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Tried so hard to stay up and write that I fell asleep at my desk not writing.

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It's important to show that you care. Fuck being nonchalant. Text first, send multiple messages in a row. Tell them what they mean to you, be honest about how you feel. Tell your friends that you love them. Love is a gift that can be given away freely, by anyone and to anyone. Show that you care.

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no words, just angst

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tfw someone reblogs a post that you would normally block someone for but they're your mutual so they get a pass

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From Reddit. Kris dog therian real.

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So, possibly crackpot theory...

The secret third mimic (that I suspect exists regardless of this theory) isn't M3, but M0.

Sleepy Moon, mimicking Edwin Sr.

It would mean he created a (primitive?) version of the mimic software before M1, but...there are already hints of that being the case. The vacuum can learn, change size, and "be a friend". The coat rack can adjust size with some predictive ability, and the coffee maker "knows what you want better than you do".

The question is, did he do it on purpose, and if so, why? Possibly to help him run the company, as there's a recording of him being pretty nervous at the prospect. But I kinda think it was an accident. He was trying to automate the Sleepy Moon character (it was originally a costume, after all) using recordings of his father and his performances of Sleepy Moon. But it got too real. Ediwn had wanted to recreate his father's performance of Sleepy Moon, but aspects of Edwin Sr that had nothing to do with Sleepy Moon got in there too. He was so freaked out by this that he sealed Sleepy Moon in the basement so quickly not even the employee left down there had time to escape.

So, what other evidence is there of this? Well, the timing works pretty well. When Edwin meets Fiona, he's in the early stages of developing the Helpful machine. In the recording talking about Edwin Sr's death, he and Fiona have some kind of established relationship. So there is a period of time where the early recorder, some of Edwin's inventions, and Edwin Sr were all in play.

Also worth noting that Edwin and Sleepy Moon share a VA and Sleepy Moon sounds older, and his design/suit also just seems older than a lot of Edwin's other stuff. I realize the VA is...kiiiinda a weak point in FNAF (I don't think Arnold is going to become Funtime Freddy or the Daycare Attendant) but it's not NOT a point.

A significant point against this is the recording where Edwin's phrasing strongly implies (outright states, really) that the first mimic worked and none of the others did. And it's clear in this context the "first" one is M1, not M0. And I don't think this is a misdirect where he's implying M0 works better than M1.

BUT it could be that Edwin doesn't consider M0 to be a mimic or completed, and HE never calls it M0 so he's just not counting it. This makes sense if its creation was accidental, unsuccessful, and has been buried for years now. Admittedly a bit flimsy, but it fits.

There's also the fact that the mere mention of Edwin Sr stuck out to me. Why mention that if it's not relevant to anything? Why not just say Edwin's an eccentric inventor who built the company from the ground up? Maybe to justify how someone who doesn't seem great at running a company has a company but eh. I feel like they could have used Fiona for a lot of that if they didn't need Edwin Sr in other parts of the narrative?

Not sure if even I fully believe this theory, but uh...huge if true??

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(TV) dinner is served

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Seems MOB is cracking down on etsy. Doey patches are removed but they weren't really selling anyway so eh. Might remove the fnaf stuff too and see about doing more with kofi or other stores.

Weirdly, the notice mentioned every major Poppy character BUT Doey. Still don't think it's worth contesting but it's odd.

Kinda dumb, cuz unless they make iron on patches they weren't actually losing money from me doing it but copyright law favors corporations these days.

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Animal: has the coolest adaptations you can imagine

Science content popularizer: isn’t that horrifying?????

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so the other day a castmate of mine was talking about having once been a little girl (at this point, i all but short-circuited because said castmate is a man in his mid-sixties and my brain had its little moment of “!!!!! trans person!!! and he’s OLD!!!!”) and being asked if there was a famous person he looked up to or wanted to look or be more like. and he said— again, as a little girl at this point— “santa claus!” and everyone thought he was weird for it.

and this story doesn’t read as well over text because you really have to see the guy. but he looks just like santa claus. he’s got the long white hair and the beard and the belly and everything. and i just. the amount of secondhand trans joy i experienced is truly insane. i’m gonna get old! i’m gonna get old the way i wanna get old! hey everybody you’re gonna get old; we’ve been doing it for years!

anyway shoutout to the santa claus of my cast and to every older trans person we love you so fucking much

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hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god

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Sometimes when I go hundreds pages deep into people’s Tumblr archives, I find really funny posts and I weigh the pros and cons of liking/reblogging them.

