#i'm not a particularly big blog i'm not expecting this to get a response or any attention

[kinnbig]

I haven't really been posting about the Build & Poi situation for my own sanity, but I do want to talk, quickly, about a couple of things.

I’m posting this for a couple of reasons. Firstly, because despite having said very, very little about this whole thing, I know that I've been marked as an "anti" and added to blocklists of people who are supposedly “hostile”; not just towards Build but also towards other people on this site who they disagree with; and I wanted to clear that up a bit. Secondly, because when Poi first spoke up I made a few posts talking about it, but I’ve been relatively quiet since. I don’t want anyone to think that I’ve ‘gone silent’ on the issue now. 

I’m not a particularly big blog. I don’t have a huge number of followers. But the number of anons I’ve received about this situation and the things I’ve heard are being said about me are unprecedented and honestly really overwhelming, and so I just wanted to make sure I’d said what I wanted to say.

Firstly, regardless of my opinion on Build - I want to emphasise that I have never been hostile or aggressive towards anyone else in regards to this situation (or at all!). I haven't been involved in hate campaigns, in spreading misinformation, or in targeting or gossiping about or sending hate to "pro-Build" accounts or to Build himself.

When Poi first spoke up, I expressed disagreement with those whose initial reaction was to immediately jump to Build's defence and accuse her of lying. I posted that Poi deserved to be believed, regardless of anyone's individual dislike of her as a person. I also mentioned that I thought responses of "I told you so" from people who had always disliked Build were unhelpful.

I have never said anything about people who chose to refrain from making judgement, who wanted to wait for more information, or who didn't have anything to say at all. 

Although I had my personal views, I also had nothing but sympathy and understanding for people who couldn't or didn't want to make judgments right away. I had been a big fan of Build's, but I had never been a 'stan', and I completely recognised how much more painful and emotional it must have been for those who were bigger fans than I was.

My only “disagreement” was with those responding to a woman accusing a man they liked of abuse by attacking her, and with those who responded almost gleefully to abuse allegations because they proved them right (though again, I didn't reference or argue with or mention any individuals in either case).

But I know that this has been enough to have me considered a "hostile Build anti". I know that there are many different blocklists circulating, and multiple different accounts and group chats and servers where people are talking about and being nasty about me and the other people on these lists.

I don’t want to get into this too much (lest I actually earn my label as hostile!), but it’s frankly terrifying that all it took for me to be branded as aggressive was posting that I believed Poi and that I disagreed with people attacking her. I was horrified that people would immediately jump to defend a man accused of abuse (not just saying they were waiting for more information, but defending him and immediately insisting the accusations must be lies), and the idea that this was considered some kind of radical stance for me to take is just… disgusting, honestly. 

It really, really upset me. Even if rationally, I’m aware that of all the blocklists to be on, the "didn't immediately jump to the defence of a man accused of abuse" blocklists are probably some of the better ones - it’s really fucked with me to see so many people in this fandom, including people I cared about and considered friends, responding in this way. 

It’s also very frustrating to know that a lot of the blogs publicly purporting themselves as “neutral” are very much not neutral, and are involved in spreading this “anyone who believed Poi is a radical, aggressive Build anti” narrative. 

I’m not singling out any individual person or blocklist or anything here. I’ve heard about many. But since I know these lists and conversations exist, but not exactly what is being said and to whom, I did just want to clarify that.

Secondly, I’m seeing a lot of passive aggressive “the antis are being incredibly silent about this…” or “where are all the highly moral justice seeking kp fans now?!” posts, and so no one can accuse me of suddenly going silent about this, I also wanted to mention my actual current position on this situation.

I am still not supporting Build.

I want to be clear, though, that I am not "pro-Poi". I have never been a fan of hers, and so she has never been able to "lose" my support.

I don't know if she was also toxic, if she said or did XYZ, if this piece of this phone-call proves this or that. I don't know! Nobody outside the situation does!

But unless there is some kind of irrefutable proof that the text message screenshots Poi posted - where she sent Build photos of her bruises, Build told her he didn't regret giving her them, and that he wanted to kill her - are 100% fabricated, then I cannot and will not support him.

Regardless of whether or not Poi was also a bad person.

Additionally, even in the (incredibly unlikely, imo) event that these messages turn out to have been fabricated, I would stand by my initial response to the situation. I will not apologise for believing someone who speaks about abuse, and for disagreeing with the people that immediately accused her of lying. 

Because even if in this case it turns out to not be the truth - the next time someone comes forward about a celebrity, it will be. And the next time. And the next time. There will always be devoted stans of celebrities determined to pick apart women’s stories and insist that they’re lying - and 99% of the time, they will be attacking a victim to defend someone violent. 

Finally - I’m sad. I don’t know how else to say this. I’m really, really sad about this whole situation. This whole thing has been incredibly emotionally exhausting. Hearing about it is painful, talking about it is painful, it’s all fucking awful and I’m a mess, honestly. It’s a horrific situation in itself, and then on top of it all I’m devastated about losing friends over it, losing a community over it. 

I know that I can come across quite detached (I’m sure this post reads like an essay rather than a text post on tumblr.com) but it’s my way of coping with it and feeling in control about what I say and how I express my emotions. It doesn’t mean I’m actually clinically distant or cold or not emotional or anything. I just don’t know how else to talk about it.

And I am happy to talk about it - but I’m not going to respond to anons about this situation anymore. If you want to talk about this, please feel free to DM me or send me an ask off-anon. But this isn’t something I can talk about with people who aren’t willing to put their names to what they’re saying.

I hope that makes sense.

[soaps-mohawk]

I'm going to be honest

I'm having a genuinely hard time making this post. I've been fighting with it for a couple weeks now, but I think it's time I finally make it.

I'm not having fun on this blog anymore.

It sounds bad, but honestly, it kind of is.

I think a lot of it started from the very beginning with the precedence and expectations I put on myself. I've always tried to respond to every comment I get. Even from the beginning. It's just a polite thing to do since those who leave comments took the time to write out what they think of my fic, even if it's just a keysmash. I've always felt the need to thank those who leave comments or reblog my writing or (now that tumblr has it) replied to my fics. It worked fine before because none of my fics were particularly popular. Even my most popular fic (at that time) didn't get as much attention as CRCB has. I've never had a "big blog" before, nor a fic as popular as CRCB has gotten.

It was fine at first, responding to everyone, engaging with everyone. I was riding that high of omg so many people are reading and enjoying my fic! I've never had anything quite like this before.

Now...it just feels more like a chore. I set this precedence on this blog that I respond to everyone and I know a lot of people have said that they're surprised I responded to them and to everyone, and now I'm getting why a lot of writers don't. I'm exhausted. I feel like I've just been robotically saying the same thing over and over trying to respond to people now. I used to love seeing asks in my inbox and reblogs and replies but now? All I feel is dread because I have to respond to all of those.

Turning anon off was a big help. It lessened the sheer volume of asks I was getting a day. And while I do feel bad for all of my anons who prefer to stay anons, with everything that happened (the multiple incidents) with anon that kind of started to suck the joy out of everything. That paired with the obsessive need to constantly have my inbox cleared and make sure everyone gets a response...I can understand now too why big blogs will have 200+ asks in their inbox. It's hard and it's exhausting and I'm burning out.

First it was the fic that was burning me out. Things have gone on far longer than I planned and I just wasn't prepared for this fic to go on and for a while there it was dragging. I'll admit that. If I could go back, I'd speed up a few things, but it's done, it's posted there's no going back. I kind of hoped I would have the mental capacity to upload more than once a week too, but I just couldn't. I still can't.

I've come to dread posting chapters because I know I'm going to have to reply and respond to everyone. The only thing keeping me posting is the fact that we're in the part of the story I've been excited about since the beginning and also because I keep leaving everyone on cliffhangers and I love torturing y'all with all of them.

So that being said, this is in no way to shame anyone for interacting with me, anyone leaving comments or replies or sending asks. Don't feel bad about doing it please. I appreciate all of you that have engaged with me and it really means so much to me. Honestly, earlier this year, if I didn't have this fic and everyone on this blog, I might not have made it to now. It's been a really rough year and it's still going to be into next year. It's just getting to the point where I need a break.

I've needed a break for a long time. I thought taking days off the blog would help, and it did for a couple of weeks, but now even on the days I'm supposed to be on the blog and engaging, I just find myself queueing stuff up and just being offline most of the day still.

I'm tired. That's the best reason I can give. I'm tired and burned out on life and I'm tired and burned out on this blog.

So...I think I need a break. I need to not keep responding to every single reply and reblog every chapter. I need to not force myself to answer every ask right away, no matter how much I want to. I feel bad, but I know everyone would rather have me here and enjoying the blog than forcing myself to interact to the point where I'm dreading it and just robotically repeating myself over and over with every reply and answer and comment.

I won't be pausing the fic, I won't be not uploading. I'll still be posting chapters, I just might not be interacting as much as I have been. It's just putting such a mental strain on me still, even with anon off, even with days off. And with things getting busier for me, it's going to be too much to try and deal with irl stuff and write and try to be super active on the blog. There's going to come a point where I have to sacrifice the writing or the blog and I'd rather sacrifice the blog to keep myself sane, and also to keep trying to finally get this fic done. I love this fic, don't get me wrong, but I'm just burning out.

I'm already burned out in a lot of ways.

I was planning kinktober this year but honestly I'm considering not doing it because I know interaction is going to be insane and it's going to be a lot to keep up on. Plus trying to write that many fics is hard and I'm not sure I have the ability to do it. I have a few done but now I'm just like...is that something I want to do on top of irl stuff and CRCB.

There's just no joy in it anymore. It's not anyone's fault but mine. I put the pressure on myself, I held myself to that standard for this long despite the fact I knew it was draining me. I've tried to push through when I should have prioritized myself. I feel so guilty not responding to everyone. I feel so guilty being a day or two late responding to everyone.

