#you do not want to know the background of this 4chan post

[muzaktomyears]

[topazadine]

Your OCs on Social Media

Okay, new tag game - imagine your OCs on social media! What platform would they use, what would they reblog/retweet/whatever, and what kind of horrible nonsense would they get up to?

Orrinir

Orrinir has a Facebook and a LinkedIn. He keeps it squeaky clean, reposting career tips. His Facebook is mostly to keep track of old friends and share perfectly posed pictures of him and Uileac (what an upstanding couple give them a promotion). He's always commenting on peoples' LinkedIn posts in hopes that they can help him get his beloved Infantry General position <3 Networking king we love to see it.

Uileac

You KNOW he is on HorseTok. Hyperspecific horse boy microinfluencer (mostly because he is very handsome). Constant TikToks of everything his horse Erix does, usually her, like, blowing raspberries with his sassy commentary in the background. He documents training his husband Orrinir's dumb horse and gets everyone very invested in how stupid and annoying Bannain is, spooking at everything and refusing to be good. Horse girls everywhere are silently thirsting for him.

Cerie

Cerie has been blocked by half of Writer Twitter because she cannot stop retweeting peoples' poems and tearing them apart in 10+ tweet threads. Goes crying to Uileac about how no one wants to hear her very specific and very "helpful" advice about how bad they are at poetry. Her wife Haniya tells her to stfu and stop fighting with people, so she does it at night when Haniya is asleep. Is personally offended by all hot writing takes, and is constantly fighting for her life in the comments section.

Haniya

An Instagram model ... nothing but trouble. Pics of her perfect royal life, her horse, her fancy dresses, her incredible manicure, a 100-year-old bottle of champagne sitting next to a fast food wrapper. Haniya laying on the beach in the tiniest bikini you've ever seen. Every once in a while she manages to drag Cerie into a photo and is immediately bombarded by people saying she could do better. Cerie is again fighting for her life in the comments section.

Ono

Ono is the Most Normal Person on Tumblr. He likes it because then he can write long-form thoughts about anything and everything, but his blog posts are so horrendously mundane that he gets, like, one like on everything. Sometimes, in the middle of some boring post about swordsmanship or whatever, he'll slip in the most fucking devastating backstory anyone has ever heard with the most casual demeanor ever, and people are like "OP ... OP are you ok"

Mordrek

He is on 4chan. We need not say more.

Open tag!!

[irithnova]

Can't believe I'm discourse posting again but whatever.

While I may not have 100% been on board with the uh. Rusame edging response post because I have extremely "problematic" ships myself and have described Mongolia and China's relationship as being "married/divorced" so I'm not really any better than the edging shit in that sense, I think a lot of the replies were made in extremely bad faith and some pretty nasty people took advantage of the situation in their own ways.

The person who was vagued about had the right to respond of course and yeah it can be classified as ship hate considering it was put in the tags however people are seriously running over the fact that the poster themselves are Uzbek-Korean so yeah they'd understandably have some complex feelings about Russia and America if you know even the general history. The post perhaps wasn't worded that well and was an attack on rusame simply because of a comedic analogy of the relationship made by a shipper, but that anger didn't just come from like. Absolutely nowhere.

You had people in the comments slinging fucking 4chan lingo at OP (same person who did this supports a well known Zionist in the fandom why am I not surprised) and then much bigger content creators making posts and comments about how OP and their entire friendgroup are nothing more than butthurt sjws who are pushing people out of the fandom (and I can't believe people are still unironically using "sjw" in 2024 I guess anything is possible).

Extremely bad faith actors coming out of the woodworks who have had problems with OP and their friendgroup for completely different reasons using OPs hate post about rusame and the subsequent dogpiling as an excuse to publicly lie about the nature of the friendship and how it broke down. I find it extremely cowardly that months ago, when confronted privately about bad behaviour such as gossiping behind people's backs and confronted with the fact the person she was gossipping with is a prolific emotional abuser and racist, Verta blocked everyone and said she didn't want to get involved in "drama".

Now that someone within the group - a minor no less, who barely engaged with Verta herself during the course of her contact with them group, is being publicly dogpiled by multiple big creators - NOW Verta has the courage to come rear her head, engage in drama be like "they're all a bunch of sjws who hate white people!".

If you want to go back to 2016 for fresh "SJWS/feminists OWNED!" compilations, be my guest.

I find it extremely ironic how Verta is calling OP "fandom police" when Verta herself tried to gatekeep someone's identity/relationship to China....over hetalia art. I guess it's not policing when you want to be a bigot, but it's policing when someone from a certain background has unpleasant feelings towards a ship.

A lot of the vague posting about "WOW I LOVE RUSAME SO MUCH" afterwards I think was also extremely childish considering *gestures to the fact that OP is Uzbek-Korean* so yeah. They made an angry post about rusame that should have been handled privately between them and the person they were vaguing about however they do have some extremely personal reasons as to why they may have strong feelings about it.

It wasn't just an ordinary "rusame sucks and rusame shippers should die lol!" post made by an angry rando who likes perhaps Russia x [different country] and is butthurt at the attention rusame is getting but the way people are responding with "rusame is the beat ship evaa <33" posts in response to it - you'd think that was what OP posted instead of like. An emotionally charged (but poorly handled) post about Russian and American imperialism as someone who's family/countries has been affected by both.

Again I'm not in a place to judge rusame shippers considering the shit I ship and say - you can do what you want and I actually like cold war stuff myself. I just find a few of the responses extremely childish considering the circumstances surrounding why the post was made and a few were absolutely done in bad faith in order to paint OP as being nothing more than an angry sJw!!1 when. Again. *Gestures at Uzbekistan's history with Russia and Korea's history with America*

Also. I'm sorry but rusame is the most popular ship in the fandom right now. You guys will live if (1) child who comes from that background makes an emotionally charged post about it. There's no need for an onslaught of personal attacks and hateful anons. Jesus Christ I received death threats for shipping Monchu and I didn't even respond like that.

[tentajack]

This week on Tentajack Z

It's been a while since I've posted about my life stuff

-I'm currently decompressing all the stress from the holidays due to my job, which has left me in what I can only call my 'brain dead' mode while I try to get my shit together again. I'm not doing this shit again next fall/winter so I need to find a better job in the next few months, I WON'T stay where I'm currently working

-Confirmed I'm running the CYOA I've been talking about sometime in the next two weeks, no matter if I don't have everything done (At this point it's just character portraits as I'm swearing off all backgrounds/environmental art except for the opening bathroom scene and a shot of the entire front of the hotel building, and I still need to make those too.) If I don't get it done in time, then tough shit I'm going forward anyways!

-I've only made a few mentions of it on this blog, but the cyoa will be run on 4chan over on /mlp/. I know not everyone is comfortable with that, but this style of cyoa requires all submissions to be anonymous, and the only other viable place that lets me do that is tgchan (Tempted to run there sometimes but I would need to lurk there first to get a feel for it). That said, getting people from over here means some of the dumber anons won't be the majority of responses, so I do invite everyone to give it a try once it's live.

-I had a strange dream series last night, first it was minecraft (did you know I've never played with somebody? Only solo? It's so lonely), then it turned into a strange mix of pokemon and MMBN while taking place in a smoothed over version of the minecraft environment I was in? There was much rollerskating involved and it was so cool. Then it all melted away into a little house in a sky-like void with a pool where the deeper end had algae but I was just chilling and having a fantastic time with the dream people there. I miss people.

-I had like 2 fanfic WIPs I was working on up until all my energy got squeezed out of me by my job, I feel really bad about not finishing them but if I don't work on this CYOA project I'm going to scream

-I still don't have a date for the release of the zine I made an entry for, and while it's nobodys fault (If you're reading this bezka I'm not mad at you at all, I'm just frustrated with the circumstances), I did learn a very hard lesson about tying project start dates to the end dates of other projects; something about my ADHD made it very hard to backpedal from the 'no working on anything else just in case they need you' mindset I made for myself.

