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silverskye13 · 2 years
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Got several new followers here because of all the hels stuff so I'd just like to say
[waves] hello welcome I have no idea what I'm doing
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the-force-awakens · 1 year
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hello, please feel free not to answer this if you don't want to, I wasn't sure if it was okay to ask. I was just wondering if you still write fic? I've always really enjoyed your writing and I haven't seen you post it in a while. I don't want to pry or anything so I'll understand if you don't answer. Thank you either way, hope you're doing well. 💙💜
🥺🥹 thank you for the kind words, love! I'm glad you've enjoyed my fics in the past, it means so much to hear that 🫶
As for whether I still write fic...well that's a question with a complicated answer. I do still on occasion write for canon dynamics or fics about my oc, and all of those go up on my ao3, but I've got a sneaking suspicion that you probably mean reader fic.
As for that, I don't know. I hate to be an echo chamber and reiterate what so many other people have said, but lately I've been discouraged by a lack of comments on my fic. I don't particularly care for notes/reblogs, but hearing from lovely readers are the entire purpose of me even sharing my fic (I write it for myself, I'll post it to ao3 to back it up, but on here I'm very much just wanting to share my half of the popsicle, y'know?).
In a lot of ways, it comes down to my frustration about a lack of sense of community anymore in this section of the internet, and because I'm going through it a little bit with writer's block and feeling as if I'm just extremely repetitive with story concepts — and also, I feel like what I want out of fics is staggeringly different from the current norm in x reader fics (I definitely know my characterizations are).
All that said, I do miss writing reader fic! I even mentioned to a friend the other day after going through the fic tag for one of my faves that I kind of wanted to pick it up again just so I could write smth that scratched the very particular itch I had...but then it always comes back down to "but is it worth it?" I haven't found an answer to that one yet, but...never say never?
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steelandscience · 2 years
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Just realized there are a couple hundred of people following me here now and I just wanted to say HELLO I appreciate every one of you!!
If anyone has any theories or ideas or questions or anything you want to discuss or see a post about, feel free to dm me or send an ask!
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I've been scrolling through your blog, you've got some pretty cute stuff. I loved the serial killer piece. Food for thought, just a little treat- yandere hacker. Serially online genius who falls in love with a small time content creator, and would go on revenge streaks to try and "protect" His darling from trolls
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A/N : i miss 707. have some yan hacker instead.
T/W : yandere theme, mentions of doxxing, mentions of harassment, invasion of personal information
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" Thanks for the 20 dollar donation 'L3M0NP1E' !! "
[name] thanked the donor with a grateful smile. Being a smaller content creator, receiving donation is quite a rare feat especially with the small size of audience they currently have.
They had only begun making content a few months ago out of boredom under the name of [alias name]. It started with them posting videos of gameplay commentary video, that by a stroke of luck gained traction.
Viewers find their awkward and bizarre commentary that's paired by theirㅡ admittedly horribleㅡ skills in video gaming entertaining and stucked around for more.
[name] was grateful of their supportive and positive followings, they've heard countless horror stories of small content creators being harassed by trolls due to lack of moderation.
They're thankful of the fact that they have yet to encounter any and hope that it'll stay that way.
" Chat, should I go in that room? I feel like if I do, the killer would corner me like a bully asking for my lunch money " [name] turned to read their live chat to seek for the viewer's opinion.
" I see plenty of 'Yes', if I die here it's on you okay~ " They snorted before moving their character to enter the sketchy room only to be killed by the killer the moment they step foot inside of it.
" What did I say, chat?! Like a fucking loser I not only got my lunch money stolen but I was also given a wedgies by that motherfucker! " They hysterically laughed as the chat goes crazy.
It took them a moment to settle down from their fit of laughter and resumed the game. As they were playing through it and talking to the viewers, they noticed a familiar name popping up on the fast paced chat.
edgelord404 : hello. I had a business to attend to earlier, what did I missed?
A smile bloomed on [name]'s feature seeing the message in their chat. This particular viewerㅡ edgelord404ㅡ was one of their viewer they recognized from their early days when the view count barely cracked a hundred on their postings.
" edgelord404 hey! welcome to the stream, we're trying to break into this old granny's bank account and steal her retirement funds "
" Not in real life of course. Don't be silly! " They clarified by emphasizing their words.
edgelord404 : sounds illegal.
edgelord404 : I can help. I got experiences.
[name] began wheezing from how much they laughed. True to their username, edgelord404 loves to spout the most edgy and emo things. They have to admit, it did lights up their days from edgelord404 attempt at humor.
As they were about to respond to edgelord404's comments, they noticed the chat being flooded by less than pleasant comments. They immediately recognized it as to be the work of internet trolls trying to get a rise out of the creator they're harassing.
Before they could attempt at defusing the situation, all of the comments instantly disappeared. [name] and their viewers were confused but the latter assumed that [alias name] got everything under controlled and thought nothing of it.
peachesandcrem : what just happened💀
edgelord404 : you were saying?
" Uhㅡ yeah. Anyways as I was sayingㅡ "
That was odd. Huh.
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Saehoon leaned back against his chair, a satisfied smirk on his face. He watches [alias name], his favourite content creator playing a random game they had interest in.
The stream went along smoothly until a minor turbulence appeared but nothing that he couldn't deal with. Although, he isn't entirely done with the trolls who had invaded his beloved's chat and tried to cause a ruckus.
He had encountered [alias name]'s page a few months ago, right when they had just started with zero following. Saehoon decided to watch them to kill some time but didn't anticipated for him to fall for them instantly.
It could've been the fact that he was the only one watching them failed at the same obstacle over and over againㅡ that it felt intimate. Their bizarre humour and commentary only adds up to their charms that made him fall even deeper.
It didn't take quite a while for Saehoon to dig up information behind the content creator whom had captivated him. Being a genius hacker himself, it is something he was used to doing on a dailyㅡ for work purposes obviously.
Within a few clicks, he has the entirety of [alias name]'s information in his palm. Such as their real name, [name]. Their location, acquaintances, friends, family, their backgrounds and even more.
" [name] .. " Saehoon uttered their name once he obtained their information. It sounded perfect, the way it rolls on his tongueㅡ they were perfect for him.
As time passes, he noticed them slowly gaining popularity and he couldn't help but feel proud of how much they had grown. Admittedly, he was somewhat responsible for pushing out their contents by messing with the algorithm.
Though, he would never take credit for their success of course, he just aided them and the rest is purely their hardwork.
Although he isn't keen on sharing [name] with others, he'd comfort himself with the thought that only he knows such intimate knowledge of [name] that none of their other viewers or fans knows.
Another annoyance that came with [name]'s success is the incessant waves of trolling that comes with it. Normally, he wouldn't care but if it involves his beloved [name]? they best count their lucky stars that he only leaked their doxxes online and not done worse.
Saehoon believed that [name] should invest in some moderator but he's aware that they couldn't afford to pay them. Perhaps he should offered himself someday, that way he could not only openly protects [name] from internet trollsㅡ he could also be closer to them.
Speaking of trolls, he contemplate on what he should do as a revenge for their pathetic attempt at harassing [name]. He'd leaked their personal information as usual of course but he's feeling quite spiteful today, perhaps he should dig up their embarassing past and posted it onlineㅡ or he could post a selfie of theirs that had never been seen before on a forum board.
They'll pay the price of crossing path with [name] and in turn him as well.
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chartreuxcatz · 2 years
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No offense, but my friends are super rad. They are funny and cool, and their company makes me happier. Even when we go days without talking, just knowing them and that they have decided to spend some portion of their life in my company keeps me grateful. And i want to make sure they never grow to regret it.
My friends inspire me to be better without making me feel inadequate. The future becomes a bit more exciting when they're a part of it.
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ok I know I'm going to be drowned out as one of many and I don't want to be the guy feeding the public frenzy right now but I want to offer my thoughts on the watchertv situation.
I've been a fan of ryan and shane for almost 6 years. I got into them when I was around 12-13, and now, at 18 years old, they've occupied a fairly significant part of the last third of my life. I feel reasonably confident in saying I've watched everything they've ever made, from buzzfeed and watcher, and when they went out to found watcher, I was abundantly happy to welcome steven into my parasocial love for them. I feel like I've grown up with them, and going off to college next year, it was never a question in my mind that they'd follow with me. I mean, I bought their unsolved book the second it was announced, and I even snagged a ghost files shirt and a professor plush when he was rereleased. I took the professor to the lizzie borden house for my 18th birthday overnight, and wow was that an expense, but I've wanted to go ever since middle school when I stumbled across buzzfeed unsolved for the first time. in short, losing them is like losing a constant presence in my life, a cherished presence, no matter how ridiculously parasocial that makes me sound.
when I heard about watchertv, I was crushed. in the past couple days, I've jumped from betrayal to desperation to grief to bitter anger. but I think I've landed now in a place where those make more sense to me. I agree wholeheartedly with so many commenters on every platform right now. they're just like me, feeling let down and disappointed by the people we've idealized, and gotten used to seeing for free. but I also understand exactly how this idea came about, I know what it's like to feel backed into a corner on something, forced to make a hard choice where it feels like only a radical shift will save you. we as fans were there for the three of them, their dynamic. but their dreams don't match up. they want freedom to make what they want, and they feel passionate about growth to tv quality. that's what they're aspiring to, I do genuinely think that.
