, um, but I felt like this tweet expressed my feelings at the time in a sort of joking way. Because saying things seriously becomes more.. whatever, anyway I don't need to go much more into it. But that's what I thought by making this tweet"

A clip from Dream's Discord Podcast in 2022, transcript below:

"I saw the whole clip of Tubbo, I don't know how many of you guys have seen that but I pretty much agree with almost everything he said. Like, I don't think everything has to have a label, I guess. So people put me in unlabeled because I've said I'm not straight and that I don't really know exactly what I am. That doesn't necessarily mean I'm unlabeled, just that I don't necessarily know, I'm not completely comfortable in any label that I've seen including unlabeled I guess. Cause it's like, I don't know, I don't think that's accurate I'm sure I have a label, I just don't know what it is and I don't want to be like forced into a box. Part of my content is that I'm accepting of everybody and I love everybody and um, like everybody's valid and, in whatever sexuality they have. But I'd have that- I mean, I'd like to think that I have that opinion even if I was straight. I don't know, I don't know, I think people you know, sometimes make that, make it a big deal when I think it's fine to- I think it's okay to to not know. You know it's okay to question, it's okay to find yourself however long it takes"

In addition, at 17:30 in the same podcast he says,

"I will say there's obviously- in my mind there's pressure, like, I've never said anything out of pressure but I have not said things out of kind of, like societal pressure or like pressure because of my position or whatever. Because I feel like if I was to say 'I'm blank, this is my sexuality, 100% this' and then like later down the line a year later, or 6 months later or 5 years later I was to change my mind, I feel like I would get an unfathomable amount of shit from people. And I probably shouldn't care about that, but I do care about that. I don't want anyone to be like, 'oh he's a liar' whatever. So I'm just like whatever, I'll just y'know. I don't know for sure so if I or when I know for sure I would say but- until then, I won't"

[powdermelonkeg]

Something websites (*cough* Tumblr *cough*) need to learn is that what retains an audience isn't an abundance of new bells and whistles to play with, it's a coherent experience overall.

When someone joins a website, you don't need to grab their attention and hold it. They're already testing the waters. They've agreed to sign up. You've won on that front, and they're there for something specific you already have that they're hoping works well.

What drives them away is frustration.

Frustration, frustration, frustration.

Learning curves are going to be a part of any new website experience; they're something the user comes to terms with, in their own time. But broken or bad features are going to make them jump sites.

On top of that, constantly adding new features makes them feel like all the hard work they've put in to learning what you have isn't worth it; your website looks unstable and your staff looks incompetent, because it gives the impression that you don't know what you're doing.

You are floundering. It makes your new users nervous. It makes your old users hesitate to bring anyone else on board. And why should they? Why should they put effort into it if you're going to throw that effort away next Tuesday? Why get used to a UI that you're not going to bother to keep? Why customize anything if you're going to whittle that customization away?

Between that and the broken, unattended features of this site—the tag organization failing, the inability to look up posts word-for-word, the video player either refusing to play or yanking you to the top of the dashboard, images taking forever to load, advertisements blaring at full volume when you scroll past, you have your problem.

You have the reason why your numbers are failing.

It's not that you're not interesting enough.

It's not that you're too difficult to understand.

It's that you aren't improving what you have, yet you keep adding more half-broken things and unwanted copycat features to the pile.

It's that you're losing your identity in pursuit of a hypothetical perfect customer.

It's that you are actively telling your user base that you prefer those hypothetical customers over them. And your user base, your real people who make you happen, are smart enough to know where your priorities lie.

The bulk of this post talks about Tumblr, but other sites have gone the same way. Twitter is dead and its corpse is decaying in the street. Reddit has sabotaged any trust its users had in its management. If you'd like a really old example—I used to use Fanfiction Net. It's not the most intuitive website in the world, but it was the first one I called home.

I used it to host my works. The adware now on it makes it a hassle to navigate. The bots make comment sections and private messages a dread rather than a joy. So I moved on.

I also used to use it to collaborate on stories with my now-roommate. The message limit was 300 a day. When you're writing dialogue between characters, that's nothing.

So I moved on. We started messaging on Facebook. It was better, it didn't have a limit. But then I learned Discord existed, and I could edit messages, make dedicated channels, etc. So I moved on from Facebook to Discord. And Discord had a steep learning curve, especially if you're trying to make your own server rather than contribute to one. But, most importantly, the payoff was worth it.

If Discord changed its layout every other month while I was learning it, and broke how its reactions worked, and kept shifting what it meant to create a channel? If it opted me into servers I didn't sign up for, in hopes of engagement? If its text never formatted correctly, or its search function only went back a day or two?

I would have gone right back to Facebook. Even if it's a more basic experience, basic is always preferable to unstable.

Figure out what you want, websites.

Slow growth, or a gamble?

You're paying for your magic slot machine in users.

[taralen]

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𝕎𝕖𝕝𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕞𝕪 𝕓𝕝𝕠𝕘!

I am a fantasy artist and writer based in the USA. This blog is mostly for my art and for sharing others' art. Sometimes, I'll post writings, musings, or theories about a work of fiction that I think warrants some in-depth analysis. I don't have any separate blogs, as I don't see the point in making them. I struggle with a lot of mental health conditions, so I'm really unstable but congenial. Hope you don't mind! Trust me, I am no threat to the public at large! I love making others laugh and smile, so why not just laugh at me, with me? The subject of this blog is primarily art and writing. I do not repost memes if they have nothing to do with either of these two categories.

