#tl;dr warning

[godtier]

so i wasn't gonna make a separate post about this but @sapphire-weapon had a post (that i reblogged a few days ago) in which someone mentioned that they think it was a missed opportunity in RE6 for jake to not have spoken to wesker. i had a p long conversation with sirea about it and my thoughts about that sentiment, but it was also nearly 3 AM my time when that happened so i dunno if i was even articulating my thoughts properly lmao

and yes... this is technically a meta post and i know i said i was gonna do the mmx meta post first... but this one isn't gonna be nearly as long (i hope) and i gotta get the brainworms out before i die

(quick edit note: i reworded the list item below from saying he was "likely a drug addict" to "likely a recreational drug user" because i feel like that better encompasses what i'm trying to get across

(another edit note: i made another post regarding jake's usage of drugs that stemmed from this post! it's marked as mature bc of drug usage, so it won't show up in tag search. if you're interested in that, look here!)

so the idea that wesker being alive in OG RE6 would have brought an opportunity for jake's character is kinda, imo, antithetical to the purpose of jake's character in the first place.

when we meet jake, we know a few things about him, right off the bat:

he's a mercenary

he's likely a recreational drug user or at least heavy/risk-taking user

he doesn't give a fuck about anything but making money

his whole character journey is going from this selfish, money-focused dickhead to someone who actually cares about doing something good, just because it's the right thing to do. at the start, jake refuses to simply give his blood away when sherry mentions needing it for a vaccine. no, he wants a cash payout. 50 million dollery-doos for a pint of his blood. by the end, he lowers the price to a mere 50 dollars. one could argue that was symbolic and he actually didn't care if he was paid or not, but that's neither here nor there.

but why was he like this? because his childhood was shite; his mother was sickly, he had no father figure, and by 15-ish, jake had to learn how to hustle to keep food on the table. and by "hustle" i mean "do a bunch of mercenary work and killing people." and when shit went south with his little group of mercenaries (their entire group was sold out by a heel-turner), jake basically went "fuck alla y'all" and lost all sense of conviction or morals.

during the game, he expresses his bitterness for his father, wesker, pretty clearly. even though his mother still loved wesker, tried to raise jake to respect him despite never knowing him, it didn't matter to jake. he hated that guy. well, really, who doesn't?

we're not gonna talk about excella rn ok

jake's entire character arc is built up around this hatred as well as a subconscious fear of becoming his father. the fear part doesn't show up until later in the story, after he and sherry were captured by the Big Bad's organization. they were both experimented on for several months, during which jake overheard the researchers talking about his father, wesker. this gives jake a sort of "explanation" as to why he is the way he is; he takes the "nature" side of the nature vs nurture argument.

ofc sherry scolds his ass and basically tells him "grow up and take responsibility for your actions."

and here's the thing... this fear, narratively, works just fine without wesker being there.

(since this got obscenely long, pls continue below for the actual explanation lmao)

jake eventually comes to the conclusion that yeah no it's definitely up to him to not become wesker, not his genetics. he does this without wesker being there. that's the entire point of his character journey. in order for an interaction with wesker to even matter or have any sort of impact on jake's character arc, his character arc as a whole would need to change.

see, imo, wesker being there diminishes a lot of the power of that journey. in the game, he isn't there for jake to scream at, to question. all those thoughts in his head that might be circulating around, like why he left his mother, why he did what he did, etc, cannot be answered. this is not a bad thing in a character arc as this is shit that happens to people all the time. people don't always get the answers they may want from family members because those family members are dead. they have to learn to move on without those answers or they have to rely on people who knew that person to fill in the blanks. this is what jake already does in game. he has to rely on sherry, and by a smaller extent, chris, to fill in those blanks for him.

but we as players, observers of the narrative, already know the answers to some of those questions. why wesker did what he did, primarily. anything else is only pertinent to jake and him knowing those answers doesn't change anything for his character arc as it is.

if wesker was there in the game, what would that even add to jake's narrative? a scene where jake yells at his dad? asks him "why did you leave?" when wesker wasn't even aware that he had a kid in the first place? remember: wesker had no fucking idea that he had a child. there would be no reason for wesker to even believe jake in the first place. sure, there could be a scene where he goes "well i'll be damned, ig he really is my misfired chromosome," but... then what? what does that add?

you could argue that wesker could use jake, maybe try to manipulate him into doing shit for his plans, but... that wouldn't work with the way jake's characterization is mapped out. his entire characterization would have to change for this to work in a satisfying way.

jake already hates wesker without ever meeting him. he would not willingly participate in anything wesker offered to him. he already knows that wesker nearly destroyed the world multiple times and had a hand in destroying an entire city. even if jake has no moral compass at the start of the game, by the time he learns about what wesker really did, who he really was, he's already showing that he does have one, it was just dormant up until that point. he's clearly disgusted by what wesker did. what foothold would wesker have that wouldn't immediately result in it just falling flat?

given how wesker is, i could see him perhaps belittling jake, maybe saying "wow you suck for being my spawn," or something during a fight with the intent to rile him up. would that work? no, not narratively nor not in the way jake is characterized. again, jake doesn't want to be like wesker. why would insulting him and saying he's not "as good" as wesker expected him to be motivate jake or even anger him? it shouldn't, because jake doesn't want to be anything like wesker. if anything, it may annoy him, but that's kind of a lame reaction, right?

if anything, the most i could see culminating out of this would be jake standing over wesker after he's defeated again (because it's resident evil and obviously wesker can't win) and having a "wow idk what i was worried about" moment. that's it.

but he doesn't need that. having a scene like that cheapens the weight of him figuring that out himself, without wesker there as "proof."

because the point of his story, of his character arc, is that he figures that out on his own (and with the help of sherry and the events he witnesses) because he has to. he doesn't need wesker there to spoon-feed that to him. he figures that out by working with sherry, by seeing the effects of the C-Virus on everything that it infects. wesker being an abstract entity in his life is enough, because the frustration of not seeing him, not being able to put a bullet in his skull himself, fuels the rest of his journey.

this is where i think that people who make these observations or criticisms (primarily those who think that jake's character would have been improved if wesker was there) need to understand the difference between what's good for a character as a person and what's good for their arc.

interacting with wesker would be good for jake as a person, in that he would no longer need to wonder about it. the answers would be spelled out for him, and he wouldn't have to do any wondering about the what-if. he wouldn't have any doubts left that he'd need to untangle.

but in doing that, it cheapens his arc; it would do more of a disservice to it, imo, than anything else. it would make his journey more formulaic and boring.

