#i'm gonna automatically assume they don't know how to read and think. sorry

[kiisaes]

People who say Bakugou should be punished for telling Deku to kill himself and Make fun of him need to realize he’s been dead for more than a year… that’s all.

LOL yeah like i think he's received the worst possible punishment for his actions ... which is. u know. dying

it's also so silly bc have u ever encountered a 14 year old. everyone was or will be 14 at some point. and it's common knowledge that u're absolutely ur worst self in middle school. it can literally only go up from there

not everyone has told someone else to kill themselves at 14 but i assure u everyone has done stupid shit as a 14 year old and i think most normal people would give literal children some grace regarding their bad behavior. bc most normal people would understand that ur identity and personality at 14 shouldn't be taken as a true reflection of ur character. bc u were 14. and u're irrational and u're still growing and ur brain is still developing. and more importantly, u didn't know shit. and u thought u did and that's why u were stupid and made mistakes and said dumb shit.

"but he was a bully and that's why he deserves to suffer severely and painfully for the rest of his life" these ppl are lucky bkg isn't real; if u're older than 14 and know better yet say this about a real 14 year old i think that says more about u than the kid. u will be put on a list of some kind

[hedwig221b]

Hi! Huge fan of ur fics! 🤭 I know u just finished the Twilight AU and your only human so I'm not expecting u 2 all of a sudden pop out a 50K fic in the next 24 hrs lol so my question is maybe kind of an easy one even tho u might not even have any plot bunnies hopping around right now but anyway so whatever ur future story is do u have a personal preference on whether u would like for it to be a historical AU or a modern one? Literally anything u write is amazing so I know it'll b A++ no matter what era/time period u choose I'm just maybe sorta a lil bit hoping for a historical one bc and I say this in all honesty ur historical AU are on a top tier level. When I think to myself gee I'm in the mood for a sterek historical AU 2 read I automatically think Hedwig!!! I'll stop fangirling now sorry.

One more thing tho lol. Thank u for all of ur time and talent u share with us. I hope u know how much joy u bring so many of us. There are times a great fanfic has the ability to turn someone's horrible day into a great one and there are times (numerous times myself) where that makes all the difference in the world 2 a person's happiness. Thank u. Truly. 🫠

Thank you so much for these kindest words! 💖💗🎀💖💗🎀💖💗🎀 It's truly important to me to bring joy into the heart of others, and I am so grateful to have you as a reader! It's so lovely and gratifying to share my works with you!

As for my future works, bold of you to assume I don't have any plot bunnies when in fact they are breeding all over the place. Let's see, my next one is gonna be New Moon sterek au, then I do plan on writing a hot summer fic, but it's a modern one. There is also a nearly finished nosferatu au (would this maybe satisfy your cravings?) and a reality tv piece among others that are in the development stage.

Tbh I've just finished reading Dostoevsky's The Idiot, and just yesterday I thought about how much I wanna write another historical au... I'm thinking, okay? Thinking and plotting... I miss baby Eli and I miss witch Stiles

[littledead-ridinghood]

sorry if this is a weird question to drop on you you were just the first person I thought of who might know but do you know if it's canon/canonically-based evidence that jason is physically stronger than other bats because I always see people say jason is the one with "brute strength" and I can't remember if that's based on anything besides people saying that as a nicer way to call him a brute(maybe it was on lobdells stuff? but I wiped most of those out of my memory)

You thought of me first? <333333 I'm blushing. And it's not weird at all! Even if it was, I love answering weird shit.

Anyway:

So part of Jason being considered "the muscle" of the bats comes from the fact that Jason's currently the biggest of the robins. (Adult!Damian is usually drawn as the tallest of the kids when all is said n' done (that's vague for "age")).

Well, how big then?

I always go with this chart which was released while UtRH was being released:

(I Love this! I wish DC still did little info things like this within their comics. Or maybe they do and I'm just blind. But Look! Canonical Information!)

So canonically speaking, at least when running around pre-crisis, Jason is 6 feet tall and 180 pounds. (Also note criminal mastermind and put a pin in it)

But you've probably heard 200 & 220 thrown around a lot. Those numbers are specifically pulled from two different DC character encyclopedia books which I don't trust at all because there notoriously filled with false information and are dubbed as not canon all the time.

Personally, I use the 6', 180-195 pound range which estimates for fluctuating weight, the passage of time, muscle mass, and minimum bulk & cutting (which I assume is part of most superheroes' training to stay in fighting form, but please recognize that vigilantes are more athlete than bodybuilder) because it's from a canon source (Canon is "king" and all that). No shame to people who use the other numbers or even headcanon something completely different, but again, vigilantes are predominantly running all over cities day after day, not stagnant weight lifters. Cardio vs weights body compositions are quite different even if both are healthy. (And it's not all "swimmer's body illusion" either (they have that body because they swim? No, they swim because they have that body.)

How much muscle mass a person can maximally obtain is up to your genetics. But that max only comes with constant maintainment. It's not feasible for Jason to be doing all that cardio and also have that much muscle mass and fat. Cardio burns "fat" (calories), weights build muscle. We constantly see the former and former-adjacent workouts more than the latter with him. Jason is running across rooftops, flipping off them before falling into a shoulder roll onto the next roof over chasing after bad guys every night. The number of calories he'd have to eat and time put into lifting weights (too many reps a week lead to damage, not growth) to maintain his max (max being what a lot of weights category athletes try to achieve which Jason just hasn't been shown to be (except in his jailbird phase where he could literally only lift weights, read, and avoid being killed to pass the time)) isn't possible.

Using comic art to "prove" how much he weighs doesn't work either. Firstly, because everyone wears weight differently. Two people can be the same height, weight, and sex and look completely different. This is due to different body types, composition, genetics, diet, (what kind of) exercise, and many other factors. Assuming someone thinner is automatically "super light" doesn't factor in different body compositions (fat, muscle, bone percentages). (yes, I know it's stupid to apply science to comics. There's my digression. let me live). Secondly, Jason (just like everything else about him) isn't drawn consistently at all. Sometimes he's pretty damn massive, but we also have Twink and Twunk Jason (DC can't even decide on hair color? Do you think they're gonna decide on his body?).

So, comic book art isn't super reliable as evidence unless we want to theorize if, how, and why he seems to fluctuate between weights all the time (<- Which I have a whole headcanon about if anyone's curious), especially in comparison to the others because, seriously, it's totally a Jason thing. Most characters are pretty consistent in body type. Anyway, someone could argue "See! he is 210!" but it's also not for a long enough period to stick around :/ Again, hard to consistently maintain that much weight as a 6-foot-tall, cardio-based athlete.

Also note: DC is horrible when it comes to weight-to-height lineups. A woman hero can be ~5'7'' and then we're told she's 110 lbs which Fact 1. is considered underweight for this kind of height-to-sex ratio, Fact 2. probably isn't factoring in the fact that muscle is heavier than fat, she just "looks thin", and 3. Usually, totally, absolutely is just blatant sexism.

Really, the numbers don't seriously mean anything of actual substance because their comics, are unreliable, and also usually just...scientifically wrong. But Jason's perception on page, as well as the information we've been told, is one reason he's considered "brute strength first and foremost."

Furthermore, Jason has been shown repeatedly to be on par with Bruce (even when Jason, most of the time, plays defense in their physical fights) but many people chalk this up to him and Bruce having similar physiques making it "easier". Again, counter-productive argument because Bruce and Jason have been drawn very similarly before in stories as well as completely different from each other in others. Also, this purposefully, blatantly ignores Jason's actual skills. No one chalks Dick Grayson or Cassandra Cain beating Bruce up to their body types. Moreover, when Bruce and Jason are drawn similarly in body, no one refers to Bruce as "Brute Strength" either. Bruce gets to be tactical, strategic, clever. (Also Also: In Pre-Crisis, Bruce, Dick, and Jason are deliberately drawn to look similar (height, mass, looks, etc.) to get that Brothers in Blood effect. Still, No one chalks the formers up to all strength. Just Jason)

And that brings us to your question, Anon: Is there canonical evidence for Jason being stronger than the other Bats?

Remember how I told you to put a pin in that "Occupation: Criminal Mastermind" note? Well, first off, Jason creating jobs for his community. Go off, king. Second off, and more importantly so, "Mastermind": a person who supplies the directing or creative intelligence for a project (Merriam-Webster).

When Jason was first re-introduced, what made Jason dangerous was that he was highly skilled and smart. He was playing with both Black Mask and Batman like a cat batting a toy mouse. He orchestrated an entire "slow-growing" takeover of Gotham's underworld (he was actually very quick about it). Jason controlled the situation and planned so well that he had the villains and heroes who were both after him fighting each other so he could slip away and do what he actually needed to do.

Throughout Jason's history, he's always had tools with him when he fights. To the point that Bruce says to Jaybin "You won't always have this" cutting his utility belt, insinuating he relies too much on it, which Jason returns the favor to on his return and fights B hand to hand <3 Love a cocky callback. Furthering this, he knows many, many different fighting styles and techniques both from life experience and from extensive training. Jason's a quick learner by nature and is incredibly adaptive. Guns; knives; swords; pens; sets bombs to specifically implode, not explode; makeshift gadgets; a baseball bat just laying around; a tire jack that one time; brains. I could go on. Jason doesn't just hit things. He uses what he has as a means to an end. He's canonically known as one of the best strategists in-universe and is incredibly creative with his surroundings. Jason isn't just great at extensive, long-term planning either. Bruce himself has remarked on the fact that Jason thinks incredibly quickly on his feet, he's really good at improvisation. Concisely, he has plans A-G and if all those fail, he can pull something out of nothing. Contrast this with Bruce who needs to have a plan for everything. Even if it doesn't look like he's following a plan, Bruce is. Opposed to Jason who can go with the flow and figure it out along the way.

Jason even said this in present-era in TFZ:

And that's the whole point, isn't it? Jason is strong. Incredibly so. He's big and tall and has gorgeous thighs. Not to mention, has a mean right hook. But just because Jason's strong doesn't mean he isn't a bat first and foremost who relies on his brain before anything else. He died 4'6 (on his death certificate, his height varies depending on what source you pull) and famously had to defend himself his entire life ever before being Robin. Being young and small and forced to survive shaped Jason into a quick thinker who could either get away or take enemies 10x his size down. Nowadays, he just has a longer reach.

In Event Levithan when Damian says: "Jason Todd is one of the Great Master fighters of all time" He doesn't say strongest because Damian doesn't mean strongest. Damian means adaptable, smart, capable, and well-rounded in skill.

While I don't doubt that Jason is most definitely one of the strongest Bats due to his size, what makes Jason dangerous is not his body, but the fact that he knows how to use it. It's not "Brute Strength" as many people like to say, it's Strategic Strength. He knows just because he's stronger than someone doesn't mean he'll always win. A la see panels above. Jason knows throwing his body around won't do anything of real, long-term substance. That it's just blindsided and stupid.

I'm sure if I looked I could pull panels where other bats and/or vigilantes refer to Jason as the muscle, brute (strength), all brawn (no brain), other such implications, etc, but whenever people do, it's always to undermine Jason's skill. Because it's not actually about his strength. Jason, with his taller, more built form, makes walking quiet seem easy. And it looks easy because he's good. Jason himself knows his skill set, it's everyone else that undermines him time and time and time again. (Again, Event Levithan, Bruce doesn't agree with Damian's statement even though Jason just outsmarted the six or so people who all just tried to take him down (for something Jason didn't even do, mind you))

But, again from Damian, Jason's not known as "the muscle," he's "the emotional one" also usually used to...degrade Ja--We can't have anything nice apparently is what I'm saying. But yes, when people refer to Jason as "Brute Strength" it's usually them trying to find a nicer way of saying Brute or "thinks with his fists" or "Jason hits first, asks questions later." It's in the same vein as when people say "Jason likes books" as short-hand for "see, he's smart at something" rather than acknowledging that Jason achieved a degree's worth of knowledge in comp-sci by age 13.

Anyway Smart and Strong Jason, my beloved. I wish DC & others loved you as much as Rosenburg and the teams of artists he's been working with do.

[s-wave-entertainment]

Every fucking time I watch this God forsaken show something new comes into my mind and I'm so sorry if I've made this post before but because I don't remember you guys are gonna see it.

So like. The DDs came to Copper9 in accord with the Solver. Likely because, due to Cabin Fever Labs, it already had a presence on that planet and it knew it could consume it in it's little "universal conquest" thing it had its "heart" set on.

Then, it fucked with N, V, and J's memories to ensure there was no resistance to its demands (though they tried to recover the files anyway because idk something something automatic file recovery attempt and/or the Solver was still wiping memories and the gang just became vaguely conscious of it). You'd think that would be enough to ensure no resistance, but no, of course it had to take it one step farther.

Remember how N said they "never taught him how to land," and the whole thing about him not being sure about what the company would do with them afterwards? It was never guaranteed to them that if they succeeded, they'd return to the company for another job. The simple answer is because obviously they wouldn't, because A) Earth is Gone and B) they were never working for JCJ anyway. But if you wanna take it a step farther, maybe give them the benefit of the doubt, it's because the Solver?

Never had any plans to let them leave.

And I know, captain obvious over here; the DDs would overheat as soon as all WDs were dead, thus dying themselves and effectively taking themselves off the board. But there's more to it. Ever look at the ship's screen while N is mashing buttons in the pilot (I'm now wondering if through some vague sense of muscle memory he messed with the buttons because he knew he knew how to work them but he just couldn't recover it, but I'll save that for later)? In one shot, there's a brief line of dialogue that flashes over the right corner of the screen, basically reading "DAMAGE TO HULL://FATAL ERROR," but after that, another code flashes on the screen:

I assume the whole thing would have said "#511ERROR." What's a 511 error you ask? I didn't know either, but if I'm reading these screenshot right:

IT MEANS N WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ABLE TO REPOSSESS CONTROL OF THE SHIP ANYWAY, AS THE SOLVER WENT AHEAD AND LOCKED THEM OUT.

SO YEAH!!! IT WAS ALWAYS THE PLAN TO MAKE SURE THEY DID THEIR JOB ON THAT PLANET AND DIED. THERE WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE ANY ESCAPE, THERE WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE ANY CHANCE OF SURVIVAL.

IF UZI DIDN'T MAKE SURE THE SOLVER WASN'T A PROBLEM ANYMORE, WITH GOD AS MY WITNESS, I WOULD HAVE-

[marmotsomsierost]

Me: bla bla ekg explanation bla

Pt's phone: OG star trek tricorder sound

Pt: oh sorry i can silence that real quick

Me: it's fine, the no cell phone use signs are more for loud conversations and recording, there's no interference danger here

Me: nice message alert btw

Pt: thanks

Pt: do you know where it's from?

Me, blinking in confusion because why would i compliment it if i don't know what it is: ...

Pt: if you don'-

Me: it's a tricorder. OG trek.

Pt: yeah! Most people don't recognize it.

Pt's partner, standing behind them, in tones of 'i am gonna tease you about this for the rest of time': babe.

Pt's partner: look at her badge. Literally in front of your face.

Pt: what?

My badge:

Pt: ohhhh. Nice.

