#i know what meme you're referring to and iTS SO TRUE

[nibbelraz]

sqh is a lot of things, but observant to himself he is not. there are a great many nights where he could have sworn he fell asleep at his desk, but when morning came he was in bed. its not until later, when lqg comes along demanding him that he finds out why he wakes in his bed. its the WAKE UP SLEEPYHEAD vine. lqg kicks the door down, sqh sits up, mbj sits up behind him, a lot more pissed off. lqg doesnt even register thats a demon he just turns around and leaves. bye. sorry for interrupting.

Liu Qingge really was about to beat his ass I know he was but also thinking of a sleepy little Shang Qinghua super confused about what's going on and Qingge PROMPTLY walking out is so funny

[itsclydebitches]

Okay, so I saw this RWBY meme made by a fan and I can't remember it completely but it was about Emerald switching sides. What stood out to me was the language used and how Ruby's group was specifically referred to as "The Good Guys side" and if that doesn't show how broken this show's morality is then I don't know what does. Emerald switched to the side of good, not just Ruby's side. The side that is specifically good because it's Ruby side. You're either with Ruby or against her with no in-between. Compare this to Aang's group in ATLA, affectionately called The Gaang by fans. A term that collectively refers to the group without proclaiming them as THE good guys. We know they're good because their actions show they are good. It isn't just a title grafted on because they're the stars of the show. And while they have an official grouping in the form of Team Avatar. It still isn't used in the same manner as RWBY fans calling all who agree with Ruby "The Good Guys".

Decided to start answering backlog asks! We've officially entered the post-RT discussion era. Fun! 😬

You know, RWBY is compared (unfavorably) to Avatar a lot, but this comparison is particularly interesting to me because Avatar is, well... Avatar. That's a title. And it's a title built into the fictional world, one that's so significant it's worthy of being the name of the show. The Avatar is a combined destiny/job description that, in the words of the wiki, is the "human embodiment of light and peace." Obviously free will still comes into play - I'd never ignore the significance behind Aang's personal choice of how to bring balance to the world - but there's an element of fate here, of self-fulfilling prophecy, and fourth wall-breaking knowledge. In-world, benders are (presumably) not chosen if they're unsuited to be this embodiment of peace. Once someone knows they're the avatar, they can more easily find the courage/determination to meet such high standards because this is how it's "supposed" to be (regardless of whether anything cosmic is actually ensuring their success). And the audience knows, by virtue of that title and our opening, how we're meant to view Aang: as the Good Guy of the story. All that already exists outside of the actions he takes within the show, helping to soften anything potentially suspect with a "Well, he's just a kid" or "Well, everyone makes mistakes," or whatever explanation that's technically true in any harrowing story featuring a young protagonist... but continually falls flat with Team RWBY.

Because RWBY didn't do that same work. RWBY doesn't have a handle on its own identity the way Avatar does. It laid some of the groundwork early on but then never capitalized on it, which is why I'm endlessly groaning over the failure of not doing anything with Ruby's status as a SEW/simple soul. Those could have easily been titles the way "Avatar" is a title, something that the people of Ruby's world see as cosmic evidence of her purity and inherent ability to lead them in this war. Instead, it's just a one-off, ambiguous statement and a very badly used skill.

So yeah, Emerald joins The Good Guys, which wouldn't be bad if, as said, the show had shown the group unambiguously being Good people in a war with black and white solutions. Or, if we had some reason to believe that Ruby is The One True Leader, destined/worthy of bearing this burden no matter the number of mistakes she's made. But RWBY even undermines the title aspect by making Ruby herself fairly inconsequential in later volumes. Yeah, the show is also named after this team/our protagonist... and yet that began to feel incidental as the cast grew AND many of the characters brought new - arguably better - perspectives + powers into the fray. Avatar made the simple but VERY important decision to say, "This is the ONLY GUY who can do this job. Sure, he's going to need a lot of help and saving the world is absolutely a team effort, but that team revolves around him because he is, again, the ONE PERSON who can accomplish this." RWBY failed to set that up and (arguably) failed to show the group being The Good Guys, at least to the extent that the whole world would understandably put their faith in a teenager who, frankly, just keeps making things worse. Like, that's a big consideration imo. Ruby's intentions have always been good and most fans are fully on her side regarding justifications for her choices, so in that sense she is absolutely The Good Guy, but beyond that she's just really bad at saving the world. So if she's not somehow ordained to do it and continually shows a severe lack of skill in this regard... why are the characters/the viewer rooting for her again?

[evilbihan]

nobody:

someone in the fandom: Bi-HaN hAtEs ToMአsO hE mUsT hAtE oRpHaNs iN GeNeRaL!!!!!!1111ONE

WH... WHAT THE-

bruh. nobody hates ALL jackets just because they hated the color/design of ONE of them. no video game critic hates an entire video game series just because they hated ONE entry in it. so on, so forth.

so even if it was true that Bi-Han hates Tomáš, I HIGHLY doubt he (or anyone for that matter) is gonna hate every single orphan ever because of that. 🤦🏾‍♀️ it makes ZERO sense!!

and besides, Bi-Han's parents are dead so he's literally an orphan himself??!! what, is Fanon!Bi-Han gonna hate HIMSELF too once he suddenly realizes that?? 🤣🤣

just when i begin to think this fandom couldn't possibly get any stupider, they tend to prove me wrong nearly EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

this is ri-friggin-diculous

I know right????? Don't even get me started, it's so bad. 😭

You're right, Bi-Han and Kuai Liang are both orphans themselves. These stupid memes going around about Bi-Han hating orphans make me want to facepalm every time I see them. Do people actually think they're being funny with that crap?? 💀

Bi-Han doesn't hate orphans and most importantly HE DOESN'T HATE TOMAS.

He's the ONLY one who consistently talks to Tomas and addresses him directly in the story mode while Liu Kang and even Kuai Liang treat Tomas like he's not even there. Kuai Liang only remembers Tomas exists when he needs him on his side.

Bi-Han rushes to the edge after Tomas nearly falls to his death to check if he's okay and HE DID NOT KICK THE STONE!!!! THERE'S VISUAL PROOF OF THAT RIGHT HERE!!!!

Tomas is literally Dark!Titan Bi-Han's right hand man as seen in invasions mode.

Watching their intros, Bi-Han asks Tomas to submit if he ever wants there to be peace between them, which means he's not opposed to the idea of accepting Tomas back into the Lin Kuei or at least to have a peaceful relationship with him.

Tomas used to idolize and admire Bi-Han. They were never that close and probably didn't have the best relationship, but nothing indicates that they ever hated each other.

And as you already correctly said, even if he were to dislike Tomas, which again, he doesn't, disliking one orphan doesn't mean he dislikes all. I could be wrong but isn't Frost, his own initiate an orphan too?

I totally get what you mean! Each time I think this fandom has hit its lowest point with the constant dumb and incorrect takes on Bi-Han, a new, even dumber take pops up. It never stops.

Anyway, feel free to refer these uneducated people to any of these posts linked above, so they can see how wrong they are and feel ashamed for their stupid takes.