I won't sit here and go on about the different takes people have made about steven's masterminding or shane's reluctance. the bitter stuff that's been said feels very harsh. but I can't condemn the people saying things out of anger that aren't targeted. it's ok for them to feel upset. sure, maybe it sucks that it has to come out on a public forum like the internet but it's valid nonetheless. but on their end, that's got to hurt. I hope so dearly that watchertv succeeds, even if it has to change a lot to do that. a subscription service isn't what we want, but it's what they believe will let them make the quality content they want to. that's worth pursuing, and I care about them so much that I want them to go for it.
I hate that I can't follow them into this next chapter. and I'm sure a lot of other people are too, and however they choose to feel that is perfectly ok. but their creative satisfaction and happiness does not depend on me, and it shouldn't be limited by what I can or am willing to do.
anyway my heart goes out to them truly. I'll miss them in college, and probably forever, and hopefully our paths cross again. but even if we don't, I'm happy for the memories I was able to make, I hope every other upset fan feels the same way eventually too :))
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Breaking down the comics: BEMIS. Part 4
READING THINGS SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO! 
Part one is here. 
Part two is here. 
Part three is here. 
Issue #197.
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Oh look! Burrows is back! …It’s a sad day when that makes me happy. Which means that this is going to start to get gore filled again. Yay. 
I'm going to be perfectly honest here... I didn't finish the Bemis run. When it first came out, I was so pissed off after a while that I stopped reading. 
I can't remember which one I stopped at, but I have a strong suspicion I know the point it was. 
So you guys? We're going to be surprised by the ending together! 
Anyways... 
Back to the moldy bread factory we go. 
We start with three cloaked guys (very cult looking) and five other guys. 
The five other guys all sit down at a stupidly long table. 
The leader welcomes them all. "Welcome to the Bi-Annual Feast of the Societe des Sadiques. You have been chosen--Selected--from a vast pool of candidates. Having proved your loyalty, your zeal, and your passion." 
Oh good... Let's see who we got this time. Bemis seems to like to put in strong stereotypes and then just make fun of them unfairly. 
We start with a photographer dude with thick glasses and a bit of a sad stubble face. 
Then we have a female drug lord and executive level madame. I have no idea what that is, but she's stressed up in a 'little black dress'. 
Then we have someone that is just listed as having 'a particular distinction, even in this group' and he's in a Guy Fieri flame shirt. 
Lastly we have a shirtless man with tattoos and piercings all over him and a green mohawk. "A tattoo artist, body piercer, and reality television mogul". 
So be prepared to have Bemis give them all incredibly dislikeable characteristics. You ready? 
Cause this is a group dedicated to "Sadism, in all its shapes and forms." 
We are going to get a look at what Bemis considers extreme sadism as well as people that find it not only enjoyable, but also get off on it sexually. 
And I will take the stance that I have nothing against consensual sadism. Every fetish has a time and place as long as everyone involved is enjoying themselves and also has safety in mind! 
Bemis isn't going to do that. He’s only going to show the bad side. And try to make it edgy. 
The leader asks the four others to tell them how they came to 'know and practice your fascination with the pain of others'. 
We start with the photographer named "Liberation". 
You see him as a teen getting into photography. Specifically the early 2000s in New York at the "coked-up rock shows". We see him taking pictures at a punk rock show, taking pictures of a couple making out in a dingy dirty corner of the club. Then we see him taking pictures of a passed out person in a toilet stall that has ODed on probably heroin cause there's a needle next to them. 
I'm not showing this. 
"I photographed my first cadaver in 2001." 
He talks about fashion photography that was run more like a frat party. How popular he got and how "brand" he was. 
Despite all this, he felt his true calling was in death photography and that he was sure that there would be people interested in "black market photography." 
"Snuff Couture". 
For those that don't know, Snuff films are films that feature people dying. Many of these films have been proven to be fake death films that are very violently acted and very real looking. On the dark web, there ARE real films out there. It's...Don't look this up. I grew up in the beginning of the internet and remember the unsafe place it used to be. I've seen things I shouldn't have seen. Don't look into this one. 
So he was killing people and taking pictures while he did it then selling it to other people that 'taste'. 
The group claps and they move on to the next person. The drug lord, Lyla. 
She talks about how the mafia isn't what it used to be and that the chinese economy and triad was edging them out of jobs. 
"What was going to be a straight-up assassination of the head of the Triads could have turned seriously messy when his wife and 2-month-old child turned out to be home at the time." 
You see a bunch of dead guys and a woman holding a baby. They shoot the woman and you see a happy baby covered in blood. The baby is Lyla, who apparently got adopted by the Mafia after they killed her parents. 
"See, it would have been some kind of weird fairy tale if I was brought up by the mafia don who ordered the hit. My life would have been a walk in the park. But when they stole me, they entrusted me to Daniel DeCriscio, also known as "the deathbringer" in the press for being, at the time of his death, the most prolific and brutal hitman of all time." 
Apparently he taught her exactly where she was from, made her fight on the streets for her food, and she wasn't allowed to sleep or eat till she trained with him. 
"I learned to kill before I wore my first bra. And so I did. Kill, that is. A lot. I think I was nearing triple digits by the time I was 20. I was good. I rose through the ranks." 
She eventually became his replacement assassin and murdered her 'father'. She became a 'Made Man' (not how it's done but that's a mafia lesson for a later time). She slowly killed off the leaders until she became the main leader. 
Badda bing badda boom. 
Next guy is "Sol". The Guy Fieri shirt guy. 
"Well, I started out by lobbing grenades in public places and running away. No particular motivation besides...throwing a cog in the machine. The weird thing is, they never caught me." 
This is called terrorism. 
"So, I went on to start murdering random women from 1999 'til the present." 
This is called misogyny. 
"They didn't catch me for that, either. I guess I made the cut because I'm the only living man who's been both a serial killer and a mass murderer." 
Not true. Not true at all. 
The group claps. 
Lastly, we have "Tilt" the tattoo guy. 
Wanna know how I know Bemis has no idea about tattoo culture? 
The way he depicts the tattoo parlor. 
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You don't show up to 'watch people work'. And a topless lady? This would be done with a privacy screen and people wouldn't be gathered around like that taking pictures. 
Tattoo artists, PROPER ones are actually very protective of their work. If they designed it, it's their art. Doesn't matter if it's on your body, it's still their art. 
We see depictions of 'outrageous' piercings. Some of which are medically unsound. (A piercing that goes on the underside of an eyelid? Yeah, have fun with your corneal ulcer). 
Then he did a tattoo show. We aren't going to talk about the controversial tattoo show who I won't name here. Just know... It's not well thought of in a lot of circles. 
He got rich and "Being rich made it so I could have whatever I wanted. And all I ever really wanted....Was to pierce someone to death." 
Uh huh. 
So we see shadow images of bodies with outlandish piercings (Which, not all of them would actually cause death... I've seen people with some of these piercings). 
He brags about perfecting the art of 'hurt'. 
He then tosses in a completely unnecessary background. It's just not needed. He should have ended it with the images of the piercing. This is just over explanation of things and bad writing. 
"See, I came from nothing. Grew up in pretty horrible circumstances. I was already mad then. And once I had money, they started treating me different. Like now I was finally worth something. That made me even madder. So now... I get even." 
Why is he shirtless here? Why when you have a heavily tattooed and pierced man do you always have them be shirtless? Is it a macho thing? Wear a shirt! You have to protect your tattoo from the sun! They're going to fade and get shitty! 
Anyways, the group claps. 
One of the hooded figures sits down with the group. 
"Woo-Hoo! Another classic. I love how not dark this whole thing is!" 
Lyla is offended by the hooded guy sitting next to her. 
"What do you think you're doing? Do you know who we are? You're barely fit to serve us booze." 
"It was pretty good, though, right? I heard this wine pairs well with psychopathology." 
"Get out of that seat, trash." 
"Well, the thing is, Lyla, you charming flatterer... I'm actually here for the induction ceremony. I'd like to throw my hat in the ring." 
He takes off his hood and....
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I hate this art. I hate so much about this. 
A sadist. Making Moon Knight into a sadist. Specifically Marc. 
Marc is not a sadist. Marc hates how violent he is. He hates his anger issues. He had issues in other runs with…murdering the bad guys… But I don’t think Bemis knows what makes a sadist. 
A Sadist is NOT someone out to watch others be murdered, be out for revenge, or tossing grenades and running away. 
According to the dictionary… “Sadist: A person who derives pleasure, especially sexual gratification, from inflicting pain or humiliation on others. “
They bask in other’s pain. They cause pain and enjoy witnessing the pain they are causing. 