I want to be here and interacting and responding to things but I just can't bring myself to anymore. It's no one's fault, and this is not a drag on anyone, or an attempt to make anyone feel bad or guilty for interacting or sending asks or anything. I'm just airing out the truth and saying what I need to say because I feel like I've been so robotic and lifeless with my responses these last couple weeks and I feel like I need to explain why. It's nothing anyone has done. It's my fault. It's 100% my fault.

Things have just gotten to be too much and it's my fault for forcing myself to be so active. The social battery has dropped into the negatives. I'm not a social person. I can only handle so much interaction and I've pushed so far beyond that, that things have gotten to this point. I want to be here and I want to have fun and I want to use this as an escape but I just don't feel that way about it anymore. It's a chore for me, a job, something I feel like I have to do and it's my fault that I feel that way. It's my own standards and expectations I set on myself, and my expectations on what I think my followers want and deserve and now I feel like I've gone on too long like this that I can't change things without hurting anyone's feelings. I don't want people to think I'm ignoring them in favor of others because I know there's writers out there that do that. They only respond to a certain group and ignore others that comment and reblog. I don't want to make anyone feel like I'm doing that to them and that's now led me to here.

I'm forcing it and I'm tired.

It's been hard these last few weeks. The life has just been draining and draining continuously. The joy and the love I have for this blog and my followers and the interactions and the fic. The last anon bullshit that happened was just kind of the last nail in the coffin so to speak. The straw that broke the camel's back. Things stopped being fun. It made me feel bad (and not in the guilty way, though that was a part of it) and I'm honestly just over it. I'm over the blog, I'm over interacting, I'm over life at this point. August is a hard month for me and every year it seems to get worse and worse. A lot of it is unrelated to anything online and I was going to make a post about it but honestly I just don't want to. Those that know, know. Those that don't...it doesn't matter.

I'm getting annoyed by the blog, I'm getting annoyed every time I look in my notifications and see an ask or a reply or a comment. I'm getting annoyed by some of my followers and that's not fair to you. Everyone always talks about how nice and kind and patient I am when I'm really not. I'm not the person I present myself to be on this blog, the way I mask myself so I can present myself as being a normal, kind human being. The mask is coming off because I'm so tired I can't keep it up anymore. It's happening here and it's happening in real life. I'm tired and I'm frustrated and I'm angry at a lot of things and the last thing I want is to start taking it out on my followers. You don't deserve that, especially when it's not your fault, it's nothing any of you have done. It's all me.

It's not you, it's me.

So for the sake of not burning this whole thing to the ground, I'm going to take a break. I'm not replying to everyone, I'm not responding to every reblog, I won't reply to every ask I get right away, if at all because sometimes I just don't have anything to say in response and I need to learn that's okay. It's nothing against you. It's not aimed at anyone specifically, I'm just trying to put myself first and stop things from escalating. I need a break and I'm going to do something selfish and I'm going to take it.

Don't apologize because it's not your fault. Don't apologize because you think you might have contributed to this because you didn't. It is no one's fault but my own.

I'm the one that needs to apologize to all of you because I've just not been myself because I've been forcing myself to be someone I'm not. I've been very unfair to a lot of people over the last seven months that this blog has been active and I've held a precedent that is not sustainable in the long run and made everyone believe that I was capable of maintaining that kind of interaction when I'm not.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry I've been putting everyone through this. I'm sorry I've been so detached and robotic and ingenuine. I'm sorry I led everyone to believe I'm someone I'm not. I'm sorry I've dragged this on this long that it's gotten to the point that I have to make this post.

I considered just disappearing but that wouldn't be fair to you either. I don't want to put you through that, so I'm pouring all of my thoughts out and making you read through this fucking novel of a post. If you've made it this far, then congrats I guess. Gold metals to you who bothered reading this far.

Anyway, all of that aside, I'll still be posting chapters. I'll have them scheduled and I'll probably come on and add links places to keep things current. I'll respond and reply and answer asks when I feel like it. You don't have to stop sending them, but just don't expect them to be responded to right away anymore. I'll probably still be here reblogging things I want and doing things when I feel like it.

I just need a few weeks to myself. Time I don't have to care about the blog at all and keeping up with it. Anon will remain off for the sake of keeping asshole trolls away, and also so I don't open tumblr and have 200 asks in my inbox after a week. Sorry to my anons but it's just the way it needs to be right now. Maybe once this break is over and I've dealt with irl stuff, I'll consider putting it back on. I just can't after everything I dealt with recently on anon.

It'll be the same on Ao3, for those that follow here and read there. Comments will probably sit for a while. They won't be answered right away anymore unless I get the energy to burn through them. Even then I won't try to answer them all at once like I did this last weekend.

I'll try to reblog something every day so y'all know I'm alright. I don't want y'all to panic and it's not fair to put you through that, especially those that might not see this or bother reading it. Those that follow simply for the fic and nothing else. I'm here, I'm just not...here.

This week's chapter is in the queue to be posted tomorrow as usual. Chapters will still come out as planned since I'm not stopping writing, just taking a break from the blog itself.

Thank you those of you who stuck through to the end here. I appreciate all of you so much. You have no idea. I'm sorry I let things get to this point and I'm sorry to anyone that I've gotten rude or snappy with because I couldn't be selfish and put myself first. I'm sorry to anyone that got a robotic, repeated response to something they were probably excited to share. I'm sorry I've been so unfair to everyone and I hope you can forgive me.

Take care and I'll talk to everyone when I have the energy to.

[votive-candle]

So I've been considering a rebrand on this blog for a long time for "professional" reasons... like changing my username, making an official portfolio with my name to it elsewhere, etc.

This idea has been mostly motivated by this deep insecurity I have surrounding what I would say is either NSFW work, suggestive art, "fangirl" energy, all that. And it's... frustrating, to say the least. And difficult express in a way that's coherent. Because my personal feelings are that art, even art that within the sphere of industry that I want to approach (ie. game art & story design, character writing and so on), should not have to be confined within this box of "sensibilities" that I'm told it should be.

If I was doing fine art like painting, or making installations, or sculpture, I get a sense that this puritanical ideology of self-censorship would not be expected of me. I also get a sense that if I was born male and lived as a man, there would be different industry expectations of me also. If I was a cis dude I don't think a game director would mind if I had a portfolio full to the brim with borderline naked, hypersexualised women and girls with big swords and huge racks (no shade, big boobs and big swords are fun and cool). But -- and again I don't have evidence of this, it's just a hunch -- I somehow get this idea that the way I approach drawing masculine figures? The way I write and express myself through, and speak about characters? The sexually explicit artwork I've drawn over the years, which majoritively does not even show genitalia? I get this gut feeling that this would be much less... palatable (?) in the industry for commercial, media focused art.

I've been drawing sexual content since I was a teen fangirl and I think it's really strange that somehow, as I get older and more mature (and I'm serious here, like really, let that sink in? I was told directly "you're not a kid anymore, potential employers won't like this" in response to shipping art an old tutor saw me post online a few years back?), it's considered in many ways less appropriate for me to produce explicit or sexually themed artwork. Particularly when that art has that air of "fangirl" (or "fan-person" in regards to myself) around it. Because "fangirls" aren't professional, are they? They're vapid, of course. They don't consume art meaningfully, not like strong, stoic men do. No, they just want their shipping and their coffeeshop AU's and their moodboards, and there's nothing creative in that, is there? No "professional practice" there.

I just find that... baffling

I'm speaking from the perspective of someone who is borderline asexual on that spectrum, and always has been. Somehow, professionalism is partly hinged on making your art less exploratory of adult themes, once you become an adult, once you're old enough to understand and properly illustrate the importance of adult themes. Isn't that strange to anyone else? Because to me it feels wrong.

Like I said, I'm borderline asexual. I don't draw sexual content to get my rocks off. I draw it because I find physical intimacy to be one of the most multifascited expressions of humanity between people. Sex and sexuality are so dynamic in their capacity for storytelling. With it (and safely so through fiction, if you're careful about it), you can express and explore so much; passion obviously, love, but also sadness and grief and condolence, malice and rage, heartbreak, self-destruction, self-improvement, excitement, fun, even just friendship.

Sex is beautifully dynamic from a humanistic standpoint. It shouldn't need to be considered this looming force of demonitisation, or an industry blockade. And I understand I have drawings that are too graphic, too NSFW to put in a professional portfolio, to leave online for employers to see. But I'm not even talking about smut here.

Majoritively, I really don't want to distance myself from a lot of this work I've created. It means something to me dude, because these characters and stories mean something to me. Sometimes the drawing itself is just... a technically well executed drawing. I don't want to revoke that because there's an implication of "ooh, someone's touching ass, breast and dick in there!"

Yet by expressing my excitement over that, I do feel cornered. Like I'll never get hired anywhere. Which isn't easy given the struggles I already have with disability, mental health, etc. So I feel a need to sort of give in and retcon a lot of my posts.

I don't like that finding work in the fields I'm interested in kind of hinges on a lack of self-expression, I suppose. I find it bitterly ironic since I want to work in creative fields. It feels like a betrayal of the self and of the purpose of art and good media for grown individuals.

But hey, I guess that's capitalism, baby.

This blog might change a bit in the near or semi-near future. Maybe a new username or profile pic, I'm not sure yet. Maybe a second blog will pop up somewhere. I just wanted to vent a bit on my disdain in having to make these decisions. Beg your pardon.

[pixelnrd]

hello! ive binged your blog this past week and have been so invested and impressed with how professionally everything has been done. I particularly liked the snippets of your 'process' you've hinted at in other asks. I havent been around since the beginning so i wanted to ask what inspired you to undertake such a large project! or, rather, did you expect it to be as big as it became? each generation has 70+ daily posts, their portrait headshots, family portraits... i love it! were you trying to build an audience when you started out? was it a covid project that you had time to build a huge queue for? i think ill be starting my own narrative simblr here soon and i'd love to hear your thoughts or advice about your journey with it, if any.

Hello and thank you for such a lovely message, it's so nice to receive feedback on the quality of my Decades Challenge because I do put so much effort in behind the scenes thanks to my agonising perfectionism!

