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Reading through the #SaveAFox tag over the last few days, the worst, most frustrating, most heartbreaking thing of all is knowing that absolutely nothing will change.
The phenomenon of people well ackshuallying every picture of an animal on the entire Internet as secret abuse is so well-known that Awkward Zombie referenced it in a Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance comic all the way back in 2017:
Gags and goofs about videogames and the things that happen in them.
(Note the "this is animal cruelty" comment in the background of the last panel.)
People thirst for animal abuse scandals to the point of developing a PETA-like ability to see them behind every interaction. They want every rumor to be true so that they can be the ones to get the juicy scoop of calling them out. They feel justified in doing so. They feel morally superior. Unlike all you ignorant sheeple who just thought the fox videos were cute, they and they alone can think critically enough to analyze the pixels and conclude this is somehow torture porn actually.
These people never volunteer so much as five minutes of their time to any kind of shelter or sanctuary, but they genuinely believe that by shooting down everyone around them who did, they are making the world a better place. They care about the well-being of animals enough to complain about everyone else's hard work not being good enough, you see, which makes them better than you.
And so now the founder of Save A Fox is dead. Posts like this one abound. "I hope these people are happy."
They are. That's the thing.
They're so consumed by the salacious urge for every milkshake-drinking duck to be a closet racist that they still believe SAF was some animal-hoarding hellhole where they, I dunno, secretly used the foxes to film crush videos for their AD account, or whatever we're all on about now? So, those monsters got what they deserved, I guess.
Actually, it's even worse than that. Like, if these people went full KiwiFarms-style "Every time someone we harass dies, we get a point *insert party emoji here*" celebrating then at least that would be honest.
But no. They stop short of believing that part. Of course they didn't mean for that lady to DIE when they were spreading the rumors about how horrible she was. They just, you know, were worried about the animals. That's all. They're still good people, really. See? They even admit that the part where a three-year-old now has to grow up motherless is a shame. They didn't want that part, and therefore, clearly, they can't be responsible for getting it anyway.
They're the equivalent of Trump voters who were just worried about the economy and who watch the news today and say, "THAT wasn't what I voted for."
(Yes, it fucking was.)
But they don't see that. They will never see that. Even now, the #saveafox tag has as many "don't forget they were still bad, though" posts as it has posts like this. And that brings us back to this one's first point:
This should be a wake-up call, but it won't be. No one will ever think that maybe they went too far and contributed in any way to a culture that just murdered someone. They can just say they weren't calling for THAT part and sleep soundly tonight, their consciences 100% clear. They truly believe, even now, from the bottom of their hearts, that they always were and still are the good guys. That when the rest of us are pointing to a death that didn't need to happen and asking if you vultures are happy now, we must be talking about someone else. That sitting behind a keyboard and making blog posts about how the animals at SAF are unhealthy makes them better people than the people who devoted every ounce of time, energy, and money they had into running SAF.
People are just going to be arguing back and forth in the comments until the next big scandal comes out. Everyone will move on from this one, believing they were right the whole time. No one will reflect. More people will die because of this, and the people who need to care still won't see the pattern. All anyone can do is block the assholes and move on, but if you're not mentally equipped to be able to do that....
Well. I guess the only real moral of this story that we can all take away from this whole situation is, "Never try to make a difference in the world if you're neurodivergent." Thanks, everybody. Great talk.
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It's always a trip seeing post-Homestuck webcomics try to emulate Homestuck's narrative structure without understanding that Homestuck's narrative structure only worked because of its extremely rapid update schedule. Like, yeah, you've got the whole elaborate acts-within-acts thing going on, but your comic has been running for nine years and you just hit the halfway mark on Act 1; I think maybe some reassessment is in order!
Like, you're doing this for fun and don't owe anybody your productivity, I totally get that, but you understand that if we compare your planned outline with your demonstrable rate of production, statistically you will die of old age before reaching the first intermission, right?
To be clear, this is not ragging on anybody for their update schedule. This is pointing out that if Homestuck had averaged three updates a week over its run – itself an extraordinarily aggressive schedule for an indie webcomic! – it would have taken fifty years to publish. Andrew Hussie is a freak; don't put that expectation on yourself.
(Well, Andrew Hussie is a freak and also made extensive use of unpaid fan labour, occasionally in ways which arguably violated child labour laws, but that's a whole other topic.)
on andrew hussie's insane production output and unpaid fan labour, walkaround programmer (and accomplished developer) gankra recalled:
I can't emphasize this scramble enough. Andrew was a ceaseless content machine, and I don't think I was ever "blocked" on him producing content. Which is ridiculous considering how much content is packed into our games. (like, hundreds of pages of dialogue)... I honestly pushed myself too hard here. I don't think Andrew really understood how hard this stuff was on me; I think he's a good enough guy that he would've given me more space if he realized what I was doing to myself. But he's just so productive and I burnt myself out really hard trying to keep up with someone who, ultimately, was my hero that I didn't want to disappoint. I have two intense nega-tive memories from working on homestuck: * Begging Andrew (I think I was in tears irl) to just wait another day for me to finish one of our pro-jects, because he wanted to start posting more pages of the story (he was that far ahead of me). * Being so stressed out from working on one of our projects that I went to a party and drunk myself sick (I normally don't drink alcohol at all, for context)
tauhid bondia, a cartoonist friend from their gangbunch days, said:
We [Gangbunch] would often marvel at his [Andrew's] ability to start and then inexplicably finish things... Because he is a machine made of metal and lubricant.
