anyway we dont talk enough about jon baa-ing like a sheep in mag125. cause he was literally just sitting in his office recording a statement and he baa’d exactly like a sheep. and he sounded REAL AS HELL. archivist voice powers must make you insane at making farm animal sounds for like teaching babies like you just know he would tear it up at daycare. this is all right in the middle of everyone thinking he’s turned into an evil monster too but my god did the man commit.
okay one thing that has WILD implications in this episode is that we the audience hear bagpipes during the statement. this isnt season 5 where we’re just hearing domain sounds, jon is literally still just in his office. sometimes in tma we hear sounds as part of the soundscape that arent actually there in story but it is usually extremely subtle as to be almost unnoticeable if you’re not listening with good headphones, but the bagpipes come through so clear. i can think of two in-story explanations:
- jon knew what the statement was gonna be about and queued up some bagpipe music to play from his phone/laptop while he was reading, knowing it would be picked up by his tape recorder
- jon’s archivist powers are now so strong that sometimes we (and anyone in-story listening to his recordings i guess) simply hear shit from the events he’s reading aloud even if we shouldnt be able to
may i present a third option: melanie was blasting bagpipe music as a form of rebellion whenever she was in the archives and that’s just what we’re hearing
yknow actually considering she was still being poisoned by the slaughter bullet i could absolutely get into that
"why is your memory so bad?" ""Why are you always so out of it" "your like a completely different person!" See I have an explanation for this but I don't think your gonna like the explanation
pls reblog to break containment and get a larger sample size
help me watching more early cellbit vods and the way he reacts to seeing roier's actual face for the first time 😭 also to be clear this is the clip of bobby dying to the code incredibly funny moment to get distracted by how pretty roier is
cellbit: and bobby? bobby? do we have a clip of bobby?
cellbit: damn, roier is so handsome. look, look at his chiseled jawline. son, wait a sec—
richas: "are you crushing on tio roier?"
cellbit: no, no, hold up. i'm just saying that he's a gatinho (gatinho means pretty, but the literal translation is kitten), damn. what can i do?
richas: "i will tell him."
cellbit: no, hold up, hold up. there's no need to expose me, son.
REMINDER: THERE IS NO CAT
If you get a new blog following you and immediately sending you an ask requesting help with vet bills for their cat, that is a scam. It is always a scam.
This time, the blog in question was created yesterday and reblogged a ton of stuff to seem legit.
Don't fall for this shit.
obsessed with this man...
i do think its a little disconcerting about the wider trends of misogyny in the dsmp fandom that like.
the immeadiate thought for "i need a supporting character that shows up once to help my protagonist (cbench. i am talking about cbench) and never again" is to make that person puffy or niki or hannah and not an OC.
cpuffy was tommy's therapist like twice itd be more canon if she was his weed man
I think to a degree it’s the ““why is x driving da bus all of a sudden”” tendency in this fandom. Like, people don’t use OCs a lot even for minor characters. But while the men usually show up as supporting characters in any role, women are always caretakers. Never enemies, or rivals, or colleagues, or whatever. Just nurses and therapists and fucking baristas. And like, you shouldn’t just exclude women from those roles entirely. If you can make c!Niki have a fun minor role as a nurse without reducing her to “woman” go for it! But don’t reduce them to that, let them do other stuff, and for the love of God please do some research.
L @eyelessfog did this so i thought id see how i score
not bad. fanfiction is not a genre though it is a kind of fiction that can come in many genres just the same as original fiction.
funniest gag is when something with an otherwise decent artstyle suddenly starts looking like complete shit for comedic value. second funniest gag is when something that already looks like complete shit for comedic value suddenly looks SUPER good for even MORE comedic value
i love ethubs, because you’ll see all these people freaking out over an interaction between them, and then when you watch the clip it looks like this
went and saw the last voyage of the demeter last night! this is not the dracula from that film, but boy howdy am i in a dracula mood now
this guy is loosely inspired by @dross-the-fish’s absolutely fantastic dracula design :]
(ID: a pencil sketch of count dracula from the novel dracula. he is an older man with short, somewhat spiky swept-back hair, pointed ears, thick eyebrows, and a beard. he is backlit and smiling cruelly, showing off his fangs. his irises are slightly glowing. end ID.)
