Penis: Where Are You Going.

Man, the longer I spend in this fandom, the more uncomfortable I get with asking-for-boundaries culture. I was just rotating that last night and trying to figure out why people popping up in TTS makes me want to snatch my headphones off my ears and enter a monastery and never go on the internet again, and I think I identified part of it?

Part of why I get so uncomfortable, I think, is that it gives the impression that the creator is responsible for what the fandom creates? They’re the arbitrator of the fandom now. Like anything they don’t specifically call out is definitely okay to do and show on main, and anything they do say is okay is definitely okay to show them, instead of there being a creator-fandom divide, and people being able to think for themselves about things and going “okay, this fic involves a creator being tortured to the point of a psychological break, maybe that one is for the fandom and don’t show it to the creator”. People asking creators (who let me remind you are frequently not old enough to drink in the states and often barely old enough to vote) to weigh in on esotera instead of thinking for themselves about what is and isn’t for public consumption. 

And like in a particularly painful stream of my memory, Tubbo was being asked questions where he’d be a jerk if he said no (asking about fictives and people with delusions that they were him, so stuff outside of their control), so of course he said yes that was within his boundaries— but how pressured into that might he feel and how actually comfortable is he with that? No idea!? But people think it’s okay to show it to him now cause it’s “within his boundaries”. Or a different time people were asking questions with clear intent to trap him/get him to say that things weren’t okay (people tattling on cuddling art on twitter), and while he said that he was okay with anything that wasn’t NSFW, the person was clearly looking for a clip to use to tell people to stop, hoping that he’d be uncomfortable, and like. AHHHH. 

Like a, how is that actually respectful to the creator? And related to the “why are you bringing this to their attention they don’t need to know,” is it actually any of the creator’s business if someone’s writing agre vent fic for an audience of fifty subs on Ao3? Like just think for yourself about if that’s okay or not and if you come down on yes, tag it so that people don’t have to see it if they don’t want to, that seems to be FAR more sane than showing up in TTS asking someone who plays video games for a living how they feel about kidfic or gore art. 

AND that’s not even getting into the issue of people asking creators to weigh in on stuff they have no idea about— half these creators are moving in such different online circles that they still think Harry Potter is pog, why do you think they’re going to have a nuanced take on pronoun discourse or trans hcs or QPPs? 

Anyways AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH TTS is of the devil and we need to stop asking creators to cross over the fandom-creator boundary. 

If the earth was completely and perfectly spherical with a uniform Ocean depth how deep would that Ocean be if the earth still had the same amount of rock and water?

Nyavatar

猫の日　22/2/20

15 years!!

There are scortch marks where the kids used to be

When you go home everything looks different, 

and you’re scared of being left behind. x

Bookmark fics on AO3

It let's you find them again way easier, as unlike your history or subscription list you can filter them for certain tags and read the summary. People will also check out your bookmarks to see what fics you like (I know I do)

A few of these are probably referring to the date posting bug thing, but AAAAAAAAAAAH!

Everyday I hope a bridge falls on Constantine

I do see people talk about Constantine one-sided beef with 12 year old Vertin (and the proxy war against Manus that it represented) but god the Mesmer scenes fucking get me. Mesmer was willing to rebel against the foundation—she sings with Vertin! She wants to know more about the outside world!

And then Constantine say you want to know about the world? Fine. And she makes Mesmer play Doctor against the most vulnerable and unstable of people the foundation has. Here, Constantine says. This is what the outside world is like. This is the truth. And then immediately afterwards multiple of her classmates die trying to leave during the storm. It’s a statement of “Don’t step out of line, or you will die.” It’s the conditioning of expects at the St. Pavlov’s Foundation.

Make no mistake though Constantine only did this because she saw Mesmer Jr as a useful tool—if she wasn’t part of the Mesmer family, she probably would’ve have died as well. So basically she inflicted immense trauma onto a 12 year old because she sees said 12 year old as an asset.

And I think three doors basically emphasizes that this is not an uncommon occurrences for the Mesmers, both in and outside the family. They are only truly valued by what they provide to the world, and not as people. Scott Mesmer is thrown away and discarded until his death, and then all of his “value” is scraped up as a way to appeal to society’s good graces.

Anyways. Mesmer lore makes me go oughh

Gabriel overhears Ladybug saying "my Lady" to an akuma or smthn and concludes that she is Chat Noir

(Alya): "Chat Noir, what would you say would be your first defining trait?" (Chat Noir): "My special, one of a kind, trademarked phrase of 'my lady.' " (Felix): "I'm gonna to steal that. In fact, Lila, you look wonderful, my lady." (Lila): "Stop mocking me, kitty. Or else, I'll have to throw you in a trash can." (Gabriel): "Felix is Chat Noir? And Lila is Ladybug? Even though this makes no sense, I've likely found their identities. They'll pay for deceiving me."

New fic prompt: how many ways Gabriel can overhear someone say “my Lady” and conclude that they’re CN.