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There are problems to Jack Slash being boring and vacuous on purpose. Such as reading about boring and vacuous characters is boring. However there is one colossal shining star that makes it all worth it and that is in decades of Worm discourse I have never seen anyone sincerely argue that Jack Slash had a point. Joker and Homelander never had a point either but because they’re slightly better at bullshitting some people always buy into whatever baseless anprim shit they’re saying.

Any obviously deranged villain in any media who gets a chance to monologue will, without fail, convince some people that they have a point. Except Jack Slash. It is fundamentally clear that he is going off basically nothing. Thanks Wildbow for that at least

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I've been looking into finding new sources of fanfiction, and I've stumbled upon spacebattles. I think I like their style of worldbuilding over shipping better than ao3, but god damn do they need to work on their descriptions. It can be sorted into three catagories:

No description. This is the most annoying one.

Partial description. On PC, hovering your mouse over the title will display the description of that fic. This is great! But some scheming writers have decided to only write a bit of the description in the description box, and then trail off with ... They will then write the full description as the first paragraph of the fic, forcing you to click on it to get the full description. This is kinda annoying, but at least I don't have to spend 5 minutes reading to figure out the premise.

Full description in the description. I like people who do this.

Despite the length of category 2, I actually hat the first one the most. They normally just have a sentence or two of some weird poetic something that probably makes sense in the context of the fic, but is completely useless for telling me what it's about. I hate these the most. They are my mortal enemy and I would like to see the people who write these lazy, shitty, awful descriptions have mildly annoying things happen to them occasionally.

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CyberPunk TTRPG idea

No idea how the game actually works, but I've been on a bit of a cyberpunk kick and got an idea for dealing with cyberpsychosis in the ttrpg. As you install more and more chrome, the dm or whatever the cyberpunk equivalent is starts muttering comments or suggestions about what you should be doing (mainly installing more chrome or murdering people or smth.) As your character's meat:chrome ratio starts to shift, the dm gets louder and more insistent until they eventually start arguing with your decisions until a compromise is reached. At the final stages of psychosis, the dm will outright make decisions for you in tense moments and eventually just turn you into an enemy npc. Pretty cool in my head, but I also have no idea how cyberpsychosis is treated in the game so this might all be redundant.

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Nostalgia

I'm not gonna lie, I am not as old as most of the millennial dinosaurs on this site. I am however, old enough to get nostalgia now. What probably makes me the most nostalgic tho, is the fnaf 2 and 3 songs by the living tombstone. I know 2's become a bit of a meme which kinda ruined it, but just the old fnaf fandom with theory thursdays, game theory still having a soul, and all the hidden websites was like the golden age of my childhood. I was around 10 and all I did was watch game theory, watch stampy and play pokemon black, times were good. Now I am stressing out about getting a job and applying for scholarships and meeting uni requirements. But anyways, die in a fire, and I guess survive the night now that I think about it, were the songs that I was obsessed with as a small bean, and I got this old mp3 player where I would just play those old minecraft parodies and fnaf songs on repeat.

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My beef with tagging

So fan fiction has this amazing filtering system called tagging right? It’s great, let’s you find the stuff you want to read, sort out the stuff y’a don’t, and it’s awesome. HOWEVER, I have a big issue with tagging. People don’t tag everything (or at least some important stuff)

Take ao3, it’s got a lot of shipping stuff, cause that’s what the majority of fan fiction is. My issue is that I don’t really like shipping, but I don’t mind ships that aren’t the main focus of the fic, like erasermic (from bnha.) It’s great, a part of nearly every bnha fic. But if I were to filter everything to just gen, then that would invalidate like half of all the bnha fics that tag it as m/m. And herein lies the issue. (I don’t know if I used that word right)

The logical solution would be to use the minor or background relationship tag right? BUT barely anybody uses it due to the fact that erasermic is accepted as a given to pretty much everything. So if I filter out everything that doesn’t have minor or background relationships, then I once again lose out on half of all fics, maybe more!

So now the only solution is for me to either slog through all the lovesick fluff angst romance enemies to friends to enemies to uncertain to its complicated to lovers fics that I hate, or filter every individual ship that is probably gonna be very prominent and making baby doll eyes at izuku.

The solution? Tag better. Put more effort into properly tagging your fics than trying to write the summary in the tags.

This also applies to porn

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I recently got around to watching neon genesis and what really got me to finish it was this one quote I'd heard floating around, "Get in the robot Shinji." Now, I didn't know much about the show going into it, but what I did know can be summed up as:

Depressed teenager fights giant monsters in big robot

His dad's an asshole

There are some behind the scenes conspiracy's going on.

After watching the first episode, I thought the quote was gonna be used by dear old dad as a way to bully Shinji into the EVA. I now know this is not the case. Fast forward about a year and I kinda stopped watching the show, but a crossover in the battle cats got me kinda hyped for it again and I decided to give it another go. By this point I'd discovered that looking up fly me to the moon on youtube would inevitably lead me to neon genesis. I never did watch the evangelion cover as I thought it would be the track that played in some final confrontation or ending as both the intro (cruel angels thesis) and the outro were not it (I was watching on Netflix.) I also got some impressions from descriptions of units in the battle cats such as:

Ikari and his right hand man scientist dude I cannot remember the name of being in space suits with the description of them being ready to enact their ultimate plan with complete trust in eachother.

