#i have media for asks turned on

[artystaroc]

Why is your blog suddenly labeled as mature content? I saw that pop up on my screen when I clicked on your account and I got confused

I don't understand what you mean. I looked around my settings and don't have anything about that turned on or even any flagged posts. Could you show me what you mean somehow?

#ask #anonymous #i have media for asks turned on #or you could dm me

[its-your-mind]

*deep breath in*

the fears 👏 have always 👏 been (in one way or another) 👏 parallel 👏 to 👏 desire 👏

let me explain.

so many of the statements given by actual avatars center around some sort of need that was met by their entity. Lots of them even had a positive relationship with the fear that drove them.

Jane Prentiss is an excellent example - the Corruption has always been about a form of toxic and possessive love, but she personally has a deep desire to be “fully consumed by what loves her,” and finds a perverse joy and relief at allowing herself to be a home

Jude Perry is another - she fucking loved watching people’s lives be utterly destroyed. The Desolation only offered her a power of destruction on a grander scale, and then gave her a more intense rush of joy as she did its work. When she tells Jon that he needs to feed the Eye before it feeds on him, it’s almost as an afterthought; she was happily feeding the Desolation long before it burned her into a new existence.

Simon Fairchild. Every time that old loose bag of bones wanders into the picture, he is having a fucking EXCELLENT time playing with the Vast. He loves showing people their own insignificance, and he loves luring them into situations where he can throw them into the void as he smiles and waves.

Peter Lukas (hell, the whole Lukas family (except Evan. RIP Evan.)) hated. people. all he wanted was for them all to go away, to leave him alone. The Lonely only fulfilled that desire.

Daisy, Trevor, and Julia, all devoted to hunting those things they deemed monstrous.

Melanie, holding tight to that bullet in her leg because on some level, she wanted it. It felt good, it felt right, it felt like it fit right alongside the anger and spite that drove her to success.

Annabelle Cane first encountered the Web when she was a child, running away from home in order to tug on her parents’ heartstrings in just the right way to have them wrapped around her little finger. Later on she volunteered to be the subject of an ESP study. Hell, she’s the one who dangled the “Is it really You that wants this?” question over Jon’s head in S4.

And that brings us to Jon, beloved Jarchivist, the Voice that Opened the Door. Ever since he was a child targeted by the Web, he was looking for answers. He joined the Magnus Institute’s Research Department looking for them, he stalked his coworkers in search for them, he broke into Gertrude’s flat and laptop out of desperation for them. And when he realized that all he had to do was Ask to get truthful answers to his questions? It was only natural for him to jump at that opportunity.

Elias told S3 Jon that he did want this, that he chose it, that at every crossroads he kept pushing onwards, and the inner turmoil that caused was one of the focal points for Jon’s character through the rest of the podcast.

There’s a certain line of thinking in many circles about the power of the Devil: he’s not able to create anything new. All he’s able to do is twist and warp that which was already present, making it something ugly and profane while still maintaining the facade of something desirable.

Jon didn’t choose the Eye. But he did wander into its realm of power, exhibiting exactly the qualities it was most capable of hijacking and warping to its own ends. Jon didn’t choose the Apocalypse. But Jonah picked at him little by little, pointing him towards each Fear individually. Jon didn’t want to release the Fears. But the Web tugged on his strings just so and laid a pretty trail for him to follow until he reached its desired conclusion.

Jon didn’t choose ultimate power, or omniscience, or even his own role as Head Archivist. But he said “yes” to the right (wrong?) orders and kept on pushing for the right (wrong?) answers. He wanted to succeed at the work he had been assigned. He wanted to protect his friends. He wanted to rescue them when they were lost. He wanted to prevent the apocalypse, to save the world. He wanted to know why he was still alive, when so many had died right in front of him.

The Great Wheel of Evil Color that is the Entities might not fit as neatly into categories in this universe - maybe there was no Robert Smirke trying to impose strict categories on emotional experiences, or maybe the ways they manifest in the world has turned on its head (goodness knows many of them have been showcased and blended in some very fun and new and horrifying ways so far) - but their fundamental foundations seem to be the same. Hell, in episode one we learned that there had been enough individual incidents to create a distinction between “dolls, watching” and “dolls, human skin.”