If you're looking for specific tags, please use this guide:

#my art - Use this tag to filter posts showing only stuff drawn by me

#my writing - Similar to the above but just for writing I've done.

#musings - Random thoughts, journal posts, or ramblings, aka actual "blog" posts.

#merch haul - Posts related to collectibles I've obtained that I want to share with others.

#not my art - Filter posts to only show art I've reblogged by other people.

You can find me in a few other locations, but I'm only going to list my active ones here.

DeviantArt: https://www.deviantart.com/taralen For most of my completed pieces. The only sketches you'll find here are for clients who commissioned sketchy pieces.

Myfigurecollection: https://myfigurecollection.net/profile/Taralen For my figure and hobby-related stuff (doujin, merch, etc.) I sometimes build my own figures (aka Garage Kits.) I've been collecting valuables since I was a kid, so you can consider me an experienced collector. Have questions to avoid getting scammed? I'm the one to poke!

Pixiv: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/3540237 [[JP Only. Also 18+ but censored.]]

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/taralen Uncensored 18+ options, Hi-res versions, process compilations, and original pieces (usually concept art) I don't upload publicly.

Discord: [[Private]] I love meeting new people, but I would rather speak to someone privately on here first before I share this. I'm extremely chatty, so be warned!

Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Taralen I'm the least active on here, but I might as well include it.

DNI IF YOU: Nothing offends me. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) JK I am a very curious and open-minded person. If you have views that don't align with mine, we might not have the best conversation, but it can certainly be an enlightening or interesting one! What are my views? Well, we learn these things from each other through polite conversation. Exposing myself to different lifestyles and opinions is enriching. Who knows? Even a hateful individual might change their mind when speaking to someone with kindness and understanding. I'm open to being followed, messaged, etc., by just about anyone, even people who I vehemently disagree with, UNLESS: ❎ You've committed or condoned acts of animal, child, elderly, or disabled person abuse/assault. We don't need slimes like that anywhere. Anyone that harms real innocents is a piece of human scum, regardless of whether or not they fit the categories I listed. ❎ You're just trying to sell some sex service to me. Sorry, but I am not interested. ❎ Condone or committed acts of necrophilia on deceased humans or animals. Seriously, what the $%^& is wrong with you? ❎ You are a stalker. Kind of obvious, but I had one in the past, so don't act like I forgot. 8^)

If you have similar interests, feel free to message me or ask me questions. I am lonely, so it's nice to talk to new people now and then. If you think my ideas, "headcanons," or interpretations are stupid, then that's fine. I don't expect everyone to like them. It is what it is.

Any and all reblogs are appreciated. If you repost my stuff like, say, on Reddit, please give credit and link back to the source, whether it be here or somewhere else. I always like seeing my work shared.

[spikeinthepunch]

i made a post a bit ago before the reddit black out even happened, talking about how many AI written articles i find when searching for answers on stuff- usually things a little more specific (questions for video games, tech, everyday things but more specific to you, etc. not just "what city is this state in"). its bad- i basically get that or i get reddit threads when i google. and before the reddit black out, i hadnt thought too much about how those AI threads would be.... the only thing left behind if i didnt have reddit. still i watched the reddit black out live, i watched /r/funny go private at midnight. and yet it didnt really hit the importance of reddit until i went on the next day looking for help on a mac laptop i was restoring and realized all the reddits i checked were private. needing mod help for my server, all private. searching reddit for a game i couldnt remember, private.

theres a lot on the internet that needs to be preserved, kept alive, kept relevant. over and over i see people reminisce on old forums and how theyre gone and be brought back- and i think no ones follows through with the format because places like reddit at least fulfill that to some extent. staying with the mainstream is easier and its understandable, bc its relevant and trying to start up your little forum and advertise it isnt easy. Reddit being mainstream becomes the useful google option for a niche forum subject without being a lone forum you probably wont find in typical google search.

and now Reddit isn't available. the most mainstream iteration of those lovely little forums of discussion and support is not available. does it hit now? does it sink in now how bad this is? the past year- maybe even less than a year- has been so so chaotic and bad for the internet. instagram starting turning into tiktok a while back with its changes to feed and format. youtube has slowly followed suit with forcing short's as more relevant for creators than normal videos. twitter did... well, all of That, a lot of Things. Reddit goes along to make their API paid for. Discord turning to the methods on social media, with username changes and more. tumblr is also shifting so much of their entire deal, i think you should all be prepared for tumblr to become unrecognizable too because theres many hints of it happening- some already here.

when i made my personal website over a year ago, it was partially fun but it was a statement for myself too. it was recognition that social media had become unhealthy for me, and i didnt like how it was The thing that existed now, and that bigs corps suddenly taking more and more control of the web was bad and not something i wanted to be stuck with. but suddenly its not just a gentle step to the side i have taken, still knowing i can be on social media to see my friends and build an audience. but now it feels more like all the walls are crumbling around me, and soon i will have no choice but to jump ship entirely. i went from one, to the other, to tumblr where i had always been- the one site that stuck out from the others at least. had an 'old' format. in many ways you need social media.... because its how you made your friends, its how you stay in touch, its how communities get built these days!!

we can try to move back to the independent, the personal sites, the forums, but we all know its not easy. thats truth. its not going to spread as far as we'd hope, many will not follow suit or not know they can. i can only imagine all the old, tech unaware people who will continue to use the internet, never realizing why they struggle to get info or unknowingly follow nonsense AI articles, and have no idea that anything exists outside of the bubble theyre forced into. Not even the old people, but the young generations that will grow into that too and not get out of it.

im just waiting for the mainstream internet to just become entirely unusable from our perspective and its dreadful to me. trying not to be a doomer but i dont think its something you cant ignore when something as simple as googling slightly more specific questions brings nothing but AI nonsense articles or reddit posts and when one of those massive and only relevant sources is down, there is suddenly nothing.

