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it really is fascinating how online communities will identify a problem, and then create an entirely new problem by morphing and deforming the point through telephone until the context is scrubbed clean in favor of the warning.

you'll have "DON'T drink pepsi outside in oklahoma because then you'll attract the Oklahoma Pepsi Mangler," and then it'll exchange hands so many times that in a few months you'll be getting called out for drinking pepsi in spain as if it was the pepsi that was the problem and not The Mangler.

but everybody remembers that the warning was important without understanding the context behind it, so you'll hear about how awful drinking pepsi is forever

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rewatching my own judas rn to see if it's as bad as i remember and im only 17 minutes in but im so fucking pissed off already. firstly, wilbur is lovely to eret in this stream. idgaf. he starts out trying to sneak past her, but he ends up going into the museum and they have pleasant conversation, a pleasant time all around, and then they go to the faux final control room and eret says the words "i understand it was traumatic for... all of us" which was fucking insane. but anyway eventually wilbur apologizes and then quickly tries to leave and eret is like "that's not good enough" WHICH IS INSANEEEE FRANKLY BC ERET IS NOT FUCKING OWED AN APOLOGY BY WILBUR. I DON'T GIVE A FUCK. WILBUR PUSHES ERET AWAY AFTER THE FINAL CONTROL ROOM BECAUSE SHE TRAUMATIZED HIM AND HURT HIM AND EVERYONE HE LOVES. THAT'S PERFECTLY REASONABLE AND I DONT CARE IF ERET DECIDED FIVE SECONDS AFTER SHE BETRAYED THEM SHE REGRETTED IT, WILBUR HAS EVERY RIGHT TO NEVER WANT TO SPEAK TO HER AGAIN. but he does. kindly. and she uses it as an opportunity to speak to him in a way she frankly has no right to. WHATEVER.

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personally I think it's less healthy to genuinely put time and energy being angry at people for shipping or misunderstanding the source material or being drawn to common fandom tropes than it is to actually do those things

assuming that people post about shipping a lot because they're inherently stupider than you and just can't understand art the way that you can isn't a healthy mindset, and you'll drive yourself off the edge of social decency thinking about other people that way

sometimes there Are things worth criticizing in fandom cultures as a whole, but generally individual people do things because it makes them happy. and I think we should also do things because they make us happy

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"the internet has a tendency to fit queer ships into specific dynamics and presentations in ways that can be influenced by internalized biases, and often at the expense of those characters' actual traits and personalities."

is a fine enough observation, and a legitimate one. but Unfortunately it has been mangled into

"I can't help but notice that this queer character is gender non-conforming, are you aware that this is stereotypical, fetishistic, and bad?"

which is, you know, not good

are we calling out other people's internalized biases or are we punishing gnc people for being visible?

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has this been done yet

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has this been done yet

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has this been done yet

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"do you like this trope?"

if it's written well, yeah

"do you dislike this trope?"

if it's written poorly, yeah

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Crazy thing is, we all wanted to ship c!tubbo and c!ranboo but somewhere along the way it was decided that it crossed boundaries even though the characters were married(??) So we just pretended it was all platonic and we never even THOUGHT of shipping them unlike those ENDERBEES FREAKS. Like enough time has passed that we can all admit this right. I 100% believe they were trolling us by calling it platonic marriage

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cClingy never grow out of their thing to wrestle each other to the ground. In like 20 years, Michael brings his future spouse home to visit his family and they have to witness Michael’s middle aged father and uncle have a full on brawl in the living room over the last piece of desert or something. Ranboo eggs them on like it’s a professional wrestling match whilst Michael pinches his brow

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cClingy never grow out of their thing to wrestle each other to the ground. In like 20 years, Michael brings his future spouse home to visit his family and they have to witness Michael’s middle aged father and uncle have a full on brawl in the living room over the last piece of desert or something. Ranboo eggs them on like it’s a professional wrestling match whilst Michael pinches his brow

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they put bugs in him thursday

I’ve spoken before on why I think the prison was built for tommy, but I just wanna take a moment to talk about why I Don’t think it was designed for technoblade

for the sake of argument lets say that you’re mr wastaken, the dust has settled with the revolution only for a surprise in the elections (that you’d been pushing for but ultimately couldn’t cause by yourself) to up-heave everything and put you in a more advantageous position when Suddenly the techno “The Blade” blade joins the server.

it’s hot off of the heels of your duel with the man, and while one fight in one specific circumstance doesn’t indicate how every outcome between you two would end it Does leave you with a respect for his abilities and fear of what he could do if put on the other side of a conflict from you. so you gather up supplies to meet him in a show of good will and it goes about as well as you could hope. you establish each other as a respectful neutral ground and open up possibilities for a future relationship.

you follow the conflict for a while, trying to ride that line between pulling strings and never showing your hand while you try to work around unknowns to lead to Both parties’ destruction without placing blame on yourself.

technoblade is there of course, but he’s not in it for the same reasons that his partners are, that comes to an obvious head. technoblade wants anarchy, the complete destruction of organized system of governments. and while his ideals of total freedom are counter to your end goal, they’re tantalizingly relevant to the means with which you want to achieve that end.

there’s paranoia in the ranks of the pogtopians, about loyalty and about trust, and schlatt already sowed the seeds for that distrust to specifically center technoblade. so you press on that fracture, encouraging it to splinter, with a rumor about spies that sends people scrabbling to find people they can trust, encouraging pogtopia to fracture under the surface while you try to enable wilbur to succeed in manberg’s destruction.

