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Bruh, I missed these movies so much.

Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior (2006) Directed by John Laing

Anyone remember Monster House?

It's almost October(💀spooky time💀) and this movie I watched ~10 years ago on Cartoon Network is still on my mind every Halloween, lmao.

I need to have this in my blog

This girl started flirting with me and im not sure if my normal charms will work…

What should i do @ask-karasu-tabito

Punk Rock Band! Blue Lock Masterlist (also a college au btw)

—DEVOUR presents Isagi Yoichi (vocalist), Michael Kaiser (lead guitarist), Rin Itoshi (electric guitarist), Nagi Seishirou (bassist), Shidou Ryusei (drummer)

Michael Kaiser (older brother's best friend) Now Playing: Rose Colored Boy - Paramore

Part One: Still Into You

Part Two: crushcrushcrush

Part Three: That's What You Get

Part Four: The Only Exception

Isagi Yoichi (Ex to Lovers) Now Playing: ONE MORE TIME - Blink-182

coming soon...

Rin Itoshi (Fake Dating) Now Playing: I Don't Love You - My Chemical Romance

coming soon...

Nagi Seishirou (Forced Proximity) Now Playing: Mr. Brightside - The Killers

coming soon...

Shidou Ryusei (Enemies to Lovers) Now Playing: Oh Love - Greenday

coming soon...

More Lore

SMAUS

Random Devour GC Shenanigans

tag; #The Band DEVOUR

i love that so much, I wanna write an entire fanfic based on that idea

Cute Tales from the Stinky Dragon headcannon

Gum Gums hair was a mess when he met Bart. Like all in his eyes because i always picture him with like course 4b-4c hair it also makes it hard for his hat to stay on since it was so curly and big. Bart eventually taught himself how to properly care for Gum Gums hair. He used to change it relatively regularly but ever since joining the ifinights Bart decided, with Gum Gum, that dreadlocks would be a nice perminant solution with relatively minimal upkeep.

Tho, every night to every other night Bart will make sure Gum Gum is taking care of his hair and scalp. Its like a nightly routien they have and it also puts Gum Gum to sleep cause Bart is so extremely gentle

(Mudd sees and asks Bart for help with his hair and Kyborg also ends up seeing and whenever they all have time they all spend like an hour or two help each other with their hair before bed)

YESS I’M SO EXCITED

Hey folks! It's finally that time again; another character week! Mark your calendars for September 20th to September 26th for 1 whole week of the geatest Elvish Evirwinterian Archer, Kyborg The Mighty!

Just like with all the previous character weeks, there will be a lot of different prompts. You can choose either one of the prompts, OR all of them to submit. You can interpret them however you want! All forms of art are accepted! (Fics, drawing/paintings, videos, etc!)

(Inspiration dice will be given out for creativity once again 😉 so be creative!)

The same rules as the other weeks still applies, meaning keep everything minor friendly and don't forgot to tag #KyborgWeek2024 or @ me!

Day 1/Sept. 20th - "I'M GONNA DO A BACKFLIP!" / Overconfident

Day 2/Sept. 21st - Intense Training / Sparring with Friends

Day 3/Sept 22nd - Reliving the Past / Ep. 55 / Revenge

Day 4/Sept. 23rd - Showing off / Archery competition

Day 5/Sept. 24th - He has His Mother's Eyes / "FOR EVIRWINTER!"

Day 6/Sept. 25th - Steampunk AU / Royal Guard AU

Day 7/Sept. 26th - Free day / Canon Divergance

i can't stop thinking about the lack of shade in gaza. with so many trees and buildings destroyed, there can't be very much shade. it's incredibly hot and there's very little protection from the sun and very little water. my weather app tells me the UV index reached 11 recently. it's inhumane to force people to live in such conditions.

donate to gaza medical tent

donate to disabled gazan children

[edit: if you’re engaging with this post, i ask that you please match my donations if possible. thank you]

I wish that ao3 had an option to filter warnings (and tbh certain authors) out like I will never ever want to read it and just seeing it puts me off so much that often I end up closing my browser because that content upsets me so much lmao

holy fucking shit

How would you describe Oedipus? I've been asking around and most people either give a generic description or "motherf*king" jokes so I was wondering how you'd describe his story? I see it as tragic but I just can't seem to paint the story from my mind to my mouth. I'm clumsy with words but I admire yours. You have this way with powerful, lingering stories, haunting tells and perfect endings. So.. how would describe the tragic hero named Oedipus?

oh, it’s a tragedy, of course it’s a tragedy, how can it beanything else?

but i think the tragedy is not in his actions, not in thefather he killed nor the mother he wed nor the children he sired. no, it’s notin what he did, it’s in who he was, the tragedy here is that oedipus was a good man and a good king and unlike so many mythical figures, he did not reap whathe sowed

the tragedy here is not that he was human and erred and suffereddue to his errors.

it’s that he did not err, and suffered, it’s that the sinsof our fathers are our sins too and we cannot escape them

the oracle of delphi gave a prophecy foretold that any sonof king laius would kill his father and marry his mother. so when his wife andqueen jocasta bore him a son, he had the baby’s ankles nailed together andordered him to be left to die.

