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#I kept a lot of posts of this kind on my private blog and when I see them now I'm like omg people were so into it xDDD
treerpg · 28 days
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Tree RPG will be moving to a new, undetermined home, given Tumblr's AI scraping
Good afternoon everyone.
I want to first thank you for following this experiment on storytelling, it started in late November 2023 as a writing exercise -- literally as a whim, "wouldn't this be fun" and has been
Tree-mendously fun. One last pun for the road I guess.
As you may, or may not, have heard, Automattic, current owners of Tumblr, is beginning to sell data to AI companies.
Here is a terrifying article that opens up far more questions than @staff has answered:
"Tree RPG" is, in my opinion, the precise kind of content that would make a great AI bot. It's soft, short, simple, follows specific patterns, doesn't have a shelf-life.
Trees grow in warm times, rest in cold times.
Without an end point, the story can just keep going as long as people are interested in reading it.
You get the point.
This project immediately sprouted from "haha a tree that's neat" to "oh I can tell LOTS of stories about the tree maturing, growing to care for it's caretaker, making friends -- and -- exploring the Netherworld, an entire dimension of realms I write and make art for, and have since 2012 as @evilsupplyco"
I have an extreme, unflinching, negative view over AI bots scraping art content without agreement of the authors and artists.
I have a lot of complicated feelings about AI.
None of that is relevant beyond "if the seeds of the work are part of the discussion, it's not my business. But since I'm being forced into being a seed with minimal protection and no voice, then I'm going to React. A Lot. Loudly."
I can't delete this blog.
The data is still there.
If I delete it, things will probably just get marked "-deactivated" and then I have less than the paper thin control I do now.
I have no idea of it has already been vacuumed up or not.
I don't know if it's worth anything to these companies or not.
I don't know if my happen-to-notice the toggle switch, which defaulted "on" and I turned "off" means anything.
I don't know if I turn it off and someone reblogs it if that gives AI bots the greenlight to use it.
I don't know what they would use it for.
The list of "I don't knows" is. Well. A forest.
:)
I made a Google doc if you want to receive a one-time notification in 6-12 months when I figure out a new plan.
If you sign up, you'll get 1 email, "Here is the new home." Then the list is sealed and then destroyed.
You will not be contacted on any other projects. Your information will be kept private, it will not be sold or traded or gifted or shared etc.
It will be used once.
Something to the effect of "TreeRPG is now at yaddayadda, enjoy! Your information has been purged from this list, it will be deleted on XYZ date."
Sorry.
This is a lot of words.
I'm sad and angry and have a lot of work to do suddenly now that I have to move Tree and Sarsaparilla and Worm Friend and everyone else.
Thank you for a great three months.
More someday.
Promise.
Never let the bastards keep you down.
This will be the last post of TreeRPG. The singular exception will be if my Tumblr account still exists when I find a new place, I'll pop in here once and say "Hey! We're over here now!" as one-final catch-all.
I'm so sad. I'm sorry.
The tags in notes and the comments I've received have made it clear that a lot of people really enjoyed this project.
I'll keep going, I'll make a new plan, that's what I do.
Okay. Ending ramble.
here's the signup link one last time: https://forms.gle/j3Fvvo1bekoi1FhD9
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mangocheesecakes · 7 months
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I have found a connection between Laura Deramas and the scammer amongsts/amongstss who was recently discovered and since been taken down. I have very good reason to believe that amongstss was either Laura herself, or someone working closely with Laura.
(Please bear with me as this is going to be a very long post. I don't know how to make it shorter.)
So first off, in the "speaking up" video Laura posted recently, while she admits that she "made a mistake", Laura claims that she made the video to "speak up about what I and user neeches "have been doing to her while she's not on Tumblr". Specifically, she is angry about how we've connected her with another now-deactivated scammer, sheeyancjoje. Laura is adamant and insists that she has not come back to Tumblr since I called her out, and so she wants us to stop "blaming her for all the scams that's happening here". Now Laura's acting may be FAMAS-worthy, but I maintain that the evidence I found about her and sheeyanc is solid and undeniable, and later I will also explain why this is so in a separate post. But for now, let's talk about amongsts.
Amongsts/amongstss was a scammer who recently got taken down by tumblr, and who was pretending to be a "Black Transwoman living in Andorra" trying to raise money for "rent support". The post they made was copied word-for-word from an actual fundraiser on Facebook with the only change being the person's first name. Here is the original post and my reblog with the callout and link to the legitimate fundraiser. After posting this, amongsts began sending me irate messages and insults through dm.
Now amongsts wanted their donors to only use "wire transfer or paypal" when donating. They also did not put the actual link anywhere on the post itself. When asked about this by other users, amongsts claimed that she prefers sending her paypal info through dm because of the spam emails she had been receiving lately:
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Now someone had unfortunately already donated to amongsts before I was able to call them out, but I proceeded to send warning asks to those who reblogged the scam posts all the same. One of the users I messaged responded to me, and it turned out they were one of the people who had donated to amongsts. Because I thought it might be relevant for keeping track of the scammers on here I asked them if they could share to me the Paypal address that amongsts gave to them in private when they donated. This user very kindly got back to me and gave me the screenshot they took of the scammer's paypal name and gmail.
The name on the paypal was one "Joan Malubay", while the gmail address was written as [email protected]
Here is a screenshot of my conversation with this user, with their blog and name redacted for privacy:
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Going back to Laura and her "speaking-up" video. Laura keeps mentioning a certain JES SA, who she says is her friend and neighbor, and who according to her "made a tumblr" the night before and saw "all of the posts that I and neeches have been making about her". This JES SA then presumably alerted her about this, which is how she found out and why she was back again. Laura was also pretty insistent that I talk to this JES SA on Facebook, kind of similar to how she kept asking me to contact her mother back when she was still pretending to be dead:
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Checking up on Laura's Facebook profile after all of this went down, I saw that she had made a couple of status updates about being "stressed" and "going through a lot lately". Sure enough, among those who sad-reacted to her posts was a user named Jes Sa. This Jes Sa also commented a happy birthday greeting on Laura's post during her son's birthday 4 weeks ago:
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I also clearly remember seeing this user on Laura's old profile before, though I had no screenshots of her at that time and didn't really take note of her. Curiously, Jes Sa already had her profile locked when last I checked it, so I couldn't take a screenshot and had to take a photo using another phone.
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So instead, I tried another route and typed "jes sa" on the search tab to see what comes up...and what do you know, the name "Malubay Jo an" was one of the first results.
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This Malubay Jo an names Jes Sa as her sister in this pic (Bry Lle seems to be Jes Sa's former name on FB) as well as a "Dawn Syrelle Mozo" as her pamangkin/niece. Upon further digging, I've found that Jes Sa is Joan Malubay's sister, is married to a certain "Manuel (Nano) Mozo" and has at least two daughters, "Dawn Syrelle Mozo" and "Anne Janelle Mozo". On my screenshot of Jes Sa's birthday greeting above, Dawn Syrelle also greets Laura's son a happy birthday.