I know mail carriers are infamous for delivering mail through even the 'toughest weather' but maybe they should not do that. IDC if I have to wait an extra week for my package. 116°/ 46°C real feel outside should not be considered 'non-dangerous weather' it does not matter if they have AC in their car, they shouldn't be forced to deliver non-essential packages at all. "but what about medical equipment/medicine" deliver it early in the morning at in the evening after the sun has set. They should get paid for these days too. I am so tired of seeing videos of mail deliveries collapsing on someone's ring door camera.
Same for construction workers, roof workers, window cleaners, road workers, tree cutters and any other job that puts you outside for a long period of time. It is TOO HOT for people's safe health and if that pushes back a project or delays it then so be it, if it's a job that can be delayed then fucking delay it until it's safe outside.
And if it's a job that can't be delayed like utilities and transportation ect ect then I hope they get paid $100000% more and has all the AC and cold drinks and popcicles.
Ao3 is actually massively culturally important and very very good at being what it is. I’m so serious when I say that ao3 needs to be protected as the anti censorship, by fans for fans, nonprofit, volunteer run, expertly designed archival site that it is. You don’t have to read or like fanfiction to understand that on principle, ao3 is a site that should be defended.
Dude with all due respect ao3 was literally created because other fanfiction sites kept deleting and censoring stories with rape, noncon/dubcon, incest, etc porn as well as LGBT ship fics. The site does have a required ratings and warnings systems and tags so that you can exclude works that have themes or content within them that you don’t want to see.
If you don’t like what the site is showing you, you are using it improperly.
There is no such thing as ‘a little censorship’
The above tagger has subjects they dislike; they need to learn to navigate around them so they don’t need to interact. That’s why tagging is so important: allowing the work to be found or avoided as needed.
The problem with ‘a little censorship’ is…endless. You want to control what other people are doing: how do you not see how that’s fucked to begin with?
You want to remove the ‘gross’ or the ‘inappropriate’ subjects, like that isn’t wholly subjective. Incest bothers you? Don’t read incest.
I can’t typically do fics with cheating, but I am not about to go tell the folks who write it that they can’t, purely to make me feel better. My eldest hates unhappy endings, they don’t get to dig up sad ending fics and yell at the author. My middle kid likes a different ship than I do in pretty much all of our common media. I don’t get to tell him he can’t read it anymore.
Fancy, emotionally charged buzzwords don’t change the fact that yeah, all of those are the same concept. You don’t like it, someone else is writing it, others are reading it, and that bothers you. That’s on you, my dear.
You will never have the right to tell someone else they cannot read or write it purely because you dislike it.
Learn to block, learn to filter, learn to accept that the real world has people who like things you do not.
This is the donut/diet argument all over again: you can’t have or dislike donuts, so you want to make sure no one else can have it either. Hard no, my friend. You have control only over yourself, and you need to remember that.
‘But those are bad things, I’m trying to get rid of the bad things only!’ No. They make you uncomfortable. There is a difference. Just as there is difference between reality and fiction. Just like what you think is bad may not, and probably will not, line up with someone else.
Fiction is not promoting rape, incest, whatever else. Kids aren’t going to go out and recreate things they’ve read for shits and giggles anymore than playing grand theft auto is going to make them join the fucking mafia or whatever it is. Sims players don’t suddenly rip their clothes off and drown in the pool, reading about Vash banging his brother a la Flowers in the Attic is hardly going to make someone knock on their actual brother’s door, etc etc etc ad nauseum.
More importantly: there is no end to ‘a little censorship’. Someone else gets to decide what I’m allowed to read and write, and the organizations with that aim have proven over and over and o v e r to be insane. Anything remotely queer is banned for being Bad or Sexualized (because these people have learned that PROTECT THE KIDS is the easiest way to rally the ignorant masses into believing that the rainbow is somehow preying on children… and thus need to be Controlled…)
You don’t want incest, you don’t want no con, someone else doesn’t want any form of kink, a third busybody can’t stand that boys kiss boys, a fourth can’t handle trans characters, another carves out the ace spectrum, yet more go after the stories exploring gender dynamics in the ABO verse.