Pt: so you're like, into nerd-ception then

Me, staring at the ekg screen, yelling internally at myself that it is extremely inappropriate to say anything like 'i don't believe in limiting myself to one option' or 'i'm a solid 3 on the trek-warsey scale' or 'porque no los dos' or 'why swing both ways when you can ride a wave spinner' or just the flat out 'nah i exercise my god-given right as a bisexual to choose ALL the things' however the problem with that is that unattended!me has all the focus of a labrador staring at cheese except it's books and Talking About Books, and the higher functions are as previously mentioned very busy preventing innuendo: uh...

Me: well, ten year old me went from timothy zahn's star wars books to his sci fi books, then down the crunchy space opera like weber and anne mccaffery and lois mcmaster bujold, and also down the talking magic horses and raptors side of things with mercedes lackey and andre norton and then kate elliot because her cover artist was the same as mercedes lackey's until my dad was like 'you're reading too much sci fi/fantasy and asked my mom what she was reading at my age. She said depressed russians, he was like okay no and instead gave me what he had been reading, which was dumas. I chewed my way through the count of monte cristo, then for some reason that led to me picking up a harry turtledove that my dad was like 'you don't want that' and i, being a stubborn preteen, went 'nuh-uh i do' and then had to actually finish the damn thing because i couldn't let dad win, which i did but at what cost-

(Throughout this automatic rambling I've been putting on the leads and pulling up the order, and like always the fucking left arm lead is refusing to make a good connection for no goddamn reason, but it has finally fucking settled)

Me: -oh good, finally; please hold still for a few moments-

Me: ok! You can go ahead and remove those stickers

Pt and pt's partner:

Me: ...do you have any questions?

Pt's partner: i REALLY want to see your bookshelf

Me: oh, no, they're a mess, we moved and just threw everything up there

Me: we barely separated the pratchett and the dresden and the drizzit* series out, but even they're not in order really. Drizzt, i mean, i know it's drizzt but drizzit annoys my husband to no end so any time he calls me a dwarf i call the books drizzit.

Pt: how many bookshelves do you have?

Me: uh

Me: are we talking like, contiguous units as one, or each individual unit even if they're mounted together, or like in a mixed use shelf what percentage has to be books before it's a bookshelf?

Pt's partner: i think that answers that question, really

Pt: ...how are YOU getting called a dwarf

Me: he's three inches taller than i am. I'm going to go give this to the doctor, if someone from xray or the lab comes before i get back you can go with them, otherwise please wait here

Pt: i'm assuming i'm not dying, then

Me: i'm not trained beyond a limited set of rhythms and cardiology is way above my pay grade but yes, if i saw any of them i would not have disconnected you and we'd already be in a room, so from that perspective you're good

Thankfully radiology had come by to steal them before i got back and then i hid for the remaining few minutes of my shift because clearly i had run out of Professional Marmot Energy and needed to stay away to maintain a veneer of professionalism.

[call-me-rucy]

Hey Rucy, I know that you said gameplay stuff is fine in all forms. However, I'm also concerned about edits/memes and even musical remixes that use audio / voice lines. Because of point 8 in this list, it makes it seem like all of these are in danger of being taken down. And do you think "still images" means screenshots? And I guess guides of the answers to the puzzles are technically bad now too. [Regarding to their third main point in the guideline page.]

Going back to the remixes thing. Would making a remix of like, their songs/melodies, be bad because it's technically music of their games? [Point 8 of the prohibited items list that I'm most concerned about]

So sorry if I've asked anything inappropriate or is out of your comfort zone of answering. I've just been thinking about this ever since I heard about it and I'm trying to understand everything as well as I can.

Hi there, Ashe!

Don't worry, ask all you want! Just know, I'm the same, trying to understand it all through, so I only can answer with what I know at any given moment.

I do think that still images means screenshots, yes! And yes, indeed it seems like puzzle guides in form of videos and screenshots seem to be affected by point 3. Which is... all of guides, because how do you do a layton guide without screenshots. We have to take care and archive guides as well. If you know good guides, I reccomend using webarchive on them.

It makes me wonder, because the go-to guides for the spanish layton guides are hosted by Nintendo, officially. Surely they won't take that one down?

And about point 8...

About point 8.

I must thank you enormously for this ask, Ashe, because I'm only now realizing that the verb used in point 8 can have two meanings. I took it to mean listening, as in, don't edit the movies to extract the music to listen to it. But I just looked it up in the dictionary and it can indeed mean "watch" as well TT_TT

視聴 Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb 1. looking and listening; (television) viewing; watching​

So I was assuming edits were only covered by point 3, but it seems point 8 of "Forbidden" refers to them specifically too... Sigh...

So about "Would making a remix of like, their songs/melodies, be bad because it's technically music of their games?", I'm not entirely sure.

We've established that cutscenes and the music edited together to be watched or listened to exactly as it is in gamemight be a no go. But then there is such things as transformative use.

You see, I got an ask right after yours that goes a bit deeper into the law stuff, saying that L-5 is trying to follow international copyright law, which is similar to US copyright law (I will publish it when I answer it in a bit).

And Wikipedia says: "In United States copyright law, transformative use or transformation is a type of fair use that builds on a copyrighted work in a different manner or for a different purpose from the original, and thus does not infringe its holder's copyright".

Fanfic is transformative work, that's why AO3 is legal. From my non-law eyes, I'd say maybe a remix and an edit could be a transformative work as well? LAW ANON, IF YOU'RE READING THIS, PLEASE HELP!

I think the problem would arise if you're trying to mimic the official experience of the game outside of the game. Like in cutscene compilations that tell you the whole story of the game.

With that in mind, my proposed approach is:

Do not panic

No need to remove old stuff unless you are specifically asked by the platform/level-5, or maybe it will automatically removed, idk how that's gonna work

If you get your stuff removed please share that info so we can know more exactly what it's being affected

For new stuff, follow the guidelines when you can (e.g. comment your gameplays, add banners or borders to your streams, warn for spoilers, crediting L-5 in videos)

Archive the old stuff you like. This is a bit of "Hope for the best, prepare for the worst". (It is a good practice as a general rule: you never know when some fav playlist maker will choose to delete old videos on a whim, and this is as good of a time to start saving as any other).

[nottakingresponsibility]

(Alright, alright. Hi. This whole thing is going to be OOC, and it's going to be attached to my pinned post from a link that goes to this post. To put it simply!) Let's lay out some proper rules for me and Jimmy here, cause apparently I overestimated people and their basic understanding of human decency! (I would REALLY prefer you read this.)

First off, if I say I don't want to roleplay something, don't go against me for that. It's my choice, and I have my own reasons for it. I own the blog, I get to decide what's canon to it and what isn't as well. Currently? It's kind of a mess. So if I ever feel the need to clean that up, don't get upset about it.

Be respectful in general, please! That should be a basic thing. I also, as I have stated, am not good at communicating. Please be patient with me. Me and Jimmy are two different people. I get it, he's an asshole. You can hate him all you want, don't take it to the mod. I just want to explore him as a character, we all have our own shit to deal with.

I am as human as you likely are. I'm not just a character from a game, I'm a real person. I have my boundaries, I have things I'm comfortable with doing, and things I'm not. It's hard to speak up about that, and I automatically assume people are assholes at first insult, keep that in mind. I WILL block you if you deserve it in my eyes, I block freely, and that's that. No second chances. This is a given. If you support anything Jimmy does, don't interact with me, please. I don't care if it's 'fictional'. If you make s/a odd in any way, I don't want you around here. This goes for being weird about Anya in any way as well. Also should be a given, but if you ship Jimmy x Anya? Get off my account, immediately. Never endorse anything Jimmy has done. Don't romanticize it. You can like his writing, just know what he does is awful.

My mental health is a priority, I am a priority, this is my blog and I'm doing this for fun.

Now then! Onto actual roleplaying rules, sorry.

Don't control Jimmy for me, or at least not too often, alright? It kind of takes the fun out of it if I feel like I have to do a set thing. We all have fun here, yeah, and most of the time I'll let whatever happens, happen. But I do have my limits when it comes to getting annoyed.

I need everyone to know I roleplay in a specific way. I make Jimmy talk with "Speaking!" and when he does actions, it's just; He does an action! Wow! And that's that. I get why that could be confusing. Whatever happens in his thoughts, stays in there. People aren't just mind readers now, are they? When I talk out of character, it'll have () on both sides of the text. That's me, not Jimmy. Don't be an asshole or I'll think it's deliberately to me, and I'll block you. I feel like I really have to emphasize that.

The whole point of him is that he has secrets, yeah. He's a manipulative bastard, what a shock. It's not a huge problem, especially considering a lot of the anons are probably just voices in his head or whatever, and it will be assumed as such if you just know everything about him. Like Doubt for example! (Positive by the way, you're cool Doubt mod :])

Anything Jimmy does is not endorsed by the mod, I know roleplay is in character, it's fine if you're an asshole to him. Though, sometimes I wish the insane bullshit would die down a bit. Cause, between you and me? I don't know how to roleplay him getting killed twenty fucking times over. I never EVER want to be limiting on what you can do!! I'm just getting kind of tired of nothing on this blog making sense. :(

No death is canon by the way, ever. Unless it is decided by me AND the mod of whoever else is roleplaying. Or, if it's just me writing Jimmy in a stand alone post. In which, most of the time are free to interact with, do as you wish. A lot of the things he receives as 'gifts' I'm not even going to remember, I have a bad memory. Speaking of deaths and killing!

Please, if you're gonna kill Jimmy and even slightly THINK of making it canon, make it make sense. And, also, ask me first. It can be in the tags, you don't have to DM me, I always read tags. In fact, I'd probably prefer to not get DMED anyway.

Please understand there's several Jimmys in several different places. He may be terribly injured one place, and completely fine in another for the convenience of asks and other roleplays. Of course, that's always open. You want to roleplay with an upset, stressed and or injured Jimmy? Go ahead. You want to roleplay with normal Jimmy? Sure.

I can delete asks freely. Especially if I just don't know how to answer them, or really don't feel like putting that on the blog. If I stop roleplaying with you, again, it's NOT personal! I just don't fucking know how to respond or I got tired of the way things were going, I may or may not be on the neurodivergent spectrum bear with me. Or I just. You know, took a break, took care of myself, perhaps took a nap. I have a life I fear.

I don't exactly know how to cover everything here, but just think basic roleplaying rules. Don't be an asshole to the mod, and have fun, don't expect everything to be canon. They can be with the specific character he's roleplaying with, but don't always expect it to be canon throughout the whole blog! If you're somehow really that clueless, feel free to search up 'basic roleplaying rules' on Google or something. I can't explain things right when I'm not thinking straight. This is NOT up for debate, none of these rules are, I mean. And if you want to stay on this blog, I expect you to read them.

[jeonstudios]

Boy am I about to rant in this ask lol

The amount of people who want them (jk, OC) in DC to be end game makes me question whether they would survive a serial killer in a horror movie.

Basically, all I hear is "yeah he was mean to her, called her names, told her she doesn't deserve to be treated nice from men..BUT he's hot and said sorry!" Like...you really missed the point. I'm not saying they can't end up together but my girl OC has been through hell and back with the opposite gender. She needs to heal first lol

Also I'm glad DC is taking it's time because girl you ALMOST had me not read the rest of the chapter when I read she asked for handcuffs.

I was thinking "has everyone suddenly got amnesia and forgot he was mean to her? But oh well he's being nice to her so let's jump forward to a relationship... 👏 grab the handcuffs!!!"

Honestly I really don't think as of now they should be end game but let's see what he does to atone for his previous treatment of her. Does that mean that once he apologizes with words or actions he can get together with OC? Probably not, but it's up to OC. She hasn't been treated nice or as an equal from men. JK is too good to be true to just forget how she's been treated.

(and now for my literature interpretation of this series so far lol)

I really hope the next chapter with jks pov can clarify some of my doubts because the complete 180 he did is so....I can't wrap my head around it. He insulted her appearance, her chest, that she doesn't deserve flowers...but now that he found out she's a SA victim NOW she deserves to be treated like a human. NOW she's a woman deserving of flowers 🙄

I'm gonna give him a crumb of doubt because at the time, his friends, who are the perpetrators of OCs trauma, were nice to JK.

It's hard to imagine that a friend who treats you so nice can have this horrible side to them and assault OC. Not only that but they implanted a false narrative of what went down and because they are so nice to him, he took their story for what it was.

It's easy to say from an outsider perspective "well why didn't he come to his own conclusion and investigate before automatically assuming it was true?" But we're not omniscient. We can't predict the future and this perspective comes from what is known now vs what little information you had then. And this can fall both ways like yeah he didn't know much back then but also he could've dug a little deeper but that's such a rabbit hole I will not dive into cuz it's a neverending cycle.

ANYWAYS, Now that he's got the other side of the story, WITH PROOF, he wants to get justice for OC and maybe even start a relationship with her (TBD), but how can you do that when you were also indirectly hurting her with your words that further pushes her to not trust men? That further deepens her wound/trauma/wtv you wanna call it.

I mean think about it, if you were OC, you were close to dying at the hands of a man who wanted sexual gratification one way or another, and then it kinda swept under the rug...she's never gotten true justice. And because the guy hasn't been put in jail, it gives him an ego boost to think he got away with it and rubs it in OCs face by making up a false narrative that everyone believes and turns against her, further isolating her from who she can count on.

First, by getting away with the assault, he's won, and now by having people turn against her and hate her, he's won again.

DC jk and all the things he's said and done to her, indirectly adds more salt to a wound that hasn't healed. Yet again another victory to the perpetrator.

So at this moment, a "sorry" and "I'm not like the other guys, I'm a nice person, I took a knife for you, you can trust me" isn't enough for OC to heal. OC even said how she wants to trust JK but after everything she's been told, after everything she's been through, it's hard to put that guard down and just trust him. Because that's also how she was assaulted by her previous partner.

So...with that said, let's see what the next chapter reveals because right now the plot is in the middle and it can go in any direction. I think it was a good choice for OC to leave bc that whiplash from jk being rude to the greenest flag ever might be a bit too much for someone like OC who's only ever had bad experiences with men.

As for the romance between JK and OC, let's put it in the back burner! Lets put these cowards in jail first and then we can talk about it.

My girl OC needs therapy...