Smirke’s Fourteen isn’t going to be relevant as common parlance, RQ said that already, but I don’t think that means the Fears themselves (and their Dream Logic-based rules) are different - I think it means that the levels of understanding, language used, and personal connections among people “in the know” are going to be entirely unfamiliar

#tma #tmagp #the magnus protocol #tmagp meta #tmagp analysis #the entities #robert smirke #smirke's fourteen #mind write a meta post that doesn’t turn into a fucking essay challenge #I literally thought about citing my episode sources here but decided that would get too FUCKING long. #anyway I’m pulling mostly from Gerry’s statement (111) and #and the Big Elias Group Confrontation (92) #and Annabelle’s statement (147) #and then finale - 196 / 197 / 200 #there are other little lines that I grabbed - tbh feel free to ask about anything I’ve said bc I feel like I’m ready to defend a thesis #I’ve been thinking about this on and off for a few weeks since the desire thing started going around #I have an obsession with Themes as they relate to Worldbuilding and now I have subjected you all to it as well #I am serious tho if anyone wants me to pull the specific parts I’m talking about (whether cuz you have Questions or you wanna ref them too) #lmk #my hyperfocus on silly media brain might as well come in useful somehow #aight peace ✌️

[why-the-heck-not]

a productive all-nighter starts by making a clear to do list & getting to work spending an hour or so searching for the music that hits the vibe just right

#it’s important #for the morale #but I found a new band I rly rly like so it wasn’t time wasted (best thing for morale) #tho they have only 4 songs so far so can’t fill the whole night with just that #but it can fill The Void so it's a start #(love finding bands that are like somewhat new instead of my usual ''omg I love this band'' 'only to find out they disbanded years ago) #(after deleting other social media apps I've been spending way too long times browsing Spotify but at least it's bringing me joy) #(except why THE FUCK are they trying to bring short-form content there also?? I refuse that's the worst way to find music) #also don't ask me why I'm doing an all-nighter ik I do these way too often it's great (sarcasm) #i'm dumb and been too anxious the past days so haven't done shit and now am in deep trouble #but luckily for me the anxiety turned today to the ''I'll never sleep so time goes by slower''-mode #instead the usual ''will have billion naps as a form of escapism'' which sucks ass #april 2024 #2024

[bluebobatea]

if sasuke was the main character then he probably would've been a LOT more sympathised with than he is now (which is to say rarely). like the narrative wouldn't even need to change to show his pains or 'his side of the story', bc it does that plenty. it's just that he is not the main character. and idk what it is about our human minds but we tend to sympathise with main characters automatically (unless ofc you go off the rockers insane and do something like obliterate almost everyone from the planet *cough* eren yeager *cough*)

an instance that comes to my mind where this does happen is with lelouch from code geass. while i don't agree with his character motivations, people generally do sympathise with him as he is the mc and as viewers we know he isn't inherently evil. sasuke's goal towards the end is slightly similar but ofc people love to hate him so they don't even try to understand where he is coming from.

my point is, most people while engaging with the naruto story don't read between the lines and so don't see how traumatised and in pain sasuke is and hence don't understand his character motivations. heck, they don't understand a single bit about him and so they automatically hate him, as he is supposedly going against the main character's goals.

which is really sad given all that he has been through.

#there are bajillion other reasons people hate him for #honestly i have lost track of the stupid reasons i have seen people give for hating him #and sometimes they just do without any reason *not even exaggerating* unfortunately #im like yeah go on hate him. you guys obv don't have enough brain cells to comprehend his character #they never understood him. and it's not like any kind of reasoning is gonna make them change their minds #and it's not like one needs to do a deep character analysis to understand him. it's literally right there. #all you have to do is stop worshipping konoha and its militaristic policies and the people who enact said policies. #and also the people who enforce those policies while subtly hating them but can't do anything bc it's dictatorship :) #but maybe that's too much to ask of them bc that would mean they would need to question their political views #and we can't have that right bc it's all just fiction in the end right? and fiction exists in a void :) (yes I'm being sarcastic jc) #like the amt of times i have heard people say “you don't need to take this so seriously it's just fiction” #umm you do know that fiction is inspired by real life events right??? #tldr: most people throw away their brains while engaging with nart media and have zero reading comprehension skills #this turned into yet another rant T T why am i like this AAAAAAAAAAA #sasuke #uchiha sasuke #sasuke uchiha #pro sasuke #pro uchiha #anti konoha