So... Moon Knight assures them that "No, no! I'm not $%#& with you! I really am! I mean, yeah, I got into what I do to save people's lives. I'm a good guy. But I was messed up as a child and ended up with Dossociatve Identity Disorder. LIke, there are other people living in my head. People cope with mental illness in different ways. 
Rather than become a bad person myself, I decided to start professionally beating the snow out of evil criminals. It's basically my job. And you have to start enjoying your work or...what's the point? 
That broken part of me is made of bleak, pitch-black fury. So, the blood-spray and bone breaking... I won't lie, I enjoy it. I look forward to it, sometimes. Hard to admit, but it's true." 
I HAVE SO MANY PROBLEMS WITH THIS. 
He is implying that mentally ill people are inherently violent. 'rather than become a bad person'. He says that he has people living in his head (as if he is the house owner and they are paying rent!?) and rather than become bad, he had to chose to fight crime. 
That his trauma, his illness, his everything means he was going to fall down the same path of evil. 
DID DOES NOT MAKE A PERSON EVIL! I know so many systems and they are all such kind and wonderful people. They are traumatized. They are in pain. They are doing what they can with their lives and NONE of them are bad people or violent or evil! 
Marc carries on. "So, I'm going to hurt every one of you. Hurt you badly, if you don't cooperate. And yeah... I'm going to kind of really, really enjoy it. Did I make the cut?" 
The other henchmen open fire on him. 
Just as things are about to turn into a brawl, someone else enters, telling them to stop. 
"The masked man is not to be harmed. At least...Not yet. I knew this day would come. In the exclusive circles I run in... The threat of your existence, as well as your true identity, are a known quantity." 
He's not exactly ever been good at hiding his identity, but Bemis keeps saying "my exclusive circles know you well!" Who the hell are these circles? Is there a MK watch group out there? I wouldn't be surprised.
Oh good. They're playing coy banter. 
"And I knew you'd know And that one day I'd find you. Why do you think I'm here?"
And the new mystery figure tells him that he's arrived in time for the ritual. 
Then he gives Moon Knight a hug that no one is happy about. 
"[...] You've earned a personal invitation...courtesy of your Uncle Ernst." 
Oh good. The Nazi is back. 
And that ends this absolute trash of an issue. Nothing happened in this episode. We got people doing their best to be VAGUELY scary or menacing then had them immediately be upstaged and then an old Nazi showed up that looked weird and gave Moon Knight a hug. 
ISSUE #198. 
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Alright, intro! Oh look, the blurb has updated. 
Why is the society of sadists in French? French doesn't automatically make things authentic or fancy. 
The Societe des Sadiques. "A secret group of uber-sadists" is meeting up for some biannual feast for their new inductees. Moon Knight shows up, on the hunt for their 'mysterious leader-Ernst, the Nazi who Marc witnessed torturing a man in his synagogue as a child, the traumatic event thta fed into Marc's dissociative identity disorder." 
I hate that I had to type that sentence. It was long and badly worked and also just... I feel so dirty. 
"Now Ernst can follow through on his ultimate plan..." 
Oh for cry out loud... 
I don't even know where to start. 
So... We have Ernst addressing his audience, made to look like he's talking to the reader. He's got a little Moon Knight toy and he's wearing what looks like a purple jester collar. 
I'll show you in a second because I want you to appreciate this. 
He's gonna monologue for a solid minute or two. 
"And so our drama begins, dear audience. In which a flawed hero is tested. His already dubious moral standing called into question Is he man, or is he dragon? Today, the societe des Sadiques will tease out the essence of his core." 
So are we supposed to forget the fact that he's an ACTUAL Nazi? 
Here's the problem. Now Bemis is going to try to turn him into a modern day villain that's worse than the Nazi he was. 
And you can't do that. You can't take an original Nazi that admitted to atrocious crimes against Jewish people and then put him in America as the head of some murderous sadistic cult. That doesn't make him worse. He was already as bad as he can get. This feels like a step backwards and almost like you're apologizing for him being a Nazi in the first place and trying to explain it away. 
If Bemis tries to make it about Ernst having a terrible childhood to explain his sadistic needs to be a jew torturing/murdering Nazi I swear I'm going to lose it. 
"I confess...There's a part of me that wants to see him escape this spiritually unscathed. But this is our GAUNTLET. Where the contenders for entrance into our society are made to discover just how truly merciless they are. 
In the end, they'll face one another, and if they can live up to that...Then we shall bless them." 
What on earth is he talking about and why should we care. Bemis sure loves his long pointless exposition babble. 
"As for our Little "Surprise" guest...I can only say his arrival has been anticipated. Call him a Pet Project. 
If I were a betting man... I'd bet that what we are about to witness...Is the birth of a monster." 
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Uh huh. That's disgusting. Why was this needed? Ew. 
And now we have Moon Knight on some sort of light runway with people in masks all around clapping. 
Why is this all so bad? 
Oh no. Here we go. Here it is people! What you've ALL been waiting for. 
You've heard us talk about it in passing. "Don't read Bemis. Rabid Dolphins". 
YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. 
And now here we are. 
I give you... Rabid Dolphin: 
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As someone who has spent an upsetting amount of time studying Rabies… I have a LOT of questions. But I’m just going to move on. I don’t want to give this more brain power than I need to. Because what’s about to happen is upsetting enough. I’m just going to apologize for making you witness the rabid dolphin incident. 
In this next part it's called "Second trial Man vs. Inhumanity. 
I don't even know what is happening here. YOu've got some sort of paper mache room? There are animals in statue paper mache and some big guy that's covered in paper so only his head is visible. 
Marc walks into the room and finds a newspaper article on the wall. The paper man yells at him and tells him not to read the paper. He's pissed that he's there and swears up and down that he knows people that can make his life a living hell.
Marc reads the paper. "Sickening 'torture farm' raided by FBI. Jess Ebidiah, 38, implicated in what may be the worst case of animal cruelty in the history of California." 
Uh huh. 
Marc takes out a moon crescent and it just says "Trial passed." 
Third Trial: "Man vs Himself". 
This is where I just get angry. The dolphin hurt my head and made me tired. Now I'm seething. 
So you see a guy in a weird outfit that looks like a cross between the punisher, a luchadore, and a gimp outfit. 
He introduces himself "Greg Salinger, AKA Foolkiller." 
He's a crime fighter that is also a licensed Shrink. 
What does that mean? Is he a therapist? A psychologist? A Psychiatrist? What the hell does 'SHRINK' make him? What credentials does he have? Not all 'shrinks' are trained in how to handle all problems. Some specialize in PTSD, dissociative states, or other things. Not all are equiped to handle D.I.D. 
The man addresses Marc by name and tells him that the cultists are forcing him to do this under threat that his family be killed if he doesn't 'assess' Marc. 
Marc takes a seat at the couch and the shrink asks what Marc did to the man in the last room. 
We don't get to hear the story, but in the next panel "Three minutes later" we see the therapist trying not to vomit (that's professional). Even the cultist guy with the gun on them looks shocked. 
This is a cope out. Bemis wants us to think it's some unfathomable horror that can even make the therapist vomit. 
"Marc, it's my opinion that you suffer from certain...OTHER chemical--and Personality-based--Disorders outside your clinical diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder. See, I know what it's like to want to stop criminals from hurting people, but...The sort of actions you describe suggest a pathology that...Marc, has anyone ever spoken with you about Bipolar II? Or the spectrum of Personality Disorders relating to Borderline thinking?" 
PAUSE. MAJOR PAUSE. 
As I noted off the bat in part 1. Bemis is Bipolar. Self diagnosed or professionally, I'm not here to question it. If he says he is Bipolar, then he's Bipolar. 
He's attempting to Move Marc into a position he can self identify with. Which, unfortunately, moves him away from DID and into a different area that Bemis can claim to now be an expert on and therefore no one can question him. 
There's a major problem with this. It DOES take him away from the spectrum of DID that exists and forces him into another one and also putting all these negative traits he's given to Marc onto Bi Polar people, making the audience start to associate all these terrible and dangerous things with them. 
It ALSO is taking away from something called System Accountability. 
This is something that is learned in systems and it does take time to trust in the system for it to work. It also involves a heavy amount of intersystem communication. 
It means that if someone in your system is an asshole, the WHOLE system is responsible for making sure that this asshole gets help as well as attempts to NOT be an asshole. 
It means that no one is out there beating their spouse and claiming it was 'the bad alter'. 
Even deeper, it means that they have developed a fail safe to protect the body. If someone is hurting the body or putting it at risk, the rest of the system can take charge and make sure that person is no longer given access to the body until they are able to get help. 
You only get one body and you have to share it. This takes time and trust, but it is something I've seen done. 
We've seen it done in the MacKay run when Steven forced control away from Marc so as not to cause them further trauma. 
UGH. 
UNPAUSE...
"All very common. These things don't ever make you a mean person. On their own they in no way imply... But the MIX... You've got a heady mix, there, champ. And it's pretty apparent someone hurt you very badly at some point. The thing about it is...