it would also clutter up the already cluttered narrative of that game. you have him not only struggling with his heritage, struggling with the fear of becoming his father, struggling with needing to be the "savior" by giving his blood, struggling with his moral compass, but now also struggling with seeing his father for the first time in person?

it makes his arc top-heavy. in that scenario, you could easily replace him with another, completely new character who has zero ties to wesker and the story wouldn't change in any meaningful way. the reason why it works the way to does now is because wesker is already dead. it creates that internal conflict, that internal frustration, that jake has to learn how to deal with since he cannot take that frustration out on his father in-person. he has to make peace with that struggle in other ways.

now, that's not to say there aren't ways that adding wesker into the story of RE6 that don't disrupt that balance. primarily, when it comes to a potential RE6 remake, the writing team can (and hopefully will) rework aspects of the entire game to make the plot more streamlined. this could include adding wesker in and redoing jake's characterization and character arc entirely.

this would be the only way i could see it working out. if jake's entire motivation was changed, his entire backstory was tweaked, then wesker being around could probably work! an interaction between them could be made to make sense and not bog down the rest of the plot as a result.

sirea also mentioned to me in our conversation that adding wesker in to RE6 remake could actually help streamline the plot and i do agree with that. she mentioned that all of the main characters have a tie to wesker in some way, which is absolutely true. having him there would neatly tie their campaigns together in the plotline and make the game as a whole feel less disjointed and messy.

this is especially true when we consider there are 4 fuckin campaigns that all run alongside one another and intersect at random points. it gets so fucking difficult to page through and figure out when certain things happen in the plot. you'll see them happen in order in chris's campaign, for example, then you go start leon's campaign and have to start over again and try to remember what happened at the same time during chris's campaign and so on.

now imagine that not with just two campaigns but four. it gets gross quick. sure, there are parts where the characters run into each other and that helps ground a general timeline in your head, but as far as time elapsed... it's so fuckin hard u guise

there's a reason why it's so hard to summarize the plot of RE6. it's because there is just so much going on in that fucking game.

anyway, that's my rant/sort of meta analysis about why i think wesker didn't need to be in OG RE6 and probably would have made jake's entire arc stupider than it already was

#resident evil #resident evil 6 #jake muller #albert wesker #meta analysis #pls don't look at me i only write posts about characters no one cares about #stay tuned for my meta analysis on HUNK next #(may or may not be serious about that) #(also this post is the epitome of tl;dr) #(u been warned) #text post

[chamerionwrites]

Maybe I'm just terminally prone to hairsplitting but while most of those doing it seem to mean well, personally I often find it really troubling the way people use the language of consent to discuss labels and warnings on fiction

#i'm sorting out my thoughts here but tl;dr these things are not the same! #on warnings #my posts

[seeminglydark]

mil-liminal episode coming in a bit. its John's Episode, so for those who don't already know his backstory, and for those who do, i recommend a blankie, your fave plushie and a comfort snack, we're headed into the dark.

-rj

#sometimes humans are the horror story #but theres light at the end of the tunnel #dont forget that #mil liminal #the creaky arc #there were be a trigger warning and a tl;dr summary if you have to skip this one #just a pre-warning cuz this ones tough for me and im sure many of you #love you

[miodiodavinci]

POV you accidentally hooked your brain up to an overly complicated mushroom circuit and heard what you can physically only describe as a chorus and it legitimately altered the structure of your brain so much that your next logical step is simply to become a necromancer and start interviewing dead people

also you are scott

#miodoodledavinci #eyestrain #blood #quick content warning even though both are very mild w #but YEAH this is a quick photo collage + doodle i threw together back when i was first introducing scott to the group #to describe exactly what his deal was w #tl;dr: he cannot physically explain nor comprehend or even think about what he experienced without it quite literally damaging his brain #so he's decided to focus on interviewing folks from beyond the grave seeing as if they experience it #they won't need to worry about damaging any physical tissue trying to explain it w #it. hasn't worked Especially well so far because most people Also can only explain it as a chorus or a dark damp feeling if anything BUT #that won't stop this little creature of a man from trying w #anyway i love him mwah #the coolest emerald division

[cemeterything]

what was/were the scene(s) in Nope that made you nauseous? I'm somewhat squemish around gore, but I really want to see the film - I loved Get Out and I have yet to see an alien horror film that genuinely scared me so I was really excited for this one :o

spoilers for nope and discussion of horror under the cut

it's not really gory but i would argue it was far more unpleasant than any gore. there's this one scene that shows people getting eaten alive by the alien. like. it shows them in its digestive system screaming and being confronted with their inevitable slow, awful death. i'm very impressed that they actually went there, because it's fantastic horror, but even i who love fucked up nasty visceral shit in my horror movies was a little bit shocked by that. so. yeah. it's absolutely a movie worth watching and i recommend it to anyone who can handle it but know your limits.

#tl;dr if youre worried check out one of those trigger warning websites like doesthedogdie

[brookheimer]

do i post my long explanation of empathy vs sympathy re: roman tonight or is that just excessive

#like warning it is Long. will cut it down some bc i wrote it in a mad frenzy at 3 am in my notes app last night but still #tl;dr: roman is intensely empathetic and entirely devoid of sympathy. the seemingly contradictory displays of compassion vs disregard/ #cruelty are not contradictory at all and make complete sense if you understand the actual definitions of empathy and sympathy. i’d argue #that while rome’s capacity for empathy stands out in a show a #of people who are not prone to empathy his complete and total void of sympathy is much more unique in terms of humanity at large. it’s just #a show filled w cruel people so it’s less noticeable that the forms of cruelty he displays are rooted in empathy/lack of sympathy rather #than sympathy/lack of empathy like kendall and shiv (and just most people more generally) #sympathy is predicated upon difference distance and logical dissection of emotion while empathy is rooted in identification intimacy and #visceral experiences of emotion #you guys just literally do not know what these words mean. but that’s fine ! most people do not ! they are frequently confused and conflated #! that just doesn’t mean they SHOULD be. so . maybe i can help w that #also for further reading edmund burke is an absolutely fascinating figure to read esp his writings on british imperialism #although the term he uses is sympathy mehta & other later thinkers who have talked ab him have concluded that his cosmopolitanism of #sentiments/sympathy is much more like the modern definition of empathy (the words have shifted meaning slightly over the course of history) #or rather that the sentiment is empathy but the push to action is sympathy and combining together u get the cosmo. of sentiments #but basically burke is the founder of modern conservative thought basically. he is also the only british thinker who at the time of british #occupation of india actually spoke out against imperialism. this is because he viewed others not from a lens of sympathy/pity (feeling bad #for their plight) but empathy (identifying with their circumstances and placing himself within them) #love burke bc i find it so fascinating how someone i disagree with so frequently also holds a mindset that i value greatly and is anti- #imperialism despite everything else about him #kind of like rome in that sense. except rome’s sense of empathy is slightly broken because a) he doesn’t have any sympathy to supplement it #with and b) his visceral/emotion/gut instinct leading way of viewing the world + the way obscene wealth makes the rest of reality feel #fungible = inability to feel anything towards that which he does not identify #and unlike burke rome is too skewed by wealth and his upbringing to see resemblance in the masses and empathize w them #the other sibs function using sympathy and feel bad for the poor without having to relate to or understand them #but roman doesn’t do sympathy. he doesn’t feel FOR people he feels what people are feeling instead #but only so long as they’re seen as people. sympathy requires hierarchy so not viewing others as ppl v much allows for sympathy. #empathy requires some level of perceived horizontality so rome cannot empathize w that which is not horizontal to him #me: should i post this long thing? also me: posts another long thing in the tags that’s a long short summary of the much longer actual post #anyways. ahem. back to work

