#the hell hacking forum

[petrawood]

I saw someone post a tweet about how a lot of people in the Inquisition must have suspected that something was off about Solas, and out of all of them Bull knew that there was something fishy going on for SURE but the scope of the whole thing was just too big for him to have guessed exactly what was going on.

So, that made me think how the whole reveal must have been like if it actually happened in our world and oh my god it's SO ridiculous.

Btw, this is obviously OOC, but it's just. Solas makes SUCH a character oh my god.

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Imagine you are an Interpol agent that joins the CIA for this one very important and very specific mission. Everyone knows that you work for another organization and you are a trained and highly competent agent, but the situation is so dire that the CIA is basically hiring everyone who could help.

So, there is this one very weird guy.

He wears an old hoodie and yoga pants. When asked where he came from, he tells you that he is into outdoor living, so just "outside, you know, somewhere". He has no qualifications apart from being a skilled hacker and really really really good at navigating the Deep Web. In fact, he's an expert at it, to the point of being the Deep Web specialist of the team. He walks around BAREFOOT.

He is a WEIRDO.

You assume he is just some guy probably over his head, pretty helpful but that's kinda it. You are going to keep an eye on him anyway, as you keep an eye on most people.

And suddenly, things start no adding up.

You ask him how he learned to hack into the deep web and he answers that he just likes sleeping under bridges and there is very good internet connection there, so he ended up learning. He doesn't elaborate.

For a guy that spends all his time sleeping on the floor and hunched over a computer, you notice that he is actually BUILT. You cannot tell over the oversized hoodie, but that guy has muscle. Once it comes up, he looks you in the eyes and tells you that that's just normal when you live in the outside like him.

You need somebody to pilot an helicopter. He knows how to pilot an helicopter. "Oh, I just watched a video tutorial. You know, in the Deep Web".

You need to steal some nuclear codes. "Oh I know how to cancel those nuclear codes. I found a lot of documents explaining how to do it. You know, in the Deep Web".

You need to plan a coup. "Oh yeah I know all about backstabbing politics. I found a list of all the relevant politicians and the country's corrupt history. You know, in the deep web"

You are in the middle of said backstabbing and he's slightly tipsy looking fondly at the whole thing like "oh how I missed the vibe of a nepotist state. No one throws a party like corrupted politicians- Not that I've been in one before, of course. I've only seen videos. You know, in the deep web"

He drives the other two expert hackers out of their minds. "I don't know how you managed to get this position, you don't even have a Doctorate" "Doctorates are overrated, I think you all would do better if you came to vibe under a bridge like me"

He actually is OBSESSED with overthrowing institutions.

The hackers tear him a new one because they find his Hacker Drip lacking (fair). And he smells like Cheetos.

"I made a lot of friends on the Deep Web forums"

At this point you are convinced that this guy HAS to have something else going on. There is simply NO way someone would know so many things from his deep web premium access under a bridge.

Your best bet has to be that he's another secret agent, a very highly trained one at that, right? Or maybe a highcore antifa member? He either has inside information of the CIA or he's looking for it. But he has been ridiculous helpful so far, so you just can't tell what he's hiding and why.

And then one day guy, this FUCKING guy.

He shows up and tells your Boss that he's actually the ancient god Loki from the Nordic pantheon. That he created death, but is sorry so he's actually going to join the Earth with Heaven and Hell. A lot of people would die because of the Demons and you know, Earth as it is not existing anymore, but that's a sacrifice he's willing to make.

Now tell me, how the FUCK were you supposed to guess THAT.

[artsekey]

I really hate how ads have taken over the internet. On one hand, I know that hosting a website costs money, right? And ad revenue is one of the simplest ways for free-to-use websites to cover their operating costs.

My question is-- and I would genuinely love an answer-- is this ever going to stop? Tumblr ran for a long time without ads. So did Youtube. I know that the cost of hosting so much media has gone up, but there are a lot of users on these websites that make the content that drives people to use the service that don't see any of the money generated by this revenue. On Youtube, there's at least a way for creators to make some money from what they do. For most, it isn't much, but the opportunity is there. On Tumblr, well... the ability to convert the visibility of my blog into any financial gain practically nonexistent, though they did at one point promise that users would be able to make money from ads run on their blogs (whatever happened to that, Staff?).

"You can pay to avoid seeing ads!" Tumblr says, as if the views on my main blog alone over the past few years have not generated more than enough ad revenue to cover the price they're asking me to pay, the person who is actively making content that brings eyes to their ads.

I'm not mad at Tumblr for hosting ads. I get that it has to happen because it's the easiest way to keep the site free, and honestly, I imagine Tumblr's staunch opposition to monetization has been a real obstacle for the team building Tumblr. But at the same time, it feels like yet another small concession in the usability of the site. I'm tired of ads that auto-play with blaring audio while I'm scrolling. I'm tired of adds that, if I touch them while trying to scroll past them, take me to an external site. Outside of tumblr, I'm tired of looking for information online only to get a webpage that's 95% ads and otherwise illegible. Hell, I recently got an ad on Discord. Was it unobtrusive? Maybe. But it was there, for the first time, and I know that won't be the end.

I know the first reply I'm going to get on this is "use adblock", and yes, that's a solution, but think about how much the landscape for media has changed in just ten years.

Popular forums are basically gone outside of reddit.

Youtube, without Red, is ad hell. You can't watch more than 3-4 minutes of video without getting sent to marketing hell.

Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter-- it's terrible. I firmly believe they've manufactured a worse experience through the implementation of ads to convince you to buy into their premium services.

Just Check out this video of Penguinz0 trying to watch a video on a third-party site.

There's discussion of putting ads into video games.

Remember when games didn't include micro-transactions? Blizzard is charging $70 for one mythic skin. You could almost buy Overwatch 1 twice-over at that price-point.

Influencers make a living by making their lives into advertisements.

Youtube has retaliated against users using ad-block on non-chrome browsers by artificially inflating the load times of it's videos.

What can we do about this? I imagine companies see it as an infinite money hack; users can't stop companies from hosting ads, and the action they could take to voice their displeasure-- leaving the site, using other competitive services-- has been all but obliterated thanks to the homogeneity of popular social media outlets. If someone is truly so incensed about ads, well-- it isn't like they have to engage with them, right? They can enroll in a cheap, auto-renewing service to get rid of ads entirely. Well, wait, the price of premium might just have to go up. Don't worry, it's auto-renewing! You won't even notice it. Oh, no, it's got to go up again, you won't even notice it.

There's no incentive for them to cap this behavior, and no way for us as users to pressure them to do so. We create these spaces; we fill them with color, art, activism, community, and the companies that ride on the tailcoat of the spaces we create tell us to give them more. What comes next?

[0rainy0muses0]

@waveobeans asked: Mairu is quick to rush into the room, pointing a dramatic finger at her older brother. "Iza-nii!" She declares, Kururi following her close behind and leaning her head on her twin's back. "I *know* you've been fucking Shizuo! That means, by your own logic of calling him a monster, you are a monster fucker!"

🞠~☔︎~🞠 Unprompted 🞠~☔︎~🞠 Always Accepting 🞠~☔︎~🞠 Izaya Orihara

It'd been a quiet day so far, his morning spent staring at his computer screens until they felt burnt into his retinas, the after images dancing in his vision whenever he looked at the walls. Information gathering isn't always glamorous or risky or exciting; sometimes it's boring and migraine inducing, scrolling through forums and chat rooms for anything that might be of interest.

Namie had left sometime around lunch, traded a few vague and halfhearted barbs with her, a slow wave the only response to the middle finger she flashed on her way out. Perhaps she didn't sleep well either? Or was she up stalking her brother through the streets again? Well whatever, it's not any skin off his bones.