I think you need to admit to yourself that your need to hurt people may go beyond just wanting to protect others. An addiction to sadism isn't anything to scoff at...Or frame with a pretty costume and make disappear. I'm sorry, Marc. You have to start thinking of it like...A nearly incurable disease." 
NO. NOPE. Not even remotely… This is SUCH a cope out. And why in each run does Bemis have an ‘epiphany’ moment with Marc realizing that he’s a terrible person and having to go on some inner journey down some path where he realizes the bad guy is right? 
The therapist babbling about some sort of ‘mix of personality’ issues… ANd ‘incurable diseases’. Ableist shit. 
What Marc has is trauma. Extreme trauma coming from more than one person or place in his past timeline. He hasn’t learned how to handle his trauma or how to connect with people. He views himself as deserving of his trauma. Thus, he views himself as a bad person or thing that deserved what happened to him. He’s also incredibly angry about it and dealing with generational trauma being placed on top of everything else! 
This is a fact. This is coming from the Moench/Zelenitz run. In the Lemire run he takes it a step further and deals with Marc’s fear of attachment and abandonment issues. As well as his uncomfortable realization and acceptance that he has DID and he has to learn to communicate and talk to Steven and Jake and they have to work as a team. 
Putting ALL this on MARC alone is not okay. Treating it as some sort of horrible disease and blaming his violent tendencies and ‘insanity’ on a chemical imbalance and on his DID is just… I want to beat Bemis with a DSM book. 
"Third Trial completed. The Hero is crowned a Prince of Death." And we see him being dressed in cult robes by guys in moon knight like masks. I don't even know anymore. 
Even though we see them clearly fitting him and measuring him in PURPLE, in the next scene he's in a fully new and fixed up white Moon Knight suit. Who knows. 
….I don’t remember this next part. I honestly think I stopped reading the run at the dolphin bit. Oh no. I thought I got further than this. There’s still two issues left. Oh no…. Did I skim the rest out of frustrated rage? You and me, dear reader…We’re going to get through this together. We got this. 
Fourth Trial time. "Fun with Morpheus, Dream Eater." 
YOU. HAVE.GOT.TO.BE.KIDDING ME. 
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I'm gonna... I'm going to punch something. 
That's not Morpheus. And Marc knows how to handle Morpheus. This isn't what Morpheus DOES. 
"That's for that time with the thing." 
BEMIS DOESN"T EVEN KNOW WHO MORPHEUS IS OR WHAT HAPPENED. He's just throwing him in because he thinks he can mess with Marc's mind! 
Morpheus is a DREAM maker! He attacks with 'dream waves' because he himself can't sleep or dream. 
So we go to the inner world where we see the boys all in gladiator and medieval armor in ruins. 
Steven: "I thought he said he wanted to handle this himself." 
Khonshu: "He is holding onto a grip that is...Tenuous, to say the least." 
This is bullshit. 
This is not how his system works. 
this is not how they work. 
See current MacKay run to see how they work together when they are attacked psychically. 
He also went ahead and gave them 'roles'. 
Steven is "The Mind", Jake is "The Robust Undercarriage". Khonshu is "The Spirit". 
Then we see a fourth blank space, probably reserved for Marc?
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So... Fifth Trial. "Royale"? 
We see him just fighting the four other guys from earlier. 
His outfit looks purple here. Maybe it was supposed to be purple in the other image and they got the shading wrong. I don't know. I hate this art. 
Moon Knight has zero trouble dealing with these 'sadists'. "Trial? Nah. Spanking" it says. 
You see, these guys aren't fighters. I don't know why they think they are or Bemis thinks they should fight MK. 
They are sadists that enjoy picking on the innocent and incapacitating their victims to torture them and kill them. The only one that knows how to fight is the assassin, and all she does is stand there with a gun shooting him till he punches her out. 
Marc stands over the bludgeoned members of the cult and yells at a camera. "Ernst. I get the damn point. I'm ready and I'm yours. I've always been %#^& YOURS!" 
I would like to remind you that Ernst is a Nazi. 
Steven in the background says "I...I can't do it anymore..." 
Khonshu tells him to "Let him go, Steven. He will not let our traits serve him now. That duty falls to...the other." 
Ernst calls him 'my son' and invites him in. 
"Trial 666." clever. 
"The entire society, though not present tonight, has been anticipating this moment for a long time. I knew eventually when you were ready, you'd track me down. I knew the seeds I planted would bear fruit, my little...First-round pick." 
Bull shit. Marc was not supposed to find out about Ernst. He told Marc not to go to his office till much later and he wasn't expecting Marc to find his hidden place in the basement. Then he ran off and didn't confront Marc again. This wasn't 'all according to plan!' I HATE when the bad guys do that. There was no plan. It cheapens the value of the surprise of the hero finding out in the first place! 
We see a very TIRED and broken down Marc as he follows Ernst into the back room. 
"All it took was the careful manipulation of your...Friend...Jake Lockley's undesirable "sources". I always saw something in you. Now you must see it in yourself." 
Are you kidding me. Is he going to blame this all on Jake? 
Jake the Most Jewish Part of his System?! The one that speaks Yiddish and openly presents himself as Jewish?! 
Ernst walks Moon Knight down a long badly designed hallway with pictures of members. You see some guys in Nazi uniforms from WWII and various other guys that we don't get close up pictures of. Because Bemis lacks imagination...or Historical knowledge. 
"Choice one. You fight us. ALl of us, our full might, focused soley on you. You almost assuredly, will not make it back to see your daughter alive, nor save her from me. Two. You abstain. I eliminate your child. It would take a wave of my hand. Only your value to me has prevented this so far. Or THREE. Complete the ritual. Become what you were MEANT to be, beside me, forever." And he gives Marc a picture of Diatrice. 
Oh. Oh wait. No. I remember this now. Fuck. I had completely blocked it out of my memory. Fuck. I have regrets. 
I’m going to need a minute and I advise that you all take a minute too. 
This…This is worse than I thought it was. Worse than I thought it could be. 
EXTREME TRIGGER WARNING: Racism. Nazi idealization. Race wars. Implied child harm. 
This is bad. I can’t stress this enough. We’re about to talk about some really fucked up things. 
I am going to… very carefully…sensor this. It needs to be talked about. This didn’t age well. Especially with the way things have been going for the past several years. 
So please… tread carefully and take care of yourself. If you need to nope out, I respect that. If you have had enough and need to just stop and go “Yeah. Bemis was bad. I’m glad I didn’t read that” then do it. If you need to know, then let’s continue. 
***************EXTREME TRIGGER AHEAD*****************
So Marc turns to the door after he's locked in a room with his choice on what he has to do. 
Fight them all (which I don't get how this is a choice because we know what Marc can do. But the threat of him losing and them going after his daughter is there.) Surrendering and losing his daughter. Or becoming one of them and doing 'what needs to be done'. 
He turns around to find out what his next task is. 
I don't want to draw this out. I really don't. Bemis does. It does it because he wants the impact of what his choice is to hit you hard in the stomach. 
And it does. It hits VERY hard. But not in the way Bemis wants it to. He thinks he's being clever. He thinks that he's set it up so that Marc has been pushed too hard and realized like he did with the Sun King that the villain is right and he has to do it. 
So he wants the reader to think the hero has given in and might actually do it. 
This is BAD writing. 
Instead, the way it comes across is scary. It's fucking scary because of the current climate. Because of all the things that happened in 2020. Because of all the things happening now. 
I'm so angry right now. I'm angry and hurt. 
I'm going to just TELL YOU what the choice is then I'm going to back track and show you the lead up to it. Okay? 
*****He wants Marc to murder a little black girl*****
Backing up. Let’s…Let’s just take this a panel at a time. 
Marc sees the 'choice' before him and he reacts with disgust. 
And we finally see Jake speak up. He's been pretty quiet this issue besides lurking in the background. 
And knowing what Bemis does with Jake and what he obviously thinks of Jake... You're about to see why. And Bemis probably feels like he's being so clever and doing some sort of redeemed character arch. Only the character he tarnished himself and now is trying to make better? 
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"Being your dark side" 
I'm so angry. 
I don't even have the energy to explain it. I've been explaining it. If I haven't gotten through to you yet... 
"And now you won't even...To save her life? Sometimes horrible decisions have to be made when Nazis get involved." 
This is how the holocaust got started. 
This is why no one stood up against them when they saw and then denied and refused to acknowledge what was happening. 
"You think I want this to have to be my call?!" Jake is yelling at Marc. 
Marc shuts down and curls up in a little ball on the floor. 
"I don't wanna. I don't wanna. Ah God... Dad... Dad, where are you? He made me... I saw..." 
So we see Bemis' version of a PTSD type of flashback shut down. 
I can't say if this is accurate or not because everyone is different. I've had shut downs before. Both silent and a few with some sort of pleading similar to this but never to anyone in particular.  So sure. Close enough I guess. 
In this shut down, we see Steven, Khonshu, and Jake standing there watching. 