As a project it has grown beyond what I thought it would be, to a point that I had to reign it back in in early-2022 because I couldn't keep up. I'll put more detail under the cut ✨

The Langstons started as a covid project in 2020. I was an unemployed student with a lot of time on my hands. I'd done legacies before and was pretty good at getting close to the end so that was the 'project', to do the Decades Challenge. And while looking for inspiration like cc and builds etc I found simblr and discovered people were posting their Decades Challenges here with narrative attached. By this stage I'd already played a fair bit into my Langston family (they had 4 kids by that point) so I decided to start posting my sims as well, which pushed me to put a bit more effort in with shots, story, editing etc because I had imposter syndrome. I didn't intend for there to be much narrative or story, and I think that's pretty obvious when reviewing the 1890s Langstons, but it started to grow as I was posting because I wanted to give my sim characters justifications for their life paths I was sending them on... and it all kind of took off from there, as a Decades Challenge story.

Covid over 2020 and 2021 in my country forced us into hard lockdowns, and over those 2 years I had heaps of spare time for home-based hobbies - so I just kept pushing myself to keep going with my Decades Challenge for something to do. I got really into creating storylines and costuming and wanting to do the project 'justice' because of how much effort was going in and how many generations I needed to cover to finish it. Then I stared doing lookbooks, creating portraits and character pages, and then making cc (which was a fun side project).

I wanted to build an audience at the start because I wanted to gauge whether anyone was as interested in my sims as I was in others', and when I stared getting feedback and responses to my posts it was very validating and flattering, so that spurred me to keep up. I never dreamed it would get the audience it has now! It's nice being told that something you are making is good. IRL at the time, I was pretty miserable - I graduated my Masters without a job, I was trying to conceive and failing, I was lonely due to covid and lost some of the best years of my 20s - but simblr made me happy and was a distraction from those hard things and so I really poured effort into the thing that brought me happiness.

2022 and 2023 forced me to pull back from my Decades Challenge project due to pregnancy and becomming a parent. It felt very natural to drop it at the time, but since finding my groove with parenting and my new life I still want to finish this project because it's been nearly 4(!) years of effort and I'd hate to leave it so close to the end. So that's why I'm still here - in a reduced capacity to what I was in 2020 and 2021 at my peak - trying to get it done. I don't post lookbooks or do cc anymore, because I just don't have the time anymore. But everyone is so encouraging, I have made some nice friends here and I'm constantly in awe of and inspired by the sims, content and stories others are creating. There is so much more potential for historical gameplay in the years since I started my Decades Challenge - farming! horses! infants! - and I hope that my project has inspired others to have a go! That's the best legacy I could hope to leave...

[chubs-deuce]

About what you and the other anon were talking about I don't think chaggie fan content isn't only from obligation and does come from a place of genuine love just like charlastor, even tho I don't ship it much myself the way i see a lot chaggie lovers talk about it/make art for it despite its poor writing is real love for the ship, both shippers really do care for their ships from my experience

You know what? You got me there. I phrased that very poorly.

I don't actually doubt the sincerity behind the fan creations for chaggie, though I definitely see why my wording could have insinuated that.

I think I'm just frustrated that chaggie got done so dirty in the show that now the fandom basically has to pick up the slack. That doesn't have to mean that they're not doing so with sincerity or passion, I'm just sad that they have to do it at all in order to have basically anything worthwhile and that sentiment is what I actually meant to express in response to that last ask ^^"

I mean-

ultimately so do we as non-canon ships, but we go into them fully aware that our pairings won't be catered to by canon at least? Like we expect nothing and thus celebrate any crumb we do somehow get, but as the established canon pairing it would bug me to no end to get little more than shallow scraps... Hell, it bugs me now and I'm not even particularly invested in chaggie, and I actually know a couple of Charlastor shippers I've talked to who wholly agree with me on this too - honestly, sometimes when we talk about this topic it almost feels like we care more about it than even chaggie shippers do lmao.

I do however acknowledge that there's definitely a big bias to consider from my end here, since chaggie just isn't the kind of ship that appeals to me with its smooth and unproblematic kind of domestic fluff to begin with, so it's easier for me to think about them as critically as I do.

Ultimately, if you enjoy chaggie as they are I'm genuinely happy for you and think nobody has the right to tell you what to like or dislike and I'd happily defend you if I see someone giving you shit over it!!!

I'm not trying to change anyone's minds here with my responses either, I'm just voicing my own thoughts on the matter since it was brought up to me on my own blog after all.

I also really appreciate having it pointed out to me when I phrased myself poorly, when my opinion is formed on an unfair assessment or I got something factually wrong (etc.) - so thank you for writing this ask and giving me the chance to rectify that! <3

I genuinely appreciate it :3

[celticcrossanon]

I am sorry but I am getting scared because of the things people have been saying about William and Kate. I should probably take time away from here now because I’m seriously overthinking things, particularly because of this one blog here who has been warning Wales fans of a coming storm.

But you know what I think? Charles is the problem and always has been. I don’t even think Harry is the problem. There seems to be a lot of accounts that now think both William and Harry are the problem and puts the blame for their behavior on their Spencer-ness. Yes, William and Harry are grown men now and should be held responsible, but the fact of the matter is they’ve both had problematic upbringing and had a traumatic experience. Instead of helping them, their father has only ever used them and thrown them under the bus. These people want to deflect the blame to Diana, but the truth is Charles played and plays a large part too. I see it clearly now, everything that’s happening right now is just an extension of the Charles and Diana war. Harry is just as much a victim of these circumstances. Charles used triangulation, yes. He tore the brothers and their wives apart. Charles really is the biggest problem in all of these. I don’t care anymore, I hope both brothers realize that their father is the real enemy and just work together to bring the house down. What are we even fighting for trying to keep the institution alive? Is it even a beacon of good that it needs to stand the test of time?

I am seriously anticipating something being revealed in the upcoming days because that blog has been warning us. I’m not looking forward to the monarchy ever being able to put up a facade of peace again. My rose-colored glasses are now off. Some people are even beginning to think that Beatrice might become Queen. I’d rather see the monarchy be abolished.

Hi Nonny,

I think that having a break from social media would be a good idea for you. Take some time off, do things you like, and don't follow or think about BRF stuff. We all need breaks to keep our sanity and our perspective.

As for the other things you mention, just because a blog says something does not mean it is going to happen (including this blog). The only storm I expect to see happening in the future is the big reveal that Lady C has been promising us, and even that may turn into a nothing burger. Otherwise, I just take it day by day. That gives me more than enough things to think about and comment upon.

I don't think that any one person is 'the problem' in the sense that of they were gone, everything will be rosy again. I think that what we are seeing is a lot of people with very different agendas trying to make their vision come true in the world, or at the very least hold space for the vision to manifest in the future. As not all visions can be true at the same time, there are power plays and clashing egos and manipulations and machinations all over the place. Right now we are in the storm. In time, like everything else, it will pass and we will be able to see what is standing at the end of it.

I like having a monarchy and a king as my head of state, so I want that to be preserved. I'm certainly not going to start tearing it down until the people of the UK have indicated that that is what they want. They are the ones with the most voice in the ongoing existence of the monarchy as far as I am concerned.

Monarchies don't have to be beacons of good. They just have to exist and function as a form of government together with the parliament. Expecting anything else of them is like expecting every president to be an angel of light and goodness, and we all know that is not the case.

It would take the deaths of King Charles, the Prince of Wales, his three children, Harry, his children, and Prince Andrew for Princess Beatrice to be in a position to inherit the throne. I can not see that happening in the future.

[altschmerzes]

yes yes yes it was O !!! I forgot to sign off in all my excitement !!!!

But I was catching up on your blog and ARE YOU OKAY? It sounds like you’ve been having a rough time of it recently and I’m really sorry to hear that :( sending you big massive giant humongous hug !!!!! If you ever need to vent or anything I’m about !!!!

Also I forgot to respond to your response to my other ask and I was reading the tags — pls never feel pressure to leave a comment on my fics, I don’t expect it at all!!! It is just SUCH a joy getting to share little bits and discuss with you <3

— O

i'm like!!! i wouldn't say i'm GOOD now but i'm Gonna Be okay. tuesday was absolute garbage nose to tail, until the episode lmao, and i didn't realize how much it was still affecting me yesterday too until i had kind of a 'maybe there's a reason the shitty sports game you're watching is like, legit upsetting you' moment. but yknow, it'll pass, and things will even out.

IT HELPS THAT AS I TYPE THIS MY TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS WENT UP 6-1 IN THEIR SECOND PLAYOFF GAME OF THE YEAR. whoof. okay. good. cool. i'm calm again. sorry for sports, this game is Happening A Lot.

anyways. ahem. it's been a bad week with some exceptions (went to an excellent mountain goats concert! did SURVIVE my finals!) and i keep getting stuck on how brutally unfair the whole. thing is, but bad weeks pass and yknow, i've had worse weeks and my survival rate for them so far is 100% which is encouraging.

and yeah of course re: commenting, it's something i WANT to do!! i enjoy leaving comments on things, particularly when i know the people who wrote them. it's hard to remember to find the time, or to find the time when i do remember, but i enjoy it and it's important to me!

[miscelunaaa]

Post it on your tumblr please I've read all the chapters here.

So um, yeah, I'm really sorry, but no. That's just above my emotional bandwidth right now. I already tried posting it here and I got nothing but cricket noises for two chapters and the fucking masterlist. I had a handful of really wonderful folks who'd read it and left comments on it on AO3 already give it some love here but like, no new readers that I could see otherwise doing more than just liking it on Tumblr or even ignoring that it existed. That doesn't tell me that they actually read any of it. That's fine. I'm not obligated to feedback. While the silence wasn't a complete surprise given how much interaction has tapered off for my writing since going on hiatus for a few months and then coming back, it was still rather jarring after how it took off on AO3?? I just really don't have the bandwidth to go through all of the hassle and stress of formatting my notes and warnings (of which there are many for this series) for Tumblr when it's accessible on AO3 if you've got an account. I simply don't have the energy to post it here, especially if it's not being read by anyone here.