-I crave death so badly, but I want to live! whenever or not I can is an entirely different question. I'm going to need to get all my doctor stuff set up like I've been meaning to do for months now

[courtana]

i don't go here but i read "i've been on this site a hell lotlonger than you have" and i had war flashback back to our football days oh dip 😳 also how tf are you in a fandom when you don't consume the content?? the lack of common sense lmao

You of all people can testify for me! LMAO. I've been on Tumblr since I'm pretty sure I was 12 or 13—which was not good for my mental development—and I'm 25 years old now. I literally remember when Tumblr would only let you put 1 photo in a photo post. Like, you could not put like 3 or 4 photos. So, when gifsets then were first being made, I literally witnessed it myself and remember people suddenly bursting with a ton of new creativity. I was there during the 4Chan raids and when people used to put music playing in the background of their blog themes! It's just that I've just deleted my blogs when I got tired of fandoms and wanted a new fresh start. My first blog went band blog → harry potter (cringe) → multi-fandom. My second blog went from football/soccer → multi-fandom. And this one is video games, star wars, and comics.

Me to the reddit and tiktok migrants:

And yes! I don't know why people don't realize it makes no sense to call yourself a fan of something if you've never interacted with that material. I even remember metal fans back in the day before streaming said if you've never listened to or bought at least one of a band's albums you should not call yourself a fan. Like, that's actually pretty strict! Over here, we're not even asking you to play all the video games in the series, because there's a lot and some consoles don't let you play the older games. And some people might not have money to do so. But at least watch recordings of the games that people post 3–4 hours of on YouTube for this very reason.

People don't make any sense.

[whatrottenwork]

I personally see it as a tool, with mandatory disclosure+proper tagging as a necessity for posting AI-assisted content at all. From my explorations, AI art is not at a level where it can replace human artists, especially not in the niche spheres of fandom art. I found I'd rather draw than use what came out of those. Or go and watch actual artists' speedpaint. That being said, I think there's a huge knee-jerk fear reaction.

Every artist I've seen online had joked at least once about a 'art machine' where they pressed a button and the finished work came out exactly as they wanted it, and now that they have the fledgling start of such a thing they want to destroy the very idea of it.

A reminder about how AI-assisted art works:

https://www.tumblr.com/therobotmonster/706392986593935360/the-img2img-deception-is-super-common-i-see-it-at AI art modules doesn't actually copy/paste images or writing, nor merge them together. AI art modules does not 'store' or 'search' for art it somehow has. It's reverse engineering from noise obscuring data to train pattern recognition. AI art and writing by the way they were made cannot conceptualize the same way people can- it doesn't generate body horror or interior designs on blank prompts because 'it wants to', AI is trained to find and replicate patterns. For AI writing, it's like a combination of auto-correct and 'patterns of writing', AI art being even more pattern focused. We've seen it happen with extra fingers or body parts, not understanding backgrounds or weight, odd distortions that function solely on the concept of patterns. That's why AI sometimes include gibberish text in pictures meant to be labels or watermarks akin to stockphotos- it doesn't know what it is or 'why' such a thing is there, merely that it's a pattern and it's trained to build up patterns from noise. And isn't that what creative styles come down to: patterns to be replicated? Personal touch and executions of ideas matter far more than 'just' a style. I imagine people would be more willing to share generations 'as a part of fandom', if there was less backlash. I am for ethical AI use- identify what was generated first and foremost (pssst that goes for tagging posts about AI in general and AI discourse too so people who don't want to hear about it can block it), and transform the generated subjects even more from initial generations if you want to use them for your own work. This is for 'public' instances- AI-assisted writing (like the popular "generate me a 4chan greentext" that is never tagged...), images. Tagging things as 'AI Art/writing', 'AI-assisted art/writing' should have been common sense to help people avoid or find it, but it hasn't been popular. Credit where it's due for inspirations, please and thank you! Fandom art discourse is already a beast, I was there for backhanded and condescending accusations of plagiarism for merely asking what brushes or art program a artist used. I want fandom to be more accepting to all creatives, not just those with innate skills or only speak of wanting a open fandom without actually trying to produce content. Especially with plagiarism being a common accusation to throw at AI art- styles can be imitable, even if people like thinking of what they do as somehow different because it's a human incorporating an mixing styles to make something new. I shudder to think what adding in AI discourse and it's talk about how attribution/paid compensation should work would mean for the tentative idea of fandom as 'free for all with attribution'. I don't support art theft or plagiarism, but the definitions some people use when talking about AI is frustrating. I had hoped we had grown out of the 'using references is cheating, saying you use references is worse' phase, but when people claim that AI art that was transformed via being incorporated into a original painting from the start suddenly doesn't count as original art...

Then wouldn't saving art at all for references be plagiarism? How about collages? What about style memes or artist homages that don't proclaim they are intentional references? Going over and rewriting other's writing like many writer's guides suggest to improve skills or blackout poetry be stealing others ideas? Would saving works that were since deleted still be 'stealing', even if they have no idea? What about being inspired by a long dead work? How much music has been listened to with the assumption that 'any samples used were most likely credited' without it being visible? Artistic projects like indie visual novels made on itch.io with edited real photos that are assumed to be gotten legally?

How is the human factor for creativity / reference different than code when both are used in private? If only one person knows? If only the finished project is seen? How do you expect people to be open and honest about what work is theirs and what is generated or incorporated, if any use of a tool (even assumed uses from the viewer) is met with accusations? If real artists have a innate creativity and vibes that can be easily told, then why is that 'styles too similar to AI' get dog-piled for real works that 'don't seem quite right'? https://twitter.com/OnTheGranblue/status/1578632039326441472 https://harpyhormones.tumblr.com/post/705564440101322753/im-sorry-but-are-u-guys-just-dumb-or-what-like (I made a sideblog just to discuss discourse! Shouldn't that be a tell for unsafe fandom can feel?) Following this chart, then wouldn't any slightly similar works be plagiarism no matter the actual context or content or authorial credit?

Did I Plagiarize? The Types and Severity of Plagiarism Violations – The Visual Communication Guy

thevisualcommunicationguy.com

I see google drives of 'artist references' passed around tumblr, and while some might say 'the attribution is both in the pdfs and files! it's still sourced!', if you truly believed that sharing and remixing a artist's work without them knowing is theft and plagiarism, then wouldn't that be plagiarism? What about fanart itself, then? Fandom was built on the idea of remixing works, from AMVs (often edited together canon clips), abridged series, memes, taking other's aus and doing your own view on it? Should we ask any and all creatives for permission to create slightly similar things for fear of plagiarism, or let open secrets stay where they are? I love crediting artists and proper attribution all the time, but some things are just…. not meant to be shared directly to the original creator nor meant to replace what is already deeply beloved. What about artists (including fans) who can't draw like abled standards then? Should they just.... not create? That's not the inclusivity fandom was based on. https://felinedragon.tumblr.com/post/702837307452096512/transcription-im-sorry-but-i-think-its-weird https://www.tumblr.com/reachartwork Fandom by nature is transformative: just because someone does it differently, shouldn't they still be allowed to make art with diffrent toolsets so long as it's all properly tagged and credited by the time it's released to the world? Why let making be defined otherwise?

I still majorly prefer human artists to anything AI has made, but I don't want to let misinformation keep piling up.

[dekusleftsock]

This is just a quick train of thought post but I still wanna share it

Either way I’ve seen this phenomenon where people hate the mha fandom because of how shippy it is. People want to act like bc this shonen then that means romance hardly exists. But you’ve got to understand how fandom EVOLVES!

I’ve not been in this fandom for long. Maybe since October of 2021. But I HAVE been in other fandoms before. Fnaf, undertale, and Minecraft come to mind first. (The old and new mc fandom btw, yes I watched dsmp. I don’t like the creators now but the fandom taught me how to analyze storytelling so ??? Idk how to feel about the fandom with my fondness lmao) And after a bit of research, pre-existing knowledge I have of the internet as a whole, and a TON of thinking and mulling it over in my head, I’ve come to my personal conclusion of why THIS FANDOM SPECIFICALLY gets so much hate and is so “shippy”.

The actual reason the fandom itself is so focused on ships and characters is because horikoshi writes characters well. Simple as that. It’s a character driven show, and compared to other shonens that’s a bit out of character for a show of the “genre”.