None of them move to comfort Marc. 
Jake "take that as 'feel free to take over until I grow a set of STONES, Jake'" 
I'm frowning so hard. 
Jake pops up in the body, complete with full mustache. I guess it was in his pocket? Even though he is wearing a whole new outfit? 
"Hi, my name is Jake. Don't worry about anything. Just be...Just be very still." 
The 'choice' pleads with him not to hurt her. 
"God in heaven, I'm sorry. I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this!" 
Yeah... Ignoring all the other issues... There's also a major flaw in the religious talk here too. 
Jake stops and drops his crescent dart. "I don't want to do this." 
Ernst is displeased. He thought for sure Marc would do it and join him. Because...I don't know. I have no idea. I just... Maybe I'm not filled with enough self righteous rage to be able to think like a Nazi? 
He tells his people to "Clean up and move out. This is over". 
And we get our first look at the girl. I'll let you judge how she's portrayed. 
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It’s pretty clear that he asked for the most innocent young looking version of a black girl he could get. Even gave her the pigtails. 
Before he can do anything, the room opens up to show them in the middle of a forest clearing surrounded by cloaked guys. 
A large airship shows up. Moon Knight prepares to fight all these guys. 
We get TWO quotes. 
Now... Keep in mind that this run has been about Nazis. 
So do we get a quote from that time period? Or a quote about the evils in the world? 
Nope. 
"The Killing was a means to an end. That was the least satisfactory part." -Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer. 
The serial killer, Dahmer. The one that was a sex offender who killed and dismembered a whole lot of young men. He then ate and performed necrophilia on them. As well as turning parts of them into things like lamp shades and thing... 
Dahmer was diagnosed with Borderline personality disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, and psychotic disorder. 
I'm sensing Bemis is trying to make a parallel. 
Next quote? 
"A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning." -Carl Gustav Jung. 
Back to quoting JUNG. I have a lot of issues with JUNG's philosophy Especially when it comes to his views on the nature of personality and roles and how they can often be wrongly attributed to D.I.D. I’m nog going to get into it, but at lot of people jump to Jung in an effort to sound smart and like they know what they’re talking about even though they only ever read maybe ONE thing on Jung or heard a quote by him once and went “there’s a smart guy!” 
Anyways. This issue is over. 
Two more to go. Just two more… Then we never have to look at this bread again. 
ISSUE #199. 
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Oh look. We got a new artist. Davidson. Ah fuck it's Paul Davidson again. 
Becky Cloonan did the cover. Which is why it looks so nice and lures you into a false sense of security. 
Can we skip this one? Like…. Legit… Is it needed? It is the most garbage filled issue. You thought the last Davidson issue was bad with Mr. Butterflyman and the collective? 
So... We open with Ernst in a cafe with Marc. 
Ernst is yelling at him about how there "No such thing as Multiple Personality DIsorder or whatever your legion of soft, pliable brats choose to call it these days." 
Uh huh. 
"Your trio of imaginary friends are merely extensions of your own whim. 'Mental illness'? 'Social Awareness'? Do not even get me started on the proliferated fallacies of 'queer' and 'multiethnic'. 'Me too! Me too!' SHEEP. You choose to dwell among sheep!" 
This is hate speech. I've heard it in person. I've heard a lot of these EXACT things said in person. 
He's attempting to caricature the people who make these speeches, but he's doing a piss poor job of it and it makes them come off as being 'in the right'. 
He tells Marc, who looks sad and pitiful here in this style., that he has been 'whisked away from your punching circus and shot with drugs'. 
This is what we call a cop out. He didn't want to have to write or lay out or have them draw the HUGE brawl that he lined up for us at the end of the last issue. 
So he's taken it away and put us somewhere else so we can listen to this guy MONOLOGUE for an ENTIRE ISSUE about the bad things in today's society. 
See why I want to skip it? 
He also says "What happened to the little girl? [....] is irrelevant. Fill in the blanks yourself. Hehe. he." 
Yeah... I don't like what that implies. 
He tells Marc that this is his last chance. If he doesn't comprehend what Ernst is trying to do in this last test then Diatrice dies. 
Marc starts to see a weird Cthulu thing walking by. Ernst tells him not to be distracted. 
He calls him weak and crazy. 
"I stole your heart in your youth...But this is not your Ghetto. Here I can grip it tight and squeeze." 
I take serious displeasure in the fact that he talks about Marc's Ghetto. We know Marc grew up well off in a proper home. And a Nazi using the term Ghetto to describe his growing up conditions is just poor taste. 
"Ask yourself....Did I break your mind? Or did we break your genes?" 
Uh huh. 
"We're friends, Marc. And I have seen your power. I am in need of an heir. And a young, able fist." 
Ew. 
"See. I was never a true anti-semite. I was and am a REALIST."
Are you fucking kidding me right now
"I realist offers fame, money, and power consolidated. Bargain bin vigilantes. You do not belong among them. Besides, soon none of you or your kind will matter. Du schwein." 
This is disgusting. 
You see why this is wrong, right? 
He's now backtracking from the Nazi plot line. Saying "Oh fuck. I should have just made him a cult leader from the start. But I had to use some way to traumatize his past so his being Jewish was the problem the whole time!" 
So now Marc is tripping pretty hard on the drugs and seeing monsters and demons and things. 
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You can see why I’m not posting much art from this issue.
Between the art (I hate this so much) and that LONG meaningless hate speech there, there is literally nothing of merit to this issue. 
He goes on and on like this. 
I have no idea what he's talking about. He's just saying things that sound meaningful and metaphorical at this point. 
Blah blah blah "Here we can hear the fait, weak sounds of self-knowledge as our dark idea literally comes to life. Here, we taught it how to both love and despise itself. Perhaps what we created can think at this point? Like a child. AN IDIOT GOLEM who fancies itself some kind of philosopher." 
The not so subtle use of anti-semetic language is not lost on me. 
And you know what else we need more of? That’s right. Racism. 
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Marc protests he won't hurt these people. 
Ernst yells at him to do it. "Make them hurt like you want the world to hurt, Marc!" 
They are now in some druggy's house. He tells Marc to look at the man deeper and see the monsters inside him. 
Marc yells out for Khonshu, Steven, and even Jake, asking for help. 
And we see them trapped in some sort of Egyptian bubble thing under Ra's eye. 
Marc rebells and Ernst kicks him in the balls. I kid you not. 
Then tells him to "Say you're nothing but an errant SLAVE." 
ANd Marc is on his knees crying and says he's his slave. 
"Say I'm the first man you ever loved." 
"You're not my dad. YOu're not my dad!" 
"Join me or she dies!" 
"I...You're the first man I ever..." 
"Ha! You are like clay! Now. Say these words. 'I am no hero. I don't deserve my own infinity. ANd today is the day I finally give up." 
NOPE. NOPE NOPE NOPE. 
This here? This is anti-semitism propaganda. 
They believe that the jewish people think they are uppity and holier than thou and will be the rulers of the earth and afterlife. 
This is incorrect. This is Messianich teachings. And Bemis slipped it in. Didn't think we'd notice, but we did. 
Marc refuses to say it and he fights back. We see Khonshu and Jake and Steven break free and start to fight the monsters and Marc hits him in the gut. 
"Because I would rather my daughter DIE than grow up in your sick fable."
Marc tells him that he doesn't think his daughter is in danger because once the cultists saw Marc fighting back, they abandoned Ernst. 
Ernst begs him. "Stop. you don't know what it was like, Marc. In Germany. For a man like me." 
"I can imagine. My grandparents were Czech, remember?" 
It's like Bemis can't decide what to do with the story line he already set down with Ernst killing Marc's Grandfather and fleeing Europe. 
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Even the art is inconsistent. 
And he heads back out to the streets and it's still covered in demons and angels and cherubs and devils and so on... 
And then he runs into "The Sun King". 
Who Bemis probably thinks is the best villain ever because he made him. What a twist. 
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He doesn’t look like Jesus anymore. Why does he look like Rasputin now? Ra Ra Rasputin… LOL It’s a pun. And now that song is stuck in my head. 
You know what REALLY upsets me? 
The fact that BEMIS got a huge milestone…
ISSUE #200.
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Art back to Jacen Burrows. Cover by Becky Cloonan. 
This is an oversized anniversary issue. LAST ISSUE EVERYONE. I can see the end of this endless torture and bread factory. 
Oh, Jesus is back. 
Thanks Burrows. 
Also… I have ZERO memory of this issue. I legit don’t think I read this issue so getting to the end will be a surprise to me. 
We get a flashback to them all leaving the island. 
Marc is talking to Sun King. 
"I mean it! It's a Quasi-Max asylum run by the government, and they'll put you down if you even try to escape, but...I belive you can be redeemed. Maybe. In all seriousness, you need help." 
Truth, remember him?, asks if he can go too. 
Truth legit wants to be helped. 
Ra is pretty pissy at the whole ordeal. 
We get to hear a lot of psycho babble as Truth and Ra are analyzed. 
I'm not typing all that up. 