To put this in perspective with how my day to day life has been going, not that anyone deserves more explanation for why I haven't been more expedient in posting or for why I've decided not to post it here:

I'm working my ass off getting underpaid to do freelance editing work as a day job and I'm struggling constantly with trying to make sure I maintain safe and sane boundaries around that sort of work for myself. I'm also taking on more responsibilities with an institution I'm involved with in a town nearby where I live. I care deeply about what they're trying to do and they need someone younger and able-bodied to do the shit I'm willing to do with/for them. I'm also adjusting to a new medication and it has singlehandedly slaughtered my sleep schedule over the past calendar week and I haven't been able to get more than six or seven hours of poor-quality sleep a night, if that. I'm averaging four. I live in the United States, where it is currently the Holiday Season. I belong to a high liturgical christian church for which Christmas is a major feast. I have large family I haven't seen all in one place in over two years and I'm traveling to visit them soon. Like, I'm sorry. Editing a fic I want to make sure comes out right when I post it just needs more time than I am currently able to give it this week, and probably even next week.

You can say that you've read it all here, and that's fine, but like, I've already talked about why I'm not posting it here any longer. You've read only two chapters here. I've talked about this fic a lot, I've dropped links to the damn thing AO3 constantly. It's in like four places at any given time on my blog. If this story is a big deal to you and you care about it, you've had plenty of opportunities to go read it on AO3. It's been posting there since July.

I wanted to be kinder than this, because I don't see the point in being short or critical with folks who just aren't with it for whatever reason. I'm not angry. You are, however, catching me at a particularly bad moment. I'm tired. I've had a spiraling, depressive episode working on me for 24 hours. I finally cried it out with my husband over the past two. If I extend kindness to a person by responding to a question most other writers would likely ignore, I do expect to at the very least have it returned.

I know you likely didn't mean for this to come off poorly, but let this be a lesson to you and anyone else reading that sometimes you just have exercise more care than this. You never know what's going on on the other side of the screen.

[aether-friskets]

❝They've come to witness the beginning.

The rebirth of paradise, despoiled by mankind.

Remember me, and your true self as well.

Also that which you must become.

The one who will lead us to paradise with blood stained hands.❞

Commissions Status: Open!

Hi there! I usually go by Frisk, or AEther, or Friskets, or AEther-Friskets if you really wanna be fancy. This is my personal blog for, well, whatever I feel like really

I'm a big horror fan, I usually post about my favourite games (Silent Hill is my main interest right now, but Undertale and Outlast are some common mainstays as well)

I've got some extra stuff under the cut, like sideblogs and tags that I usually use

SIDEBLOGS

@aether-friskarts -> my art blog, tho i still post my art here too. This one's mostly for if you wanna see my art but don't really care for the other random stuff lol

@bl00dstained-hands -> dedicated to cool art, music, screenshots, quotes, etc. that remind me of Heather Mason from Silent Hill 3.

@ask-heathermason -> ask/rp blog for a post-game Heather Mason from Silent Hill 3. More art-focused in my responses than the Frisk blog, but I'll probably still do written replies at times.

@frisk--official -> ask/rp blog for my interpretation of a post-pacifist Frisk from Undertale. Pretty quiet blog, but feel free to drop an ask. I may do art for answers, or just do a written response.

TAGLIST

I typically tag stuff with character names and game names, including the specific game if it's part of a series. Here's some particular tags you may be interested in, though.

#my art -> any drawings I've specifically made (also linked in my bio)

#op's art -> any drawings made by other people

#game screenshots -> screenshots, mine or otherwise (I also have "[game name] screenshots" for various series, ie. "silent hill screenshots")

#rambles -> me, well, rambling about whatever. don't expect anything high quality here lmao

#pretty photos -> photos I think are pretty, sometimes ones I've taken but usually not

#art ref -> art tips and stuff I'm saving to find later

#art inspo -> stuff by others that particularly inspires me and that I may use as inspiration for my own works

#analysis -> either myself or someone else's theories, in-depth thoughts, etc. on a game (will also include "my analysis"/"op's analysis" and "[game name] analysis" for further clarification)

#for me? -> tag for asks I get.

#headcanons -> something that pertains to my headcanons of something (sometimes a reblogged post that just fits into my own headcanons)

#character hcs -> specifically for headcanons about a character (will also include "[character name] hcs" and "[game name] hcs")

#lore/world hcs -> specifically for worldbuilding hcs (will include "[game name] hcs" and possibly "[character name] hcs", if applicable)

[onewomancitadel]

WOW. Incredible response. I havent read your fic yet but now I am seriously considering it. I walked into this blog thinking Jaune/Cinder was just some weird crack ship. I believed all the typical stuff I see you mention like "she 2 evul theres no way!" lol but as I continued reading I slowly started to realize that this ship made sense. A LOT of sense. Im still trying to overcome my "you cant date a villain" programming but your posts are peeling back the layers of my biases. Again, thank you.

(Context).

This is a lovely message, thank you! I'm very glad you enjoyed my response. Most of all, whether or not you agree with what I say here, I just hope you enjoy figuring things out on your own and come to your own conclusions.

The reason why I take issue with that idea of 'you can't date a villain' er, programming, as you say, is because I think it's an idea taken for granted that doesn't appreciate what an individual story be trying to say... and I think trying to unpack some of our assumptions about the way stories should work is interesting. I am a big fan of R/WBY, for instance, and I wonder what it is about my background that makes me different from others who really don't like, say - let's get polemic here - Penny or Ironwood's character arcs.

So, I think that if you come to your own conclusions and draw your own boundaries about what you're comfortable with in fiction and you still don't like villains, redemption arcs, or - anything, really - you are more than allowed to do that, and you certainly don't need my permission to do so to begin with.

On the other hand, I really appreciate you taking the time to read my blog and respectfully interact with me, even if we're not necessarily working on the same wavelength (or might be working towards that? lol), and I was (and am) more than happy to elaborate on my ideas - particularly when sometimes things that are obvious to me are not necessarily obvious to you. I can point you to posts that might be helpful (if I can find them) and tags, or I am happy to expand as well... I am actually very happy to interact with people, and getting a good anon is really fun to respond to.

The question of Jaune/Cinder as a rarepair as opposed to a crackship is something we've discussed before, and I've had an anon before say very recently to me that they believed the same thing:

Oh yeah, we have had the crackship vs. rarepair debate before (and somewhere back September last year I responded to an ask by redhoodhungergames about Knightfall as a rarepair but I can't find it), and the linguistic evolution of conflating rarepair with crackship meanwhile crackships nevertheless take on fandom precedence due to panfandom baggage (e.g. searching to insert the same archetypes irrespective of canon context and pairing them together even if wholesale inventing most of the characterisation).

So, that's rather interesting... once you see and don't just look...

Nyeheheheh.

Personally I feel on this level Jaune/Cinder works as a successful twist, which whether or not it's in everybody's personal favour, has strong motivation in favour for it. (Or, let's say that Knightfall being controversial might be a reason in favour for it).

Regarding my fic, you are welcome to read it ('it' being my longfic, but there are others on my profile... you may not want to get to those first though lol) but do spare me if you don't enjoy it. (; There's no pressure though, and really I just wanted to emphasise that I don't think of myself as a professional meta writer, and also that I genuinely struggled to intellectually articulate 'why' they ought to love each other... it's something very emotional to me.

Also, from what I've been told and the vibe I get from my readers, my fic doesn't exactly follow the form of other R/WBY fics, and that can be a good or a bad thing depending on individual taste. I'm not trying to make it sound more than it is, just if you have certain expectations, it might be affronting. I'm not trying to sound pretentious or anything or make it sound like more than it is, but why I'm wary about recommending my work at all is because a) it's intensely personal and b) I don't read other R/WBY fic and come from a literary background and really emphasise the mythic/fairytale/literary elements of R/WBY. So, what you see here about the way I talk about R/WBY canon definitely influences my writing.

I am definitely happy to expand on any more topics, I did link you the Knightfall masterpost and I can talk about other R/WBY ships if that would help.

Now, on a more specific point about Cinder being too evil: that's the really interesting part because Knightfall is linked to Cinder's redemption arc. So to understand Knightfall you need a coherent theory of redemption and redemption in R/WBY. I don't read this romance as happening independently of her redemption arc, so anything I say under my Cindemption tag is equally applicable to how one needs to view Knightfall. I enjoy the idea that Cinder's meant to be the Fall Maiden (redeeming our perspective of the power - as more than just a powerlevel - through her perspective), and Jaune's meant to finally help (and fall in love with) this Fall Maiden... just not the one you thought. It's bittersweet, but it ends on a hopeful note.

Knightfall is the thematic lynchpin to everything I think is valuable and interesting and at the heart of R/WBY, from Ozlem to the Maiden power to how the heroes will prevail and what it means to be heroic... it's one part of the picture, for sure, it's not the Jaune and Cinder Show, but I think that's part of what makes the ship really beautiful, the fact it's this essential connection against an epic backdrop.

I can never predict if something goes wrong in the story, but I do feel satisfied that things I thought were going to happen have happened in the show based on the way I intuited them... so they do have some sense of coherent storytelling and foreshadowing. The reason I bring up Penny and Ironwood is because I felt those story points were self-evident and flagged very effectively, and thematically justified... cue me logging onto Tumblr and seeing otherwise lol. So, I feel like I have some understanding of the show and why it does things the way it does, and that's why I feel taking other Jaune or Cinder ships for granted is terribly dangerous, because I've seen other things taken for granted - like Penny becoming a new main character and joining the cast and having Friendship Hijinks - that ended in a lot of intense personal pain for people. Similarly to them, though, I would never want to lead anybody astray (not that they did, but I am talking about some stuff that is very emotionally... touching, let's say), and so that's why I think coming to your own conclusion is necessary. And more fun. (:

It is very interesting to receive this ask because yes, I've had a few people say as much as you're saying, and what I'm personally wondering is how the show seeks to accomplish this (this potential change of opinion). As a Cinder fan for a long time, it's been interesting to see more sympathy for her after V8, for instance. I would say now is as good a time as any to be a Cinder fan, which is really saying something for how bad it used to be lol.