Pros: I’ll have access to them later because they’re fucking hilarious

Cons: They might think I’m creepy. Despite the fact that it’s public and on the Internet, it is not socially acceptable to let anyone know the extent that you creeped their archives.

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Toby Fox being worried about fans having a negative reception to characters he likes or finds funny (Spamton, Tenna, etc) feels a bit silly given how excellent he is at writing until you remember that a) even the best of writers still feel insecure about things and get anxiety and b) literally everything about the fandom reception to Alphys at launch

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Canon/Headcanon likelihood chart

So I've been thinking about @macdenlover 's "levels of headcanon" chart (about how heavily a HC is influenced by canon), so I decided to make my own scale about how likely a HC is to be true (including different levels of canon) using queer cartoon characters as examples :)

I just spent an hour making this because I was bored. Enjoy. Image description under the cut.

Inspiration:

ID courtesy of @hatreds-og-imagedescriptions (thank you!!)

[ID: a chart going from 10 to 1, with explanations of the ratings on the left and images of characters with queer flags and descriptions of said characters on the right.

10: "Explicit canon. Clearly stated in the original media." Trans Barney from Dead end Paranormal Park. "Barney says "I'm transgender"".

9: "Implicit canon. Never explicitly stated, but 100% canon in the original media". Nonbinary Raine from The Owl House. "Raine never says "I'm nonbinary," but uses they/them and is never referred to as a man/woman (also, confirmed by Dana)".

8: "Creator confirmation. Never stated in the original media, but confirmed canon by the media's creator". Aroace Lilith from The Owl House. "While never mentioned/implied in TOH, Dana has confirmed that Lilith is aroace".

7: "Heavily implied. Never confirmed, but likely true (either by canon evidence or creator implication)". Genderfluid Nimona from Nimona. ""Aaand now you're a boy" "I am today" (anyway, the whole movie has trans/GNC themes)".

6: "Possibly implied. Hinted at in the original media, but could be explained as something else". Trans Doofenschmirtz from Phineas and Ferb. "Doof COULD be transmasc, or the whole "raised as a girl" thing could just be for the bit".

5: "Fanon. Never confirmed, but generally accepted by the fandom". Aromantic Alastor from Hazbin Hotel. "While only confirmed to be ace, most of the fandom also sees Alastor as aromantic".

4: "HC with evidence. Headcanons supported by a dedicated fan's detective work". Bisexual Mabel from Gravity Falls. "People have noticed bi flag stickers hidden on Mabel's scrapbooks".

3: "Canon neutrality. Could be true, could be false, but overall makes sense and doesn't contradict the original media". Genderqueer Pleakley from Lilo and Stitch. "Maybe Pleakley is genderqueer, maybe he just wanted to crossdress for the mission, who knows? That's why it's a headcanon."

2: "I made it the fuck up. Based on vibes, has absolutely nothing to do with canon". Bisexual Megamind from Megamind. "No evidence, no explanation, he just has Disaster Bi™ vibes".

1: "Um? No? But go off. Directly contradicts canon (but who cares, that's why it's fun)". Trans Stanley Pines from Gravity Falls. "Even though flashback scenes prove Stan is AMAB, some people HC him as transmasc." End of ID.]

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Human Big Top! not much changed, i think.

I had the face sketched just before the big bigtop painting ago but i wanted to draw the full thing!

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Waiting for you.

big top right before he jumps down and chases after you the moment you get onto the rooftop, lol

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Hiya!!!!! Im kinda nervous to ask this but - can i translate your dj/reader fic?

I started doing it, but i think i need to ask for permission to upload it to another site (ofc with credits for you as author of the original)

Had to think about this a bit, but the answer is basically yes, though I'd want to know what site and have a link to it. And of course be credited but yeah, I'm think I'm fine if people want to manage translations of my work as long as it's understood that:

A. It's still my work B. I only speak English so I can't verify accuracy of any translations C. The reader stays gender-neutral (As much as possible anyway...I know that's easier in some languages than others and I really don't have the expertise to make a rule other than "just try" nor do I have the energy to enforce said rule so uh..."just try" xD;; )

Also in the case of Stereo Souls in particular...I actually just finished a round of edits on it where I fixed some ASL issues, among other things, so if you've already started translating you might want to double check that ^^;

Apologies...I meant to do the edits shortly after I posted the fic but I kept forgetting or intimidating myself out of it or feeling oddly guilty when I got a comment from someone who had binged the unpolish version recently xD;;

But that's just my own weirdness and anxiety, but this ask did finally give me the motivation to actually post the edits after having finished them a couple months ago, so uh, there's that! ^^;