#these are all from the wayback machine :)

[monarchisms]

i am not immune to being apprehensive to change when it comes to something i really like getting a redesign/rebrand/what have you, but i think what the try guys have been doing lately is an exception. in my opinion, the best like, refreshes of a long-lasting brand/group are the ones that have (at least some of) the same recognizable elements of its previous iteration(s):

from day one, branding with the try guys has had a heavy emphasis on color, with the blue/red/green/purple scheme representing keith/ned/zach/eugene, respectively. the colors were in their intro and outro to their videos, they're still especially present in their merchandise, the whole nine yards. with ned rightfully getting kicked out of the group for his "consensual workplace relationship" (jesus), it made sense that they had to stop and change their branding after this sudden event.

the orange era serves as a good bridge between the quartet group icon they started with and the neon triangle icon we have now, but it was kinda temporary. in a way, the try guys as a brand were having an identity crisis, having lost both a founding member and a (now former) friend. i think the current rebrand is a solid mix of their past and future, the blue/green/purple making a return + the triceratops remaining in the center, and the new elements with the triangles and general neon aesthetic (sidenote: triangle + triceratops + try/tri guys makes me go insane. i love it)

i also really like how the orange is reincorporated with the portraits for each of the guys in the pictures shared on their social accounts. alongside this, their poses showcasing their general personalities with the fact that the triangles are play buttons (which i didn't know until i read some alt text on one of their their tweets, whoops!):

overall present a strong sense of familiarity with the boys, but Also the excitement they have on moving forward with whatever the future brings, and i just think that's neat :)

*i didn't know where to fit this bit besides the very end,

but i like the idea that the triangles can also represent a fast forward button, further pushing the idea of the guys moving forward. likely more of a coincidence here but still cool nonetheless :P

[furbovision]

a selection of banners from adoptafurby.com

[geometryyaoi]

After committing a dangerous and disrespectful crime, Peppy is out on bail and ready to come to your house.

[youwillfindilluminating]

I get why critical role wanted to delete all the content that had brian w foster in it but at the same time the digital archivist in me is like... you can’t...just DO that...?

[skepticalarrie]

Why are you so convinced Freddie isn’t his kid? I’m not sending hate in just new and curious. Like is it all the weird stuff surrounding the mum or is it more because of Larry

Hey there, anon! Larry is definitely not one of the main reasons. Although, of course, it could be the cause of babygate and it really justifies a lot when put things in perspective. But yeah, it's definitely the weird stuff. Freddie wouldn't be his kid regardless of larry or Louis' sexuality. I have *a lot* of stuff about it on my blog, and the best way for you to understand it is to really dig up on these posts. I think it's impossible to try to sum things up in just one post, but here are the main reasons for me:

FORESHADOWING AND TIMELINES: It never made sense from day one, from the "conception day" being completely covered by The Sun, to the announcement happening too early in the pregnancy, her family registering DOMAINS the minute the pregnancy was announced, her mother following baby stuff even before she was supposed to be pregnant, etc etc etc

FAKE PREGNANCY: Bump changing sizes constantly, sometimes disappearing completely, using pregnant pictures from another woman, acting like she was never pregnant days after giving birth - flat belly, wearing leggings, heels, skirts, lifting heavy objects, drinking alcohol....

REAL PARENTHOOD: The kid looks just like Brett Clark and his entire side of the family. They're not supposed to be blood-related.

PHOTOSHOPPED: Louis' pictures were literally photoshopped on top of Freddie's pictures for years.

NO PATERNITY TEST: A multimillionaire boybander knocked this non-famous girl pregnant, which he was not dating, and never asked for a paternity test. He just knows the kid is his. No one advised him to get it either, everyone just trusts her. It's absurd.

NO CUSTODY: Up until 2020, it was crystal clear Louis didn't have custody of Freddie. No full custody, no joint custody, no overnights, he didn't even have a house in California and he was certainly never there, F was in the UK only twice (the first one when he was a baby and the second one on Christmas last year).

And I would add the tags LOUIS X BABYGATE and RBBSBB X BABYGATE in there as well. Although this gets into Larry a little bit. But Louis' behaviour about it always spoke volumes, before he decided to play along for whatever reason.

Plus, I suggest you go through my BABYGATE MASTERPOSTS and BABYGATE RESOURCES tags for everything else. Good luck!

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

hey everyone i got bored at work today and compiled a list of very silly and yet very real missouri place names because BOY do we ever have some. these are mostly ones i can make rude jokes about but i think there's a little something in here for everyone

[seraelius]

more m&m's graphics and stuff, posting on my main this time instead because it's fun + a swf i downloaded + turned into a gif! f2u!

[remythologise]

speaking of cherik, have you read 'lay down beside me (so still and so soft)'? bc it's a BANGER

I believe this was on LJ and the author has deleted :( a good reminder I need to get around to trying to download all the fics I've bookmarked as soon as possible

[ardate]

I just learned Skyblog, massive french blogging platform from Back In The Day, is closing down today at midnight.

It sure is the end of an era, a very important one for me as it was one of my first experiences online, for fandom and personal stuff...

A chapter is ending and it's definitely more bitter than sweet, though it comes to nobody’s surprise. Can't just keep all this up for old time's sake.

[stellamancer]

talk about being haunted— I still can't get over the fact that mao remembers details about there is such thing as magic! that even I do not remember.