WOW. They just attacked Asecuality too! They're just adding to the list aren't they? 
"The Truth's Asexuality a normal reaction due to being socially abandoned." 
I lied. Here's more that boils my blood. 
"...Mental Illness being both a difficult and challenging trait and a beautiful gift to be shared with others when utilized in a positive, giving way, as referred to in Dr. Lemire's seminal thesis, 'Healing, or: How to be okay with being you.'" 
At least he's getting CLOSER to what Lemire was getting at. 
We see Sun King starting to heal and also get his fire powers back. He is happy to have been paired with the Truth. They're bonding. 
Then we see Ernst bust in with his cult. He spouts things about old money buying them out and tells them to come get one more shot at Moon Knight. 
Now we are back to present times and Sun King looks weird again???
Marc tackles him in the street and threatens him. Truth tells him to stop and listen to him for a second but Marc isn't listening. So Ra attacks and burns up the cult followers around them.
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Where is this going? Am I the only one that doesn’t understand where this is going now? With Ernst ‘gone’ and Sun king on his side for now and Truth doing his own thing… How are there so many pages left? 
Sun King tells Marc that Ra can go to hell because Moon Knight is a good man while he himself is not. But he was born with fire powers so he's going to "Prevent the creation of 'monsters' like me. For the rest of my life. Or I will die, trying to eradicate that dead Nazi's legacy." 
Marc tells Sun King that he needs his crew. 
Oh look. It's the army of random regular people that Marc recruited from the island. 
They all head to Marlene's house. 
Marc tells Marlene that a crazy group of Nazi sadists are coming after them so he hired the Sun King and his goons to come help protect them. 
Marlene Maces the Sun King despite being told not to. 
Marlene starts to yell at Marc about his 'weirdness' and problems and that she can take care of herself. 
Marc, Jake, Steven, and Khonshu gather with Marelne to form a plan. 
Marlene points out that she can't see or hear Jake, Steven, and Khonshu and that Marc is just standing there in silence. 
In the background we get a cameo with Dr. Emmett yelling about making Sun King Believe. 
whoopie doo. Chaos. Fun. everyone's crazy. wheeee.
Diatrice interrupts (and she is drawn very poorly and kinda looks like a frog face with pink hair. I hate this art. 
She drew a comic of them all saving the world. 
Marc is in good spirits now so he and Sun King run off to...I don't know. Things. 
And we find Moon Knight and Sun King facing the giant hover craft after it catches fire and crashes. 
The dialogue here is... It's bad. 
They fight more cultists. 
And there's a big battle scene of Marc's army fighting cultists and things are on fire and Moon Knight and Sun King are fighting... 
It's a mess of just like.... 2 giant spreads of just chaotic fighting. 
Glad they are using this 200 issue anniversary well. 
Sun King tells Marc that "you're pathologically violent but you, almost literally, wouldn't hurt a fly." 
Then we...get Sun King's LONG back story that includes things like "My past is spotty, but I know I'm from the southern states and that I was born a Christian." 
Who even asked? 
"We 'Play for the same team'. Christians come from Jews who come from...It goes on." 
It literally doesn't go on. It literally doesn't. But history. Can't be bothered, right? 
He starts talking about Atheists, magicians, witches, and beautiful people all fighting for the right to believe in anything. 
Then he goes on about "our fixation with the beauty of the Egyptian spirituality' and 'reconciling our peoples' ancient struggle and the uselessness of bigotry." 
Whhhhhhyyyyy is he still going on about this?! NO ONE ASKED. 
"Now imagine a mentally Ill "Power" whose ability was to take his own inner devastation and then force the world to believe it." 
Almost sounds like you're saying DID isn't a real thing but just a construct of the mind that is being forced on others... Careful there, Bemis. You might give yourself away. 
He tells Marc that there is a new leader to the cult. The real enermy is "The False Truth". 
And we see Truth attached to some sort of weird machine thing. Ernst brain washed him to do his dirty work. 
The Truth attacks and forces Ernst's knowledge on them. 
Here we go...Ready? 
"1935. Ernst is imbued by one of Hiler's mystical artifacts with what we will refer to as 'the blue corruption'." It infects people with 'self-created thought virus, or Meme." 
fuuuuuuuuuuuu-
"1936 Jose Mengele creates an unseen subsect of Jewish people 'Infected' by the artifact under Ernst's supervision, using his brain as a conduit." 
-uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
"This plan is unsuccessful, but the altered children remain and disperse into the post-holocaust diaspora. 
There are images here. I'm not showing you those. They aren't good. 
1938....(the war ended in 1945. Why is he...FINE. Let's go with it...) Something about comic books with 'corrupted ink' and preserving the medium's integrity. 
1944 the war is closing. Erst is the only Nazi officer who has the corruption. His psychological devastation and personal history cause the corruption to turn into a sort of Venom? 
Marc concludes that this all can't be true because then he can change what happened too and still have all his friends and be married to Marlene and have been there for their baby's birth.... 
This is false logic and I have no idea what he's talking about. 
Marc tells him that he's too crazy to fall for Ernst's memories and truth. 
They tell truth that the blue goo Ernst was injecting into him is making him crazy and aggressive. 
Truth attacks them Moon Knight and Sun King again. 
Things are said... Bad things. 
They argue back and forth in an attempt for Truth to get them fighting. ...I'm not going to waste my time on what they said. Just know that it's poorly informed crap and more stuff about Jews being slaves to Egypt. 
Then....Jake... sorta takes over? He attacks truth, smashes up the machine. He yells that he's "a Jew too." Then Khonshu attacks him too.... 
Then Moon Knight declares he is "No Man's Slave" and breaks his arm. 
Marlene shows up? She yells at Sun King for a bit. Threatens to mace him if he ever goes near her kid again. 
Sun King sticks up for Truth and notes that "allowed himself to have his mind warped by abusers." He offers his friendship to Marc. 
Marc and Marlene agree...as long as he goes to a mental health facility first. 
The orderlies offer to take Marc in for help too. He tells them he's fine and leaves. 
Marc calls up Marlene to tell her he's coming home. 
And we get at long last... WTF am I looking at? 
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I…I’m exhausted. It’s 3am Christmas Eve and I’m exhausted. 
Why did I read this. Why did I put myself through this? Why did Marvel let this happen? Why did Bemis get away with this crime? 
How did Moon Knight survive this run?! 
Why did this run follow one of the best written runs ever? 
I had plans to type up a big breakdown on why this whole two trade run was so bad… But if you made it this far with me (Thank you. Thank you so much. And I’m sorry), you know why it’s bad. You saw it. 
I’ll be real… I lost steam here. This was like a 10+ psych hit attack and I’m just baffled now. That ending was so convoluted and trash. The plot didn’t know where it was going. The characters were so rushed. The pace had issues. The bad guy didn’t know he was a bad guy till he suddenly needed a bad guy. The main bad guy couldn’t decide on why he was the main bad guy… And the good guy kept having existential moments of “Maybe I’m the villain?” 
It’s safe to say that EVERYTHING Bemis set up in these comics all faded away and were never touched again. With good reason. 
It’s like he set up a whole world ready for people to use and patted himself on the back and thought he’d done a really good job and done everyone a favor and then the world had time to process what he did. And the smart people? They took one look and went “No. No no nononono.” And closed that door again. 
Keep it closed. Lock it tight. Don’t let any of it sneak out. I beg you. 
We don’t need this racist, anti-semetic, homophobic, ableist shit in this fandom. If you know someone that is a Bemis fan and cites it as ‘an amazing run’ or ‘one of the best runs’, I encourage you to REALLY look at that person. They’re probably not healthy to be around. 
So… This was Bemis. Thank you for taking this journey with me. I need to go… go do anything that isn’t this. Expect some Moench soon. I need to not have this taste in my brain anymore. Questions and comments are welcome. Hate and bigotry are not. Feel free to discuss this run. But remember, Friends don’t let Friends read Bemis.
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Summary- you join the triplets as a guest in there new podcast
The moment the triplets had mentioned the idea of starting a podcast to me I wanted to guest star on it. Seeing as I have always been there on the sidelines rooting for them, I'm in most of there old videos that you would have to scroll down forever to find. But slowly stopped making an appearance when there fan girls claimed I was "way to close to them" and "my incredibly toxic behavior was bringing them down" so instead I stayed behind the camera and helped them out with most of there videos, even if it's buying ice at four in the morning (or cleaning up the massive water spill off of nicks bathroom floor) or simply just gathering the best questions for QandA when they were to oveworked to do it themselves.
And though they'll never get around to crediting me for it, I even came up with there podcasts name. Unfortunately the three of them used argue to the ends of earth that starring on the podcast was a great way to attract hate like it did last time around, well... that was until Matt and I began dating a few months ago and accidentally leaked it to the internet while on Instagram live. And I guess the crazy fans matured with age, well most of them anyway because the hate wasnt nearly as bad we all had anticipated.