Anyway, let’s give a bit of background to the general internet. Up until about I wanna say, 2018? The internet was really really bad. The main social platforms running the show were YouTube, instagram, Reddit, and Twitter. Tiktok wasn’t exactly a thing, it was musically or however it’s spelled. 4chan was also still relatively popular as was tumblr. Tumblr is an interesting character during this time but I’ll get into that.

The general ideas of the internet were all relatively “right leaning” and cringe culture was still VERY rampant. This is because when the internet and, more specifically, the gaming community was being born the alt right communities that were pretty small migrated to the internet. This made a trade off: in exchange for organizational power they now had more reach. That’s why nazis and bigots have always been so common on the internet. It’s also why a lot of our amab siblings, children, uncles, etc in their teen years were so far gone into the alt right pipeline. It directly targets young white boys who like video games. YT created a lot of parasocial relationships by letting those people get the platforms they did. (I recommend watching “the alt right play book” by innuendo studios, they voice this better than I did)

The anime community, parts of the art community, 4chan/Reddit, and political spaces online were filled to the brim with nazis due to this phenomena.

And here’s comes tiktok. A platform who just gave themself a brand new face and name ready to start the trend of shorter videos instead of images or longer videos. At first, we still have the remnants of the alt right with the furry vs gamer war specifically, and then comes vsco girls. And you know what’s so weird about this trend? They TRIED to memeify it, they TRIED to shame women into not getting metal straws, into not dressing in the certain style. But it was a turning point in the entire worlds political spectrum. More specifically, gen y and gen z.

This was the start of a “new era” on the internet. And TikTok’s algorithm is probably the best one I’ve ever fucking seen! It was able to completely cut people off from different ideas and parts of the platform, while simultaneously sharing content that would make people argue. This, was tiktok 2020. BLM happened as a trend (blm has been around for a lot longer than tiktok, it was just a trend on the platform itself), trumps rallies happened. For the first time organization on a platform fucking worked. It was what the alt right WANTED to do, but never could.

Now, why am I saying all of this? Because tiktok opened the gate to fandom. For the first time since I’ve been on the app, (and I was on in 2018) fandom has started to pop up more. Toh and some anime communities have gotten more popular there.

But given this context, it starts to make sense why people HATE that it’s so shippy. Tumblr was the weird kid of the internet for a long time, and as that’s shifted to being 4chan, I’ve got to say that shipping and the mha fandom (along with other more known “toxic” fandoms) has gotten to a point where it’s more socially acceptable. And since a show like stranger things can now have a fandom, I can solidly say that fandom has become more mainstream because TIKTOK is mainstream.

So, yeah, people hate fandom and more specifically the mha fandom because of nazis. Cringe culture still exists and it’s kinda hard to not think a fandom that’s already been painted as terrible is actually, not all that bad. It’s like literally every other fandom. Stranger things has the same problems we do, death note has the same problems we do. Mha is not an exception.

[semi-sketchy]

No one asked for it but here’s my big Frontiers theory post.

Firstly, the gameplay.

In multiple shots during the trailer we see the structures of the ancient civilization, but the ones I want to talk about are these.

Compared to the other monuments, they’re much smaller and can be seen in different locations, so they aren’t just a one-off set piece.

Going by the 4chan leaks, there’s levels in the game that are more traditional Sonic stages which take place in cyberspace, something that’s is seemingly supported by the tagline on the website.

I’ve seen another person point this out, but these might be those portals. You can even see one lit up, which might be the state it turns to after being activated.

All sounds cool as long as we don’t get Green Hill 8.0. Let us escape it, please.

Then, in line with the leaks, the larger buildings might be dungeons where you fight the area bosses and get story content.

We know it takes place on the Starfall Islands and SEGA is describing it as “open-zone” and not open world.

I think you’ll essentially have free rein over a island, which probably will have areas to explore and some challenges and goodies, (I pray for each island to have a hidden Chao garden) but you’ll have to progress through the game to unlock each additional island. I think of it kind of like Splatoon’s single player, going around and solving puzzles to find the stages to progress. (Splatoon’s hub puzzles are hardly puzzles but the concept applies.)

I don’t think the islands will be treated entirely as a hub world, there will be other things to do and this is evident as floating platforms and grind rails can be seen in the background.

I’ve seen other fans theorize that you’d have to clear the traditional cyberspace stages, fight a boss, then be able to move on to the next island which seems pretty solid to me. There’s also been talk of an XP system, although I have no clue how that would work.

Now to the story.

We did get a little synopsis, although it mostly just gives us the setting. (For some reason this was removed from the article.)

But, the cyberspace from the leaks seems to have a big impact on things. I see tons of people saying “Sonic has cyber powers now?!” but I really don’t think that’s the case. Look at the trailer again.

This dusty thing glows pink and sends out some missiles that home in on Sonic and he almost gets caught in it, but then boosts to escape.

It’s like that thing is trying to absorb him and he’s escaping before it can get a solid grasp, almost as if it’s trying to take him into cyberspace.

Once again with the leaks, there were talks of a “ghost girl” guiding Sonic throughout his adventure, although thanks to Xbox’s captioning of the trailer (which has been changed) and a tweet from Sonic’s Japanese voice actor (that has now been deleted) it’s been put out there that the “ghost girl” is Amy.

Harkening back to the synopsis, “save his friends, and maybe even save himself at the same time.” I think, à la Smash Ultimate, Sonic’s friends get taken and absorbed into the cyberspace and it’s your job to rescue them.

Maybe as you progress and defeat the dungeon bosses, you rescue his friends. It would be a great opportunity to use the extended cast.

Amy would most likely be the last one you rescue, seeing as she’s the guide, I’m not sure what would make her so special. Perhaps she is stored closest to the brain of the tech or even didn’t properly get absorbed, so she’s stuck in-between worlds.

While this is just total theorizing at this point, I do think while Eggman might’ve made a mistake unleashing this old tech he can’t control, he will take full advantage of it. If it’s after Sonic, he’ll slow him down.

That’s about all I got, really looking forward to seeing more from this game and eventually playing it next year!

[hyuga-eyes]

Okay, how can I explain the obvious?

Naruto is not a love story. Naruto is a shonen manga written for 12-16 years old boys.

Foccus on romance wouldn't make sense at all in the plot because the target audience wants to see the fight scenes and things like that. This is why Kishimoto spent more time on Naruto and Sasuke than on other characters, especially compared to female characters. Maybe shonen mangas has changed through years, but if you go back to Dragon Ball, Saint Seiya, Yuyu Hakusho and Hunter x Hunter you are going to see that this is basically what happens. Even if we take One Piece that has more well written female characters, you are going to see that there's more male characters with much more "time on screen" than them. And romance is not even a theme in One Piece except for some supporting characters. Naruto is not different of it.

You said that Naruto and Sasuke are more than just friends, and I agree with you because

Naruto and Sasuke are like brothers

They have a very strong bond and their friendship is the main theme of the manga, you can interpret this as love (in fact it is a kind of love), but what I'm saying is that originally, canonically, Kishimoto wrote their character to be like brothers, not lovers.

I agree with your perception, I agree with almost everything you say about them. It would be a really cool couple but canonically it will never happen. It's just a fanfic and nothing else. Furthermore, our opinion as people who like romance is not relevant (and I believe we are having this discussion because we both like romance since it's the point of this conversation), we are not the target audience. Because Naruto's target audience, the 12-16 year old boy, is more concerned with the fights than knowing who is going to end up with who. Gai's fight with Madara had much more impact on the target audience than Hinata holding Naruto's hand. The couples really stay in the background because the manga was made to be like that.

Now, if we are going to talk about Kishimoto's bad written then this post is going to be long. Yes I would have loved it if he had developed Hinata character better. But there are so many bigger problems in Naruto's plot that the female characters are just part of the problem and not the main problem. But regardless, I'm not going to attack a female character because a man created her to be intentionally useless or weak. This discussion is much deeper, and I don't want to make a mega feminist speech. I'm just going to leave this sentence here. But I don't think Hinata and Sakura are that bad characters, people really exaggerate their "criticism" (I've seen people call Hinata racist to give you an idea). And people who are exaggerating on these not very well-founded criticisms are always the standard otaku incel user of 4chan, or the fans addicted to yaoi fanfic who attack the female characters because they are in the middle of their gay ship. I know this because this happens in every fandom that has a gay ship, and you are doing it yourself.