[cathedraldecay]

Dusseldorf 11/8/2007

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[concorp]

took a peek around qsmp.global. only interesting/hidden thing ive found so far:

otherwise just seems to be the image on the landing page

[artsy-dreamer]

Archive dot org library my BELOVED

[iratusmus]

honestly its a real shame we didnt get to explore moebius as a concept more because it has like an incredible amount of potential to be a really interesting deconstruction of the "alternate universe where all the moralities are FLIPPED!!!" type of stories. like i was talking about it with @/goosewhisker and she brought up a bunch of super interesting points like. okay see the main question that most of this springs off of is... what, exactly, is the relationship between mobius and moebius.

i think its really worthwhile to go ahead and put in this question ian answered on his now-defunct forum that has frankly haunted me ever since i first found it. i've transcripted it below for easier reading.

"Question #4 wrote: When we talk about anti-Mobius, is this an evil version of Mobius really? They seem flipped around, but Knuckles, for example, is a good guy really in either dimension, and anti-Sonic… well, there's some potent foreshadowing in #172. But if anti-Mobius isn't an evil Mobius, in what sense is it the anti-Mobius?" In terms of Anti-Knuckles, at the time he was the antithesis. Knuckles at that point was still a nebulous hero - distrusting, hermit-like, and ultimately heroic in that he helped against the greater evil. Anti-Knuckles also was very open and telling about himself and his world, the exact opposite of Knuckles who sequestered himself away and generally kept everything to himself. Our Knuckles has grown to be more open, trusting, helpful, and truly heroic. One would assume the Anti-Knuckles wouldn't be nearly as approachable nowadays. I think calling the Antiverse the "evil Mobius" is too easy. Originally that's exactly what it was, but as its slowly built up over the years there's more to it. Mobius is a world under one dark cloud as the Eggman Empire seeks to conquer everything. Despite this there are pockets of hope, of heroism, and selflessness that fight back. On Anti-Mobius, the one beacon of hope is Dr. Kintobor's hospital and what he's managed to rescue in the Great Forest. The world is in a perpetual state of chaos as pockets of selfishness, ruthlessness, and misery sustain each other. Mobius is an example of hope enduring despite all odds. Anti-Mobius is a sad look at inevitable doom. I'll have much more to say on this later on.

so as ian himself says, moebius is no longer just the "evil mobius", but at the same time it can't really escape the shackles of being the inverse of prime mobius (see: knuckles vs anti-knuckles). so is this connection one way? do the inhabitants of moebius truly have any free will, or are they simply bound to be the opposite of their mainline counterparts?

i think scourge is definitely an interesting way of exploring this concept. as a character he's concepted on the idea of somebody who hates the idea of being considered a derivative of somebody else. he's not his own person - he's simply a discount version of the "real" him. his identity isn't his own. in his desperation to become anything that isnt sonic, ironically he ends up leaning into... well. still being a derivative of sonic. namely, what he is. anti-sonic. so even in his attempt to break free of the place that the universe has assigned him as a "sonic", he ultimately becomes exactly that.

does he really have free will, or is he simply confined to his lot in life? alternatively, is it that his natural inclinations/personality/choices are exactly that of his assigned place, which is how he ended up as the "anti-sonic" in the first place?

there's also another aspect to consider here - zonic says that scourge's "mutation" has made him "something of a wild card in the grand scheme of things". a line which is... never explained. but fascinates me nonetheless.

what is scourge's mutation, then? is it the master emerald incident, or is it that he rejected(?) his assigned place in the universe? if its the latter, then what does that mean for the rest of moebius, who have all followed in his footsteps (willing or not) to take on new, personal identities that are allegedly separate from their mobian counterparts?

buns' joining of kintobor is also definitely worth mentioning here - at the point that she switches sides, bunnie is still an unwavering freedom fighter. morally, both the mobian and moebian are on the same side. given that after the antoine incident, bunnie was going to join eggman's side to get legionized, what does that mean for the moebius/mobius connection?

is it possible that when scourge made them all take on new identities, he made the connection twofold? can changes in a moebian now affect their mobius counterpart? ironically, again, could scourge's attempt to break the ties between mobius and moebius only brought them closer together, now that both sides could potentially affect each other?

on a different meta note, i really would've liked to see more of moebius just because like... if mobius is a world where people are generally default "good", then is moebius a world where people are generally default "evil"? are they literally set up to fail because of the world they were created into?

frankly, going back to ian's commentary on moebius posted earlier... its no wonder that scourge (+ by extension the rest of the ss) ended up like that. the entire thing is so screwed from top to bottom and i wouldve killed to see it explored more.

[dhmis-autism]

what happened to grrgrrgrr? whyd they deactivate

I DONT FUCKING KNOOOW!!! I WISH I DID BC I LOVED THEM AND THEIR WORK SO MUCH!! I MISS THEM EVERY FUCKING DAYYY

They were one of my fav dhmis artists and they were such a sweetheart!! They drew me smth for my bday even tho we had never talked before,really!

I can tell you WHEN it happened, it happened around April/May of this year, because that was when I hurt my wrist so badly I took like a two-ish week long break from internet stuff. And when I came back! They were gone!!!

But ah, we weren't very close and I never really talked to them outside of Tumblr, so I am NOT the girl with the answers,I am just the girl dressed in a dramatic black veil crying and dropping white roses on their blogs grave.

[evilfuluv]

Where do you find these old rare pics of Voltaire

flickr 👍 it's such a goldmine