[someoneimsure]

I’m seeing a lot of modern comic book writers make the same big mistake, and it didn’t really occur to me just how detrimental that mistake was to the entire comic book run until I read Superboy 1994 Issue 85 (which, as you can imagine, does not make the mistake).

What’s worse is that I know exactly why modern writers are making the mistake and why they think the mistake “must” be made, and I want to caution all future writers from making the same mistake.

The mistake: Telling your entire character’s backstory or telling the audience too much information about your character on the first few pages.

It’s natural for DC, the business, to assume that reintroducing your characters is going to generate more readers and revenue, especially for long running series, but it only works if a) you are telling the readers information they do not already know and has never been revealed before, b) correcting information made in past issues, eg. retconning for the better, or c) revealing new information that puts old information in a new perspective.

However, what they don’t understand is that, if it doesn’t fall under those three categories, then it’s an example of bad storytelling. It’s called an infodump. And if the infodump starts at the beginning of a work, it’s because the writer is only using it as a means to prop up a character they don’t believe can otherwise stand on their own. Or to prop up a story, or prop up a world. It’s weak writing and comes from a place of insecurity.

For a really egregious example, let’s look at the first issue of Robin 2021:

It starts with everyone but Robin. And everyone is directly telling the audience who Robin is. It’s literally a ‘writer speaking through the characters’ sort of situation. It speaks from the inherit lack of confidence the writer and DC has for Robin V. He is literally prevented from standing on his own: everyone else in the narrative has to prop him up.

And what we do understand of the real Robin based purely on that very last two-page spread is that he, apparently, likes to fight for sport. The absolute worst introduction for any character even if it was by itself. It’s a clear indicator that this writer has no idea how to introduce audiences to this character.

Batman vs Robin has exactly the same problem. The fact that these are written by two separate writers and both are about the character of Damian Wayne just goes to show that no one at DC believes their audience could love Damian. Hence, the clunky introductions that span three pages.

For comparison, here’s the first two pages of Superboy 1994 Issue 0.

See how quickly the story jumps straight into the action? See how much it tells us about Superboy?

Another quick comparison, Superboy 1994 Issue 1.

No boxes. Just dialogue and immediately it’s straight into the story.

The first page of Superboy 1994 Issue 85.

Dialogue. Glorious, funny dialogue that tells you everything you need to know about these two characters and their relationship with each other. (Honestly, this is the best example here.)

All three of the above introductions tells us something fundamental about Superboy’s character: he’s a hero who wants to have fun. (That last example is so magical that it literally sucked me in, and I was just picking them at random.)

The mistake of rehashing these old stories stems, of course, from the reboot. Writers aren’t sure what’s canon so they have to reinvent the wheel in order to get audiences invested. And it doesn’t work because the originals were so much better. In other words, this writing choice is a direct result of basic business assumptions.

The assumption: Audiences don’t know who our characters are so we must tell them directly who our characters are--every chance we get. 

They are correct: we don’t know who these characters are. But we can figure out who they are from context clues throughout the story. However, this assumption is how DC writers went from jumping right into the story to 2-3 pages explaining backstory or characters, which is rapidly becoming my newfound metric for determining whether a comic book is good or bad. DC needs to understand: explaining them to us does not endear us to the characters.

Here’s a modern example of good storytelling in DC:

This is the very first page of Task Force Z Issue 1, and it throws you right in. If you know Man-Bat is supposed to be dead in universe, it hooks you. If you don’t, the mystery of why the creature is attacking this weird guy hooks you. It’s extremely good writing.

For comparison to yet another good (not great) modern introduction, see what happened to Damian in Robin: Son of Batman Issue 1.

It jumps straight into the story. (Arguably, not a great introduction either since this part of the story literally serves only to introduce Damian and his bond with Goliath--not the plot of the rest of the run. Damn, Damian’s just getting the shaft all over the place. He needs better comics. :/)

I want to make it clear that the writers who do bad introductions aren’t necessarily bad writers--they are uncomfortable writing characters they don’t understand. It’s insecurity about characters which leads to bad writing. Specifically, insecurity about how well the character is going to be received. It’s a lack of confidence in the final product.

No writer should worry too much about introducing the character. Just introduce us to the story. Why? Because it’s more interesting to see characters act in the here and now, in new stories, then it is to hear their life’s backstory or see the conclusion of another adventure before being thrust into an adventure that promises to be as boring and tired as the introduction. It is setting the run up for failure.

TL;DR: If a comic introduces the characters first, it’s a bad story. But if a comic introduces the main story first, it’s a good story.

#writing advice #writers #readers #warning for long post #writing analysis #my post #Robin 2021 #Superboy 1994 #Robin Son of Batman #Task Force Z #Robin vs Batman #tl;dr: if a comic introduces the character first its a bad story. but if a comic introduces the main story first its a great story. #i am always open to criticism <3 #dc analysis #my meta #my analysis

[butleroftoast]

When laying out his personal history, Morris has been described as realising he prefers the company of rats to humans. He'd probably describe it this way himself, if anybody ever prised a discussion on his background out of him.

It's not entirely untrue. He does prefer the rats to the noble families determined to eradicate the pests from their estates, and that is why he left for the druid circle. What he neglects to mention is his first conversation with a rat after learning Speak With Animals.