As I said, Knightfall would be a crazy twist (so would Cindemption for those who don't see it coming) and it would recontextualise their characters together... and to me I think really justify both of them lol. So there's a lot wrapped up in it that's really interesting.

Thanks again for your lovely ask and hope you have a good day. Thank you for your genuine interest and being so considerate! <3 <3

[sehodreamsthoughts]

lmaoo thank u baby i am completely normal though dw (no i am not)

also i didn’t wanna like double text but in response to what u posted about on ur main blog.. i’m glad ur not going to be tolerating hate, it pains me to see when ppl get shit on when they don’t deserve it whatsoever.. i was going to say in one of my previous messages too that entitled asks or anon hate almost always rub me the wrong way that the person sending them are a minor and if not, well they still shouldn’t be reading fics because that’s not appropriate behaviour… ik we’re writing n talking about some wild stuff but still… have some class.

i’ve been wanting to start my blog for a while but ppl are just so weird and/or judgmental on here (or in general irl) and so it just always deters me when i see ppl misbehaving lol… but i think if i did receive hate i would go about it as u do. block, and delete because i don’t want stuff like that preserved on my blog.. i understanding shaming ppl for their inappropriate asks but i think i would personally just not wanna give ppl a platform. i believe ppl send asks like that for attention too or because they get off on conflict.. weirdass behaviour.

so, long story short i support u and i’m so sorry u have received any negative asks at all because u don’t deserve that and ppl are awful, but u seem like a strong, smart person but still, u shouldn’t have to deal with that and i’m sorry that you’ve had to.

- 🥟 anon

"Strong smart person" baby I don't know about that since I'm totally a crybaby but thank you 😭🩷

To be honest when I just started my blog I did answer a couple of hate asks but then I was pretty weird out by them, like okay you don't like it then just block me???? And I totally think the same, the people sending useless hate asks are definitely kids or or people that get off to conflict, but my time (everyone's) is so precious I simply started ignoring and deleting. I don't particularly feel hurt by those messages since I know what I do doesn't hurt anyone in real life, I put tw and I'm careful to not trigger anyone so I feel I do enough for them 🤷‍♀️, if they don't want to read they don't have to, and if they do is not my problem at all so 🫏🫏🫏

I never blocked that much unless I really dislike the person, and I was honest when I said I didn't care who read my blog or not, but letting children do it is absolutely something I won't ever support, and blank blogs never were a big deal to me until I saw someone do a weird question in my comments that only could've been done by one so there's when I realized "oh, these could be underage..." and god, the idea of them reading my stuff just... No, it doesn't sit well with me at all 🤢

Thank you baby for supporting me tho 🩷, in the end I guess I also didn't care since I saw that there were other people like you that actually liked what I did so for me that was more than enough to just keep going.

Oh, and I still think you should make your blog but of course it's totally your own decision 😭, you should do what makes you feel comfortable in the end! In my case I started my blog just because I was bored and had done an Anton fic when the power was off in my district (third world country ✨), and then I just kept going??? 😭, I never gave it much thought to what having a blog would involve 💀. I've been a small blog for a long time, before at most I would receive one ask per week and talked to only one person in DMS (I still remember them even if they're not that much in Tumblr anymore). I never thought I would suddenly gain more followers one day? (Not like I have a million, but I appreciate the little I have) and even more I never expected to have met so many good people like my moots and my wife and anons like you that make me happy whenever I see my inbox, I guess I'm focused more on the positive side and that's also why I seem like kind of a pushover when I suggest you to have your blog but that's just me too so 😅👩‍🦯

[talkingpointsusa]

Rebel With A Far-Right Cause; Debunking the December 12th edition of the Ezra Levant Show

If you're an American you probably read that title and went "who?" however if you're a Canadian on the left you probably made a grimace of disgust.

So, who is Ezra Levant and why is he going to be a recurring character on this blog alongside more famous figures on the alt-right/alt-lite spectrum?

Ezra Levant is the founder of "Rebel News", a far right media outlet that is basically the Breitbart or InfoWars of Canada. And if you think that InfoWars comparison is a little extreme, keep in mind that Levant literally guest hosted for Alex Jones once. It is famous for platforming notorious alt-right figures like Faith Goldy (who was fired for attending the Charlottesville Rally, presumably in an attempt by Rebel to save face) and Proud Boys founder and known antisemite Gavin McInnes. Ezra's history with platforming antisemites is particularly odd considering that he himself is Jewish.

As a Canadian myself, I feel like I can't criticize all these American figures without addressing the people in my country, and who better than the one who is prominent enough in the alt-right to host for Alex Jones? So expect to see Ezra show up on the blog whenever something big happens in Canada.

So, let's get into it shall we?

00:00: "Hello my friends, I wanna take you through the CBC's latest hit job, a smear against Elon Musk."

OK, so the right is still in the middle of it's love affair with Elon Musk and it appears that sentiment carries on up here in the great white north. CBC is, for the uninitiated, basically Canada's answer to NPR and Ezra hates it. He acts like Justin Trudeau has complete editorial control over the CBC when in reality the CBC has been critical towards the prime minister in the past.

Anyway, carrying on.

00:08: "And it's so lame and it's so awful and it's done by one of the worst journalists in the entire Canadian Broadcasting Corporation who was recently chided by their own ombudsman for his lack of ethics."

Ok, the journalist in question here is Jonathan Montpetit. As for the ombudsman complaint, I read the document Ezra provided and it doesn't say what he thinks it says. This was in response to a person named James Sali who lodged a complaint with the CBC about an article that Montpetit did about the freedom convoy, here is the link to the document.

But in case you don't want to read all that, here is what the ombudsman said his final verdict was.

"The ultimate conclusion of my review, though, is that CBC’s article adhered to the appropriate standards. I found no violation of policy."

Some chiding. I get that Ezra doesn't think his audience will check sources, and they probably won't or else they would have stopped listening to Rebel Media, but for crying out loud at least make an effort to accurately report on what you are citing.

00:20: "I'll take you through it line by line"

Me with Ezra Levant today.

01:19: "You know, I'm on Twitter and TikTok on my phone and both track me through my phone. I'm the same person whatever I type, whatever I search for, whatever I read, whatever I say into my phone, both apps get the same information from me. So it's amazing to see the difference between what those two social media platforms serve up to me based on their algorithms. And I should tell you that there's about 100 times more raw antisemitism and anti-black racism on TikTok than there is on Twitter."

A): The source is "just trust me bro" B): Does Ezra not realize what a massive self-own admitting that the algorithms think that you're into antisemitism and anti-black racism is? I wonder why that is? Could it be that Ezra is a raging racist who employs people who hang out with Neo-Nazi's? I wonder.

02:10: "I can't tell you how many times Nazi war songs have been served up to me on TikTok."

Well, if it happens so often I will gladly invite Ezra to provide links to some of these antisemitic TikTok's since he sees them oh so often. Until then I'm going to just assume that this never happened.

02:35: "Sometimes I laugh when people publish ads. They take a screenshot of an ad that shows up on website they're watching about and they complain about that ad. Usually they'll say 'Oh these dating sites' 'all these sexually suggestive ads'. And it's funny because that person obviously doesn't realize that the ads served up on any given website are personalized, they're tailored to the individual user. So if you're getting ads to meet single women in your area it may be you, not the website you're on, you may have been Googling that."

Yeah, it's hilarious. I recently was listening to this guy named Ezra who was complaining about the algorithm showing him antisemitic TikTok's without realizing that maybe his racist beliefs and the alt-right crowd he hangs out with might have influenced that. Oh wait.

If you have ever wondered why Ezra Levant is such a laughingstock in Canada, this is why.

03:08: "But I promise you, as a Jew I am not searching for Nazi stuff or anti-black stuff on my phone."

Nice save, well not that nice but at least he acknowledged that his argument can be turned back around on him so easily.

03:58: "CBC's in house ombudsman, who usually just whitewashes the state broadcasters ethical lapses, was so grossed out by one CBC story that they actually chided their own reporter for smearing Trudeau's enemies as conspiracy theorists."

He actually said the opposite, quote:

"But I am telling you that it is only a theory. A theory that there is a conspiracy to make people dependent on government, and a theory that has not been proved. In other words, CBC was fully reasonable in referring to this as a conspiracy theory."

I have a theory and if it is true it shows how dumb Ezra and his cohorts over at Rebel Media are. What I think happened was that they found this report, read the complaint, and assumed that it was what the ombudsman was saying instead of the complainant.

I never thought it would happened, but it just did. Ezra Levant is officially the single worst journalist I have covered on this blog.

At least Tim Pool can kind of hide behind the veneer of just being a guy talking shit on YouTube and at least that time he misreported on a tweet he found on the internet could be generously viewed as Tim being misinformed by a poorly framed tweet and foolishly running with it. This is just pure laziness and not bothering to read the document that you are sourcing for your own article!

04:59: "We've got thousands, tens of thousands, of pro-Jihad extremists, most of them Muslim marching in our city streets."

So, kind of like how Matt Walsh thinks more about trans people than most trans people, Ezra Levant thinks more about Muslims than most Muslims.

I've said it before, the protestors aren't "pro-Jihad extremists" and I challenge any of these right wing talking heads to show me evidence that they are outside of isolated incidents.

This kind of rhetoric is exactly how an Islamophobic hate crime occurs and Ezra knows it!

05:36: "They're extremist gossip rebranded as investigations"

Ezra Levant accidentally describing Rebel Media.

06:21: "Yeah, it's not a conspiracy theory that the Canadian government wants us to eat bugs. They say they do and they're giving government grants of taxpayers money to a factory that produces insects as food, both for pets and for people."