Izaya's just cracked open his fourth canned coffee of the day when he heard a commotion outside his doors, followed by the twins bursting in. He regrets giving them this address, even for cases of emergency, which this is NOT, he can already tell. Still, he merely raises an eyebrow and takes a gulp as Mairu begins her rant.

It goes in a far different direction than expected.

He chokes on the bitter drink, closing his mouth in a vain attempt to save his laptop--but it instead shoots out through his nose and all over his lap. Izaya starts hacking, grabbing for the box of tissues kept by his elbow. His eyes are streaming now, his brain sending out 'WHAT THE FUCK' on repeat. Of all the goddamn things for them to come out with!

"What...what the hell is WRONG with the two of you?!" Izaya half shouts, half croaks--dissolving back into coughs right after with his throat feeling very raw indeed.

[brucewaynehater101]

Cooked up an AU based on the Power Rangers & Digimon asks

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Power Rangers Digital Division

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Introducing Timothy "Tim" Drake, Batclan fan extraordinaire

Seriously, you should check out all those hero photos he's caught

And you wanna know what's better than being way too young to stay up all night for one special interest? Two special interests!

Particularly these weird .mon files he keeps finding on his journey to hacking mastery. He can't decipher them quite yet, but they look so interesting and there's so many designs

It's only when screen-of-death blue and ones and zeros climb from his keyboard to his arms and the rest of his body does he realize that biting off more than you can chew is very, very real

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Introducing Subject "Thorn" 13, escaped clone extraordinaire

Hard to not be the very best escapee when you're the only escapee. Same with being a thorn to child protective services

Good thing he got out of Metropolis soon as he could, Mr. Lex had nothing good to say about Superman back in the lab, and given the horror he was also experiencing second hand about mere cops? he trusts those tales

There's a reason he keeps kryptonite on his person, hearing and smelling and hearing so many horrible things is too much

Eat the rich, but they're good for some things

He paused his thoughts to look at his one and only companion. well, not really, but he can barely take care of himself, so a digital alternative is much preferable

Thorn was proud to say he stole it from the labs themselves. People called it an off-brand tamagotchi, but he'd say it was even better

Yuramon. It was even more plantlike than him. Demanding he be near quality soil and bath it's screen in sunlight in the real world

Sunlight on his skin, nobody questioning his presence, and no acts of cruelty nearby, he's never felt safer . . .

Ding!

[Yuramon is ready to digivolve and it wants you to see it up close and personally!]

[Will you plug in to an internet connected device?]

[Yes] / [No]

Say no to that? Hell no! He had a phone right on his person

He quickly ran to a vacant alleyway. He wanted to keep this special moment all to himself!

Connecting to the local library's wifi, he was careful to not break anything as his devices connected

Yuramon was right there on his phone screen, ready to Digivolve! Grow!

It's when his screen began to glow brighter than the highest setting and his hands were irremovable from the screen he realized something was up

Yeah when it felt like he was being sucked into the glow he had an idea where this was going

He was going to become a missing person, they'd figure out a child who stole Luthor tech vanished because of it, and Superman would get on his case

Oh come on! He stole his phone from a cop! Why is he suddenly getting the "hero learns a moral" treatment?

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Bart, frankly enough, didn't trust this world. past present or future

There was a reason the Earth was cooked if his memories and this time period's social study books were any indication

Not even the digital world faced world ending threats as often. granted, it kind of already ended itself . . .

But with him and Terriermon by each other's side, they'll find a way back; They're in this together!

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Pursurimon! Pursurimon! Pursurimon!!!1 Cassie blasts onto the keyboard

Could you blame her? Her mother just uncovered a wicked (recent!) artifact and she already got permission to blab

She attached a picture of the rusted item to her message

[Pursurimon] Woah!

[Pursurimon] My friend found one as well

[Wondrland] huh??///

No fucking way

[Pursurimon] Can I show you through the screen?

Accept Pursurimon's Request?

Yes / No

a video chat she had to assume. They've known each other long enough that she's comfortable with it

Going off topic, this forum needed to get itself together. the team might be small, sure, but not everyone could put cryptic pop-up messages and clues together

It's only after clicking yes and getting dragged through the screen with claws, that Cassie thinks there was probably more to internet safety than she thought

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This AU is takes ideas from both Digimon animes, and various Power Ranger series

Short explanation. Tim accidentally digivolved a .mon while messing with a DigiMorpher through the screen. using the digivolution energy, the .mon dragged him into the digital world cuz it was curious

Cassie's mom found a DigiMorpher and Pusurimon thought "it's fate!" and asked a friend to drag her in while it was busy draggin in Tim. Cassie & Pusuri met through the forum

Cassie coming in with her own DigiMorpher digivolved Pusurimon to Herissmon

Luthor was poking around the digital world and decided to try and raise a loyal digimon from birth. The baby wasn't even meant to hatch yet, he intended to have it be a designer baby

Thorn stole a very vulnerable prototype. When it's time to Digivolve at last, Yuramon used the vulnerabilities to meet it's partner face to face at last w/ the help of a DigiMorpher

Bart and Terriermon already had their own & figured out how to turn it on at long last (for whatever reason it would not turn on), this allowed them to reenter the digital world

This is also the eighth's first meeting altogether

In a nutshell; Tim and Commandramon, Cassie and Herissmon, Thorn and Petimeramon, Bart and Terriermon

confused? Me too. I'm jumping from section to section typing this up as we go along

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I didn't make a backstory of lore lol

Basically, the four are the DigiDestined chosen to wield DigiMorphers, special Digivices that not only Digivolve their partners but also allow the wielders to DigiMorph into the Power Rangers of the Digital Division; Digivision for short

They are a special group of Power Rangers meant to protect the Digital and Real World from threats connected to the Digital World or will have a negative effect on it

These DigiMorphers come with the ability to transport their holder and whatever/whomever they choose between the two worlds

Furthermore, as their partners, the four Digimon get this for free, no DigiMorpher required

Oh frick, the actual Power Rangers part

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Tim Drake - Virus Ranger, suit's main color is blue camouflage just like his partner's

Thorn - Data Ranger, suit mixes yellow & orange w/ accents of red

Bart Allen - Vaccine Ranger, cream with a secondary green

Cassie Sandsmark - Free Ranger, silver with golden accents

When transformed, their partners will gain pieces of armor matching or similar to the ranger's suits. in Commandramon's case, a full wardrobe change

I was agonizing over what classic colors to give the four, until I realized it was completely unneeded, canon is our bitch

DigiMorpher suits are designed to integrate traits and colors of the ranger's partner

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Team dynamics!

// Bart is from a dystopic future and was placed in a virtual reality to experience growing up in a body matching his mental age. Except he got booted into a post-apocalyptic Digital World. Oh, and he could use the speed force without restriction here

There he met Terriermon and they've been partners ever since, they also found an inactive DigiMorpher. It's a mystery they've spent forever trying to solve

By the time his mind caught up with his body, the two got booted again to what the rest call present time. Likely due to the two experimenting with the speed force or using it for something else for whatever reason, maybe it was even intentional

Due to growing up and only remembering the digital world, learning about Earth through lingering data, Bart is the de facto leader for any operations dealing with Digimon or the Digital World

However, the Digital World he and Terriermon knew was post-apocalyptic, and they know next to nothing about their Earth, much less it's history-now-present

They have their work cut out for them relearning and learning so much. Feeling out of place in their home will probably also be an angst point even if the digital world truly is better this way than it was in the future

// Tim Drake, by virtue of extensive parental neglect and a load of natural curiosity, knows the most about superism and the Real World, missions taking place there or regarding it falls onto him to work with

// So Bart and Tim are co-leaders of sort

// Cassie—by virtue of her divine lineage—is best suited for conversing with Digimon of divine/irl cultural origin. Direct relation to the Zues puts a foot in the door. She's close with her mother and has learned plenty of several cultures so the knowledge will help as well

((see the wikimon's page for list of mythological refs in digimon))

All there is to worry about is how much she knows in the first place and the cultural differences of the cultures of an entire digital world!