[vulpesverda]

I'm sure you were referring to my Kayn Making Food for the Group headcanons, but I think this would be more fun to do a headcanon post about the kinds of pranks he'd pull on all of the members. I'm also a menace who loves giving myself extra work, lmao

Prank Master Aphelios

Content: No Warnings 》 SFW 》 Alune Included

Requests: Currently Open

Masterlist

K'Sante

We all know about Aphelios replacing K'Sante's protein powder with flour, right? KNOWING this man eats that shit DRY? Evil. And I love it. On top of that, I like to imagine Phel changes the lock and homescreens on K'Sante's tablet to just... really weird shit. Obscure memes. Sometimes ones he's made himself. Ones he's made about K'Sante. How did he get the pass code. K'Sante doesn't know. K'Sante does not have the power to stop him. Someone help this man.

Sett

Pranking Sett is both so easy and so difficult. It's so easy to get a big emotional reaction out of him... but there are some pranks that will just fly right over his head. But I think Phel's favorite thing to do is gaslight this motherfucker. Tell him fake facts knowing that Sett is gonna repeat it later and look silly. And when Sett is like "Phel told me that! It's true!", Phel is like "I did not say that, where did you hear that".

Yone

You might be thinking, "If anyone were to be free of his shenanigans, it's got to be Yone, right?" And you would be correct. However, no one is free, and therefore Yone suffers. And by "suffers", I mean his cold brew is replaced with decaf. Yone notices. Immediately. He doesnt even have to taste it. He is not happy.

Yone is aware he can just go buy a cold brew, but its the principle of the thing. You don't fuck with a man's coffee, or his morning routine. But Yone can't prove anything, and his coffee is re-replaced as soon as he makes a stink about it, so.

Kayn

Kayn loves to dye his hair, canonically. And if he dyes his hair with any dye that comes in containers like the Arctic Fox hair dye, you bet Phel has intentionally switched around the colors. He bought sticker remover stuff so he could peel off the labels and switch them around undetected, so Kayn opens up his next bottle of pinkish purple dye and ends up with ultramarine or black or green and dumping it directly on his head.

Because let's be honest, I don't imagine Kayn would put that shit in a bowl and apply it with a brush. He's squeezing that bottle on his head and rubbing it in with his hands. And you're lucky if he's using gloves.

Ezreal

Ezreal is an easy one to prank. If Ez leaves his phone alone for even a SECOND, Aphelios is on that shit, hiding it away in his pocket or something so Ez is frantically looking for it. And then he puts it in a spot he KNOWS Ezreal knows he's looked. He gets a really big reaction out of it, too, which is what makes such a low effort prank so worth it. Minimal risk, big reward. If he's lucky, Ezreal might start whining.

Aphelios

Now, dear reader, you may be asking "Why is Aphelios on this list?". And the answer to that question lies in the fact that Aphelios is not even safe from himself. Particularly when he is drunk. I envision drunk Aphelios giggling to himself as he thinks "It would be really funny to piss off sober me", and doing something he knows is going to inconvenience him while hung over. Like rearranging his bedroom furniture in a way that doesn't make sense or is impractical. Or hiding the toilet paper so he has to do the shuffle of shame after his morning shit.

He is a menace, even to himself. I told you no one is free.

Alune

This is her brother. Her brother who loves her, but her brother nonetheless. He's perfected the art of the prank, and she was his unwilling test subject for many, many years. Anything you can think of, he's probably done it to her. There's nothing he can do that would surprise her, at this point. I think he enjoys stealing her hair ties and hiding them somewhere she can't reach. Or hiding all of the left socks in her matching pairs. Anything to inconvenience her just a little bit. And she knows this has the work of the Phae (Phel/Fae) written all over it.

》 ------ ◇ ------ 《

AN: God I love aphelios. End note.

[kirby-the-gorb]

reply roundup!

man apparently these are still hard even when I'm not Literally Dying anymore :v

the sad sale went great, thank you for all the support everyone <3 I bought shelves and makeup and paper star papers and stickers and a new blanket, plus it's helping cover my allowance until my wife starts getting paid. I am already thinking I might do another sale in november just for fun lol

my wife has started orientation at her program and she's having a great time, our partner and I are gonna go down to visit her in a couple weeks :) I also finished rearranging all my furniture now that her furniture isn't here and it only made me terribly ill once!

I am really enjoying everyone singing along on [live and learm], I love enthusiasm <3

on [stars] @korattata said: HEY THATS WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING ALL DAY!!!!! i just started learning last night! its a nice break at work to stop looking at the computer screen. they all still look a bit wonky and i think one of the sheets of paper is too thick but i'm just using paper i got from the supply closet and cut with the paper cutter lol

aw that's so cool! the ones that are like actually packaged for making paper stars are usually a bit thinner than printer paper, like other origami paper, but that also means they tear a lot more easily in the first step if you're not careful, so it's always a tradeoff. what a fun coincidence :>

on [hallway] @thesilentpotato said: the first thing i thought of was the "da dee la da dee la da" krabby patty zoom in scene from spongebob

lol I hadn't thought of that until you said it but you're so right (she is referencing [this scene] from the krusty krab training video for anyone unfamiliar)

(side note thank you to folks who put pronouns in easily findable places so I can refer to you correctly even if I don't know you <3 )

on [birthday] @joekingv1 said: *asks baby what gifts they received and if they would like to read/watch Komi Can't Communicate*

I never really got into komi because one of the side characters really squicks me out, but I have a friend that really loves it, so maybe they've watched it with her! I think they probably got to go somewhere fun for their birthday like a theme park or a zoo, and get a souvenir plush while they were there -u-

on [sheep] @ceylonsilvergirl [added] a different line for kirby, which I still think about regularly lol

on [pills] @minty-spice said: op i hope your health improves and your empire of pills eventually shrinks

thank you <3 honestly I'd be happy with just the first one, I don't mind all the pills so much as long as they're actually helping.

on [crackers] @amatsuki said: made a bunch of cold noodles today with cucumber carrot chicken & sesame peanut soy sauce. the only actual cooking i had to do was boil water and steam chicken

oh hell yeah cold noodles are a fantastic example of a basic food to go feral over. now I want noodles too.........

on [thinking] @adrawrable said: hope you're cozy op

not right now as I type this because it is Computer Work Time, but in general I am So Cozy these days, I have a whole queen bed to myself so it's full of big stuffed animals and fluffy blankets :) (tbh even once my wife moves back here we may just all have individual beds we all seem very comfy this way lol)

on [slam] @jeaniechibi said: we'll be right back ➡️ shshgdtsudtdidh why is every bit of art with a blurr effect so damn funny 🤣

it truly is, I love a thoughtfully applied motion blur (or perspective blur can be funny too) (altho tbh I don't use the perspective blur tool for those I just use separate layers and gaussian blur) (for anyone unfamiliar this is a reference to the eric andre show meme)

on [beehive] @galacticnova3 said: me @ wasp nests minus the frowning, little fellas doing their little fella activities. sometimes they squabble. the thinking man’s reality tv drama

true, true, gotta love little fella activities. personally I feel better observing from a safe distance, but we had a lot of wasps around my childhood home and I didn't really know how to get friendlier than not actively making them mad lol

anonymous asked: That profile is amazing

for some reason I don't feel like I understand, but thank you!

on [sale] @milkymoon-ramblings said: gahh why do so many people have so many cool probducts, the queers are tempting me with their cool swag. however I need to save money for my own cool swag (digital art)

