#popular i know about popular

[vulqan]

there is. so much to unpack here.

TRANSCRIPT:

Bdubs: i did talk to him later about his diary entry where—uhh—the, uh, the kid said go brrt—"brrt"— to him and then, uh, ran away. uh—so, i talked to him about that. and—he said he really does feel like he's losing touch, and he said, like, "what's all this dark twitter thing?"

oh Etho, i'm so glad you asked! so i got to explain it all to him in-depth for about an hour. and as he perused the "slabtwt" he, ah—started gagging—but he knows, he knows!

yes! yeah, you think it was a big deal when i found you, now Etho's gotcha. he might not even interact, that's the scariest part, is he's not—i come in and i say "hi everybody! i found you!" he'd come in and he'll just stand there silent and look at you.

Chloe, thank you—for the $6.99—"why must you do this to us?" what? what—(laughs) you guys love it, c'mon.

i'm more famous than Etho! (pause) should be worried about ME. (pause) Etho might have more fans, and more people might love him, but as far as star power? i'm the ki—(laughs) the king.

Cal, thanks for the five. "i refuse to believe that Etho knows about darktwt shenanigans. standing there, menacingly. (copium)" he knows. i explained it to him, i told him exactly what to search for, and he—w—and—on the call he said, "oh! oh. (pause) ohh." (pause) and then silence.

don't worry, guys, he's fun, he's a valuable member of the community, okay? is—"stuff posted about Etho is a different flavor" it sure is. but that's fine. i had to teach him about shipping and all that stuff as well. but he's glad he knows now. (pause) (laughs)

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this is an even number roof. i'm sick.

(pause)

what?! (laughs) what! if you guys are gonna do the shipping stuff with me and Etho, then—a—a—and think he's not gonna know about it at some point, you're crazy. all right? these are the consequences.

(pause)

and HALF of that stuff he wouldn't be down for, anyway.

(pause)

(laughs)

(laughs) "only half?"

"billion dollar idea—Bdubs reads fanfiction ABOUT Etho TO Etho and records his reaction. i don't think his sweet Canadian heart could take it." i—c—no, it would never happen. it would never happen, i w—i w—i would pote—the, the idea of me reading it is very—you know, it's likely. anything for a billion views, you know? uh—i'd even act out the scenes, if, if it was a guaranteed billion. but—Etho—Etho's a better man. (laughs) he wouldn't lower himself.

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[evilwizardcrab]

my main grievance with the tma fandom is that JonMartin is just, an Objectively Bad ship name. I'm sorry but in a world of Lonely Eyes, Door Keays and Terminal Velocities fucking Jonmartin? seriously?? Jon and Martin? yeah i sure hope it does. that is certainly the two main components of that ship. 10,000 people following the ship tag, 9900 fics on AO3, over 5 years of podcast and not a single person managed to popularise a ship name beyond literally just. smokshing their first names together. and don't get me started on "Jmart". that's not a ship name. that's a cornershop 12 year olds go to buy monster. wheres the magic? the ~spooky~? the "first date is essentially the apocalypse"? we are getting a bad grade in ship names, something that is both Normal To (Not) Want and Possible To Achieve.

[alexanderpearce]

ship ask game 😁1 Who would be first to to bite down anc consume the flesh of the other, euphoric in the taste and the heft and the slide of the blood 2. who is the ant and who is the ophiocordyceps fungus? 3. who is the dog and who is the master? 4 when the roles are blurred or reversed who would be first to die and how? would it be by bulletwound? the phallic blade? strangulation? 5. Cocaine or Heroin? 6. who licks up the other’s cigarette ash? 7 who is julius caesar and who is brutus? 8. who is jesus and who is judas? 9. did jesus want it? did julius caesar know it was coming? are the betrayed ever proud? 10. who is irrumatus and who is irrumans? who is pedicatus and who is pedicans? 11. did they ever kiss and why not? 12 if they are two sides of the same coin who is heads and who is tails? 13. and if the coin was the holey dollar? 14. And if the dog bit back? 15 and if the dog bit back? 16 and if the dog bit back? 17 and if the dog bit back? 18 and if the dog bit back? 19 and if the dog bit back? 20. Who buys the other flowers?🥰

[squishysnake]

got inspired to make a TF2 Mercenary Professionalism Tier List the other week, and decided to properly chart it

[unpretty]

society is spiraling and culture is a wasteland. i know this because i looked and most people prefer things that are fun and easy, making fun and easy things extremely popular. this is the first time that's ever happened, historically.

[madamemiz]

sad: falling out of a hyperfixation

tragic: watching your beloved friends and mutuals fall out of the hyperfixation while you're still in it

[starbuck]

reading and watching “classic” books and films is such an interesting experience because, before you get into them, when you only know them by name and maybe the vaguest plot outline, they’re intimidating and stuffy and up on a pedestal, but then you finally take the leap and check them out and realize that almost every story that’s achieved such a legendary level of popularity did so because something in its emotional core reached out and grabbed a lot of people by the throat and you are NOT immune.

