#its not a meme vote anymore

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

My favorite tags on the sexywoman polls so far

Bonus:

[fandomsandfeminism]

Jordan Reverses Himself and Will Push for a Third Speaker Vote

Here is the recap-

Republicans, continuing their tradition of playing stupid games and being shocked when they win stupid prizes, kicked Kevin McCarthy out of his post of Speaker of the House.

For context, Kevin McCarthy had a fucking awful time getting the job back in January, needing like 15 tries and a bunch of stupid placating and bootlicking the MAGA nuts. An incredible moment in US history. So many memes. Republicans almost getting into fist fights on the floor on the House. Embarrassing Chaos. and they STILL FUCKING KICKED MCCARTHY OUT. AFTER ALL THAT. (Probably because he compromised with Democrats to temporarily fund the government while they argued about the budget) Embarrassing.

They fire McCarthy with no backup plan. To be clear, this is intentional. The MAGA fuckers want to break the government. Also no one wants to be Speaker. It's an awful job.

Ok, so then they have to decide who will be the new speaker. Trump suggests Jim Jordan. There is a secret republican ballot. Jordan loses to some other guy (Scalise.) Ha.

Once it's time for the real vote (with the democrats and all)- unity shatters and Scalise can't carry the vote. He says he doesn't want it anymore.

So fine, Jim Jordan. Let's go.

He loses.

A bunch of Republicans hate him. He is suuuuper implicated in Jan 6 and is a scumbag.

He tries again.

He loses. Again. Worse than the first time. Hilarious. Humiliating.

Everyone is like "not this shit again. Can we just let the temporary speaker be the speaker until January so the House can like...function while the Republicans figure their shit out?"

Jim Jordan says he'll go along with this plan on TV. Because publically losing the Speaker vote multiple times is humiliating.

The MAGAs loose their FUCKING MINDS because this was a Democrat idea so its BAD. How DARE YOU WE JUST FIRED MCARTHY FOR COMPROMISING WITH THE DEMS.

Jim Jordan says FINE, I take it back. I'll try again.

We don't have a third vote scheduled.

It'd be funnier if the clowns weren't running OUR circus, ya know?

[joyflameball]

If any other FNAF fans wanna throw in your favorite fucking insane FNAF facts PLEASE do

VAGUE explanations under the cut (please know I feel like that xkcd panel about overestimating the average person's knowledge of a topic right now)

the bite of 87 isn't important to the lore: It comes up ONCE in the first game, barely effects the lore, we don't even know who it happened to, literally its only lore impact is that the animatronics can't walk around during the day anymore. meanwhile the bite of 83 is incredibly likely to be the inciting incident that caused the murderer to do the murders. the "WAS THAT THE BITE OF 87" meme is not the bite of 87

golden freddy might have two souls: in the final fnaf 3 cutscene the bad end has golden freddy's head with two lights in it, and in the survival logbooks it's heavily implied there are two spirits rummaging around in there. there's more evidence but it's funnier if i don't tell you. the generally accepted canon is that golden freddy is possessed by a little boy named evan and a little girl named cassidy which is so genderweird of them

there are two purple guys and only one of them is actually purple: purple guy one is a murderer who killed at least six children. purple guy two is a rotting corpse who had his organs scooped out and possessed his own dead body to hunt down his father (who is purple guy one) and set him on fire twice. purple guy one is also a rotting corpse but he's in a fursuit

foxy has weird fucking genders: the foxy from the first few fnaf games is a guy and is referred to with he/him pronouns. in sister location, there's a foxy called funtime foxy, and when you select "girls night" in the custom night, they're one of the contestants. and in ultimate custom night, mangle (a really fucked up version of foxy) is referred to with he/she pronouns. this is canon and makes my gay little heart very happy

fnaf takes place in utah: fnaf takes place in utah

one of the novels had matpat mpreg: okay it's technically not matpat it's a guy named mat. however it's hilarious to say it's matpat. no this isn't a joke there was mpreg. with springtrap. i refuse to explain this

purple guy (the murderer one) might also be a yellow guy: in pizza sim there's a minigame with lore in it where you play a yellow mustard man who's a terrible father. it's theorized a lot that he may be the ourple guy because his son has grey text. no we don't know why he became yellow. he's never yellow again except when he's one of the comical amount of bunnies (there are like ten different bunnies in fnaf)

there are eight dead kids: we even know their names!

purple guy and his family are all british: in the opening cutscene to sister location, we hear the voice of one "mr. afton", who is the purple guy (the one who killed kids). he's british. throughout sister location, we hear the voice of a little girl, who is heavily theorized to be afton's daughter- elizabeth afton. one piece of evidence for this is that she is also british. and in the final cutscene of sister location, we hear the voice of someone named michael (who is the purple guy who's actually purple), talking to his father, and saying he's gonna come fucking KILL him, right before springtrap (purple guy) is shown and guess what michael's fuckin british. fnaf takes place in utah and no other characters are british. it's just the aftons.