// Thorn—seconded by Bart—has the most learning to do

Whereas Bart has to relearn a familiar but unfamiliar world and a brand new one, Thorn has to learn two new worlds at once

Thorn is a clone fed so many lies by Luthor and he's only just figured out that some of his world is built on lies

He and Petimeramon have a long way to go, but him telling the crew his backstory may just give them a head start to listing down their future rogues gallery 

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if Jason still dies and Batman spirals just like in canon, instead of Tim cleaning up after him—

Well Tim is still gonna make sure the victims are recovered from his rampage, but he's not going to become Robin. he has his own team

Instead he and Dobermon (less obvious artillery and thus less likely to make Batman think bad of them) are going to force Batman to listen to them and maybe request their teammates or other digimon they can recruit for backup

This is an intervention. Batman will either put up the cape and only come back if he attends therapy and genuinely recovers enough from his grief to be a sufficient hero again

Should Batman continue brutalizing Gothamites however, they will chase him down and have him imprisoned legally for as long as the law allows

"Do you want to keep being a hero Batman? It's yes or no."

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Attributes!

Ever since entering the Digital World (with Bart being an exception, we'll get to him when we get there) the four gained Attributes which they share with their partners. Thank the DigiMorphers for that

// Tim has the Virus attribute, as he has been hacking and distorting data for a good while

Plus Commandramon can camouflage in real time, something Tim had to learn to get Batphotos

// Cassie has the Free attribute, since she's descended from Zues who existed before technology, much less attributes, ever existed

Herissmon stores treasures in its fur only shared with close friends, a nod to Helena's archeology career

// Thorn ignores his Kryptonian heritage, wants nothing to do with supers, and tries to pass for human for his own personal peace, hence the Data attribute

His partner starting off as a petimeramon in the Baby II stage instead of Child stage like everyone else's is also a metaphor for how much learning they have to do

// Bart has a Vaccine Attribute due to having future knowledge and can thus act against threats that otherwise would have succeeded ahead of time

Oh, and a big reason for the apocalypse the Digital World went through was the X Program, which Bart and Terriermon only knew the aftermath of

Terriermon was born into the Digital World with a dormant X-Antibody of its own while Bart got that and his Vaccine attribute after the two agreed to be partners

The X Program has been dormant itself too, but better safe than sorry, the surviving digimon of the apocalypse say

I haven't come up w/ exact details but when in the Digital World, or in Ranger form, their attributes become more prominent in some way, shape, or form. Doubly so doing both at once

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They are the second generation of the Digivision, and even if information on their predecessors exist, it leaves a lot to be desired

So instead they must turn to the morphers themselves; Tim takes it upon himself to try and crack—maybe even jailbreak—them

It's up to the writer how much information they can yield from the morphers, plus the intricacies of the task (for example, say Tim need the morpher's wielder presence or even aid to avoid meeting an even greater firewall), but it's going to a tough and long ride 

Maybe there's episodes where Tim or others fuck up when he's hacking places in the Digital World or the DigiMorphers or even the mechas and hijinks ensue as they cope with and try to fix their mistakes

I don't even know how they figure out the whole DigiDestined and Power Rangers deal 💀💀💀 we can worry about that later lol

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"Power Rangers, Digitize!" that's the transformation phrase

Maybe because the morphers were found rusted, in a destroyed Digital World, and otherwise left to rot for a good while

That could be a plotpoint, all the DigiMorphers are damaged in their own unique ways, repairing them requires different solutions but unlocks stronger features over time

Initially they can only transform or Digivolve, neither at once

but as their Morphers get repaired they unlock transforming and digivolving, weapons, biomerging, and the obligatory mechas

Except I want it to be a blend of biomerging and my memories of typical power ranger mechas

And I think I have a compromise. When it's time to bring the mecha out, the respective Ranger and Digimon have to be biomerged, turn into pure Data, and then they can go into the mech as data, and pilot it from there

So they effectively become the mech in a sense

When making the obligatory megamecha, it's basically eight people synchronized into one until it's time to unmerge

Said mechas are scattered across the Digital and Real world, so the team has to learn/know they exist, find them, and first time using them manually transfer them across worlds if they want to.

Later on as Morphers get repaired they can summon their mechas across worlds and to their coordinates with a command, but early into using them, this time sensitivity is going to be something they have to manage

Idk what they'd even be called I just know they exist in this au

I got nothing else lmao 💀💀💀💀

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So the DigiDestined are like, really young here, like somewhere around ten to thirteen, which begs the question

Do they look like adults in Ranger form or are obviously kids?

The former gives secret identity security + identity shenanigans + dramatic irony, while the latter can be used for Outsider POV angst and humor as kids whoop their elders asses

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Also as the Power Rangers Digital Division make a name for themselves, I think they'd try to make connections in the Digital World and maybe the real one too to gain manpower and ease the weight off their shoulders

Since they have to focus on the duties they got dubiously selected for, any other time spent outside of obligatory Ranger and DigiDestined stuff would be spent doing volunteer work and other lowscale street level stuff, like so low scale it's barely even crime fighting

I'm taking saving cats from trees lowscale

If anyone argues against them being so low-level in the super scene, even by streetlevel standards, people immedietely point to the rare times a gigantic monster popped up which only the eight were equipped to fight against via their own megamecha

and the statements where they said they're very focussed on fighting threats before they reach the kaiju vs megamecha point of fighting

its even worse if they are very clearly children

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Tim does not tinker with a digimon data on the principle that he is not playing god in a way that can go dramatically wrong but he does learn how to observe the data. Data he can record

Later on, he learns when transformed &/or in the digital world, he can view their own DNA as if it were data and some of that data in Terriermon's and Bart's is the X-Antibody they've talked about

If he can activate it, he can unlock more digivolutions and security and a major leg-up against their foes in general

Maybe he can even give it to his whole team and other allies giving them an edge in battle

And they don't need to worry about the X Program at all if they play their cards right, right?

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Wait how does this affect Young Justice/Teen Titans and canonical relationships---?

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Extra notes

Petimeramon digivolves into a candmon the first time in hopes of giving back the sunlight Thorn gave them; alas, they became a Data Attribute who couldn't

But maybe later down the line, they can become a Coronamon and give Thorn that sunlight they want to give back

Came up with Thorn's name when figuring out a believable shortening of "Thir" in "thirteen"

Heck ya boy isn't gonna like that they share a villain with Superman from the very start, that guy said Superman would have him killed!

But Cassie and Tim can teach the facts of Luthor's villainy, just how deep it goes, and the truth to contradict the lies he lived trusting

Heck if digimon based on irl mythology and the real deals interact, wtf is gonna happen? Cassie my girl, will you be okay?

Remember the post about Tim not seeing himself as obligated to follow Batman's morality? Dobermon, who Commandra can digivolve to, has the power to steal abilities and destroy Digicores, which sound up his alley when push comes to shove

idk if other power ranger groups exist here or not but the crossovers between would be fun

I mean, the words Digital Division implies other groups so that can go into the team's research as well

Heck maybe some Power Rangers are retired and or still active and there's a sideplot where after learning of the Digital Division, they try to track them down to give their own guidance and support

The wikimon is your savior if you dunno anything about digimon like me

Main thing that made me drop the idea of doing ranger colors is the fact that Bart or Tim are both team leader at least at the start

I was like "how do I make them both red & thus leader?" then I remember that fanfiction is all about heresy against canon lol

This is basically Digimon with Power Rangers tacked on, maybe the Digital Division was formed when previous rangers met digimon due to threats to the two joined together and stuck for a good long time? idk my brain is cooked

I think seeing Barbara duke it out against Digimon or the Power Rangers and even manage to get herself her own Digivice, maybe even a DigiMorpher, perhaps even a DIY version, would be fun

Barbara getting her own Digimon and being an outside context problem the Power Rangers don't even anticipate would be fun af to explore, even more her diy-ing a digivice or even morpher

While the digimon start off in one evolution branch with the same attribute as their partners, later on they will experiment with their entire trees

Speaking of evolution tree's, all I got for go-to adult stage evolutions at the start are Dobermon for Commandramon and Galgomon to Rapidmon for Terriermon

Feel free but not pressured to add onto this as you wish!