The rat - not part of the colony Morris lives with now, but a male who had escaped a poisoning incident in his own nest - told Morris about life in the city. He told him about the constant struggle for survival, never knowing whether a tempting piece of food would be deadly, about people's horror over their presence, how he'd seen a rat mother and her pups beaten to death with the flat end of a fire pan. Worse, he told Morris about the comfort of the nest and the day the ratcatchers found it. It was a story Morris was intimately familiar with, but not from the rat's point of view.

Some ratcatchers used terriers (young rats up for a fight, torn apart, through the stomach, head from legs, their blood and innards smeared across the dog's jaws). Some would send bolts of magic down the holes (a brilliant light, and then a pile of corpses, flattened and laminated against the wall). Some would lure the rats out with sweet-scented oils and foods, cage them, and then drown or burn them or, worse, keep them alive, to be used to cheat some other noble out of their coin, or to fight each other and the dogs in pits.

Then there was the poison, which was safer for property than magic and more thorough than trapping or dogs, despite the smell a week later. Often the cheapest option, the other added bonus was limiting the noble's interaction with a common ratcatcher, who could instead lay the poison and go, leaving the cleanup for the servants later.

Meanwhile, from the perspective of the rat: returning to the nest with a bounty of food, followed by a creeping sickness. Tainted food or starvation, no escape, bodies on bodies of sick rats squeezed together until there was no room to move, those who weren't poisoned suffocating on the hides of their dying family, and the smell. It's how they communicate, and how the rat told this tale, and therefore how Morris felt it: the overwhelming, sickening stench of fear and death clogging ever-diminishing air.

And that was him. He caused that. To humans it was pest control; to the rats it was a slaughter.

The rat communicates this story pretty matter-of-factly, merely recreating the sensations it experienced. There's not much room for deep emotional speculation in a rat's life. It haunted Morris, though, and he knew there would be no going back.

(Spending more time with the rats throws his priorities so out of alignment that he becomes unable to see it any other way than as committing mass murder, even though the rats never seem to care much about his past and readily acknowledge that rats kill rats in desperate times. It's only much later in his arc, when he's forced, painfully and reluctantly, to connect with actual people again, that he begins to accept he was a human doing a human thing and his subsequent reaction may have been slightly disproportionate. It did not require a lifetime of isolation and self-loathing. Maybe his response was more deeply rooted in his own mental health issues than he was prepared to admit.)

#minor gore/blood warning #minor horror warning #tl;dr: #anonymous rat rolled a nat 20 in persuasion and messed Morris up for life 👍 #druid pol morris #tozbarbarian

[catbountry]

Let’s Talk About Shipping Discourse and What it’s Been Doing to the Fandom... and to Me.

This is going to be weird for me, because I’ve never made any secret of having an interest in dark erotica on my Tumblr, but in recent months, I’ve felt the need to keep it on the down-low, because I do not trust the maturity level of the fandom for which I have been creating a ton of artwork. They scare me, quite frankly. Made me frightened. Being in a server full of people who viciously turned on an artist whose work I adored and scared them off for merely not blocking certain people online. And in the wake of the shit that went down in the Amphibia fandom on Twitter, (more archived links here) I feel like I can’t continue to stay silent on this. I don’t want to be bullied by children who shouldn’t be in these spaces in the first place, children I do not wish to interact with. I want to share my artwork I’ve been toiling away at for months and only showing on Discord.

Anybody who has followed my blog long enough might be aware of the novel I was working on that was put on hiatus, Our Fearsome Goddess, which hasn’t been updated in like four years. I got caught up in other projects. But OFG contained disturbing subject matter, including rape, imprisonment, sex slavery, snuff, sexual torture and gore. And I never got any backlash on it. In fact, I have a history of drawing disturbing porn, some for shits and giggles or shock value, others because they are genuine fantasies of mine. Being able to draw and write these scenarios in a fictional context, where they are words on a screen or lines on paper, is the safest way I can explore these interests; interests that would be unthinkable for me to do IRL. I hate seeing people get hurt.

But since December of last year I have been focusing such dark fantasies on a Tumblr Sexyman (I know, shut up) that attracts enough underage or emotionally underdeveloped fandom police that I have genuinely feared the backlash I would get for sharing these works publicly, especially after seeing a lynch mob form against an artist whose work I adore in a Discord server and seeing the sort of weird conservative groupthink set in. And I’m tired of hiding it.

For the past eight months, I have been drawing a series of comics that center around a toxic relationship with two Deltarune characters; Spamton G. Spamton and Kris Dreemur. I found myself drawn to it because much of the art felt like it spoke to me, as someone who was a teenager who was never attracted to boys my age, but rather men who had to be at least nearly a decade my senior. This is a part of my sexuality, as well as wanting to depict an AFAB character as being the aggressor, the dominant one, the one with complete control and manipulating the older man, because this was something I fantasized about even back in high school. Teenage girls having crushes on older men is a very common experience and every time I saw it depicted in film in a way that acknowledged that such a relationship was not feasible, or was one-sided, I felt as though I was being seen. Looking back on My Girl or watching The Professional as an adult and seeing myself in Vada and Mathilda... and yes, I am aware of the hell that The Professional put Natalie Portman through but seeing her as Mathilda, she was the one I projected onto. But there was also a side of me fascinated by brutality, guilt, abuse and co-dependency in a relationship. I was never comfortable with the idea of the woman in a relationship being abused. I was abused enough as a kid. Instead I wanted to feel a sense of power and control I never had, of sexual freedom I was denied by a mother who seemed disgusted at the idea of her hormone-addled daughter expressing an interest in sex, and instilled a deep sense of shame in me in regards to anything even related to sex. The comics I have been writing have been me exploring this abusive relationship dynamic between a young, female abuser and a very traumatized and emotionally beaten-down man desperate for any signs of affection at all. I’ve been sharing these comics with friends and they’ve been nothing but supportive of me, even the ones that aren’t even into this sort of thing, because they are able to look at is as art, as a story, rather than as an endorsement of the actions depicted in these comics. Look, I don’t want to spring what I’ve made onto people who don’t want to see it, and I am very aware that what I have made will make people uncomfortable. And they’re allowed to be uncomfortable! They have every right to be because I design the comics to be uncomfortable and brutal, same as I did with Our Fearsome Goddess. But the Deltarune fandom is full of young people who only seem to consume Marvel movies, children’s cartoons, babby games and YA novels where all the morals are spelled out and there’s little room for ambiguity or nuance. And what’s nuts is that in the 2000′s and even the early 2010′s, this content was allowed to exist without the fear of a bunch of minors trying to dox you, so long as you tagged it accordingly. Now, if you even so much as think about drawing porn of Jotaro from Part 3 of Jojo, there will be people jumping down your throat for sexualizing a minor... even though he looks like a 35 year-old man. I ain’t seen a single 17 year old in my life that looks like Jotaro. I would not post these comics here because Tumblr keeps removing my old porn still to this day. I’d probably post it to AO3 with plenty of warnings, or maybe even do a dump on 4chan’s /trash/ board. No fucking way would I put this shit on my Twitter. I have been using Kris as essentially an author surrogate for my most sadistic inclinations to a funny little puppet salesman from a video game with a wide teenage fanbase and it’s precisely because of the age of that fanbase skewing younger that I have been frightened to share this material. I saw what they did to PurelyGross on Twitter. It disgusted me.