there are three different jeremys and they all die: jeremy fitzgerald from the second game is heavily theorized to be the bite of 87 victim. one of the missing children is named jeremy and is possessing one of many bunnies. in the vr game a guy named jeremy is haunted by one of many bunnies and cuts his own face off. i personally find it hilarious to headcanon that jeremy fitzgerald is also jeremy from vr and maybe even the jeremy who got killed by william afton. especially considering the time traveling ballpit

bears are canonically extinct: in security breach, handunit mentions this in ONE LINE. it is not lore important. it is never mentioned again. objectively the funniest possible thing steel wool could've done

what the fuck is going on in fnaf: Buddy this is barely scratching the surface I haven't even talked about the child sized compartment in Circus Baby. You don't even know about the Charliebots or the Nightmare Gas. Do you even know about the Mimic. Do you have any idea what remnant is. There are ten different bunnies who are all also the same bunny. If you get into FNAF lore you will exit a changed man. Nothing here matters. There is a time travel ballpit

Anyway Cassidy isn't the Vengeful Spirit Michael is read that excellent Google Doc by @/whencartoonsruletheworld and THANK ME LATER

[bill-the-dog-for-the-check]

I feel like I'm constantly talking like a broken record, lol, leftists this, leftists that.

Sometimes it's surreal to see myself typing that and agreeing with it, given I used to be very left wing myself until the response on the left to October 7th. And I hate the idea that it's giving other people the impression that I'm conservative--I'm not. I have some views that I'd share with conservatives--being a Zionist being one of them... obviously.

But I'm literally bisexual. I support same-sex marriage. I think democracy is the best form of government, that the US should have universal healthcare, should abolish the Electoral College (National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, I'm praying for you). I think the invasion of Ukraine is a monstrous crime and Putin is a threat to world peace. I think systemic racism is a real thing in the United States, as is police brutality against black people. I think vaccines work, and mandates are a good idea. I think most right-wing politicians are right-wing populists more interested in causing democratic backsliding and peddling conspiracies than they are in fixing literally anything.

But I can't call myself a leftist anymore, even with this set of values. Why? Because--oh, God--I believe Israel has the right to exist. And to defend itself.

I'm not even some radical on Israel unlike some friends of mine--I think it's a travesty that Israel hasn't yet legalized same-sex marriage or established a civil marriage system. I think the 2018 Nation-State Law was racist in making Arabic no longer a co-official language with Hebrew. I think Bibi is one of those aforementioned populists. I think Israel has a democratic backsliding problem.

But the rest of the left--the rest of the queer community, especially--has made it clear in no uncertain terms that I am not welcome among them anymore. Like, they genuinely think I'm a genocide defending fascist, which is just so weird to me sometimes. Yeah, me, the fascist who thinks queer rights should be non-negotiable in any society. And they, who are posting pro-Hamas slogans, are the ones standing against genocide and bigotry. Uh huh. Oo-kay.

I don't want to constantly be saying 'Oh, the left...' and 'Leftists when...' like I'm some boomer posting shitty memes on Facebook. The right has its share of problems, too. And I'm sure they'll do something soon to make their antisemitism known as well--especially as the 2024 presidential election draws nearer.

But right now, the immediate threat isn't in Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, or whoever. I'm more worried about being accosted by pro-Palestine protestors with something to prove than I am about neo-Nazi gangs. And so are most Jews right now. And that's why I'm posting about the left more than the right here... even though my values are mostly left.

Oh, the wonders of being politically homeless!

[shygirl4991]

SMG4: TRASH FRIENDS

I KNOW IM ON BREAK BUT I HAVE TO TALK ABOUT THIS!

the cafe isnt looking so hot this episode makes you wonder what happen

im sorry did they just learn they could do this fklfkjlsd i know when they looked into their past they had the old memes do it but SMG4 just causally shared his memory with Three like how and when did they learn this was a thing they could do!

bet if you told your past self this is a thing they would think your crazy

mario may be their avatar but they cant do everything he does

nerd i love you and your need to roast your friend at random ass times.

my lord there is a in universe version of the series run everyone run!

his cafe is failing something he was proud of cause it made him feel like he found his place in the world after years of chasing SMG4 shadow is now failing the old demons are loud again and he is starting to yet again feel like a poor copy of SMG4. We know that Four doesn't think this but he is also the worse at reading people and cant pick up that SMG3 mental state is cracking as he feels himself slipping into the shadow being forgotten

color theory of mine is shining hard this episode when you focus on these two text colors are going. Given that SMG3 repeated a line SMG4 used in SMG4...are you okay? the start of its gotta be perfect movie story line i wonder if Three is gonna go through something similar its sorta reminding me of my fic next step which has Three facing his demons on what he did to four but in the series it seems its him facing the fear of being forgotten because SMG4 has always been popular memewarts trained Three he will always be in the shadow and that lesson is still there

SMG3 breaks down his true face is shown as seen by the color change he doesnt want to be forgotten and is taken by surprise with how mario reacted he isnt sure why he couldnt be open and talk about his feelings maybe because in the past no one cared to listen till now. Makes me wonder if this how adware could get Three if we got the bad ending could this feeling of being forgotten turn him to the dark side once again maybe lost to it forever? But this timeline we got the good ending so could this be a path to save Three maybe we will be tricked into thinking this is how adware gets him but remembering he has people that listen to his true feelings and know and love him for who he is will give him the power to push back the adware?