I know absolutely nothing about Digimon and only a slight bit more about Power Rangers. However, this was fascinating to read.

Some aspects I loved about this AU:

Kon's name being Thorn. Since he never meets Superman, that makes so much sense! Fics where Kon has a different name would be cool to see/explore (especially if he was glancing at alternative versions of himself).

The digital world with YJ was a very interesting concept to think about. Idk much about Digimon, but there's a ton of cool ideas to explore just with the notion that YJ has to protect an alternate dimension (dimension meaning one connected to their world but not easily accessible by the populace [like hell, virtual internet, some shit Raven sees, etc.])

Barbara would become God if she got her hands on this world, and I am here for that. That woman deserves to be worshiped and praised

The attributes are hella cool and definitely fit the characters well

Threatening Batman with jail time :D

YJ meeting sooner than canon. It's just such a cute concept

The nod to Spider-Man with the smaller level crimes

There's more, but those stuck out.

I really loved your little comments throughout and "canon is our bitch" specifically made me laugh.

I am curious about the other yj members. Would they have this AU's powers temporarily while they are part of the team?

[phlurrii]

Hihi there!!!! I Hope You don’t mind me sending in an ask, but I’m planning on doing the glitch that allows you to transfer the glitch Mew from Red & Blue to Pokémon HOME that you talked about in this post;

https://www.tumblr.com/phlurrii/715585175997825024/okay-were-2-day-late-but

And I was wondering if you could elaborate on what you meant by them loosing their nicknames??? Do all transferred Pokémon from Red/Blue loose their nicknames, or is it just Mew???? And how did you change it back??

Again I really really hope you don’t mind this ask!!!!! I know it’s a really random one but I came across your post when researching for this glitch to make sure I had everything prepared and I’m pretty Attatched to the name I gave my Mew!!!!

Nah I don’t mind at all! Lowkey I thrive off talking about glitches, if you let me I’ll ramble for hours and refuse to let you leave. So I am much more than happy to help ;D

Okay! So regarding the nickname, sadly yes, bank will auto remove all nicknames from any Pokémon off virtual consoles. Whether it’s RBGY or SGC, that shit gets dunked upon transfer. I did not know that initially and was devastated when I found out. However, there ARE solutions to fixing it!

1) Hacked 3DS console, if you know or can find someone with a hacked 3DS you can trade them your lil guy and they can change the name. Obviously the cons of this is the person could scam you, take the mew, and dip. So I highly suggest cloning your mew through any means necessary before handing over a copy. This is what I did, I have a handful of backups of my goobers in general as well.

1.5) if you want to clone your goobers, you can buy a Power Save Pro for 3DS games and clone them there, or you can clone your mew in Pokémon Red… however this is SUPER risky and can corrupt and erase your entire save file. This happened to me once, but if you have no other choice… then I wish you luck solider.

2) transfer your goober up to switch and locate someone with a modded switch, they can do the same thing. Nickname it, send it back. Again I suggest cloning before hand, if you have a cloning egg in SWSH or know someone who does, that’s your best bet. If you don’t, you may have to risk it. However there are people on Reddit who charge like 2-3 bucks to nickname pokemon. I’ve done it before, but frankly I’m looking into just getting a modded switch lol

3) Poke Hex, this is the most complicated way, as it requires a computer, an extra device, dumping your 3DS file onto it, and going into your games code to re-nickname the mew via this lovely program called pokehex. This was originally the method I planned on, but had a nice bloke offer to help me. The good part about this method is it’s entirely just you, no trading or 3rd parties. They have a dedicated forum for assisting too ^^

In summary, there is not an easy way to do it, but if your a nut case like me you’ll find a way or hell will freeze over X3

I’ll also offer my own SWSH cloning egg to help if you can find someone with a modded switch, cuz frankly I need that hook up as well lol, anywho I wish you luck on the gameboy mew adventures ;3

[astralfist]

Dash Game: Behind the Mun

Name: Celes

Most Active Muses: Craig, sometimes Christophe, and some muses on my multi (Tweek mostly, though aside from him probably sometimes Enjolras and Moze)

Experience: Uhhhhhhhh.... xanga???? Myspace... Does facebook count????? I think I kinda tried to write on gaiaonline before. MSN, skype, AOL... I was also on a Fire Emblem RP forum, but I don't remember the website. It's probably dead anyway. Aniroleplay, oneworldrp (idek if that's a thing anymore, but anirp and owrp are basically myspace 1.0). There was also sitemodel which was the same as anirp and owrp, but I think that site got hacked long ass time ago??????? idr. I'm kinda old btw.

Fluff, Angst, or Smut: I'm a huge sucker for angst. Fluff is good too. I am strictly selective on smut.

Long or Short Replies: IDK it kinda depends on the thread????? I try to match lengths with my partner. Sometimes I'll write short replies. Sometimes it might be long replies. -shrugs-

Pet Peeves: DON'T FUCKING GIVE ME ONE-LINERS. If it's just mere shenanigans, sure. But for threads???? NO! BAD! I WILL DROP THE THREAD IMMEDIATELY! If y'all really dunno how to respond to our thread(s), I'd rather the thread just be dropped tbh.

Are You Like Your Muse: Well... I'd be lying if I said Craig wasn't really a mood for me LOL. Not saying we're EXACTLY alike either though, but Craig is a guy who tends to be tired of people's bs, and well, that's a big mood for me too lololol. This still does not mean I'm Craig and Craig is me, even though I cosplay the guy. I am me. Craig is... Craig. The guy that's known to flip people off.

Time to Write: I'd say barely or rarely now. I use to have a lot of freetime to write before I became a friggin adult. But now... I barely or rarely have time to write these days :( Also hence me being selective cuz I'm not always around. I'm slow as hell with replies ic or even ooc. Sometimes I also get overwhelmed that I take a break for who knows how long.

Tagged by: @flameandindifference

Tagging: Whoever feels like doing this

[coolgreatwebsite]

Happy 1 Million Views to the Video That Broke Me

This is a repost of something I wrote over on my Cohost, but I figured a year later it should also probably live on the domain I pay money to have. Better late than never!

This is the most successful piece of content I have ever created. At one million views it is the thing I've made that people have seen the most. It is the thing that the most people have seen my name attached to. And it's total trash.

It's 2017 and we're a week or so out from the release of Sonic Mania, a game that I'm, at that point, pretty damn excited for. A kindly poster from the Something Awful forums (that I have known from many forums previous) poses a challenge: be the first to beat his short kaizo Sonic the Hedgehog 2 ROM hack and he'll gift you a copy of Sonic Mania on Steam when it comes out.

I was already getting the game on PS4 but I figured whatever, everyone else seems to be having trouble with it, I'm bored, I got nothing better to do, I'll give it a shot. I load up KEGA Fusion, start a low bitrate and resolution OBS recording because it'll probably take a few hours and who cares it's a forum contest verification video, and get to work. A hour and half-ish goes by and I'm finished with the hack. I upload the video to YouTube, post it in the thread, win my free copy of Sonic Mania, and that's the end of the story. Thanks for reading.