If enough people are interested, I will put these comics up on AO3 behind a bajillion content warnings just so everybody knows what they’re getting into, rather than the more vague or non-existent warnings for my older fanfic where the audience tended to skew older. My view, and the view of a lot of fandom people my age and older, tends to be that exploring dark themes in fiction is fine, as some of the people who do a lot of sick twisted weirdo shit IRL usually didn’t have much of a creative outlet for it and decide instead it’d be fun and cool to try it for real. I absolutely do not want minors looking at my stuff, but I realize it would be inevitable, particularly if some Safe Twitter Adult decides to show my degenerate porn to a bunch of minors, which is a fucking crime, by the way, holy shit, how have these people not had a visit from the 4chan Party Van? Heh. “4chan Party Van.” That’s a throwback. Christ, I’m old.

Writing and drawing these comics has been therapeutic to me, in a weird way. As an author, I love indulging in putting characters I love through the worst scenarios possible just to see what happens. Kris has been written as being controlled by a vile red Soul, and the characters who find out about Kris’s treatment of Spamton are rightfully disgusted and want to help Spamton out of this abusive relationship. It’s essentially a hurt/comfort/hurt/comfort/hurt even more/okay here’s some comfort kind of fic. The last thing I need is some fucking 14 year old crying at me about how I hurt their comfort character and that I’m a freak or a pedophile when the underage character is not the one that I’m attracted to. Again, they’re the author surrogate. I can’t say why I’m like this but these comics have made me feel like a sexual being again after years of being on SSRIs that made me not even want to be touched. I recently had sex for the first time in over three years, because in those prior years, my libido had been pretty much shot. I didn’t like feeling that way because I didn’t use to feel that way. I felt broken. I didn’t even want to be touched in a way that was remotely sexual.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence, either, that I felt this sort of realization that this was a thing that I was into once I had distanced myself from Kiwi Farms, which from what I can tell, seems to have a bunch of TERFs and right-wing weirdos keeping track of people’s degeneracy for just... drawing cartoons. I posted multiple times on the forum that cartoonists are kind of perverts, and also that anybody who was just drawing weird shit but had zero evidence of them grooming kids was probably not a threat, who fucking cares. A lot of cartoonists and animators at least seem fairly harmless. Others, not so much (fuck you, John K., I can’t believe I ever admired your scumbag ass). I notice a lot of these fandom police are either young or they’re adults who hang around a lot of minors. When an artist got doxed and had to flee her home to avoid potentially getting beaten or killed by her deeply conservative Muslim family over ship art she drew, a bunch of goddamn children were cheering about it. The instigator tried to publicly distance themselves from starting it, only to gloat about it in a Twitter voice group, (backup here). I felt sick to my stomach. This is ghoulish behavior, and I can’t help but feel this is the result of a combination of mean girl shit, ship wars, Twitter’s constant feedback loop of self-righteous indignation, and a diet of only the most corporate, sanitized media possible. In some ways, I kind of understand it, since it seems that when I talk to fandom people under a certain age (about 24-23, usually), they’ve had some experience with being groomed online. I’m 35 and somehow managed to avoid this, as I would often nope out of this kind of thing immediately as a teenager. The internet empowered me to do something I had a lot of trouble doing in real life, and that is telling people when I am uncomfortable. It’s still extremely hard to do IRL but I have made a lot of progress since then. I know a lot of people were groomed using rule 34, but really, you can use regular porn or just pure hero worship if you’re an influencer to groom kids. It seems too similar to the media blaming acts of violence on video games or movies; the fault lies with the perpetrator of those crimes, not with the media that “inspired” them. The Beatles are not responsible for the Manson family murders and J.D. Salinger isn’t responsible for the assassination of John Lennon. I also am aware of multiple people who are a danger to children online who are still active and ain’t none of these kids trying to go after them. I once offered up info on a self-admitted pedophile rapist to someone who claimed they wanted to kill all pedos with a baseball bat, but they immediately chickened out, said that the state I gave out was too far away, blocked me and called me a pedo-enabler. These people don’t actually give a shit about protecting kids, they just want to bully women. And like, it’s almost entirely women and LGBT people that are targeted, people who are already made to feel ashamed and dirty over any sort of perceived sexual deviancy. We literally have Texas republicans ranting and raving about the graphic novel Genderqueer for being “literal pornography” when it’s autobiographical and said “pornography” is rendered in such a way that it’d hardly be arousing to anybody. Do these kids realize they sound exactly the same as these conservatives trying to ban books with gay people in them? With depictions of growing up as a queer youth in them? I don’t think they do.

It’s insane to see both supposedly leftist teens and old conservative cranks both rant about groomers in entirely different contexts. To the queer kids that perpetuate this, know this: those conservatives want you to stop existing because they see you the exact same way they see people like me; as disgusting freaks. Degenerates. The downfall of western society. I feel like these kids heads might explode if they watched a John Waters movie that wasn’t Hairspray. (Sidenote: I briefly met John Waters at a book signing earlier this year. He adored my “I FUCK ON THE FIRST DATE” shirt and told me an anecdote about how this was a thing Hollywood producers would say back in the day to indicate that they were eager to sign deals with new talent. I treasure this man. He is a true queer icon and a huge inspiration to me.) So please. Read a banned book. Watch video nasties and controversial films. Listen to albums by bands talking about some weird, fucked-up shit. Expand your reference pool. Watch a show written for grown-ups where the characters aren’t split into good guys and bad guys. Superhero stuff is fun, or at least it used to be. Now I feel like I can’t enjoy it because it’s inadvertently taken out the sexuality out of mainstream film and dumbed everything down and made things all quippy and self-aware. A mind cannot sustain itself on popcorn CGI fests and soft uwu fluff alone. I will continue to draw my comics because it’s reawakened my floundering creative drive and it created an outlet for my sick pervert fantasies. For a while I was putting out a new page every single day. That’s slowed down considerably but I haven’t felt this creative fire in my veins since my early days of writing TF2 fanfic for TF2chan.