And so here is now the connection between Laura Deramas and the scammer amongstss:
amongstss was using the Paypal account of Joan Malubay with the gmail [email protected].
Malubay Jo an on Facebook who lives in Davao City has two nieces with names that fit the gmail handle being used by amongstss. Malubay Jo an is also the sister of Jes Sa, the person Laura said is her "friend and neighbor", and who apparently is also here on tumblr.
Given this discovery, I can say that amongsts was probably being run by either Laura herself, or by her friend/s Joan and Jes Sa, or even more likely, they were all in it together.
And Laura's claims that she is not connected to any other scammers on here is another one of her many many lies.
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lino-nyangi · 1 year
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update
first of all, sorry for the sudden news! i should've probably brought this up earlier haha but tbh i've already been postponing it since the beginning of march
if it makes it any better, i won't be leaving permanently but will be on hiatus for a long time. i'm talking like months. (need to focus on my degree, work, wellbeing etc so i'm deleting tumblr from my life for a while!) it doesn't change the fact that i'll be gone but i genuinely didn't think it would affect anyone if i mysteriously disappear into thin air when i scheduled it. so i just wanted to say that i will (probably) be back! once everything's settled up :) or maybe i'll be over it idk, i usually can't keep a fandom social media account for more than six months or so because it gets overwhelming and i just crawl back into my tree house like an introverted elf. so it's honestly impressive that i kept this one for this long lmao
i'll probably still be writing from time to time for fun, just not sharing any. i'm not good at emotional(?) multitasking and this blog takes up a lot of space in my head even when i'm not active/writing so i want to close that window in my brain.
you probably also noticed that most of my fics aren't accessible anymore. they aren't gone! just made private. as you already know, i like keeping track of who consumes my content, and leaving (mainly nsfw fics) out in the wild while i'm away honestly makes me uncomfortable. so i hope you understand!
thanks to everyone who made this place enjoyable. i'm not good with this kind of talk but i really appreciate you all ♡
sorry for not responding to asks or replies but i did read all of them before posting this and i'm thankful for your concern. we can pretend this was all a fever dream!! i'm leaving you with many amazing writers here so it's not a big loss, is it? i hope you take care of them and show them lots of support!
here's aaall my love ♡ (only if you want it)
— joo
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kraaico · 1 year
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Where/how do you get the ideas to make these super cute art? I love art but I basically copy others and I wanna have my own style.
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What a nice question!! I could honestly write a book about this, but for now I'll keep it condensed. (maybe uhhhh a blog post later or smthn) ....Sorry it's long anyway lol
These are my thoughts as an independent illustrator/artist that has the time and freedom to create what I wish, keep that in mind. I can't vouch for what it takes to get through art school or build a portfolio for <specific thing X> cause I don't know shit about that, this is just for creating art that you love making.
✨️Developing a style ✨️
A lot of people talk about 'finding your style', but I'm personally an advocate of developing a style - and most importantly it being a process that never stops. Now I don't know how old/experienced you are, but especially when you are just getting into art (and with 'just' I mean years) it'll change a lot because you will be improving a lot!
Now for me personally, I've been busy ~finding a style~ since I was 10. And up to like 2 years ago (I'm now 28) I was frustrated I just wasn't able to find one. Every half year or so I'd try to get back into art "for real this time", stick to one medium and general style and/or subject, and within a matter of weeks become frustrated and then not draw for a good while. That style-mentality really took a toll on the fun I had in making art, but also stunted my own artistic development. I was restricting myself at a stage where I should be everything BUT. I told myself I wasn't good enough, not cut out to be a professional, wouldn't be able to sell myself if I couldn't stick to one thing, yada yada. Great mentality. I'm now in therapy!
Anyway, what broke me free of that was a promise I made to myself back in 2020. I told myself I would get back into making art, but this time, just do what feels fun *at any given moment*. Let go of the pressure. I didn't post to socials and just shared with my friends, and eventually started posting to my then very humble Twitter following. I liked Twitter, cause there wasn't the pressure that Instagram always gave me of having to have a perfect feed. So I drew digitally, I drew with pencils, did some painting, got oil pastels, tried collage. And those experiments all influenced one or another. That's been key for me. If I feel like I hit a creative wall, I just try another medium or another CSP brush or another app on my tablet. Just experiment with lines and colors and not worry about what ends up there. (it's usually cats) Creating like this kept the fun in it for me and I've created nearly every single day since then, and that too is key to style development: Create A LOT. Don't hyperfocus on one perfect piece when you can also create 4 good-enough pieces in the same time.
Now on the topic of copying: it's a natural thing to do. Just be responsible about it! (don't share on socials if you blatantly copy something. While it's a good method to learn certain techniques, it's something that should stay in your private sketchbook) Also be sure to study from many different places, don't fixate on just a couple of artists! Find what inspires you in real life: be it buildings or nature or animals or people or objects, and try to capture them in different ways: from realistic to just the basic shapes. You'll find out what kind of style and level of detail you're naturally drawn to soon enough. Creating your own visual library in your mind by drawing many different things is ultimately what will allow you to put your ideas to paper in a quick and intuitive way. Having a (cheap!) sketchbook that you don't show anyone but just goof around in and explore everything and anything is a very helpful tool.
✨️ Generating ideas ✨️
I get my ideas from SO many different places. Many of my cat paintings were actually created to deal with a strong emotion or feeling I was having at the time.
Now externally, I get a lot of inspiration from nature and from the place I live in. I used to live in a fairly urbanized area, but it wasn't until I moved to the country side with wide and far views that I saw daily that I started getting interested in drawing landscapes. I didn't draw a lot of cats until they were chilling in my garden everyday. When I lived at home I drew a lot of fish, cause my dad had an aquarium. What you see and observe everyday matters. Taking your camera or phone on a walk in the neighborhood and capturing small details is a great way to gather inspiration, even if the area is a bit boring. I have a Fujifilm X100F that I try to carry to most places I go, cause I can quickly photograph things and I like it better than phone photography.
I also draw a lot of ideas from the media I consume: shows, movies, games, comics, music... Sometimes it just hits that inspiration button and lights a lil flame that'll turn into an idea. I love the magical worlds Studio Ghibli creates for example and the soothing calmness that games like Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley have. Things like that just work their way into my art, often subconsiously.
I also draw what I yearn for: be it a doodle of a comforting hot bowl of soup when I crave it, or a beach scene cause I want to go for a beach walk. It's fun, and lets me daydream a little about things I maybe cannot have in that moment.
Another big thing is worldbuilding and storytelling: I have this fictional world in my mind that I desperately want to get out, and it will, piece by piece.
So yeah. There's many places to grab inspiration from. Writing down what inspired you is useful. Doing it every year or so is too, cause then you'll start to see trends and get a better understanding of what drives you. Cause in the end that's what's most important, I think: Find the things that ignite a flame in you and then let it out in a way that is fun and comforting to you. Don't worry about what other people are making or that you're not making what you 'should' make!