Except of course it's not the end of the story. A few months after I got done thoroughly enjoying Sonic Mania, I realized that I'd been getting a weird amount of new subscriber emails from YouTube. I decided to actually look at my metrics and noticed a uh, highly localized spike of activity. Give you one guess on which video (hint: it's the one this post is about). "The Algorithm" had suddenly taken it and was running away with it at lightning speed.

In the timespan between posting the video and this spike, YouTube had announced they were drastically raising the bar on the metrics you needed to hit to have your channel monetized. I was by no means a large YouTuber at the time, but I was meeting the old requirements for monetization just fine. I wasn't anywhere near meeting the new requirements until now and this video was blowing the hell up for whatever reason, so I decided to do what any good opportunist would do and made it an unwatchable experience.

I set the ad frequency on that thing to the maximum that it'd let me. I forget exactly how frequent that was but it was something absurd like an ad every 5 minutes. Maybe even more than that. I figured I'd either get rich or maybe it would make people stop watching and leaving the worst comments in the world. Seriously the comments on this thing are their own nightmare, a bizarre soup of people ascribing meaning to nothing, trying to suss out emotions where there are none, saying complete gibberish, I'd need an entire second post to unpack whatever the hell is going on there.

Well, I wouldn't quite say I got rich. The money you get off what most people would conventionally call a popular YouTube video is just not much in the grand scheme of things. But holy shit they didn't stop watching. If anything they were watching more. Why didn't they stop watching? This video was less than nothing. It was an ordeal to watch all the way through. Why were they doing this? Why was the algorithm showing this to everyone? Why this and not one of the things I put effort into or something that was at least meant to be entertaining at all? I didn't have the answers and I still don't.

Before this I personally wasn't lamenting the possibility of losing monetization on my channel as up until this point I had made around $40 total on YouTube in the decade or so I'd had a channel. But I had been spending a lot that time watching friends with channels around the size of mine who were actively hustling to, and unfortunately failing to, meet the new hurdle. They were putting out some really good shit. Way better than my stuff, frankly. And here I was getting launched to the finish line by... a throwaway, blurry, hour and a half long, commentary-free, save state abusing playthrough of a crummy Sonic ROM hack? That I had made as a means to a completely separate end?? That got promoted by a computer program for seemingly no reason???

It felt shitty. One of the friends I mentioned in that last paragraph was my longtime friend Fotts who was in the middle of getting their (sadly now dormant) series TAS Force off the ground. They were constantly tweeting about the ordeal of trying to meet the new monetization requirements and it was a damn shame because they were putting in a ton of effort and it was great. The kind of thing I'd watch even if I wasn't friends with anyone on it. It was a million times funnier than anything I was doing, and the complete opposite of my shitty contest video. If there was any justice in this world the views I was getting on this dumpster fire would be going to them. But as it turns out, there is no justice online.

I recalled a conversation I had with them a few years back while they, I, and a group of about 7 or so other friends were all wandering around an Orlando Wal-Mart wearing identical black t-shirts that read "MARVEL CAN SUCK MY COCK" in big block letters (long story). They had actually kind of gone through this sort of thing before. See, they're the uploader and one of the voices of this video you may or may not have seen with 6.5+ million views on it.

They lamented to me many of the laments I was currently lamenting. "This was just a stupid throwaway thing", "why is this so much more popular than the stuff I put effort into", "it's just me making PaRappa the Rapper say the word 'Chinese' over and over". Ok maybe that last one was a bit more specific to them. Anyway, I responded with (and I admit a lot of the reason I felt this way was because I thought and still think the video is funny) something along the lines of "you can't pick what hits for people, it might have been throwaway but at the end of the day you posted it because you thought it was at least a little bit funny, try and focus on the fact that you have a popular video at all rather than the fact it's not one of the videos you're particularly proud of".

But yeah damn turns out that advice is easier said than done when it happens to you, and it's even harder done when it happens to a factually not entertaining video. One you could have uploaded as unlisted and achieved your intended result with. The runaway success of this thing genuinely broke me on this whole "Internet" deal.

I should stress I mean this in a good way. I realized that it's not so much that you can't pick what hits for people, it's that you physically cannot pick what gets put in front of people. The people cannot pick what hits for them. A computer does. You can try and promote and affect what gets seen in your own small sphere of influence, but ultimately we are, on YouTube and on all of our social platforms, at the mercy of a black box of computer programs that I'm not even sure the people who created them understand anymore. I'd obviously known this on some level prior to this video existing, but bearing witness to it all happening firsthand to this video in particular was another thing entirely. Anything prior that I had achieved marginally similar success with (there were a couple that had broken 100k) was meant to be entertaining. It was meant for people to watch and go "I liked that", not for one guy on a forum to see and go "good work solving my maze Superman". I could classify the success as "neat, people liked that one" in my brain. This defied classification.

The only logical conclusion was that it truly didn't matter what I uploaded. It's all decided by a random machine picking things at random to serve random amounts of people, and the people click on it and watch it simply because it is there. You can poke at the machine, prod at the machine, try to guess what the machine likes, try to iterate on something the machine has previously demonstrated that it likes. It's all an effort to get the machine to put it in front of the people who will click it because it is there. That's what all the bigger capital-C Content Creators do. From the high level stuff of "what kind of things do I upload" to the low level minutia of "how many curse words can I say in the first minute", making it Big On Line in any capacity is about trying to appease an unknowable mechanical entity and nothing else. It's either that or you're "old money" in a sense, established before this all became the case.

And again, the bigger names do this. Entire companies do this. If I were "smart" I would have pivoted my entire YouTube channel to nothing but hour and a half long commentary-free bullshit hard ROM hack playthroughs. Maybe another one would hit like this did. But for the life of me I could not and cannot think of anything more soul crushing.

I wouldn't say I had aspirations to be a Big Time YouTube Man, but at that time I would have maybe liked to be a Moderate Size YouTube Man. Or a moderate size Twitch man. Someone who had people watching but was still able to have fun with it and do his own thing. This newfound realization that it was truly a random lottery, even beyond the random lottery that most of human life is, that becoming any size bigger than Small Time was literally decided by an actual factual random number generator, freed me from the desire to do anything that I didn't want to do. If actively chasing success on these modern, algorithmically-driven platforms, actively going after "Kaizo Sonic 2 Full Run" numbers, meant putting aside the things I like and reinventing myself and the things I do down to the minute details in order to appease a literal ghost beyond anyone's understanding or control that changes what it's looking for on a whim, then I did not want to do that. I did not want to keep a timer for when I could talk normal, I did not want to announce my streams on Twitter with the link in a separate reply one day, in an embedded image the next, and in my display name the next. If there is absolutely one thing I do not want to do in my life, it's dance for a robot.

But the most freeing thing about realizing this is that it also meant if I just kept doing stuff I liked, maybe, someday, I could get lucky enough to where the unknowable internet robot would push that in front of a million or so people. In the grand scheme of things it's about an equal chance of that happening on something I like and am proud of versus something I made in a desperate cloying attempt to placate an algorithm.

Anyway damn this got long and rambly sorry about that lol. This was initially meant to just be a little toast to the 5 year-ish anniversary of me fully becoming an Internet nihilist. Remember folks, it's meaningless to chase success in an algorithm dominated landscape. In the words of a certain extremely Normal-type man, "real life isn't all just being true to yourself", but I reject the notion that the Internet is not or should not be, in spite of the legion of ghouls and freaks at the top of the chain actively trying to make that the case every day.

Be true to yourself. Do what you love, make what you love, post what you love, and maybe if you're lucky a computer somewhere will decide it's your turn, because that's the single deciding factor in all of this. In the mean time, you'll end up slowly and naturally surrounding yourself with cool people who get you, if only a little bit. At least that's what's happened for me so far. I've been pretty alright with it.

[eleventhhourfactor]

How about 2 and 20?

In reference to this ask game...