Oof! Sorry for the rant but I'm ready to look like a clown if the next chapter completely destroys what I just typed lol 🤡🤡🤡

to be fair and maybe play devil's advocate, i feel like, to many people, jk has already redeemed himself. because we already knew he was horrible to her before, but he did apologize pretty sincerely for how he acted because he didn't know. and then he died for her (but survived lol) only to go on to rat all the rotten men at the station out and take them out, one by one. then he tried to respect her decision to lay low for a while (literal months) but had to check on her because he was worried for her safery. and then he convinced her to stay with him because of that worry. so he's been "taking care" of her while also working almost day in and day out on catching the ones who raped and tried to murder her (and him!) while also trying to "uncorrupt" the station. not to forget that he went to her friend and talked about reopening her case against one of their colleagues that drugged her, and he didn't do that to earn brownie points with reader.

so i think it's a little of "he thought she was the evil perpetrator but now he knows that she's the victim"? more like they not only assaulted her but trashed her character?

but yeah, they did feed him a false narrative, which he shouldn't have believed!!! so his first and maybe biggest mistake is trusting these men over the woman blindly when he's very much aware of the fact that men do stuff like this? so he definitely should've talked to her instead of just believing them and then going to such lengths to "avenge" his friend.

because yeah, even if he's shown himself to be a good guy now, reader can't know exactly why he's acting like he likes her. if that's because he actually does like her or if there's another reason. because as she's come to know him, she realizes that he probably would've told her if he thought she was pretty and was attracted to her. and knowing everything that he said, it's understandable for her to doubt if he has feelings for her or not.

so i definitely understand both sides, both the people feeling like yeah, it hurts to know what he actually said and how he treated her, but he's shown (actions over words) that he's actually a good guy and if he can explain himself and thoroughly apologize, there's still a chance. and the people who feel like he went too far and the wounds are too deep no matter how good of a guy he is now.

anyway, thank you for your analysis!! i really enjoyed reading it!! ♥️♥️

[lollytea]

ms. lolly i'm getting glasses and i'm afraid i'm going to look uglier than usual in them. i don't want people to make fun of me (esp. not the guy i like. i dont think he will bc he's sweet but im still anxious) but. i'm afraid that people are gonna tease me. idk what to do and im super nervous bc i'm not attractive and i think the glasses are gonna just bring that out. do u have any tips on getting over that, as a glasses-wearer? (at least im assuming by your pfp)

sorry to disturb u with my silly ask but i hope u have a great day <3 love ur writing and huntlow posts

Hello! This kind of thing is hard to give advice on but I'll try my best :D! It's kinda like asking what kind of clothes will make you feel the most confident when only you know for sure what makes you comfortable and what doesn't. But I can definitely give you my opinions on glasses and what I feel best in and maybe you can take it into consideration.

(EDIT: OH MY GOD. I wrote a good bit about choosing glasses to feel nice in but I just read the ask again and it's possible you've already gotten them. Just scroll down to the bottom of the ask and I'll talk a bit about that if it's the case.)

You worry about not liking the way you'll look with glasses. That's okay, I've been wearing them since I was little so I feel really ugly without them. It's fine to feel a little insecure. But hopefully you'll find a pair that you think you like nice in!!

For the first ten years of wearing glasses, I had really small, thin wiry ones. Blegh. No wonder I felt so ugly during that time. They were not it. Was looking like this bitch.

But just cuz I didn't like the way they looked on me doesn't automatically mean you won't! Everyone's face is different.

Size matters (HAH) to me. I feel more happy and confident with the way my face looks with glasses depending on how big they are. I like how big glasses look. So when I was 18 I got THESE frames

And I liked them a lot!! I decided I like big wide glasses. So any frames I got from this point forward would look kinda like this.

However!! I kinda regretted the colour. It's like having a big big blocky border around your face dulls it a bit. So when I got new ones a few years later, I wanted them to be lighter. To brighten up the face area. These ones!!

They're pink!!! Or red maybe. But they're pink to ME!!! They are also EVEN BIGGER than the black pair I had. They're HUGE asgdbjnk. And I love them huge. The bigger the better. They're not really circular but they're also kinda roundish and I like that too.

So I guess think about the size, shape and colour. Would you like something more subtle like a small pair? Would you like them big and round? Getting them in a colour that you like Would definitely help!!

The thickness of the frames also matters. Maybe, since you're a little worried about how you'll look wearing them, you'd like something thinner? More subtle? Something in a pale colour/or without much of a border at all? Something that doesn't hide your face

Maybe something similar to this?

(I mean the frame thickness, not the size ahsbdjnk. We don't know what size you'd like yet.)

I kinda want glasses that look like this. I want thin gold ones like Miss Willow Park from hit Disney channel show the Owb Houb. However I don't really have that option. I'm borderline blind so I need the thick plastic frames to hold the thick as fuck lenses ahsbdjnk.

But since this is your first pair your eyes probably aren't nearly as bad and you have way more options!!

OKAY!! So if you've already chosen your glasses and are still worried about how you're going to look in them.

Alright, there are never any easy answers to this problem. How to get over not liking the way you look. People definitely like to pretend it's easy, that "Love yourself! Everyone is beautiful! :)" are these magic words that will suddenly rewire our brains into being happy and content with ourselves after a lifetime of feeling like the odd one out. When some people are put on a pedestal for how they look and some are not. It's hard to say physical ugliness doesn't exist when it's been beaten into everyone's heads that it does.

Despite everyone's best efforts to dismantle the concept of beauty standards, they persist relentlessly. They're roots in our brains, roots in society, and they're roots made of iron. So it is nobody's fault for being unsatisfied with themselves even after trying for so long to forcibly inject some girlboss confidence into their bloodstream. Its hard. It will always be hard.

If self love isn't easy at the start, aim for self neutrality. Just not hating is a good place to start.

It seems like you're not comfortable with yourself without glasses, so maybe if we start with that, your face with glasses will be way easier to accept.

In the end, you only have the one face to get you through this lifetime. And it's a lifetime you will waste if you spend it wishing it was different.

Everyone's face is a rearrangement of facial features, none of which are inferior to anyone else's, no matter what we've been mentally trained to believe.

You're a masterpiece all on your own. Every feature on your face belonged to someone in your family who came before you. Every feature you have was once adored by someone else. Specifically because it was a feature that belonged to a very wonderful person.

One day there will be someone who loves you more than anything. They'll love you so much than when they see a face that even looks remotely like yours they'll think that it's beautiful.

If it helps, mess around with your appearance a little. What colours do you like? Patterns? Skirts? Button up shirts? Long hair? Short hair? Dyed hair? Cardigans? Jangly jewelry? Figure out what's the most beautiful to you and add them to yourself. If you don't like your face, drown it out with what you do like. Until it gets to the point where its so distinctly you that you couldn't imagine this whole look without your face attached to it.

If you get to that point where you can feel happy with how you look as your default, then sliding a pair of glasses on and off shouldn't make much of a difference.

Thank you for telling me you like my writing and my posts. You seem sweet. I'm sure that's what people think when they're reminded of you. I'm sure that's what the guy you mentioned thinks. How can a person really be ugly if you associate their face with warmth and kindness?

Stay kind to others. Be kind to yourself. There's not much else I can say.

Good luck, love <33

[rjalker]

automatic transcript of part of me playing Alien Isolation almost the whole time I was recording.

11K words lol. Some typos and not correct paragraph breaks. I'll edit it tomorrow.

this is hilarious to read out of context.

Oh. Um. Sort of spoilers for Provinence of The Imperial Radch series. Kinda. If you want to be surprised.

Lots of swearing when I get into a fight and my computer's keyboard decides that none of the buttons I push are gonna work right.

Should I open this door? Because I, I presume, there will be a gas mask so that I can go over and whatever is in that room. I mean. Let's do it. Yeah, even the people who enjoy the books you have to talk loud. If you wanted to hear it, I'm doing it.

That's me, giving you a break.

So much easier. When your game is not lagging at like 10 frames, a second or something?

Imagine if there were just a face hugger in here? Compound.

We can read this one. Requisitions Android spedding. Now you've fired me. You'll have to descend from your Ivor Tower to pick up the slack. The guy's decommissioning's Festival have free access to supplies and storage, but everything will need logging. So, use the requisitions Android power him up. Let him out of his box and watch him go just like me, huh?

By the time you get this, I'll be dead drunk in gillen's bar, I guess you already know this, but it's been pure hell working for you. This is the best thing that's ever happened to me Smythe. Elevator out. I just got another message from spetting about the busted elevator outside the Android examination theater.

My guys have got a million things to do right now, so it's not going to be fixed in time for your VIP visit. If spedding wants to be a priority, then maybe he should stop being a petulant asshole. It's an easy job off the top of my head. I can tell you the parts you need are in component storage Row 1, stack B.

If you can't find it yourself, ask the requisitions Android. Just get off my back Chief.

12 these guys were the last pitch for Sebastopol's power system.

And God only knows what it means when it shoots upstairs. That's got me pissed. I have to stay on Sebastopol to oversee the synthetic shutdowns while you go. Home don't have nightmares on the trip back jackass. I mean, dude, it sounds like you're a terrible boss. So, fuck, you?

Got all the flares I need.

Still gross air in there.

It's kind of confusing where I'm supposed to click to get to the. Option to climb the ladder.

I will assume I'm allowed to walk around in here. Helpful. Why is the king? What is that? That was so weird. Twitching crazy?

Now, really nice. Yeah, the guys out there, said, uh, these guys are friendly as long as you don't try to do something unauthorized, so this should work. We'll see about that. How can I help you? What about detail compression cylinder?

Just keep the noise down. Okay.

Have I mentioned Martha Wiles doesn't? I thought we were supposed to do something with you. Okay, just gonna follow.

Martha Wells doesn't understand how oppression works. At all.

Okay, that's fine. It's not the Z anymore if it's supposed to do that.

Oh well, bye, gonna get electrocuted.

Oh, very dramatically.

Sorry.

And see in this game. These are not people. These are actual mindless robots.

Um, am I pushing the right button I'm supposed to be moving it down? I thought it was pushing it down. I only know this because the time is the tank engine. Thing, let's walk over here and walk over here and not on the deadly electricity. I don't think we need to do anything with that.

And it's just gonna make that scary noise. Honestly, if there's like anything else, no, no, damn down down.

Got sensor. Can you not? I am clicking down.

Okay. Now, let's move it all the way up and see if there's any more items.

Or not, if it's gonna win?

Got all this. This button doesn't work.

Okay, we're just gonna go out now.

Anything on here?

Compound B. If it'll let you click on it.

I am clicking. Give it to me. Oh my gosh.

Give me. Thank you.

Okay, we'll leave now.

Also the person doing the the Thomas. The Tank Engine mod is playing on nightmare mode. And is still doing leagues better than I am, which is hilarious. So, go watch that for the exact opposite experience. This is freaky walking under this.

So, there's a save. Somewhere here. Or at least, that's what I hear. If I was walking around under these people, how did they not see me if that's that brightly lit under there?

Not smart.

Why isn't the xenomorph doing anything with them?

Somewhere this way. Probably in that vent right there.

Hold on. I'm thirsty.

Anything you can think of that. I need to say. You can look at the transcript, find where you were before.

Oh yeah, recommendations.

Okay. Is anymore is now behind me.

I will save and then make a bunch. Unnecessary Mouse. Save and make a bunch of stuff and then see if I can get anything else from these gets. I keep forgetting if I move the mouse while I'm in. You don't do that and be irritating. Uh, so.

Put something in the pipe bomb. Sensor.

I can make a smoke bomb. I have made a smoke bomb. I am starving all of a sudden.

Okay. Oh, I don't need to have that equipped at all. Okay. We only use one item so. Okay, now I can put. But let me just reach into this sparking thing and put this in here. And get in the elevator.

So? The murderbot Diaries, as I've said, was inspired by Martha Wells, reading the Imperial Ranch and taking away the exact opposite of every single lesson. The Imperor Ranch has to to share both about morals. Like? Being actually Progressive about trans people and the concept of gender and it being a social construct and not based in biology.

It not only kind that kind of stuff. And you know, like, um? Physically disabled people exist and deserve fictional representation, and you shouldn't act like being physically disabled is worse than death. And you shouldn't be lazy and have. Okay, we gotta watch this because everybody else's thing glitches, but not the person who's playing Thomas the Tank Engine.

A xenomorph will come out, and there it goes. So, it just took a guy. And just. Down into there. And we got it on camera, even the the other person, just like the Thomas the Tank Engine. Person, just just print it all the way over here so you can see it.

With the glitchy Thomas the Tank Engine. It's very fun! So, Thomas the Tank Engine doesn't do any of the animations of the xenomorph, so it just drops straight down. Dead drops. You guys don't need to shoot me? I'm friendly.

So, yeah, the zero pushed a guy off of there landed on this thing. Uh, the the guy landed on this thing on his back. Probably, that almost killed him. And then the Xenomorph jumped down, grabbed him, and jumped down there.

But in most things, the people up there just glitched like they won't react at all to you. When you get up there? But anyways, the Imperial Ranch Martha Wells read the Imperial Ranch, which I highly encourage you to do it. The first book is ancillary Justice. There's a universe.

It has the trilogy ancillary Justice. Uh, I always forget the order of the next two. It's either ancillary Mercy or ancillary sword that comes next. But there's those three that follow. And then. She's the protagonist of those ones, and then there are also two Standalone books, full length, actual real full-length novels with World building and characterization more than paper thin.

That are set in the same universe, but follow. Completely new characters and tell their own self-contained stories that tie into the greater Arc of the universe that started in. The first three books, so you don't have to read ancillary Justice, sword, and mercy. To be able to read those ones.

Um, but you can't, so the other ones are provenant. It's either Providence or provenance. I don't remember, I think it's provenance, and then the newest one is translation. Which not only. Okay, these are the guys. Did I just? I don't even remember, let me just get back here and save, and we'll see if they're glitched for me.

Cuz they are for most people. Okay, yes, so I did just say. One of the very few glitches in the game. Yeah, there's not very many glitches in this game. It's like these guys. Not reacting to you at all and then just floating guns every now and then. Hello!

Can we? I wish we could talk. Oh, they're not glitch. Wait, wait, I'm friendly. Can you see me, sir? I'm gonna die, no matter what, interesting. Cool. Well, I'll just let I'll just reload. So? Maybe for, I think most people just walk to, like, where we're just running around up here.

Uh, if you, if you walk in front of them and let them actually get a line of sight on you, they react. So, maybe they're less glitched? Then, is usually assumed. Okay, but yeah, go read. Yeah, literally involving.

So, I'm guessing she's just going to cause problems because she's facing that way. Keep your hand together and do it.

Is there someone there?

I Sprint pass. And then they're just like us. There's someone there. Am I supposed to go in this elevator here?

Um, return to Taylor medical supplies. Make your way through seeks and synthetics to find an alternative way. Is this the elevator came out of? Simon Tower Transit. I think that's where I'm supposed to be going. I don't know. We might be wasting time here. Get to semester Paul sign mid Tower.

Does that mean I just went backwards? Are you gonna tell me that game?

Are we gonna? Get to the side of the transit station. Did I go the right way? I don't know why it's glitching all of a sudden and slow. Oh, okay, we did it, right?

Eat. Does that say eat them? Eat item.

What does that say? What's it disappeared? That's okay. Ghost candy bar, that doesn't. It's Schrodinger's candy bar doesn't want you to see it. You mean device?

Okay. Uh, Vu, gotta do this again. Oh, okay, just doing that.

Spooky stuff has to happen immediately.

No signs of movement.

Wrong. Good.

Yeah, if you want books with actual non-binary representation and not just biological essentialism. Go read the Imperial Ranch series. What does that say? This doesn't say anything. Can I do it around the other way, I think?

Okay, we should be safe in here. Let's, oh yep, there's cutscene, okay? I sent to a clear directive not to land on station. I told you we didn't hear your message. We understood you would be mad. Hey. Identify yourself. Ripley from the Torrance. Relax.

What the hell is going on here? Marshall, where's the security forces you're looking at them?