I hope this was somewhat helpful - it was fun to write at least, I have many thoughts about this :')
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bethany-sensei · 8 months
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The people have spoken, and they’ve asked for art and excerpts. I need to practice drawing a lot anyway (new glasses prescription issues), so I’m going to do a whole series I think. Posting here instead of my writing blog because I don’t post art there.
Anyway, have a scruffy Akieryon in a blindfold, with bonus rough sketch of him sitting and holding his head:
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This is also a fantastic excuse to try my brand new brush pen and barely-used water soluble oil pastels (whaaaaaaaaat)
Though he only fell for a second or two, Akieryon landed as though he had been launched from a trebuchet. Knee, shoulder, hip, and finally his head struck a deep furrow in damp earth. Soil burst out in all directions, in his hair, his nose, his mouth. Clods of dirt rained down as he finally tumbled and skidded to a stop, at a depth somewhat below the topsoil. Somewhere nearby, a horse screamed.
Choking and sputtering, Akieryon tried to push himself up out of his private crater. His arms buckled, and he collapsed face-first in the dirt. At least it blocked out the horrible, stabbing sunlight.
“Hey… are you okay?”
Every muscle along Akieryon’s spine tensed, and he managed to lift his head enough to gulp in a little air. “I don't know where I am.” His voice sounded thin and dry, alien with disuse. Every instinct told him to turn his head, to try to look at the stranger standing over him. But what good would it do, when the light would blur his sight and stab his brain?
“You need help.” Not a question. The stranger shifted, crouched, and Akieryon sensed rather than saw a hand extended to him. “Can you stand?”
With more effort than it should have required, Akieryon pushed himself up onto his hands and knees. He took several slow breaths, steadying himself, mustering his strength. The air felt thick and charged with conflicting energies. Separate worlds compressed into one. Aftermath of cataclysm long gone. “Oh,” he blurted. “This is the Mortal Sphere.”
“Seems to be, yeah. You're in Davenz, about three leagues from the capitol.”
Hearing humor in the stranger’s voice, Akieryon dared a glance at the man who crouched nearby. He wore riding leathers—good quality, well kept, but fairly plain. He had twisted his black hair into several plaits, several days or leagues ago. He had tattoos on his cheeks, and his silvery green eyes were a little less than human but a little more than kind. When Akieryon flinched back and covered his eyes with one hand, the stranger began fumbling around in a pocket.
“Here.” Gentle fingers pulled Akieryon's hand away and rolled a layer of gauze across his eyes. “How's that?”
Balances, chapter one
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holllandtrash · 10 months
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woah woah woah. i am the anon that sent that message and i have a bone to pick with you. first you completely ignore my apology after i have explained how you misinterpreted my words. then you go on to reply to others and spread false info?? FYI- i wasn’t referring to your tiktok, i’ve never even viewed your page bc it’s probably boring af. i was referring to the hundreds of posts on your tumblr. who do you think you are to talk to me like this? get over yourself you’re not a celebrity 💀
if you had come off anon and reached out to me privately or sent me a message, i would have loved to have a conversation with you and clear the air, but because you want to continue to hide behind the secrecy of a screen, i am going to respond to this publicly and i am going to break down my response so no one gets their feelings hurt.
"i am the anon that sent that message and i have a bone to pick with you." this is not how you start a conversation with anyone, and if you are looking for respect here, you're not getting it by starting off like that.
"first you completely ignore my apology after i have explained how you misinterpreted my words." if you had looked at my recent post, you would have seen I put out a general thank you to those who did send kind words. i did not respond to every single one, or any of them for that matter (except 1) because as mentioned, i was taking a short little break from tumblr and did not want to read my inbox. by the time i did go to look at what people had sent me, i skimmed the inbox and realised that a lot of them had some not so nice things to say about you and your message and the last thing i wanted was more negativity on my page, regardless of who it was directed at. for your benefit, i kept those messages in the inbox. i put out one general thank you because this situation was something i wanted to move on from.
also this was your apology:
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no where in that message is a proper explanation as to what you were referring to when you said "u need to write more fanfics instead of giving your opinions."
also what if i didn't accept your apology? i don't owe it to you to respond if i don't want to.
"then you go on to reply to others" i replied to one person because the first sentence in their message caught my eye. that user is from italy, more specifically the region that is affected by the flooding and i wanted to share with them they were in my thoughts and i hoped they were safe.
"and spread false info??" FYI- i wasn’t referring to your tiktok, i was referring to the hundreds of posts on your tumblr. what false info? yes, i admit, maybe i did jump to assume you were referring to my podcast/tik tok and what i had said about imola, but in my defence, why would someone come on my blog and tell me to not post on my blog? that doesn't make any sense at all, and again, it's just rude. maybe you meant it as a joke, (you didn't, we know that now) but you need to understand that you cannot go into someone's inbox and say things like that. people are allowed to post what they want on their blogs. if you just wanted to read their work, there's a good chance they have a masterlist you can scroll through to avoid the rest of their posts.
"i’ve never even viewed your page bc it’s probably boring af." please see exhibit a: you saying you love my page and my podcast (which is the exact same as my tik tok). so you're being dishonest in one of those messages. also, i can assure you it's not boring. if it were boring, i wouldn't have been invited to texas or toronto to work with other creators, but i totally understand if my content is not something you want to watch or listen to. it's not for everyone, but it's also certainly not boring.
"who do you think you are to talk to me like this?" this is what i said:
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you are quite literally the one who sent me a message with the underlying tone that said "talk less, write more" and you are not the first person to send me a message like that, your message was simply the one that pushed me over the edge and i had to say something. you are the one who came to my page and said "u need to write more fanfics instead of giving your opinions." so let me ask you, who do you think you are, talking to me like that? those paragraphs i put out were, yes, for you but also for the dozens of other people who think its fair to tell people to write more. if you saw that and got personally offended because you thought it was a message that resonated with you and what you had said, that's on you.
"get over yourself you’re not a celebrity" never said i was babes, i'm just a human being. i will stand up for myself and share my opinions and i believe you have been extremely disrespectful. i've done nothing wrong. my inbox is still open, as are my messages, if you would like to come off anon and have a real conversation. but until you understand that there is a way to talk to people and how spoke to me is not it, i fear you may not get the respect you desire.
as per your most recent message:
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i don't believe you're sorry for the outburst, but i do believe it was sent in frustration and haste. again, if you had reached out to me privately and off anon, this whole thing could have been avoided. thank you for liking my writing, i am not apologising for anything i said or for my personality as you seem to be the only one who has a problem with it. if you would like to unfollow me, i understand, but please, don't leave any more messages for any more writers that implies 'talk less, write more'.
thank you
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gamora-borealis · 4 months
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hi so im one of those ppl that watched dnp religiously years ago and ive been out of the loop for a long time so what’s the thing about the wedding theory & the phil tag thing? if you dont mind explaining or maybe pointing me in the direction of someone else who could?