i mean damn Four i feel that you act like that way more then SMG3 personal thoughts

its out in the open his feelings and now four knows hopefully with this out in the open the can talk and work on how to move forward this change in SMG3 life isnt going to be easy but he isnt alone anymore

this is why i feel adware wont go after Three or fail to, yes he has negative emotions and strong desires that the adware loves to go after but he has his other half, his partner that when they talk about their feelings they can fix the issue and become stronger as a team. All thanks to moving next door that let him bond and have friends

homie accepting death while Mario is minding his own "ah the gays are at it again" is probs on his mind

and there we have it hopefully SMG4 can help 3 save his cafe and maybe work on the issue of still feeling like he lives in his shadows, the man has done so much to feel like SMG4 is better have a feeling this ep happen due to the votes on who is cooler on youtube (smg4 won it)

[mcyt-builds-contest]

im so confused is this an actual contest or a meme anymore?? bc it doesnt seem like an actual base contest like it was in the beginning it kind of just feels like pandoras vault memeing? if it is a bit then lol my bad but if its not then ur really not supposed to have favoritism/bias as the person running the polls and youre DEFINITELY not supposed to bribe people with fic it skews the data

Anon did you think this was a scientific study about which build is the objective best in minecraft?

Anon this Is a fucking tumblr contest made by one guy who thought it would be funny to admin one after being part of the voters in the transmcytshodown and mcytcrackshipbrackets

Do I really need to do a PSA : this is tumblr don't take this thing seriously and don't get too salty

Like if you love Pearl base or want to be objective, you do you, I myself voted for her base because it's one of my favorite build and I said countless time, i'm an unreliable narator I made these for fun so of course I am biased.

Please calm down this a wendys tumblr poll

[lithominium]

Ughhh hahah im ahving a “nobody under 40 really expects anything good to happen ever again” moment right now going “climate change has completely ruined seasons as we know them, not the hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by sea level rise and (un)natural disasters caused by global warming” and “every single product in the entire world is designed to break down in a year at the most and every year it gets worse, including housing”

Its not like yoi can go buy a good that actually functions, because All goods are like this. Tools are godawful now. You buy a brand new sandblaster from a reputable company and it literally sucks shit. You buy a modern reissue of music equipment and its shoddily built and doesnt work right or something. Houses being built in the modern era are thrown up in a week and collapse with people inside a week later. Video games come out and are half baked and dont change when people ask

The consumers dont have power anymore, they havent for Years.

Every time i look at politics (USA because im unfortunately usamerican, but ive seen some godawful shit in other countries too) i go “well he cant nearly be as bad as the last guy” but somehow they always one up each other for being more genocidal and more awful. On both ends of the spectrum. It used to be 3 years ago “do i wanna vote for the awful person or the awful person who actively wants to kill me” but now its literally just. “Person who wants to kill me or person who wants to kill me.” And every single worthless politician in existence is doing the same thing. If i voted for someone who didnt want to kill me, so few people would end up voting for them, that the people who DO want to kill me would win anyways. My old college town banned public homosexuality. Tennessee of course. Worthless ass state.

I dont doomscroll, i know how ungodly unhealthy it is to scroll through tags showing off how bad everything is. But its inescapable. I go to funny youtube videos and see wade dankpods complaining about how all tools suck while he tries to rebuild a car. I scroll through my dashboard which is supposed to be memes and fandom content and its “this us democrat just said ‘yaknow i really think its great that israel is finally killing all those subhuman palistinians” and what the hell am i supposed to do about that??

I just need. Some semblance of hope. Anything just to tell me it will be alright. Tell me theres a reason for me to not steal a plane and fly it into a god damn mountain so my final moments will be doing the one thing i really love.

[original-character-championship]

Bracket D Round 1

Poll 26

Amanēas (@kohkum) vs. Westley "Wes" Weston (@daddyplasmius)

243. Amanēas (@kohkum)

She/Her but also culturally it doesn't really matter to her. But also autistically if you switch it up too often she'll kill herself

Shes preoccupied with ideas about becoming god so this win would bring her one step closer to that. Think about it. A vote for her would be a vote for feminism or orcs or something. She beat the shit out of the equivalent of a 12 year old to prove a point about the whole god thing but the 12 year old bit off two of her fingers and mangled a third with a rock. They're on good terms now though so its ok. But look at that dedication. Who wouldn't want to vote for that. She also killed maybe a billion people along the way to prove the point as well but thats Ok. She had a really cool giant sword while doing it and also she doesn't do that stuff anymore shes reformed. Shes so ok. Vote for her. Cmon. Shes not going to ask you shes too autistic to speak frequently. But I'm not (lying) so I'm asking you. I'm being so nice right now. Cmon. Make her god. Pretty please? Shes tits out all the time its pretty cool. If she wins this I'll stop making her heterosexual I'll make her a lesbian instead. So vote for her. I think I've lost the plot here. Vote for Amanēas 2023!

shes hairless due to regular shaving because otherwise she pulls all of her hair out. shes got seal eyes. and her nose doesnt have like much going on its just two nostrils that can seal close when needed. shes got a scar on her scalp thats formed a depression. and multiple beaded earrings from her in-laws. and then an eyebrow piercing from her husband. bulky weight lifter build going on. her skin is a purple-grey with pink undertones. and her eyes are a dark brown. and shes got silly angry eye brows. i dont know what else to say. i could just say shes an orc but the thing is she isnt like the popular interpretation of an orc or even the original interpretation because i found those racist and wanted to see if i could write orcs that werent. but anyways she's beautiful to ME !

244. Westley "Wes" Weston (@daddyplasmius) - the entire Phandom I guess

He/Him

Wes Weston is thee OC of all time. He belongs to the entire Danny Phantom fandom as a whole & is so well known we have tricked people outside the Phandom into thinking he is canon.