What Ezra is talking about is a factory in London Ontario owned by Aspire Food Group, a company that produces cricket protein protein. The government invested $8.5 million into this factory and people on the far-right ran with it. Small bits of insect matter are put into food, for example, certain red dyes are insect-based. Nobody is forcing people to eat bugs, there is no proof that anybody is forcing people to eat bugs and according to Aspire only 10% of their factories resources are devoted to human consumption whereas the rest is devoted to pet consumption.

09:33: "The headline; Bell Media, Angus Reid and other Canadian brands halt ads on X amid extremism concerns. (Ezra reads this headline in a sarcastic voice)"

Yeah, that's a factual statement. Those companies did indeed withdraw advertising from X citing extremism concerns. I love how in EzraLand reporting on the facts is considered a "smear-campaign" if the facts don't make a guy you like look good.

Here's the article Ezra is complaining about.

10:38: "He sure goes after the Jews, which again is a Trudeau kind of move. You'll see in the story ahead he talks about 'Libs of TikTok' which is an account that basically just republishes some of the goofy things that liberals say. It's run by an Orthodox Jewish woman named Chaya Raichik."

Being Jewish does not isolate you from criticism in the same way that belonging to any group does not isolate you from criticism. Chaya Raichik has made a career out of arranging targeted harassment of LGBTQ+ people, some of which has led to bomb threats of hospitals providing gender affirming care. If Chaya was a Muslim, Christian, or Atheist, I would find her disgusting all the same.

Also Ezra leaves out the part where Montpetit calls out Richard Spencer, a noted antisemite, for his antisemitic rhetoric. Quote;

"Ads for Montreal's Major League Soccer team, CF Montréal, and for the Jewish advocacy group B'nai Brith Canada appeared in the feed of Richard Spencer, a well-known white nationalist who helped lead a march in 2017 where followers chanted "Jews will not replace us."

11:25: "This was not an investigation by Jonathan Montpetit, that's not the essence of this story. This was Jonathan Montpetit using his CBC letterhead to contact advertisers and basically, in the guise of interviewing them actually threaten them."

Citation needed. Also I doubt that this massive corporations and organizations would feel so threatened by one guy from the CBC that they would pull advertising from a major social media platform.

Also, Montpetit was reporting on the advertisers pulling out and the requests for comment were probably reaching out for comments about why they pulled out. What would he have wanted them to do in this situation Ezra is proposing? Pull out more?!

12:08: "Pressing an advertiser with false information ginned up by the CBC which is a competitor to Twitter."

What?! I had to rewind that twice to make sure I was hearing that correctly. In what world is a news organization a competitor to a social media platform?! That's so dumb it's almost hilarious. To put it into perspective, that's like if I said Toyota was a competitor to McDonald's.

I know I said this in the Tim Pool episode and I'll probably say it again in the next episode but this is the most embarrassing news show I have ever seen.

12:48: "Look at the caption on the photo there. 'X, formerly known as Twitter, amid the unchecked rise in hateful content.' Is that true? Has there been an unchecked rise in hateful content? Is there any source for that information? In fact it's the opposite, Elon Musk has shown that the number of hateful or bigoted or antisemitic tweets has declined."

Elon stated that in a tweet without providing any proof. Again, "Just trust me bro" isn't a legitimate source. I love how Ezra is asking for sources that there has been a rise in antisemitic content, which by the way here's one, yet doesn't provide a source that shows that antisemitic content has declined.

13:29: "The fact is that Twitter has far less hateful content than the other platforms, especially TikTok which for some reason the CBC itself continues to use."

Hey Ezra, didn't you just say that you use TikTok and use it regularly enough for the algorithm to know your tastes and for you to have seen countless antisemitic videos? So which is it? Is using TikTok such a moral sin due to these antisemitic videos that you still haven't cited or are you allowed to regularly use it?

13:53: "And again and again in this piece they call Elon Musk an antisemite, you can see here, 'Elon Musk's seeming endorsement of antisemitic and other far right conspiracy theories.' but they don't actually name one."

Then I will! Elon Musk endorsed a tweet that Jewish people have “have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.” as "the actual truth".

Also what happened to going through this article line by line?

15:27: "So who is the Tech Transparency Project? A watchdog group. And I did my own investigative journalism using a machine called Google and in less than 30 seconds I found their website and I found their about us page for who pays for them, and George Soros pays for them."

An organization founded by Soros funding the Tech Transparency Project, which was cited in the article that Ezra is talking about, doesn't change the antisemitic remarks that Elon has made and him reinstating known far-right figures like Alex Jones and Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin.

18:43: "They're gonna call him an investigative reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation but there really isn't any Canadian content here at all is there?"

There's this thing called international news you see....

Also, it's reporting on Canadian advertisers leaving X. That is your Canadian content.

18:51: "They're citing foreign experts, and foreign donors, and foreign websites, about foreign companies like Samsung."

I love how he's just casually ignoring the mentions of CF Montreal, Bell, Pathway's Alliance, and others.

20:11: "It's a bit weird for the CBC and their hate journalist Jonathan Montpetit to be on Twitter telling other companies to get off Twitter, it's almost as if they don't mean it."

It's a bit weird for Ezra Levant to be on TikTok despite his claims that it is a deeply antisemitic platform, it's almost as if he doesn't mean it.

Ezra rants more about the article but it's just stuff we have addressed like the ombudsman thing and his bizarre crusade about TikTok. His next segment is on the climate conference.

26:59: "Hey welcome back. Well, the UN framework commission on Climate Change if I've got that right, that's a fancy way of saying the UN Global Warming Conference, is wrapping up in Dubai."

We already talked about this when Matt Walsh made this argument but global warming refers to the Earth's overall temperature going up, cold weather is weather as opposed to climate. Also, I didn't touch on this before but the notion that the term climate change was made up to save face is untrue. The term climate change has been used for years. It had roots in the 1950's and was being actively used in the 1980's.

Since he needs to talk about climate change even further, he decides to interview Marc Morano. Before the interview begins, let's talk about who Marc Morano is. Marc Morano runs the website climatedepot.com which itself is run by a right-wing think tank called Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow. As is the case with most of these climate denier types, you can find oil money behind him. CFACT is funded by Exxonmobile and Chevron, conflict of interest much? Marc will be labeled as "MM" and Ezra will be labeled as EL to avoid confusion.

A lot of the early stuff in the interview is unimportant, just talking about how nice Dubai is without acknowledging that a lot of it was built using slave labor. It is kind of funny to hear Ezra Levant, the guy who once went on an entire crusade to "prove" that the Quebec mosque shooter was Muslim (he wasn't), talk about how great a city that is primarily Muslim is when someone else is in the room.

33:50: MM; "The UN Scientists admitted it, it was in the ClimateGate emails Ezra. They said it was pulled from thin air."

The ClimateGate emails didn't say they "pulled it from thin air". Where the controversy came from was the accusations that scientists manipulated data to support findings about climate change. Investigations have been done showing that these emails were misrepresented.

I'm fairly certain the email he is talking about is this one;

‘I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.’

On it's surface it sounds like this scientist was fiddling with the data, however that is ignoring the broader context.

The Mike that this scientist was referring to was a professor by the name of Michael Mann. The trick was combining records of temperatures measured by thermometer and estimates that they made with tree rings. It's absolute nothingness and that's why nobody talks about it anymore except for hardcore climate deniers like Marc and Ezra.

34:58: MM; "Even if you look at LGDPQ (Marc's words, not mine) marriage. You know people will say 'Oh, it's a repressive Muslim dictatorship'. Even that, even the worst critics have nothing to say."

Being gay is punishable by death in the UAE. There are underground gay scenes in Dubai but the UAE has a long history of persecuting LGBTQ people. For example, in December of 2013 two transgender women who were visiting Dubai from Brazil were detained by the Dubai Police for "imitating women" (Which is transphobic language which mirrors some of the guys we have covered on this blog like Matt Walsh) and had their passports confiscated, effectively trapping them in the country, until they were deported in March of 2014 (but not before being made to pay a $2,722 fine).

Essentially, Marc's claim that there is nothing bad to say about the UAE's treatment of LGBTQ people is completely false.

37:29: MM; "It opened with a call to phase out all new coal production. This was endorsed by Al Gore, by John Kerry, and this was pretty frightening because coal is the most strategic of all the energy sources. The United States of course is the Saudi Arabia of coal. You have your own domestic supply that doesn't require any kind of importing and begging hostile regimes and even friendly neighbors for any of your energy."

This argument completely ignores that renewable energy sources like solar, wind, geothermal, and hydro exist. You don't have to beg hostile regimes or friendly neighbors for the wind or the ocean.

38:20: MM; "What is the UN Climate Fund? It is literally the United Nations picking the poorest nations leaders, dictators in some cases, who are best able to keep their citizens locked in poverty."

There are some concerns with the UN Climate Fund being used for corrupt purposes. However, the UN has checks and balances to ensure that this does not happen. The countries that are receiving the funds have to disclose what they are doing with them.

Think about it this way, would it make sense for the UN to just give away money without some form of oversight?

41:56: MM; "The UK Guardian a few days ago had an exclusive article of the United Nations IPCC scientists now wanting, instead of being in an advisory role like they've been since 1988 when the panel was formed, they want the power to implement policy."

Despite them not linking this article in true journalistic fashion, I found it and read it. Here it is.

The scientists weren't talking about making actual policy, they were talking about making policy prescriptions, namely suggestions. Quote;

"Yamina Saheb, the lead author of a chapter in AR6, said: “I would like to see a situation where scientists make recommendations and then you track them. You ask governments to sign off on what they will do and then you evaluate how much progress they have made.”

So recommendations and prescriptions, not actual set in stone policy.

The next little bit is Ezra explaining that Rebel Media didn't have press credentials for the climate conference. Then he asks about if there are "good guys" in the conference, Marc replies Saudi Arabia. Interview ends after that. Then the show starts up again for it's last stretch. He comes back on to complain about CBC and then reads letters to the editor, irrelevant. He then talks about how great Alex Jones being reinstated is, again irrelevant. The show ends.

