#but it doesn't mean that in roleplay

[quoigenicfromhell]

"I suffer from my disorder, therefore it's disrespectful for other people to be happy that they're plural" is an argument made in pain and not in logic. And while your pain is valid and no one should have to suffer, your suffering has *nothing* to do with strangers online.

[klerothesnowman]

The Sith are Nazis and it's never been subtle

This one ended up being really long. I spliced in some images when I could to break it up easier.

One of the things that causes the most friction in the world is the idea of morality. I know, that's the most water is wet statement ever said but I think people really miss just how much the nuance of morality goes over people's heads. Subjective, objective, relative, from a baseline we understand that there are different types of morality but I don't think people really grasp how much a persons personal morality can be wildly different to any another given person's, especially among people who share spaces like fandoms. Morality is shaped by personal experiences, there are personal experiences that are 99% ubiquitous among humanity like "Pain" that form the basis of everyone's moral compass, then there are the major cultural touchstones that no matter what your morality will be affected by, religion, nation, race, all that what have you. Everyone has an opinion on the Christian Church and that opinion is informed by your morals. People who have been abused by members of a church will have a very different view of the morality of a religion compared to people who have been raised Catholic compared to someone who was raised agnostic compared to someone raised agnostic and is queer compared to someone who has been raised Catholic and is queer compared to someone who has been raised Catholic and is queer and is also rich and so on and so forth you get it.

Morality is not a binary thing, and it's not a nine point grid either D&D, it's more like one of those circle charts that Jojo Stands get ranked on. You know the ones that always seem to show up in anime? I don't know what they're called. Except instead of a circle it's more like a ball, and everyone has this horrible looking 3D balls covered in bumps and spikes and dips and holes.

Why am I opening this ramble with a ramble about morality and religion? Because I'm on tumblr. When I decide I want to ramble about something I read the tags and see what the vibe is, see what people are saying about things. I'm not part of the "Fandom", I don't know the discourses, I see that there's Anti-Jedi and Pro-Jedi and "Stanikins" and all of these different labels and battlelines, and then I read about how people on either side are feeling attacked and harassed by people on other sides. I have no idea how real this is, I have no idea what kind of minefield I'm about to walk into. I'm just rambling about my thoughts and feelings about Star Wars because I like it and I'm a little extra aware that this one is going to ruffle feathers.

Because people are fuckin' worked up about Jedi. There are people who are making it part of their identity that they are anti-Jedi. And it's been happening for years, decades even. Because the experiences and trends of nerd culture has been pushing against systems and religion since I was a baby. Nerds being obnoxious atheists and smugly telling people "God isn't real" was basically the norm when I was a teenager, and before I was born nerds were dealing with being called evil and satanic. Nothing I'm rambling about here is new, in fact using D&D as a touchstone I think the current trend for nerddom's interaction with religion is ambivalence, despite faith and divine power being such an important part of D&D, there's basically zero interaction with divinities in 5e, and when there is it's hostile and has an asterisk against it. I'll do a ramble about this one day too

But the Jedi stuff is interesting to me, because there's a lot of directions people come at for it.

There's people who argue against just Jedi because they're a religion. There's people who argue the Jedi are slavers or kidnap children. People think Jedi are super beings who lord over everyone with their power. People think the Jedi force people to suppress their emotions and personhood. There are people who think Jedi are moral supremacists who silence and kill anyone who thinks about the Force differently from them.

I have some "Pro-Jedi" arguments to make but I'll save them for a different ramble, because this one's supposed to be about another group of people.

The people who think, from their point of view, the Jedi are evil.

The reason I rambled on so much about people being Anti-Jedi is because very often, these people end up being Pro-Sith. It's an obvious leap, if the Jedi are the problem then the people opposed to the Jedi might have the right idea. If your issue with the Jedi is that they disallow "Attachment", then here's the Sith who are all about Attachment. If your issue with the Jedi is that they suppress their emotions then here's the Sith who are always tapping into their emotions. There is an immediate appeal there.