[thathomelessartist]

I am very tempted to use the last of my money to broadcast a roleplay ad to people.

Like IDK where else to look. I've tried forums and stuff, Reddit, random ass discords, I went crawling back to Amino even. I was scared to even try Twitter for fandom roleplay.

Everyone I have found is either:

A; A 12-15 year old who just joined the fandom and thinks they're hot shit. But are actually extremely annoying and far below my skill level (no hate but also leave me a l o n e)

B; A 12-15 year old who actually does really well, but is also a 12-15 year old when I'm 20 so that's. Not really an RP I can delve into too many mature themes (to be clear. Not even sexy themes. I just don't wanna expose a kid to my grown ass adult woman OC having a relapse as an alcoholic.)

C; Some creepy fuck who thinks RP is only sex.

D; Someone who's really good but replies maybe once every 2 months if you're lucky.

And I know there are good roleplayers out there. Like i SEE y'all talking about some awesome roleplays but when I go to their pages they're like 21+ or whatever.

And I get it, I really do. I know people younger than you can be annoying. But i am a year off!!! One year!!! Our life stages are not going to drastically change in a year and even if they do I have the skills-!!! Like FUCK man.

And I don't try to invade your spaces, I don't lie, but every server that's just 18+ is filled with creeps who only want sexual roleplay. And while I am inclined to some spicy posts now and again that is SO rare and I just want a good STORY.

You know what would solve this issue? Make everything good so you don't have to make it age restricted?

Auditions. Boom. That's literally it.

Make it 18+ and then ask simply for an example of the other person's writing. Maybe give the job to specifically one or two mods.

It solves the whole issue and I don't have to be left in fucking pURGATORY, where I am almost inclined to throw in the towel on literally one of my favorite hobbies ever. Because I can't fucking FIND ANYONE because now everybody's retreated to their little private discord servers where I'm not invited.

Which again is their prerogative and they can do that but also FUCK ME if it isn't frustrating.

Thank you for coming to my fucking ted talk, I hate it here.

[lavendermilkandhoney]

Just wanted to thank everyone who still take time to support each other and what I do on tumblr. I know the algo sucks and the numbers aren’t as high as in other places, but this is the social media platform that works best for my posts and where I feel the less pressure.

I tried to post in many other places, but it never felt right. Twitter is too competitive for my liking. Reddit makes me feel weird. Insta is just not worth it. Discord is very fast paced and overwhelms me a lot, even if I enjoy it more than the others. But tbh, when I start to try to post more around to get my stuff seen, I always start to feel emptier after a while. It’s like I feel it doesn’t mean much to me. My mind starts to get more focused on getting more validation the more active I am and it’s just not a fun ride. It’s never worth the anxiety. So I stop fast and go back to posting in my corner.

I still think the way the tumblr interface is made makes me appreciate more the content than I would in any other places I named, but that’s personal preferences anyway. I just think genuine appreciation can’t be rushed that much. So even if I get less seen here, I feel I get more seen the right way. Most of all it’s where I feel my space is really mine. And to me it’s better to be alone in your space, than to feel lonely in a crowd.

Sending a hug to people that are struggling with self doubt atm. No one or anything reflect how much you or what you do is worth, even if it’s hard to believe in tough times cause social media is designed to play with a part of our brain that is almost impossible to control. And it’s totally okay to feel like shit about it, even if we have to do what we can to not expose ourselves to that much invalidation so we don’t end up invalidating ourselves as much. Even if I’ll always envy some creators and the support they get, I try to see them more as inspiration because they are first of all and helped me make my craft better so I could also give myself more internal validation by seeing I can improve more than I thought and make my inner world feel even more real.

So I wanted to say all that here, in a post, not in a private discussion or in a discord. Cause I know not everyone has that or prefer/need to mostly stay away like myself. 🫂❤️

[vincent-val]

!!I will not be censoring any of the supporters names, this is what they've done to me!!

This is all done by my memories, if I got any info wrong please correct me

Here is the Twitter version in case you need it (it also has screenshots)

The context behind how this bullshit started was someone on a Natewantstobattle discord server who said that Daniel was innocent and taking his name out of the blacklisted. They argued that Daniel had been unfairly targeted and that he had done nothing wrong. They argued that the decision was wrong and that Daniel deserved a chance to be heard. They also argued that Daniel should be given the opportunity to explain his side of the story and that the decision to blacklist him should be reversed... Which I got banned from the server too (or the server no longer exists)

Abi and Loki had the nerve to tell me that what I was doing was totally fine, and then they went ahead and gaslight me even more. They had the audacity to say that the people on Reddit (r/Natewantstobattle and r/GetScared) were the ones in the wrong, not me. And then they had the nerve to praise me for asking people to harass the victims. but they continued to support that worthless sack of dried cum. They believed the lies that Sabrina said!