2. What was the first story you've ever written?

On AO3? The Talbot Catalyst. Pinky and the Brain story where Pinky gets turned into a little wolfmouse, while Brain has to seek out both answers and a cure from the scientist who did it.

On the internet overall? Hoo boy. This is gonna date me and re-cringeify me, but...

Project Ava.

Sonic fanfic on the SEGA Forums (now defunct).

I essentially grafted Maximum Ride into Archie Sonic, and it's about as terrible as you'd expect. I was 12/13.

I know the internet archive hack was horrible, but I hope it wiped any last traces of that garbage from memory.

As for ever, in my life? Bucky the Squirrel. I will not be taking questions on that. I was in 1st grade.

20. Do you have one piece of advice for your fellow writers?

Don't sit and stew about something you're stuck on. Put it away. Go do something else. Hell, play a video game or something. Burning your brain to get another sentence out is just going to sour the experience—and likely result in something you'll take out anyway because it didn't hold up to review.

If you have writer friends, and they're cool with it, try reaching out for advice or pointers on writing situations that elude you or otherwise have you stumped. This can be about an interaction, a relationship, something cultural, even. Better to ask someone and seek out another point of view than to just sit and stew on it. It doesn't work for coding, and it sure as shit doesn't work for writing.

[4th-make-quail]

🍓🧃🌿 :3

🍓 ⇢ how did you get into writing fanfiction?  oohhh unofficially when I was really young I was SUPER into Discworld (obviously) and also Redwall, which I had been into on a special interest level for many many years. my first technical fanfiction was hand-written in a reporter's notebook, and it was a Redwall-Discworld crossover with Teatime from Hogfather in Redwall, teaming up with the foxes from Marlfox lmao. I was super into the Redwall villains in general and super into Teatime, so yeah. I can't tell you a thing about it, but that was it!

🧃 ⇢ share some personal lore you never posted about before personal lore!! let me thinkkkk 🤔 I used to be a moderator on the RPG (rping basically) board of one of the big Pokemon forums back in the day - Pokemasters! I modded that place for years, and I spent so much of my teen and older life on there, met some really good friends, some of whom I've met irl a bunch of times - including one time at MCM Expo in London where we all laid in a pile on the hotel bed and recited the entire pokedex one after the other.... nerrrdssss eheh.

We had SO much drama on that forum tho, holy shit. One time, one of the mods got hacked and the hacker went through and deleted whole long threads one by one across any boards she had mod privileges in, so I had to spend HOURS in first year of uni helping to restore them all, it was hell.

🌿 ⇢ give some advice on writer's block and low creativity My usual method for writer's block is honestly brainstorming or shooting the shit with friends! I take inspiration from a lot of things like music, random art pieces, random ass thoughts and those all help as well. Also about 70% of the time if I'm blocked on a scene, it often means it's come to a natural end and when I use my "skip the damn scene already!!!" method, it fixes it all!

I feel like for low creativity, it's good to;

a) let yourself have space from creating to let yourself get the energy back (think of that metaphor of farmers letting fields go to fallow between seasons)

b) experience creative things in other ways, such as reading books, watching films, playing video games etc. - just soaking up other art forms can be really helpful for your creative brain! If you can manage it, try to think about what it is that draws you to that thing, about how you could recreate that in your own works. If you're a writer, use it as a free-writing exercise with no pressure whatsoever, just noodling around

c) maybe try pick up a creative hobby in a different discipline than you're used to working in - it helps to stretch your brain and work different creative muscles if you feel like you want to! Being into multiple creative hobbies is one of my own most helpful things, because I always want to create things, and it gives me variety

d) but the most important: try to forgive yourself! Don't pressure yourself or feel guilty for it, everyone goes through the same thing at multiple points in their life. You've gotta be nice to yourself, don't rush things - they say creativity is like a muscle, you gotta let it rest if it's strained or injured, you know? You wouldn't be mean to someone with an injury, so think of it in a similar way.

[forthedancingandthethriving]

Random HCs I thought of while on Advil

- CPU, because of his name, is very analytical and observant. That, and he's very good at simplifying things in case he needs to (often for the kids when he visits).

- Crash, whenever he gets too emotional or angry, sometimes.. well, crashes. His body legit blue screens, and another Admin has to come and reset him.

- Buffer, Lag, and Ping sometimes have their bodies or voices not match what they're doing in the present moment. Aka buffering/lagging/pinging.

- To rectify the above, CPU often lends some of his power to the three so it doesn't happen as often. Though he does sometimes yank it away from Buffer whenever she annoys him.

- If Abyssal or Umbra aren't careful, when they get too angry, they can start to suck the visible light out of a room.

- Crash and CPU are making an effort to be friends with Antivirus.

- Domain and Forum can what's on the entirety of a website by just a glance. The number of times they've had to stop the gang from interacting with bad websites..

- You know that old lady who you know is always judging you for your choices? That's Cursor.

- Buffer sorta knows that Lag and CPU have a thing going on, but she doesn't speak on it or point it out. When they're ready to tell everyone, she'll be there for them.

- Lil Coding has gotten stuck in the ceiling before. No one knows how.

- Lil Coding, Lily, Bowser Jr. and Sage play 'Kidnap the Princess' once a week or so.

- SMG4 had a heart attack when he heard the music X used to use for WOTFI back in the day. Why? Because Mario used it for WOTFI Jr. between Lily and Lil Coding.

- Mario sometimes has nightmares about the Reset and 4&3 never reverting back to normal.

- Lil Coding enjoys having conversations with Antivirus whenever the Admin is around. The Code considers him a good friend.

- Lily is capable of holding her breath for much longer due to her ancestry, but not too much longer.

- Bob is the uncle you least expect to have, but when he watches over you, you have a hell of a fun time.

- The gang have so many inside jokes about what's happened to them that it baffles anyone who hasn't been included.

- Never get Antivirus, CPU, and Crash mad at you all at once. Remember they are part of the Division that handles punishments. They will team up to make a horrible punishment or something of the sort.

- 3&4 sometimes stiffen or jolt whenever they hear the word 'efficient' or 'efficiency'. A much better reaction than whenever they first exited their Resets, where their first and initial reactions to hearing hose words was to lock up and begin to have a panic attack.

- Domain and Melony sometimes have little coding sessions together so that he can help the demigodess hone her hacking skills for good.

- It's suuuper easy for Forum to fluster Domain. Way too easy. Everyone else struggles with it, but Forum can just say or whisper something and Domain is a blushing mess.

- Everyone kinda forgot that the Hologram Trio are, well, holograms! Because their holograms are solid and they can interact with them. They remembered this when they first met Umbra and Abyssal after the events of The Toxic Ringmaster.

- The amount of money a therapist could make from having sessions with any of them is insane (SMG3 doesn't count because of conflict of interest).

- Buffer and Juliano are aroace buddies.

- Juliano is in friendly contact with most of the Admins, excluding the nastier ones. He's also a sort of mentor/big brother figure to the other Avatars whenever they visit the SM64 universe, but that role is mostly reserved towards Mario.

- CPU does still smoke cigars, but he is cutting back since he's around the kids more often.

- Forum and Domain are the youngest Admins so far and the first and so far only former Guardians to ascend to Admins. All the other Guardians have had preexisting Admins be assigned as their Admins.

- 4&3 have absolutely pulled the "my dad was one of the prototype SMGs!" on some more of the nastier Admins whenever they rear their heads. They aren't ashamed of it.

- God help you if the Guardian System thinks you're doing something you shouldn't be around it. It's such a little shit.

- Abyssal has accidentally walked in on Ping and Umbra a grand total of 5 times. Each time they have gotten progressively more done.

- Lily sometimes goes to the Internet Graveyard with SMG3. The dead memes love her and many of the animal based ones like to follow her around.

- Domain&Forum are very much ship Emulator and Manifest. They aren't really worried about Manifest hurting Emulator in any way because they know she loves their little sister a lot and that Emmy can handle herself if something does end up happening.