Then there's the Sith Code, let's give it a read.

Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken. The Force shall free me.

Pretty sweet, Passion is pretty positive, breaking chains and freedom. I can get behind that. The rest of Sith Philosophy is pretty swell too. It's about improvement through conflict. Your struggles make you stronger, makes you better, removes your shackles and lets you be free, but also recognizes that you will have to do whatever it takes to do so. The Jedi seek to wipe out the dark knowledge you attain, so you must sequester yourself and hide when you must hide, and strike when you must strike. It's stance could be summed up as something like... "The sacred mission of a Sith is to preserve the Sith Order's most valuable elements as you raise yourself to a dominant position, and all who do not are chaff."

There are people who are really into this. Like, really, really into this. They talk about how they apply this mentality to their real life. They describe themselves as Sith. There are also people who are only kind of into this, they think about positive Sith characters and make headcanons about the good things Sith do.

I need to stress, for those people, that what I am about to say is not hyperbole. I will provide sources.

The Sith Code and Philosophy is Nazi Propaganda. It is literally lifted from Mein Kampf. That quote I used to sum it up is a paraphrased quote from Britannica.com. That's Hitler.

The Sith Code was invented to be in opposition to the Jedi Code, its purpose is to twist a preexisting code to make you think the alternative isn't so bad and it uses codephrases to do so.

Passion, Strength, Victory, Chains, being Free, these are words that we have presubscribed meanings for, but what do they mean in the Sith Code? What IS Passion? What IS Strength? What IS Victory?

Most people I interact with see Passion as Love, passionate, exciting love, the exact thing the Jedi reject. But that can't be it, where's Palpatine's love? Where's Maul's? Where's Vader's?

Passion is obsession. The kind of obsession that will lead you to burning everything down if you don't get what you want. It's not letting anything stand between you and your goal, even if that thing is your goal itself.

Let's break the code down here.

Peace is a lie, there is only passion. We start with the obvious twist on the Jedi code, an immediate refutation of the Jedi's first line. It stands in opposition.

Through passion, I gain strength. We've already done Passion, it's a nice little dressing up of "Being a raging psycho"

Through strength, I gain power. Strength is often intermingled with power, but it's often spoken of interchangably with being able to set aside morals. The Sith isn't an amoral monster who just killed a bunch of kids, he's just STRONG enough to do what needed to be done

Through power, I gain victory. Power isn't a code word. Power is Power, Power is what it's all about and there's no hiding it. In the Sith way the only thing that matters is that you are powerful enough to kill your rivals and stand on top.

Through victory, my chains are broken. The Force shall free me. I think the notions of breaking chains and being Free is the cleverest part of the Sith Code's propaganda kit. It's still seeing use in The Acolyte and it's still convincing people that the Sith are right, even when the guy who's calling for freedom mercs a child then and there.

The Sith are not misunderstood heroes. They're Nazis. They're facist might makes right would be autocrats trying to convince you they're right so you'll validate them and prove them right.

Sith Philosophy is self defeating. Following the Sith Code means you need to define yourself on your conflict, meaning your conflict can never end. For all its claims of being free and breaking chains you can never be free of what drives you or you will lose the strength it gives you. To break your chains you need to hold onto them tight, and you can never let them go.

[demodraws0606]

Motherfucker I did not see someone in Slime's chat say that BBH hates roleplay wtf

If anyone says BBH isn't a roleplayer then they straight up do not know him in the slightest, I am sorry.

Like in fact i'd argue he is up there as the biggest fucking roleplayers in this server like this man has spent months setting up a story full of mysteries and build up.