They said that I was doing a great job when I "found evidence of Daniel being innocent" (which was either a crappy written tweet or a horribly-evidenced screenshot thing that can prove if stuff is fake or not) Then, when the first server went to crap, they all bailed and deleted the evidence of the entire server. One of the supporters went ahead and posted "evidence" without even asking me first. Asshole. They also put my username on the NWTB wiki without my permission. I had to tell them to take it down. Then they asked me to tell Boy Hero about Christina Vee and if the stream freezes, ask him again. I was like, "why?" But I went along with it because that's what they wanted. They made a Justice For Mandopony Reddit and dumped the responsibility on me. Again. (Tbh the Reddit was already dead). They had the nerve to ask me to make another Mandopony subreddit. So, I did it, but none of them wanted to join except Abi. (The GS + NTWB one I made for fun.) . They actually told me to go around telling people about it and posting it everywhere "what Nate did," (which wasn't true. Abi forced me to call her mom, a request to which I was ok with for some reason,

In addition, Abi made a point of that we, are a family. She said that Loki is the dad while she was the mom. She also promised undying attention (which I never got), I thought doing all of these things would give me attention from them

I wanted to make them happy and proud for what I've done, Abi in one of the discord servers pulled a "people are harassing me wahhh Vincent come save me" card.

She also said that Nate's mods and the entire fandom hold hate towards her. She also said that I was "special". She has a separate account that she spies on me, She said and I quote "I prefer to keep my second account private just in case I get harassed too much here". One of them bothered Iskey and I told Iskey it wasn't me, I sent her the proof and it pisses them off and yelled at me on why I I gave it it Iskey. Some dipshit told me to go spread everywhere on discord servers that "Mandopony is innocent" bullshit and I got banned from every single one. But they still had the nerve to praise me for what I was doing on the GS Reddit. I mean, I could go into detail, but let's just say it's not worth the effort... During my time on Tumblr I came across a rumor of Johnny visiting Joel In jail. It pissed me off, I spread misinformation and chaos, adding to the confusion surrounding the rumor. I reached out to Johnny via email, sincerely apologizing for my role in perpetuating the rumor, He responded with kindness and understanding (I still wanna beat the shit out of who made the rumor but still). Once they made me write a fanfic of Joel and Johnny. It made me super uncomfortable. Plus they wanted me to post it on Wattpad. It had to do some serious damage control once it hit r/GetScared, I played it cool and acted like I wrote it for shits and giggles... I don't remember the rest.. So, months later, I finally told them about what Joel did. I compared the chats to that one screenshot I had of the GS discord servers (now delete, not showing it. The screenshot is now pointless) and one of the conversations with those cunts. And that led to a full blown argument. Told them that Sabrina LIED about the shit rumors she made about Nate. BUT. They said "it was an adult and not a minor so it's ok". Like dawg that's still cheating how dumb are you. like both are horrible.

They took advantage of a minor (I was 17) who's autistic, barely talks, and stutters words. They even used my hyperfixation as a trap, and my horrible social ques as a trap also

I'm super sorry to the people I hurt

!!On March 27th 10:00 PM, I stopped being friends with Abi and Loki, which resulted in me being stalked by his supporters. They have been claiming that claimed that I am lying. They also got one of the people that I used to know suspended from their account, and also harassed and stalked them!!

UPDATE:

Abi and Loki manipulated me into thinking i wasn't uncomfortable to moving in with them, because of how bad Texas was at the time and my autism, they convinced me that jumping off a water tower will twist your ankle and not paralyze you. They said "that bitch is lying, you can't get paralyzed but jumping off a water tower. The only thing that can happen is you twisting your ankle!" They sent a photo on a small water tower because I didn't know what they looked like "oh those? Aren't they big?" "Didn't you say you have messed up vision? Your eyes are tricking you"

I've had really horrible nightmares about them, they got so bad to the point where one of the nightmares was them trying to fuck me

[thebigkay]

Reddit is exploding, rioting, and boycotting and in civil war against it's moronic lying CEO. Twitter has been on meltdown for months, with recent developments especially showing off the ever brilliant turd Musk Rat. Discord is having a stroke over trying to pretend to be Twitter and shovelling in AI to loot people private information and conversations. YouTube is trying to stab it's users in the nuts for pennies, despite being surgically glued to the largest Information-stealing Orwellian-nightmare money machine in the world. Netflix has already pulled out the whip and started slapping it's users like piggies for cash. The number one current trend on TikTok is a thinly veiled corporate ad, which I know in my heart was manufactured by mega-corporations.

And that's the non-important stuff.

The United States is actively trying to kill and segregate Queer people, and taking a FAT SHIT all over minorities and poor/economically challenged peoples. It's destroying indigenous peoples land and autonomy for some quick cash. Theocrats are trying to turn the country I live in into a hate filled hell. They want to micromanage everyone's lives into impossible images, I don't even believe in, and there's virtually nothing I can do about it. This was supposed to be illegal. The people who are supposed to be defending me are twiddling their thumbs and waiting for my vote in a year. Hell, they might be doing it on purpose- to make me vote to have a CHANCE of keeping what little dignity I have left. Politicians aren't listening to anyone anymore. The system is falling apart and the people in charge are just looting as much of the ship they can that is left.