I just love the phrase "the queers are tempting me with their cool swag", so relatable lol (also no worries to anyone who couldn't or didn't want to buy anything, it's not like I needed it to pay bills I just wanted treats :v )

on [solstice] @jaune-chat said: Definitely, the sun can fuck right off. I break into a rash if I get too much sun, and I can't walk outside without full body coverage to some degree or be itching for WEEKS! In order of preference, is fall, winter, spring, summer.

oof yeah my mom gets a bad rash from sun exposure too! I'm fortunate to not have that specific symptom, but dang it seems so inconvenient, especially if you're also sensitive to heat so being covered up puts you at additional risk. personally I rate winter a little higher than fall but otherwise yeah total agreement lol

on [rollerskates] @nexus-nebulae said: @ prev tags i used to daydream constantly about being able to roller skate everywhere because i would constantly think 'rolling would be way easier than dragging my feet everywhere rn' and it took me two months of constantly thinking about that before i realised OH i need a ROLLATOR that would help (<- i am not smart) i haven't actually tried roller skating bc i don't own skates but i have used a skateboard briefly and that also feels better than walking. i wonder.... if the roller skating rink nearby would allow me to use a rollator in the rink with skates on........ probably not lmao

honestly it takes so much to actually realize like "oh a mobility aid might help with this" which is like, a bad thing, but we're just gonna focus on the funny part for now happy disability pride month :v and tbh I think maybe they might let you do it??? cuz like at ice skating rinks they usually have those little penguins or just straight up plastic lawn chairs for people to support themselves on, so I don't think it would be that crazy to go out on the rollarink with a rollator? but also that's just me and I do not run the place or get paid minimum wage to keep people from breaking the place sooo lol

[notemily]

actual guide for new tumblr users, from Twitter or otherwise

yeah so I decided to do one of these. I'm just someone who has been here since 2007 and wants to help people who are new to the site and have no idea what's happening. Twitter seems to be in its death throes as I write this, and while the posts about driving down the property values are funny, I'd like to actually try and help out.

many people have made posts that are like "get an icon and post something or else people will think you're a bot" so I'll just assume you've seen one of those already. I want to focus more on the things you need to know to acclimate to tumblr culture. so:

general tips:

like things if you want to like things. people will tell you liking doesn't do anything, that only reblogs do stuff, but that's not quite true. only reblogs will get the people who follow you to see it on their dashboard (circulating the post further through the tumblr ecosystem), but likes will let the OP know you liked it, let the person who reblogged it onto your dash know you liked it, and probably do something complicated involving the "based on your likes" algorithm but I really don't know how that works. also, the like will stick around, so if you see the post reblogged from someone else much later, your little heart will still be highlighted in red.

you can control a lot about what you see on your dashboard from the settings page! on desktop, go into settings - account and settings - dashboard to change things. most people turn off "best stuff first" and just use the chronological feed, but you do you, new user. I personally hate endless scroll, so I turned that off, but I love timestamps, so I turned those on. for bonus fun, go into settings - labs and there are extra tabs you can add to your dash.

but what about turning off anonymous asks? on desktop, this setting, weirdly, is in the "Edit appearance" page for your blog. you can also turn replies off there, allow only people you follow to message you, and hide your blog from search results. there are a lot of random settings in there, so make sure to take a look. (app results may vary.)

you might notice that one of the settings is for filtered tags and filtered post content. this is why it's important not to censor things here that might be triggering for some folks - because someone out there has "rape" filtered, and if you go around saying "r*pe," that's not going to be caught in their filter. also, at this time there are no word police who will come after you for saying "kill" or "die," so you don't need to use euphemisms like "unalive" on tumblr. you can also swear as much as you want.

blaze: tumblr blaze is a relatively new feature where you can pay actual money to have your post forced onto random people's dashboards. beware, if you use this for something people don't want to see, you will get mocked. if you use it to show everyone your cat, you're probably fine.

there are two basic uses for #tags: organizational (putting your post into a category, like tagging it with the name of the fandom it's relevant to) and editorial (adding extra commentary that you don't want to add in the post itself). a lot of people will use both, a lot of people will use neither. when people like your editorial tags enough, they'll copy or screenshot them and add them to the body of the post. this is known as "passing peer review" and is a compliment.

memes and inside jokes You Should Know:

do you love the colour of the sky? is an extremely long image post (showing all the colors a sky could possibly be) that takes a long time to scroll past, and back in the olden days (2012) it was ubiquitous on tumblr. these days you can shorten long posts automatically using your dashboard settings (see above), or use the "j" keyboard shortcut to go directly to the next post if you're on desktop, but we still remember it fondly and refer to it constantly because nothing dies here, especially not memes.

the color theory children's hospital post is another one of those things you'll see a million references to if you're on here for any length of time.

you cannot kill me in a way that matters is a post that you might have seen in screenshots elsewhere online, but it started here! other memes that originated on tumblr: spiders georg, me an intellectual, graphic design is my passion, etc.

blorbo from my shows is a phrase used to refer to your latest favorite character. it started as a joke, but tumblr has a way of taking jokes and making them a thing, so now it's a thing. see also poor little meow meow.

tumblr holidays: anything people on tumblr can make into a holiday or anniversary, we will. most of them you'll see as they happen, and they're often self-explanatory, but you should probably read up on November 5 2020 if you don't know about it already.

horse plinko: tumblr loves this one for some reason.

I like your shoelaces / thanks, I stole them from the president: this was supposedly the "secret code" to identify a tumblr user in real life. (you can buy shoelaces directly from tumblr now, but that's a recent development.)

then perish: speaking of the president, if you see Obama's eyes with a very orange tint, this is the meme it's referencing.

ball-shaving ads: ads from the personal grooming company Manscaped were/are(?) ubiquitous on tumblr, to the point that some have theorized that tumblr was deliberately saturating people's dash with the ads so that they'd be more likely to pay for ad-free browsing. and one of the ads for ad-free reads "shave off ads from your dashboard," so like, they might be onto something.

world heritage posts: there are various tumblrs that compile the best of tumblr, anything that's particularly iconic or has become a meme. there are even heritage post blogs for specific fandoms.

tumblr history:

there are three basic eras of tumblr history:

classic tumblr era 2007-2013: David Karp started tumblr in 2007, and it grew in popularity and weirdness for many years. porn was allowed: the original tumblr adult content policy read "sure, go nuts, show nuts, whatever."

Yahoo/Verizon era 2013-2019: Yahoo famously bought tumblr in 2013 for $1 billion. ads started showing up on tumblr in 2012, so this is also around when tumblr started to monetize. Yahoo was eventually bought by Verizon, and in December 2018, they announced they were banning porn, which sucked. everyone predicted the death of tumblr, but it limped on, with about a 30% decrease in traffic. (source for that statistic)

Automattic era 2019-present: in 2019, Automattic bought tumblr from Yahoo for like $3 million or something. Automattic owns WordPress, and they seem to understand tumblr's userbase better than the Yahoo folks did. they've recently instituted a more nuanced adult content policy, but because of Apple's strict policy for what gets included in the App Store, credit card processors refusing to process payments for porn, and other restrictions, tumblr can't go back to being the porn-allowed free-for-all it once was. see this post for a full explanation of why.

various April Fool's jokes have included Coppy (2015), Mishapocalypse (2013), and most recently, the button that makes crabs. expect April 1st to be extra chaotic on tumblr.