I've seen the creature. What is it? I don't know something broad here by Marlo, the captain of Danny sedora, who should have found the flight recorder? Anywhere safe left on the station. That creature is running around in the seeks, and synthetics are less than friendly God. Damn it. Taylor needs attention.

Medical's a no-go! We can't take her there. We have a basic life support unit back in HQ, then let's go. We need the transit to get to HQ, but it's now traffic control is upstairs. Samuel says, you're an engineer go. Make yourself useful, seeing as you screwed up the Trap.

Why is he just saying that to Samuels and not looking at me? Protect them while I'm gone. Understood? Ricardo, get a lock on our radio so we can stay in touch.

Thank you Samuels! You really should hurry! Yep, I'm going. We'll get her out of here. Uh, I gotta get a save point. Yeah, the Imperial Ranch. It literally starts talking about gender within the fir, like I'm pretty might even be before. The first page is finished, and the first page is notably shorter than the rest of the pages because there's a chapter heading at the top.

It. We start literally talking about gender. And how it's a social construct and not something you can tell. Just by looking at somebody. Literally. In the first few pages, and then we never stop. Because the protagonist. It's just the lights turning on, I'm sure it's fine. The protagonist is from a culture specifically an evil imperialistic culture.

That has? Uh, no gendered pronouns in their language. They have two sets of pronouns that we know of. Uh, the pronouns for people which are translated into English as she her. And then. Uh. Pronouns for objects which are translated as it is. And I got a. I have to push it at the specific point.

L and B means left Mouse button AKA just left click. But with my keyboard. It's weird, it's making me push it, like at the very center. Not just anywhere on the left click button.

And then Martha Wells. Read these books and decided to take a whole bunch of. Uh, things from these books from ancillary Justice. But, and just just us, it just does not understand. What is that?

Somebody stuck on the other side there.

I would love to help him if it was a person who wouldn't shoot me. But I don't think I have that ability.

Probably not a Xenomorph because I can't really imagine a xenomorph just doing that. Forgot to look which one? Computers, let's push some buttons.

Hello, I know someone's in here.

Calm down in there, your Android fuck. Okay, it's an Android.

Grab right again.

I went to a lot of trouble to secure this place. That's not my problem. I don't know what's going on.

You're not going anywhere. You're a jerk!

At least it only seems to be one person so. Should be able to sneak by.

Yeah, the Imperial Ranch is actually Progressive about gender by doing like the bare minimum and then some. And actually respects. Make it quick. That is not.

What is this line in here? Am I glitched? All I want. There's like a little line in the the locker here with me. I think I'm glitched somehow with something what the kids are doing right now. Probably thinking, wow, I hope our parent isn't threatening to murder somebody who's not doing anything.

Maybe they'll get bored? Probably not.

How do I get off? And actually cares about physically disabled people. And queer people. And just queer people in general and not. Oh, what. There's two of them. Remember the last time I slept?

I thought that was another person over there. Maybe it's just a shadow?

Let me wait until it turns. Turn around. Yeah, go somewhere else.

Now facing this way. I don't know. You can just go away though. Let me do stuff.

Assuming the locker is slamming up and? Let us know what's going on.

My objective saying go this way. Where's my fucking objective game? Uh, in the very middle, apparently.

Oh, looking directly at me. Well, they'll be happier if you don't murder me.

I wonder what the kids are doing right now?

I think I'm just supposed to leave.

Someone there. No, no. It's just damn Android man.

Imagine if the game would let me just pick up all those boxes of cigarettes and use them to bribe people.

Okay, I guess he just. I decided to push the buttons again, maybe? Maybe?

What are you telling me to do game?

It's telling me to go that way. But then it was telling me to go this way.

I think he's just pretending he doesn't see me.

See, and now the stupid fucking Quest Market. Disappears, I swear to God. Fuck you, Gabe. What are you telling me to do?

Nope, their game if they want it to be playable. They can there if they want the sequel to be playable. They can watch me fail.

Why the hell would I agree to come out?

This is a game by people who are actually suffering under capitalist contracts, whereas Michaels just frames anybody who. That's stupid, and it's their own fault. Apparently, stupid idiots, secret buttons I'm supposed to be pushing here.

That's very good. It's all I want.

I don't think there's anything here I'm supposed to be fucking getting.

Your freaking floor vent?

Yeah, this is a game about. Uh, people. Who were brought out here on contracts to come to this. Deep space space station. Far away from Earth. Only for the corporations to realize, oh, we're not making as much money from this, as we thought we would. So, we're going to just literally abandon the entire space station and everybody on it.

And.

This is the person who has been stranded here because. Uh, the corporations who built this place are not sending out they're not going to give everybody a ride home at all. And if they do give you a ride, it's going to cost. More than your whole fucking life is worth.

And since these the only people who could come out here were willing to come out quote unquote willing to come out here for work are poor people with no other options. So now that this entire place is being shut down. They're not bringing in more food. They're not bringing in supplies of oxygen.

They're not bringing in medical supplies. It's literally. Being abandoned.

Game. You're a freaking infuriating me.

Enable the transit systems power backups. Why is it leading me in circles?

But when Martha Wells tries to write about something like this about contracts that Prey Upon? Poor people, okay? V. Lnb.

When Martha Wells decides, oh um, I guess I should throw in some. Pretend criticism of capitalism. That's not actually criticizing it because you'll fucking. See why, instead of portraying this as? You know, something that is fucking bad that nobody deserves. Um, we get told that the people who are literally like forced to sell themselves into indentured servitude, AKA slavery.

But with? Explicit capitalist Twist on it. We get told it's their own fucking fault. Because they're too stupid to ask. To read the fine fucking print.

So that was once again the mouse, deciding to fuck things up. The hell, sorry, don't shoot me.

Uh, it's. We're told that it's their own fault, because, um. No, you don't, you don't know. I'm here. I have sneak level 100 man. Just go back to. Walking in circles? Aren't my thing right now. Well. There's nothing here. Yeah.

Apparently here. The the quest marker is not leading me to the power backups. That's what these little arrows are on the flip and map. So, I guess I have to go in that way. And it'll lead me around over there where there's an Android in there. Flipping out smacking the door?

So, I guess let's go. Unless I can't. Okay, I can't open that at all. Fucking fuck, you man?

No, leave me alone. We can be friends. Yeah, we cannot be friends. Oh wow, he's gonna just kill him. Stop it! Stop fuck, you man, your kids are gonna hate you because you're a fucking murderer. All right. Let's try that again. Mr freaking jerk face?

Which way are we fucking going now this way? Fuck this guy.

There are actual transgender characters in The Imperial Ranch series, which is the bear fucking minimum. But Martha Wells can't even give us that because we have literally yet to see a single, explicitly transgender character. The only thing we have are robots and ins. Well, they're all enslaved. The only the only non-binary characters we have are enslaved robots and cyborgs, who were all.

Non-Binary because they don't have any genitalia. And so far, none of them disagree with this assessment because they are all representations of Martha wells's biological essentialism and extra sexism. Sex slaves. Also, it's yes. You can imagine that. I don't feel like it. Oh, look at this I, I did.

Okay, that's just the the thing in there banging around. Can I? Can I go directly to these things before? I have to do all that bullcrap. No, I can't. Boo! I just ran over that way. Go, let's go, let's go. Shut everything off.

No, you don't.

Calm down in there. You Android fuck.

It's because you're a murderer. That's why. Like, literally, just leave people alone man.

The dumb thing?

I went to a lot of trouble to secure this place. Wow, I don't give a fuck. You're a murderer, fuck, you.

I might just have to kill this guy. It's not meant to be the beam, but I guess it can be.

Yes, because you're a murderer man. Stop murdering people.

Where is he at?

And now the map is only showing me. Thing to look at. So, what the fuck?

You wouldn't cry so much if you weren't a murderer. Yes.

I. Show yourself, but I'll make it quick, no. Fuck you? Because there's a point nearby that you can just try running fast. He might have heard that you're. Anywhere. Yeah, I am.

Does he see me? Ah, yes, so fuck, this guy, you're just gonna die. If I can move? Fuck, you fuck, you fuck, you fuck, you.

There goes me getting the achievement for not killing anybody.

Because it's not. It's still not even showing me where the fuck to properly go. No buttons here work.

Oh, it's trying. It's fuck you game. That is so stupid. Let's reload and do this again.

So obnoxious, and I'll start a new video.

Continuing exactly at the obnoxious murderer man. Uh, where we left off. So let's go get fucking murdered again. Jerk face, also talking about the fact that there are actual trans characters in the Imperial Raj series. That my hand was literally nowhere near the mouse at all. At all. Let me use a medkit.

Maybe?

Unlike the murderbot Diaries, where the only characters we have? That. We only have a few non-binary characters, most of whom are genitalists robots and cyborgs, which is the only reason that they are non-binary. Because Martha Wells is a bioessentialist bigot who thinks your genitals equal your gender. So, of course, the fucking robots and enslaved cyborgs who don't have any genitals, can't have gender, because that's how bigots think.

Token explicitly non-binary in some way characters, but we don't get to fucking know anything about them or their culture or anything. So, as far as we fucking, know? The Rami, whose gender identity is tercera, which translate to third and the pronouns are t-ter. Based on tercera, literally the word for third.

And the other person.

Tight behind stairs. And then I've lied in a freaking locker outside in the locker now.

We don't get to know anything about their culture, so we don't know if these people are like. Actually non-binary and transgender in the way that queer people at, like queer people are, why are you coming over and understand directly in front of myself go away? Nobody likes you because you're a murderer.

Right now. Thinking. Wow, sure. Glad that guy's not here. He's a fucking murderer. I'll wait until he does the whole little cycle of saying, you're not going anywhere. We don't know anything about. Tercera, and especially because the gender is literally just third. Going anywhere. We don't know if Rami actually got to choose that, or if the more likely option for everything Martha Wells has ever written, it is more likely to just be a third gender.

You get assigned at Birth. And it's like, it's interesting. If Martha Wells is even aware that intersex people exist, it could literally just be the gender that you get assigned at Birth. If you're clearly intersexed at Birth? Is not Progressive. That's not how you be Progressive about gender, and if you have read, uh, the Imperial Ranch series.

It's like there. There is a society in there where they do have three genders, but they're not assigned at Birth. Children are all referred to with gender, neutral pronouns, and then, whenever you decide which gender you want to be, you just get to pick it. And that's what that's your gender now.

That's how that works in that Society. They have men. They have women and they have Nemen and the Nemen. Use e m pronouns. Those are called. Are those ones Spivak? Do you know these are, uh, some old Neo pronouns might be called Spivak pronouns, or that might be the ones that are am?

Just say, e, like the letter e is over there, that's. And. And. Um, I don't know if I should say more. Have you read, you haven't read that yet? Nope, uh. All right, uh, yeah. This is a society where you have three accepted genders. And you pick your gender.

Literally, whatever the fuck you decide, usually around puberty, but we even get a character who takes a lot longer than that to pick. And. And you might be thinking, okay, but? How is that better? A people get a choice in it, and furthermore. I won't be, uh, I won't.

Well, I guess it's already clear who it is once you start reading it, but there's also a character. Just know what's going on within this culture? Who? Who is who? Being non-binary. Not one of the binary genders, not part of the gender binary, this character. Figures out over the course of the book.

That they are non-trinary, and this is all just in the background, and you have to actually be paying attention and using your brain to see this. But it's like the clearest thing ever. And I was literally cheering this fucking character on while I was reading the book because you get little hints here and there.

It's, uh. And Lucky's dropping hints that this person's genderqueer. And then, as the book progresses, we just get more and more hints. And like. This is how you do an actual unreliable narrator because this genderqueer character, whose non-trinary. Is not the protagonist. The protagonist is not aware of any of this shit going on because she is a CIS girl.

She has never thought about gender. She knew she was a girl even before she picked, and all of this stuff like she is oblivious. And yet, we, the audience, are still picking up on everything the author is dropping, despite the protagonist not having a single clue. It's like hysterical, it is so funny, she is so oblivious.

But, and lucky, this is this is how you actually write. A flipping. It's so funny, and it's, it's so easy to do if you actually give a shit and actually want to write something that's good quality.

Like? It's never. This is how you do an actual, unreliable narrator, because the thing that makes a narrator unreliable because people love pretending that murderbot is an unreliable narrator to justify literally every single instance of bigotry and bad writing within the book series. The thing that makes a learner Raider unreliable?

Contradicts them, the other characters. Factually objectively contradict them, and this doesn't have to be done where the character explicit the protagonist that is the narrator, uh, you don't need to have somebody explicitly tell a lie for the narrative to contradict them. And also, this story isn't even in first person perspective, but we still have an unreliable.

Grab whenever, even though it's not in first person perspective. We have an unreliable Viewpoint character, but that's a lot more words than unreliable narrator, so I'm just going to say that. The the protagonist. She is oblivious to any gender troubles at all because she barely had to think about it before she knew she was a girl and decided on that and has never looked back.

But the author actually cares about what she is writing about. And and puts actual thought and quality and depth into all of this so that despite our protagonist not noticing a single thing. It is so clear what is going on with this other character? Because the author wants you to notice you are meant to notice, because writing is always done with purpose.

If it's done with if it's lazily written, it's done with very shallow purpose, but it's freaking any Mouse. Don't do that to me.

It's still done with purpose. It'd be right without intent your, uh, intentions. If you okay here, if you write without intent, your messages are not going to be what you think there. Like, it's so easy. And it's so funny, I I literally when, when we got to the end of this book.

The protagonist still has not noticed a single thing because she's she's the she's the token CIS girl. Everybody else around her is trans in one way or another. Push the buttons. Try not to get shot.

Uh, I won't say sorry to this guy.

Someone there. It's you with me.

Well. We could have teamed up man.

I have to sneak, so I'm being quiet.

Fuck. Unless it's just doing that. I'm scared now! I'm scared. I think it was just doing that to scare me. You didn't actually see me. It's fine, we're just gonna do this bullshit again, where the music is, like, oh, you're, you're spotted to scare you out of cover? Like a fucking rabbit, you can't catch me bitch.

Now, Mr Android go walk down there so I can get past you.

Disappeared. Oh, okay, we're still good, just walking very fast. It's not fair.

Okay, so I have to wait, do I have to push the damn middle buttons again? Yeah, I do.

Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go!

And now all the lights are going to turn on.

Can I get back in the fucking elevator guys? I would like to do that. Nope.

Try not to move the this thing it was making my arm hurt.

Yeah, there's there's. There's so many, like. This doesn't make sense unless you've read Arthurian Legend, but uh Martha Wells.

Uh, the other person was like doing this to hide, so I don't know if it does anything. No, we're good. Nope. E push the E button smacked wrong button snacks Max e button e button E button. Yes, it is. Violence is the answer because you are rude. Let me kill you with my invisible Hammer.

Fuck, you man.

Can I use the damn stem baton? Can I do anything? No. Give me the standby time game. Are you fucking serious right now? Sure, let me just stand here. Can I use this Dumbbaton fuck? Oh my God, you're so annoying. This is why. I am not this goddamn computer.

I have a left mouse button and a right Mouse button, like any other fucking laptop, and it is just deciding it's going to click the opposite of the one I am actually fucking clicking on right now. It's gonna throw me. Can I use the fucking? Stand baton you goddamn fucking computer.