Now talking about canon couples, you used a really shitty argument to criticize nh and ss. Having few pages doesn't mean bad development, if that's the case then Kushina and Minato didn't love each other since they only have a few pages explaining their love story, or else Haku and Zabuza didn't have such a strong bond since they only appeared in the beginning and soon after they died.

What matters is not the number of pages, but the intensity of the moment and the relevance that this moment has for the narrative

Even though the couples stay in the background, Hinata was a crucial point in Naruto's fight with Neji, in the Pain arc and also during the war. I'm really tired of people just ignoring this.

Saying that there was no NaruHina development is a distortion of the plot, now if you didn't like it then that's your problem.

And what you said about Naruto being in a genjutsu and because of that he fell in love with Hinata, I really didn't understand it... If this is a theory, or something about The Last movie then you can explain it to me later, I'm rewatching the anime now after a long time, and there are some things I don't remember, the same thing with The Last, it's been years since I watched this movie and I remember almost nothing about it.

About SasuSaku, it's definetly a couple that I don't like, I don't have much to say about it. But the thing is that Kishimoto wanted them to be together and that's it. They do have moments, and it's something that makes sense in the plot, it follows the same NaruHina logic and that's enough (I just don't like it that much). But still, in my opinion, people are attacking this couple for the wrong reasons.

About Sasuke, I didn't say that he wasn't capable of love, or that he wasn't aware of his feelings, I said that he has difficulty showing what he feels. It's a very different thing. It's easier for him to make the gesture of love he learned from his brother than to actually say "I love you".

But anyway, Sasuke is much more complex, analysis his character fits in another post that I don't know if I'll do and this post is already too long. I just wanted to explain the obvious to you about canon couples and the fanfics we create in our heads. Like I said, SasuSaku is a couple that I don't like, but it's canon, I understand, I see where Kishimoto was going with this, I just didn't like it. And that's it.

Anyway, the discussion was cool, and I appreciate that you were polite and wanted to talk instead of insulting me on message box, which is what most people do here. But if you answer me again then I'm going to ask you to post something more consistent, and try to prove your point with canon scenes from the manga within the main plot, and not just your perception or opinion about it. I no longer feel like wasting time reading nonsense.

NaruSasu is not a bad ship, the problem is that Naruto fandom decided to make it as if it was religion. If you support any other ship with Naruto and Sasuke you are immediatly attacked, and the most shocking thing is that some people truly believed that Naruto and Sasuke would be together in the end. As if NaruSasu would be romantically canon. I mean, really? Did you really think it would happen? Really? In our homophobic 2000s world?

I'm not saying that if it was canon that it would be a bad thing, actually, I think it would be amazing cause they do have chemestry even though I don't ship it. What I'm saying is that we should have some common sense here. It would never happen.

The fact that Sakura and Hinata are getting so much hate just prove it. Even Karin gets hate sometimes. People are completely frustrated that Naruto and Sasuke are not fucking each other canonly. They are attacking female characters for nothing. Really, all your arguments are just stupid and I'm tired of people distorting the main plot of the manga. I'm tired of people pretending that Naruto and Hinata didn't have their moments together when they do have. If you don't like it then that's okay, it's your problem, but they do have important developments together whether you like it or not.

I agree that Sakura and Sasuke together has some problems the same way as NaruSasu, and it is one of the reasons of why I don't ship it because I think Sasuke is extremely toxic. But I'm really tired of people pretending that Sakura got pregnant with her finger as if Sasuke has nothing to do with it. People keep saying they are stuck in unhappy marriages, and that Naruto and Sasuke were forced to marry them like, really, what prove do you have about it? Because if no one sends me manga panels made by Kimishomoto himself showing Sakura and Hinata pointing knives at Sasuke and Naruto forcing them to get married, then I'm not gonna believe you.

And don't start with that shitty argument about Neji's death and Naruto feeling forced into something, there's no way to prove anything through this except that Neji was an important person for both of them. Anything else is just your distorted perception.

I'm also thinking about making a long post analyzing Sasuke character explaining that he does have difficulty showing love because of the traumas he suffered and how this reflects on his relationship with Sakura and their daughter. After all, you can't kick a dog and expect it not to bite anyone. But only if I'm in a good mood to do it.

[therianomalocaris]

On 8ecoming Vriska Serket

happy 4/13 every8ody! today i give you: some thoughts on my fictionkin identity and c'linking. and may8e, just may8e, youll learn something a8out me along the way.

this intro is quirked, 8ut the 8ody of this post is written in plain english. im just writing this at the very end and i'm out of quirk-repressing spoons. hope you understand.

Word count: 888

This is an open discussion of trauma shaping a young teenager, especially related to growing up in an abusive environment. Read tags for specific CWs. Ask to tag, I may have missed something.

4/13 is always a very special day for me, it has been since 2012. I've been in the Homestuck fandom for 11 years now, and I've identified in some way as Vriska fictionkin for 6 of those. The webcomic itself is now older than I was when I started reading it, and I'm still an active member of the community after all this time.

But, as some of you may know, my Vriska identity was something I had a very hard time coming to terms with- And, to be honest, I'm only just now starting to understand it. When I entered the otherkin community psychological kintypes simple weren't something we talked about as much, or at least not in as many details, as we do now. Fictionkin identities, especially, were often presented as entirely spiritual in nature.

I don't believe in past lives. Plain and simple! So then, when I started to realize I was Vriska, I forced myself to. What other choice did I have? I wasn't given any. I now understand this part of my identity to be psychological, but let's roll back a bit. This is going to get personal.

I wasn't a particularly happy tween. I was a 12-going-on-13 years old walking talking anti-bullying PSA, a third culture kid who grew up in Nepal only to never really fit anywhere in France, my parents had separated and gone back together twice. The third and final time they separated, all I remember were screams and police sirens. I saw it as my duty to protect my younger sibling against the entire world, and I was dealing with grief for the first time as my grandmother had just died.

A lot of people talk about escaping reality online, but for me that was maybe more true than others. I carefully crafted a reality where I was cool, where I was wanted, where I was a boy so it was okay that I liked girls, where I was older and where I wasn't miserable and played it out on forums. 4Chan and Tumblr were the very adult worlds I found myself drawn to, I thought I was the only person my age going through those struggles and that other kids would never get it. And, in the middle of all that, I found two things: My Little Pony and Homestuck.

This is not about MLP, so let's not focus on it. So, now that you have a little background on where I was in my life when I found Homestuck, imagine my joy when I discovered one of the characters had the exact same struggles as me!

She came from an abusive home. She had done what she thought was right. She could never be herself. She was simultaneously one of the most broken and strongest characters in the entire 20+ characters cast. She was badass and violent and loud, all things I wished I could be but wasn't. At that moment, I knew what I had to do: I had to become Vriska Serket.

I guess nowadays we would say I was c'linking, but the word didn't exist at the time. Looking back, that's definitely what happened though: through most of my teen years I put on the identity of Vriska to shield me from a world that I saw as out to get me, a dangerous reality I was forced to exist but wanted no part in. It was something I chose for myself because I thought if I simply was myself, nobody would understand. It's hard being a kid and all that.

I don't really know when I first tried to stop being Vriska but couldn't. After a while being her just felt so effortless, I guess it never really crossed my mind that the figurative mask I put on to protect myself could now be fused to my metaphorical face. But I remember trying to distance myself from the fictionkin community and just not being able to, because at that point I had simply stopped having to put the mask back on. I had done it! I had become Vriska Serket!

And I fucking hated it.

I hated every part of it, because I saw it as some kind of moral failing on my part. Like I was still that scared kid sobbing in the corner of the room and typing on its phone while the sounds of shouts and broken glass resonated through the home, like I would never be anything else. Like I was incapable of growing past it. I guess that's why it took me 2 full years to come to terms with it, and why I lied to myself and forced myself to believe it was something I had always been rather than something I had become.