Tumbeasts - the tumblr version of the Twitter Fail Whale, designed by Matthew Inman of the Oatmeal. not sure if they're extinct now, or if the site just doesn't go down like it used to.

Dashcon - tumblr tried to have a convention once. it didn't go well. the photo with the sad ball pit is used as shorthand to reference the disaster that was Dashcon.

SuperWhoLock is a name for the fandom crossover between Supernatural, Doctor Who, and Sherlock, which were all juggernauts on tumblr at one time. the fandom supposedly "died off" after 2014, but see above re: nothing dies here.

female presenting nipples - when tumblr introduced the Porn Ban in 2018, they used this phrase in the community guidelines. they've since updated their nudity policy, but the phrase will live forever, because come on, tumblr is a website full of queer and/or trans folks. if you think you're getting away with a weasel phrase like "female presenting nipples" without being mocked all over the website, you're extremely wrong.

John Green: an author who used to be on tumblr, back when you could edit someone else's tumblr post when you reblogged it. his text posts were regularly edited to make it look like he had said things he didn't. someone edited one of his posts to be about how much he loves a certain sex act, which was probably not THE reason they removed the ability to edit others' posts, but like, it didn't help. John Green was eventually harassed so much he left tumblr. opinions are divided on whether this was hilarious or sad. (something I discovered while researching for this post: the author of the Your Fave Is Problematic tumblr [which was part of the wave of anti-John Green content] wrote a confessional New York Times article in 2021. pull quote: "I just wanted to see someone face consequences; no one who'd hurt me ever had.")

XKit: used to be THE browser extension for tumblr. it was made by "the xkit guy," who seems to have been harassed off the site in 2015. the extension was replaced by New XKit, which worked for a while. these days a lot of XKit's features have been either rendered obsolete by tumblr adding them to its settings, or broken by tumblr interface updates, and the new hotness is XKit Rewritten. want to block a specific post from ever appearing on your dash, see who your mutuals are, stop seeing notifications on one specific post (great feature for if you accidentally go viral)? install it and play around with the settings. there are accessibility features too!

...and now I've made it look like people regularly get harassed off tumblr. WELCOME, NEW USER, TO THE HELLSITE! but for real, part of why I put this post together was so if someone starts in on tumblr Discourse and mentions people who have been harassed off the site, you can nod wisely and go "ah, yes, I have heard tell of this." just to give you some kind of context for things.

anyway, I'm always happy to Explain The Joke, provided it's a joke that I get, so if you see something that looks like a tumblr in-joke and want context, my ask box is open. just don't ask me about Homestuck. I know nothing about Homestuck and at this point I'm not sure I want to.

in conclusion, new user: go forth, be weird, become a part of the culture. I hope this guide has helped!

[csmeanerr]

For the love of god don’t post if anon fails but with regards to the creative red stuff I see where they’re coming from with pronouns. As a trans person myself I get verbal abuse daily from my immediate family who use it/its pronouns to degrade me because they think being transgender is “bullshit made up by people online” and just a phase I’m going through. I’ve had psychiatric appointments, medical counseling and therapy, and even had a psychiatric report diagnosing me with gender dysphoria among other mental illnesses to prove this is actually affecting my daily life.

When my psychiatrist talked to my parents about family counseling to help them understand my trans identity, my parents took me away from the psychiatrist for “enabling my delusions”. They throw out my opposite gendered clothing, they constantly raid my room looking for anything I’m hiding, and they make it a point to antagonize me by using the wrong pronouns because “if you’re not going to accept you’re born a girl and are a girl then you don’t deserve to be called anything.” Being referred to as it/its is incredibly dehumanizing and degrading and I don’t care if someone wants to be referred to that way, I don’t have it in me to strip a person of their status as a living being and demean them by addressing them like an inanimate object. It’s so uncomfortable and stressful and it feels awful.

I struggle heavily with nounself/emoji/neopronouns too because of my mental illnesses and learning disabilities since they break sentence structure and don’t flow properly or they have varying pronunciations/uses and it’s difficult to remember how things work. I wouldn’t interact with people either if I can’t address them in a way I can understand because if I mess up it’s going to be the end of my social life since me messing up is going to get me labeled as a bigot or a LGBTphobic jerk when I’m not. There is truth to them being rehashed “attack helicopter” memes too which ARE harmful to the trans community.

You might think your pronouns are easy to understand and not hurting anyone but that’s not true. They are. They’re not guaranteed to be easily understandable to every other person. You’re actually just complicating things more and giving other neurodivergent people an even harder time than they might already be having, which makes the situation and stress worse.

I’m sorry to add to this topic mod but this is a matter that personally affects me every day and it hurts a lot. I have a mental wellness clinic appointment in the new year to find a therapist and my family has already said they’ll call the cops and report my car as stolen if they believe I’m going to the appointment to discuss my trans identity issues or seeking aid with transitioning. The reason they think it’s all fake bullshit is because people claim being trans is a choice and they’ve seen the emoji/nounself/neopronouns and they don’t believe in it. My psychiatric report that I brought home was even shredded and thrown out because it used my preferred name and pronouns and thus was “filled with bullshit”. I know that I’m not the only one negatively affected by these things either.

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nope fuck off your issues does not allow you to invalidate other people and misgender them in turn. it/it may be dehumanizing to you but to someone else might be exactly what they want to be called, same as you want your own pronouns acknowledged.

the fact you go on an entire spiel of how much your family thinks you're full of bullshit and then turn around and say other's pronouns are "attack helicopter" memes is a bigoted take. in short it basically reads: my gender identity is valid but yours aren't

and you sure did type out that the only reason you hide these insanely awful takes is solely to keep your social standing and not that you actually give a fuck about changing your perspective because clearly you don't think other neurodivergents might experience themselves differently or deserve to be respected for those choices

every reason you brought up has been an issue for YOU that YOU are then making OTHERS put above their own validation for YOURSELF.

just fuck off. use people's fucking pronouns it's not that fucking hard to not be a complete shithead. the LGTBQA+ umbrella is larger than you think and you don't get to draw a line of what is or isn't under that umbrella. it's for all of us. stop being selfish.

[megashadowdragon]

Jaguar & Tezcatlipoca's Reunion Photo Tour!

Commentary: You can consider this a spiritual successor to Babylonia Omake: Jaguar Man's Último Adios.

"

Jaguar PELIGRO!!!

Commentary:

You thought I was out of Jaguar Memes? You're wrong! I just saved the best for last.

As a loyal minion of Tezcatlipoca, Jaguar Man joining up with Quetz is kind of like the pet (or No. 2) of the villain shacking up with the protagonists for an episode. It's a cute change to the dynamic, but you know it can't last because that mutt's only really doing that out of convenience until the status quo kicks back in.

So Quetz treating her with suspicion is pretty justified. They've been enemies for an entire mythos and she knows that Jaguar's only trying to kiss up to her because her usual boss isn't around.

Likewise, I'd like to think that Jaguar wouldn't mind getting a good hit in on Quetzalcoatl before scampering off back to the Throne and the Court of the Smoking Mirror. At least, that's how I like to regard their dynamic.

This comic and its punchline were partially inspired by this X-Play sketch. Anyone else remember X-Play? Good times.

The title of the comic is a reference to "Mi Ultimo Adios", the final poem of Filipino writer and national hero Dr. Jose Rizal.

