#aargh mat3y

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(This is just for personal use sorry, if I rb it's to try not to lose it to the sands of time)

Personal Queue Tags (in order):

I'll eat pancakes on your grave

Unbutter your eggrolls

Spit3 fuel me

General queue tags (also in order)

Ic0nic

Aargh mat3y

Pull off his shirt & play with his bra

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"I think thank god"

sometimes i think thank god tumblr follower count is hidden, people over on twitter let the numbers go to their head so much

also tumblr numbers mean nothing considering thr amount of bot followers

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This is honestly the funniest reaction video I've ever seen this man doesn't have a reaction he has a JOURNEY

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By far one of the funniest posts on this site. That mickey shirt has me in stitches. I actually want it tho

we are already living in the cyberpunk future and i know this because within a span of 3 days we went from this tweet:

to thousands of people making phony images and replying to them with their passionate desire to have them as a tshirt to overload the bots with nonsense and junk and send out warnings to shoppers like this:

and now we even have people replying to pictures of baby yoda with “i want this on a tshirt” knowing how ravenous disney is being with copyright in hopes to get the stores taken down altogether

i dont know what it is about stuff like this and the whole turn mei into a symbol of hk protesters thing but, its really reassuring for some reason

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Nothing could have prepared me for this gif

it’s literally november which means next month is december which means it’s literally 2022

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Can say it's possible that at least some of this happened, but I didn't witness it all go down (and OP's link doesn't work). Like I never was super into Thomas Sanders' content really but everyone on here loved him and then literally overnight he became a "cringey pedo theater kid" and shit got real weird and hateful.

There was also some shit that might possibly have been made up about him (or not, but it was still unnecessary and mean to mock him for it to this extent) with a receipt at a restaurant.

Wait what happened to Thomas Sanders???

Basically, Thomas Sanders (who, btw, is gay) used to be basically the celebrated Unproblematic Fav Uwu of Tumblr and Vine. Everyone loved him, everyone praised him for being inclusive and positive, making fun and unique vines that were appropriate and enjoyable for any age group.

Then one day he got an aphobic ask (I honestly don’t remember what this was even in response to, I think it was some really innocent one-off “I hope asexuals have a good day” type of post or something like that, idek), to which he wrote a long and sincere response that basically summed up to “Hey, that’s not a nice attitude to have, please take a moment to think about how other people must feel and why it’s so important to you to shut them down”

Within literal hours (and this is something I witnessed myself, I was online when it all went down), a smear campaign against him had started. Suddenly even people who had previously been huge fans of him were shit-talking him left and right, declaring him cringey, and grasping at straws to make “callout posts” for him. One popular argument I remember hearing was- And I shit you not, I am not making this up- He was a “pedophile” because he made videos for a family demographic and has a young-looking face, but was 29 or whatever and therefore “pretending to be a kid” or whatever the fuck. He even, gasp, made vines about high school, despite not being a high schooler himself! (Dan Green voice) That’s called “acting”, children!

His popularity never really recovered, and these days he’s mostly considered “cringey” by a large portion of the internet due to the main demographic most of his fans fall into, because you know it’s hip and cool to shame young girls and queer kids for the things that bring them joy.

So yeah, TL;DR used to be pretty well liked by the majority of Tumblr with nobody really having anything bad to say about him, expressed support for aspecs one day, immediately fell victim to exclusionist harrassment and is now at best considered just a cringey teenage girl thing.

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I really thought there was gonna be like a serious reason this meme was messed up but no just actors being petty

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Sure, I'll reblog this amusing Bionicle Lego discourse

Hello Detective. I want to play a game.

Before you there is a sealed canister of the Lego Bionicle set #8746: Visorak Keelerak. I want you to open the canister and build the set according to the instructions included within.