I hate Silicon Valley. I hate tech bros. I hate capitalism. I hate number go up. I hate the unending tide of religious fascism and theocracy. I hate bad faith Christianity trying to make moralistic theocratic judgments into law. I hate the fundamental collapse of the political system. I hate the SABOTAGE of the political system. I am entering what people consider 'the prime of my life' and the idea that there is any opportunity left for me or anyone else my age has been gone for so long, I only know how to take hope in what I know will poison me in the future. I have no choice but to keep eating the pill that poisons me tomorrow but makes the pain go away today.

I have been told to look forward to total collapse. They tell me that when things burn into ash, we can rebuild. I am scared but I don't know what else we can do. I am scared most that they might be right. Jumping into and fueling the fire is supposed to give us a chance to save it all and rebuild, but stepping closer to the edge of the cliff scares me.

I want to scream. I want to tear. I am terrified. I don't want to look. My eyes are glued to a screen as the room I sit in is burning. I want to riot. They have made it impossible to speak. I look forward to the illusion shattered. I don't want to see what's behind it. My future has been taken away. Ahead lays only visions of fear, corruption, and instability. I am powerless. I am told I am the future.

[commander-kirschtein]

attack on titan social media headcanons

how i think the 104th would use social media in a modern!au (includes eren, mikasa, armin, jean, marco, sasha, connie, historia, ymir, bertholdt, reiner & annie) - mac

masterlist

eren jaeger:

most used app: snapchat

still does streaks on snapchat - over 600 day streak with jean and to keep it going they just send insults to each other.

has the most cracked screen, it’s literally hanging together but he refuses to get a new screen until it no longer works.

would leave the house with 14% battery (this makes me incredibly nervous but eren knows he’ll be able to charm his way into someone giving him their charger.)

mikasa ackerman:

most used app: instagram or tumblr

mikasa should be hired by the fbi or something - give her a name and she will find all their social media pages.

i’m not sure what it would be but she’s definitely part of a fandom of a tv series or music group which is why she spends so much time on tumblr.

unlike eren, she actually has a case to prevent her screen from smashing - it would probably be one of those clear ones with flowers on the back, and she’d put in a polaroid picture of her and her friends in the back of it.

armin arlert:

most used app: youtube

he hasn’t got many posts on his instagram but a few of some pretty landscapes and a couple of group photos of him and his friends. his profile picture is of him, eren & mikasa.

literally could spend all day on wikipedia. he goes to google something but then falls down a rabbit hole. 

vsauce? asap science? random reddit videos? sign armin tf up. 

jean kirstein:

most used app: twitter or spotify

does gaming live-streams with eren. people watch not to see gameplay but to see the entertainment that is jean and eren’s competitive arguing (they play a lot of call of duty, mario kart, but also minecraft when they’re actually on good terms with each other)

gets into heated arguments with people on twitter. they go on forever because jean likes to have the last word/tweet.

you know those people that always have their headphones in? jean is that kind of person. he’d be sneakily listening to music during class (let’s be real he’s definitely got airpods.)

marco bodt:

most used app: instagram (& whatsapp because he’s in a lot of group chats)

the best hype man. comments on all of his friends selfies telling them how gorgeous they look.

he sends motivational quotes and wholesome memes to all of his friends which are always appreciated.

marco’s the one to put together group chats and ensure that arguments in them are smoothly resolved (eren and jean are usually the culprits.)

sasha braus:

most used app: tiktok

definitely makes very chaotic tiktoks/tweets that just blow up and end up on popular pages that repost to instagram.

her and connie would spam group chats with memes and selfies with stupid filters on. sometimes they’ll just target one person in particular (always jean) and they end up getting kicked or blocked.

her instagram captions tend to be random quotes and inside jokes from her friends (mainly connie) much to the confusion of everyone else.

connie springer:

most used app: instagram

has a private account on instagram just to post embarrassing pictures of his friends.

goes into conspiracy theory facebook groups just to troll the people in them.

out of everyone, the most likely to have games on his phone. when he’s bored in the car or during class he’ll just start playing geometry dash or temple run.

historia reiss:

most used app: tiktok

you know she’s got a tiktok with 100k followers. tiktok dance trends, makeup tutorials, look books - she does it all.

loves pinterest so much. gets a lot of outfit/home decor ideas from it - it’s likely that there’s a ton of photos of her on pinterest as outfit inspiration.

types !! like !! this !! and uses these emojis: ✨🌸💖🥰 way too much.

ymir:

most used app: facetime

half the time she’s on her phone is going to spent spent facetiming historia i can’t lie.

i personally hc that ymir in a modern!au would play either the bass or drums and i can just see historia begging to post a tiktok of her playing that then blows up - ymir would be so nonchalant about it but inside she’s dying of excitement.

probably has every group chat she’s in on mute - occasionally will lurk to see what’s going on, would only ever join in the conversation if drama was going down in which she’d send a gif of someone eating popcorn.

bertholdt hoover:

most used app: youtube or discord

likes to watch those reddit story time videos. would spend a good few hours watching them without even realising what the time is.

has 0 posts on instagram. cannot do any insta stalking of him (unless you looked through his tagged photos and find the ONE selfie he ever took with reiner.)

does a lot of gaming and uses discord to talk to his gamer friends (probably plays more story based/quest games compared to eren and jean - maybe like the last of us & skyrim!!)

reiner braun:

most used app: instagram

at least two shirtless pictures of him on his instagram (and way more if you’re on his private snapchat story - he likes to make it known that he’s at the gym. )

uses ‘lmao’ so much to the point he says it out loud not just over text

for some reason these emojis (👍👏👋💪) make me think of reiner ?? instead of replying ‘okay’ or ‘bye’ you just get ‘👍👍’ or ‘👋👋’

annie leonhardt:

most used app: spotify

follows so many cat accounts, she’s considering making her own to post pictures of her cat.

out of everyone, likely to be the person who uses social media/her phone the least, it probably overwhelms her quite a bit so unless she’s messaging someone (or looking at cats,) it’s unlikely to see annie on her phone.

does listen to a lot of music on spotify though - she’s got a study playlist, a playlist for when she’s at the gym, songs to listen when she’s just chilling at home - her spotify wrapped every year is pretty impressive.