While Cabron technically means "male goat" in Spanish, it is usually used as a catch-all expletive/insult. Please don't recklessly say it in public. I wash my hands of the mater.

Jaguar puts the (True) label after her boss' name to further distinguish him from how his four fellow creator gods Quetzalcoatl, Huitzilopochti and Xipe Totec are alternatively known as the White, Blue, and Red Tezcatlipoca respectively.

Tony the Tiger and Star Trek references. Couldn't resist. Sorry.

We'll be going back to the regular schedule after this strip. I hope you enjoyed these back-to-back marathon miniseries!

Do you guys prefer to call not!Taiga "Jaguar Man" or "Jaguar Warrior"?

"

orojuice commentary More Primeval Villain + Cat Archetrope Adventures! Had this idea since LB7 dropped, but I could never get Georgios to look right for the lead-up panel. That is until I remembered that CE of his. Finding that red waterfall background was also a huge boost since initially, I just placed a blood splatter on the final camera shutter background before the last panel would show the same background before that but without the duo. Much more fun this way. For Quetzalcoatl. According to the 8th Anniversary FGO interview with the creators, the giant robotic ghost that Tezcatlipoca summons for his NP sometimes? Apparently, his illustrator Shou Tajima was given complete freedom to do whatever he wanted for the Sun God's Third Ascension so long as he followed the specifications for the first two. The robotic ghost was his initial submission for that. And yes, this Third Ascension Tezcatlipoca was always that big. Nasu and the other creative heads liked it a lot, but they couldn't find a way to feasibly program it into the typical three Servant line-up. Mr. Tajima was asked to make a more typical Third Ascension in its place. However, while they couldn't have it in the game as a playable sprite, they did model it for use in Tezcatlipoca's First and Second Ascension NP sequences. So if he had, theoretically, transformed into that to fight Quetzalcoatl in this comic, he could've produced roughly this much blood.

spacebattles comments

Mash: Jaguar Man! Tezcatlipoca!

Fujimaru: D-D-Did you just take pictures of a m-murder?

Georgios: That's the scary part, Master. I didn't.

Fujimaru and Mash: Huh?

Georgios: Those pictures you're looking at? All of them were taken at the same spot at roughly the same time. It was supposed to be a photo of them enjoying their day in the city. Then, when I took more shots, I got those images. (shudder) The whole thing just creeps me out. I'm thinking of brining my camera to a temple to have it cleansed or something along the line.

Mash: What could this mean, Senpai?

Fujimaru: I'm not s-

Jaguar Man (passing by): Oh boy, nya! I can't wait to go on that hiking trip! Just you and me, Tez!

Tezcatlipoca: Yup! Just the two of us in the woods! No one to bother us as we enjoy ourselves! Wait, what about Coatl?

Jaguar Man: Nyot to worry! I sent her on a wild goose chase across the Sahara Desert!

Tezcatlipoca: Ha ha! What an idiot!

Fujimaru, Mash and Georgios: …

Georgios: Umm … guys? Do you think that my camera could have been taking photos of the future?

Fujimaru: Georgios? For our remaining sanity, please just drop the subject.

Georgios: But-

Mash: Senpai said to drop it.

[williszhang]

Memes* cause depression

*well, internet scrolling in general, which are basically memes or meme-adjacent.

During company layoffs, I went two straight weeks looking at nothing but internal memes. They were really helpful in processing the feelings of hurt and shock.

Memes with my colleagues straddle an interesting spectrum. It's "connection" with a real collective community, but the collective is across 200K employees.

Extrapolate that to an entire internet "community" and you have the state of today's media. For all the split-second entertainment that's out there, I rarely laugh. That's true unfortunately not just with internet browsing, but with life and with people too.

Is it just me? Are we not having as many belly laughs with people as with past times?

I could be conflating a number of other true things: adult friendships don't tend to be as deep as those from youth,   raising a kid is a perpetual beatdown, pandemic disconnection, desensitization from working in a frenetic environment,

but let me just stick to my thesis a little longer. First, what am I calling a "meme," and why do they make us depressed? A meme (picture, short video skit, stupid Tweet™️) is basically an attempt through media to get a "Oh I know that feeling!" It's creating a "connection," and the more niche the reference the greater the payoff, e.g., in order from basic to niche: SAT -> 90skids4lyfe -> depression/anxiety/introvert/antisocial -> grad school memes with relatable themes -> NUMTOT -> MD is a cult Not a State -> Super Secret DMV bboy page. Honestly for every human experience, and I mean *every*, we've created some media.

But here's the thing. I think connection is zero-sum. At the core of it, memes create connection to a nebulous internet entity, which thus disconnects us more and more with our real counterparts. We strip ourselves the opportunity to laugh with real friends, because would-be funny convos are constantly scuttled with our mental "oh I've seen this line of humor already in a meme." I sense this constantly in my interactions. People including myself have a hard time laughing from true novelty, because there is none.

And it's even more negative than zero-sum. The meme reduces the dimensions and dignity of the human experience it's making fun of. Tokenizes and trivializes. Ironically, the more nuanced ("niche") the meme is the more the tokenization effect. Because of this, I draw a line at Christian memes. Under no circumstances I'll entertain Christian memes. That's the last thing in my life I need trivializing.

As self-proclaimed Nostalgia King, I think about how life was in the 2000s. Even though we had internet, its use was so different. We still used Facebook to catch up with real people in our lives, not random impersonal internet personalities. AIM chat was in its heyday. We connected with real folks. 

Will I stop with memes? Maybe! I unfollowed a bunch of meme accounts by the end of writing this. Out of all my social contexts, I think I have pretty good laughs with bboys. The meme skills of the community are so poor it's actually a net-benefit. It also helps you're inherently vulnerable and silly when participating. A lot of the things discussed here are themes from the book "You Are Not Your Own" by Alan Noble. Excellent read, seriously cut me on specific modern problems that older religious figures don't have insight into (a la memes, porn, and smartphones).

[ksclaw]

I posted 740 times in 2022

61 posts created (8%)

679 posts reblogged (92%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@chigrima

@ksclaw

@srrrokka

@fanarchoslashivist

@sumi-sprite

I tagged 569 of my posts in 2022

Only 23% of my posts had no tags

#rise of the guardians - 121 posts

#lmao - 63 posts

#pitch black - 61 posts

#ksclawart - 52 posts

#rotg - 48 posts

#important - 46 posts

#jack frost - 29 posts

#guardians of childhood - 21 posts

#rambles - 21 posts

#reference - 18 posts

Longest Tag: 135 characters

#i once got a very stinging rejection based on how i 'clearly didn't have at least 5 years experience and that's what we're looking for'

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Idk if you're still big in the fandom, but I feel like its worth mentioning the RotG 10th anniversary is this year so maybe the fandom can plan something together? I don't reach a lot of people but I feel like you do so maybe this message will inspire you or others to start planning something big? Love all your works btw ❤

Oh thank you <3 And lots of us are active on a discord server. We might figure something out, and figure out an event for it. @bunnimew might have a few ideas perhaps?

29 notes - Posted March 6, 2022

#4

Late submission for @rotg-hope-week : Honeycomb

Mini!Nightmare and Pastel Elf got themselves into trouble. Bunny doesn’t even know _how_ they got an entire bee swarm after them into the Warren

38 notes - Posted April 26, 2022

#3

Finally got this finished for @rotg-hope-week : Snowdrop

In Flower Language, a Snowdrop has the following meaning: Purity, Hope Rebirth, Consolation or Sympathy.