Wes Weston was created in 2014 when a tumblr user noticed him in the background of a single shot. He was given the role of "one guy who knows that Danny is Phantom" as a joke, named Wes Weston, & his character quickly rose to fame with the Phandom.

Wes evolved from simply "guy who knows Danny is Phantom" to ex-popular kid on the basketball team, who was ousted for claiming the hero of Amity Park could be that loser ghost hunter's son Fenton. He took up photography in order to get proof. He could never quite get it any, though.

Eventually, he learned that his father's boss, Vlad Masters, is the same as Danny, with an evil ghost alter ego. Of course, no one believes him except for his brother Kyle, who knows that Danny is Phantom too but thinks it's cosplay because he doesn't believe in ghosts, only aliens (& weed).

By this point, anyone who's heard his spiel has started a meme that Wes must be so hellbent on proving Fenton is Phantom because Wes himself is trying to hide His identity as Phantom! They even have the same butt.

Danny gets tired of trying to hide his identity from Wes, and because no one believes him anyway, Danny just stops pretending around him, to Wes's eternal frustration.

Wes slowly comes around, learning that there is a reason Danny is hiding his identity from the greater public (threat of vivisection from both his own parents & the government). Whether they become friends & Wes joins Team Phantom or they stay relatively neutral to each other is up to the lucky person who's adopted Wes Weston as their OC!

Wes looks similar to Danny, except he has red hair, green eyes, freckles, & is a bit taller.

[fandomanimatic-tournament]

Fandom song animatic tournament: Bracket 1 Side B Round 3

Soldier, Poet, King - The Oh Hellos

"There will come a soldier Who carries a mighty sword He will tear your city down Oh lei, oh lai, oh, Lord"

Saint Bernard - Lincoln

"Hung pictures of patron saints up on my wall To remind me that I am a fool Tell me where I came from, what I will always be Just a spoiled little kid who went to Catholic school"

Remember that we're voting on how Iconic they are for ANIMATICS, not for the song itself. In order to make things fair, the tone and mood of the song should not affect how iconic it is (for example, a serious song should not be considered more iconic than a joke song just because it's serious)

Propaganda and animatic links of the songs under the cut:

Soldier, Poet, King - The Oh Hellos

Propaganda:

Everyone was doing animatics of this. The meme was that you’d choose one of your blorbos to represent the “soldier,” one for the “poet”, and one for the “king.” The original point of the song is that “soldier poet and king” are all one person, and that person is Jesus, but literally no one cares about that. Who needs Jesus when you have Warrior Cats?

What's that?...it's supposed to be about Jesus? NOT ANYMORE, BABEY!! It's about my BLORBOS

It's a really nice song and can highlight different characters and their talents/abilities

If your fandom is fantasy, has a fantasy au, or characters that fit the roles, this can works. Can probably fit any fandom.

you look this song up on yt and youre going to find an animatic with it for every fandom in existence i stg man

Animatics with the song:

Song of Achilles

DSMP Sleepy Bois Animatic

Genshin Impact

The Owl House

The Adventure Zone

Saint Bernard - Lincoln

Propaganda:

Its got that sick clapping for smooth frame changes, and it's got all the applications babeyy. Low self esteem hero? Sure! Sympathetic villain? You got it! Morally grey character? Come on in. "Make me love myself so that i might love you" can be about god, friends, a partner, a found family, you name it. "Dont make me a liar cause i swear to god when i said it i thought it was true" can be about anything. Your best friend is evil now? A betrayal?? A disillusioned hero??? "Neither of us will be missed" girlies i am peeing from how good this song is for angst.

"the st. bernard sits at the TOP OF THE DRIVE WAY" makes for a very cool and sexy shot transition. you seen the beau lionett animatic set to this?

tik tok picked up the audio a bit cause the drop into distortion is great, but also the vocals and imagery as they stand are excellent. there's at least four ace attorney ones alone and they all focus on different characters (Blackquill/Sahdmadhi, Klavier, van Zieks, and Edgeworth) and the van Zieks one was posted shortly before the official localization was released. also idk if it's on youtube but there's also one for bass.exe on tumblr which is also excellent

Animatics with the song:

Omori

Five Nights at Freddy's Michael Afton Animatic

3rd Life Impulse Animatic

DSMP Revivebur Animatic

The Owl House

Please be cautious and read the title, description and warning cards on the animatic videos if you decide to watch them. If you've got specific triggers I'd recommend even more caution when watching animatics of fandoms you don't know, since sometimes canon-typical themes don't get warnings.

[tungledotedu]

i guess this is what passes as humour for the blue maga side of tumblr. what do you even get out of these 'jokes'? it's almost like you people want biden to lose the election.

(moved my original tags here since this isn't only about the superbowl anymore)

#if you're on twitter how do you not know about the massacre taking place in rafah. gazans have literally nowhere else to go #'had a meltdown' just admit you don't give a shit about palestinians sprinkledsalt #i would have thought your Liberal Civil Sensibilities would maybe make you stop and think #'huh. maybe now is not a good time to laugh at this funny meme edit of someone who has been #condemned internationally for aiding genocide and is being sued for it by his own citizens' #while mocking people who are rightfully upset that the western world has done nothing for them and is turning its attention to entertainmen

(edited on 29 feb to add more screenshots of sprinkledsalt being vile about aaron bushnell)

you have to be heartless to see something as serious as self-immolation in protest of genocide and turn it into a petty dunk about voting.

and you have no shame in calling people freaks for pointing out the nuance and complexity that liberals are oh so enlightened for worshipping (when it serves them).

because illiteracy is something to be proud of now. this is incredibly embarrassing enough on its own, but it's even worse considering this is their political side blog where they act high and mighty about how stupid and useless leftists are. 'maybe they're only opposed to extreme acts of protest?' nope, they also think boycotts are dumb and do nothing.

