Autistic Thinker

A Series of Unfortunate Events is masterful.

It pulls from all worlds of knowledge, all variations of literature, religions, philosophies, cultures, even cuisine. It’s not just a fictional story of a secret organization and some orphans, it’s a metaphor for censorship, for the corruption of the justice system, the neglect of the foster system, the questionable nature of public education, but the equally complex nature of sheltering yourself from harsh truths, even if those truths could also help you.

The morality of the neutrality of librarians (a phrase which here means, “whether or not a librarian should give a patron whatever they ask for, even if what they want is misinformation”). The endless search for answers in a confusing world. The rather bleak understanding that every generation basically acts the same way as the previous ones, unaware of the neverending cycle. If there are really such things as “good” and “bad” people. And the eventuality and unavoidability of death.

And Snicket, as the reader’s guide, never tells you what to think, only what certain terms mean, and leaves the reader to come to their own conclusions. He trusts our own intelligence.

I cannot properly convey how much I appreciate Daniel Handler for putting this series into the world.

The use of real people behind green screens is genius. Instead of wasting time trying to replicate the human form, these developers used what was already available.

I like the old-fashioned look of this game's design. Wooden and ornate textures. It'd be cozy if a creepy man wasn't trying to bash our head in. Mechanically, the addition of a black scrying mirror helped my sense of direction.

Onto the story because that's what hooked me.

The best fanon idea created in the MLP fandom was Twilight losing her alicorn status.

She never wanted this. The castle gifted from the Tree of Harmony a huge isolating place. Ponies using that princess title before her actual name, leaving her visibly uncomfortable. It almost feels like a punishment rather than character growth by how the narrative presents her being an alicorn as something unbearable. Celestia, the adult who Twilight trusted the most during childhood, thrust her into the sparkly abyss.

This poor pony was toyed with, good intentioned or not, and I don't get why that inner anguish wasn't addressed. She had to watch her friends die. Get betrayed again when the alicorn sisters quit ruling Equestria. I'd be driven to insanity, that's for sure.

(Note: I think it would have been a fine conclusion if Twilight was an earth pony. Slowly earning the horn and wings, CONSENTING to her body changing. Now that I said that - she could be an allegory to being a closeted transgender in canon. Growing into an ultra-feminine body you squirm in, the happy ending of getting surgery absent...)

I had a big fanfic in a previous fandom where one of the big reveals was the involvement of a kind of infamous villain, whose presence was built up to and foreshadowed through the whole fic until his reveal without ever mentioning his name, so that the name drop would be a gut punch. It worked especially well because of who the villain was and his presence in that fandom space specifically (it's very complicated) and if it was an original story this reveal wouldn't work at all the way it was written in the fic. Because if you don't have a predisposition to think about that character and his relationship to the hero in a very specific way, then just seeing their name won't do much to you; the reveal and the recontextualisation it pushes upon you hinges on your previous knowledge of the source material.

I think it's an interesting tool fanfic authors are given. One of my favorite fanfic of all time is partially a re-imagining of its source material's canon, and something it does is introduce antagonists much earlier in the story or deepen npcs' stories. It then works to evoke a tragic irony that again wouldn't work if you didn't know the source material, and it's something the author obviously has a lot of fun with.

okay here!

i made an ao3 skin looklooklook

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its an altered version of this green fireflies one

im really proud of this for no reason all i did was change the colors but anyways you guys should still reblog if you use it definitely id be very happy :)))))))))

edit: oh my god fine. it's not copy and paste anymore fine okay?? here's the link to github. for fuck's sake guys 😭

None of them actually give a flying fuck about any of the very real censorship going on right now, so it’s always incredibly painful having to witness these idiots go “uhm—actually the true original meaning of proship is just being against censorship!☝️🤓”

Okay??? Then act like it.

Because no, censorship isn’t a handful of people online reacting negatively towards your toxic yaoi non-con incest and whatever the fuck else fanfic. You are not and never will be oppressed for what you actively chose to indulge in.

You can absolutely be anti-censorship and not be proship/fic or the other silly pointless labels that have been conjured up over the years. Why lie and say these terms mean something they’re not, when anti-censorship is a perfectly fine and clear label to begin with?

I myself will always believe in being anti-censorship but pro-consequences. I don’t condone or partake in harassment or bullying, but I do believe in the consequences of publishing such things. If you make content that doesn’t handle these serious/dark topics with the care and respect needed to tastefully depict them, then I’m sorry, but don’t be surprised when people do eventually come for you, that is incredibly naive. Receiving criticism and backlash is not censorship, and some people really need to learn that fact. Once your work is publicly up online, a few dead dove and don’t like don’t read tags plastered on it aren’t going to automatically make you exempt from judgement.

I’m so sick and tired of seeing all these serious terms like “fascist”, “puritan”, “censorship”, “purity culture”, etc… being watered down and thrown around with zero thought or respect for what they actually mean, all just because someone hurt your feelings online by not aligning with your beliefs. It's not the big-brained gotcha moment you think it is; it's just straight up insensitive to the actual victims of these things, and you sound stupid.

I can’t, and never will be able to, take someone seriously the moment they put the hate for their distasteful fetish content on the same level as the terms I mentioned above. People have died in genocides and are still being killed; women in some places are still being shamed and harmed for showing an ounce of sexuality or for simply bleeding once a month (something which to some is still seen an “impure”); minorities and queer voices are being silenced, and history is being erased. But no, none of that matters, does it? You only care about supposed “censorship” when it suits you as a fun little buzzword to use incorrectly.

Yes, the apples look like this now. What did you think) Plants don't need green anymore, and fruits don't need to be bright. But they smell brighter, but the taste, alas, is not so sweet. And the hat is no longer needed. Ah, but what does she look like with her hair down. It's a pity, it's not convenient to work…

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Page 2- where the princess of the sun defends the good deed she did and Cadence has some… concerns.