I decided to play with the “rebirth” part, in relation to a certain part of the books with Jack and Nightlight and saw it as an excuse to play with painting in Clip Studio. It was a fun challenge and I’m happy with the final result.

42 notes - Posted April 27, 2022

#2

Hope Week day 2: Chocolate eggs

Still working on Day 1, but for now, here’s for Day 2 of @rotg-hope-week

Bunnymund knew he was missing something. In the beginning, he had thought Jack had been messing with his eggs, or that North’s elves had been trying to start trouble. Maybe even Sandy had some cravings, but the Dream Weaver usually asked first.

And then he had found the hoof prints. Which had led him to the true culprit.

“So. What do ya have t’ say for yerself?” He fumed.

The Nightmare tried, and failed, to look properly innocent. The problem was that it had the evidence smeared all over it in the form of chocolate as well as pastel colors.

48 notes - Posted April 18, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Listen, with the Plinko meme going on, it was only a matter of time.

63 notes - Posted January 9, 2022

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[taiblogcomics]

Dew Lagoon

Hey there, hip-to-butt ratios. ...Hey, wait, this isn't the usual Taiblog! Well, keep your pants on. We'll be doing another issue of Countdown soon enough. Probably start it in, like, an hour or so. Expect it soon!

But I'm thirsty, and you know what that means! The one blog where thirst-posting means it's actually about soda~

Mountain Dew Baja Laguna Lemonade

You know when you see a box, I've only managed to find it in cans. I don't always think that's worth it! But for this one, I figured I'd give it a shot. I do love me some lemonade--and I mean real lemonade, not the carbonated kind that Europe and Australia call lemonade. Just lemon juice, water, and a small amount of sugar. Not too much, because the appeal of a good lemonade is the sour tartness to it! That's the part that makes your face pucker inwards, like a popular redraw meme! Mango is also a good flavour that I enjoy, so this is something I'm looking forward to. Thus the justification in buying a whole box.

The box is pretty rad. I almost always have nothing but compliments for the art direction Mountain Dew has taken of late. Whoever's doing these designs should be proud of their work! You got a parrot on a surfboard, pretty cool. And then there's this snorkeling starfish. That's not where the mouth on a starfish is, and I'm pretty sure they don't need a snorkel! Otherwise, really dig the colour use here. Very warm pallet with some lightish blues is the perfect colour scheme to put you in mind of the beach and summer. Well done~!

I always gush about it, but there's nothing quite like the feeling of a chilled soda can between your palms. Gently wrapping your fingers around the frigid aluminium... It's almost as refreshing as the beverage inside sometimes! That's a summer feeling a lot of folks will relate to, I hope~

The flip side, of course, is that once I crack this and we subject it to the ol' sniff test, it's a little harder for me to pick up on the smell from a can than it is a bottle. I dunno if that's true for a lot of folks, but it is for me. Let's hope the scent on this is strong. But maybe not as strong as its sister beverage we reviewed a couple weeks ago, because that one actually got overpowering and gave me a headrush as I continued to drink it.

Mmm, no, the scent is pretty good! Distinctly a mango scent wafting up from the can. Very mango, no hint of lemonade. But that doesn't surprise me, lemonade is a pretty subtle scent. If you get too much lemon scent, like White-Out had, it turns into a household cleaner.

Oh, that's a good taste. Very heavy mango flavour, as matching the scent. But you do get a little bit of tang from it, there's definitely a sour kick in there. That's probably the lemonade! Honestly, this might actually be better as not a Mountain Dew flavour. The carbonation isn't doing this any favours, it reminds me a lot of strawberry lemonades I've had at restaurants. I can't be bothered to let any of this go flat, though, so we'll muddle through it.

I will probably enjoy this, and you might enjoy it too. Especially if you're European or Australian where the lemonades are carbonated and they're probably not selling this!

I also couldn't find a place to work in a reference to Lagoona Blue from Monster High, so I'll just mention her here~

[nixzeroz]

universal artist pet peeves, non-artists take notes!

"Can you draw me?" It baffles me how entitled people are sometimes. It's fine if you're paying for a commission obviously I'm not talking about people who paid, I'm talking about the people that genuinely think they can get away with asking for a free self portrait.

"You're so talented." I wasn't born with natural talent, I've been drawing since I was a little kid. It's years of practice.

"I can barely draw a stick figure." It's not cute, you sound like a pick me. Just compliment me like a normal human being.

"They look like (character name)" Please for the love of god stop comparing original characters that took hours to draw to shit that already exists. It's rude. "Oh haha that's cool but that looks like this thing that already exists so basically you're not creative at all." You get me? It's annoying as hell, also a lot of artists come up with lore for their characters, they're not the same. Unless they're a blatant ripoff just stop.

"That's too expensive." Unless someone is charging you $100 for a stick figure shut up please, most artists' prices are more than fair. Sure, to you it might just look like pixels on a screen or pencil on paper but to us it's taking time out of our day for you, we could be doing anything else but we're not. If you wanna complain about your $35 full body commission then do it yourself.

"Your art style looks too much like (artist name)" It's true some artists like to use other styles as reference, I personally used to really look up to Hiro Mashima's art style but then it developed into its own thing. Unless someone is literally tracing another artist please just stop, nobody "owns" a specific art style just because they're more well known than other artists. We all start somewhere, referencing other artists is a good thing. It gives you an idea of what your goal is.

"Rendering process..." Now we've all seen certain drawings be memed to hell and back like that one Kaeya drawing, however a lot of these "oh..." "rendering process" "it's so preppy in here!" comments are directed to actual kids and baby artists, it's gross. You know how many 12-13 year olds have literally quit drawing because of assholes on the internet? If you don't have anything nice to say, shut the fuck up.

"Personally I would (unsolicited advice)" Unless someone asks for constructive criticism, stop. We all have opinions but that doesn't mean you need to express them. Giving random "advice" when it isn't asked for is rude as fuck and backhanded as hell, and really discouraging.

[cheesus-doodles]

Sooo I had a lot of times on my hand, and decided to do incorrect quotes with Gang Leader darling(who I'll refer to as Boss bc it's shorter lol). Hope you dont mind! 😅

___________________________

Hase: Hey boss, are you free on friday? Like, around 8pm on friday?

Boss: Yes?

Hase: What about you, Koji?

Koji: Yes I am.

Hase: Great! Because I'm not. You two go on without me. Enjoy your date.

Koji: Did he just-

_____________________

Masa: I just killed 2 roaches in the kitchen.

Hase: I can't believe you killed Jun and Furu.

________________

*Hase, Koji and Furu smiles to Boss*

Hase: Your smile? It makes my day.

Koji: Your happiness? I live for that.

Furu: Hotel? Trivago.

________________

Emma: You know, Koji gives Y/n flowers everyday. I wish you'd do that.

Draken: Umm okay?

*Next day*

Draken: *gives Boss flowers*

Boss: What

Draken: Look, I don't get it either.

___________

Jun: Come on, Boss, I'm your hottest friend!

Jun: Wait no, that's Furu.

Jun: I'm your nicest friend!