(hamas and the pflp did release a statement about his death.)

you insult people and call them 'extremely mentally ill' for understanding the rationale and impact of self-immolation. and you expect us to believe you actually care about ableism? not to mention, the idea that mentally ill people cannot make clear-headed decisions out of genuine political conviction is ableist in itself.

bushnell left his savings to the palestine children's relief fund. his last post was to ask, 'what would i do if my country was committing genocide?' he live streamed it on twitch because he wanted his message to be spread. he shouted free palestine even as he screamed in agony. there is a reason he chose to wear a us army uniform in his last moments.

yes, it was an extreme and tragic act, but you don't have to condone it or be personally willing to risk your life to appreciate the reasons behind it. but going so far as to say 'suicide is always bad' is simplistic, lazy, and anti-intellectual. even if you don't agree with what he did, derailing the conversation is useless, disrespectful to his memory, and the opposite of what he would have wanted. it's what the anti-palestine side wants. they want his death to not matter. they want to keep your eyes away from the genocide in gaza.

because that's where you should be focusing your attention. you want to talk about mental health and suicide in palestine? children as young as five are saying they want to die. a 6-year-old boy in gaza almost died by suicide after losing his entire family. later, he died of hypothermia. and this is only one story that made it to social media. we don't even know their names. what happened to aaron bushnell is nothing compared to the unimaginable suffering they've endured.

[someseriousthot]

Bear in mind I'm not talking about "oh I joined this fandom server" or "I joined this one server to get some co-op help in a game I like"

no

I'm talking "discord server I made with a group of friends so we could talk about all sorts of stuff in one place and we just kept adding rooms for new topics until it became its own ecosystem"

I'm talking "we have so many channels in so many categories that we had to create another channel specifically FOR searching for those channels because trying to memorize where everything is just isn't possible by this point"

I'm talking "there is no such thing as 'deleting a channel that isn't used anymore', it's there forever for you to stumble across when stumbling through the absolute fucking maze of a server like discovering a mosquito trapped in amber of old long-forgotten conversations for you to post a new meme in to get people to go into that room to find out who's posting in it again"

[toaarcan]

You aren’t going to get a violent revolution.

You aren’t going to get a violent revolution.

You aren’t going to get a violent revolution.

And if you do, you’re sure as fuck not going to win.

Like, we saw that, right? This whole “Drag them out and burn the buildings from which they governed!” thing was something we actually saw happen like a year and a half ago.

And they failed! A mob tried to overthrow the government and kill a bunch of the people running it, including their own side, and they failed!

And that’s the political faction in America that the cops support and contains all the crazy gun-nuts. If they couldn’t succeed, what makes you think you would?

Are all of y’all secretly military badasses with a personal arsenal that would put Rambo to shame, or are you actually 20something Tumblr bloggers who’ve never held a gun, let alone fired one? Because I’m pretty sure it’s the latter.

I mean fuck, one of the arguments for tighter gun control that gets brought up whenever another right-wing nutjob goes on a killing spree is that the 2nd Amendment isn’t even fit for its original purpose anymore- the public have access to assault weapons, yes, but the government has access to tanks and drones. Overthrowing the government is no longer a possibility.

You aren’t going to win a revolution, so find a solution that has a chance of actually working. And stop falling for the “Don’t vote” memes that are very obviously made by Republicans who are definitely going to vote.

[septembersghost]

I think Fine line is appreciated within fandom and is loved by us. Recently a harry page conducted a poll b/w FL HSH HS1 and Fl gathered 75% of votes. like fans knows it's more than WS(which is the SIO of harries). I think at this point harry knows how much we love fine line and he loves how much we love it. I expected him to ignore FL after her 1st birthday (like he did with Hs1) and was beyond shocked with the baby Yoda meme( I loved how new fans were confused about his quirky side coming to insta). This was despite the success hsh had. He is as attached to fine line as Taylor is to red(I think you made that comparison) and the biggest reason is fans. ERODA was designed for fans. He sang FL on this tour on 13th for fans. He knew we would freak out over meme so he did it. He has definitely seen how much we analysed everything and discussed theories regarding songs and how we freaked out over tiny little things and I KNOW he loved driving us craaaazyyy. So I think us loving it was more important to him than awards. So fine line is a direct link between him and us the way red was with us and Taylor. (As in it can get praised and loved after a time but the first and most important connection came from fans)

not to be slightly cuckoo bananas, but that post for fine line's anniversary meant so much to me and also felt like such a signifier of harry, do you know what i mean? harry's personality and humor, and harry understanding that link to us - even though he's not very active online anymore (understandably), he's still aware and tapped into the fans in a particular way (his story earlier in the summer when he got his lion ring back too). he'll still show his quirkiness and he still has such tremendous gratitude.

i didn't see that fan poll, but that's very illuminating to me, i might not have predicted it would be ahead by that much of a margin! i think the timing and everything with fine line contributed to its meaning for a lot of us as well. it captivated and held a special place.

eroda was SO much fun, especially being a brand new fan at the time, and i'd never experienced anything quite like that before!

at this point harry knows how much we love fine line and he loves how much we love it...I think us loving it was more important to him than awards. i love everything you said here, and i think so too.