However, things won’t just be so simple. Also included in the canister are several parts from the set 8914: Toa Mahri Hahli. Particularly, the extra pieces included are several balljoint connector pieces made out of lime-green plastic. I want you to find which parts are from the original Keelerak set, and which ones are the newer version, and assemble the set as normal.

If you pick the wrong part and a single piece breaks or shatters when you put them together the game will be up, and the other canisters in the room, which are filled with poison gas, will open and kill you. Let the games begin.

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Man she is a TRIP

Official “SADAKO’s friend” LINE stickers

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when you put it like this, I can sort of understand where you're coming from. Like when you have a hobby that's purely just for fun, it's annoying to hear criticism.

But the thing is that, to me, it's fine if writing fics is just a hobby, but if you really can't deal with criticism you shouldn't post/share your writing online. Writing fics isn't even a hobby like knitting sweaters then wearing them out, where if someone was like, "oh, you hand knitted that? lot of dropped stitches, there 👀" that would be annoying.

But shared fics are literally meant to be read & enjoyed by people with the same interests. There is an entire review/comment section inherent to fanfiction websites. There are lists of fic recs and even memes about popular fics.

Also, and I'm honestly not trying to fight or anything, like it's totally okay if we agree to disagree, but people do offer unsolicited criticism on fan art. At least they definitely offer it on my friends' fan art, like, all the time. I have one friend with a unique art style who's constantly getting comments/PMs like "your lines need work" or "do your figures have to look so bloated? It's kinda ugly lol" and it annoys her and a lot of it is stupid, but at the end of the day her attitude is, "I chose to post it online, and when you post something online for public consumption, you have to be ready to deal with the peanut gallery and decide if receiving the positivity is worth learning how to let the negativity roll off your back."

And honestly, I think that's my bigger frustration here: amongst fanfiction authors & readers nowadays, I feel like there is this huge separation from reality where I'll read takes like, "I only read/write fanfiction and that's just as good as reading and writing original stories/books"

yet when someone comments on their fic and is like, "um hey so I was really enjoying your story, but then completely out of the blue your female character punched your male character in the face, and all the other characters are on her side??? is there any chance you could tag this as abuse?"

And they'll be like, "that's not ABUSE it's a TROPE. Learn not to offer unsolicited criticism on someone's work." *Comment thread blocked*

Like there are a surprising number of fanfiction writers and readers these days who want all the benefits and esteem that come with producing, sharing, and consuming original art, yet none of the responsibilities or consequences. And idk I just think that's a big problem, actually.

Again, though, I'm aware we probably at least partly agree, and it's totally okay if we don't. I know you as a mutual and I definitely respect your opinions and everything. I'm also aware that not everyone's gonna feel the same way I do about this and that's totally alright lol. It's fandom. Like a wild creature, it can't be tamed.

One take I just do not get, as someone who's written fics, is, "omg how dare you comment unsolicited criticism this is harassment."

I even read something recently that said, "you know, people who don't like books quietly put the books down and keep it to themselves." ???

No, they fucking do not. Nor have they ever.

I'm sorry you apparently have never heard of "book reviews" but also I'm not surprised, because the person who believes this pretty much exclusively watches TV & reads fanfiction based on the TV they watch. But yeah, book reviews & public criticism of literature are, in fact, a whole thing which can absolutely affect the success and popularity of someone's work and that is something authors have to learn to deal with.

That's the thing about art: once it's made public for anyone to see and enjoy, anyone can shit on it or criticize it in the spaces which are provided for the public to do so. And those spaces will always exist.

When I publish something online, it is summarily open to criticism from anyone who might stumble upon it. People have commented some pretty shitty stuff on my fics, also just unsolicited criticism--some of which was invaluable, once I swallowed my pride enough to actually consider what was being said.

Like I'm sorry but I just do not get this attitude. At the end of the day, you're free to publish fanfiction insomuch as readers are free to criticize & review it, and calling it "harassment" when it happens is indicative of an incredibly shitty attitude, whether it is occasionally true or not.