laius erred. laius planned to kill his son of blood, who hadcommited no crime, who was in perfect health,  who had done nothing but be born. it is laiuswho committed the sin of infanticide, and through this sin all other suchevents transpire

a shepherd spirits the infant away instead of leaving him todie, and he is eventually brought to the house of king polybus and merope, werehe is adopted. laius and jocasta have no more children, even though this leaveslaius heirless. since we know jocasta will later bear four more children, weknow it is not her whom is the issue here. after laius commits this grievouscrime, he is left sterile, and this, here, is where i believe the curse trulybegins.

the curse over thebes does not begin with oedipus’s rule,with his supposed transgressions. it begins with his father’s sin.

oedipus grows up a devoted and loving son. he eventually hearsrumors about his strange birth and consults the same oracle his birth fatherhad, and is told the same prophecy. not knowing he’s adopted, he think theprophecy refers to polybus and merope, and he flees his home, horrified at thethought that he could ever harm his beloved parents in such a way.

he’s traveling, and upon a cross roads he meets his birthfather, laius. they do not know each other. they quarrel about who may precedefirst. it’s important to note that laius is the one who attacks first, who’s sooffended that this unknown man will not move for a king that he moves to killhim, unknowlingly attempting to murder his son a second time.

oedipus kills laius, not knowing he’s a king or his father, ratherthan let himself be killed, and fulfils the first part of the prophecy. onceagain, it is laius’s actions which are incendiary action here. if he has notattempted to kill oedipus, perhaps he wouldn’t have died. if he hadn’t thrownhis son away, oedipus never would have killed him, since he was so aghast atthe possibility of harming his adopted parents that he ran from his home andhis life rather than risk it.

oedipus acts in self defense. even if he hasn’t, laius hadalready tried to kill him once, although neither of them had been aware of it.a trial by combat would be the least of what oedipus would be owed. he breaksno laws, does not act in hate or malice or fear. oedipus kills laius, kills hisfather, but no great sin is committed. patricide is a sin, but defendingyourself is not, refusing to die is not a sin.

so he travels, and lands upon thebes, where a sphinx hastaken residence, eating anyone who attempts to enter the city and cannot answerit’s question, effectively cutting off all trade to thebes and trapping all itsresidents inside, lest they leave and never be able to return. was the sphinxhere when laius left? we do not know. it doesn’t say.

but if it was – did laius leave his city to die? was thisspinx just another piece of the curse laius had brought down upon thebes byattempting kill his freshly born son?

oedipus, a cleverer man than any who have yet tried to enterthebes, answers the sphinx’s question, and the creature leaves, having beendefeated by this man’s intellect.

oedipus is a man who has sknown himself to be strong enoughto kill a king, and clever enough to defeat a sphinx. he has not harmed any whodid not first try to harm him, was so against committing harm against those hecared about that he simply left them behind. oedipus so far has shown no fatalfloor, no poor judgement, nothing damning or ruinous.

jocasta’s brother, creon, had said any man who could ridthebes of the sphinx would be named king, and given his sister’s name in marriage.oedipus had not known about this before arriving. he had not come to thebeswith the intention of becoming king.

but king he becomes.

he is given jocasta’s hand in marriage, and the finalportion of the prophecy is complete. he weds and bed and fathers children withhis birth mother.

notice, however, that this only happens in the first placebecause of how honorable and kind oedipus is to begin with.

jocasta is in her forties, at least. she may be a beautifulwoman, but she’s not a young woman. yet there are no accounts of oedipus beingunfaithful, or cruel. jocasta bears him four children, two sons and twodaughters, when during those long years after oedipus she had not had anotherchild with laius. if oedipus had rejected this widowed queen, said her age madeher unsuitable, had taken mistresses, had kept her as a wife in name only –then perhaps so much pain could have been spared.

but he didn’t do that. oedipus took a wife twice his age, atbest, took a woman who was not a virgin, who had been the wife of this land’sformer king, and he dedicates himself to her. he is faithful and attentive, andshe must be fond of him, because she later tries to shield him from the truthwhen she uncovers it.

which part of his actions can we take account with? yes,jocasta was his mother, and it is incest – but he didn’t know that. he didn’twant that. to do otherwise than what he did, to cast aside his gifted bride,could only be considered cruelty. and oedipus was not cruel.

many years after this marriage, a plague strikes thebes. whyis not clear, because if it were truly due to oedipus’s actions, to the godstaking offense at this incestuous union between mother and father-killer,surely it would not have taken years to come to fruition?

but a plague comes, and the oracle says that the only way tolift it is to the see laius’s killer is brought to justice.