Oh well hello welcome back! Very long rambley answer under the cut :)
Tbh there's been way more insane stuff that's happened since, but in 2022 the biggest thing that had happened was Dan released his video "Why I Quit YouTube" where he announced that he was going on a solo tour ("We're All Doomed") and making some YouTube videos to go along with / promote the tour ("Dystopia Daily"). So I don't remember the exact details (I bet if you search dan and phil iceland on tumblr you might find some stuff), but Dan's tour was supposed to end in Iceland, and based on some stuff his friend PJ said on twitch it seemed like maybe he (and his gf) and Dan and Phil were going to have a vacation in Iceland after the last show. And idk if there was anything else (like maybe based on stuff they were liking on social media idk lol) people were like... what if they are having a wedding in Iceland after the last show? Apparently Iceland has been advertised as a gay wedding tourism destination too so idk. I think tumblr phannies were just bored and clowning but also it was 2022 which was the infamous prophesized year they were supposed to get married (based on a joke Crabstickz made years ago), so there was this thought like, what if they get married in early 2023 (when the Iceland show was supposed to be) out of spite.
Anyways, the Iceland show ended up getting cancelled. I'm not exactly sure why, but there were some other cancelled shows too and some people suspect it was due to poor ticket sales / too many shows in one city / issues with venues (maybe they were scheduling some that were too big) / issues with promotion (dan's management and touring agencies left most of the promotion to him outside of the standard local venues in-house promotion). Both Dan and Phil got new management this year after all that (Dan now has an agent for his comedy / touring stuff, Phil has an agent for his own channel, and then they have another agent for the gaming channel).
Anyways, 2023 kicked off and Dan and Phil started doing all kinds of insane stuff, which that's a whole other long post about how wild this year has been (Japhan 3.0, OnlyPhans, Gaming Channel comeback, Dan being a slutty nun for Halloween baking, Catboy calendar, etc) and they have been pretty open and comfortable together online lately (while still being fairly private) and more settled in their lives that some people actually think they might actually be getting married. Which, idk maybe we are just being insane again but this time I actually do think it's more believable lol. They bought/designed a house together (though I think it's actually a condo? penthouse? something like that) and Phil has had some health issues so even though they might not really be the kind to want to get married, some people are wondering if they might do it for legal reasons and also to maybe celebrate their relationship with family since Dan came out to his family and then like 9 months after their coming out videos the pandemic happened. Also doesn't help that next year is their 15th anniversary, which the anniversary of the first day they met takes place on the same day Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance are performing at the We Were Young Festival 2024 lmaooo. I mean some people are still convinced that they are queerplatonic and romantic exes or something like that but there's a lot they have shared that heavily implies that they aren't.
Okay, now the Phil tag examiner... Idk there was this blog that kept sending people asks anytime they posted something in the Dan and Phil or dnp tags that didn't explicitly mention Phil, and were like "hello this is the Phil tag examiner please keep posts only about Dan out of the Dan and Phil tag" and it was kinda funny to be honest. It stopped after a while idk what happened to them but no one was taking them seriously.
Anyways, I got back into dnp while Dan was on his tour about a year ago, and it's been such a wild year and now is probably like one of the best times to start watching them again there's sooo much new content with the gaming channel and they are being very authentically themselves it's really great.
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northern-passage · 2 years
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hi, i don’t mean this to be rude at all just genuinely wondering how you’re going to approach nsfw content with your nonbinary characters? i’m just curious since you’ve never revealed agab (which i totally respect that) and i’ve done the same with my own nb ROs.
i assume this is about nsfw art? i've done snippets for Clementine before, and i've always kept it vague for them (and same with Noel, since xe was gender-selectable at the time)
this is something i've thought about a lot and have talked to various people about since i've started tnp; i've always been pretty adamant about not discussing agab on the blog, and that's not going to change with this. i have a no nsfw policy almost entirely because of the way the IF community interacts with & talks about trans and nb characters, and while it has improved slightly in the last year, it's still not something i'm going to entertain. to be frank, i find people asking for agab/discussing agab in this context (anonymously on tumblr dot com), even about fictional characters, to be really weird and rude.
i don't really think it adds anything to announce a character's agab in that way, and personally for the stories i write i always want it to be something that comes up in-game between the player and the character, because it gives the character some agency and (this is entirely a personal opinion) as someone who is nb myself it makes me feel that, as an author, i am conveying to readers that this is not information you are Entitled to, not in real life and not even in fiction. you have to get to know this character, and even then, they are not required to share this very private thing with you. obviously i do understand the appeal in announcing if your characters are trans, and i understand it makes it easier for people who are looking for trans inclusive games to find them that way - this is just my personal opinion about it, and why i don't specify that kind of thing in my character descriptions or intro posts.
at this point, though, with the plans i have for the game and the sexual content i want to include, it's obvious that it's not exactly realistic of me to keep it vague. it's going to eventually come up in game, in the intimate scenes i have planned for everyone. i didn't expect that i would ever even be writing those kinds of scenes, which is also part of why i set that boundary about my nb characters to begin with (this game wasnt even 18+ at the start). but i've got more comfortable with that now, and it's something i'm actually looking forward to.
i've debated a lot about this, especially after i released the siren's call demo and posted art of Rome on that blog and immediately had people in my inbox misgendering them and calling them a man - it really frustrated me in particular that just giving the slightest bit of facial hair made people act like that... they aren't perfectly androgynous, and suddenly people felt comfortable disregarding their identity and straight up misgendering them.
however, i don't think the answer to that is to just remove all sex characteristics from my nb characters... that's silly and isn't actually addressing the problem (i'd argue it's making it worse) plus there's already a prevalent misconception when it comes to nb people and How they are expected to look and dress, with most people assuming certain things that directly harm the more vulnerable members of our community. nb people can look any way they want, and they're still nb. it's ridiculous to expect androgyny, and it's ridiculous to expect nb people to be "vague." but i also think it's ridiculous to expect Anyone to disclose personal, private information about themself, no matter how they present... and with Clementine and Noel being fictional characters, they can't really "decide" what they want for themselves.
sorry this has turned into a bit of a tangent, but basically my thoughts on all of this now is... it's Complicated. lmfao. i know a lot of people especially liked how i've handled Clementine up to this point, and i understand if people are disappointed with this potential change. i've also had a lot of people that have really liked my snippets and depictions of Merry - whereas with Clem i was always vague, i've been far more explicit with Merry.
i think, particularly with Merry, she has shared with the player that she is trans & potentially has already had an intimate encounter with the hunter. Lea, too, is very close with the hunter and they are both intimately familiar with each other, whether they like it or not. obviously we know Clem and Noel are trans as well, but the difference is that they have not disclosed certain things with the hunter like Lea and Merry have, if that makes sense. this is also why i preferred to keep things vague with those two specifically - again, i like giving that bit of agency to the characters, and we have a long way to go in-game before Clem or Noel are close enough to the hunter to want to share that information.
for the record i do think it's weird to treat it like some Big Deal that *gasp* Clem and Noel have genitalia! it's not something that needs an announcement. but i hope this at least explains my thinking & why i've done things the way i have up to this point, and why i've changed my mind slightly.
my plan now, with the nsfw art aspect, is that i may post an occasional tasteful nude of some of my characters on patreon. and that's it. it's not going to change how i do anything else, and this doesn't change anything about either Noel or Clem.