[featherymainffins]

Me when the narrator is an external entity with its own motivations and agendas and the script it makes you follow is not the one you are confined to but be well aware that all folly has its limits and all relationships might sour

#the stanley parable #slay the princess #theres one more i can think of but i feel like itd look really comical next to these widely acknowledge bangers #like ah yes widely acclaimed game; widely praised beautifully drawn visual novel; and...a parody made by a guy on a whim #nonetheless funnily enough thats actually the one that i always think of in this context #like if you ask me for games where you have beef with the narrator youll get that and only after like 2 minutes will i remember tsp #oh if anyone knows more games like this or any other media like this feel free to drop names because i DIG this every time #nobody does it like this uuuh micro-trope #idk why i love it so much but i do. absolute banger. a hit every time. #what i also count as this is when there isnt a narrator per se but it turns out that the story is run by an actual script #like that there is a script the story is supposed to abide by but its literally just that. a script. its an external thing with no power. #because that implies the existence of some kind of author and a narrative and thats also a banger

[sparklecryptid]

I had no patience for people policing other peoples ships before i went to library tech school and library tech school has make me a little bit pissy about the entire thing actually.

#its 1:47am i am not going to rant about it #but Jesus Christ on a cracker i hate how censorship has become common and almost mainstream if it’s ’for the right reasons’ #fuck you and fuck your ‘right reasons’ #there is no reason to deny someone the ability to create or access material that you don’t agree with #‘but-‘ i do not careeee about your arguement it is my job as a library worker to provide ACCESS TO INFORMATION FOR EVERYONE #‘but it has siblings that kiss!’ DONT CARE. BOOKS DO NOT DICTATE MORALS. MOVE ON. #‘but it has (insert other thing)’ DONT CARE. THE PATRON ASKED FOR THIS BOOK. THEY ARE GETTING THE BOOK. NEXT #‘but but but THE CHILDREN’ THE CHILDREN NEED ACCESS TO INFORMATION JUST LIKE THE REST OF US. I AM NOT PARENTING YOUR CHILD. #IF CONTENT MAKES YOUR CHILD UNCOMFORTABLE BECOME THE PERSON THEY GO TO TO TALK TO IT ABOUT #OR TELL THEM THAT ITS OKAY TO CLOSE THE BOOK AND PUT IT AWAY #IT IS NOT MY JOB TO MAKE SURE YOUR CHILD IS FOLLOWING WHATEVER RULES YOU HAVE ON MEDIA CONSUMPTION AT YOUR HOUSE #MY JOB IS TO PROVIDE THE BOOK.DVD.THING. THEY WANT #YOUR CHILD NEEDS TO LEARN HOW TO CONSUME MEDIA CRITCIALLY AND THAT SOMETIMES THAT INCLUDES #READING THINGS THAT MAKE THEM UNCOMFORTABLE AND THEN HAVING A SAFE ADULT TO TALK TO IT ABOUT #AND NEWSFLASH: IF YOU ARE NOT SEEN AS SOMEONE SAFE TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH YOUR CHILD WILL GO ELSEWHERE OR JUST #NEVER TELL YOU WHAT THEY ARE CHECKING OUT #anyway. turns out i did go on a rant. whoops. #moose rants

[gaycrittercentral]

Please hit the griddy, man...

Im getting desperate.

Pretty please with a big ass cherry on top?

Ack how could I leave you hangin for so long!! Lemme just amend that real quick

Oh. Oh no that’s not ideal. Max cmon don’t let them down they asked so nicely :(

Oh shit he lied he knows how!!!