BONUS:

spotify or apple music?

spotify: jean, mikasa, bertholdt, ymir, reiner, annie, sasha, historia

apple music: eren, armin, marco, connie

who sends memes into group chats?

eren, jean, sasha, connie, reiner

how long do they take to reply to messages?

replies instantly: marco, historia, sasha, connie, reiner

leaves you unopened for 3 days but then replies: eren, jean, mikasa, armin, bertholdt

leaves you on read: ymir, annie

who has the highest screen time?

eren, historia, sasha

[olderthannetfic]

re: reposting anon. I am genuinely curious - where’s the generally agreed upon line?

People repost content all the time and get celebrated for it. Tweet threads, reddit posts, memes, and quotes from various sites get screenshot and put on tumblr all the time, and the only complaining I see is folks who want everyone to use image IDs.

I personally always ask before I post someone’s art to another social media site, and am often directed to the artist’s profile to share from there, but even more often am told it’s fine with a direct link and credit to the artist. I’ve never reposted fic. That feels more invasive to me in some nebulous way, but I do post fic recs, and I’ve never asked permission to make fic recs, either.

Clearly no one (sane) is saying there should be no content moving between sites unless the original artist puts it there, but tweets et al are just as much the intellectual property of their OPs as art and fics are of those creators.

--

It's hard to say.

I do have qualms about the endless twitter reposts on tumblr even as I reblog some of the funnier ones. I have zero qualms about using that one bird rights screencap as a reaction to things all over the internet. I never have qualms about reccing in whatever space I choose to use. The desire for historical preservation and the desire for control of one's own content are directly in opposition, and I tend to fall somewhat more on the historical preservation side.

Reposting to twitter is especially contentious because twitter is even more of a generator of mass harassment than other platforms. If you reposted to Dreamwidth, that shit isn't retweetable/rebloggable, and nobody's paying attention anyway, so the level of drama is going to be lower. If you save a copy on your own computer or repost to a private discord, who's going to know?

I don't mind a pithy quote being quoted elsewhere because it's funny. That's typical fair use. I absolutely mind my content being used to further sites I think we should mass abandon and make die. Twitter is at the top of that list.

[hello-nichya-here]

I’ve almost completely stopped engaging with ATLA stans on here because 99% of the fandom is such an unbearably obnoxious cesspool that it almost ruined my enjoyment of the show.

This is sadly not the first time I hear this. This fandom has a very serious and long-lasting problem of people just not knowing how to mind their own damn business.

Not only do they not follow the basic logic of "Don't like, don't read", they actively go looking for fics and metas that will piss them off. They harrass people, send death threats, insist on starting a fight, make shit up, and even give shit to the ACTORS for mundane stuff like "How dare they support this ship instead of my OTP?" and even worse, talking about the show. Imagine being mad at someone for talking about their job.

Even on AO3, a site that gives you the option of just not letting any comment that you didn't personally approve be posted in your work, or just not allow comments at all, and with a staff that will actually take threats seriously and ban the people who send them, it's STILL hard to just fucking enjoy things in this fandom because EVERYTHING just has to turn into a fucking war.

Pretty much the only place where I can talk to other fans without having to worry about unnecessary drama are private chats and discords. I avoid places like twitter and especially reddit like the plague, because holy shit, people being assholes is already the norm there.

[cockroachmotherfucker10]

PRIDEFALL UPDATE: real or fake?

What is Pridefall?

Operation Pridefall, also known as Project Pridefall or simply Pridefall, refers to an attack planned by /pol/ (a political discussion board on the anonymous website 4chan) for all of June, AKA Pride month. The original 4chan thread, which has since been deleted, was primarily focused on “redpilling,” i.e. spreading queerphobic propaganda to make people question the LGBTQ+ community. However, now that it has spread outside 4chan, there are threats of harassing, doxxing, and outing queer people (especially minors) on social media, spamming gore and rape videos in private messages and Pride tags, and even kidnapping, assaulting, or killing queer people in real life.

Specific targets include Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and dating apps. The goal is to go after smaller accounts so the queerphobia isn’t lost in the comments.

Is Pridefall real?

Yes and no.

I searched “pridefall” on 4chan last night. Apparently any new threads on it are being deleted, and anytime someone mentions it, everyone calls them slurs and says no one is doing it.

However, Pridefall is gaining some traction on Instagram--I have seen it for myself. I don’t have TikTok or any dating apps, but I’ve heard that some people are spamming homophobia on TikTok. As for Twitter, I only looked briefly, but I saw some Pridefall accounts there, as well as a lot of warnings and blocklists from people who are worried about it.

I’ve also heard that there have been a few Reddit and Discord raids, and that there is an Operation Pridefall Discord server (someone who spied on them says they have been banned on Discord as well as a platform called Riot before, so very few people are left on the Discord server now).