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hi!
i read the tags you wrote about millie in a post yesterday (i think you deleted the post because i cant find it now) and i just wanted to say im glad theres someone who shares similar thoughts as me. i love millie but i cant even say anything on twitter without her toxic stans accusing me of misogyny and insulting her intelligence, even though thats not my intention.
if byler is canon, how do you think she’ll feel about it? im asking because your perspective is interesting! i think shes going to take it a bit personally because she strongly relates to her character and wants el to be on the same path as her (like getting married young). its understandable though, considering her upbringing.
!! I actually took it off my blog because the other day I resolved the issue of my tags not archiving—but when it got resolved, my blog ended up square in the middle as “top blogs” with the full mlvn name tag because I hadn’t been abbreviating their ship in the tag I used before ☠️ that said, I changed the tag to “anti mlvn” so I could keep myself out of mlvn corners, but a lot of the recent posts that I kept under the old tag are gone or private until tumblr tracks the change—hence the missing post!
Still...me and that tag rant was giving “why would you say something so controversial, yet so brave” for sure (lmao), though I certainly meant it less as a comment on her life decisions themselves and more a "I can tell by the decisions you make as a creator, producer of other films, and in general that you are not The Duffer Brother's target audience, but a lot of your fans can't" kind of way...which is still controversial in several corners of this fandom for sure. 😭
the rest of this answer under the cut because it got long lol
Like, yes, she does play a principal character in the show, but playing a character does not mean the character is modeled to you as a person—just look at Emilia Clarke playing Daenerys Targaryen, Anthony Hopkins playing Hannibal Lecter, or even Rachel McAdams playing Regina George lmao.
Despite playing El since she was a child, as Millie has come into adulthood it's become clearer that she is very different from El—and that The Duffers aren't creating Eleven's arc with Millie's own "coming of age" in mind. Her choices to create things like Enola Holmes, Damsel, and even Nineteen Steps (her new book) showing up as sharp contrasts to not only the women in Stranger Things, but in all of The Duffer's upcoming work on Death Note, The Talisman and The Boroughs prove that well enough, which would be zero problem at all...if a lot of her fans didn't conflate Millie with El is as a character.
To your point though...I honestly don't think Millie is going to be all that personally upset if El ends up single and Byler happens—she's already made clear that she loves El, but is ready to move on and tell other stories and that she would have written the story as a high school drama if she was in control of the direction of the plot (while pointing out that she's not the one in control of it) lol.
Even what she said recently in an widely published and official Seventeen interview shows that she's really just here to finish the story and move on with her career—that she's ready for her role as El (and the drama I'm 10000% sure comes with that) to be done:
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At least to me, all of that makes it seem like she is a level-headed young woman who can handle her character not being aligned with how she would live her own life—and will, when the time comes.
That said: imo the real problem is that fans of MBB are confusing Millie's own "I can be young, strong and still have a man" creative and life choices with El's "I am overcoming the bounds men have put on me to become strong by myself" storyline, which only becomes an issue when Millie jokes about things like mlvn getting married—
—and (by nature of being an influential celebrity) ends up with fans who mistake Millie's headcanons (because...honestly that's what they are) based on what she enjoys in fiction as what The Duffers are writing & planning for the ending of Stranger Things.
Basically: as an actress, it's literally MBB's job to bring life to stories that don't necessarily reflect her own values or desires, and she knows it—but because she's been playing the character on people's screens so long (and from a young age) a lot of fans have issues separating the woman from the fiction and recognizing that (as Adam Driver once said) it's not Millie's job to have a feeling about or even agree with who El is as a person—it's her job to bring El & The Duffer's vision to life, even if her life informs how she plays the role.
None of that is particularly Millie's fault (though she, like Noah sometimes, adds fuel to fandom fire with the jokes she makes lmao), though it does get irritating to navigate when you're constantly subjected to arguments rooted in nothing but headcanons when trying to make sense of The Duffer's work itself lmao.
TL;DR - Mills joking about El and Mike getting married feels the same as someone here putting their headcanon out into the world about married & domestic Byler—only, because she's the face of Eleven + has now gotten engaged young herself, people misinterpret her own "cute headcanons" as canonical fact, leaving people who love the actual canon + who enjoy the 'style of womanhood' the Duffers write to arguing with people who misunderstand the actual characters.
Millie is a woman whose had a complicated relationship with celebrity and fame since she was a very young girl, and she has certainly made different decisions than I have (and likes different fiction than I do)—but that has nothing to do with her intelligence or ability to respond gracefully to the character she's played since 12 turning out differently than she would have imagined it if she had written El herself. If and when Byler happens, I'm sure she will meet the reality of it with respect and consideration, even if her fans (and hardcore fans of mlvn) don't lmao.
Hopefully that explains it (and doesn't get me shot for saying lmao). But thanks for the ask!
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Hi!
It’s been awhile since the last update. Have I mentioned here that I do video blogging now? You might’ve seen my shared posts of YouTube (Velle Diaries) Well, you heard it right. For the purpose of minimizing my storage on my phone, a remembrance of my journey of independency, and of course, as an update for my family back home. Yes, I am now living far away from my home for 6 (six) months now. It’s a lot to take in now, but there’s so much that had happened in my real life that I couldn’t believe, but I can finally say, “I am finally here.”
It has been a roller coaster ride. But, most of it are the worst. I have always try to share about it to anyone, but I couldn’t find the right words. Maybe I’ll try it here since this page has become my diary all throughout my life and this journal knows that I am better in writing than verbal approach.
Part I. The Break-up
It happened in year 2022. I was hired in a new workplace that I’ve prayed for – entering in a government agency was such an honor at this young age. In the early weeks, I was so amazed how chill it is since I was hired as a technical staff. It was an easy start that’s why I have a lot of free time to meet new people and bond with them at work, and it was more exciting because I started in the field, ROCOND Survey days, 4:00 am to 2:00 pm for a month. But at the end of that survey, I was tasked to encode all the data from our field works through mentorship. As the days went by, I became so closed with my co-workers and we bond like brothers and sisters. Until one day..
I was left with someone to work with all those data because my bosses were busy on some fieldworks they left while focusing on that survey. This person was a man we called “mysterious-torpe-unbothered” kind of guy. He is the only one in our unit that has his own world, he’s so quiet that made me hard to approach him. But I asked him to loosen up a little so I can communicate with him comfortably for our work. Until our colleagues (are mostly boys)  started teasing us because he changed ever since. Little did I know, he is keeping a special feeling for me. All I thought I was just making friends, I even talked to him about my beautiful 6-years relationship at that time.
As we focused on our work, my co-workers intentionally leave us alone every time and tried to make a connection for us to get closer. I knew something is wrong, and I was ignoring it. But they didn’t stop. I kept it to my partner because I was hesitant that he’ll overthink often about me at work. It is one of my goals to be hired in a government agency, that’s why I made sure that there would be no conflicts, but I knew it will not last.