COMPLETELY agree about that comparison between fine line and red, the parallels between those two albums and their meanings and their sonic diversity and their stories and their connections to us hits me hard every time. it's where that becomes so much more important than accolades, because as nice as that is, there's something irrevocable and TRUE in the love we have for the music and the way we share it with each other, and with them as the artists. we hold it so close and give it new life, and we'll never forget what that means to us, and they recognize that and cherish it right back.

[vonaegiremblem]

context for the bidoof post? i dont know anything about competitive pokemon

Certainly. So, first you need to know about Smogon. Smogon is basically the largest unofficial competitive pokemon site and tournament organization. They host the online Pokemon Showdown battle simulator, and they are effectively the best place to play competitive 6v6 singles (one pokemon out at a time, you win when all six of your opponent's pokemon faint). Smogon divides pokemon into tiers based on usage in said tiers. If I recall correctly, the metric is something like, in an average day of playing competitive pokemon in a specific tier, if there is more than a 50% chance you will see a given pokemon at least once, then it belongs in that tier. If a pokemon is assigned to a tier, then it cannot be used in any tier underneath the one its in. That pokemon is free to be used in tiers above its current tier, though. This ensures that people can use a wide variety of pokemon competitively. The two tiers that people talk about the most are Ubers and OU, which are basically the two highest tiers. Certain pokemon, moves, strategies, and abilities can also be specifically banned from a tier after testing and being put to a vote. I think this is enough info to talk about Bidoof now.

So, saying "Bidoof got banned from Ubers" involves a little bit of hand-waving, but it make a better narrative if the pokemon that is such a meme that the official Pokemon Company made a Rickroll parody video about it gets banned. What really got banned was the ability Moody. In Gen 5, hidden abilities were introduced, and some of them were busted. One of these busted abilities was Moody. At the end of every turn, a pokemon with Moody will randomly raise one of its stats by two stages, and then lower another stat by one stage. The possible affected stats (for Gen 5, Moody got changed in a later generation) are Attack, Special Attack, Defense, Special Defense, Speed, Evasion, and Accuracy. For those first five, a +2 boost is the equivalent of doubling the stat. A +2 to evasion raises your dodge rate to 40%. A +2 to accuracy raises your hit rate to 166%. So, even getting one Moody boost is huge. The obvious end goal with a Moody pokemon is to keep them out as long as possible, because you are basically guaranteed to get them to +6 in every stat, since Moody doesn't try to increase stats that are already at +6. A +6 to everything quadruples those first five stats, increases your dodge rate to 66% (you get diminishing returns), and triples your hit rate.

Here's the general setup for a Moody pokemon. Take a Bibarel or a Glalie, give it leftovers and teach it Protect and Substitute. You want these two because they are generally fast enough to outspeed the slow meta picks of Gen 5. You could use Octillery or Smeargle, but you probably want Smeargle doing something else, and Octillery basically has to roll the +2 speed first turn. Send out your pokemon of choice. Have it use Protect first turn to get a free Moody boost. If you outspeed the opponent's Pokemon, use Substitute. If the Substitute breaks that same turn, use Protect again and repeat the cycle. If it doesn't use an attacking move. Before you get to the point where you cannot use Substitute anymore, you should have, like 13 Moody boosts. Also, if any of the Moody boosts have affected Defense, Special Defense, or Evasion, the longevity of your substitute doll increases, because it takes damage based on your defenses and dodges based on your evasion. The longer each substitute lasts, the more turns you can stall for Moody boosts with the HP recovery of leftovers. Essentially every battle with a Moody pokemon devolved into them stalling until they rolled enough evasion to dodge most attacks, defense to survive attacks, or attack and speed to defeat all other pokemon before they could attack.

In Gen 5 competitive battles, Pokemon running Moody were quickly banned from OU to Ubers and then banned entirely because they made the game too luck-based. Smogon had already banned evasion raising moves, and Moody was just asking to be banned given that you could get not only evasion, but every other stat too. So this brings us back to the Bidoof issue. Here's the thing: most of the time, when Moody wasn't banned, you weren't actually seeing Bidoof. You were seeing Bibarel. On rare occasions, however, some people would run both Bidoof and Bibarel to get around the species clause. Also, even after Moody was banned, you could still use Bidoof so long as it had one of its other abilities. Despite all this, though, Bidoof did have Moody, which got banned, and saw some use with Moody before it was banned, giving the statement, "Bidoof was banned from Ubers" at least some kernel of truth to it

[didanawisgi]

People Have Woken up

The miasma of anxiety befogging so many brains in our troubled land begins to lift as every narrative served up by the US fascist intel blob goes annoyingly stale and impotent.

The worst media meme — that a vicious officialdom is “defending our democracy” — gets laughed out of the room now when repeated incessantly by such regime shills as Jen Psaki and Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC.

Everybody understands they want to “defend our democracy” by canceling your freedom of speech, suing you into bankruptcy, and stealing whatever remains of your stuff.

It’s become so obvious by now that you’d have to be blind or a member of the mainstream media not to see it. Maybe both. Classical liberals like Alan Dershowitz — hardly a Trump fan — see it. That’s because they’re honest.