it even got to hussie sometimes. from homestuck book 3's commentary:
This potato is RED FUCKING HOT! Gotta keep moving, keep writing, keep posting, posting, POSTING! This is how you do it guys, you never let not knowing how something looks or how a thing quite works yet stop you from making stuff at a dangerously unhealthy clip. You JUST. DON'T. STOP!
pretty intense stuff
Yeah, I'm seeing folks in the notes going "oh, Homestuck could do that because it was basically just a sprite comic" like, no, Homestuck could do that because Andrew Hussie is some sort of high-powered mutant, and for the later, more complicated bits he also had a whole team of unpaid assistants in more or less permanent crunch mode backing him up. A webcomic running separate morning and evening updates every day of the week for months at a stretch is not achievable under reasonable working conditions, and if you try it yourself you will die.
Nowadays Homestuck is known as the hiatus webcomic, but you need to understand that at its peak, it was known as that weird comic that updated MULTIPLE PAGES EVERY SINGLE DAY. The first five acts were posted in a little over TWO YEARS. The trolls were introduced ONE YEAR into the comic's run!
I find that folks whose experience with webcomics started with Homestuck tend to have a deeply warped notion of what a normal update schedule looks like. "But Homestuck had multiple year-long hiatuses" yeah, and that's the normal part. That is a thing that normal webcomics do. Homestuck was unexceptional for its hiatuses. It's everything else about Homestuck's production that's unhinged, often in ways that prompt genuine ethical concerns.
Hussie himself explaining why he eventually stopped that insane schedule:
Let me put it this way. You may work a full time job. It may be that something happens in your life that makes your job more difficult, because you are preoccupied. Your work may suffer to some extent, but you can still approximately match what's expected of you, because there is a partition between your job and your home life. You may nevertheless feel your full time job seems to dominate your existence, saps your energy, and leaves your weekend respites feeling all too short. This is not an experience I share, because MSPA is not a full time job. If you have such a job, then I would have to RADICALLY REDUCE my workload to match your level of day to day preoccupation. The actual quantities involved have always been nebulous and I never made a point of keeping track, but 12 hours per day seems like a pretty reasonable average, since that is just shy of all waking hours. Time spent writing, drawing, animating, or just spacing out at my monitor while contemplating all the moving parts. This is what I did every day, including weekends and holidays, for two years, and to some extent another year prior to that with Problem Sleuth. Only a few weekends were missed due to conventions, and there was a single week off immediately following the infamous "robo smooch", and that's it. (Most of that week was spent wondering why the hell I wasn't updating…) There are other gaps in the archive, spanning days or a week, when I was animating. Those spans involved the usual work schedule, while simply omitting sleep! Not only is this an unreasonable workload to expect of anyone, it's practically impossible to pull it off. Maybe you can expect some committed guy out there to really buckle down and duplicate that effort for a month or two. But years? Too much can crop up in the white noise of normal life to destabilize it. Momentum is absolutely crucial for maintaining that kind of pace. I find that if I only do an hour of work in a day, I get ten minutes of work done. If I do 12 hours of work, I seem to get 24 hours of work done. This is especially true of animation. Such projects notoriously take a very long time. I feel like because of the crazy head of steam I've built up from years of nonstop effort, I can knock out in days something that might take another animator a week. Or in a week what might take a month. Without that momentum, it's not possible. Starting up Flash cold is excruciating. Getting your head back into the stride of a story wastes energy you wouldn't use if you never broke stride. Without the momentum, the pace reverts to ordinary. Getting distracted by life destroys the momentum. I've been pretty zealous about deflecting the distractions, even when I move, as I often do. A notable example was last year when I came back from the Emerald City con in Seattle, and found my apartment flooded. The con was already enough of a time sink, so I didn't have much of an appetite for going into personal crisis mode. I just kind of shrugged, picked my computer off the lone, miraculously dry part of the floor, dropped it in a temporary residence, and kept drawing. I think the flood mess occupied about a day of my attention, whereas something like that could easily take up weeks of your time and energy if you're living that "normal life". You know how it is, you come home and find water up to your ankles and go aw fuck, what's ruined, what needs replacing, gotta call whoever and deal with the fuckin landlord about stuff and auuuugh. I just didn't bother with any of that, because it just didn't seem to matter, and I preferred to keep working and not give a crap about all my soggy bullshit. And in retrospect, I guess it really didn't matter.
CK64 (and especially Alexis) fans rejoice, as we now have a gif of her "Happy Goat Dance"!
Thank you for your honorable service to our community, "kevsomeone" of Tenor.com! (PS, I'm happy to see a lot more people contributing to the CK64 tag! I always felt guilty about "hogging" the search field, per se, and it's always fun to see more fan content of our favorite goats!)
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idk i think what is interesting about astarion to me is the fact that you have a guy who started out an asshole (normal type) and then spent two hundred years in a very carefully and specifically crafted (by the writers of the game) Become A Terrible Person Or Die nexus. like it wasn’t just a Torment Nexus, he wasn’t just in hell, i feel like this is very important not to forget, he was in hell but it was specifically a hell designed to, over time, kill the empathy of anyone trapped in it, kill their brain’s ability to prioritize other peoples’ survival, to numb one’s conscience.
and then he gets yanked directly out of that nexus and despite that the fact that he spent, again, two hundred years in a situation that was sort of a rock tumbler for the human soul, there’s still a pebble left in there. and it’s a pebble that can be grown if placed in the right environment and provided with a support network.
so i think it becomes interesting because it really does i think force you to start thinking about the limits of free will even on as basic a level as the human personality. i think the fact that he becomes such a different character based on player choice, that his end morality is so hugely dependent on player choice, is uhhh. a big part of what the devs were going for probably.
it makes a lot of people really uncomfortable to acknowledge some bad people would be good people if literally nothing changed except they had a good support network and different circumstances. especially because it means the opposite is also true. which is even more uncomfortable.
you know that part in the beginning of fellowship of the ring where gandalf is talking about how gollum is ultimately only like that because of the ring and gandalf thinks his story is sad? astarion is kinda like if they sexualized gollum.
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mr clean off the shits
am fascinated by the implication that this person thinks that a backflip clean out of his pants and onto a swing would be easier
we regret to inform you mr clean has once again returned to the shits
Those wacky Corn Kidz!
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pretty good game really underrated
Right off the bat, our next protagonist looks like a Yu-Gi-Oh protagonist, and there exists a Steel Titan.
This is gonna be a wild chapter...
Live A Live is made of strong, authentic, love-letter genre fiction. Its wuxia chapter is the MOST wuxia thing, its western chapter is the MOST western thing, etc. You have fallen into the giant robot anime zone, and that's why it even has a JAM Project-sounding opening theme sung by Hironobu Kageyama himself. They knew what they had to do to be a *real* giant robot anime, and they did it.
they were gonna kill the guy, but Kermit said no, so now he's driving them home
another comfort character meme from twitter
Ok it's very funny to laugh at Tuxedo Mask for showing up and doing nothing, but his job was never to actually fight the monsters.
His job was just to show up and believe in Sailor Moon so overwhelmingly resolutely that she remembers she's a fucking demigod long enough for HER to fight the monsters.
Because she's the only one strong enough to do it in the first place, and in this regard Tuxedo Mask is the first example of being "Kenough" in this essay I will
See the best part about this is it implies Sailor Moon would forget she's a fucking demigod without the reminder, and then you look at Usagi and you're like
yeah
if youre able to squeeze in another plural headcanon- i suggest "adventures with anxiety" which is a really short game about anxiety and it can be easily read as plural imo
Oh my god! Thank you for introducing me to this incredible, masterpiece of a game! 😁
Anyone who wants to play can find it here:
(Warning, there is some mature content in the game)
Adventures With Anxiety is a choice-based story game about a human and their anxiety, in which you become the anxiety.
And yes, it's very plural! I mean, I wouldn't even count it as head-canon. The presentation is of anxiety as a separate entity with the ability to experience growth and development like a person, they communicate as separate people, there's even some dialogue options when the human points out that the anxiety isn't real, and you can respond by pointing out that the human is no more real than they are.
There's an interesting trope of... what I'll call Personification Plurality in fiction, where normal emotions are personified in a plural way.
While this may not intentionally be meant to be plural, works that use this trope definitely are.
Especially when, as I mentioned before, we actually see the personified emotions developing themselves as people, clearly having their own memories and distinct sense of self.
I absolutely loved this! Thanks again for pointing me in its direction! 💖
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It occurs to us, now that there's something of a minor Corn Kidz 64 community on Tumblr, that you all may not have seen that time we asked Bogo about Seve and Alexis's relationship (among other things) and got an official response.
SEVE IS PLURAL YOU ALL
i know vitamin c basically neutralizes adhd meds but lemonade good
yea lol
ADHD Medication information sheet
I have been struggling
For a long fucking time
with why my adderall was having such uneven effects and varying efficacy
and the weird pattern of what made it work and not work and if it was building up in my system or not
and fucking nobody told me I shouldn’t drink a glass of Kool-Aid to take the pills with
or eat fucking Pop-Tarts or Life cereal
this is the most useful information I have ever received from tubr and it seems to be confirmed by several other places upon searching
so this actually should be spread like wildfire like actually
Me reading this realizing tunglr dawt kom gave me more information about my medication than MYDOCTORRRRRSSSSSS MYYYYYYYY FUCKENNNNN DOCTORSSSSS PLURAL MULTIPLE DOCTORSSSSSSSS
Reblogging to spread this ridiculously important info
Generally speaking, your doctors actually may not know these things. This is the kind of stuff to ask your pharmacist about.