As days and months went by, I started to feel comfortable with my colleagues that even when we had small fights with my partner, I couldn’t help to hide it with my mood. And I started to open up and broke down walls for them. I knew that was wrong, but I’ve always kept my mouth shut every time I get hurt, insulted, forgotten, and ignored. Those were the times I needed a man’s perspective to understand more of my partner and to know if I am reacting right about everything. I thought asking their opinion is the right thing to do, yet it turned out to be a lesson not to. I realized that “I should’ve kept it to myself or just be honest with my partner. It might’ve been privately discussed and we could’ve fixed it the right way.”
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wastelandhell · 1 year
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Thank you so much @bokatan and @h3raklion for the tag!
I can tell this is going to become a patented Furby wall of text™ so I'll just throw in a cut now. tl;dr: I love you all and i draw danse way too much
This has been an interesting year mostly in that its my first time posting personal art online in, what, 7 years? I stopped doing this kind of drawing shortly after high school. I picked up painting flash and have been focusing on my tattooing since then. In that time I never did any digital drawing or character drawing until 2 years ago this month, when I drew Val for the first time.
I was terrified to post anything anywhere, I think I posted one piece to reddit, but besides that I kept everything pretty private until April of 2022. I originally made this blog as a place to silently post my drawings and screenshots while providing a sort of devlog of my mods for my own records, and didn't think I would be noticed. I didn't realize people tracked the paladin danse tag, lol!
I'm really glad for all the people I've met through here, I never would have kept this blog up if it weren't for the wonderful messages from all of you guys. So much of my art, both in subject and execution has been influenced by the other users I've had the pleasure of interacting with and I hope to keep it up this year!
You all know I mostly just draw Val and Danse, and this is the palette I use for most things:
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These are all pretty drab, I use different of blending layers and photoshop adjustments to get the colours how I want them at the end.
I usually try to use different brushes in each of my drawings, but these are the ones I come back to most often. The first one is a variant of one of these brushes, I modified it to change size based on direction and tilt. I used the brush almost exclusively until august and its still my favourite for quickly laying out forms and values. I use this one for freckles. The rest are some of my top picks from True Grit Texture Supply, mostly from Chromagraph and Monomania.
I'm glad I was able to really get into drawing this year, and going through my folder I'm pleased with how my anatomy and faces have improved. However I am disappointed in how much of it is just the same ginger fuck. I'm really stunting my growth by not varying my subjects, and now that I'm more comfortable with the tools I want to push myself to actually. uh. try. Put in the effort to make art that says something, tells a story. Less single characters floating in blank voids. More people interacting, scenes, environments. I also really want to get back into digital painting, I used to be really into digital painting and in theory know how to do it. I'm going to try and dig out that old knowledge lol.
Despite being bit bland, and having some glaring errors that still bug me, that Danse drawing is still one of my favourites. I think I spent at least 8 hours on it. I was dealing with some personal issues at the time and just really wanted to scratch that brain itch that the bos knight uniform gives me. It's stupid, I hate it, I can draw it nearly completely from memory by how often I'm looking at it.
The 'tried something new' panel is difficult because I feel like a lot of my recent work has been pretty stagnant. It's all done with the same technique, same palette, same boring cel shading, same layer order, boring. This is one of the few times I did any proper digital painting, and tried to adapt the looser style that I use when I'm drawing in analogue mediums to my digital work.
I just talked about art here and not mods because that would be a whole other wall of text. But it would boil down to: love to do it, no time, and expensive.
Also, if anybody is interested, I do my drawing in Clip Studio Paint and Photoshop on a Surface Laptop Studio.
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Okay so I really, really didn't want to have to make this post and it took me… a lot to get to this point and i thought about it last night whether or not it would even do any good but in the end… well. i need to stop letting people walk all over me and drag me through the mud after everything i've done for them.
now, this post isn't meant as a callout or to have anyone "choose sides" or any of that childish stuff. it's just me being able to defend myself from the shit being said about me. i don't care who anyone is friends with or writes with. that's not my business nor is it my prerogative to dictate that kind of stuff. both can exist peacefully.
and yes, i will be naming who it is that is causing shit, because for once she needs to be held responsible and accountable for her actions.
so i've been dealing with some shit the past couple months and i guess it finally came to a head?? i don't know who has seen abi's ( wiredsmile + about a dozen other blogs ) post yesterday about me basically casting her aside and using her just when i need her. well all of that is bullshit.
now, i do have receipts for everything i'm going to be saying but because the point of this is NOT a callout, if you want to see them i am more than happy to send them to you privately.
i'm also prepared to lose a lot ( more ) people because of this, but i needed to at least try and defend myself. to show that i'm not some heartless person like i'm being made out to be.
there's a reason i severed the friendship between us. on three separate occasions she had betrayed my trust and tried to start shit amongst our shared friend group. she has actively tried to turn people against me ( and still is apparently ). she's also lied about what i've said and did on numerous occasions.
i have never cast her aside, but when she broke my trust not once… not twice.. but three times, it grew harder and harder to stay as close to her as i once was. i tried to let it slide, i did. because she was one of my best friends, but it kept happening and then i kept being made to feel bad because I was the one being distant and making her feel bad.
when she should have felt bad.
i had approached her about this behavior after every time it happened. and i thought maybe my boundaries would finally be acknowleged but alas.. it would happen again.
but what really sealed the deal was the fact that we were in a group verse together where is where i made my oc ( bandit ) and we shipped together and it was fine. well the group kind of dissolved and other ones rose. well, i decided to branch out my oc and explore some ships with him and she got mad at me because i wasn't shipping with her with this one character in this one verse ( we were shipping outside of that, it was just this one verse ), and then decided to talk shit behind my back to people and try and steal my friends just so she could flaunt them in front of me.
it got worse when things shifted to another verse. i was made to feel guilty about who i wrote with, who i shipped with, and who i was friends with.
we lost most contact when she started something horrible between me and a couple friends of mine and i came to her privately about it and she gave me a cookie cutter apology ( she also sent the same one, verbatim to one of the other ones she lied about ), but i was on vacation at the time and could not reply to it fast enough. by the time i did, i was unfriended on discord and blocked across tumblr and that's when she went on her run of playing the victim about how she was cast to the side and treated so badly.
she got someone else, evie ( who had also been a friend of mine ) to make a julie blog ( deadlysmile ) and all but lifted my blog for it, including the url and started saying how horrible she was being treated.
when i tried talking to her about it, because it bothered me because i have worked hard on julie and i had done a lot to build a world with both my julie and her suzie. she blocked me and again, tried to play the victim and dragged the friend in as well who called me names on a vague post.
so that brings us to the now.
now she's saying i treated her horribly and i used her and none of that is true. she was one of my best friends and i loved her. i supported her however i could. emotionally.. financially. whatever she needed i did my very best to help. i never cast her aside or suzie or any of her muses. i never used her just for my own enjoyment. i never did any of that. i was the best friend i could be until she stabbed me in the back and even then i gracefully bowed out. i never said anything bad about her, i didn't drag her name. i didn't do any of that. i simply cut ties with her because that was what i needed for my own mental health.
i try and be good to everyone around me. i try to be the best friend i can be. and it upsets me and breaks my heart to see myself get dragged and lied about for things i never even did.
so if you made it this far, thank you. i love you all.