He literally spent an entire stream roleplaying his character's breakdown

[triglycercule]

jk!nightmare and jk!dream are just fucking kaido and teruhashi from saiki k i'm gonna kill myself 😭😭😭 this is what happens when you do the chuunibyou and perfect girl trope you get fucking saiki k. whats next i make jk!epic or something have reality breaking powers??? mayhaps.... JK! not happening

anyways jk!nightmare is so fucking stupid she's the worlds largest girlfailure. the only reason she still gets to live out her delusion is because everyone in school is nice enough to play along with her. meanwhile dream is just perfect she's got one of my favorite designs. perfect looks perfect grades perfect personality part of the star sanses she's PERFECT. too bad that she's a naive idiot. maybe the dumbness is genetic among the dreamtale twins who knows but i made them both total idiots

[thats-how-i-like-it]

my honest reaction to seeing a fauxcest blog with proship dni on their bio

[milekael]

Do you ever get possessed to do a fucked up woman OC and she's all you been able to think about for the last few days??

Anyway Gregory Hawthorne my beloved

[pinkflames]

hermits ending up in Empires and all the Emperors (-jimmy) having no idea who these people are and how they got here:

Meanwhile: Gem going with the flow because she doesn't want her hermit friends to know about her LARPing hobby:

[ofhisdeaddoveways]

No you got called fake bc you said that "proshipping" stands for problematic shipping. Which is exactly what antis think.

Proship doesn't stand for problematic ship. It stands for pro ship, aka "for ships" or "in favour of.."

So yeah, you sound pretty fake to me, using the same "logic" that Antis use.

Let me correct your shitty explanation.

As I said before, proshipping stands for being pro (AKA for or in favour of) shipping.

The way you "explained" the comship label is the way the proship label would be correctly explained.

Because both com- and proship have the same core values of being 'ship and let's ship'

The only thing you got right in your post is the definition of comship, which is indeed complex/complicated ship.

Also, stop pretending that proshippers can't see the line between fiction and reality, that is literally one of the core things of being a proshipper.

Edit: I decided that I don't like this as a reblog, so I remade this

[hazbinsponsoredbyvee]

I wonder... how many times did Vox come in his pants while he and Alastor were fighting back when they had their little rivalry thing going on... or how many times did he jack off to the camera recording of their fights...

Don't say you never did Vox, I am absolutely not believing that, we all know that'd be a lie.

"I never fucking came in my pants while fighting! I might have gotten hard, but that's it! And Alastor glitched out all the recordings, so it's not like they were actually any good for me."

[leafyztar]

June 19th

11:13 am

Deep in the innerworld.

I wonder what Pin's lips taste like.

[immortal-catastrophe]

I'M BEING FORCED TO WEAR JEANS! THE DISCOMFORT!

[aideu2you]

I think there is a fine line between roleplaying and literature where "Dead Dove: Do Not Eat" no longer stands and some of you all do not get that

[rp-guzi]

Do you think your dad would let you visit your scrap gege to celebrate his birthday together? I'm sure he would appreciate it.

Eh, most likely not ... ( 〃．_ ．)

I don't think he'd get mad or punish me if I snuck out, but would he agree to the visit? No way.

In fact, now that I think about it, maybe he agreed to take me with him on the mission later because he wanted to fill up my day with something besides thinking about his cousin. (But is he gonna wake up before noon to occupy my WHOLE day? Heh, no. Not even for that.)

Scrap Gege really wasn't nice to him, you know.

He's also probably worried that if I went over there by myself again, Scrap Gege wouldn't let me go home. I hope he gets to spend some nice time with his red friend, and that Lang Ying won't ruin the vibes.

[peccatulum-b-gone]

I am waiting in front of your house @7associationfixer. Time for the Hunter to be Hunted... or something.

Is the car mine ? No, it's borrowed. Is it spacious ? You bet. Is it embarrassing ?

...unfortunately.

[dunbarreviews]

(hey, James here, you can romance Blue if you want, it's just not going to be easy like in the game considering he's not obsessed with you... yet)

[germworms]

The minecraft effect, is that whenever I see the people behind their minecraft avatars, I go ???, cause in my silly brain the people behind the camera should be pixels too. What do you mean that innocent looking person is absolutely bananas insane when they roleplay block characters?