[askmstau]

Before I fall back asleep Imma sends this in

But I had a dream that there was an event and like a new person is able to be asked questions n they had bright purple text but we didn't/don't know who they are and the way that they answered questions made it seem like they "hacked" into the forums in the canon n I remember wondering and sending in asks trying to get them to tell us who they are n I thought that they were maybe cory

Anyways ty for reading my strange dream about your au n blog I'll send in some actual asks in the morning <3

fuckin wild that my blog has managed to enter ppls dreams thats cool as hell (you cant escape) all im saying is that it's in reaching distance of being canon just putting it out there.

[bbg100]

I actually love this because this is a rare example of extensive l33t speak. For those who don't know, it was basically a way to get around forum content restrictions (so hackers could talk about hacking), I think it started in the 80s but by the time I was online and conscious (2008) it has already become established as both an in joke and a way to tease people who were 'new to the internet' (remember, a thing you used to be?). Homestuck, which started in 2009 btw, is one of the main things that has carried this method into the 2020s, which is fucking wild frankly especially considering the weird other methods of censorship people are doing to get around demonization and TikTok content limitations (unal1ve, etc).

Though pretty much everyone knows the very basic of l33t, like 3=e and 4=a, not many people know enough to read random l33t text. Which is what this tiktoker has inexplicably used to code a benign method.

The first thing about reading l33t speak is that it's more about the general look than any specific translation. To read it you usually have to take a step back from regular English language principles like 'letters' and accept that there's a little a in the center of the @ symbol. The second thing is that mirroring letters is way easier to understand than trying to find more mini letters in letters.

Let's take the first word, '0|<@¥'. First of all let's admit that looks baller as hell. Second of all

It does in fact say the word almost clearly. It just asks you to do two things- ignore excessive ornamentation (like the two lines that turn a Y into a¥, or the swoop that makes an a into a @), and secondly accept that some stuff is going to be in multiple 'pen strokes'. The lines align with how you'd write a k, as sourced from both the fact I write K's like that and this elementary school workpage.

But that's the part most Homestucks who weren't forum nerds pre 2010 can read. Let's talk about this ugly bastard

First of all, there is an established code by this point, but I understand that if you're trying to read this you've just trodded through mud and are frankly sick of it by now. This one uses mirroring heavily. That 6 is a d. That 3 is an E. The (, like the line movements in the letter K, follows the path of a C. And 1 is well known as an uppercase I. It's 'decided'.

I'm not saying understanding this is easy- the whole Point is to make something that code or automatic functions can't read, but humans can. But there's a certain amount group of rules that make this mishmash code into a bombtastic artistic commentary on how letters are fundamentally art. And how TikTok is a hellscape but that's my own art interpretation tm.

Okay pop quiz time! Using the principles of Mirroring, Stroke Path, and Hidden Mini-letters, what does this say?

[chrinopiqua]

Echoes of the Hive

Echoes of the Hive

March 2025. Alex sat in their cramped apartment, the walls feeling thinner by the day as voices flooded their head. "Hearing all my neighbors' conversations is the most annoying shit in the world. Shut the fuck uppppp 😒," they muttered, pressing their hands against their temples like that’d block it out. It wasn’t the usual city racket—honking horns or upstairs stomping. This was deeper, inside their skull, ever since that damn CommuneNet update hit last week.

CommuneNet was some new neural interface thing, rolled out by a tech startup to "bring communities closer." You’d get a little implant behind your ear, and it’d let you send alerts or organize building potlucks straight through your thoughts. Cool idea—until it started glitching. Now, Alex was drowning in random snippets of other people’s lives. Mrs. Chen from 12B obsessing over her son’s job hunt. The couple in 14C bitching about rent. Someone—couldn’t tell who—thinking dark, heavy shit that made Alex’s stomach twist.

It was relentless. Alex wasn’t built for this. They’d moved to this packed high-rise in Queens because it was cheap, not to play therapist to a hundred strangers. Their job—remote data entry—barely paid the bills, and the constant mental chatter was shredding what little sanity they had left. They just wanted quiet.

Fed up, Alex decided to do something. They weren’t a tech genius, but they could Google with the best of them. The CommuneNet support forum was useless—full of “we’re working on it” bullshit—so Alex took a shot in the dark. They sent a message through the system, hoping it’d reach anyone who wasn’t totally fried by the glitch: "Attention neighbors: If you’re getting unwanted thought broadcasts, meet in the lobby at 7 PM. Let’s figure this out."

To their shock, people showed up. Mia, a software engineer from the 10th floor, looked like she hadn’t slept in days. Mr. Patel, a retired professor from 8A, had a notepad full of complaints. A handful of others shuffled in, all pissed and frazzled.

“Thank fuck I’m not alone,” Mia said, rubbing her eyes. “I thought I was losing it.” Mr. Patel nodded. “This is a privacy nightmare. We can’t let it stand.”

They started talking it out. Mia figured the update had screwed up the neural sync, letting thoughts bleed between users. “It’s probably worse for some depending on how strong their implant’s signal is,” she said. Alex didn’t care about the why—they just wanted it gone. But Mia had a plan: tweak the frequency settings. It’d take work, but it might dampen the noise.

Over the next few days, they huddled in Mia’s apartment, laptops and coffee cups everywhere. Mia hacked away at the code while Alex kept everyone from strangling each other. Mr. Patel dug up old research on neural tech, and slowly, they pieced it together. A quick adjustment to the implant settings cut the chatter down to a whisper. Not perfect, but livable.

Something else happened, though. Working together, they started talking—really talking. Mia vented about her asshole boss. Mr. Patel admitted he missed teaching. Alex even let slip how much the noise messed with their anxiety. It wasn’t just about fixing the tech anymore.

One night, while testing the new settings, Alex caught a faint thought—sharp and desperate. Someone in the building was hurting, bad. It wasn’t their business, but it stuck with them. They traced it to 15D, where Jamie lived—a quiet guy Alex had seen in the elevator a few times.

Screw it. Alex knocked on his door. Jamie answered, eyes red, looking like he’d been up for days. “Hey,” Alex said, awkward as hell. “I don’t wanna pry, but... you okay? I kinda picked up on something.” Jamie stared, then shrugged. “Not really. Didn’t think anyone’d notice.”

They ended up talking for hours. Jamie spilled his guts—depression, feeling cut off, the works. Alex mostly listened, not sure what to say but figuring that was enough. When Jamie cracked a weak smile at the end, Alex felt something shift. Maybe they weren’t useless at this people stuff.

Weeks later, the group—now calling themselves “the Hive”—teamed up with some online coders and nailed a proper fix. The broadcasts stopped. Silence returned. But they didn’t just scatter. They started meeting up in the lobby, no implants needed. Potlucks, game nights, whatever. Real shit.

Alex still liked their alone time, but those gatherings? They weren’t half bad. The quiet was golden, but the people—Mrs. Chen with her dumplings, Mia with her sarcasm, Jamie starting to show up more—made it better. Turns out, hearing everyone didn’t have to be a curse. Sometimes, it was how you found your crew.

[despair-to-future-arcs]

What’s Ritsuko’s problem?

'I'm... not sure honestly, I don't really know about Ritsuko's home life.'

'You don't? Well does she mention anything...?'

'Well not really, the only thing I know is that she doesn't like her family very much; mostly she took interest in music due to her grandma and even mention learning a lot from her.'

'In fact, without her - Tackorocki wouldn't be where it is today!'

'I could tell, I did look up the forums; it seems that aside from choosing music she also wrote the lyrics, design the costumes you made, plan where events were gonna be held and all that sort, right?'

'Yeah, she did all that - she planned everything out and I think I would say that without her, our performances wouldn't be as good...'