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    ROLL UP LIKE A HOT WHEEL, I FUCK A BITCH UP WITH A HIGH HEEL
    ALL LOVE FOR MY SAVIOR, BUT YOU DON’T EVER WANNA MEET A GAY GANGSTA
    IND. SEL. FANDOM OC BLOG WRITTEN BY HEBBY 🔞
ABOUT AND RULES UNDER THE CUT
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    It’s the 2020s, babes, let’s embrace our cringiest deviantart OCs. He’s a Divine that fell from grace–kind of a huge troublemaker who kept wanting to make the Mortal Realm interesting. He maaaaaay be the one who flirted the idea of Power from the Emeralds to the ancient tribes so they’d all start fighting each other. Turns out the other Divines weren’t wild about that, and had Neerco banished to the Mortal Realm.
    He had his rank and devotion stripped from him, and his temples were defaced–which means the less worship he was getting, the less influence he had. And to top it all off, his true angelic form (a horrifying 50ft spider) was contained inside of a small mobian body. When first waking properly on Earth, he had no memories of who he was, and ended up making friends with a Dandelion and a Nightingale. However, as time passed, his memories returned and what he perceived as betrayal fueled his madness.
    Abilities wise, Neerco was most heavily inspired by Q from Star Trek. He’s ridiculously OP, and we love him for that. Queen shit. Thing is, though, most of his magic and abilities in general don’t let him go TOO CRAZY. He can use his powers to give other creatures mutated forms and grotesque powers, but he can’t really use it on himself. So he likes to affect the world around him, but he can be resisted if a person’s convictions are pure enough. Which he hates. Hates that! Gross! Imagine being pure of heart. Couldn’t be him.
    Neerco’s current place of residence is an old, abandoned Temple that used to be in worship of him, but was abandoned and discarded by mortals and divines alike. He’s been working his influence as much as he can to bring it back, and he’s got some followers that embrace chaos just as much as him. That voice whispering in your ear to do your nails and claw some motherfucker’s face off? That’s probably him.
voice claim: Todrick Hall
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Hi, I’m Hebby! I’m in my 30s, my pronouns are they/them. I like to think of myself as pretty friendly and patient, but I’ve seen a lot of BS in my years RPing on this webbed site, so here’s some rules!
1. This blog is 21+ ONLY because I don’t want to write with immature people or minors.
2. LEAVE ME OUT OF FANDOM DRAMA. LEAVE ME OUT OF POLITICAL DRAMA. LEAVE ME OUT OF DRAMA! (“It’s not Drama, it’s–” LEAVE ME OUT OF IT, THIS IS AN RP BLOG!!!)
3. FANDOM COPS STAY TF AWAY! WE DON'T MORALIZE OVER FICTION HERE!
4. 90% of the art used on this blog was drawn by me, the rest was giftart. Please don’t use my icons or my art without explicit, current permission from me.
actual RP stuff:
5. Neerco may be OP but I will NEVER godmode or use that OPness against your characters without explicit permission. I usually have him use it to fuck with NPCs.
6. Do NOT godmode my character or metagame information yours shouldn’t know. That’s rude.
7. IC =/= OOC, I don’t use my characters as mouthpieces. If I have a problem with you or an issue I need to bring you, I will bring it to you in private.
8. PLEASE don’t reblog my drabbles!! Or my headcanon posts. This is a roleplay blog, not a fandom blog. If it doesn’t say ‘okay to reblog’ then don’t reblog it!!!
9. OPEN TO SHIPPING! Characters MUST be over 18 for personal comfort reasons. Toxic yaoi is the only way Neerco here flies!
10. I am an impulse roleplayer, that means I reply or I don’t sometimes. Teehee. I will also unfollow for any reason, and I will not tell you why. For my own sanity’s sake.
11. Potentially triggering themes: torture, possession, abuse, controlling, behaviour, jealousy, sexual scenarios etc.
12. OH BTW I LOVE BEING MULTI-FANDOM FRIENDLY!!! that’s my bread and butter!
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yoshinobuiha · 1 year
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it's james birthday. he's 55 today! i will be posting more pictures and gifs later on hopefully, but first off i wanted to just acknowledge somehow someway how glad i am to even know this unassuming aries guitarist exists. when i got into sp a few years ago, i was in an extremely dark place. i was mourning the loss of a very precious person who had been a smashing pumpkins fan, and his zero tshirt was one of the possessions of his i kept.. i was an extremely casual fan at that point, but digging deeper into all the cds and dvd he had left behind gave me something i could ground myself on, an anchor i could grab on for dear life while i drowned in the violent ocean of grief i was in.. james was like a breath of fresh air, i just related to his sensitivity and sense of humor. just being able to learn about the group and him, starting this blog, making these videos, has helped me recover from a lot of trauma i was losing in my battle against. i think back and wonder if i really was going to make it through, i feel like i started listening to them at such a crucial point. it's crazy to think about. this band is very much just a part of my life now. james is just, even if just a little one, a part of my purpose on earth at this point. i really love running this little blog and i appreciate everyone who interacts with it. — james is such an inspiration to me because i really admire the way he seemed to deal with the difficult and painful experiences and relationships in his life by just being real and honest, but also kind and considerate about it. i admire his private nature. i admire his music, his devotion to love. his style and the interesting cultures i have learned about through my interest in him! anyway. i hope james the best and all of you who read this as well lmao. i just wanted to get some stuff off my chest. happy birthday to james and anyone else who is also born on this magical ass day :-)
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(lol reusing posed gift pics because they're related...credit to the poser kept anon as asked for their protection)
So...lol that art I posted about on my main blog of Aymeric (post here) reminded me of something I've gone away from with Rulian now that he's an OC.
Most Aymeric shippers would categorize him as shy and not wanting to show off in the way Rulian can and does. Like showing off his body for even his lover in private would be something he was shy and embarrassed about. And I can definitely agree as an Aymeric fan I can see him being shy that way and I don't have a problem with it.
One of the things I was running into when people still thought of Rulian as pretending not to be Aymeric versus being my OC in public spaces (which was never how anyone was supposed to look at him but I digress) was they thought Rulian showed off too much and gave me crap for it.
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Can it also apply to Aymeric? Maybe. I don't personally think it was that far fetched but it's not a hill I'm going to die on when the majority of the fandom likes him as a shy bean. I DO tend to think Aymeric is very repressed and might meet the energy of whoever he was with who was supportive of his needs/wants and what those were might vary depending on who he was with. Like put him with Bram who is very bold and demanding and I can see him caving a bit to please Bram because I think he's very much the kind that would do things to make his partner happy. But he's also a very confident and bold person himself so it's not that I think he'd not tell someone no either if he was uncomfortable.