Jun: No, that's Koji. I'm your friend!

____________

Furu: Hase gave me a get better soon card.

Boss: Aww that's sweet!

Furu: I wasn't sick. He just thought I could do better.

_______________

Hase to Boss: Well, you know I like the Wing members.

Hase: It's just sometimes I want to get on my motorbike and run 'em all over.

_______________

Boss: Hey, you know Ariana Grande's new song? God is a Woman? Do you think it's true?

Furu, Hase, Koji, Masa and Jun: *Looks at Boss* Yeah.

_______________

*Emma talking in groupchat*

Emma: Hey guys

Emma: Wanna see an impression of my mom?

*Emma has left the chat*

__________________

Boss when they're in kindergarten, praying: I need someone to be my friend, someone who won't run away from me.

Boss: Maybe send me an angel, the nicest angel you have.

Preteen Furu, emerging from a burning dumpster: *LAUGHING MANIACALLY*

__________________

Boss: That's silly. Koji doesn't have a crush on me.

Hase: Yes he does.

Masa: Yes he does.

Jun: Yes he does.

Koji: *mumbles* Yes I do....

_________________

*Timeskip Red Dragonflies if Koji and Boss are married(riding that Koji x Boss agenda til I dIE-😤)*

Koji: Oh come on, I didn't drink that much last night.

Hase: You were flirting with Boss.

Koji: So? She's my wife.

Hase: You asked if she's single.

Hase: And then cried when she said she wasn't.

_______________

Furu: I'm an idiot.

Hase:

Jun:

Masa:

Koji:

Hase: If you're waiting for us to disagree, this is going to be a long day.

Masterlist

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AKSNDSAKNDAKLJNDAKLJN I'M SO FLATTERED I'M CRYING TuT

this are so accurate though its killing me?? You got them all down pat, I'm super amazed! I had a fit when these first came in, and I was out in public BAHAHAHAHA I love them all ;-; I wish I could post them all seperately and draw a little something for them, or make a meme!!

Came home straight and I doodled the first one, I hope you like it! :) I'll definitely try to do the others (especially those with Emma and Koji, I noticed👀👀) when I have the time ^^

[konata-izumi-kinny-writes]

Lewis Pepper x GN! Reader

He comforts you after scaring you and getting catcalled

Tw: mention of yelling, catcalling and sexual remarks

(An: Picture is created by Damasath Art, also in this fic you're wearing a dress)

After exiting the mall you went to look through with Lewis as a date, he offered to go out to lunch with you, after agreeing you two started walking off to a restaurant only a few blocks away. After two or three moments of conversations and your usual inside jokes and references, a guy twice your age started hitting on you. The two of you decided to try and ignore it in hopes of the creep going away and leaving you two alone... but he doesn't. Lewis puts his arm on your hip and pulls you closer as you walk with him, you look down at the ground in an attempt to space out and block whatever is happening from your mind, all the while you watch the skirt of your dress swish side to side as you walked. Lewis tried to help you ignore it with more jokes and talk of your favorite shows and memes, but it was hard with a random guy throwing vulgar, sexual remarks at you.

It went on like this for a few minutes, you growing more depressed, and Lewis growing more irritated. 'Jeez, someone doesn't know when to give up, back off would ya?' Lewis thought to himself. This kept going on until one comment made Lewis snap.

"Oh c'mon don't play hard to get, how about you leave this fella for someone who'll treat you right"

That sentence... was the last straw for Lewis. In a blind rage, Lewis's human disguise flamed away leaving his true skeletal form. He grabbed your harasser by the shirt and started going off on him.

"OH PLEASE, YOU OF ALL PEOPLE!? LISTEN HERE, TINY! YOU COULDN'T TREAT THEM RIGHT IF YOUR LIFE DEPENDED ON IT, AND IN THIS CASE IT DOES!"

You slowly start to back away as Lewis continues his frightening attempt at defending you. Scared by what's happening and the violent threats being shouted, you back up all the way until you hit the wall of the building behind you as tears well in your eyes. You try taking deep breaths and holding yourself close however its not helping much.

After a minute or so Lewis lets the harasser go and he runs away. Lewis returns to his disguise but when he notices you're not next to him, he looks around and he's heartbroken when he sees you against the wall on the verge of a panic attack.

"Oh baby i'm so sorry, I didn't mean to scare ya." "*sniff* It's fine Lewis."

"No its not, I shouldn't have lost my temper."

Lewis holds you close to him and rubs the back of your head with his thumb. He helps you up and keeps you close by putting his arm on your waist. "Still feel like getting something to eat?" "Hell yeah -w-"

After making it home from your date, he picks you up and settles down on the couch with you on his chest. He relaxes out of his human disguise as warm pinkish purple flames flare out around you. You think to yourself how lucky you are that they're not hot enough to burn you. You're snapped out of your thoughts by Lewis tucking your hair out of your eyes with what you assume would be a smile on his face.

"Lewis, what are you thinking right now?"

"Nothing, you're just pretty"

"Oh stoooop" you bury your face in his chest.

"Whaat, you are though" he starts to play with your hair. 'I could do this all day', he thinks to himself. He sits up to give you a peck on the forehead. You do the same to him, things escalate to you two basically having a battle on who can kiss the other person more.... that is until Vivi and Arthur walked in. They make fun of you two for it to this day.

AIGHT YALL THX FOR READIIIING :D

(Srry again if this was short)

[bookofmirth]

There are people who are dicks and thousands of people liking and supporting those comments and all it takes is looking at the gwynriel tags and accounts on literally any site to see that they're a massive part of the problem. You're letting your bias against a ship and your refusal to go outside your bubble make judgements for you as opposed to actually looking at what people are doing because you desparately want it only to be the side that you don't like. The whole reason you made the kink meme page was to make people think outside their bubble. If you're going to be mad about the things one side does, you also need to be mad about the things the side you think is going to happen does. Otherwise, yes, it is hypocrisy. You wouldn't have gotten anons like the one saying they couldn't find eluciens that didn't hate Elain if it wasn't a problem. Willful ignorance and refusing to take accountability doesn't make these things any less true.

All right people, buckle in! This is the only one of these I am answering.

Did I say who is doing those things? Can you not fucking read? No. I didn't say it was elriels. I didn't say it was gwynriels. I didn't say it was eluciens. I just said it was a problem. LEARN TO FUCKING READ.

your refusal to go outside your bubble make judgements for you as opposed to actually looking at what people are doing because you desparately want it only to be the side that you don't like

So the fact that in the year of our lord two thousand twenty-two you STILL haven't figured out how the internet works is FLABBERGASTING. I am flabbergasted. I don't have to go outside of my bubble if I don't want to. I don't have to engage with anyone I don't want to. I don't have to talk to people. I don't have to do jack shit. I don't owe you anything. I don't even owe my mutuals anything. If I decided to delete my blog tomorrow, that's my prerogative. If I decided to become an elriel tomorrow, again, my prerogative. If I decide to become a kpop blog tomorrow. What the fuck do you care?

You have no idea what I do and don't know about outside of what I post. Trust me, I know a lot about what happens in this fandom, even if I don't post about it. When I do reference stuff like this, I VERY INTENTIONALLY do not point fingers at specific groups because I know that every group has its ~bad seeds~ and I don't want to generalize. So like... if you see me saying something like "certain people think X" and you see yourself in "certain people"? That's a self-own, bestie.