Conclusion;

Well, that was Rebel News and Ezra Levant. So, what did I think of my first ever experience digging into Ezra Levant? Well, he seems to think that Canada is under dictatorial rule despite us being a democracy and he does some pretty godawful journalistic moves like not reading the things he is allegedly trying to cover. Really bad stuff. Might cover that time he guest hosted on InfoWars soon.

Also, since Ezra Levant has a habit of suing his critics, I would like to state that under Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms I am exercising my right of freedom of expression in criticizing a media figure.

Cheers and I'll see you all in the next one.

[foxingpeculiar]

FF16 Blogging: I have reached the point where I have returned to the Hideaway from Kostnice in 878. And yeah, there are some spoilers in this one.

So, I had a version of this post saved to my drafts... or so, I thought, but now it's gone. So this is me having had a couple days to reflect on the whole situation.

And okay. My patience was starting to get a little tried by this game. Like, by the time I'm searching for a missing courtesan and, yep, she and her stalker are both dead, I was kind of feeling like "the whole time we've been in 873, it's been about how much everything just sucks. When are we going to DO something about it?" Isabella's cool, I guess, but the whole way to Oriflamme just leaves a bad taste in one's mouth--particularly that sidequest with the noble and his son murdering people for sport. It feels like you're being beat over the head with the grimdark and it almost stops being fun.

But then you go to Drake's Head, and you get the whole "Hey, this is a story moment that's gonna fuck shit up. Are you sure?" dialogue warning. And it's kind of a relief, like... okay game, finally. Whaddya got?

But goddamn if it didn't deliver.

Okay, so first--up until this point, Cid has been the most engaging character. They've given him all the witty lines and bits of wisdom--you're clearly meant to have an emotional attachment to him, more so than pretty much anyone else, even Clive himself. Because they're going to use that against you, make you really feel it. This is the Aerith moment, where they're really trying to punch you in the feels with the loss. And I felt like they pulled it off pretty well. It got to me; I didn't expect it and was briefly quite upset.

Having sat with the emotion of it, though, I now have several questions.

One: Okay, so like... Ultima is clearly the Big Bad here. It's the quintessential FF villain: eerily soft-spoken, intimidatingly powerful and otherworldly, vaguely unsettling. But 1) What is it, exactly? I mean, it seems pretty obviously to be an Eikon, but what actually are Eikons, though? And 2) how did Cid recognize it? And what makes Clive so special that he's the perfect vessel or whatever?

Two: Does Clive know Joshua is alive now? And what, exactly, happened to Joshua, that he has the knowledge that he does? What was that ancestral magic that he was invoking, that allowed him to stand toe-to-toe with Ultima? Did he forcefully take in Ultima? Like is he the Ultima Dominant now? Is that what that was? Am I going to have to kill the brother I thought I failed to protect but was actually alive in order to defeat some greater, existential evil? That feels.... I dunno... so like, Greek-tragedy over-the-top that it seems kinda possible.

Three: What's happening with Jill? Like, to gain the Ramuh powers, Cid had to die. It seems logical to assume Clive is going to absorb Shiva at some point as well, so does that mean Jill is gonna die? I want the game to do right by her. Cos like, first she was the Archduke's ward--essentially a piece of property, taken to establish dominance. Then she was a slave of the Iron Islands: "do what we want or we'll make your people suffer," and she's someone who has that responsibility bred into her, so she had no choice. And now she's basically Clive's sidekick--he's "Cid" (the man, the myth, the legend) and she's just... there. I really hope she gets her own story at some point. Something she does that's just hers. I will be disappointed in this game if it doesn't give me that.

I do appreciate, though, the acknowledgment of the difficulty of the struggle. Like in the face of Kupka's war-of-attrition, the Bearers hate Clive for making their life harder. Doubt feels very appropriate for this stage in the game. According to the PS5 stats thing, I'm about 41% through the game, so I'm curious to watch that get turned around.

I'm also really curious to meet Joshua's attendant. Cos the last time we saw him was without her, which means she's out there somewhere. That woman's gonna have some interesting shit to say.

My only stray thought this time was Cid saying something like "what was that nickname? Cid the Vicious?" And like.... I see what you did there. Sid Vicious. You cheeky fuckers.

Anyway, now we're in the shit, so okay. What's 33 y/o Clive gonna do?

[frevandrest]

Hi! I found your blog these days and your posts REALLY got me into the french revolution and Robespierre. I'm sorry in advance if you already spoke about this subject (maybe you could link me your post?) but now I have a big doubt. One article on history.com says exactly this, about Robespierre: "[...] Robespierre encouraged the execution, mostly by guillotine, of more than....".

Is this true, by any means? Was he... this cruel? Did he support it? It's silly and I feel dumb asking this, but media portray him in a rather mystic, often cruel amd unforgiving, light. As if he's the heart of all evil.

Oh anon, thank you! It is not a false humility when I say that I never expected my blog to introduce people to frev!  As for your question... eeh. When it comes to Robespierre, it is important to keep two things in mind: 1. Thermidorian reaction. There was a conspiracy against Robespierre made by his opponents (typically those more responsible of killings), which resulted in his death. After the death of Robespierre and his supporters, Thermidorians built a smear campaign that is still alive today about Robespierre the powerful tyrant. In some cases, they insisted that he “made them do it” (even when there is proof that he actively tried to stop it), while in others, they pinned their own misdoings on Robespierre. (In addition to making up over the top accusations such as that Robespierre wanted to marry Louis XVI’s daughter and become the king of France.) Please note that this is not a theory or an interpretation, but a historical fact - many of them admitted that they lied about it (or their words were proven to be lies). 

2. Modern Anglo (Western?) ideas about totalitarian regimes (such as Hitler or Stalin) get retroactively applied to Robespierre and frev. This is an extremely popular view, particularly by those who wish to demonstrate how doing a revolution/change always results in horrible atrocities (worse than the oppression that started it), but it is not a correct way to describe Robespierre (if nothing else, because he did not have that sort of control over France or what was going on).  Because of these, it is difficult to get any “neutralish” explanation of Robespierre or what was going on, particularly in Anglo sources. (”Neutralish” is a bad word; “non-biased” could be better, but I don’t believe it is ever possible not to be biased. What I’m trying to say is that it is difficult - though not impossible - to find accounts that are not influenced by #1 and/or #2 above). 

Is this true, by any means? Was he... this cruel? Did he support it? It's silly and I feel dumb asking this, but media portray him in a rather mystic, often cruel amd unforgiving, light. As if he's the heart of all evil.

I am not sure what the source you mentioned says exactly. It is a historical fact that Robespierre took an important part in the politics of this period, including actions that resulted in people being arrested and/or guillotined. It is also a historical fact that what happened was not a result of a single person (or a single “regime”, to use an anachronistic term). France at the time was at war with a good part of Europe (a fact that is not mentioned nor highlighted enough) + counter-revolutionary efforts from within France itself (which, if someone is anti-revolution might be seen as justified, but not if you want to save the revolution). The entire revolutionary government took measures to save the country and the revolution. We can discuss whether these measures were (always? generally?) justified or effective, or - what I am particularly interested in - what would the alternative be, but this was definitely not something that was only about Robespierre.  

@montagnarde1793 has an excellent rundown of the Terror and violence and the way it is perceived (but I cannot find it now). @montagnarde1793​ ?

What is important to understand is that Robespierre was not a totalitarian dictator who controlled France and what was going on. He was also not the most radical/extreme option (in fact, some of those were his direct political opponents). It is another historical fact that he was against many (though not all) of the extreme stuff that was done, but he was not listened when he tried to speak/intervene against it (because he was not the ever-powerful factor who decided everything, as he is often portrayed). A lot of what we know about the man is a result of a smear campaign done after his death (see #1 above).

Here are some reading recommendations from people who are more knowledgeable about Robespierre (and what is written about him):

https://bunniesandbeheadings.tumblr.com/post/176777600490/hi-could-u-please-rec-a-good-biography-of

See also: The Invention of Terror  and Robespierre’s “Black Legend” 

[zevexsii]

i love your blog! i started playing idv recently and i'm in love with your writing! know that you have an avid supporter of your blog 🥰 and i would like to see more of Andrew’s little things because i need my boy’s stuff😔

awww! thank you nonnie!

i have some more ideas for andrew, i know this bit plays heavily on his behavior and what goes on in his head, but i think those are important things to start out with, i’m sorry if those parts are dense and/or hard to read.

misc. andrew kreiss headcanons || cut for length

andrew is... a lot to unpack (loving). he’s an asocial, anxious, coarse man, with an inferiority complex complemented by years of intense religious trauma, with a side order of mommy and (lack of?) daddy issues. 

most of his interactions with survivors and hunters alike are very tense and rocky, andrew’s emotions being an unpredictable swing between bending over backward to prove his usefulness or snapping when required to respond in an overly aggressive manner. 

considering the time range that the manor survivors are from, andrew would probably receive some disparaging comments and microaggressions due to his albinism- the manor is already an unsafe place. The expected response from its inhabitants is even more triggering for andrew’s poor self-esteem. 

any sort of friendship or half-honest relationship is incredibly rare, and will only happen by circumstance, or if you approach andrew in just the right way, even platonically. especially platonically. andrew is deeply immersed in the narrative of his own monstrosity, maintaining and constantly feeding into the belief that he is positively unlovable and any kindness shown to him is an attempt to use him or some subconscious pity response. pity is the last thing that andrew kreiss wants from people. 

not only are those infantilizing words blatantly insulting, but andrew’s inferiority complex is tipped off by nearly anything, so even kind statements can be perceived as disparaging jabs or send andrew into a guilt-ridden spiral, thinking that he’s tricked the other party into seeing him as something other than himself. 

now for a little break from the psychoanalyzing lmao

andrew is super illiterate. he was never given any formal education, though his mother did her best to teach him the basics of the alphabet before she passed away. since he worked closely with the church and the bible would’ve been one of the most readily available pieces of literature, it’s expected that he knows a plethora of bible verses, but they’re mainly memorized. 