Give me the fucking button. Oh my God. So annoying because I'm on novice mode. Like, I'm I'm literally clicking the left Mouse button. The right Mouse button is, what does the God? Can you rewind it to something else? Give me, and now I missed fuck, you man fuck, you.

Fuck you? Give me the fucking, stop it. So annoying.

Why do I have to recharge this shut up man? Shut the fuck. Where is this fucking jerk face? Fuck you?

Fuck you? Fuck you? Fuck you? Fuck you? Fuck you?

I think it's a fucking dead end.

Fuck, you fuck, you fuck, you.

I didn't know you can search them. Fuck you?

This, the save machine is playing a little song. Oh no, there's a radio gas torch.

That was so irritating. Like, I'm literally not even scared. It's just infuriating that every time I click the goddamn. Computer's stupid flipping. Uh, designation was just like a Dell 5G or G5, one of those two 1558 or something like that. Don't get one, it's shit. It's literally got a really regular fucking trackpad mouse pad.

But then it was literally just clicking the exact opposite mouse key. And then, as you have seen, if you've been watching these, I will have my fans. And it will just do that shit. When I'm not even clicking, it is so fucking irritating. At least I can make another fucking Med kit.

After this fucking waste. So much shit! That was so irritating. It would have been five times less irritating if the game would have just fucking. Let me push the correct buttons.

Anything else I can make?

Fuck this Android in particular.

Anything else that I can steal guys?

Computer.

Restart Transit! Listen you crazy bastard! You think that thing gets around in a fucking Transit car? You're sitting on an override that'll disconnect the transit from Apollo, so fucking, pull it. You can stop all this bullshit just by pulling a lever. You think you're safer with the transit power down, but we're trapped like rats for God's sake.

Help us.

Double crossed, got a heads up for you jackass. Don't even think about throwing in with Sinclair in the season security guys. I told them, it was you that killed Morrison. If they see you, they'll shoot on site. You should have let me join you in your boat hole. You won't last a week.

Nothing else.

Uh, I should go loot. This guy jackass murderer guy, we could have just been friends. And tamed up. But.

Saving his body being out here. Wasn't he like up here?

Okay, I guess he just disappeared. Now, let's go save. Anyways, I think I was saying that there's actual trans characters in the Imperor Raj series, uh, that's in Providence provenance. I think it's provenance from whence you come, because that's the whole plot of it. Political drama. Where the whole thing is.

Well, you'll just find out if you read it. What was that? Oh, scrap!

Okay, let's get. Use this stupid thing. Yeah.

It's keys to cut the panel.

For this, you just use the arrow key in the direction that you're pointing until it gets to the end and then push the next one. So, that's easy. Just gonna take a long time. Super Ripley! Don't smush your feet. That would suck. Turn on flashlight.

Is there nothing in here? Okay.

Ripley. This is weights the transits here. We're waiting on you. Take it. I had some trouble, so it's going to take me a while to get back. Taylor pant. I can catch the next car.

Buttons for me to push. Sensor. It's placematia. Surprise! I've got guys won't even been shut and shut.

What a jerk face! What a jerk face! Id tag.

Rewire.

Yeah, let's just turn off the air conditioner. You don't need it.

Yay! We're back at this place. Can I move? Wow! Save before they get here. Unless they're friendly. I'm. For having fun and making friends. I'd say the habitation Tower. Why do I keep getting stuck?

Yeah, none of the series that inspired Martha Wells to write the murderbot Diaries are like the murderbot Diaries because? They have everything that. Take a look around you're outnumber what? What what you guys are the ones approaching me? How are you telling me to back off fuck you? What the fuck is wrong with you people?

Fuck you? Like? I'm reloading. This is not fair. I'll just push the button and then hide behind the pillar and then run in when they get here because fuck these guys. Literally, it's fucking jokes.

Side here. Hide in the closet. Yeah, let's do that. I don't think they can steal my train. Also, I love the graffiti that turns Apollo into a :-(. Delightful!

That things that they will finally consume ourselves in an adaptation, and she had that murderbot for no reason hates graffiti because my logos and needs would be, even though graffiti, it's like, not yet. Speaking of graffiti, I have been reminded that, like, in book six, now that's book five.

See, I get the mixed up because? The shitty. Purgatory. We're all trapped in. Because Martha Wells clearly doesn't actually want to write the series anymore, but has to? Because she keeps signing up for traditional publishing contracts, even when she doesn't like them, even though she could just do. My biggest.

Give you one clear shot. I'll stop the fucker.

Play music in here.

Yeah, in book five, it's just really random that murderbot hates it. When people graffiti do graffiti? On corporate logos or something. It's just like it really fucking viscerally hates it. And it's like, oh, it's maybe it's because I'm an object. It's just so weird and random. It does not make sense for the character.

It's just weird. And it's just. Yeah, anything that you read Martha Wells, saying she was inspired by to write the murderbot Diaries. She hasn't said alien.

I'll assume that's a train noise and not as anymore. Coming to kill me boys? Remember not to use the mouse until the thing actually pops up. Just turn right at the top of the stairs. You can't miss it. I can, I don't know. Left and right?

Anything, she says, inspired her to write the word about Diaries. Oh, I was, I was referencing, um. Haha, yeah, fuck the Marshals. Yeah, genuinely. It's literally their job to protect people, and they just suck at it.

I'm looking at their wanted posters. Somebody wrote fuck the Marshalls on their door.

Plan really. His fucking plans haven't done as much good. So far, you have an unsecured event in here. What do you mean you're safe? We will be safe here. Was that you did you get the transit running nice work? Thank you. You have a name? Nope, no name tag.

Hello!

Okay, I guess they're just not gonna open that door for me, so I have to go around. How's Taylor? Stable chippy walking soon enough. Samuels is whether now. Okay. You managed to get Transit up and running, so I guess, right? Where's Ricardo? Prepping our next move. Look, I'm busy.

I've got Marlo in the cells, the lowlife who showed up with your flight report. He put it in a parking orbit around the gas giant. Son of a bitch won't give us the command codes to let us bring it in on auto. You can get more out of the unhelpful bastard.

Go talk to him.

Oh yeah, Arthurian Legend. Um. If you have read the stories, but I don't know how to pronounce his name, cuz I've never heard it said. Christian. It's French, so I don't. Probably half the syllables are secretly silent Prussian Detroit. Christian. It's a very. It's a very medieval name, I presume, is the like, Christian.

But questions? I'm with the company. Hold on. I'm here for personal reasons. My mother was on the Nostromo when it went missing 15 years ago.

But you sure, as hell found, something else. What happened up there? I need a way out of here. Ripley, maybe we could make a deal? Just start talking. I want to know everything. Oh, we go. We're going back in time. Anyways, question destroys the. Who wrote down? Can we go?

Some Arthurians, you get me loose. Let's take it slow. I want to get to that Beacon in one piece faster. I've got something for you right here. I need scanning a moment to find it Heist? Okay, enough already focus on what we am. I don't want any mistakes.

I'll continue the narration when we're done this whole cut scene.

Faster picks. Keep your eyes open.

What else? Oriented.

You can't talk through this, it's. But now, I was okay. I'm just spinning in place to see what they are talking about, and they made a little arrow jumps up okay. I'm stuck on a rock. We are on LV. I think it's 47. Oh, I can Crouch. Okay, we don't need to, huh, good goodness, Transformers.

That's good. If it's a mystery, then it's unknown. If it's unknown, then it could be valuable.

Let me just see how specific it is. Okay. Can you guys walk a bit faster? You're in my way. Gosh, anyways, Christian Detroit's his name, I might be pronouncing sorry, medieval guy. That wrote down for Arthurian Legends. He did not invent them. Oral tradition is longer than written down crap.

Um. Including? The first written that we know of story of Sir Lance a lot. And Queen Guinevere. And.

What rocks are we looking at guys? See if I can find a weak spot. We're here. Can I have a flashlight in here?

Maybe the rocks form giant, a giant rib cage or something? I don't know how they're seeing crap. Uh, anyways, uh, this guy wrote down a story. Involving sir Lancelot, and it's actually my favorite of them simply because Sir Lancelot is like the only Knight in any of these stories of his.

That, like, am I Heist? I'm Marlo, I thought. Oh, I'm looking the wrong way. E to Traverse? Press e. I did press e.

And then you just don't have to do anything. Then you wait some more. All right. What the man says? Uh, I like this one better than the other ones, because sir lights, a lot, is like the only one who of these Knights who actually shows any basic morality. You know, all the ideas that nights were chivalrous and good people.

No, they just like murder people for fun. It was a close one, though. Don't think I'll be able to get back the way I came. Just watch yourself you hear me? But the whole point of me bringing this up is that, um? I like the story, but it's it's got some weird fucking.

Um, like continuity breaks that just don't make any fucking sense. And. Uh, actually, like, there's actual Scholars who study Arthurian Legend. And their explanation for this random ass shit that doesn't make any sense, like? Um. We are told that. I think it's Gwen. This all has a point, I promise.

Uh, Serge Wayne is walking while he's riding his horse along a road. Stay put. I think I found something. How do you think you found something and how do they see me? Oh, just keep walking that Circle. Wayne's walking along with this horse and then a night comes up.

We're just pretending we don't know. It's sir Lance a lot for reasons.

I'm not going that way. And the night, the mysterious, totally not. Um, we could just walk pla. We could just walk through there, but all right, we'll just just blow shit up. I'm guessing he just really wanted to use a fucking bomb.

Some mysterious night. I'm backing up further. Man, you can't make me stop that close. Let's get behind this. Lnb while holding.

Uh, mysterious Knight says, hey, um, there's danger up ahead. Can I borrow your horse? I need it. I like, um, um, life or death situation and Dwayne's, like, okay, sure. Here you go. And then. Oh, that was. Let's get going. Follow me. Could they really not have just walked through there?

All right, whatever? I'll just trust in the process. Uh, and then Sir Wayne walks like five minutes more, not like hours, not a day or anything, just like five minutes. And then he comes upon the scene of a huge battle, and also the horse is dead. I'm pretty sure and ever, like, there's a bunch of dead people, and it's clear that a huge battle has taken place.

But like, it was only like five minutes ago that he just gave this guy his horse, so he's managed to walk in five minutes. What should have taken him like half a day, because it's like very far away when you're on Horseback and he's on foot. And this doesn't make any fucking sense, and there's like a few instances of this in the story.

Am I going the right way, or am I going backwards?

We're doing the thing where it doesn't. Let me move the camera again. Yeah, it's going backwards. Do I have a map? Nope.

So, yeah, this is just a random continuity break that doesn't make sense. And you know, what makes this make sense? Because we were told at the start of the story that Christian detroys was, uh, just transcribing this story as dictated to him by some Countess lady because it was one of her favorite stories, and she wanted it written down so.

The reason this story? Completely out of character for the rest of the stories written by this man has just these gaping plot holes. And continuity breaks that don't make sense. You don't want you don't give somebody your horse, and then five minutes later, okay, we're just do. We're doing it again.

Even though we just decided this was a bad idea, didn't we guys? But we're just doing it again. You don't give somebody your horse, and then they ride off at full speed. And then, five minutes later, you find the scene of a battle. That was. Far enough away for you to hear nothing of it.

Among other things. And we only cut. You only get a book with this stuff in it from an author who knows. How to do basic shit? If the person telling him the story is forgetting these details and is messing up these details. This is a symptom. Of. Uh, just.

Retelling a story and missing crucial Parts in the telling so that you end up with an inferior story objectively inferior because you missed out on all this important shit man. You missed out on, like a whole journey through the woods on foot. And now it doesn't make any sense, and it's just really weirdly paced.

We're gonna continue finding the source of the signal, and then we're all gonna die. Why am I bringing this up? You ask, because that's exactly what is going on with the murderbot Diaries. Martha Wells red, the superior original story that inspired the retelling, which in this case is the Imperor Ranch and also the alien franchise.

And you can. If you've read if you read the Imperial Ratch after you've read the murderbot Diaries or vice versa, you will know what I'm talking about. You'll know. There are so many key features of the story and the World building and the characterization that Martha Wells is ripping off of and doing it badly.

Because, like there's no such thing as completely original stories. Thing you think up, somebody's done it before. And it's like, totally fine. But like the thing here is that she wants the Aesthetics of all of the things she wants, the Aesthetics, the anti-capitalist aesthetic of the alien franchise. She wants the aesthetic of so many things in the Imperor Ranch, but she doesn't want the substance, and she doesn't even understand the substance.

Book series, where we start talking about gender within the first few pages about how gender is a social construct, and you can't tell just from looking at people. And biological essentialism is bad and also doesn't fucking work and came away deciding. Yeah, yeah, we can tell everybody's gender just from looking explicitly.

Nobody will ever list their pronouns in their bio because they just all they just list their sex, because um, gender is biologically inbuilt. And you can tell just from looking by Magic. So she's literally incapable. Of doing the doing the fucking story that she's trying to mimic any Justice, and so we end up with an inferior retelling.

We get. And they stopped talking. We get going walk in five minutes to discover a battle that had to have taken place hours away and would have been fought over the course of hours because as as the Arthurian scholar sarcastically notes. Arthurian battles are not known for being quick Affairs.

So, we get the murderbot Diaries. Where everybody's gender is based entirely upon what genitals they have. So, if they don't have any genitals at all. Like all of the robots. Careful with what you touch. I don't want anything damaged unless you're a sex slave when you're still in it.

They're talking. What is it? I think we found. We're wasting time, have a little round. No shit. By fourth. Now, it's our problem. I can climb up here. Then, we'll take what we can and come back. Have a look around someone else is here. Found something tracks tracks. Looks like something was dragged, but that's not all.

You're not gonna like this. What is it?

I could see that shit.

I'll find the beacon and shut it off. Don't want anybody else finding this place faster? Nice! Check out the camera below.

Yeah, it's giant.

I want to see if they say anything interesting.

Probably not. So we end up. We get. We have the Imperial Ranch or those the eggs. Are you kneeling on the eggs or just dirt? Pipes. Maybe Tails? Who knows?

I'm not sure if this thing is helpful anymore.

Nope. Got a very slowly walk over here, and this little let me Sprint. Yep. We're just gonna be so slow. So slow? Give me more time to talk. Yeah, um. The Imperial Ranch, which actually has cyborg. Characters. And here's it's actually complicated. Whether or not wreck is a cyborg?

I'm not even going to tell you why you can read it and find out. Unlike the murderbot Diaries where Martha Wells has revealed that they are in fact all cyborgs, she just didn't like. She didn't like the connotations of cyborgs fighting for fucking equal rights, so instead. Oh, here's, where, yeah.

Here's our dumb winch, which is a terrible idea. She didn't want her audience to think too deeply about how she. Yes, she didn't want it. Hey guys, we found this hole. Can we go down? I don't want to just like fall in there. I don't think I'm supposed to do that.

Can I have a map yet? Yeah, she she went out of her way to avoid using the word cyborg, even though she knows that is the correct word. Um, because a she does this a lot, she really wants. There's a light over here. I presume it's calling me? In this direction to that, probably oh, you're just kneeling.

You find something interesting man? Wow! We very slowly walk around. Eo, he's this guy's been waiting over here to give me a leg up. Should have said something man. Just start talking like a Fallout 4 MPC, saying, let's go.

