the worm in tham n0phis’ brain

but it's an entirely new level of tragic when somebody you've actually spoken to gets turned into a bot account. it's like peeking at a zombie apocalypse through the window and realizing one of the shambling corpses was your friend.

and then the zombie catches sight of you, lurches up to your window, and shouts through the glass that they accidentally reported your account to tumblr and you'll be deactivated unless you click this link.

if you get something like this ↑ they're gonna follow up by instructing you to contact tumblr support on discord and give you contact info; or they're gonna link a website that looks sort of like tumblr support and say you have to email them; or any variety of "you must now contact tumblr, here is how you contact tumblr."

whatever they send you, it Does Not lead to tumblr. it leads to the master zombie that bit them and inducted them into the ranks of the undead, and will bite you the second they have your email and password. i might be confusing zombies and vampires. anyway,

it's easier to fall for these messages because the blog doesn't LOOK like a bot blog, because it ISN'T a bot blog. it's a normal person's blog that got accessed by a bot, meaning the blog's content CLEARLY looks like a real active user when you click on it. and yes—it might even be a blog you already know. sometimes bots like this go down a blog's DMs or reblogs and message people they've previously interacted with.

May I present the best apple:

hi. i wasn't originally going to comment on this because i believe that people can express their opinions on the internet freely, but this got on my nerves and i want to address it.

to be clear. i do not hate fun nor do i hate whimsy. i only point out the prevalence of bloodymary not because "i hate crossovers" or "i hate that they're kissing". firm believer in ship and let ship. i only point it out because there is such a thing as "internalized bias" that can manifest in things like "ableism", "misogyny", "antiblackness" and an even rarer "aro/acephobia" believe it or not.

what i've found with bloodymary is that a lot of the time it exists to the exclusion of rocky (stated to be on the spectrum), for the opportunity to villainize stratt (woman), and to the complete removal of carl (black man). Beyond that, there seems to be a wider trend of disregarding grace's own opinions on romance, even if the aroaceness is a widespread headcanon.

yes shipping is fun. yes fandom is fun. yes fanfiction is for fun yes fanart is for fun yes headcanons are for fun. yes yes fun, i get it, i'm right there with you. fuck, i make fanart. i write fic. i'm there.

however, let's take a look at a couple of numbers here, pulled from ao3 as of today (5/27/2026).

wow! bloodymary almost has the same number of fics as gracerocky!

why is the instinct to ship grace with a man jumping to a character outside of the canon of the story? why is the number of grace/carl fics so low? why not ship grace and rocky? why is there even a need to ship grace with someone at all?

why does a lot of the fan content for bloodymary involve demonizing stratt and getting simon to hate her? why do people almost entirely remove rocky from these storylines? is it really that hard to write stratt? is it really that hard to write rocky??

when you act like these trends "aren't that deep" you make fandom unsafe and deeply unfun for people. Shipping isn't the end of the world. Hell, your carelessness and refusal to engage constructively with the community isn't the end of the world. It's really just a drop in the bucket of how to make a community that isn't fun to be in.