So now that I've reapproached Matt about it seeing as theyve already posted there first episode leads me to now. Nick began checking the cameras as Chris and Matt took there usual seats and i excitedly sat down fiddling with the mic infront of me. Hey dont break it Nick scolded me I held my hands up leaving it alone yes sir i quipped back, Chris chuckled want headphones y/n/n? He asked I nodded and Matt who was closest grabbed a pair and handed it over to me. I put them on staring down at the cord attached to the headphones confused, Matt who had noticed my confusion stood up walking over to me taking the cord from my hands. He leaned over me the fabric of his shirt brushed up against my cheek exposing the smell of his cologne, tilting the mic downwards he plugged it in. The plug ins at the bottom he told me gesturing to the headphones that were now connected to the mic.
I looked up at him my face close to his i sent him a bright smile making his cheeks flush, Alright how bout we go to our seprate spaces I jumped back not expecting Nick's voice to yell through the headphones into my ears. NICK! I yelled back Oops, he looked away avoiding my glaring eyes. At least we know it works now? Matt said now back in his original seat ok, ok, welcome back campers, I'm Nick Sturniolo he looks to the camera introducing the start to the episode I'm Matthew I smile at the mention of his full first name as ive always loved the name Matthew, and I'm just Chris. Nick begins to talk again, and as our first guest we have the beautiful y/n aw Nick we all know your the beautiful one here I told him Chris and Matt both put a hand to there chest mimicking fake offence. oh right sorry I started Chris your beautiful to, Chris grinned at me proudly as Matt looked at me waiting for me to continue the sentence and when I didnt he scoffed making me laugh in return alright most of you would recognize her as Matt's girlfriend, as well as our mutal friend were so happy to have her with us today,
I'm happy to be here i waved to one of the cameras in the corner, todays topic is......tour! Chris continued the conversation ooooh yes I loved last tour though i was backstage most of it I told them the stage wasnt much better it was so hot up there Nick nodded agreeing and Matt just put a hnd to his forhead well maybe if you didnt wear that big ass jacket Chris rolled his eyes the team colors are going to be so fire though I said ah yes agreed Nick replied team purples so gonna win mmm, I dont think so Chris laughed wait what team are you on y/n he cut off from his previous sentence i think thats pretty fucking obvious chris, nick shook his head. ya its clearly team bl- team orange actually I interrupted matt the three of them all whipped there heads in my direction Chris put his head on the table laughing to death matts mouth agape your joking, shes joking right? he asked nick alright sorry to disappoint Chris but i am team blue Matt looked at me smiling thats what i thought he flexed his arm NOO! Nick yelled at him the edits his voice trailed off at the end
I bursted out laughing and they all joined in, I'm so exited for upcoming tour the last tour was so lit. Chris added I was just sick the whole time I replied still slightly laughing, Hey at least you didn't get a phone thrown at you. OH! Nick exclaimed thanks that brings me to another topic no more throwing shit Nick told the camera. yes! Like bracelets are one thing, but ya if you throw your phone again your not getting it back Nick interrupted Chris, Matt smiled honestly, if you throw a brick at me ill throw it right back at ye head I clasped my hand around my mouth not expecting the boston accent to come out I grabbed the mic deviously ya, ill throw it right back at ye head Ii mocked him using my best impression of his accent. He just looked at me pursing his lips so done with me, your not even doing it right he told me yea its like right at ye-a head Chris joined in bringing out his accent as well wait like, forget about it i tried again YA! like that there ya go Chris clapped never dropping the accent i followed suit responding thank ya thank ya Nick rolled his eyes we continued on with tour talk for another twenty minutes.
Ending it with Nick smiling wide alright see ya next time on cut the cameras using his inner boston just for the fun of it, I got up stretching handing my head phones back to Matt. Nick made sure all the cameras were off Matt got up standing next to me wrapping an arm around me I gave him a quick kiss on the cheek that was really fun he told me resting his head on the top of mine it really was I nodded just let me know or anyone of us know if anyone starts leaving mean messgaes ok Matt told me seriosness lacing his tone i will i will dont worry i reached up to ruffle his hair im glad to be back in your content and im still happy to help out i looked at all of them happy to have them in my life oh, speaking of helping Chris added do you mind buying 7 pounds of gummy worms? I looked at him waiting for him to say he was joking but when he still looked dead serious i shrugged laughing ya, ya i can.
THANK YOU FOR BEING YOU!!! and for reading! Feel free to request, love ya
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natashasbitxh · 15 days
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Okay so for people in diff timezones, it's around 4am on the 13th April for me, so the 11th was about two days ago
But I've been meaning to make a little post
Thursday marked the year anniversary of Smosh's tntl with Starkid. Now I know to some that means absolutely nothing, but to me it's a little special because this means I've now been a proper smosh fan and on smoshblr for around a year now☹️
I would say I REALLY became apart of smoshblr around November when I became shaynse anon and I don't want to sound cringey but I actually believe that I have changed quite a bit since then blogwise and even personalitywise even though its been a couple of months
I guess I just wanted to make a post to say from the bottom of my heart thank you, the mutuals and anons I've gained the past couple of months is a lot compared to me pre shaynse anon. I really found my footing on tumblr and gained a lot more confidence all thanks to this little community 🙂
I will never forget shaynse day, its still CRAZY to me that even one person thought of me, never mind multiple. I remember when that happened (people reaching out to me), I was giddy for days and I was ready to explode because I had nobody in real life to talk to it about😭 So thank you SO much
To anybody that has even liked or reblogged a post of mine, thank you. To anybody that has clicked on my blog and had a little look around, thank you. To anybody that has given me a follow or sent in an ask, THANK YOU. I know it seems small, but even a little interaction truly makes my day. I love this little corner of the internet☹️🫶
Theres a few mutual that I absolutely HAVE to thank, because you guys truly are such a big part of tumblr for me.
(Now, please understand that these are people specific to SMOSHBLR🙏)
@jovenshires, hi bestie🙂 you've genuinely done SO much for me since I sent that silly little ask to you, indirectly or not. I definitely don't think I'd have my little place on smoshblr without you, shaynse anon was A MOMENT. I still think about the Christmas gift you gave to me daily, it genuinely warms my heart sm that you'd think to create something for me☹️ AND YOU THOUGHT OF IT WHILE I WAS STILL ONLY A LITTLE ANON☹️ Thank you SO much for helping me be welcomed into this space🫶
@lilac-hecox, I don't think we've directly spoken a lot? But we interact with eachother quite a bit, and ur blog?? OBSESSED. Anyway recent memory on April 1st I just remember booping the HELL out of ur page and u booping just as much back😭🫶
@wallpaper-inside-my-heart, I genuinely think about the smoshblr december asks SO MUCH. That was such a sweet thing for you to do and I rlly think it brought the fandom sm closer, and it was so kind how you acknowledged like almost everybody's posts almost EVERYDAY. It was so fun talking to you abt our interests🫶
@ancientvamp, hello to my shaynse SOLDIER OMG🫶 We both fill up the shaynse tag SM and I LOVE IT😭 Ur like my no.1 shaynse blog probably, like sometimes I feel we are SO on the same wavelength. I just think ur rlly neat!! 🫶
@bomikalover, HELLO TO ANOTHER SHAYNSE SOLDIER!!! My shaynse bestie!! Your edits are SOOO iconic, and I'm so happy to have been able to let you know chanse saw ur edit, that was literally insane and I was so happy for u☹️ ur just so 🫶🫶🫶
now there are SO MANY PEOPLE I'd LOVE to tag, but I thought I'd narrow it down to just a few that I've properly interacted with. To any mutuals that see this, please don't take offense, not my intention AT ALL!!! In fact, HI HI HI!!! If you'd like, PLEASE reach out or interact with me!! I'd always love to communicate, whether that's in reblogs, comments etc!!
I do actually have a project I want to do as an almost celebration, but I kinda had to scrap and restart my whole idea because it wasn't going how I wanted😭 so bear with! And also I'll probably do something for the anniversary of shaynse day, cause why not🤷‍♀️
ANYWAY, long story short THANK YOU to all and to smoshblr for being such a welcoming and sweet area on the Internet when everywhere else is often not🫶
-love, shaynse anon
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Hey, there! Welcome to my brain. 💕
Some guides to my blog:
If you’re under 18, kindly, fuck off. You will be blocked if you interact.
Lots of Chan, lots of swearing. I’ll add in/write others occasionally, but I’m mostly down bad for Mr. Bang.
Mostly smut, sometimes soft shit. Putting my poetic ramblings here, too, cause why the hell not?
Masterlists: By title and by description.
Open to requests in the form of prompts or images! I love to be inspired, so feel free to send anything you can’t stop thinking about my way. 💗 (Not every request can/will be written tho, keep that in mind.)
This is a safe space! Explore your kinks, discover new ones, follow your dreams, don’t be a dick.
