Elf

I really need you to picture a lord farquaad being dummy yeeted into the air by an incoming vehicle while a golf cart of inebriated, glitter and mud plastered coworkers are full-on horror movie screaming together. before we can even process this, lord farquaad gets up like 🤪 how bout that drink?? completely okay, utterly unphased, red hat and bob wig still locked the fuck in. we check on him several times, all talking over each other, and while he’s calmly and pleasantly assuring us he’s fine, he passes each one of us a tiny jesus figurine. he bestows a “god bless you all” and then resumes his jaunt, drink in hand.

And there was this one guy I talked with who seemed super sharp, but had virtually zero experience writing software. When it came time to do the show-n-tell part of the interview he whips out his laptop, brings up a website, and spins it around to show me what he made.

A website of tiny ceramic frogs.

Not for sale. Just… all these ceramic frogs, organized into categories. Frogs on bicycles, frogs with hats, frogs sitting on lily pads. It was a virtual museum of ceramic frogs in web form.

I scrolled through his online collection of frogs, slightly baffled.

“This is your website?” I asked finally.

“Yep!”

“You coded this yourself?” I popped into view-source mode and poked around some incredibly well-formatted, well-commented html. I nodded slowly. This guy was meticulous.

“Yep!”

“So… where’d all the frogs come from?”

“I made those too,” he says, beaming. 

And while I’m processing this he rummages in his bag and pulls out a little ceramic frog working at a computer terminal. He places it on the table before us, next to the laptop.

“And THIS one,” he says, “I made for you! As a thank you for the interview.”

It was adorable. I hired him on the spot. I mean, why not? Worst case he’d wash out in 90 days and we’d hire somebody else. He turned out to be one of the best developers on our team. 

I think we should talk more about how lucky we are that Viv hasn’t given up her projects because of all the online harassment and after being the punching bag of internet for years.

I am not referring her to what she did or what she didn’t, but more about the combination of fan entitlement and ridiculing that she is victim of constantly.

It doesn’t matter if people don’t condone or like her. But, I don’t think that her hate reduces to that. People consider her show ridiculous and bad (even if other popular shows also have bad episodes, misogyny, or she is using humor that is similar) and they feel very comfortable harassing her and not those other big creators.

The creators of Smiling Friends never received the same scrutiny than Viv or Goose do. Smiling Friends is not my cup of tea but my partner loves it, so I’ve watched it sometimes and there are things you could find that are problematic but magically no one is interested in dissecting the misogyny of “the cool popular show everyone loves”. I could start by saying that Smiling Friends almost doesn’t have main female characters, and sometimes shows them in ways that are typical of animation. Stereotypical (the males look like antropomorphic weird shit and the females look like regular humans that is a very common stereotype in animation), and in service of males too, even if it ends up being a joke (I am NOT personally offended by this but if we applied the same measurements to this show it would look very bad in those terms and Hazbin and Helluva despite their flaws HAVE female characters with inner worlds).

I understand if people is dissatisfied at these creators because of any reason, but going from that to feeling that they have the “permission” to doxx them, create porn revenge art, harassing them online and other acts doesn’t make those fans the good person. It looks like they are finding any reason to justify being able to be bullies online.

I think that if people think a creator is a bad influence or bad overall they can say their opinion, but they also need to respect if other people think otherwise and decides to support them despite their flaws; and be fan of their projects, and also, if they did awful stuff before, the fans aren’t being better by doing similar or worse things to them OR other fans as a consequence of that (for example all the black people that faced harassment because of the racist thing). This is the point here.

This will be the only way to have a slight possibility of being able to welcome future indie creators, and be able to enjoy ourselves in online spaces.

I don’t think anyone has the possibility to be 100% acceptable for all people online AND signal or point out something is not right, is not the same as acting entitled to things, but the line is so thin that I know it’s very easy to cross.

Toby Fox keeps his identity hidden and tries to be non-controversial and they managed to find a way to make him look as the worst thing ever because he is too picky with translations. Imagine how different this would have been if people made a sort of petition to Toby Fox instead of calling him entitled racist.

Finallyyyy~ Moxxie took Stolas to a musical! ♡₊˚ 🐤・₊✧

Stolas can’t catch a break, isn’t he.

Andre being the prideful being he is, there is no way he will let what happened in Sinsmas go, and I’m afraid he will lash out at Octavia for saving her dad.

The face Stolas makes entering the alleged Octavia Birthday is also worrying.

I don’t know what he saw but it doesn’t sound like good news. Either something shocking is happening or Octavia is still rejecting him. There is also the fact Blitzo will probably need to sneak into the party. (Possible danger? finding proof/stealing something while everyone is distracted? )

I wonder if we will know more about Stolas family. He has a song with a new singer/voice actress. Since it sounds like a negative change in a relationship, maybe it is his mother (we haven’t seen her yet) or another family member. Or she could be a younger Stella. Their relationship might not have been as bad as it is now from the beginning.

I guess it will be the last episode of s3 first part.

And my biggest question is :