At this point y'all - and I am NOT naming any group, fucking read the words I am WRITING - are slamming a hammer into your thumbs and then looking around with tears in your eyes trying to get sympathy. Fuck off with that 🤣

This isn't the torture scene from A Clockwork Orange where the dude's eyes are forced open for hours and he's forced to watch horrifying violent stuff in order to turn him into a psycho killer. No one is forcing you to be here. No one is forcing you to see all this Elain hate. Why do you see this content? Because you genuinely can't figure the fuck out how to block people? Because you can't get off the groupchat long enough to remember why you're in the fandom in the first place?

You know why I probably don't see it? (And I explicitly explained why I recognize that I don't. I have said MULTIPLE times that I recognize I have a very specific view of the fandom, and I have never made a secret of the fact that I am liberal with the block button.) Because I know how the internet works. I know how to block people, and block tags, and not engage with content I don't like. It's shockingly easy! Which can only lead me to believe that you're just liking this a bit too much and self-flagellation in the form of "oh no they said a mean thing about Elain and that makes me better than other people!" gets you off.

The whole reason you made the kink meme page was to make people think outside their bubble. If you're going to be mad about the things one side does, you also need to be mad about the things the side you think is going to happen does.

How in the WORLD are you equating the kink meme page, which is about enjoying creative content without judgement, to harassment of actual, real live people?

I mean, it makes sense. A shockingly high number of people in this fandom can't tell the difference between people disliking a fictional character, and harassment of real people. Not sure why I'm surprised.

The irony - the really truly fucking stupid thing about ALL of this - is that you and I? We both probably dislike the Elain hate. I am willing to bet that the two of us? We both enjoy her character and want the best for her. So tell me, whose bias is getting in the way now? That post was about Elain hate. And I tagged it full of people who also dislike Elain hate. This isn't the first time someone has gotten mad at me for being annoyed at how people talk about Elain, and it's always from people who also - supposedly - enjoy her character and also get annoyed. My post was full of people who like Elain. Why is that a problem for you???

If you could get over your goddamn ship for two seconds, you and I might get along. In the meantime, shove your inability to read my posts up your ass.

[desidarling123]

FACT CHECK: Did JKR sue people for writing Wolfstar fanfiction? [FALSE] [with sources]

So, if you're at all active in the HP fandom, and ESPECIALLY if you're on TikTok, you've likely come across a post or video claiming the following:

JKR LITERALLY SUED PEOPLE OVER WOLFSTAR FANFICTION! AND THAT'S ALSO WHY SHE MADE REMADORA CANON -- TO SPITE THE SHIPPERS!

I'm not sure who first started this claim or how its various permutations grew, but it spread at the speed of light across social media. This widely-circulated meme summarizes it:

For the LONGEST time, I didn't know what to make of it. The claims were vague enough that they seemed like they could be true -- after all, JKR is a megacunt and a renowned TERF. You don't need to fact-check either of those things.

But then -- for the first time ever -- I came across a video on TikTok claiming that what was being said was NOT true, and that it was being used SPECIFICALLY to stir up drama. Which was... crazy, to say least.

And that led me, well, to do my own research & fact-check. I've taken the original video's structure and added some exposition as well.

So here's the truth:

That 2003 case the above meme refers to? Not even REMOTELY what the situation was about. Hell, not even CLOSE.

In 2003, JKR sent a cease-and-desist letter to an explicit adult HP fan fiction website, called "Restricted Section". Here's the letter:

As the above letter states, the site was sent a notice because of overarching concerns that minors would accidentally stumble onto the sexually explicit content the site hosted after searching up 'Harry Potter'.

The hand-wringing over minor safety probably seems dated now, but it was, in fact, standard practice in the early 2000s - sexually explicit fan content was being removed across the internet for those exact concerns. In fact, just the year before, in 2002, fanfiction.net was purged of NC-17 content (which would happen one more time, in 2012).

I feel ridiculous stating it, but just to be clear -- in the above letter and all my subsequent research, there's NO evidence she went after Wolfstar -- or any ship, for that matter -- directly.

In fact, the letter goes an extra mile to declare that "our clients (JKR) make no complaint about innocent fan fiction written by genuine Harry Potter fans", but that, "there is plainly a very real risk that impressionable children... will be directed... to your sexually explicit website".

But that leads in nicely to the next point -- the website DIDN'T shut down, as per the letter's request. Instead, they added password protection to ensure only members older than 17 were accessing it.

OK, but why did JKR and Warner Bros go after this site in the first place? Most believe it was because of a widely-publicized article in THE SCOTSMAN that talked about the website. But, once again, this article doesn't go after Wolfstar in particular -- it only goes after Harry x Draco and Harry x Snape. The inclusion of latter was arguably what generated the biggest controversy -- the pairing of Harry, a fictional minor, with an adult character, in slash stories largely written by adult heterosexual women, was not one that could be cast in a good light to the general public. It's hardly a surprise JKR's lawyers sought to do something before the controversy got out of hand and worried parents started to make calls.

What I said before still goes, though. The legal core of the issue was ALWAYS to do NOT with the ships, but the EXPLICIT NATURE of the work -- and the (very real) concerns that the series' then-mostly-under-18 readership could find said works with very little as far as guardrails were concerned. (I know, because I was one of those kids)

TLDR; JKR did NOT sue people over Wolfstar fanfiction, she sent a cease-and-desist notice to a website that was not taking adequate precautions to prevent minors from accessing the explicit adult content on the site.

To be clear -- this is not meant to be a statement on what to ENJOY in your fandom ships. You can ship Wolfstar, Remadora, both, neither -- it really doesn't matter. I think the fandom is critical enough of the author to have reclaimed her work on our own terms, and people should be allowed to just, idk enjoy things.

But propagating straight-up falsehoods is dangerous, especially when it comes at the expense of 1) a safe fandom environment (see: the current fandom ship wars between Remadora and Wolfstar, which are difficult to watch) and 2) serves as a distraction from the ACTUAL garbage JKR engages in (of which there is plenty -- no need to make it up lol).

Also, truth be told -- inter-fandom ship wars don't generally add anything productive to the necessary conversations that need to be had about her works. The thought that dashing fan ships was a key motivator in her writing rather than, I don't know, plot concerns, is ludicrous on face, and gives fans a level of control over the original writer that just... doesn't exist IRL? And certainly didn't back then?

And again -- the books would have been VERY different series, plot-wise, if Sirius Black HAD lived. Him being in a relationship with Remus, confirmed or implied, has no relation to that decision.

If we have talk Harry Potter, I'd rather talk about just about anything else -- the racism, the misogyny, the lack of any sort of organic queer rep and JKR's inability to just own up to the problems in her works. But the minutiae of ship wars -- and the inevitable stream of disinformation that comes with it, sans any kind of concrete evidence -- is one I'd prefer to pass on.

SOURCES:

Cease-and-Desist Letter Copy: http://archive.is/HTLsq

THE SCOTSMAN Article: http://archive.is/VdEaY

Restricted Section Updates Page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20030815233612/http://www.restrictedsection.org/news.php

BONUS: The original TikTok video I came across whose structure and sources I shamelessly stole to read and build out my argument. I copied a lot of their wording because it explained it better than I could, you just get some bonus snarky commentary from yours truly