[butchmartyr]

it’s fascinating how trans women on here are tokenized to signal people’s comraderie with trans (terfs dni in bio/trans women are loved here), while at the same time we’re also harshly ejected from communities and painted as predators for piecemeal grievances that are handwaved away when done by non trans women. you can say all kinds of nasty stuff about someone, and as long as she’s a trans woman, people will believe it! people love the ideal of a trans woman but haven’t worked on their biases enough to do anything but grow to despise actual trans women

[petscoboba]

I know this AU has since died down, but recently it's really been helping me look on the bright, fun side of college, so I decided to draw @spectacledraws's (go check her out!!!) Deltarune college au as if it were a fake manga (heavily inspired by the Yotsuba comics)!

For those curious what the title means (which I hope I didn't royally mess up the Japanese on):

別の伝説 (betsu no densetsu) - Another Legend

DELTARUNEの二次創作 (Deltarune no nijisousaku) - A DELTARUNE side-story

[vulqan]

scientists download my brain onto a hard drive when i die and it's just this clip playing on a loop

TRANSCRIPT:

clip context: the Hermits are playing Among Us in Minecraft. Tango and Grian have just stopped the reactor from being sabotaged.

Tango: excellent, excellent.

Bdubs: very good, boys, very good, very good, very good.

Zedaph (overlapping Bdubs): horrible noise.

Bdubs: back to the mine!

Etho is about to run down into the mine but turns back and does a little loop.

Tango: aw, look at this—oh, Etho, where ya goin'? doing all kinds of weird loops—

Etho (overlapping Tango): uhh, i don't know, almost like, uh, i don't know what i'm doin'!

Tango (overlapping Etho): "oh, gee, maybe i'll walk over here to see if anyone goes into the mine!" yeah, uh huh.

Bdubs (overlapping Tango): wait—was that—was something sus here?

Tango: Etho's big-brain and he just made a move that was very dumb.

Etho: am not!

(death sound as Bdubs shoots Tango)

Tango: (groans, laughs uproariously)

Etho: that's like the real game, Tango. you always know it and you never call it.

END TRANSCRIPT.

[ethtyn]

if you're not watching Zedaph you're not living.

description/transcript:

Zedaph and Etho have collaborated to make a Minecraft version of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, which makes liberal use of cannon blasts as percussion. Etho's contribution is the noteblock timing; Zedaph's contribution is the creeper explosions that replace the cannon blasts.

Zedaph: are you ready to go, Etho?

Etho: on your count.

Zedaph: okay—3, 2, 1—go!

Etho: here we go!

Zedaph: drum roll...

[the noteblocks begin playing]

[the first creeper blast goes off]

Zedaph: (whispering) yesss!

Etho: (laughs)

[creeper blast]

Zedaph: yes!!

Etho: (laughs) it's going!

[three creeper blasts]

Zedaph: yes!!!

[creeper blast]

Zedaph: (laughs)

Etho: oh, it's so good.

[creeper blast]

Zedaph: oh yeah, the silence—build up—

Etho: build up.

[nine creeper blasts]

Zedaph: okay—coming to the end!

Etho (overlapping): here it is! grand finale!

[six creeper blasts]

[charged creeper explodes, killing both of them]

Zedaph: yeah—hahahaha!!

Zedaph: oh my god! (laughs)

Etho (overlapping): (laughing) that's perfect, man, that was perfect. flawless.

Zedaph: what an instrument, what a beautif—Etho—

Etho (overlapping): ohhh my goodness—

Zedaph: big round of applause for your wonderful noteblocks there, that was—

Etho: and—and to you with your percussions! amazing.

Zedaph (overlapping): (laughing)

end description/transcript.

[ewwww-what]

Just watched boys night. Will never be normal again.

[ink-the-artist]

holy shit I did NOT realize how popular my "I will remove my teeth, for I want to remain kind despite my anger" quote is. I just googled it for fun to see what would come up, a bunch of people are quoting it not knowing who its from, an artist called Kuma made an album titled that, so bizzare

[gulducock]

look at this pic i found on twitter

[singeryuri]

Ykw quick shout-out to selfshippers who for any reason dislike the popular ships in whatever fandom their f/o is from. Shout-out to everyone who has to block a bunch of ship tags or who can't go into their f/o's tag without seeing some kind of ship art they dislike or feel uncomfortable with.

Your discomfort is fully valid and you know your f/os best! They adore you, no matter what the fandom says, even if there's a lot of people who say otherwise or ship them with other characters, I promise.

pro.shippers this doesn't apply to you, get out

[wastefulreverie]

girl wake up im writing a no one knows au sequel

“Danny, one of these days you have to tell us what’s up,” Sam said. “You can’t stretch yourself thin like this forever. Whatever your secret life has you doing.” “I don’t have a secret life.” Which is exactly what someone who had a secret life would say, but Danny obviously evaded this with the loophole that was being dead. His secret half-life was also none of their business.