Also, consider supporting the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a very pro-LGBTQ organization that helps fight censorship against comic books. I don’t think they’ve expanded into the world of fanworks yet, but AO3 certainly has. They even have a symposium on the “anti” fandom phenomenon. I highly suggest you read it.

I want to make it so that the idea of doxing someone over art on private or clearly marked as adult Twitter accounts is seen as abhorrent. I want people to express themselves and channel their inner turmoil and traumas in a way that they can reclaim it and reshape it. Doing so is quite common for victims of trauma or sexual abuse. But most of all, I don’t want kids on Twitter and social media because they cannot handle it, it is more dangerous than it ever was when I was a teen during the “wild west” days of the internet, and holy shit I cannot imagine just how fucked up these ideas are and planting them in the minds of impressionable young people is so fucking damaging and is going to result in the same kind of guilt and shame I had to deal with from my Catholic upbringing that made me such a weird sex pervert in the first place.

And I would never wish that kind of pain on anyone.

Also I swear to god if one of you fuckers bring up Jaws as the reason why shark-culling is a thing, 1) you’re a moron if you think a bunch of people harvesting fins for shark fin soup did it because of an American blockbuster, and 2) Jaws was based on a real life series of freak shark attacks by the same shark in the summer of 1916. Fiction may affect reality, but reality affects fiction a lot more and looking at the multiple horror movie characters inspired by Ed Gein alone should tell you as much.

#tl;dr #discourse #general content warning #not fan fiction

[mudstoneabyss]

begging youtubers. if you show content warnings on screen say them all aloud too not just "cw for these things". also if you're doing captions put what you actually say not an abridged version

#joyousposting #people who cant see the video deserve to have the warnings too #and captions are not tl;drs

[iampikachuhearmeroar]

tumblr "deep friendship advice quotes" thoughts, 10 years later:

y'know i oft go all the way back in my draft posts, where i saved some of the popular deep ~friendship advice quotes~ back in the day (well, more like copied and pasted them, so that i coud use them on fb at a later date). but maybe. hm. maybe all those "don't chase people. let people come to you" or whatever the fuck posts i saved at like 18 to 22, mostly.... and actually did post on fb at some points in time, when i was younger.... really did ruin my self-esteem and ability to make friends or date people when i was younger.

yeah. they are good quotes, don't get me wrong. but like. they're made for a slightly older audience, really. like people in their late 20s- ie like me right now actually lmao. who have a bit more self assurance (although this is the internet. so maybe not. who knows) and judgement skills. as opposed to a lonely 18-22 year old who got caught up in the memes around fuckbois and losing friends at the speed of light in their 20s.... so, then you might as well cut out all strangers anyway. bc apparently everyone is "wasting your time" if they don't come to you, and you "don't wait up for those around you" and whatever utter bullshit i've got saved there in my drafts.

i get that some of the sentiment is that "you're marching to your own drum" and shit like that, that i ALWAYS got when i was in high school.... and posts in my early 20s on fb..... when someone would do one of those dumb asf "like and i'll tell you what what i like about you" statuses in like 2016..... so people would remember that they existed. but on the other hand, trying to cut out everyone for the weird stance that they're "wasting your time" and "NEVER chase people. wait for them to come back to you. those who care will always come back. they're the real people to fuck with. they give you the real universe vibrations" or w/e the fuck.... really did make me friendless in my 20s.

the above probably made my anxiety about having barely any friends, other than my primary school besties, and a couple of high school besites from public school, that i still talked to semi regularly.... worse... all bc i was also obsessed with the "keep your circle small. they're the ones who care deeply about you and give the energy when needed" or whatever the fuck. how the fuck will i know how to keep my circle small????? when like, yeah i've kept those 5 friends... which is cool... but when they're not available (i obvs give them space lol) or they move away etc.... who the fuck else do i turn to, when i believe EVERYONE ELSE is wasting my time... all bc they NEVER talk to me????

obvs people did try to talk to me in a way, when i wished them happy birthday, or when they seldom wished me happy birthday on fb.... but i always left those conversations at that precursory "how are things? i hope you're doing well!" from them, and a like on their post. bc it'd been so long since i'd talked to those people (say some of the girls from catholic school drama class in like 2017 bc i'd run into them at uni once or twice or while they were at work once.... or even Rich Boy™️ from the same school in like 2016- i hadnt spoken to him in 3 years, and it felt weird. like what the fuck do i say??)... but since they only did that nicety of wishing me happy birthday or vice versa that one year, i never bothered inboxing them bc.... again. they're wasting my time and they're "fair weather friends" bc they don't talk to me except once every 3 years or whatever.

"CUT THEM OUT bc the universe says they're not for you. they give you the LOW VIBRATIONS in your spirit" those posts advise. like honestly. i couldn't keep up with those people from catholic school anyway. bc they're the ones who bought houses in their 20s and some of them do expensive ski trips to europe or japan or america or canada (or do our summer abroad in the peak snow season in those countries working at the snow fields); or just generally here in winter in australia. i can't afford that. one of them proposed to their partner in fucking fiji. i could NEVER afford that, if that were me. or lived abroad for a year and a half in thailand and vietnam bc of their family's charity. something, again, that i COULD NEVER AFFORD. but again. i digress. but according to these posts, i cut them out (partially) bc the universe said that they're not for me, so therefore they're a waste of my time. and that also means that i shouldn't chase them or hit them up, ever. bc what if i end up chasing them anyway???? like yeah. it HAD NOTHING TO DO with the so-called "low vibrations in spirit" that those dumb posts espouse.

not only did this make me friendless, it made me unable to learn the lessons of shitty friendships in my 20s. all bc i believed everyone was either secretly, or VERY OBVIOUSLY wasting my time.... but how was i to know that.... when i never befriended jessica or dean or bella and hayden from my uni classes?? and ok, some of it did actually come from my shitty group at uni, who couldn't fathom why i picked philosophy over history and shit like that. but the thing was, i was so desperate to have any (semblance of) friends.... that i clung to that group out of sheer mortification, terror, and anxiety. despite that, i barely ever ended up in the same classes with them.

however, the girl who fashioned herself as the leader, always seemed to tell me that "you are too highly strung for law" whenever i expressed interest in doing law 101. she would openly mock my handwriting as "looking like a 5 year old's" whenever she could (including when i signed up for her history and archaeology club ans she manned the booth for it, and told me VERY DELIBERATELY to "pLeAsE pRiNt nEatLy *insert my name here*- turning to the guy next to her- see jordan, i told you she writes like a toddler")..... like this group was VERY obviously wasting my time.