the moment finally arrives, schlatt is dead and the people leftover are just about ready to start licking their wounds and rebuilding stronger. you stoke the anger you already know techno is going to be feeling, you taunt and push him in private where no one else can see and that fracture finally flourishes into a break. it goes better than you ever could’ve imagined.

wilbur dead, schlatt dead, the country torn apart, the children and young adults left alone, and techno runs off hanging an arrow over Both of their heads as he promises to destroy them again if they rebuild. pulling attention squarely away from you as the paranoia that’d been seeded and bloomed in pogtopia is allowed to grow and flourish in new l'manberg.

you and technoblade were technically on opposite sides of the war but you were on the same Ideological side in the end and you know that matters more. you both cheered when l'manberg burned, and you were allowed to get away with it because technoblade was louder.

the first thing you do after the dust settles is pick up your plan to separate and isolate tommy from the remnants of l'manberg by trying to frame him. your ultimate goal here is to get tommy away and get a hold of the discs so you can destroy the now purposeless l'manberg once and for all while you build your attachments museum to try to control the people that’ll scatter in the aftermath.

technoblade now lives in the woods out of everyone’s way, isolated and (as far as you know) ally-less. based on everything that has happened up until this point, what are the odds that you read him as a threat that has to take priority right now? so much so that you commission a prison the day After tommy’s exile, the main moving piece of your main plan for your main goal?

Theoretically you could, perhaps, be worried about the potential of technoblade identifying you as a threat once everyone else has been crushed, when you’re allowed to take your role as the unquestioned leader of the server. after all, techno is an anarchist and presumably doesn’t see you as the threat that he should Because you haven’t gained the power you think you ought to have.

and maybe we could even say that the seeds of a god complex are slowly budding inside of you as you work towards your goal of getting that control. maybe you’re Bitter that you have to be careful around technoblade, that technoblade was strong enough to beat you in Any context, even if you Could use that to your advantage in an alliance. maybe your ego matters more because you think you can do it alone.

so lets assume for one moment that dream Did design and commission the prison specifically for technoblade. and now you have the conundrum of trying to find some way to get techno in there.

techno has all of his lives and all of the free time in the world to stockpile and train and build up his sanctuary that you haven’t dared to step foot in, careful to avoid stepping on toes before the shoe has dropped.

you keep your eyes and ears open, you learn that new l'manberg intends to try to kill technoblade. this should be perfect, this should be fate itself lining up to hand you exactly what you need. new l'manberg will leave techno vulnerable, maybe even Kill him, and you can swoop in with an advantage you never could’ve gotten anywhere else, fully armored standing against a weaponless techno.

the perfect and Only opportunity to march him to an impenetrable prison. you could even frame it as you doing l'manberg a favor, lean even Harder into the manipulation you’re pulling on tubbo. you might even gain favor with the members that’ve been more openly suspicious and hostile towards you.

but you don’t do that, do you? you approach technoblade directly and warn him about what’s to come. you lead him towards the one item that’d guarantee that he’d get away without losing a life and you swoop in to save him in person. you give him just enough for him to escape, just enough to not incriminate yourself, and you gain both a favor and a reinforcement of your ally-ship with him.

what you’ve set up now is a mutual relationship wherein you’ll both stand together against l'manberg Rather Than getting him out of the way. who are people that you’re fully confident in your own ability to destroy, in your own words they only still existed because you wanted something from them. their leader is weak, the only person that gave them value is in your hands, and the most spit-fire among them is the weakest of them all in your opinion. and your favor is? going to do what?

how does this set you up at an advantage if your ultimate goal, something that you consider a priority nearly on par with tommy’s exile, is to get technoblade into the prison? are you going to use the favor to ask him to walk in? hey techno, can you scrub the floors of this high security prison I just have laying around without any weapons or armor and without telling anyone where you’re going? thanks <3

not only does technoblade have value as a willing asset to dream in a way that practically nobody else does (maybe only second to punz), but the logistics of his actions leading up to and during hog hunt are Not consistent with trying to catch techno while he’s vulnerable and haul him away to a maximum security lock box.

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I've been listening to a lot of fall out boy and spotify just threw bishop's knifetrick at me and i cant describe the emotions the title unlocked in me

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Well... here he is. After throwing away a sculpture of him I was working on when he passed, starting a new one a year later, and working on it intermittently between not being able to even look at it for weeks or months... he's done.

Alongside the sculpture is a pic of really old fanart, plus some stickers I found at work the day he passed. Funny seeing how far I've come with my art. Even just through making the sculpture, there are these giant gaps in skill all over it. I got so much better at sculpting throughout this process that you can see which are the older pieces, just due to the quality being worse lol. In a way, that just makes me so much prouder of it. It's the first polymer clay sculpture I've ever finished, and the third I've ever attempted. There's a lot wrong with the sculpture, but I'm happy.

Other than that, I can't thank Techno enough for being a funny guy on the internet who made some of my worst days a little easier. I would never want some new person to replace you, because you made me realise just how great it was that there could only ever be one you, and made me think that maybe it's a good thing that I am the person that I am.

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the unspoken sexyman lineage

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NEED👏THAT👏MAN👏PREGNANT GROUP THREE *FINALS

PROPAGANDA:

[Quark]

"you know why."

[Garak]

"Because he would be soooo annoying about it and it would be funny."

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2025 undertale thought: frisk uses neopronouns and they're "the human"