That’s not even getting into politics, where it turns into now no one can post stories that explore changes in government, that are anti war, that are hopepunk and show all the ways society could be better. Or, on the opposite spectrum, things akin to the anarchist’s cookbook: how to make weaponry to forcibly make things change.
Oh, can’t have books that talk about different religions, either. Can’t have books that let girls know they should be treated equally, that they can do whatever they please, that they’re more than a walking baby factory. can’t have stories with magic, that’ll lead to evil thoughts. Can’t have stories with explicitly consensual anything, gotta keep the population pure and filled with shame about their desires. (There is a reason so many romance novels have a bit of unsavory shenanigans: the thrill of being wanted so overwhelmingly in a world where feeling that want means you are Not a Good Girl)
We’re living this, right now, again.
This is why knowing your history is so important.
Look at books have that been banned, burned. I’m going to oversimplify but: Picture books (and tango makes 3) because two male penguins adopted a baby, and we can’t let our kids know that’s acceptable, never mind that I, a child of a lesbian, literally bawled my eyes out upon finding that book in my twenties. I would read it every day to my own toddlers, because look! They’re like Awa and Gramma! 1984, because the entire point is how burning books is Bad. Animal Farm, the new government is just as bad as the old and we the people deserve better. Gone With the Wind, for being about the American south and not only making it seem like maybe slavery is kinda meh but also hinting at a woman having a sexuality. The scandal. Harry Potter. Not because JK turned out to be transphobic trash, but because it’ll turn kids into satanists, y’know, because of all the magic. A thing that is totally real and possible to recreate. Are you there god, it’s me, Margaret. Because it talked about menstrual cycles.
As an American, seeing headlines where kids are banned from the library because of policies like this is terrifying. Kids in Florida have zero books in the classroom. They have to be screened to be considered ‘appropriate’. And that means whitewashed, bland, and unchallenging of the norms the neo nazis are pushing. Can’t have anything about the struggles of the non white populace, can’t have anything at all about the queers, can’t have anything that paints the south in a bad light.
There is a bill currently attempting to pass into law, KOSA: kids online safety act. Under the guise of ‘protect the kids’ the government here is literally attempting to sanitize and censor the entire internet, for everyone. AO3 will be on the list of places they’re going to try and nuke. Yeah, even your cute vanilla super straight happy ever afters. All in the name of making sure imaginary little Johnny doesn’t think kissing boys, wearing pink, becoming friends with the Mexican kid down the street, or opposing genocide is acceptable behavior.
Censorship is not about protecting you, me, the mythical children, or anyone at all. It never has been.
Censorship is purely about control.
Censorship is about controlling your awareness, your intelligence, your ability to realize you are living in the worst timeline, and your ability to organize and fight back. Censorship is division. Censorship is deliberate cruelty meant to cripple you and make you malleable.
After all, you’ve given up your ability to explore new ideas, to think outside the box they’ve put you in. You are tamed, declawed, and too stupid to notice now. Don’t worry your pretty little blonde haired and blue eyed head about it now, Julie, the government will tell you want you need to know. Oh, what happened to your neighbor? Sweetie, what neighbor? No one was ever there. Repeat after me, no one was ever there.
AO3 is protecting my ability to read and write whatever the fuck I want, while giving me the search capabilities to NOT run into shit I dislike. AO3 is giving my teens a safe place to read and explore their own sexualities and interests, to engage in uncomfortable situations in a controlled way. AO3 is giving my teens a place to practice being human.
Censorship is always the bad guy.
AO3 is a fucking godsend, a pillar of creativity and freedom of engagement, and should be revered as such.
so true bestie
Have you tried writing fucked up stories for them they like that
India successfully lands on the moon
Chandrayaan-3 makes India the fourth nation to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon, joining the Soviet Union, the United States and China.
Source: aljazeera.com