People No Longer Buy the Lies

Likewise, everything else, namely: that our doings in Ukraine are a “fight for freedom,” that “white supremacy” lurks just out of sight getting ready to pounce on the “marginalized” (who are actually running things, and doing it very badly), that “Joe Biden” turned around the economy, that “voting rights” equals non-citizens getting to vote, that election fraud is a “big lie” (and that the J-6 riot over it was an “insurrection”), and that the Covid vaccines were “safe and effective.”

None of these dishonest persuasions work anymore, and all of the persuasion machinery stands in plain sight like so many nauseating carnival rides. One by one, the rides are flying apart, scattering debris and body parts of the poor slobs who were on the rides all over the fairgrounds.

And so, the fear rises in the ones running the carnival. The county sheriff stands by looking to round up the sleazeball carnies with their missing teeth and needle tracks inside their elbows.

Before long, they will find themselves in the courtroom…

The vicious officialdom put up the carnival and all of its rides to distract the public from the crimes they committed during and after the 2016 election. Donald Trump’s idle talk about putting Hillary Clinton in jail struck nerves throughout the federal bureaucracy, the halls of Congress, and the strongholds of the Clintons and the Obamas.

The Clintons had literally bought the Democratic Party apparatus under the DNC, using the money they grifted into the Clinton foundation from such operations as the Uranium One deal, the Skolkovo war-tech transfer deal, and the Haiti earthquake relief effort.

They were sure that ownership of the DNC guaranteed the election for Hillary. It did guarantee that she would overcome Bernie Sanders’ primary election victories and the delegates that came with them, even after Julian Assange’s Wikileaks release informed the world just how the Clintons bought and paid for the DNC and the whole Philadelphia convention.

Call this the birth of the “misinformation” cult, in which everything true was converted into a “big lie.”

It Wasn’t Supposed to Happen

The problem was, Hillary lost that election. What a surprise! Buying the convention was not enough, it turned out. Those “deplorables” did the unthinkable: cast enough of their stinky votes in just the right rust belt precincts to elect the Golden Golem of Greatness, who was as surprised as anybody, and really unprepared to cobble together an actual governing administration — in the process of which, Donald J. Trump was completely buffaloed by the outgoing Obama gang.

They plotted by the lights of the White House Christmas tree to go after the interloper with all they had, starting with the surgical removal of a most dangerous appointee, National Security Advisor Mike Flynn, who knew all the secrets… and from there onto four years of Russia, Russia, Russia…

It’s hardly a mystery anymore how “Joe Biden” got elected. It’s perfectly obvious despite the “big lie” narrative that the 2020 election was stoked with a veritable orgy of ballot fraud and direct election interference by agency rogues, especially the ones leaning hard on Facebook, Twitter, and Google to manipulate what the public actually saw.

Don’t believe your lying eyes they told the nation. What is a mystery is why they chose “Joe Biden” to front for the cabal around Barack Obama actually running the show. Never before in US history was there a president who left such a slime trail of bribery and corruption.

Just as they had spent all their energy the previous four years in undermining Mr. Trump, they had to spend the next four years propping up and defending “Joe Biden,” and then desperately trying to save their own asses from a Trump return.

Meanwhile, they set out on their mission to wreck the country sufficiently to clear the way for establishing a transhuman public-private utopia of crypto-Marxian “equity” (theft of property).

Political Legerdemain

All of this political legerdemain summoned up the miasma of anxiety that beclouded the people of this sore-beset republic, and the nearly final blow to them was the Covid-19 operation, set in motion with the phony PCR test, that has now left a substantial number of citizens, vaccine-injured, disabled, and on-course for an early death — a pretty grotesque affront to our democracy. The victims are beginning to realize it.

The battery of Trump trials and lawsuits meant to put him totally out of business are now all simultaneously collapsing. Special Counsel Jack Smith is left doing Chinese fire drills around his office Keurig coffee machine.

When the prank-fest in Judge Juan Merchan’s courtroom concludes, whether the jury sees the show for the farce that it is, or not, the Golden Golem of Greatness will be at large again among the voters.

If he’s clever enough to pick a capable veep that represents something like “assassination insurance” — say, Vivek, Tulsi Gabbard, or JD Vance — then the Obama cabal and the blob that has been protecting it will be swept out of power and into a dragnet of a kind of law actually associated with the word justice.

They’re running out of ways to avoid it. All they’ve got left are the direst resorts: war, crashing the economy, another bio-weapon op against their own people, or an outright coup d’état. And even those probably won’t work.

[eartharoundsun]

A Paradoxical Explanation for the insane Reality TV Popularity and its Expansion in Digital Century - Reveal how Love Island producers ultilizing social media to blur all boundaries between the Screen and Audiences

The love-hate feelings for reality TV are so complicated right? Dear beloved audiences, I truly understand our frustration that no matter how much we hate the “fake” of reality TV, all of us still cannot help but binge watching every Netflix reality TV show! By dissecting the series Love Island, the secret drug behind “reality TV addiction” and the way social media spreads this disease will be brought to light… Get ready to be surprised by the way we – as smart audiences – are not as “logical” as we think!