We're all shaped by our experiences, and the coping mechanism I took on in an abusive home at a very tumultuous time in my life is now a permanent part of me. And you know what? I think I'm fine with that. I’ve found so much strength and self-love in accepting that part of myself, it’s not something I would ever wish or want to change anymore. I can’t overstate how freeing this whole experience has been, and how proud I am to have come this far.

Happy 4/13, everybody.

[isaacthedruid]

Please allow me to tell you about one of my favourite cartoons through this informal essay I did for school a couple of months back. 

Gravity Falls and How it Did The Unimaginable

**SPOILERS... KINDA**

The 2010s saw the creation of some of the most iconic animated tv shows ever made, the likes of Adventure Time (2010), Steven Universe (2013), Over the Garden Wall (2014) and The Legend of Korra (2012). To explain why this era’s shows are so admirable is honestly rather difficult. Yet, there are many factors that can be taken into consideration when looking for an answer.

The past decade was very successful in perfecting their craft and utilizing the animated format to their favour, creating some of the wackiest and fascinating cartoons ever made. With the advancements made in both 2D and 3D animation for film, this bled into the world of TV as well.

To mention that 2010s cartoons have stunning visuals would be an understatement. Everything about the animation was beautiful; the strong colour palettes, the clean and imaginative character designs, the colourful and immersive backgrounds and especially the mesmerizing worlds that can be found within episodes that are half an hour.

This era’s cartoons also led to a massive shift in storytelling, writing longer-running stories that spread out across seasons while also swapping out episodic adventures for serialization. This heavily aided in the popularization of these shows, due to the rise of internet fandoms and dropping the taboo that cartoons were only for kids. Many shows acknowledged their older viewers by leaving clues and even puzzles to be solved by the theorists who have a large appearance on social media platforms like Reddit, Twitter and Tumblr. As the shows progressed, their fandoms created many theories for what they believed might happen within their favourite series. The top three shows from this era all utilized these changes, being at the forefront of the shift and helping guide the creative vision of 2010s cartoons.

Often regarded as many people’s favourite cartoon, Gravity Falls presented one of the best mysteries of the decade with two seasons and only 40 episodes. Inspired by Twin Peaks and The X-Files, it’s considered as the kids’ version of these two iconic shows as this cartoon acts as many people’s first introduction to horror through bright colours and fun characters.

This series follows the adventures of Dipper and Mabel Pines, twins, who are sent to spend their summer with their great-uncle or Grunkle Stan in Gravity Falls, Oregon. This town is full of oddities like supernatural creatures, insane and eccentric inhabitants, and many puzzles. The Pines twins must adjust to the weirdness while uncovering the mysteries and protecting their new town.

While living in Gravity Falls, the twins are forced to work in the Mystery Shack, a tourist trap created by their Grunkle Stan that overcharges unlucky tourists, teaching about fake monsters despite there being real creatures all over town. On his first day in Oregon, Dipper accidentally came across a mysterious journal written by an unknown author that explains all the oddities to be found in this strange town. This book acts like an encyclopedic of the Weird for Dipper, an inquisitive 12-year-old kid who seeks answers.

Dipper is an extremely intelligent kid, his brain being far more developed than his body. He’s rather awkward and self-conscious as he often stumbles over his words or gets embarrassed trying to talk to girls. Despite this, the boy is an adventurer at heart who just wants to grow up and skip his upcoming teenage years.

While Mabel is quite the opposite in many ways, she is loud and has an in-your-face personality. Mabel is bouncy and fun, she is so excited to start high school. She is easily excitable and for the larger part of the series, she is in her boy-crazy phase. Mabel is a girly-girl as she likes all things; glitter, unicorns, rainbows, partying and crafting. Yet, she doesn’t often compare well with many of the other girls in town, they see her as weird and “too much”.

(In all fairness through, it is not too kind to either of the characters as their personalities are more complex than just awkward nerd and artsy girl-girly.)

Dipper and Mabel’s personalities are very different but somehow, they—along with their Gravity Falls family��manage to solve mysteries and save the town, multiple times.

Gravity Falls is an honestly genius series that completely changed the way cartoons were made. Originally when writing a series, you’d create a base of your story; characters, the universe and a basic plot. Yet, when creator, Alex Hirsch (who was in his early/mid-20)s and his small team first began constructing their show, they planned out everything they could possibly think of for the first season. Additionally, outlining some answers for their biggest mysteries that would be answered at the end of the series.

Despite being rated TV-Y7, this series really pushed the boundaries of kids’ television. From the teeth being ripped out of a deer’s mouth by a demon, rearranging the functions of every hole on a man’s face to an aggressive pop-rock sock puppet show that ended in a dramatic slow-motion scene of the puppets burning. Gravity Falls wasn’t afraid to get a little weird or creepy. Or create some genuine nightmare fuel. 

From the beginning, Gravity Falls had built a mystery into its series, hiding secrets and clues all throughout the show. Most notably were the backwards-recorded message and cryptograms, using roughly nine different kinds, even creating two of their own.

The inclusion of cyphers and mysteries for fans to solve is possibly the reason why this series was so successful. As one of the first shows to do something like this, Gravity Falls used social media and internet fandoms to its advantage.

As mentioned earlier, cartoon fans have quite a presence on social media platforms like Twitter and Tumblr. They create theories and share fun ideas about their favourite shows. Viewers of Adventure Time, Gravity Falls and Steven Universe were all included in their share of theory fun.

Sometimes, fan theories end up being correct but when you’re Gravity Falls creator, Alex Hirsch, you don’t just watch from the sidelines as your viewers figure out the biggest mystery of your show. No, you create a hoax to get your viewers off your trail and that is what he did. Around 2013, only halfway through the first season of the show, viewers had started to follow the clues, theorizing who was the author is Dipper’s mysterious journal.

Unfortunately for the Gravity Falls production crew, the viewers were right— for the sake of readers who have never seen the show, I will not mention who the author was as it would be the biggest spoiler.

In 2013, a supposed leaked image of a tv showing a younger version of the show’s crazy old man character, Old Man McGucket, writing in the infamous journal was uploaded anonymously (by Alex Hirsch) to 4Chan.

Despite the image only being on up for a few hours, it spread like wildfire. Much to the team’s success, theorists stopped searching for the answer to “who is the author” and just accepted the image of McGucket as the truth.

To further push the fake-out, three words were posted to Alex’s Twitter, “fuming right now.”

The tweet was deleted a few minutes later and fans genuinely believed that someone from the Gravity Falls team had leaked the most important part of the story.

While doing research, I came across a Reddit post from April 10th, 2013, the day after ‘leak,’ Alex’s tweet was uploaded. In this post, user, TheoDW uploaded an image of Alex’s tweet with the caption, “It seems that Hirsch got mad at last night’s leak. He already deleted this tweet.”

Seeing the reactions of these Redditors in 2013 is kind of weird and crazy to look at. “He has every right to be upset. Someone internally released a plot revealing screen shot of series breaking spoiler information,” a deleted Reddit account commented.

“This is Alex Hirsch’s biggest success by far, he spent a huge amount of time carefully planning out the series, and then in a moment someone releases a major spoiler. It would make anyone upset,” the user, Time_Loop commented.

“Seriously, this is a nightmare for a storyteller, and shows a breach of trust. I feel so bad for him–honestly, I hope whoever did the leak gets caught and appropriate action is taken. You don’t f–k with someone’s story like this. It’s unprofessional.” the user, lonelybeloved angrily commented.

In 2014, this ‘leak’ was finally disproven when viewers were given an episode on McGucket’s backstory and an amazing tweet from Alex Hirsch. 

Alex had post an image of himself playfully pointing at a monitor with the supposed leaked picture with the caption, “1) Make hoax  2) Upload to 4Chan  3) Post angry tweet about "leak" 4) Delete tweet 5) Let internet do rest”

It is so interesting to look at these comments know that all of this was orchestrated by Alex.

I wish I had been old enough at the time to follow theories and fandom stuff like I do now with current cartoons but really looking at this from an outside perspective, this was insane!

The real author wasn’t revealed until 2015 and when viewers first got the answer to this biggest show on their screens, they must have freaked out!