Where was I at? Let's check.

The Imperial rats where its actual complicated. Uh, so, yeah, okay, we have. We have one of the phones recording this time because the freaking computer keeps fucking up the recordings and deleting the audio, so we have a phone recording, and it has an auto transcript feature, which is fantastic.

I found the beacon. I'm gonna check it out. That seems so dangerous. How are you alive, Marlo? Look at this. Oh boy! And who put this shit here? Because nobody, let's go. E shut down Beacon. Yeah, let me just reach. Let's just reach our hands into this alien thing.

I'm sure nothing can possibly go wrong. Who turned this on? You can stop broadcasting. On my way. Return to the winch.

Um, let me check. Oh yeah, she she purposed. She does this all the time. She will be writing a story. Fantasy sci-fi doesn't really matter with already established terms that don't require explanation. And then she decides she doesn't want to use those terms that everybody's already familiar with because she wants to seem special and clever.

But then, she also doesn't give the necessary explanations so that the new term makes sense. Which means that she just ends up purposefully confusing people and thinks that doing so means she's clever, instead of just objectively being bad at writing. Because, as I've said multiple times your job, is the author literally your one job?

Clearly communicate the story if you are failing to communicate with your audience.

And he refused to change if you if you refuse to communicate clearly with your audience. That's your failing. As an author, you don't then get to blame your audience for being confused. When you are going out of your way to confuse them on purpose because you think it makes them smart, makes you smart.

Stephen muffet does this as well. There's so many authors that do crap like this. If you are trying to purposefully confuse your audience and not because you're trying to like, write a story that purposefully, just like fucks with your mind, like a psychological Thriller, or something like that you're just trying to confuse your audience.

Because you think it makes you smart, you're just a bad fucking writer. Your job literally is to communicate clearly with your audience.

And Martha Wells. Chillax.

Well, we are gonna end this cutscene by dying. I like the the Mist. It's very cool. Blue Mist, just enveloping the eggs. I wonder what that does, because none of the other eggs ever seem to require anything specific. So, I wonder what this does for them? Or maybe to them.

Maybe they're not supposed to be down here? Oh, we are ending the cutscene, I guess.

Okay, so we are done now that cutscene. There's probably gonna continue to be talking.

Plan B set it up whatever's happening. I want it. Okay, this way got something here you need. Okay, and I'm Gonna Save the game, and uh, let my laptop go to sleep for a while, because it's getting hot again, because apparently you're finishing whatever percentage you're on, so it ends on connection after finishing whatever sentence I'm on.

What was the sentence? No, I will just can. I will read the stupid trance fine. Martha Wells always goes out of her way to use brand new made-up terms for no reason, except that she thinks it makes her clever when it is objectively making her writing worse because she's making it confusing on purpose.

And then, if you express this confusion to her. Instead of just explaining the made-up terms that she is using or just using existing words wrongly, and she never explains it properly within the story to make it make sense. She will just insult you and call you stupid and like, completely, just lie about what it is you're confused about to pretend that you're the bad guy because you asked her to clarify something in her writing that she made confusing on purpose.

Nobody who wants to tell a very clear story is going to insist upon calling cyborgs constructs human bot constructs. Instead of just fucking saying cyborg if she means cyborg, which she has apparently meant cyborg this entire goddamn time. Or would just say robot anthroid. Like she literally just has refused to actually use basic explicit fucking clear language, established terminology.

Even in reference to just make it clear what is going on in her setting. And she does this all the time. If you've read wolf night. Which is exemplary? She uses the word Chimera. Out of nowhere with no explanation. No, no forewarning or anything, no follow-up. She's just using it as a weird ass fucking synonym for an illusion spell, like an illusion spell that you cast as a message to other people.

And it's also, this story is really fucking weirdly racist towards Native American people. And um uses the W word the name for the spirit that has been appropriated to hell and back and just uses that and is just fucking racist about it, and it's it's just so badly written, and she's also just using the word Chimera.

With no explanation and just using it to mean an illusion spell, and it just disrupts the whole story. The because it literally disrupts the flow of the story because you have to literally like, stop and go. Wait, what? What a chimera, what? What are you fucking talking about. What does that fucking mean because we don't get an explanation?

Fucking piece, it together ourselves, and it's not given any appropriate context to let us figure this out. I am reading astounding stories of super science. I think I'm on June 1932. Reading a story caught by Roman Frederick Starzle, called If the son died, and it is set in years like 6.

62,000 some ad, something like that. They consider it 48, something 1080 anyways. Um, this provides just basic shit for us, because there we're. We don't get explicitly told that this thing is an intoxicant, but through the way, this word is used. Merclight m, e, r, c, l, i, t, e.

The way it is this brand new word, not an existing word that we have to be confused by. Used in a way that makes it very clear. It is an intoxicant. We are told that people are over doing on the chewing of merklight, so they're stumbling around and have hangovers and shit like that.

This is providing necessary context for us to figure out that Merc light is some kind of intoxicant that the people living in the center of the Earth in the year 68 something, something thousand A.D. Because they don't have beer because they live in the center of the Earth, and they don't have sunlight, and they don't have any of that shit necessary to make beer.

So, instead of that, they they chew merklight. And we don't need like. This is done properly because. We are. We have already been introduced to this world. We've gotten explanations for what's going on. We've been giving context for what kind of society. This is so when we're told that people are chewing murklight to.

Like, embarrassing levels so that they're just embarrassing themselves and stumbling around and all drunk on it. We don't need any further explanation. It's an, it's an intoxicant. It's like, beer, it gets you drunk. It makes you high. It makes you act like a dumbass. But Martha Wells doesn't ever do shit like this, like in.

In Wolf night, we just have the word Chimera thrown in without any warning beforehand or any context offered to make it clear what the fuck this word is being misused for. Because if you are taking an established word with an established meeting and suddenly using it in a way it's not meant to be used and is not commonly used.

Justify that, and the very basic way to do that is just provide us some goddamn context. I'm not gonna read the sentence because I don't feel like having to open my phone and go find it, but you can read it free online. It's a website, uh, learnstar stories, I think.

Or maybe that was a different one. I'll stop walking in circles, and I'll just stand here.

You, it's. It's a, it's just thrown into a sentence with no explanation, no context, nothing, which disrupts you reading the whole story. And. It's bad. It's bad. It would have been so easy to fix it to make it not literally like break your brain mid-sentence where you go, wait, hold on what the fuck back up.

What? What did she just say? What is happening now? Why is there Chimera being mentioned. There's no fucking Chimera on this goddamn Road. All she would have had to do was when the character sees the oohs super scary native man that was scary. Of the character thing. Something along the lines of?

Um, he wasn't. He couldn't do any magic himself, but he knew he'd studied a few forms of it and. Uh. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Was going to have to assume that this was an illusion class spell, maybe a chimera blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Explain what the fuck a chimera is explain that it's a goddamn illusion spell that's meant to be triggered. Only if you're and can only be seen if you're looking at it from a specific direction or something like that, like just basic storytelling Basics. Just give us the goddamn understanding.

It's so simple, it's not difficult. But she doesn't do it. And then, and she does this with the books of the rexer, too. There's not a single goddamn person who has ever read the books with Rex Sarah. The first time through, without talking to all the people who've already decided on what it means after spending years.

Then reading them over and over again and discussing it amongst themselves at length. Look at the fandom. The standard tries to claim it's not confusing at all because they live. They've been in referendum about it for years and have all had to painstakingly figure it out amongst themselves. And now, years later?

Decided it's not confusing, even though none of them had any fucking clue. Hey Taylor. She's. Martha Wells does this in the books of the Rockstar as she introduces? That is fucking epic. Look at that goddamn spacesuit. I love that. That is the coolest fucking spacesuit I've ever seen. I'm taking a picture of it with my phone because I took a screenshot, but I will forget about it.

Look at that. Look at that. That's so, fucking cool. I love it!

She. She introduces so many fucking brand new Concepts and terms in the books of the rack, Sarah, and then never half of them are completely redundant and are literally just wasting your damn brain space. Trying to figure them out, hold on, pause. That's why we go to the computer.

I don't care. You can just read through that if you want to pause the video. It's just. See some kind of parasite audio.

It's doing this.

I have no idea what Sinclair these men were doing, but this should have been picked up during that routine. For me, in the examination room, get down here now. Okay, yeah, uh, wait, no, I didn't mean to push it twice.

Anything about this?

Get down here now! Okay, she. She introduces so many terms in the books of The Rock, Sarah and, and so many of them are redundant. And there's so many things she gives you to juggle at once in your mind while you are reading this book series. There's so many fucking characters whose names you have to memorize, and like, most of them are not important at all.

There are so many brand new terms and Concepts that you are forced to try and memorize, and most of them are also completely redundant, so they are. There. You don't need to memorize them at all, but you still try, which makes memorizing the shit. That's actually relevant, all but impossible, especially because none of it ever gets properly explained in any way.

And, and then, when people have told Martha Wells, it's confusing. She decides that, um, it's actually not the fact that she never properly explained a single thing and introduced and literally just dumps it all on you without any explanation or time to adjust and figure things one out at a time.

No, she decides that what you're really confused about is that the characters are polyamorous and don't know the concept of monogamy. That's her reaction. To people pointing out that it's really fucking hard to understand what is going on with these people's culture, because there's so many completely useless and redundant terms.

We have to memorize and none of it ever gets a clear explanation. And she decides. Actually, that's you're not confused about that. What you're confused about, pretending to be confused about, is polyamory. It's like she's literally saying, no, I didn't miss. I didn't write anything confusing at all. You're just a bigot.

For a thing that has nothing to do with the confusing things and like she while after she said that she'll like, reveal, and like, say, like so many Publishers, didn't want to, uh, take the books of the rag Sarah because they didn't like it, and thought it was confusing.

And it's like. Yeah, because you wrote it confusing, you didn't? You never explain anything. Ever. First trap gun. Wait, we're trapped down. The creature set off explosives was set in the habitation Tower, and I'm hearing reports of damage to the space, light space, flight terminal docks. I don't think we put a dent in it.

There's activity in San christabel, so maybe it's gone back. Find a way over to the cymed Tower Transit. Hope to God, the sensors and medical reception are still online. And again. With the murderbot Diaries, you need to see how that's called simed Tower. Yeah, it's Martha Wells trying to mimic crap from this.

That's why there's so many obnoxious. Names in, especially book one. Where she's just smashing together. Things like security unit and turning it into SEC unit and all of that crap. You know what I'm talking about? If you've read all systems, read. Scroll down. I'm not actually reading that. Can I go back?

Whoop. No audio, nothing else. She doesn't explain anything. And then. And then she gets mad when people are confused and decides that it's actually your fault that you don't understand the things that she didn't explain. Because she never wants to accept any criticism of her writing. If you criticize her writing for anything?

It means you're just bad at reading, and it's your own fault. You don't understand and. You're probably also a bigot polyamorous people, even though that's not the thing that is confusing.

Also, the the polyamorous characters in her story aren't actually like queer. It's literally just built into their biology. That they're polyamorous. So, it's like because they can control their fertility. So, it's it's, it's. It's just another biological fucking. Default. They're their species equivalent of CIS and straight. And monogamous queer people of this species would be.

Monogamous, because that would be the opposite of what is demanded by their biology and considered normal.

Am I just failing to go through the appropriate doors? Now, I do have to say. Wait, I did save. Okay, yeah, my laptop is hot. So, yep, I'm just ending the video now. Bye bye!

[lanawinterscigarettes]

you go Aeron get your name changed and move away!! My extended family cut me off for being too disabled (not sure if I’ve said this story before) cause I’m chronically ill and not getting better - almost like the keyword is in the name 🤦‍♀️ which is why I can’t get away from my immediate family and people on forums etc don’t seem to realise that sometimes is sometimes you need the people who hurt you for stuff like housing or food or care and it sucks af but sometimes you don’t have the physical or emotional resources to just go out into the world on your own. And yes! Back to happier things honestly I want my old lady hobbies I play video games and I want to crochet etc but I love the tugboat theory I hate feeling like I should have everything together like when I was a kid adults seemed to have it all together and now I’m just like ‘why tf are we running the world none of us know what we’re doing’. LMAO pretty lady feature in the reply we rate it!!

Yk what even if you do a male reader I’m still gonna read it because I like more Aeron content whether it’s replies or fics or whatever I lap that stuff up I remember reading Jennifer check stories I think it was to this day I have no idea who that is but good writing is good writing 🙂‍↕️ in fact I’m the opposite of a fake fan I’m probably too real of a fan I just read stuff even if I’ve not got a clue what’s going on because I’m like MMM YES CONTENT

Lemme know when all the videos and the picture load cause like, Lindsay <3333 also maybe this is just me being weird but I never understood the hand thing until recently because oh my gosh her hands and fingers in WR are so pretty and her arms I CANTTT you don’t understand Aeron Lindsay is perfect even when she’s traumatised but hey so am I, I wish she was in it for longer she’s only in it for 9 episodes so defo watch it as her run is really short although I wish she stayed in it til later in the season cause I’m selfish and want more Lindsay content <3 she absolutely throws Michaela around and like, if I was at Waterloo Road I’d provoke her so she throws me around like that 👀 (sorry who said that I heard nothing 🏃‍♀️)

I’ll NEVER STOP DYING WHEN THERE ARE ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD ITS TOO TOUGH OUT HERE - ⭐️

Not them cutting you off for being "too disabled" wtf is wrong with some people that genuinely makes me so angry for you but I'm going to try to keep it toned down because I know you don't need any more stress in your life. That would be like if I cut off my mom for having diabetes like THAT DOESNT CHANGE ANYTHING SHES NOT GOING TO STOP HAVING DIABETES RAAAHHHH 🦅🦅🦅 (sorry I just hate ableist people and also really love my mom) and don't worry I completely get that, it must be hard having to rely on people who hurt you I know how you feel but just know I'm always here for you even if it's in a completely different continent ❤️

Omg my mom crochets actually!! She's made me little stuffies before, like a dragon and a bat :D but yes I absolutely agree with you there, I also hate how people assume that you automatically stop loving certain things when you become an adult yknow, like I still like/collect fashion dolls and I have a bunch of stuffed animals and cute things all around my room, I'm not going to get rid of them and you can't make me 😤 /lh

Here's some more dee since I know you love the pretty lady features I sometimes have in my posts hehe

Aw star anon 🥺 it's kind of funny that you literally just read whatever but it's also really sweet that you love my writing that much (also jennifer check is from a horror comedy movie called jennifers body!! I really love it but it IS horror so there's like character deaths and gore and stuff so idk if you'd be into that but she's really pretty regardless. Actually I have a bunch of pictures of her saved here have some more pretty lady images haha)

Okay they finally loaded for me after forever!! First off I love her hair, I've always wanted to have bangs that look like that I'm kind of jealous Lindsay tell me who your hairdresser is so I can get mine cut 😫 also Jenna's acting is so good poor Lindsay I feel so bad for her 😞 also I had no idea what it meant when you said she had a gob on her so I looked it up and basically gob means mouth so it's British slang for saying she has an attitude for anyone who was clueless like me haha

You're honest so real for that there are so many fictional characters I love that I'd absolutely let ruin my life like they could just take it all from me and I'd be grateful because I'm just a simp at the end of the day 😔

Yeah okay I can understand that sometimes I'll just be watching a show or movie and my favorite character will appear and I'll literally screech with joy because I'm so excited because I have no restraint haha

[imjustsoscaredallthetime]

Yuh know seh wicked cyah done?