Love Island - the sweet-bitter relationship between Social Media and Reality TV

By giving audiences full rights to decide the series' outcome like voting for the most hated/loved couples, who should go on a date, winning couple, etc. Love Island – the British dating reality TV series – has brought dating shows to another level by not only showing “authentic progress” of how “ordinary” searching for love but also maximizing reality TV's most appealing element – the audiences’ ability to actively participate in shaping the content production (Hoiry 2019) and therefore, achieving incredibly global popularity. Sharing about success, the show producers don’t hesitate to mention that viewers' engagement via social media is Love Island’s key marketing strategy. Launching a variety of social media activities like creating memes and sharing on the show’s official Twitter and Instagram accounts, posting previews and upcoming hints, etc., audiences are now engaging with the show every second through multiple media channels and naturally turn Love Island into a part of their lives

Love Island's social media strategy, particularly the main app, also acts as a vehicle to expand the boundaries of advertisements by employing digital tools to maximize revenue opportunities and drive commercial interest (Hoiry 2019). The partnership with Missguide is a typical example as the fashion brand sponsors clothes for contestants to wear during the show and via the re-direct link on the reality TV series app to Missguide's official website, audiences have chances to immediately purchase items that players wear (Hoiry 2019). This innovative marketing strategy has been considered a “marketing masterpiece” (Tuite 2018), “the shopping future” (Faramazi 2018), and the top reality TV partnership ever (Cole 2018). As a result, Love Island became a “hot promotion place” for brands, and profits from partnerships with Samsung, Kellogg’s, etc. truly helped the reality show to expand internationally

However, social media could be “a fatal stab” to reality TV’s long-term issue: realism and authenticity. In the new way of TV consumption where television viewers merge with social media users, individuals are now creating their own “online community” to discuss and share opinions, consequently making the TV reality’s “grit” more visible. Multiple Love Island’s edited and fake scenes like #Kissgate, #Frankie and Samira’s Relationship, etc. have been exposed thanks to the Twitter network

After all, reality TV is not really “realistic” and everyone understands that as common sense! But why we still couldn’t help but crazy dive into reality TV series? Oh well, don’t be sad when I say that humans are irrational audiences who are desperately seeking for “control power” and an “unreal guilty entertainment pleasure”

The secret behind Reality TV's “addictive drug” and its crazy expansion in the temporary TV broadcasting industry

Being described as the “mix of social participation and responsibility” (Kjus 2009) and “urge ordinary viewers to participate in the content production and chances to shape the outcome” (Hoiry 2019), reality TV audiences are no longer in the passive position anymore but instead having active influence to determine the program content flow. This growing interactivity to co-create outcomes and set directions that give viewers a strong sense of power makes reality TV stand out from the “old passive program” to become a new dominant of TV broadcast programming. In the digital century when social media pushes this “control ability” to its limit by allowing viewers to engage with the show every second and directly shape the content production flow, reality TV is predicted to growing further. This redefining of conventional relationships and passive/active dichotomies is perhaps best demonstrated by a more recent example of Reality TV: Love Island. In particular, producers' and viewers' pervasive and purposeful use of social media has pushed audience involvement in new and sometimes unexpected directions (Hoiry 2019)

Moreover, it’s not an exaggeration to consider that reality TV is actually just our “guilty pleasure” for entertainment since instead of seeking absolute authenticity, this broadcasting form urges viewers to investigate the flexible nature of performance, realism, and identity (Hill 2014). Allen and Mendick (2013, p.466) also mention that audiences like attempting to discern between the genuine and the false in reality TV shows, and this “ambiguity creates opportunities for enjoyment”. This may explain the significant appeal of series such as The Hills, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, and many more that are branded as Reality TV, despite common acknowledgment that sequences are written and crucial events are meticulously orchestrated (Woodward 2018)

Conclusion – A bit of a personal viewpoint

From my standpoint, we – “logical” TV viewers - are no more than puppets being played around by TV producers. No matter how hard we try to hide our natural darkest interest in drama, control power, etc. these production people just understand us so well that they continually produce more reality TV series that hit this hidden desire with the help of social media: more dramas, more engagement through media channels, more outcome control, etc. In the digital century where every gap between the screen and audiences has been erased, reality TV is predicted to expand wider, and individuals with the “power illusion” will continue to be fooled!

Reference

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Cole, S 2018, “Why the Love Island & Missguided partnership was a multichannel triumph”, Econsultancy, https://econsultancy.com/why-the-love-island-missguided-partnership-was-a-multichannel-triumph/ 

Faramarzi, S 2018, “Love at first swipe: would you shop the Love Island look live?”, The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2018/jun/06/love-at-first-swipe-would-you-shop-the-love-island-look-live 

Hill, A 2014, “Reality TV”, Oxon: Routledge, http://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?author=A.+Hill+&publication_year=2014&title=Reality+TV

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Katharina, B 2023, “Reality Check for Reality TV: Fewer Viewers Among Top Programs”, Statista, https://www.statista.com/chart/30931/reality-tv-viewership/

Kjus, Y 2009, “Idolizing and monetizing the public: the production of celebrities and fans, representatives and citizens in reality TV”, Int. J. Commun. 3, 277–300

Tuite, H 2018, “Love Island–a marketing masterpiece”, Tuna Fish Media, https://tunafishmedia.co.uk/love-island-a-marketing-masterpiece/ 

Woodward, E 2018, “8 Times ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians' Was Accused of Being Fake”, Buzzfeed, https://www.buzzfeed.com/elliewoodward/keeping-up-with-the-kardashians-fake-allegations