Following the finale in 2016, a single frame of a stone version of Bill Cipher, the show’s villain, flashed in after the credits had finished.

Alex Hirsch and his team actually created a real-life statue of their villain for their viewers to find and on July 20th, 2016, the Cipher Hunt began.

By following clues, the Hunters found themselves all over the world; Russia, Japan and then travelling throughout the United States for the final 12 clues. When the hunt took them to Los Angeles, actor, Jason Ritter (voice of Dipper Pines, also a massive fan of the series) and Alex Hirsch’s twin sister, Ariel Hirsch (the inspiration for Mabel) joined in the fun helping the search.

Finally, the hunt ended on August 2nd when someone tweeted out an image of the found statue in Oregon, the same state in which the fictional town of Gravity Falls exists. The Cipher Hunt had ended but finding the statue wasn’t Alex’s goal for the scavenger hunt, it was about the journey and bringing together the viewers, more than having them actually find the statue.

Creating its own hoax, an international scavenger hunt and quite a bit of nightmare fuel, Gravity Falls was a show truly unlike any other.

The 2010s saw some of the strongest cartoons ever made, Adventure Time, Gravity Falls and Steven Universe acting as the leaders for multiple different changes in the medium; storytelling, worldbuilding, interaction with viewers, utilizing social media, representation and further pushing music into the cartoon world. From what was created this past decade and what has already been released in 2020, I’m so excited to see what comes next.

I have another one of these which is on Steven Universe’s representation and music if you would like to see that too!! 

[klondork]

With all due respect, it sounds like the posts above are upset at Caveanons parody of Goodbye Volcano High and are reaching in critiques of their new game when it has NOTHING to do with the previous one. I understand being mad about the nonbinary erasuring nature of Fang in SnootGame. I even understand the insistence of refusing to even give it a chance because of that leaving a bad taste in your mouth. But it is unreasonable to bash their new project with misdirecting phrases and "facts" when this project is completely void of the controversy of the parody. It's not trying to take away people from GBVH rather creating a new, dare I say, more mature experience for the fans of the original. Here are my points.

Wani may be a successor to GBVH but it's disingenuous to suggest it's a sequel or a "sequel-esque" experience to Snoot Game. You say the main character of Wani plays the same role as Fang as if their personalities and stories are comparable. Which just isn't true.

Olivias' design wasn't changed to please fat shamers. You're putting those changes in a light that makes it seem like it was done to please a certain type of people when in reality comments on her weight have had no major change to her redesign from the original sketch.

You're attributing shortcuts and lack of polished background art to Caveanon as if other developers in the same genre have not done the same. Borrowed and edited backgrounds in low budget visual novels has been a thing since the beginning of the genre.

You're making comparisons of a game made by a studio over several years and putting it on a standard of quality next to a product made by a couple of artist as a pet project. Whereas you would never make these comparisons to anything else.

Olivia is nothing like Snoot Game Fang. She isn't a standoffish angsty teenager concerned with standing out for all the wrong reasons. Questioning her identity while people around her either passively accept her rebellion against nothing or actively try to pull strings to change her. Olivia knows who she is. She knows she's talented but is afraid that people only accept and even award her because of her affliction. She's also a lot more shy than SG Fang only finding herself comfortably opening up to certain people. She's not concerned with standing out for the wrong reasons, rather she's plagued constantly about never truly fitting in. SG Fang served as a mirror to the protagonist in choosing to change their mentalities and their environment for the better instead of wasting their lives doing things for the wrong reasons. A big part of Snoot Game is coming to terms with what both the protagonist and SGFang truly want out of life. Olivia connects with the main character because of their similar creative passions and their desires to truly fit in with their peers instead of being regarded as an other. And this is all learned from a demo. To say the two characters play the same role just because both are grumpy dinosaur girls is a lie.

Further more this is Olivias original design. Posted on 4chan. A design well received by the fans of Snoot Game.

If anything Olivia is fatter in the final version. So you can bring up receipts of people fat shaming her but to suggest that this resulted in her design being changed is another lie. And lastly. Edited images of stock photos in small games has been a thing for the longest time. You can't attribute that to Caveanon. From Katawa Shoujou to even more visual novels like Adastra.

But you would never scrutinize these games and compare them to studio made games. You'd never say "Well Adastra has photo backgrounds but Persona 5..." That's an unfair comparison. Them utilizing IMG2IMG doesn't change the argument either. You're comparing a couple of artists to a team with dedicated background artists. Like I get that you hate Snoot Game but you have to find more legitimate reasons to bash Wani than this. Just because of your history with their previous game. Don't base your opinion of their development on a completely separate project basically made for laughs especially when it's clear they are growing from that. Especially in dialogue. There is not a single line in Wani that uses dark humor or real life racism allegories for cheap laughs. It does what it sets out to do and it shouldn't be held back because of their previous association. All that does is stifle creativity for all the wrong reasons.

So, the same people who made the 4chan Goodbye Volcano High parody game are working on a remake/spirital sucessor to it with fully original, legally distinct characters and plot elements. I'm bringing this up to you because supposedly, a prolific GVH fan artist was going to work on the game but got kicked off the dev team after they found out he was gay. The game's protagonist, a paraplegic alligator meant to serve in the same role as Fang, also go redesigned twice because people kept calling her fat. It's just kind of ironic that somehow this tangentially GVH-related game has an even more chaoic development history than GVH itself.

I've heard of I Wani Hug that Gator! but I haven't looked into its development just yet, only that I heard whispers that the dev team was trying to rush it out before GVH releases. But looking up the game's story and characters, it really does look like a retread of Snoot Game but Legally Distinct™ so they can sell it this time instead of relying on crypto donations.

But I'm not surprised to hear any of that. The leader of Cavemanon Studios is purportedly a Mormon, which is why the Snoot fandom barely draws any porn of the characters, just "wholesome" art or reinterpretations of the game's endings.

The reasons for GVH being delayed - letting go of their lead writer and redoing the story, a global pandemic, avoiding crunch, and dealing with an ongoing harassment campaign that has not stopped since 2020 - are at least reasonable explanations, and KO_OP devs have said it's now "content complete" and on the final stretch of development. Wani's development seems like a bunch of infighting and weird internet guys shooting themselves in the foot.

I'd say I wish the Cavemanon team well, hope they mature and fix their hearts, but you'd have an easier time convincing Elon Musk to stay off Twitter. They made their bed in 4chan, and now they lie in it, whatever that entails for when they want to go "legit".

[spacegaynsfw]

It’s Thursday, and my day off, which means it’s time for me to tell y’all about what I’ve been up to this week!

A few days ago you might have seen I started participating in some shenanigans on Reddit (which admittedly has ups and downs, if you follow my main you saw the wack message I got from someone regarding one of the toys I own) and it’s been. A lot of fun lmao

So, first of all, lemme do a TL;DR version of this story so that if you don’t want to read about the full story of how I got to this point and just wanna know what I’ve been up to, you can.

On r/FapDeciders (classy name, I know) someone started hosting a “Slut Training Week.” On a whim I sent in an “application” to the guy running it, and it’s been honestly great. I mentioned that I’m a lesbian but this sounded too fun to pass up, and frankly he’s been super accommodating which was a pleasant surprise. It started with a lot of edges, still has a lot of edges, and will have a lot of edges. Also some interesting humiliation, denial, (SAFE) exhibitionism (and, of course, limits have been taken into account so that’s good), and sort of the whole gamut of fun stuff for subs. I’m on day 3 of edging with no orgasm, which is both awful and extremely fun for me lmao. If you’re curious what tasks we’ve been given, you can read the post here. I’m u/spacegaynsfw on reddit for this, and you can read my other posts about it there.

On to the longer explanation! Under the cut because, y’know. I think this is going to get long.

So, a little background on like. Who I am as a person on this earth today. For a long fucking time, I’ve been really into taking dares and tasks and the like. I like the aspect of humiliation and sort of exhibitionism, even if it’s technically in private. But, I’m also a socially anxious wreck of a person and don’t like interacting with others. Somehow, through that, I ended up finding out about the phenomenon of faproulette, which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. People post little games, you roll numbers, and do the tasks those numbers dictate (this started, unfortunately, on 4chan, but has since migrated to its own website as far as I can tell). I started doing those a few months ago, but eventually it got kinda stale. There aren’t a lot out there that are designed for people with a vulva, and it’s kind of frustrating.