Thank you for informing me that I am dating a white person. I wasn't aware that was going on in my life so I'm happy you figured it out and let me know! Last time I checked I was single but apparently not, my mistake, thanks again.

Furthermore, the search function on here isn't half bad and I found everything you're saying you didn't see pretty easily. One search of jamaica and I found it all, and as an aside, I was reblogging stuff about dancehall music up to yesterday morning so like... what?? Also you don't have to pretend, mi know seh yuh nuh like battyman, it's fine. Your interpretation of my "Jamaicanness" is fine by me cause there's a lot in our culture than needs fixing so if I fall short of being the "perfect" Jamaican to you I'm cool with that.

Also funny you should say all of that when I've had a Ukrainian in my notifications saying that I'm racist because I called them out for their treatment of POC. I'm not begging friends with any white people either so we can agree on that point.

I haven't scrolled through your page so see you advocating to black Palestinians so I didn't know you were referring solely to their cultural paradigm in the context of this video. Reiterating, I was simply trying to clarify as I do when I think people are confused and I want to do some reading.

I'll admit that my activism & education hasn't been equal on all issues. Yeah I'm aware that antiblackness exists in every culture on Earth, and upon further introspection I can certainly speak more about the things going on in Africa and about issues black ppl elsewhere are facing.

I don't know everything about everything, but jeez your outlook on the world seems bleak. I don't think "not being a monolith" is inherently a bad thing. After a nuh we one, and I'm not saying just because other cultures do something we should follow them. However, I like muticulturalism, and it isn't necessarily a symptom of our disunity/disaggregation. And it's so dark not to have hopes for the future generation cause how are you gonna look at children and automatically assume they're gonna be demons? Sorry but that's just too dark for me, call me naïve but if I was to think like that then may as well mi drop dung and dead cause by that logic there's no hope for future generations of black kids to rise above the shit we face. We're always gonna be oppressed and they'll always be oppressors, no use to even fight it.

At the end of the day, I was never trying to beg you to support a cause, just trying to make you see why I do what I do and why I'm speaking up the way I am. I don't believe in telling people to side with their oppressors and my bad if it ever came across like I was doing that. The way I see it, this is a part of the fight against white supremacy and that's what I'm prioritizing right now. That isnt your priority and that's fine, but lowe me mek mi do my thing.

[yurtletheturtlehenderson]

i just wanna talk to someone abt this because i trust u and ppl on tumblr actually freak me out and scare me so…hear me out. im not at all opposed to byler and im not homophobic bc i dont particularly ship it as much as others. yes i do ship it some amount, but the only thing that worries me is homophobes. being a queer person in a homophobic family is reallt hard and u have to learn to grow with a fear of them hating u. im just afraid of how ppl will take it if byler is canon. again i am not against the ship. that being said i am a girl who simps over will byers and i adore the y/n x will dynamic they have. just wanted to tell someone bc a lot of ppl on this sight would call me homophobic and stuff over this

Aw honey... of course it's okay. And I'm sorry things have been like this. I totally get it. What's not okay is a fandom getting so protective over their ships they make people of afraid of not shipping something enough. (Long but necessary rant ahead. Sorry, but its worth it)

I'm gonna lose a lot of people here, and likely cause they don't want to read to the end to hear all I have to say, but here goes: I don't particularly ship Byler either. When most people hear this statement they immediately equate it with the statement "I don't think Will is gay and neither is Mike" (I feel like this is true for most queer ships, or just shipping culture in general?).... this could not be more wrong. For one, nobody ever immediately knows why someone ships something (and a lot of times, the person themselves don't understand/realize why they subconsciously pick to a specific pairing and cling to it so tightly) and while it's completely understandable to have become defensive, say, because you feel as though your own identity is under attack, it's so easy—natural even—for people to snap into survival mode and try to defend themselves. But as we've seen, this can, in the right circumstances, also feed the pre-existing cycle of offense and defense that is far too long and philosophical a discussion to dive into here and now.

No, for now I wanna just reiterate that just because someone admits to not being particularly hyper-enthused by a specific ship—yes, like Byler—doesn't mean they automatically hate it. I don't particularly campaign for Mileven either! I've been persuaded by both in the past, but I've never found myself at point where I'm making fan accounts surrounding the ship, pumping out content 24/7, and I certainly haven't felt compelled to bash anyone who ships the other. But ya know what? I will say, and I bet im not alone here, the more I encounter Mileven content/space OR Byler content/space, the more I'm driven away. Why? The fucking shipping wars.

Byler and Mileven shippers, hard-core super-shippers specifically speaking, are some of the most toxic fans I've ever encountered. Is it every one? No!! But most. Most. The most extreme ive heard/seen is horrific. I'm talking death threats, suicide baiting, doxing, constant harassment and just overall borderline cyberterrorism. It's fucking unacceptable. And the underlying theme here and why there's so much fear spreading throughout fandom spaces. Why someone felt the need to limit contact and come to someone they claimed to trust to anonymously admit they aren't frothing at the mouth for one of these aforementioned ships. (Thank u btw for feeling u could trust me) This is not okay!!! People have to see how wrong this is!!! Right?? Right?!

I have no idea how much people will respect all this considering the source: a 21 year old reader insert writer who dedicates most of her time to writing teenagers into the plot of stranger things with Will Byers as their love interest (yes, specifically fem presenting/ she/her pronoun users). So no, I wouldn't blame anyone for hearing me say the words "I'm not a big byler shipper" and assume it has anything to do with that. But I'd hope that anyone who knows me, or is at least willing to hear me out, will understand that I have stated many times (and likely will again cause im a ✨️repetitive bitch✨️) that when I was a teenager, I was going through the absolute worst years of my life. Like, it warmed me up the for 2020s, that's how bad it was for me. And the only thing that got me through (likely without falling into what I believe would have become some incredibly dangerous habits) was falling into a world I could completely disappear into and forget my own shitty world existed.

I found this series called The Maze Runner, fell absolutely in love with the books and the world and bought every copy I could get my hands on. And when that wasn't enough, I looked for every blogspace I could get my hands on. Enter tumblr. Not even five minutes into my new account and searching the maze runner tag do I find a short little story called an "x reader". I literally cried. I was so fucking alone cause, and I'll tell yall, in the span of 15 months, I put down my dog of 11 years, lost my great-grandmother, then my grandpa, then my great grandfather, and then my grandmother. I had reason to believe I would suddenly lose my best friend to depression, and then to top it off my parents got divorced. Granted things have definitely gotten brighter, but little 14 year old me was no where near a healthy state of mind, or body and stumbling across something that not only let me disappear from my collapsing world, but surrounded me in love and encouragement, no matter how corny or silly, by the characters I had fallen in love with was an indescribable experience. This. This is precisely why i write. If theres even a chance i can provide that for you, and God, in the 2020s of all time to be a teenager, than i want to. I want to pay it forward.

That being said, I'd also hope one would understand while things were on the mend, I wasn't fully recovered by the time stranger things came out and i decided to write for it. The grief and trauma was one thing but, another thing you guys might know about me if you've been following me for a while is in the past, I've struggled severely—and still do a great deal—with compulsory heterosexuality. And honestly, a little internalized homophobia I think. It's stuff I work on daily, and it's stuff, I'd be willing to bet, a lot more people deal with than you'd expect. It's for this reason, that I suspect hilariously enough, me a deeply closeted lesbian while planning an x (at the time fem!)reader rewrite for younger kids to escape into, was faced with the choice of a love interest and subconsciously chose one of the only semi-canonically gay male characters available. Yes, essentially, in my own comphet riddled brain, I subconsciously gave both the (fem)reader and Will Byers my own comphet.

But guess what? Characters evolve as the story evolves and that rings true for COSMIC. I wish I had stories back then that casually explored sexuality outside the confines of cisgender heterosexuality in a safe, fun, encouraging way. I also wish I had stories that led you down one story with one character only and suck you in only to change and evolve if needed to say, an opposite sex or nonbinary character as the new love interest and being able to do so cause the love interest was never THE PLOT in the first place. It certainly would have helped speed things along I think, and even if I wasn't its healthy to try things out/consider before saying, ya know I think this still feels right, I'm good! And that's okay!

I deeply deeply appreciate anyone who read this far. I completely understand how much i tend to blather and granted i didnt plan on going into the specifics of my childhood trauma but i felt it necessary info as to why on earth im preaching gay Will while i currently have a Will x fem!reader on my page (Again, dont worry. Im not about to disrespect/erase anything likely to come in s4, nor have is this is a sudden thing in COSMIC) and seemingly shitting on ships. Again, it's the over intense shippers, not the ships themselves and overall lack of byler content that failed to get my attention.

In conclusion, yes, I don't particularly ship Byler much like you dear nonnie, but anyone who automatically thinks that statement makes us homophobic really needs to take a step back and perhaps consider taking a break from public fandom space. If you as a byler OR mileven shipper feel confronted at every corner to a point you're jumping down others throats, you need to take a break from the internet. Draw your ship, write some fanfic if you still want to engage in fandom activities offline but take a break from the internet and prowling for any throat to jump down.

Blech. Rant over. I kinda accidentally combined it with the pre season 4 premiere disclaimer for Cosmic and how and why I have a will x reader with a fem reader copy and how that's going to be affected by s4 so that's prob why it's so long but I don't regret it. The point is, this is and always will be a safe space for fandom enjoyment and just hanging out and the last thing I want here is someone to be feel afraid or threatened in any way. I love you all so much and wish nothing but amazing things for you all. And thank you again, dear nonnie, for trusting me. It means a lot.

💕💕💕 - Yurtle

[finitefall]

you dont want to talk about things when you know its problematic. sorry but youre 30 and you just let ppl insult others for you? black stans all think aemond deserved it but you dont want to look bad so you let others do it for you.

I'm gonna answer very clearly to this, anon, both for you and anyone else thinking the same thing. I will not answer a second time, so take the time to read it, or don't, but if I get another message like this one, I'll delete it. So I suggest you do take the time to read it, and to understand it.

Point #1:

I do talk about things even when they're problematic, even when it comes to characters I love. But our definition of what's problematic is probably not the same, since for Greens stans I'm automatically someone who is problematic herself. I've never whitewashed my favorites characters or ships, and since you're talking about HOTD: I never said that because there's a right side, said side didn't do anything wrong. I even said Rhaenyra was a tyrant, because it's the truth and everyone who has read Fire & Blood knows what she's done during her reign. Just because she's one of my favorite ASOIAF characters doesn't mean I think she was a really nice person and a good queen. I guess that's why it bothers me when I see comparisons to Daenerys, even though they have parallels, because unlike Rhaenyra, Dany is a hero, not a tyrant.

Point #2:

Not all people who are team Blacks think Aemond deserved to lose an eye. Some people did say it, yes. Just like some people said that Luke deserved to die, or to have one eye removed too. But that doesn't mean all people who are team Greens think that, either, and I'm not gonna accuse every Alicent stan or everyone who loves Aemond to have been delighted to see Luke die. It's called common sense to realize that not all people, even those who agree on many things, do not share the same opinions and feelings on literally everything.

Point #3: I don't let anyone answer for me. I answered about a scene and doesn't feel the need to repeat myself or to talk about one scene to death. People who disagree with me are welcome to disagree, but there's no point in telling me again and again that I should have a different point of view. If we're not gonna agree, we're not gonna agree. Why should I argue with someone for I don't know how long about the same thing? So we can both end up losing our calm, be rude and insult each other? I'm not interested in doing this.

Point #4:

That being said, everyone has the right to comment my posts, add text and/or tags when reblogging them. I haven't seen someone saying something I don't agree with, but they also have the right to speak for themselves. If I don't agree with what someone is saying, I'm either letting it go because as I said, I'm done with this discussion about that scene, or if it's something I'm absolutely revolted by, I'll unfollow them (which didn't happen). So yes, you can assume that I agree with what's been said on the reblogs of my posts, even if I didn't confirm it.

Point #5:

Yes, I'm 30. And? If you look at most blogs around here, it's rare to find an age, or a name. I'm one of the people who say their name, their age, their nationality and their gender. I like that people who talk to me know how they can call me, know they can speak french if they want to, know they're not screwing up when they use she/her pronouns. I also added my age because I like people to know a little about me. Many people really want to be anonymous on tumblr, but it's not my case. The point is, you have absolutely no way of knowing the age of those other people you mention. They could be older than me for all we know. You seem to be under the impression that they're all children and I'm responsible for them, but I'm not their mother. This works the other way, too. When I reblog a post, what I say and how I tag it is my responsability.

Point #6:

This one is actually for my followers and those who reblogged my posts. I didn't read anything I do not agree with. It could have been the case, but unless I missed one (because I did read what you wrote), you can safely assume we're on the same page. You haven't done anything wrong, and it's not your fault if you're being compared to children or brainless people who just follow my unspoken order to go after others. You're being insulted too in this message, and it's not okay.

[bukojuiice]

the wedding booth  — eren jaeger

ೃ pairing: (eren jaeger x  fem! reader)

ೃ after being unwillingly dragged to plan and create a wedding booth for your first university festival, eren accompanies you to a bridal boutique. there, he contemplates about the future and all of the cheesy romantic stuff he wants to do with you.

ೃ genre and warnings: college au, lots and lots of fluff!

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My Big Fat Greek Wedding, My Best Friend's Wedding, The Wedding Planner, Wedding Crashers... hell, even Mamma Mia.

If having to be forced to watch these romantic comedies about weddings doesn't give you the sudden urge to get hitched and run away to some tropical island, then you don't know what will.

For your very first uni fair at Shigashina University, your friends had proposed a Marriage booth. To be more specific, three of your friends did. Jean, Sasha, and Connie are the masterminds behind this stupid idea and it's all because of three things:

1. Jean is pining over Mikasa so so bad. So many years have passed and yet he still hasn't found a way to confess. And so, due to his pompous ass binge-watching stupid rom-coms recently, he thinks that if "fake dating" can bring two people together, then having a fake wedding with his unrequited crush of 12 years could finally make her fall for him too. He wants the booth to be as iconic as a wedding straight out of Las Vegas. Problem is, he's never been to Las Vegas, and his terribly unrealistic basis for wanting it to be as iconic as a "Las Vegas Wedding" is that one scene from The Hangover and that episode from Friends.

He was delusional and yet, he wanted to push through with this proposal no matter what. Nothing was going to stop him... not unless it was one of the three seniors whom you would be proposing this project to in the first place.

2. Sasha's goals are much normal. A bit odd, but still normal and not as desperate as Jean's. All she wants is to get Ymir, the captain of the school's soccer team to confess to Historia, the freshman Bio-Chemistry student who works part-time as a library assistant (and whom everyone secretly fawns over for. she's just that damn cute.) However, the real reason as to why she helped [rp[pse this stupid marriage booth to get them to finally confess to each other is anyone's guess.