#my god I am so out of touch. I had to do research to figure out what the griddy was #it’s probably bc tumblr is my only social media and nobody I follow has posted it #but now I am enlightened! excellent #also sorry for the sort of deep fried quality hhhdgshsbs I didn’t have the best lighting and I kinda just had to roll with it #I literally have a bedside lamp turned sideways illuminating my sketchbook rn lmaooooo #sam and max #sam and max freelance police #my art #asks

[chaosandbeyond]

goodbye watcher i guess

#my posts #watcher #how did they think this was a good buisness decision is beyond me #i understand the need to grow as a company and have more money of course to continue to create #but like they have five shows that do well #why people will pay 6 dollars a month for five shows? #what about new fans that won't care once they know it is behind a paywall? #why did they not do a watcher survey before taking this decision? #like asking their fanbase if this was a good idea? #and hearing steven say that 6 dollars was affordable... lmao. in what world are you living in dude? #and they are media-savvy and pop culture savvy so they know that all these streamers #are turning into the new cable #and no one can afford it #so i just don't get what they did this. #honestly they either should cancelled it or lower the price at 1 or 2 dollars per month. #and even that like... yeah. #plus what about international viewers? fuck us i guess? #adieu ghost files adieu puppet history :( #it truly feels like the end of an era.

[dishsaop]

does anyone have recommendations for fictional media that has like. actual lesbians in it. not like supergirl Two White Skinny Girls, One Blonde and One Brunette Kiss media, or "its implied lesbianism!!!" but just regular fucking lesbians

#i say lesbians but i guess i mean sapphic #im just like. tired of gnawing #and of men also. sorry men in my life i love you but on god if i have to pretend one more man is butch just to get #content that isnt m/m or m/f im going to turn into a horse and run into the wilderness until im saved from the glue factory by a plucky #young woman except instead of letting her have her formative summer where she trains me and bonds w me and wins a competition w me #im going to commit horse suicide in front of her & change her life forever. just because im so tired of bland CW-marketable women kissing & #digging for scraps in a refuse bin while brushing aside 7002993829292929939292929399394 gay and het romances #m text #i will also take nonfictional lesbians if its like a story #not to be whiny on main but one of the hardest hurdles i had to jump wasnt realizing i was a lesbian. i came out to myself and to friends a #lesbian multiple times. but i would always walk it back when a friend would express doubt or a male friend would ask me out #bc i dont and especially then didnt know very many lesbians in person. and so i had to turn to examples #and all i fucking had were fictional women who liked men. or fictional lesbians who were so cleaned and sanitized and prettified #(you all know what i mean right. the 2 skinny white girls one blonde one brunette. im not crazy right) #and i would be like. i dont feel things when i look at these fictional lesbians so i guess i belong back here #(this is also bc my gender ended up being fuckier than i realized but shhhhh) #I WAS GOING SOMEWHERE WITH THESE TAGS but theyre too long and im lost. #anyway the point is if people werent so fucking weird abt fictional or onscreen lesbians maybe thered be a lot more people comfortable bein #out as lesbian #like sorry but this awful ouroboros of 'all lesbians onscreen have to be cute and sanitized' meaning that people write and believe wlw has #to be cute and pure and sanitized (OR a 'badge of honor' bc good for u u doodled two women together or had it as a background in ur fic) #meaning that therefore all portrayals of lesbianism continue to be like this. is just #and im also gonna be honest theres probably a lot of good sapphic media im just in the wrong circles to have stumbled into lol. so #yknow. personal viewer bias here #but i still like swing wildly between overly brandishing my dykeness as a badge to feel like im proving im lesbian #and like. backing up under a blanket bc i dont wanna be weird or annoying or freak people out #but if people just Saw Normal Ass Lesbians. aough. #im going to watch revolutionary girl utena one of these days even if i struggled w the writing style the first few episodes #I JUST WANNA SEE AN OLD BUTCH ONSCREEN GET SOME PUSSY. #like it also doesnt help im mostly femme4butch so seeing 2 femmes on screen is like. okay cool so what. but only femmes are 'marketable'

[lgbtlunaverse]

I'm not sure why my baby sister (who is 12 which means she's actually only 8) knowing things related to my hyperfixations that she's TOO YOUNG FOR perfectly in the age range to know about deals me so much psychic damage. But just when I thought i'd recovered from her watching bnha (it's FINE young teens are literally the target audience for shounen this is normal-) she looks at me today and goes "Hey. You ever heard of heaven's offical blessing?"