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BUT Where I went with Rulian (THE OC) and how he diverges from the main fandom's look on Aymeric is this: Rulian is reserved, not shy. He doesn't even think about taking his shirt off if it's a training situation or somewhere where it's just expected. Ishgard doesn't have a lot of people prancing about half naked due to the church and also the COLD so of course he's very aware of doing so where it's appropriate, but he's not shy about doing in particular. Rulian doesn't necessarily associate it with being attractive or sexual, especially when it's him, because he doesn't think he's that attractive honestly despite his husbands telling him he is. He has scars he doesn't like to be asked about but that's a different form of shyness about it.
Rulian's husbands very much like him to show skin, and they make him very aware of that, so since it's not a huge deal for him either way unless it's somewhere he feels it's inappropriate, he'll do it for them. He can get a little embarrassed when they make a big deal out of how attractive they find him but that's more because he's unused to thinking of himself as attractive. That's why you can see Bram work Rulian into this party Rulian state where he's very confident and showing off. Because, deep down Rulian is a very confident person and he's not shy or ashamed of his body, he just isn't used to using it to show off or being found attractive for doing so. He will, of course, give the proper amount of Ishgardian fussing about it though just to look properly shy in public about it. In private though? Not at all. One of the fun things about Rulian is letting his husbands untangle things which are actually things he doesn't want, or things he's just been taught were wrong to want.
Which is also where Rulian differs from most people's opinion of Aymeric since Rulian has a very high drive for bedroom activities and he's also very tactile and loves to be touched, where I think most of the fandom leans more toward Aymeric being on the lower end of the spectrum and more of a cuddly one from what I've seen. Or what I was told by certain Aymeric shippers I don't talk to anymore anyway.
Anyway, that's one of the things I was glad I moved away from Aymeric and made Rulian completely an OC for so I had the freedom to explore that about Rulian without upsetting the general public LOL.
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elvenking42 · 5 months
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you should answer ALL of those asks in the post
Oh my god ok HAHA get ready for a wall of text then
1. who is/are your comfort character(s)?
If you've been following me long enough you start to see trends. I've always liked Luigi so he's probably the most popular character on this blog. Ganondorf is quickly climbing the ranks somehow.
2. lighter or matches?
Lighter for function, matches for fun :D
3. do you leave the window open at night?
I've tried it in some summer months but all it does is leave the air cold and wet when I wake up, I'm not super into it. But the nighttime breeze is lovely
4. which cryptyd being do you believe in?
I wouldn't be surprised if I came across the Nain Rouge. Although I'd be a little nervous considering he's a harbinger of bad luck
5. what color are your eyes?
A sort of greyish-blue
6. why did you do that?
I thought it was funny :3c
7. hair-ties or scrunchies?
Hair-ties by a mile. Sorry to scrunchie fans
8. how many water bottles are in your room right now?
There's like three empty water glasses on my desk right now I really should clear them out
9. which do you prefer, hot coffee or cold coffee?
Hot coffee for sure. Cold coffee blends are fine, but half the time I drink coffee at all is for the warmth
10. would you slaughter the rich?
I could probably use a hand
11. favorite extracurricular activity?
Drawing :3c I've been having a lot of fun doing some video editing in my personal time too hehe.
12. what kind of day is it?
Honestly it's been pretty awful. I couldn't sleep last night so I ended up sleeping in super late and missed the chance to call my doctor's office and schedule an appointment like I was planning. I got a letter in the mail summoning me for jury duty and had a little anxiety attack about it. And then later I tried to take out some cash at the bank and my card got declined. At this point I'm just hunkering down at my desk trying to get myself to relax
13. when was the last time you ate?
I had some chips like an hour ago.
14. do you love the smell of earth after it rains?
Of course! But my favorite part of rain is the air pressure right before a storm
15. are you a parent? (all answers qualify)
Nah, that doesn't interest me
16. can you drive?
No, ironically this was part of the anxiety attack mentioned previously
17. are you farsighted or nearsighted?
Nearsighted
18. what hair products do you use?
I use a really standard shampoo and conditioner. But I use a special wash for my beard specifically
19. imagine we’re at a sleepover, would you paint my nails?
Yeah! I'm not great at it but I'll try my best
20. do you say soda or pop?
Pop, this is Michigan!
21. something you’ve kept since childhood?
I answered this one previously :D
22. what type of person are you?
I'm trying to get better
23. how do you feel about chilly weather?
I like it! I can tell winter is around the corner and I'm very excited to bundle up. Unfortunately it's also getting dry and my skin is terrible
24. if we were together on a rooftop, what would we be doing?
I'm not too sure how we got up there, I hope you brought a blanket, it's cold out!
25. perfume/body spray or lotion?
Lotion! But perfume every once in awhile
26. a scenario that you’ve replayed multiple times?
Some point in the future when I'm living on my own and I've got a stable job and a comfortable home and I can invite my friends over for parties where we all bring a dish and spend the evening playing party games and talking about the nice things in our lives and when everyone leaves for the night I can send them all home with some snacks and a hug. Manifesting it.
27. about how many hours of sleep did you get?
I got 7 hours last night, unfortunately that was between 10am and 5pm so it was godawful
28. do you wear a mask?
Yea! I still wear a mask out in public. I only remove it if I'm eating or in private company with people. It's a little frighting that I'm always in the minority though
29.how do you like your shower water?
Scalding
30. is there dishes in your room?
See number 8
31. what type of music keeps you grounded?
I always return back to oldies when I don't know where else to go. I like familiar lyrics and retro melodies
32. do you have a favorite towel?
Not really
33. the last adventure you’ve been on?
I went to a Dia de los Muertos event last night being hosted by a restaurant I frequent. It was actually super fun, they had love music and vendors selling things. I actually ran into an old coworker while I was there and got to catch up with him. I kept ordering spiked hot coffee because it was outdoors and the drinks were yummy but unfortunately 3 coffees worth of caffeine made it hard to fall asleep
34. is there a song you know every word to by heart?
This one
35. what’s your timezone?
EST
36. how many times have you changed your url?
Actually never
37. someone in your life, other than a relative, you’ve known for 10+ years?
Some of my buddies from highschool. I love them dearly 💕
38. a soap bar that smells good?
Go for a Lavender/mint blend
39. do you use lip balm?
Not as much as I should
40. did you have any snacks today?
Had some goldfish
41. how do you take your coffee?
With creamer
42. an app you frequently use besides this godforsaken site?
Twitter unfortunately.
43.what’s your take on spicy foods?
I like it! Im a little sensitive tho so I take it on the mild side
44. you get a free pass to kill anyone, who is it?
Elon musk is a dead man
45 . can you remember what happened yesterday?
See 33
46. favorite holiday film?
Scrooged is so rewatchable for me
47. what was the last message you sent?
"I know what you are..."
48. when did you first try an alcohol beverage?
I think my mom let me sip her wine when I was like 8. I didn't like it very much so I didn't try drinking until I was 20
49. can you skip rocks?
Sometimes!
50. can i tag you in random stuff?
Sure!
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