Since the tumblr porn ban a few years ago, I’d also started venturing onto reddit for some of my more... we’ll say eclectic porn tastes. And in perusing those wares, I found the thread I mentioned above, and was there at the right place and the right time to find that slut training week thing.

So, I send in my application and all that jazz. He responds, gives me a few questions, and a task to edge after answering each one; 13 edges. I already know I was going to be into this. We chat for a bit (he’s doing his masters in AI and robotics in Austria, which is cool as hell tbqh), then Monday comes around.

Of course, there are tasks that need to be done throughout the week, but there are also daily tasks. Monday is all about edging, and boy did I edge a lot. But at the end of the day, I did get to cum, so that was nice. But, one of my favorite tasks was keeping track of how many times I looked in the mirror. I had to edge twice each time I did (though since I was at work, I kept track of how many times and then did them all when I got home). I actually was avoiding looking at myself for the day since I didn’t want to rack up too many.

Tuesday was really interesting. Probably my favorite day so far. I hadn’t edged using a makeup brush before, but I’m glad I did. It’s a fascinating feeling and it’s so deliciously teasing that I’m DEFINITELY planning on doing it again. One of the other tasks was to touch my pussy (through clothes was acceptable) for 30 seconds every hour. Every hour I didn’t do, it was a “punishment token.” Every two hours I went, it was 3. So leave it to me to read the rules at 6 am, then forget them, and go four hours (6 tokens) without touching. (don’t worry, while I was at work on Tuesday I spent the majority of my time in the truck, so I wasn’t doing anything insane!) But I caught myself, then went on to keep up with it for the rest of the day. I did the rest of my tasks when I got home, and then... punishment time. And holy jesus.

First, I’m gonna get into something I’m into that I don’t talk about much: pussy and clit torture. I couldn’t tell you why, but there’s something about inflicting pain to a part of the body that seems to be only there for pleasure that’s just... really really delicious. I’m not the type of person to put needles through my clit or anything, but I definitely am the type of person to put icyhot on my clit. Or slap it. Or scrub it with a toothbrush. That kind of thing.

Back to the punishment. He had me put some icyhot on the rope where it touched my pussy, put in my inflatable butt plug, and put on nipple clamps. I also had to put more icyhot on my nipples. I then had to put clothespins on my tits, my thighs, and my labia. Then he had me do 6 jumping jacks, and slap off whatever clothespins didn’t fall off with a wooden spoon. And that happened twice. Any time I was taking too long, I had to spank myself with that wooden spoon 20 times.

Do y’all know how long it’s been since I had a nice relaxing trip to subspace? Do u???????? it’s been FOREVER and this was just so. Hoo. God. It was really nice.

Anyway, yesterday wasn’t as special partly because I had to work late and partly because it was pretty standard stuff. Edging with a vibrator, practicing oral skills, that kind of thing. I did request to tap out of the task that would’ve required I use my vibrator at random in public since I was at work, and exchanged that for edges instead.

Today is a lot of humping. No touching with hands or toys. No edging. If a task requests I edge with hands/a toy, I have to instead fuck my ass. It’s going to be interesting. I’m excited to see what the rest of the week has in store, for sure.

All that being said, I’m definitely going to start taking tasks/dares both here and on reddit a little more frequently because I’m just really enjoying myself y’all. I wanna cum really bad, and just sitting here thinking about it is making me horny as shit, but oh well. Good thing I’m also into denial lmfao

[mothpress]

FRUIT OF THE LOOM MANDELA EFFECT

I apologize for the long post in advance

I understand that most mandela effects are a product of our brain misremembering or making false memories. Such as looney tunes being remembered as looney toons because tunes sounds like toons and also reminds people of carTOONs. It just makes sense. There's a video explaining these common misconceptions HERE. If you like this kind of stuff, I recommend you watch it, because it goes over this mandela effect very well, but I’m just not satisfied with the conclusion. I’m usually a skeptic of conspiracies. It’s fun to research and speculate, but I prefer to believe rational explanations. BUT this particular mandela effect just hits different and I want to talk about it. It’s also one of the rare instances that I personally have experienced the mandela effect. I do in fact remember thinking 'huh they must have changed the logo' years back. I swear that I remember the logo looking different back in the days of elementary school. I'm just so baffled because, as the linked video explains, cornucopia (which is the swirly basket in the background) is not a very commonly depicted object. It would be difficult for our brains to add something, that we don’t even know. I’ve never actually seen a real cornucopia in real life, but that could just be me. Additionally I've read a lot of comments where people said, that as children they actually learned what a cornucopia was BECAUSE they saw it in the logo and asked their parents for an explanation.

This is an artistic rendition of the logo as some people remember it. It is fake and has never existed. Even the company itself denied it.

This is a screenshot from a 2006 animated movie ‘The Ant Bully’. I’ve never seen the film myself but this is a scene where the main character apparently shrinks and the film shows a close up on the underwear. More importantly it shows the label on it. Fruit of the loom makes underwear so that’s not surprising, what is though is that there’s a cornucopia behind the fruit. Is it an elaborate joke? Did the animators experience the mandela effect or was this particular mandela effect already known on the internet and they were just in it on the joke?

In an episode of South Park,  season 16 episode 6, we can also see a cornucopia on the main character’s underwear tag. I won’t be posting a picture because it’s a bit nsfw (it shows some ass and poop so it’s a little nasty) but here’s a link to a reddit post where a user shared the screenshot of the episode.

Read this paragraph from a book called  "Signs of the zodiac : a reference guide to historical, mythological, and cultural associations". It was written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass in 1997. She wrote about horn of plenty (synonym for cornucopia) as a symbol of maternity, nurturing etc. and gave some examples, one of which happens to be ‘Fruit of the Loom underwear’.

There is this news article that  mentions the cornucopia ( "Florida Today" October 14th, 1994)  <<(click link for full article because I cropped the picture)

My favorite ‘proof’ I want to go over is this album, titled “Flute of the Loom” by Frank Wess, an american  jazz saxophonist and flutist. This album is from 1973 and the cover was illustrated by a man named Ellis Chappel. Here is a link to yet another reddit post, where the user actually contacted the illustrator. The post shows that it wasn’t Ellis who responded, but his son Reed. He claims he clearly remembers the cornucopia, just like his dad, and that it in fact was the inspiration for the cover. To me it very clearly parodies, not just the name but also the look of the Fruit of the Loom logo. Another thing I thought about was that flutes are usually straight (at least to my limited instrumental knowledge), which is even funnier when you see this particular cover where the flute is so misshapen it almost resembles more of a french horn. It is so similar in shape to a cornucopia I am actually getting the creeps. And remember this was the 70′s. No social media, no quick access to google etc. There was no way to just stumble upon mandela effects on reddit, insta, tumblr and consequently create false memories. Wherever the illustrator came up with the idea that Fruit of the Loom had a cornucopia, it surely wasn’t the internet. 

Ok so now that I have gone over the parodies and the written references, I am left with only one picture in my ‘conspiracy theory’ folder, and it is this one. This crappy, low resolution image from 4chan (allegedly). I am not a 4chan user and couldn’t for the life of me find the source of this image, so if anyone out there has the original post: share it, reblog, message me whatever. Could this be a knock off tshirt? It doesn’t make much sense since the brand is known for producing cheap affordable clothing while imitations typically happen with designer brands. Why would someone make a knock off of a product which originally costs like 5 €?? The shirt also looks old and the logo appears washed out and faded. On the other hand, Fruit of the Loom always produced a label with a colorful logo, they never stamped it onto fabric.

In conclusion, I’m not sure what to think and feel about this mandela effect. I gathered a lot of material which works in favor of the cornucopia’s existence. However the company itself denies it’s existence. The logo had brown leaves instead of green at one point, which could explain the confusion, but it doesn’t explain the clear cornucopia shape on Flute of the Loom album cover. Can you tell I spent way too much time on this

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@itsjustwokehomophobia Transcribing this post based off of our conversation this morning where you requested an image ID. This is my first time doing this, so my apologies if it’s not the greatest.