What do you think, Lia?

This is not coming from 4chan. No one on 4chan is interested anymore.

Most likely, people outside of 4chan heard about it and decided to take matters into their own hands.

The original 4chan thread wanted to make Pridefall “normie-palatable” by avoiding Nazi imagery or other overt unpleasantness, but I have seen a LOT of both on Instagram. This reinforces my belief that 4chan isn’t doing this.

A lot of the people behind this are young, or at least unsophisticated. Most of the Pridefall accounts on Instagram engage in very childish trolling, and one of them said they were a minor. Some of the threats I’ve seen are so outlandish that I can only imagine they came from a fairly young person.

My guess? Most of these people are around 13-19.

There are also very few of them and some of them probably have multiple accounts. Anti-Pridefall accounts outnumber them by far.

However, on Instagram I’ve seen Pridefall accounts following each other and commenting on each other’s posts, so there may be a few groups working together.

A lot of this shit is going to get deleted. I know Instagram is working through reports very slowly right now because they have fewer people available due to COVID-19, but most of the worst accounts I saw last night were deleted by this morning. I saw some more accounts deleted today.

Most, if not all, of these Pridefallers are just trying to scare us. Because they’re probably quite young, there’s very few of them, their accounts keep getting deleted, and law enforcement can track online activity, there is no way they have the balls or resources needed to coordinate major attacks.

There is a very, very slight chance this could spill over into real life, but as long as you practice basic online safety, you will be fine.

That being said, if you are threatened or doxxed by a Pridefall account, PLEASE contact the police. Better safe than sorry.

I do think that the threat of being doxxed or outed is more real than the threat of being attacked. I have already seen one Pridefall account who posted a trans boy’s address on Instagram (he is okay, he posted recently) and another who posted someone else’s address.

There is little chance this will last throughout Pride month. Apparently the goal is for Pridefall to worsen until the end of June, but given that this is most likely just some vastly outnumbered teenage trolls who are bored in quarantine, I seriously doubt they’ll be able to stay interested for a whole month.

This might not be as big on Tumblr. Tumblr is a lot more anonymous than, say, Instagram, which will hopefully deter would-be doxxers. It’s also known to be a highly liberal and queer-friendly site, so any Pridefaller with half a brain cell should know that A) their content is sure to be outnumbered and reported (only us Tumblr users know how bad staff is at deleting questionable stuff), and B) anyone with the original goal of “redpilling” is sure to fail here. Plus, I only remember seeing few, if any, mentions of Tumblr on Pridefall planning threads.

Still, expect to see some Pridefall activity here. Unsurprisingly, not all of these Pridefallers have half a brain cell. Some of them will definitely be unable to resist the lure of a community as openly queer as Tumblr, and we’ve all seen or heard about doxxing, harassment, gore, Nazis, and queerphobes on here. Also, 4chan has historically had some beef with Tumblr, so young teenage boys who idolize 4chan may target us for that reason.

How can I stay safe?

If you have any social media accounts where you A) have posted identifying personal information, and B) are openly supportive of the LGBTQ+ community (especially if you’re queer yourself), put them on private for June. Any other accounts are probably fine to stay public.

If you need a private Tumblr, you can make a password-protected secondary account and only share the password with mutuals you trust.

It is probably okay to be openly queer on a private account (e.g. have pronouns/rainbow emojis in your Instagram bio), since a private account is not likely to be doxxed. But if you want to be extra careful, remove queer identifiers from anything that is publicly visible.

Use Pridefall blocklists. They’re all over Instagram and Twitter. I may repost some here.

Report any Pridefall accounts you see. This is VERY important because this is how we can actually get rid of Pridefall content.

DON’T RESPOND TO ANY PRIDEFALLERS WHO PERSONALLY INTERACT WITH YOU. I know it’s tempting to give a snarky reply, but if they message you, comment on your post, etc, just block them. Seriously, don’t feed the trolls. It's exactly what they want.

Make sure your password game is strong. Use a different password for every site (I know, I know, it sucks), and use passwordmeter.com to test their strength. Write them all down on a piece of paper.

Make sure your username game is strong. Don’t use the same username for multiple sites, and avoid putting personal information in your username, such as your name or birthday.

Do NOT open random links!! Pridefallers could message you links that will give you viruses or track your IP address.

Don’t accept DMs or follows from people you don’t know. Pridefall accounts don’t always look like Pridefall accounts. Some of them are undercover.

Use a VPN. This is probably a little overkill unless you’re particularly at risk of being doxxed, but it will hide your IP address.

Be careful who you interact with. A lot of queer people on Instagram are DMing Pridefall accounts or commenting on their posts, but this could make you a target. As helpful as anti-Pridefall accounts are, you might even be targeted for following those.

Be wary of Pride tags. Unfortunately, a lot of Pridefall accounts plan to infiltrate tags commonly used by queer creators during Pride month. Use discretion when looking for queer content.

Be safe IRL. Lock your doors, lock your windows, be aware of your surroundings, don’t walk alone in poorly lit places, know basic self-defense, etc. Again, I absolutely do not think people will be attacked in real life, but you should be doing this shit all the time, not just in June. Thanks to COVID-19, you’re safer inside anyway!!