If you’re gonna put my shit on Wattpad, please credit me at least goddamn. Anyway…
Happy to be in this little corner of the internet with you. 🖤
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sin-djarin · 7 months
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Becca's Brunch
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Welcome! Consider this my new Sunday Rundown. It's Saturday, though? Yup, it is. But I have a busy weekend ahead and needed to tell myself I'm somewhat prepared. Anyways, consider it a WIP for now that I'll probably add more things to next week.
While you brunch, try to take a few moments for yourself. Take a deep breath, unclench your jaw, grab a sweet treat and a coffee and lets go!
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Or, stuff that I got around to reading. A quick reminder that what I may like, you may not and that's okay! Most, if not all of the below are 18+. Please heed individual warnings on fics!
My TBR is piling high once again but here's what I did get around to.
Marcus Pike:
can you ever really know? by @undercoverpena
Headshots & Salty & Sweet by @secretelephanttattoo
Joel Miller:
Cornfields by @trulybetty from her autumnal offerings
Javier Pena:
A Paranoid Heart by @goodwithcheese (new chapter)
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AKA, things that caught my eye and any other shenanigans that happened round here this week.
WELL. The poll, right? The one I posted for a little bit of fun has now snowballed into something much larger but you know what? Sometimes the unexpected is exactly what you need and the universe will find a way. And let us thank @for-a-longlongtime for starting the fic as a result.
This incredible art by @stealyourblorbos
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AKA, the personal stuff and some NSFAQs (Not So Frequently Asked Questions because I don't think I ever properly introduced myself).
Did you ever have one of those weeks where you bit off more than you could chew? I did that. I booked myself in to do something after work every night last week and boy do I feel it. But it's okay, I get to go for brunch today and chill tomorrow.
Why are you here?
The Mandalorian. The voice got me and well, the rest ishistory. Now I'm here, amongst some of the sweetest, most encouraging people on a little corner of the internet. I love you all, very, very much and thank you for having me!
What do you do when you're not here?
I'm a 9-5er. Or an 8-4er on somedays, depending. I work a lot with archives and stuff. I read a lot in work.
Have you been involved in fandom before?
Hmm. From a distance maybe. But not like this.
Who's the first FBI Agent you fell in love with?
Ah, easy. Fox Mulder. The Bubble was a fuckin' delight for me, I have no shame in saying that.
How'd you come up with your user name?
I wanted a play on words and it came to me when I was deep cleaning the fridge. Wild, I know! I was very surprised it wasn't taken already.
That milestone you reached last week, what are you doing for it?
I want to. But I'm undecided as of yet! If you have any ideas, please let me know.
Will you ever take requests?
Tough one. I'm not a quick writer. I'd hate to rush an idea then have after thoughts y'know?
You have your anons turned off. What's up with that?
Ugh. Man. As much as I try not to, I can still take things very personally. I'm sure all the anons are lovely.
Can I ask you anything, though?
HELL YEAH. That makes day! Send me a message, come get crazy about a character with me, I love nothing more.
What's your coffee order?
An oat flat white.
What's your sweet treat of choice?
A vegan mixed Berry croissant. Not vegan, just can't handle dairy!
Can you swim?
No I cannot. Which is dangerous consider I'm near a Pike Puddle, a Catfish Pond and a Rockford Rockpool at any given time!
What's on repeat right now?
What's happening with your fics, Becca?
Glad you asked. I've been blessed/cursed with ADHD. Which means, for me, I'll hyperfocus on something for HOURS or procrastinate like you wouldn't believe. I just gotta get on a decent schedule, this just wasn't the week for it unfortunately. So, please bear with because I do have ideas! Will I get sidetracked? Yes. If my brain feels like it wants to create something then and there, I cannot stop it. But it's a really nice stress reliever for me in a way, I get to think and focus on one thing and not about what has happened or what will happen.
Also, I got some divine inspiration yesterday for Video Nasty III when I saw this:
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Becca 🤍
If you made it this far, I love you very much. I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did. Please be good to yourself and others, you deserve it!
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first of all, I'm so sorry you had to deal with all those troubles. I'm just entering the fandom, so I have no clue how bad it was or possibly still is, but that shit ain't acceptable. I hope you're feeling well in the future, and better now.
Second of all, I have a question for you about a technical problem that I can't find much of any resources on how to combat, and seeing that you're very good with virtual photography, I thought I'd ask you.
Depth of Field in the vanilla game's photomode is handled oddly, with artifacting(?) around V and certain other objects and NPCs at lower aperture values
Example:
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The only advice I've seen that directly addresses this issue is simply "Raise the aperture" but that doesn't help when I'm trying to take photos with a very intense DoF (Which I really would love to do)
is there a mod/setting I could use to fix this issue?
Welcome in the fandom and thanks a lot for your words! 🧡 If you know how to curate your space, use the filter and block features, it's not that bad, especially if you find people you vibe and hang out with! Hope you'll find your comfy corner there :>
As for the question; The vanilla PM's DOF isn't really good and there isn't anyway to "tweak" it as far as I know (we can forcely disable it via some settings but that's about it)
If you're playing on PC, I can recommend getting ReShade! It's totally free, it allows you to layer all kind of shaders and post-processing effect on top of games. Since CP77 is a single player game, I recommend downloading the version with Addons support!
▶ ReShade
⚠ ReShade has its own Screenshot key; using the Vanilla photomode's key to capture your screenshots won't capture the layered shaders! So set up your pic, hide the HUD using photomode, and then use ReShade to set up more effects and polish, before taking your pic with ReShade!
More aboute ReShade and Tips on different DOFs under read more :>
Launch the installation and select Cyberpunk 2077 in the list, pick DirectX 10/11/12 as its API and dowload the recommended shaders pack
After launching the game, ReShade window should open, I recommend going through the tutorial to understand the interface better!
Then, you can start either enabling some shaders and tweaking them yourself, or looking for ReShade Presets on the internet! There's a lot of them on Nexus Mods too :>
▶ My old ReShade preset
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When it comes to DOF shaders, the best one imo is IGCSDof The problem is that, even tho the DOF itself is free, you need the IGCS camera for it to work properly, and this plugin is not free
For free DOF, I can recommend ADOF and CinematicDOF! They can work together, tho I recommend only using One or Another
Here's an example of ADOF Both shaders can be tweaked with to achieve similar results
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You'll notice some artifacts and pixels around the hair especially, that's when RealLongExposure save the day!
It allows you to "freeze" the game by staking frames on top of each others, "smoothing" the edges and getting rid of the artifacts
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It looks less "crispy" on the right, but it's easier to spot in game!
It's recommended to bind this shader to a shortcut; to bind it to a key, simply right click on the "Start Exposure" box
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Another Shader that I like is called Tilt Shift It allows you to place a gradient blur that follows a Line's angle and position!
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These are only just a couple of Shaders, I invite you to test and play around with all of them to see what you vibe with!
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playboybabyxx · 3 months
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❤️ Welcome Sweethearts ❤️
[This is roleplay blog for my original character Grace from the game Degrees of lewdity - a porn rape game so if you're sensitive to that stuff PLEASE LEAVE - everything posted on this account is to be assumed to be in character unless stated otherwise. Account is created and run by @lgbitties] Welcome to my little corner of the internet sweet things. You can call me Grace. I'm a 19-year-old pornstar with quite the occult following so if you've found me through my streams - Hello my love <3 Because of that this blog will be very 18+ orientated so be warned kiddies and ageless blogs - you will be blocked <3 Other than that little warning, feel free to kick your feet up and look around! A girl has to market herself whenever possible right? Nothing better for that than the good old internet! Feel free to contact me for any business propositions you have I do so love getting up close and personal with my fans, what better way to build a fanbase am I right? I'm friendly I promise I don't bite (Unless you're into that which in case I can be whatever you want sweet thing ~) I guess I should tell you a little bit more about me. I'm a demon. Oh yes yes, I know you're going to call me crazy but go ahead and tug those horns as hard as you like, they aren't going to come off and it makes me hard anyway <3 Oh yes! I'm intersex so get on your knees~ Kidding! My pronouns are she/her and I'm just a chick with a dick! As you can probably tell I adore anything pink with lots of Prada and sparkles. So be kind to me and send a bag will you? My collection has gotten stale.. Come talk to me! I'd love to get know this corner of the internet but be warned I'm new to blogging!
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bookwyrminspiration · 6 months
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Following in Cath's footsteps since there's some new people around--hello! I'm Quil, aka Dira (no/its pronouns) and I've been in the tumblr fandom since about 2018--if you've ever looked at the kotlc tag, you've probably seen me around
Most people know me for character analysis, knowing too much about canon, and accidentally causing chaos--as well as my fanart and writing! I wrote a 350k wings au set after Unlocked that you can find here :)
It's lovely to see new people in the fandom, so please don't feel intimidated by any of us or the fact a lot of us already know each other! We're a small corner of the internet, but a welcoming one I'm quite fond of--and my ask box is always open! I read and post about a lot more than kotlc (e.g. I love language/linguistics and am a no sabo kid) as well, so maybe I've read some other series you like we can chat about!
anyway, welcome and nice to meet you all (once I finally get my hands on that graphic novel -_-)!
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