but i didnt care, just as long as i had someone to eat thai food with every once in while. as long as i could turn up to engl336 social justice in kids lit, and sit with them and have my very seldom coordinated tute with them too. all despite *alex* (not her real name) constantly speaking to me like my year 7 (2008) geography and year 9 (2010) commerce teacher from catholic school, who would do this shit in front of the 25 kids of both those classes, who i L O A T H E D (and still do to this day tbh. the same guy also fyi.). but i didn't care, as long as i could have a subway and share a cookie with her once a week. uni is hell. and we're in it..... together??? i guess???

but yeah. my point is that, observing my saved copied and pasted drafts of all those typical like "friendship advice" quotes of "don't chase people. let people come to you" or "keep your circle small. they're the ones who care deeply about you and give the energy when needed" et al.... and all the sentiments and memes about people "wasting your time", really fucked up my social skills and friend making skills in my late teens and early 20s. bc they kinda almost gave me a reason to brush off EVERY interaction with other people- be it dating to just making friends or trying to keep old friend ties around (which i didn't/couldn't really do) as "time wasting" and "low vibrations of the universe" and whatever other fucking garbage.

i think younger gen z and the generations after them, need to be wary of this advice when they're young. because it's aimed at older people. who probably have better social skills and thinking skills etc, to ACTUALLY weed out people who waste time and energy... rather than an 18 to 22 year old who is just starting out in life... who is so paranoid about being friendless and single (relationships wise).... that they, in turn, make themselves these two things anyway..... bc for some reason they're also conversely terrified that everyone is either secretly or very obviously wasting their time......

when honey. you're wasting your own goddamned motherfucking time worrying about "they give me low spiritual and universal vibrations. so snippity-snip ✂️" (when like. what the actual FUCK does this even mean, for goddamned starters???) for some fucking reason... also, "not chasing people" and having such a minute circle of friends, that like.... when EVERYTHING goes to shit (ie 2020 pandemic and ALSO my health troubles in late 2020 and 2021), and they're suddenly NOT there or CAN'T be there, who else do you have to turn to (not counting family)???? or in general, if you need to to vent about someone you know, who else do you have when you're buried so deep the mindset about "never chase people, let them come to you" and again, the spiritual vibration tribe bullshit???

these posts are made for people in their late 20s and 30s. not your late teens and early to mid 20s, when you're actually meant to learn this shit. you're wasting your time talking about "the vibrations of the universe" whatever the fuck that means. you're not manifesting any-fucking-thing. get the fuck out of the house (maybe drop the hash brownies or shrooms too, every once in a while, if that's your thing) and ACTUALLY TALK TO PEOPLE. maybe message people from old groups or something, and see if they wanna hang or get a coffee or something. don't cut SO MANY people out of your life so swiftly because the memes say "wait for your tribe and high solar plexus and third eye vibrations for your complex mercury retrograde libra in the 10th house scorpio self"... maybe learn to chase people (and then don't); so you learn from your mistakes.

don't waste away on the depths of the internet- ranging from twitter (oh wait. sorry. X) to discord groups or reddit to this here hellsite. go and experience life, instead of letting your lack of social skills rot your brain away because you, "don't cut ties" instantly bc someone is "wasting your time".... bc again it bleeds into those small talk memes asking someone's fave coffee and you haven't instantly bypassed into "deep conversations about wasted opportunities and vibes with my fave 5 high spirit tribe girlies".

because the only way you'll find those people, is by actually talking to people and teaching yourself the lesson. that, for example, ben is wasting your time bc he never follows through on shit. or he was an absolute bum in your relationship.... bc he used all your money for weed and refused to pay rent bc apparently his NFTs count as rent. that francine is an absolute cow, bc she thinks it's great that she CAN NEVER let people have their say and settle in an argument bc of *insert excuse here*.... or that she's one only person in the world that has EVER SUFFERED EVER legitimately. and this is why it's healthier to cut both of these people out of your life, if you can't reach a compromise.

anyway, my point is, instead of desperately trying to "will into existence/manifest your tribe of high spiritual people" from shrooms_and_liquor_wisdom_thoughts-xoxo-761 or "shower thoughts" or "high vibe society" and whatever dumb asf title pages/groups/chatrooms on any of these sites.... that you'll magically have this fictional tribe of "high vibe people" by ironically NEVER interacting with people and having to learn life lessons the hard way, by ACTUALLY experiencing them.... you've got to literally go out and practice this shit..

younger generations need to learn that most of these sentiment posts are for an older audience.... not a teenager or early 20 something WHO NEEDS to learn these lessons.... but they use them as an excuse not to. go learn to chase people from time to time, even if it is a bad idea. you're young enough to do that shit. you are not wasting time learning these lessons. take it form me, from someone who took them too literally and was proud that she only spoke to 5 people. now im in my late 20s.... and am nearly 30, i realise what a fucked up error this was. (also, i don't condone purposely throwing yourself into unhealthy or toxic relationships or situations, just for the sake of learning these lessons, btw.... but that's a whole other post).

#life #about me #shut up ilona #ilona tries to give advice #warning: it's hella tl;dr #fun fact: this took me 2 hours to write lol

[autistichedgehogs]

hello all! i apologise for the inactivity--i was having a lot of medical (and dissociative) issues in my off-screen life. hopefully i can be around a bit more :)

#jas.txt #i'm about to dive into some asks #tl;dr for the next bit: i am not filled with mold. i am in love. my jaw is sore. i am busy /lh #warning for medical stuff btw -> #i did not get mold sickness #for those of you invested in my irl rambles in my notes: we got the laundry machine--a WORKING ONE--today #uhhh doctors appointments are happening. like #a lot of doctors appointments #my (in sys) partner and i got married ! fuck yeah!!!! #i survived my wisdom tooth removal. and THEN i survived a delayed infection at the tooth removal site #i think that's it lol #not sonic

[egoarc4de]

purging this thought so i can actually get some shut eye

#spoilers like of course but SPOILERS #SPOILERS AHEAD #i warned you #anyways. #so glad chuck never lived to see what became of howard . #i thought that gruesome thought and then fell down a hole of Thoughts #and then i just kept thinking. #i have been thinking abt all the dead collected throughout brbabcs... pondering it a bit thirteen ghosts style #but then it got less goofy and fun in my brain ....... #less thirteen ghosts more la jetee #not to be incredibly 2016 but erm .... #anyone else listening to music being like oh this is so [insert character etc] #ive been making so many playlists i cant get iver this shit #the GRIEF!!!!! #how do you fill two shows with so much grief ... esp impressive considering that's not even like... the thesis? #like ofc flanaganverse is filled with grief of course otgw is filled with grief #ok i cant think of that many shows LOL i dont normally watch shows #im going off on a tangent im going to stop #TL;DR im feeling emotions #oh barry too but like. same hat #can the narrative stop being so poignant!!!!!!!! i have to be a normal human being at least 12 hrs a day!!!