Me, having 50 different crises at the same time: uhh yeah i've read some other stuff by the same author. Why?

Her: oh no reason

Me: do NOT read mdzs do not do it you are a BABY and also if you do that I will die do NOT uhuh

Her: my classmate said books 1 and 3 are fine but 2 and 4 are super sad.

Me: oh interesting! gottagobye!

and then I ran to my room like a coward.

#i have thought my baby sister was 8 years old since she turned 10. before that she was 6 #this is how older sibling math works trust me #heaven's official blessing #tgcf #hey tgcf fans pls verify that for me. are books 2 and 4 like wayyy sadder than the others? #my baby sister and i's media taste ARE allowed to overlap! in media that i have never wanted to write fanfiction about #i love loads of art i do not display on my ao3. fandom is a very specific way of engaging with the source material to me #and ALL I ASK. IS THAT NO ONE IN MY REAL LIFE ESPECIALLY NOT SOMENE WAY YOUNGER THAN ME. KNOWS ABOUT THOSE SPECIFIC THINGS #i'm exaggerating if i want that i should start joining smaller fandoms but I JUST THINK-

[workingforitallthetime]

as everyone else gave boring predictable answers to the boring “what skill would you steal from someone in the nhl?” question (matthews’ shot/mcdavid’s speed BORING BORING BORING), leo carlsson said he would steal “lundqvist’s looks” and i just might be getting attached to this guy.

#i hate that the nhl’s efforts to be cool usually involved some unfunny hockey social media personalities asking players boring questions #if you want to grow the game let emily kaplan ask them about sandwiches #or sara civ ask them about taylor swift #or hell just turn the umich social media girlies loose at the combine with monday questions #let a fucking girl in the door for a change #anyway every time i see braden yager i think ‘oh what a nice face’ #non sequitur but he’s definitely in this video having a nice face #like a dylan cozens style nice face that just makes him seem like a real pleasant guy

[hufflpuffin]

i simply want Sam to survive season 1 and not turn into a villain is that too much to ask

#sam riordan #gen v #gen v spoilers #can at least one schizophrenic character in media have a good time and be part of the main crew and have friends and not be bad actually #i hear the death bells and i simply do not want this boy to die!!! #or be evil!!!! #but if rumors are true and hes in season 4 he could definitely be evil and im not down for that!!! #just give this boy a little happiness i beg #i know a happy ending is too much to ask for in the boys universe but AT LEAST let him survive season 1 and not turn into a villain #dont send him down the alt-supe pipeline!!!

[indigopoptart]

filled with so many URGES to show off my horror art

#for someone who is writing fluff stuff i sure do draw a lot of horror! #also #i have stamps chapters to upload #but i just cant #turns out a shit ton of ao3 volunteers are zionists #so im n o t gonna post stamps there until yk they fix that shit ! #again if ur a zionist FUCK OFF!!!! GO AWAY!!! RAHHHHH!!!!! #but fr tho before writing stamps i used to write gothic works! #my main one was a short-story book called The Restoration Project! #i may release it if people ask for it enough #mayhaps ill post an excerpt sometimes #im just a lil worried ppl wont like my stuff bc its not wh related #but then i remember i never made social media to be dedicated to just one thing #WH IS STILL MY SPINTEREST THO DONT WORRY #argh im so excited for the new update i love being on clowns kofi #DHDJDJF OK IM RAMBLING #peace sign #✌️ #indigo speaks #i think i may reupload stamps onto here #or another popular fanfic site #lmk what other sites there are that people use!

[disappearinginq]

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📚(if you don’t mind a second set of questions!)

🎃 Do you write fics for certain holidays? Which is your favorite holiday inspired fic?

That one's pretty easy, because I've only written one - Weather Outside is Frightful, for Hudson & Rex fandom, which isn't even technically a Christmas fic, it just happens to take place around then.

🎉 What leads you to consider a fic a success?

Hmmm. Good question....I think if I want to reread it? Even after writing it, and reading and editing for months (or years in some cases), if I want to go back and read it and I can just sit back and enjoy it like someone else wrote it for me instead of nitpicking or wishing I'd changed things, etc. I would consider that a success. I don't think I would count kudos or hits or reviews, just because those are so WILDLY dependent on external factors - the size of the fandom, the primary readership in the fandom, whether or not they're interactive, etc.