(@itsthevioletqueen if you would like me to add this transcription to your post let me know, and I apologize for accidentally posting it earlier - I’m not used to using Tumblr on my desktop. If you don;t want me to that’s fine.)

I decided to censor any slurs I found. I was initially not going to, because (a) this was the words of the 4channers, not me, and (b) I think ultimately censoring them would ruin the impact of what this is saying for itsjustwokehomophobia, but honestly, I really think that if the parts where they’re strategizing how to spread this don’t utterly disgust you, then the slurs sure as fuck aren’t.

Nevertheless, HUGE HONKIN’ TRIGGER WARNING FOR TRANSPHOBIA, HOMOPHOBIA, ANTI-SEMITISM, RACISM, AND FASCIST LANGUAGE UNDER THE CUT. IT’S 4CHAN, FOLKS, YOU KNOW HOW THIS GOES.

[Image ID: A series of five screenshots. The first is a screenshot of Twitter user @bluemoth5, sharing a series of screenshots from 4chan.

bluemoth5: Anybody that thinks #superstraight is a real thing, fuck off.

itsthevioletqueen: 4chan is at it fucking again

itsthevioletqueen: tw: transphobia and slurs v

The v points down to a “Read More” link.

Below the Read More are four screenshots taken from 4chan, from a thread titled “/SS/ super straight general.” The four screenshots depict a conversation started by an anonymous user with the ID “bjG0EDki.” The thread is as follows, using the anon IDs to differentiate who’s speaking:

bjG0EDki: >Making this thread before the other one hits the bump limit GOALS >drive a wedge between tr*nnies and other f*g groups >Redpill zoomers >Use the left’s tactics against themselves, call them bigots for not accepting super straights >Shitpost on social media >Hit mainstream status

WHAT THE FUCK IA HAPPENING

>zoomer on tiktok makes a new sexuality called “super straight” meaning one is only attracted to the biological sex, meaning no trannies >Countering the tranny logic that tr**ns are “real women

WHAT DO I DO

>spam this shit all over, make memes, retweet SS agents on twitter, post on every site imaginable

(The post contains a picture of an SS flag, with half of it black and half of it orange. The orange “S” is on the black background, and the black “S” is on the orange background.)

bjG0Eki: Kiwifarms already found out about this, contribute there too (URL not included to discourage others from going there)

Gdf7IUBH: bump

User whose ID is unknown: >hate tr*nnies for stealing their thunder. I think >Hitching the T wagon to the LGB train, and demanding it runs through equality station and all the way to nonceville. cover it better, but I get the gist

5nvQLkOk: Just spitballing my earlier concept

(The picture includes a half-black, half-orange flag with a stylized “S” that is half-orange, half-black.)

0bAuFtXq: DON’T FUCKING USE THE SS SYMBOLS JESUS CHRIST YOU STUPID N*****S THIS WILL STOP THE MOVEMENT SO FUCKING HARD STOP IT YOU ABSOLUTE R*TARDS USE SAFER AND F*GGOT-IER SYMBOLISM TO GET MORE AND DON’T FUCKING BE R**ARDED ACT HOW THEY ACT

User whose ID is unknown: >THIS WILL STOP THE MOVEMENT SO FUCKING HARD That’s why (((they))) are using it in the first place, goy

nJSj8C7f: (next to a simple half-black, half-orange flag) Just stick with this. We don’t need any stupid designs. It’s fine the way it is. This goes for everyone too. Quit it with the different variations and the cringe Nazi shit. If you want this to work, just leave it how it is.

QNaMStPl: don’t make it so easy, p*ta

a1VnYjBN: You fucking r**arded cockboy. You are doing this on purpose to undermine the super straight movement. Giving the tr*nnies ammunition they can use to make it seem like it is a nazi thing. They probably already have screen shots of this up on Twitter.

User whose ID is unknown: This is pretty gay equivalent of having a flag for believing in gravity, makes you look insecure.

WLTO0k0H: I know everyone’s desperate to do muh OC but shopping in the fashy symbols is r**arded you will stop this stone fucking dead r**ards saying media will call it a hate symbol anyway, yes, but AFTER it’s spread you radicalise people by not showing them radical material, but having them agree with reasonable material that is then revealed to be radical

S6ehmVhU: How do tr*nnies feel about bisexuals?

+5uv8B/s: Because you r**ards have already posted it on Twitter, poisoning the well. Any good points that may have been made by using tr*nny rhetoric against them is rendered moot because it’s all just “evil nazis behond (sp) the movement. Are you actually r**arded?

3hYo/HG3: didn’t realize that someone else already made a new thread

end ID]

[greater-than-the-sword]

You used to be into Qanon style conspiracies? Why did you stop?

In October/November/December of 2016 I was closely following the election. Around the same time, Hillary Clinton was also being prosecuted for national security leaks during her time as Secretary of State. Because she was also a presidential candidate, the investigation was highly politicized. Hillary used her extensive connections with the left-wing media to attempt to squash the stories that were coming out of the investigation or turn them in her favor. This culminated in the DNC leaks, revealing details of what I just mentioned above, and resignations of high-level DNC members who’d conspired to repress Hillary’s competition within the Democratic Party.

It also culminated with the death of Seth Rich, a conscientious DNC staffer, in a highly suspicious “accident”.

It was around that time I began to get interested in what Wikileaks was putting out. The DNC leaks were big news, but after them came the Podesta papers, with more information on the inside operations of Hillary’s top staffers. From there I was exposed to the concept of “Pizzagate”. Some of you may remember the informational post I made about it at the time.

Some aspects of that theory were more sound and some were... let’s say... less sound. Still, a number of fishy details were unearthed around the Clintons and their associates. It seemed everyone connected to them had secrets and dirt. At the time, Jeffery Epstein had not yet been arrested and what is now public knowledge (that Bill Clinton flew on his jet and went to his private island, a place where young girls were regularly molested by high society) was considered a conspiracy theory.

Other parts were darker and more obscure, as internet “investigators” and “autists” unearthed things from deep on the web showing the Clinton’s money trails connecting them to sex trafficking and p*do promoting organizations.

People were naturally creeped out by this. That’s when things started to become even more speculative. I believe there were a few anonymous testimonies of people who claimed to have been sexually abused by Clinton affiliated organizations, and they claimed there had been dark Satanic rituals and child sacrifice and things that, well, a lot of people are primed to believe in for various reasons. Especially people who wanted to see Trump vs. Hillary as clear-cut good vs. evil. People began deriving esoteric hints and clues from difficult to interpret passages in the Podesta papers.

From this background, enter Q.

I left the movement at almost exactly the same time Q entered. I left because thinking about the great volume and depth of evil in the world was overwhelming. I had realized that I wasn’t trusting God, and I’d been carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders, as though I personally had to save thousands of trafficked children, by myself, through the computer screen. I realized that there was nothing I could do about it, more information could only hurt me, and not help anyone. I backed off.

I think most other people would have suffered a similar burnout as well if it hadn’t been for Q. He was their savior. He was an anonymous 4chan poster who claimed to be a high-ranking member of a US intelligence agency. Q played into the needs of the group by claiming that Trump had a long-term complex game plan to put Hillary in jail, free the children, and expose all the p*dos once and for all. Only then would the satanic curse on our society be lifted.

And people bought it hook, line and sinker because it appealed to what they wanted and needed. They needed to believe a higher power was in control and was going to win because they couldn’t stand the sheer evil in the universe. But instead of trusting God, they trusted Q.

Who is Q? I don’t know. Does he work for Trump? I don’t know. He could be one person, or many people. He could be misleading people on purpose for antagonistic goals, or for “the greater good”. He’s certainly well-informed, but not omniscient, as he has made many predictions that never materialized and this would show he is not truly an insider but merely guessing at best. After four years of Trump’s presidency, the promised day of reckoning still hasn’t come. It would be nice if it did, but don’t put your faith in Q. Put your faith in God.