Make yourself hard to dox. Even though I have a very unusual first name (it's not really Lia), I am extremely hard to find online. I just went into an incognito browser window and searched my first and last name in quotation marks, but I didn’t find myself until page 4 of Google (and that result wasn’t even posted by me). I’m only half as careful as I could be, but here’s some of the things I do:

-I never use a picture of myself as my profile pic, except for Facebook and Instagram, which are both on the highest privacy settings possible.

-If I post identifying information on a public account (my college, my age, etc), I use a pseudonym or my first name only.

-On Instagram, I only use my first name, and I used special characters to type it, so you won’t find me if you search my name.

-On Facebook, I only accept friend requests from people I know. Most, if not all, of my Instagram followers are IRL friends, friends of IRL friends, and trusted Internet friends.

-If I’m really being paranoid, I’ll make a brand-new email account to sign up for a site. That way, my accounts aren’t all linked through one email address.

-Before I post a picture online, I delete the EXIF data with verexif.com, since EXIF data can hold GPS coordinates.

🌈 Stay safe, everyone.

You will not be harmed. You will be okay. Like cockroaches, we are survivors, and we will get through this!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

-Mod Lia

[muffinrecord]

Kyoko Art Contest

This art contest will give you a chance to earn a $100 prize along with a pre-rolled JP account (during the JP Anniversary) featuring some goodies! The deadline is September 29th at 12am PDT.

I’m not going to include more links to make sure that this post shows up in the tag, but I’ll be copy+pasting some of the relevant details :)

Draw this Tweet, except with Kyoko (tweet in linked reddit post)!

I'll be judging the art based on 2 main criteria: the quality of the art itself (colors, dynamic pose, facial expression, etc) and how funny it is (unique details, cool changes to the original photo, references to the PMMM universe (or other anime), facial expression, etc.). Basically, if you draw me the most gorgeous Kyoko the world has ever seen, but nothing really stands out, or makes it truly unique and it doesn't make me laugh, your entry will be placed lower than someone else's art who looks just very good, but also looks like a meme and tickles my funny bone.

There are no real restrictions: just draw me a cute and funny Kyoko, while also keeping the Tweet format there. If you disregard the Tweet part, that's too bad for you. You can either draw the tweet or make it using whatever suits your fancy, it's gotta be there though.

Prizes:  The winner of the contest will receive 100$ USD (Provided by Kizmin!) as well as one of 47 JP Magia Record accounts from this list (linked in reddit post). Then, each participant will get to choose one of the accounts if they are interested, starting from the top. For example, the winner chooses account 42, gets the access code and password for it. Then, I contact the person in second place and ask them to choose from the 46 remaining accounts. They pick 35, I give them the codes, I contact the person in third place who can now choose from 45 accounts, etc. If there are less than 47 entries, I will give away the remaining ones in the pre-existing megathread for account giveaways.If there are more than 47 entries, well at least you'll have drawn Kyoko? You CAN reject the accounts if you are not interested. In fact please do so that everyone who is interested can have a chance to get something good they like!If you're not planning on joining JP right now, you can still keep the account until you're willing to, no pressure, don't got downloading it and forcing yourself to play.

Details:  The top five entries will be showcased on the results post, with the winner being contacted prior to the posting to receive their prize. I will contact the other participants after having created the post. All other entries will be showcased on an imgur gallery directly linked onto the post to avoid making said post a pain to scroll down. They will not be in their ranking order; that is a list that will remain private. I will give each person's prize one by one, starting from the top of the rankings to the bottom. As such, it may take up to a few hours or even a few days for everyone to receive their accounts, depending on each person's availability. Keep in mind that time zones are a thing!

Rules: (Please read them before starting anything!) - Nothing R18, please. Your entry will be rejected. - Only one entry per participant. Your entry will be rejected if you send me two artworks in the email. - Please only send me entries through the email address. For any question, there are comments here, or you could just send a Reddit chat. - If you plan on putting your watermark on this, either make it small enough and put it somewhere that doesn't hide anything, or send me a non-watermarked version so I can judge it properly. I will use the watermarked version on the post/imgur gallery. - You are obviously free to post your art on any website you'd like. HOWEVER, do NOT post it until after the contest is over so as to avoid any kind of thievery and so that I don't have to deal with multiples of the same art if someone were to steal your creation and send it. - You can ask for your artwork to be taken down from the imgur gallery if you so choose. However, please ask me this if you are absolutely certain you want it taken down, I would love to keep every artwork up and deleting some would be terrible. - Please send a means for me to contact you. Prioritize Reddit by mentioning your account or giving me a link to it if you decided to not make it show up in the Reddit research bar. If you're someone outside of Reddit, send me your Discord username so that I can contact you there instead, or your Twitter @. If you do not want to use any of these means, mention it on the email and I will try to contact you directly through emails. Try to use this as a last resort please, I'm really not too good with sending emails and it takes a while lol

Good luck and have fun drawing Kyoko!

[shr00mr4t]

Y'all may have already gotten this message but here it is again sorry for annoying you:

I just wanna say stay safe throughout June, there's rumors going around about something called "Operation Pridefall" where a bunch of Homophobes are going to doxx LGBTQ members and possibly go as far as killing them, there has already been kidnappings and more, stay safe😔🙏

Ik this is stupid but it's still important to take this seriously, for all we know it could be true and please try to spread this message

This has been heard of on Instagram, Twitter, 4Chan, Reddit, and Discord as far as ik. Once again please stay safe, even if it means making all of you're social media accts private 🙏🙏🙏❤️🧡💛💚💙💜