Kaworu, a mysterious pilot with a strange smile.

The various angels and a some that I haven't seen that looked like evas

All of this led me to a sort of expectation of "Get in the robot Shinji." being used as a grand finale to show that Ikari really didn't care about Shinji and was resorting to ordering him into an eva (presumably as the final step in his grand plan.) Maybe it'd be supported by having his assistant dude point a gun at Shinji, or have the other pilots/Misato restrained by Nerv agents in the back. I was expecting something big.

Needless to say I was pretty fucking confused when the show finished, and not just from the shows ending. WHERE WAS THE BADASS ULTIMATE BETRAYAL LINE?????? WHERE WAS THE AMAZING MOOD SETTER FINALE SONG? After some "calm" research I discovered that the badass betrayal line was actually just a throwaway line in what is basically a shitpost. Fly me to the moon actually was the ED but Netflix is incompetent. I was VERY displeased. (Spoiler ahead) Just think about how cool it would have been if instead of Ikari getting killed by Rei off in some clone chamber he instead was the one to make Shinji get in the fucking robot to fight the mass produced models! Imagine if there was a beautiful rendition of fly me to the moon as Shinji made his final choice between whatever the fuck was happening and self improvement or whatever it was! Anyways that was my experience with evangelion: anticipation, anticipation, excitement, confusion and still confused disappointment. Thank you for attending my Ted talk.

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Trying to convince my friends to play this game and gonna use this as the grand finisher.

YOUNG WOMAN - Actually, detective, I'm a woman.

EMPATHY [Easy: Success] - She says it so insistently, as if arguing with you. You may have upset her.

COMPOSURE [Formidable: Failure] - You feel a pit in your stomach. You did something wrong, but you don't know what.

LOGIC [Trivial: Success] - Her way of dressing, the feminine name, yet deep voice - it should have been clear to you sooner. She's transgender.

ESPIRIT DE CORPS [Formidable: Success] - Almost imperceptible, the lieutenant anxiously twitches his eyebrow.

DAMAGED MORALE - 1

Transgender? What's that?

This doesn't have any bearing on the investigation.

ENCYCLOPEDIA [Trivial: Success] - A transgender person is someone who does not identify with the gender they were assigned at birth. Oftentimes they will dress conforming to their desired gender roles, change their names, and seek medical intervention to, "transition."

Gender is rather bourgeois, anyway.

Why would any proud Revacholian discard their masculinity?

Changing your gender? That sounds like quite the hustle. Maybe we can learn a thing or two from this woman.

That's cool. I have no opinion on this one way or another.

RHETORIC [Medium: Success] - Just as Mazov dared to challenge the established order of capitalism, so too do others challenge the order of things such as sex and gender.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Trivial: Success] - IT'S BEEN SO LONG SINCE WE'VE FELT THE TOUCH OF A WOMAN. WHO CARES IF SHE USED TO BE A MAN? HAVE SEX WITH HER NOW! ITS WHAT A REAL MAN WOULD DO!

EMPATHY - [Trivial: Success] - Don't do that. It's clear now, you upset her for accidentally calling her a man. Just apologize.

COMPOSURE [Medium: Failure] - Profusely.

ESPIRIT DE CORPS [Medium: Success] - It's important to be a good ally.

DRAMA [Medium: Success] - Make a real show of it, sire!

"Oh, I didn't realize. I'm sorry."

"I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I'll leave you alone forever now."

"I haven't been a good representative of the RCM. We're here to help the people of Martinaise, no matter their identity. I'm sorry to have let you down."

[Drama - Legendary 14] Try and come up with an elaborate, heartfelt apology in the style of the turn of the century thespians.

HIGH 83% +1 Found testosterone ampoule on nightstand. +1 Homo-Sexual Underground. +1 Read about the turn of the century thespians. -1 Recovered your gun. -1 Masculinity challenged. This is a Red Check. It cannot be retried.

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CHECK FAILURE

YOU - You try and come up with the words to convey your apology to the young woman, but you come up blank. It's hard to fit, "transgender" into iambic pentameter, as it turns out.

DRAMA - I'm sorry, sire. I have failed you.

KIM KITSURAGI - "Detective? You've been standing there for a whole minute. Are you okay?"

ESPIRIT DE CORPS - Shit, the lieutenant is onto us. We have to say something soon, or we could lose him.

COMPOSURE [Trivial: Success] - Don't worry, we can still salvage this. Anyone have any ideas?

VOLITION [Heroic: Failure] - Let me handle this.

You - "I'm so sorry, I'm so fucking sorry. I'm such a fucking failure. Do you want me to kill myself?"

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I found it

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I personally alternate between all three.

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A midnight meal

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turbo cancer go nyoom

The Hunter

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Unfortunate development be like

(I know, it's beautiful right?)

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I've seen Andrew Tate mentioned in a variety of posts on social media and referenced in comments and other such things, but I haven't actually looked up who he is. So far I've gotten the impression that he's either a celebrity, a politician, both or neither. He may or may not be a conspiracy theorist, homophobic, an idiot, transphobic, the president of florida or whatever the state representative is called or a cult leader. I am not gonna actually look him up because I think it's funny trying to figure out who he is based off of people saying "average andrew tate fan" under memes. Oh, another idea I had was that he might be the second coming of Trump.

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Sick as hell

rainworld dump + oc

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Munch