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Date: August 17th, 2008

*As Ibuki walks in, she sees Ritsuko on her laptop...*

Ah Ritsuko, heya girl! What's going on...!

Damnit, they are beating us again! Shit!

Whoa... came at a bad time, huh?

Hey Ibuki, look here - seems those black cherries hack are trying to outshine us again...

*Ibuki walk over and look at the sales* Huh? Seems they sold like... 50 tickets ahead of us, must be good.

More like these assholes are trying to beat us, I mean hell the costumes and music isn't that good!

Hey everyone, sorry for being late! I just got this CD from Black Cherries!

What?! Kono the actual hell you traitor! *Ritsuko walk over and grab the CD which she throws in the trash bin*

He-Hey, Ritsuko give it back!

Why? I thought it was agree upon that we don't buy rival merch, so throw it out!

But I wanted to listen to their music...

So? If you listen to this music, everyone will think we are copying them! We are suppose to surprise them and prove we are better then them! So don't bring merch like this or listen to it! Got it?!

U-Understood...

Hey c'mon, don't yell at Kotono! She just wanted to listen to it!

Ibuki please don't start, as say - if we want our band to be better then these boy band hacks that only get attentions because sex sells then we need to prove it.

But isn't performing music about having fun and unity? We aren't doing this to be popular...!

Ibuki... I know you go on and on about all sense of unity or whatever but here's the thing; if you want to be the best, you have to work for it, meaning that you can't slack off or do whatever makes you happy even if it means we have to hurt our vocal cords then we will.

Remember, we are doing this to have people listen to our music, we want people to like our music, to buy it and get on the charts; we want to get notice and get our names out there but if we listen to others, we lose creativity and people will view us as nothing but uncreative hacks

I mean... I'm sure we all want that, right? We wanted to perform together to make sure the music club at our school stays open, right?

I mean... yeah, we are getting more members joining...

Exactly, as say - we have to make sure we are number 1 and work together; I mean if we get enough attention; maybe agencies or better Hope's Peak Academy will notice us.

Which means we need to make sure we work twice as hard then The Black Cherries and make sure we sold out better, so keep that in mind; I'll get to work on more songs but you better finish up the costumes and be sure the costume follows my design, not whatever you think.

*Ritsuko walks away, Manami and Himawari walk in*

... (I mean, Ritsuko is right... we all work as a band to become the best, I want people to listen to my music but not listening to other music, that isn't fun...)

'Ritsuko and I got into arguments like these; I just wanted to play but all she care about was business and attention; I mean yeah she made some points but I just didn't like it...'

[the-firebird69]

Thief Christmas Shopping, San Diego

These two are caught and it's queen Camilla Parker and John remillard. Apparently the king is actually doing work and John reavillard comes by to steal it quite often and he is picked on for it beat up arrested rolled it's going on all the time so they were arrested for this and as recently and it's not nearby and it was today and it's getting later on out there now it's dark cuz it's stormy off and on and they kept saying this the kid is right there so I wonder why they keep posting his stuff I wonder how that happens and he said that's a little weird I said yeah this guy into it and he goes and Tommy African time to the phones and it ties into the cameras he says what the f*** are we doing is he just sitting here bother me to bother you cuz the a****** thinks he can take over the apartment and he's stupid too then these huge groups and you want to ride them and you just trying to start fights with them and you and Tommy African disappear that's what the f*** is going on that's what you can't see that's why it's happening so it sounds beautiful even though you have they have you do it you're a p**** like a purse what do I do to deserve this I said that's what they decide to do with your crappy life and your crappy brain that's what they're doing they decided to do it to you they're doing it right now with this camera and you have absolutely no f****** clue at all you're the dumbest person I've ever seen I find out what you're doing to me and I'm doing a lot of stuff I'm not just blabbing like a woman and he got really mad and he said and apparently is what I'm doing he's got nothing has made it further than me he's got huge programs I'm exhausted from running around bothering him

So our son says go to hell because he's staying on such a s*** and you're admitting bothering me constantly it doesn't get you anything I'm getting damn sure that's true all the time as we have been so we're going to do that but he got arrested and help for a couple hours and they looked at the footage and it says threatening me and stuff also the cop got mad and he's holding on to him and said this a****** is taking me in with me in San Diego big time and messed around with Joe and Big Joe and he said you're this f****** douche were after and he's a psychology guy and has a history of this type of socialism and he goes like this I'm going to actually look into this and start looking through records a mental health and stuff like that and sees where he was and says where's my stuff and it was your guys are probably on the grounds and he says no he was doing other stuff there and also Tommy have said I'm going to find him and he send people and right now it's going on all over the world again to this piece of s***

Thor Freya

Olympus

Zues

Times up when you having an to talk whenever you want and to say things here this is our forum it's our blog if you try and hack into it we hack into your computers and we find your cashes and stashes thanks computers all sorts of stuff and information about you and Dave

Hera

[lost-technology]

Heh, heh, I want to analyze this. I picked Legato because of how people are here about words and policing their own communities, but now I'm thinking of scenarios... Elendira - I'd say she'd get some mileage, but she probably wouldn't stick around long enough to cause a Cat. 5 catastrophe. Tumblr staff would nuke her. Maybe she gets off a very grisly fictional story about the very detailed murder of J.K. Rowling first, though. It is applauded by the horror fans of the site. Arguments arise about violence and whether or not this user is actually planning something in real life. However it it gets the attention of Staff, some of which may harass her on other sites she goes to... Livio and Razlo, both ways: I am not very familiar with Systems and the unique challenges that they face. There would be an uproar (similar to the political fallout in the U.S. concerning Christi Noem) when Razlo talks about killing a puppy. No one can figure out whether or not this is a real account or a troll account. Legato - Blue hair does not a member or an ally make, and even if it does, well, what he used wasn't just the old timey common language that is now slur-territory that is forgiveable because that *was* the language back then and everyone is reminded to respect historical queer culture. Oh, no, he uses modern-terminology, fully aware. People see him as religious, in a cult and just aren't standing for his bigoted shit. Vash - I've actually seen this on the site and blocked the person harping on it because I found them annoying in my precious Trigun tag. I assume that this is about his flirting and harassment in the '98 anime and BLR. He may try to weasel out of it by telling you, quite humbly, that he used to drink a LOT back then. He's also a changed man (as of Stampede). Knives - No one thinks he's for real. Everyone interprets his calls to exterminate mankind for the good of the universe as some kind of over the top fake-environmentalist skit, like the "Captain Planet!" sketch on Robot Chicken. Wolfwood - He encourages children to smoke! Possibly gets into religious arguments, too, depending upon the incarnation. Likes to Bible-fight with religionblr for the hell of it, but misquotes Scripture all the time. Used to like picking fights with fedora-atheists on other forums back in the 2000s for fun. A little obnoxious, but not a threat. Most tumblrites think he's pretty cool, actually. Bernardelli Insurance Blog - One word: Capitalism. Rem - starts out as one of the interesting science-interest bloggers around here. She's like bogleech, revretch or headspace-hotel or any of the number of veterinarians on this site. She runs the sideblog "is-the-plant-video-cute" to answer people's questions on viral videos and pictures regarding whether or not the Plants in them are having a good time or are being abused. She also is well-loved as someone who teaches hacking and piracy. However, things blow up for her when she tries to whistleblow SEEDS on the Tesla-incident. Agents within the company try to shut her down or propagandazie a twisting of her words. Regular tumblr users have questions about the extent of her own involvement in the project and it becomes a whole thing. She manages to upload photographs of the Subject in a last ditch to get the information out there. After that, she mysteriously disappears, her blogs going silent. The Nebraskas - pick fights and cause problems for people on purpose. Eventually they are blocked by most users until they have only each other as mutuals. They have their own discord. No Cat. 5 as no one sees or talks to them anymore.

Inspired by this clusterfuck: