"Midnight's just around the corner..."

I do think the concept of parasociality has been twisted into something used to shame anyone who feels any sort of connection or sympathy towards public figures, usually ytbers or micro celebrities, and whilst it Is helpful to remind the wider public of the wide separation and imbalance between them and whoever it is that they're watching, I think it's also misguided to expect audiences not to feel any sort of attachment to public figures. They're human beings, and especially micro celebs from yt or twitch are more likely to show a side of themselves that can feel less fabricated than 'proper' celebrities which in turn will trigger this sense of empathy in their audience. I think as long as you do understand that they're not your friend and that there Is a barrier between you and that you truly do not know who they are behind the scenes, like, you're not doing anything wrong by being attached to xyz streamer ykwim. Like that's such a natural thing to feel for a human being you're witnessing, esp on the regular.

there's so much to be said about modern censorship and discussions to be had about the direct impacts of the current waves of cultural puritanism hurting sex workers and adult sexuality at large + re-criminalizing queer people en masse (ESPECIALLY trans people, more specifically trans women) and im going to be so entirely honest with you i don't think your fanfiction has a single place in these discussions. i don't care about your smut not getting enough kudos or whatever the hell this is about real people and real legal problems. it's about the financial impacts it's about the cultural shift it's about prison sex slaves it's about bathroom bills it's about trans people being put on the sex offender registry. in the face of all these problems i cannot give a fuck about your stupid fanfiction maybe being punished slightly from online safety bills. i don't care. please shut up

insane to see the kosa bill get brought back up pretty much monthly as more american republican party members try to get it passed in an attempt to control the Internet via finances and monitor populations of those they wish to kill via ID verification and AI facial recognition with security cameras and instead of focusing on the fact this lets lawmakers get away with forcing all they consider "degenerates" to register themselves as such and begin tracking their every movement in an attempt to begin genocides every time i see these bills being brought up on tumblr it's always "oh my god!!!!!! Our fanfiction!!!!!! They might outlaw AO3!!!!!!!" like i don't care about your fanfiction i hope AO3 gets deleted and their servers nuked for all I care MY FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS ARE BEING KIDNAPPED AND DEPORTED ON THE STREETS!!!!!!! MY TRANS SIBLINGS ARE BEING MURDERED!!!!! KILL YOURSEEEEELLLLFFF

oh yes, let’s be angry at people for not caring about censorship in the “right way,” and tell them to kill themselves. do you see how shitty you’re being???? this isn’t righteous, this isn’t a “hot take,” you’re not “saying what no one else will.” you’re being shitty. poisonous ass mindset goddamn

tumblr users’ obsession with self-reporting (especially as a weird form of penance) needs to be studied

you don’t need to tell the world you still like Harry Potter because it’s your comfort movie or because your dad read it to you when you were little or something like that in response to a post about the harm continued monetary support of Harry Potter causes. you don’t need to tell tumblr all the myriad of reasons you don’t like rap under a post about how rap is often misrepresented as ultra-violent or overtly sexual and misogynistic because of racism. No one on tumblr has to know anything about you. no one has to know you still read your old Harry Potter books or that the only rap artist you like is Eminem. No one is going to say “oh of course you’re the One True Good Person with a Good Reason!” when you say that rap is difficult to listen to because of your auditory processing disorder or you’re only a part of the Marauders fandom. Just keep your shit to yourself and don’t embarrass yourself under other peoples’ posts.

gillion going from "I've always wanted to fight an evil clone of myself" to "everyone can change don't kill him" over the course of the campaign. gillion going from being so excited to fight nightmare gillion (when they went into chip's mind,) to looking at doppelgilly and only seeing himself, and being so sure that if HE of all people can change, then so can doppelgill

ok thinking about the horror of doppelgillion. like. that's gillion. with gillion's memories. he just also happens to have to follow orders and those orders happen to be to kill his friends

sure a lot of his like. core personality traits aren't present (his drive for justice and good, his loyalty etc.) but he still has memories of traveling for over a year with these people. he canonically loves his crew! and we know how fiercely gillion loves it's literally the most powerful thing about him! and he has to follow the orders he was given to kill them. fucked up

don't even get me started on how this fits perfectly into the whole "being created for a cause that you have no say in" theme gillion has going on

@razberrypuck thoughts?

this was actually a crazy good scene i loved the roleplay!!!

reblog number 3 because i wanna talk about how much i love this art because it is (like all of their work) fucking amazing! first off i really like how you can see the corruption of the black sea spreading on chips face where his scar is, and in general the detail on the character designs is great. i really like how doppelgilly keeps up the friendly appearance for the whole of the first panel, even when it starts to be revealed he has been lying, i LOVE how we never actually see doppelgilly's face as he drops the persona! i love how he is only characterized through an image of his claws seizing chip's hand (chip fanart remembering his prosthetic pinkie pog) and chips shocked look, it does a LOT to dehumanize him in a way that adds a lot to this piece! the claws also really depict him as monsterous and inhuman (i dont remember if the claws are a part of gillion's design of if they were added but either way they go hard and honestly work even better if they are in the original design because thats sick)