[knighteclipsed]

𝐈𝐍 𝐁𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄  [ … ]   𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄,

bold what applies - italicise sometimes. repost, don’t reblog.

fights honorably / fights dirty

prefers close-quarters / prefers range

chats during / goes silent

low pain tolerance / high pain tolerance

attacks in bursts / attacks steadily

goes for the kill / aims to disarm / fights defensively / strikes first

is provoked easily / provokes their opponent / teases

gets visibly frustrated / shouts while attacking

uses strategy / focuses on the battle / experiences conflicting thoughts during battle

rushes in recklessly / tries to read their opponent before engaging

fights wildly / fights calmly / fights apathetically / fights with anger / fights with excitement

fights because they have to / fights because they want to

fights without regard to wounds / runs away when wounded / hides wounds / takes a blow to protect another

prefers a blade / prefers a gun (modern) / prefers hand-to-hand combat / prefers a bow / prefers a shield (flier momence) / prefers a personalized weapon / prefers magic alchemy or spells

their greatest weakness is physical / their greatest weakness is mental / their greatest weakness is emotional

transforms for battle / fights as they appear

relies on strength / doubts their strength / relies on speed

uses everything they have / proceeds with caution / hides their full potential

exhausts quickly / has high stamina

behaves arrogantly / brags after landing a hit / belittles their abilities

uses psychological tactics / uses brute strength

avoids civilians / strikes down civilians (canonically part of the reason he got exiled lol)

damages surroundings / avoids damaging surroundings

signature fighting style / makes it up as they go

mastered skill set / learning their skill set (i mean magic here)

fancy footwork / sloppy footwork

messy fighter / elegant fighter

accepts defeat / refuses defeat / begs for mercy

compliments their opponent / insults their opponent

uses unnecessary movements / moves efficiently / barely moves

prefers to dodge / prefers to block

defends their blindside / has no blindside / leaves blindsides vulnerable

uses all available advantages / strictly uses one main method

plays around / holds back / fights ruthlessly / shows mercy

waits for an opponent to be ready / strikes when opponent isn’t ready

fears death / fears pain / fears killing

has ptsd / avoids fighting

has lost a fight / has won a fight

has killed / refuses to kill

wants to die standing / would succumb slowly

#[ ‘by my cursed lance!’ ] (ooc) #[ ‘i am far from sated.’ ] (meta content) #// ignore the fact that i changed all the spellings to the american spellings #// autocorrect was throwing a fit :weary: #// anyways to elaborate the first point: #// even tho he's like. a Problem #// it's not like he's ever used any under-handed tactics or attacked someone (lethally) without warning (minus those civilians probably) #// like. even in the chapter where he kills [fe8 spoilers] he still says 'you're gonna die lol' first #// so. i mean there's a Bit of honor to that #// but also i think he'll do whatever it takes to win if things start going sour so sjfkngsfjgs #// anyways shout-out to mercie bc yes. valter is just here for the blood :P #// (lines where one is bolded and one is italicized can generally be understood as [bolded: default; italics: for 'special' opponents] #// with a bit more nuance but ykyk) #// tl;dr - he's an arrogant bastard who only Sometimes respects his opponents #// ignore the fact that i edited the post to have an image i felt left out okay :oldplead:

[mister13eyond]

twitter is being twitter and i should probably say this here, too, just so it's all clearly stated!

while this account, by way of Being On Tumblr, won't ever have any explicit nsfw on it, i do sometimes discuss adult themes, sexual content, dark or triggering fictional topics or ships that would be unhealthy or harmful in real life. i highly encourage blocking or unfollowing me for people who are uncomfortable with that; i never check followers and i will never ever retaliate against being blocked. i also don't mind tagging any content anyone needs tagged.

i am explicitly in favor of curating your own space and am happy to accomodate that; i like being transparent about my interests and fictional taboos i am interested in exploring not out of defiance or an attempt to drum up conflict but because I really want to make sure people have the chance to make a judgement call and curate their dash accordingly. i do not under any circumstances encourage harassment, verbal abuse, conflict-seeking or bullying behavior. if i see that you think it's okay to harass people because of the wholly fictional things they create or engage with, i will block you and i encourage you to block me as well.

i'm not here to police anyone or anything! i am not here for conflict, for debates or for exposing anyone who doesn't want to see any of my interests to them against their will. i just want to vibe in my corner and i highly highly support enforcing your boundaries as needed, even when those boundaries mean blocking me.

#time is a flat circle also #my time in the jojo fandom began with the tumblr jojo blocklist and here it is again with the jojo blocklist #anyways tl;dr im just vibing and doing my thing i just wanna make sure everyone knows #sometimes shit might get A Bit Fucky And/Or Fucked Up #and now y'all have warning so you can decide accordingly

[xwhitenoise]

So I’ve started on Neverafter, right, and despite being sort of a baby when it comes to more grotesque horror elements I’m enjoying it so far

but some of the content warnings are for things that are... honestly really trivial and would not have warranted timestamped warnings in any other season, and I feel like they make the idea of content warnings themselves seem kind of frivolous and silly overall. Which is. The opposite of what they should be doing.

#dimension 20 #neverafter #in particular i'm talking about the bit in ep 2 with the mice #like this is literally just a standard fairytale thing that a child wouldn't bat an eye at #'forced transformation' uhhhhh ok #also i don't think the timestamp approach makes any sense for this #timestamps are good for horror that centers around jumpscares and whatnot #and idk maybe unpleasant sounds #but when it comes to troubling concepts... yeah idk. a laundry list of overall warnings for each ep makes more sense imo #i ALSO think it's not good for them to have put the photosensitivity warnings with the rest of it #because people who haven't gone out of their way to look at the description won't know that those are there #(also it would've been easy to just not include things that require photosensitivity warnings) #(this is largely an audio medium. visual effects add nothing to it.) #(those of us who watch it in video form are not in it for any sort of sophisticated editing lol) #tl;dr the production team really dropped the ball imo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