3. Connie thinks he's gonna get clout from this. Rise up the university hierarchy perhaps? He's treating the entire festival like it's high school all over again. He prays that the marriage booth will become the hottest thing in the festival, then he'll instantly become that cool and bad-ass freshie whom everyone wants to be friends with. Either way, if the booth is going to be a success or not, you know for a fact he's never going to be a part of the "cool kids" (good lord, can you believe people still use that term in college?) and he's gonna be stuck with you and your other friends for the rest of the years to come.

It didn't take long before they finally finished their elaborate PowerPoint Presentation (despite Connie insisting that Powerpoint is boring) that they were going to pitch to three of the principal members of the student council. Namely, Erwin Smith, Levi Ackerman, and Hange Zoe.

It was gonna be an automatic no for Levi, obviously. Nothing could ever get past that man. But if they can somehow convince Erwin and most especially Hange to get on board with their stupid scheme, then the booth was good to go.

Now, here you are, in a bridal boutique. Purchasing some simple wedding dresses that will serve as your rent-a-dress service for the Marriage booth.

It wasn't originally a part of the plan. Not at all.

However, Hange would only approve of the project IF the wedding booth was going to be made into something more elaborate and memorable. They didn't want something as simple as printing out fake marriage contracts, cheap tulle fabric wedding veils, fake plastic bouquets, and wedding pictures that came out of a polaroid camera.

Oh no no no. They wanted it to be extravagant. The cream of the crop. The absolute bomb. The best booth at the festival.

Hange saw potential in the idea and with an approved budget by the student council, you could make anyone's wedding dreams come true.

 Fast forward to a week before the event, you are currently on a shopping spree with Armin, Mikasa, and your boyfriend, Eren (because Sasha insisted he had the right proportions for the rental groom outfits. She totally did not ask him to come along so that he can see you try on wedding gowns.) to buy supplies, props, decorations, and everything else needed.

"(Y/N), we'll meet you and Eren at the bridal boutique, okay?" Armin proclaims, looking at the time on his wristwatch and struggling to balance the shopping bags on his other hand.  Mikasa notices how much he's been struggling and offers to hold the bags for him.

"Sure! Don't forget about the list that Jean sent!" You shout back, turning to Eren as his fingers interlace with yours, making your merry way to the boutique whilst Armin and Mikasa go off the other direction.

"Don't get too excited." You joke, nudging Eren on the arm. "I'll just be trying on these dresses for the booth."

There's a particular glimmer in Eren's emerald eyes, chuckling at your quip. "Sheesh. Did you really have to remind me? Of course I know that. Besides, we're too young to even think about marriage right now. What's important is that I'm spending the best years of my life with you."

"Eren Grisha Jaeger, it is too damn early for you to make me a blushing pile of mess with your flirty comebacks." You deadpan, the heat rising up your cheeks as you try to hide your embarrassment from him.

The both of you laugh it off, shuffling into the store. The chiming bells of the shop door echo around the area as you look in awe at the luxurious dresses occupying every available space. The wafting smell of a vanilla pinecone scent and the soft sound of a sewing machine doing its work. There was a homey and rustic feel to this boutique that made you feel like you were sent back in time.

From great flouncy pieces adorned in layers of lace that rolled like ocean waves to more humble designs, albeit of the finest cloth.

This plethora of finery- reminds you strongly of the many genteel ladies depicted in those books and historic romances you used to read and watch. Like that of Pride and Prejudice or Sense and Sensibility.

Having the opportunity to enter a boutique such as this was a dream.

"Welcome! May I help you find anything?" A seamstress appears from the register. She looks at you from head to toe, as if trying to guess your measurements.

"W-we're looking for wedding dresses. Anything within the 200 to 300 dollar range? We don't need anything extra fancy, though! We'll just be needing them-"

Her eyes shift from you to Eren like she's suddenly a love coach, sizing the two of you up. "Yes, yes, young love! How sweet!" She chirps, breathing out a dreamy sigh. "Of course! For couples on a tight budget, we have-"

"We're looking for wedding dresses that can be used as costumes! Not too short and not too long either. W-we're not getting married or anything." You dismiss the seamstress with a wave of your hand. "I'm sorry if you thought of it that way..."

Although her shoulders visibly drop, the saleswoman still manages to smile. "Oh! I would like to apologize for assuming anything too!"

"Actually, mam, we do have plans sometime in the future." Eren grins cheekily, pulling you close to him. "Not today, of course, but we'll make sure to drop by in a few years!"

The saleslady's eyes lit up at Eren's vow. "Over here are some of our best-selling pieces! Ones that will certainly attract the eye of any groom!" She beckons you over to some mannequins lined up in the middle of the store, your gaze is drawn to the myriad of dresses on display as you walk throughout the space.

You turn back to Eren, studying him closely as he walks a few paces behind you, you thoughtfully wonder if the dresses you would pick out would match his taste.

She leads you to the back of the store to show the other garments and dresses embroidered with simplicity and yet elegance. You then pick two gowns up from their respective racks, satisfied with your purchase and making a beeline to the register to pay. However, the seamstress stops you from your tracks.

"How about this one, dear?"

You turn your attention to her, doe-eyed and curious as to what she was going to show you next.

"It is indeed a wedding dress, although not what you had asked for, the handsome young man did say something about your marriage plans. Perhaps this might help you visualize it? Give you an idea for the future, hm?" She hums wistfully, drawing your attention to the mannequin she placed in front of you. "It would be a shame if you left the boutique without trying anything on."

"(Y/N)?" You hear Eren's husky voice call out for you from the front of the store, "Armin just texted me. They can't find a specific prop in the crafts store so we might have to wait a bit longer for them."

"Okay! We can spare more time in the boutique, anyways." You answer back,  before turning your attention to the seamstress once more.

"Alright. I think I'll try it on then."

"Trying it on" turned out to be more than you had imagined. You thought you could just slip inside the dress and show it off. But nope. You needed a few adjustments to dress, adornments in your hair, and had to wear a wedding veil.

It was almost as if you were actually preparing to be wed.

"Good sir, your lovely missus is ready!" Yup, even the words of the seamstress made you feel like you were living in the 17th century right now. Did she really have to use such fancy words?

"Please, watch your step." The seamstress takes your hand and leads you out of the dressing room and right towards—

Eren who had been waiting in the shop proper.

"Doesn't she look beautiful?" She giggles, glancing at Eren for a response. "Well, I'll leave the two of you here first and bring the dresses you've chosen to the cash register first." In a wink, she's gone and had disappeared into the back almost before the words left her mouth.

The unfamiliar yet elegant garb makes you feel shy and the fact that Eren was gaping at you did not help at all. He was absolutely entranced by your beauty.

You unconsciously lower your head, tucking a strand of hair beneath your ear, unable to bear the thought.

"God, you're not just beautiful. Y-you look breathtaking."

He says in a barely audible whisper, pulling you to him once more.

Placing his hands on your waist, Eren plants a soft, tender kiss on your chest, the low-cut dress affording it easily. In a heartbeat, you feel your cheeks grow hot.

"Heh. Guess I got you again." He grins wolfishly, still admiring your beauty and tracing circles on the back of your hand. "I-I don't deserve you... I really don't."

"If you didn't deserve me, would you be here right now?" You say jokingly, raising your eyebrow.

"I mean it." He buries his face on the hem of your dress, his voice is muffled and soothing. "I can't believe you chose to love me." He looks up at you, eyes practically welling up with tears. "God, I honestly can't believe I'm crying right now, but, yeah... I am. That's how much I love you and how much I want to marry you right now."

You giggle at the expression your boyfriend has shown before you, stroking his hair and burying your fingers into his long brunette locks. "I love you too. But... why so sudden? You already told the saleswoman that we'll be back in a few years. She'd be surprised to hear you change your mind so easily."

"Well, if that's the case, then I better tell Jean to have us first on the list of the wedding booth then. We worked our asses off for this, might as well be the first to be blessed with the luck of that stupid booth."

You giggle once more as he continues to hold you so close. You feel his breath and his heartbeat. Each exhale and pulse brings you to the realization that Eren is the one. The man you want to be with for the rest of your life. The man who will help you through all your faults and mistakes, your burdens and troubles, through all the ups and downs... he will be there.

Just as you will be for him.

Guess those stupid movies centered around weddings weren’t so bad after all

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[nightswithkookmin]

chile i'm so glad i came across your blog, the amount of "i'm not going to assume they're dating" or "we can only draw certain conclusions but i can't say for sure" "we don't know their sexuality, BUT" type blogs i follow is getting kinda wack lmao. while i appreciate their perspective and nuanced takes i need to strike a balance. like let's get a lil delulu every once in a while. 💀

lol the im-not-a-shipper-but-call-jikook-boyfriends-every-other-post blogs are the funniest to me. the shipping hierarchy, so to speak is so weird. maybe just because im not a "shipping real people is bad" person i don't see the big deal. gonna get called delulu anyway, might as well go full out. they is gay/queer and they're fucking. i'm so sorry.

*also can we touch on the fact that shipping in this type of fandom (kpop) is kind of inevitable and unavoidable??! these boys are the other people we see them with day in and day out, interacting with each other and no one else. i feel like it's natural to ship when there's no other people around to break up everything, idk maybe someone can articulate this better than me. and people who are made to feel stupid for thinking that 2 members could actually be dating is so dumb. like is it really out of the realm of possibility that two people (jikook, cause all them other ships are....😬) who spent almost every waking minute together for like 8 years could fall in love. really?

/rant

It's the delulu hat for me

Lmho.

I guess for me being queer, I feel it's gaslighting for these people to be saying things like that. As silly as it is, it inadvertently deny and invalidate the existence and queerness of gay individuals and so I struggle with it.

This is the consequences of straight people in gay people business. They like defining gay parameters for us and it's like who asked you?? I feel people who say things like that are just plain ignorant or tone deaf or willfully homophobic.

I don't think everyone in BTS is gay but it makes me feel safe to see half the community assume them to be and celebrate them in that way. They are not cussing at them and threatening to leave the fandom or cancel them for this assumption and that is huge inspiration to me.

Those parts of the fandom are a safe space to be in as a queer army.

When people assume a person's queer sexuality they are simply admitting to themselves at the very least that LGBTQ EXISTS. This is important to me because I grew up in a community where LGBTQ didn't even exist in the collective consciousness of the people and EVERYONE IS AUTOMATICALLY ASSUMED TO BE STRAIGHT AND EXPECTED TO BE.

People read people's sexuality all the time and have done so since time immemorial and a lot of the time when they have had a sexuality read it's in the lines of straight, cis, rich, poor, superior or inferior. And that is a problem for some of us too because that discrepancy in the assumptions is as a result of homophobia and heteronormativity.

That whole don't assume a person's queer sexuality debacle sounds to me like a boujee way of denormalizing and preventing the normalization of queerness disguised under care, disguised under intelligence and disguised under wokeness. Especially when straightness is the default setting in this giant blue bulb.

We need to radicalize that. We need to change the cis straight default setting and if you are perpetuating this narrative you really aren't helping the situation. SIT DOWN.

I'm rarely assumed to be queer in certain circles and while that makes me feel comfortable within those circles it often times make it hard for me to admit my queerness openly in those circles too because I fear I will lose that comfort and respect and love and privileges that comes with being percieved straight in those spaces.

When I started my blog, I noticed some people assumed I was white and would use certain black descriptors as slurs when describing other people to me. I quickly had to switch the formal way in which I wrote to a much casual tone so my blackness would show through. Don't get it twisted. She black. She blackidy black black.

Then on the other hand, I was hesitant to let my queerness be known too because being black, I was marginalized as it is- you is black, or sound black💀 you know how it is- it's that intersectionality of oppression at play. Double double homicide.

When certain people realized I was black POC minority, their attitude towards me changed. I had those who didn't so much understand what black language is or perhaps wasn't used to being in black spaces and were uncomfortable with my blackness- these would take offense at me saying certain things in certain ways. Like chilee relax Karen, all I said was these motherfukkers gay as shit and they gay. Why you acting like I called them twinks or sommin. Right there, I'm cancelled for calling Jikook motherfuckers. They get sirens and everything😭😭😭😭😭😭

Same vein, I struggle destraightening myself or correcting people who assume I'm straight because I fear they will treat me differently if they knew I wasn't.

Straight privilege exists in the same way as white or even pretty privilege may exist and because these exist there's that automatic conception of queer, poc, ugly, fat disemfranschismet to run along side it.

People treat you differently based on how they perceive you. That's a fact. And for queer people, perceiving us as straight is the only way we get to be treated as human by the masses. And a lot of us embrace that- straight until proven gay am I right 🤣🤣🤣🤣

It's the duper's delight for me. Untill you catch me with a 5'8 melanin skinned silk pressed auntie on my left nipple good luck proving I'm gay.

It can be fun, I akekeke when some people around me are totally oblivious to the fact and even sometimes defend my straightness with their dying breath when nasty friends throw them shades or try to out me unprovoked.

A lot of us don't want to admit we are gay because we don't want to be disenfranchised.

I speak for myself when I say this.

But 'Don't assume someone's sexuality' is a double edged censorship used for and against queer people. It seemly offers protection on the surface of it for queer people but underneath it promotes heteronormativity and standardizes straightness and it is also used to promote closet culture, under the disguise of care and concern for the autonomy of queer people but that is a fallacy because our autonomy has never mattered to anyone since the dawn of homophobia.

And I don't know where this interpretation comes from. Why do people not want to assume queer people's sexuality but it's ok to assume straight people's???

It feels like a hijacked movement to me.

THIS IS THE ACCURATE MOVEMENT AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED.

Don't assume all people are straight. It's ok to assume some people are queer because queer people exists too.

It is wrong however to assume queerness based on how a person talks, walks, dresses or even on their body type. That is stereotyping. And stereotyping is wrong.

When it comes to Jikook, Jimin is often stereotyped as gay more so than Jungkook because they have different body structures. Jungkook is stereotyped too solely because of the way his wrists hang, or based on moments he's femininity shines through.

But I don't think shippers stereotype Jikook in that way at all. I dont think shippers believe Jikook are dating eachother simply because Jungkook applied setting powder to his face that one time. They assume they are gay only because they believe those two to be dating eachother. That is not stereotyping. If those two were heterosexuals I don't think people will accuse their shippers of stereotyping.

It's one thing to assume Kai is gay because he looks skinny and dances well. It's another to assume he is gay because in a relationship with Gdragon. And if people can't tell the difference between the two, they should get some education and stop talking about things they know nothing about or only know because they stumbled across user69 on Twitter. They are not helping.

Untill people get offended when people assume others are straight, that rhetoric doesn't matter in its inequality. If you ask me, everyone is gay until proven straight.

Yet how many people will take offense at that?

Assuming people can be gay is not delulu.

It's ok to assume people can be gay. It's wrong to stereotype them as gay. If you can't assume they are gay, don't assume they are straight and don't assume at all. Run with this sis.

Wait, they don't ship Jikook but they call Jikook boyfriends???????👀👀👀👀👀

The fake woke syndrome will kill people in this fandom with these mentally confused thought crisis bunch💀💀💀💀

Jikook themselves are shippers💀

Smh

GOLDY