poor guy has really bad blood circulation, so he’s cold all of the time- another reason for the cassock and patched-up coat he’s always wearing. this isn’t due to his albinism, mainly just because of how tall he is. i headcanon that he’s at least 188cm when his shoulders are hunched, which is pretty much always, and stands at a whopping 195cm when he straightens out. 

now, as for his interactions with the people he trusts the most (still, there’s barely any trust there), andrew is flaky at best. it’s not his fault; his primary defense mechanisms include obscene amounts of self-isolation and some behavior that could be low-key considered emotional manipulation; mainly unintentional guilt-tripping. in particularly overwhelming situations, andrew tends to mutter to himself about any assortment of topics, always in a low, frantic tone, whether he’s discussing his own unworthiness or cursing out someone else. 

contrasting heavily with the media he’s been exposed to, andrew curses quite a lot. he’s not super bad about it, but it’s part of his image that he has to maintain for his own perceived sense of safety. however, if you use the “lord’s” name in vain around him, you’re going to get at least an eye roll or a nasty look shot your way. andrew doesn’t go out of his way to fight or correct people he disagrees with, but he definitely finds ways to passive-aggressively make his opinions known. 

andrew quite enjoys gardening, specifically orchids and irises. back at Lutz Graveyard, he had his own little plot outside of the cemetery walls. 

i headcanon that andrew’s family is german, so, adding a german accent and the occasional foreign phrase, he’d be relatively difficult to understand if you’re not paying attention. not to mention andrew’s mumbl-y speech patterns.

andrew has a surprising sweet tooth! although, he does hold indulging himself in such activities to be a bit of a shameful activity. he favors raspberry pastries or any time of glazed item- cake doughnuts are his weakness. also a big fan of hard candies! he still has some vague memories of sharing small caramels with his mother as a young boy; hence, he keeps it as one of his nostalgic favorites. 

really likes art. he’s always been around artistic depictions of his faith, and, lacking the vocabulary to express himself otherwise, andrew picked up whatever he could and scribbled things out. small pieces of smudged paper (andrew is left-handed), ripped and torn around the edges, can be found around seldom-visited corners of the manor, scrawled over with graphite and ink.  

also tagging @rintares because of their andrew fixation /pos

[remythologise]

Hello! I found your blog via you amazingly summarizing all that's going on with the spn drama. Due to my schedules, rl stuff, some of the arcs that didn't vibe with me, my availability to find a place to watch...the rollercoaster I was used to with this fandom was more me binging it in a weekend to going months to over a year without watching it. I still haven't watched the last season(but with a fandom this big it's pretty impossible not be spoiled so I more or less know what happened) BUT oh great one I ask of thee for more information if you have it...other than being busy and whatnot, I'm not really one to keep up with the actors as well. So could you also maybe do a summary of all the stans? I'im seeing terms I haven't seen before. Who is Kelios(sp?)? Hellions?? probably messed it up but like...I guess what are the name of each legion? Who do they have alliance towards? What was their desires? Que paso?!?!?!?

Hi there! 'Some of the arcs that didn't vibe with me' me emotionally quitting Supernatural in Season 7 after they killed Castiel 😂 Anyway I totally get it, I went through the same culture shock mid-last year when I got back into SPN and tried to find where fandom was at! There's really a LOT of lore and content after 15 years though so I'll just do the broad brushstrokes based on my impressions and personal stereotypes PLEASE remember this is oversimplifying groups and individuals to tendencies and I'm very biased! Also important that there are sub-factions within sub-factions - again, I'm simplifying here!

I've also linked to the 'Super-wiki' in terms of some definitions because the Super-wiki has pages for them where the Fandom-wiki does not. Great introduction actually - only in the Supernatural fandom. There are two Supernatural wikis. One, through curation and twitter activity, supports BiBro/Wincest factions and does not support Destiel users. One is more neutral or Destiel-friendly (I don't know that the Fandom wiki has a personality/social media presence per se). You cannot make this up. There is a factional war... within use of fandom wikis.

Destiel faction

People who primarily ship Dean/Cas, love Castiel and (often, although not always) Jack, and the 'found family' of Supernatural as well as the brothers, and like the post s3 seasons too. Hated 15.19 and 15.20 for killing Dean and ignoring the other characters/narrative arc of the show. Nicknamed 'Destihellers' by the Wincest faction as a derogatory term, 'reclaimed' and shortened as 'Hellers', a nickname they use affectionately to describe each other. See more info on nicknames here.

Sometimes also ship ‘Cockles’ (the ship between Misha Collins and Jensen Ackles) although generally speaking they're more respectful of the wives of the actors than J2 shippers, who are notoriously responsible for... a vast series of insane-fan misdemeanours. Historically most were also good at keeping RPF to themselves and not harassing celebrities with it directly, although recently, particularly with younger twitter fans, that has not been the case.

Sub-factions:

The ‘Desticule’ or ‘Destiel tumblr’ - general grouping of Destiel-shipping tumblr users around 20-30 years old, usually LGBT+, most who came back to the show post-15.18 after leaving it for various reasons including getting sick of the queerbaiting. Funniest bitches alive etc. and responsible for the best text posts you’ve ever seen. Can also start stupid discourse and in-group drama when they’re bored.

'POLOL' - People of Lots of Letters, a discord group (of tumblr and twitter users) that ran on the assumption Andrew Dabb was playing a hugely intricate game of 3D chess to do with gnostic symbolism among other things, and would make Destiel canon. Have since had their own factional sub-wars and fallen apart a bit. Some of their meta was and is good and interesting! Some of it was wildly off the mark. Now generally insist that Dabb/the writers were all pushing for Destiel canon and the network is entirely to blame.

Twitter fans (TikTok edition) - younger fans around 18 and younger who (FOR REASONS BEYOND ME) started watching the show around 2018-2020. Definition of 'stans'. Tend to be very loud and aggressive on twitter when Events Happen, which like. I do get, because they've grown up in a completely different media environment and this kind of Dinosaur Politicking around LGBT+ issues is beyond them. Fancam central. Anyway stream #CASTIEL for clear skin!

Twitter fans (AO3 edition) - older fans around 30+ who kept going with the show but either don't have a large tumblr presence or just prefer twitter. A lot of fic writers, GISH-ers, and BNFs in this group. Some of them are very cool and reasonable in their opinions, some of them act like the younger stans. Some of them too accepting of what happened wrt 15.19-20 in my opinion, because, in contrast to the younger twitter stans, they grew up expecting Destiel to NEVER be canon or respected. 'Can't believe we got this far' etc.

Multiship faction

Multishippers or shippers of things not as large as the two main behemoths . Sub-factions based on shipping, e.g. Megstiel and Sastiel. I don't think these groups are very large though, and seem to have very little influence in the Discourse.

Wincest faction

LARGE overlap with the 'BiBro' faction and their opinions, which I'll get to. Ship Sam and Dean romantically. Often pretend to be BiBros on places like twitter and reddit in order for outside groups to take their opinions more seriously. 'Wincesties' etc. are derogatory nicknames given by the Destiel faction.

Sub-factions:

Multiship fans - ship Sam and Dean but respect Castiel/the 'found family'. Politically overlap with the faction of multishippers, I think. I don't have a lot of insight on this group of people honestly, but I know they exist.

Bronlies - the typical BiBro and 'Wincest' shippers most people think of, twitter user 'Kelios' is one of the would-be ringleaders of this faction - typically tend to be older white midwestern women. Historically have been pretty nasty on twitter (leading to Robert Berens, writer who made Destiel canon, occasionally subtweeting Kelios). Also tend to ship 'J2' - and take it very seriously as a legitimate thing that is really real. This is called 'tinhatting'.

BiBro faction

People who think the show should JUST be about the brothers, love Supernatural s1-3 and everything after it should have been just like Supernatural s1-3. Hate Castiel, Jack, and the 'found family'. Largely loved 15.20. Go to literally any comments section on any Supernatural article and You Will Find Them complaining about how the show should just be about the Brothers. Tend to be older, straighter, and more conservative/Republican (and male) fans. (I am aware that the definition of 'BiBro' used to refer to people who just liked the brothers but there's no definitional difference now in the discourse.) The Wincest and BiBro faction are generally much more wealthy than the Destiel faction (they being younger and more diverse/queer/left-leaning in general) and would be the biggest revenue generators at conventions etc.

Sub-factions:

Reddit bros - literally anyone who visits r/supernatural. Well, that's not fair - there are people who post reasonable opinions on there, but it's pretty rare and they get downvoted a lot. Like to talk about 'toxic Destiel fans' 'ruining the show' and how Dean is a straight man who is straight and could never possibly be gay. Might even think the confession was platonic despite all evidence to the contrary. I'm Not Homophobic I Have Gay Friends, But No Gays on MY Show!

Old Guard - group of older fans who overlap strongly with the Wincest faction, but might not necessarily ship Wincest.

GA faction

'General Audience' - These are the group of audience members that aren't 'online' so to speak; most watch the show on TV as a Casual Viewing Experience (are therefore also sometimes referred to as 'casuals'. Mostly their opinions tend towards BiBros, but they have a vast range of baffling views thanks to being Not Online and usually Not caring about Supernatural that much or thinking that deeply about it.

Sub-factions:

People who simply watch Supernatural on TV and then don't think about it very much after that.

I said they weren't 'online' but that's not entirely true; I'd probably classify people on Supernatural Facebook Groups as GA, along with friends of friends who post statuses about how 15.20 was a neat finale that wrapped up the series.

Conclusion

Supernatural is famously the show that appeals to both Republicans and Democrats, literally All Orientations, so there's a WIDE range of factions. However, most warring online boils down to Destiel vs. Wincest/BiBro - the war that started in Season 4 and has simply never ended. In terms of the 'actors' and their stans, in general, Wincest/BiBro fans love Jared, like Jensen, and dislike Misha. Destiel fans love Misha, like Jensen, and dislike Jared. Of course as with everything, there are variations and this is just a generalisation. But that's the summary of it, from my perspective!

This didn't even get into Sam girls, Dean girls and Cas girls. God. Anyway.

Hope that answered your question, anon!