⌛ How long does it take you to write a fic, or a chapter?

HA! Anywhere from 20 minutes to 20 months. There is no standard, I wander in and out of fandoms so fast they might as well be revolving doors stuck on high. It also greatly depends on if I already know what's going to happen, or if someone spurs an idea in the reviews. My Groove, man.

📚 Would you ever want to turn writing into a career?

Maybe? I am working on a few original things, but I also do not have the grace to deal with fans of a large success. Nobody is going to tell me what I should or shouldn't have done, what my characters WOULD do or HOW they feel, and I would not be polite about it, which would get me the wrong kind of attention fast, because I don't have a polite way of telling people "well, that's because you're stupid". But I also am stupid fond of my characters and want them to live in at least ONE other person's head besides mine.

#asks answered #games we play #I could not be a famous anything #I would not have the patience #I would turn out like eminem #living strangely solitary only coming out to do battle with people #but with words #I also do not have the social bandwith to do all the social media for promotions and sales and whatever else writers are expected to do now #but I do love to write so there's that

[cranberrysoap]

*clears throat* excuse me, my boy over here is the literal manifestation of my fantasy whimsy and all that rainbow-shooting stuff including my down badness except applied to every gender ever haha if you wanna ask i also have asks open lol Anyways, i think your art is really cool :3

Nice job on the gender vampire

does that say ‘take your stuff’ LOL

hi! Thank you, glad you like my art! And mah boi! ^^

I enjoy your shoop da woop blast

#ask cran #idk how u posted an image when i have media turned off in asks tho lmao

[k1rishiki]

oh yeah. the reason why i decided to reread tbhk (and thus it was able to hit me like a truck this time around) was actually not bc of mitsukou going canon but actually bc i maybe accidentally started a tbhk book club w my kids at work and wanted to check the contents of it justttt in case before i put the books in their hands

#tl;dr i have this one 4th grade boy who's a total weeb and knows that i'm the only one in this town who's more into japanese media than him #so he pesters me abt it every time he sees me. and the thing abt this kid is that he gets bored easily and if he does he turns into a #complete menace. now a couple weeks ago. he shows up at the program w one piece volume one and spends the entire time he's there peacefully #reading and not causing any problems on purpose. my coworker owen (the one who climbed onto the roof) and i were shocked and in awe of how #peaceful he was being and came to the conclusion that he NEEDS to have a manga volume in his hands at all times. few minutes later. #he finishes reading and isn't bored yet so he decides to go talk to me abt manga. specifically he starts pestering me abt what shonen i've #read despite the fact that i am a shoujo reader and told him that. but he knows i've read kuroshitsuji bc he previously asked me abt what #the worst anime i've ever watched is and i will never not take an excuse to drag the adaptation. and he figures that if i've read kuro i've #probably read more. and so i mention tbhk and he asks more abt it bc of the name involving toilets and him being a 4th grade boy so i give #brief overview and he wants to read it. and i come up with a scheme to make him peaceful AND to give him something to talk to me abt which #isn't 'i know you've read more shonen manga' 'let me gacha on your phone' or 'i saw an ad for rent a gf. thought it was lame. and now want #you to tell me how it sucks bc i assume you know everything abt every animanga ever' (<does unfortunately know too much abt rent a gf bc i' #a bit of a nosy bastard and watched the mother's basement video). so i offered to bring it in bc i own physicals of the whole series and of #as previously mentioned. gave it a quick reread in advance just in case. and got hit by it. hard. i love you tbhk almost as much as i love #when ppl get into things through me. honestly i think getting to live vicariously through him might be one of the main reasons it got me #this time around and not as much the first time (still loved it the first time though). flash forward a little while. one of the 3rd grade #girls is like. really into reading. and also macabre things. like ghosts. and she has two books from the school library. and has had the #same two books from the school library for over a week. she reads quickly and finished them both in under a day and is now bored out of her #mind rereading them. she asks to read the books i've been letting the other kid read. now there are two of them #romeo.txt