(is it laius, yet again, bringing sorrow upon his city? isit his restless spirit which curses all of thebes? it is a strange coincidencethat the infertility which he was cursed with after trying to kill his infantson is the same plight that now faces all of thebes.)

and of course, ofcourse, honorable and kind oedipus vows to bring the killer to justice,says that this killer will be exiled for his crime of murdering the king.

exiled, not killed, what a peculiar punishment, what a merciful punishment for a king killer,what a merciful judgement from a merciful man.

but things unravel, as they do. he tells creon to bring himthe blind prophet tiresias, who tells oedipus that he must stop digging intothis matter. but the good of his city is at stake, so he can’t of course he can’t,and tiresias calls him false for not knowing his true parentage. he and creonquarrel, and slowly, oh so slowly, the truth comes out.

a messenger comes, saying that his adopted father has died,and oedipus is relieved. not for any malicious reasons, but because it means hewon’t fulfill his prophecy of murdering him. he refuses to go home becausemerope is still there, refuses to take up the title of king that is surely hisby right, because he fears harming his mother. when the messenger says theoedipus is adopted, and there’s no reasons for him not to go home, jocasta finallyrealizes that oedipus is her son. she begs him to stop his search, desperate tokeep the truth from him.

jocasta knows, and tries to protect oedipus. she mustbelieve he’s worthy of being on the throne, he must have showed her kindness andaffection if she’s so desperate to protect him from the truth, even at theexpense of the well being of thebes.

but oedipus does not listen. he leaves, and finds the shepherdwho gave him to his adopted parents so long ago, and discovers the truth.

he is the son of lauis and jocasta. lauis is the man hekilled at the crossroads. he has killed his fathe and married his mother, allthem each unaware of each other.

after this, there are differing accounts of what happenednext.

sophocles’s account is most popular. he returns to find hiswife and mother jocasta has killed herself, and he takes the pins from herbroach and blinds himself, unable to stand the sight of her. he is then exiled,as he said laius’s killer would be, and his daughter antigone guides him untilhe dies soon after.

in euripides’s version, jocasta does not kill herself.oedipus is blinded by a servant of laius, and so justice is still served to laius’skiller, and he continues to rule thebes. i like to think jocasta rules withhim, alive and well, because she no more deserves death than oedipus deservesblindness.

the tragedy here is not in oedipus. it is in lauis, theclear villain of this story, the one who damned and hurt and cursed all aroundhim. he who caused so much strife, and then left it all for his son to fix, forhis son to struggle with.

but he did fix it.

oedipus was a fair and just ruler of thebes, a kind husbandto jocasta, a good father to his children, from all accounts, since antigone wasso devoted to him, and he was disappointed in his sons for their selfishnessfrom some accounts, because that’s not how he raised them.

perhaps oedipus is a story of how our fathers, ourpredecessors, those who come before us will curse us and damn us and leave usmore problems than solutions can be found

perhaps oedipus is a cautionary tale, and our tragic figureis not oedipuis, but laius, who made his own ruin, who’s spiteful hands leftscars on all they touched.

oedipus is a tragedy, but only because it reminds us thatour own undoing, our own unhappy endings, aren’t necessarily within ourcontrol. our own tragedies may not be our fault, may not be due to ourmistakes, be didn’t earn our unhappiness.

it’s not fair.

it’s not fair, and that’s the true tragedy of oedipus. thatgood, kind, clever, merciful people can do their absolute best, can showkindness and sacrifice and love, and in the end it won’t be able to save themfrom the mistakes other people have made.

oedipus was a good man, and a good king, and it may not havesaved him – but it saved all those in thebes.

yes, oedipus was blinded. yes, jocasta died.

but the spinx was gone, their line continued, and thebesthrived.

the tragedy of oedipus is the idea that we’re not in controlof our own destiny.

the triumph of oedipus is the idea that we need not controlit in order to have a destiny worth remembering.

Sure! I remember it! I was hyped for it when chapters 1-3 were still a thing and stuff like that.

Listen - I don't give a fuck if you prefer Batim more than Batdr or Batdr more than Batim

I don't give a fuck about your opinion on this game or character

Reblog it if you are actually still in Bendy fandom or at least remember being in it

I need to know how many of us are left in the world...

Edit: YOOO WE GET TO 1000

YESS

BENDY FANDOM (or people who just like it) - RISE!!!

Another edit: 2000???

Where were you hiding all this time???

Edit: yeah, gonna write it here too

By the way this post was not made for reblog bait... I mean, you can do anything - reblog, comment or just like, I just wanted to know how many people still know this game. Not that anyone said it is, I just don't want anyone to think this is. No, do what you want, it's okay

Career 104: Advancing your career and getting promotions

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I’ve recently received a ton of questions on career growth, promotions, and “unblocking” your career when you feel stuck so I’ve put together a general framework for how I’ve moved up in my career and into leadership positions so quickly and at such a young age. This is applicable to all industries from art to science to business to academia. In no particular order:

1. Identify the decision maker(s)

Who’s calling the shots in this place? This is a simple analysis of power dynamics in your organization. Some questions to consider:

Who assigns the quantity and type of work you receive?

Who evaluates the quality of your work?

Who’s in charge of writing your performance review? 

How often are you evaluated? 

Who makes the final decision on whether or not you get promoted?

In most organizations, this person is your direct manager and indirectly your skip level (your manager’s manager) which is why it’s imperative you have a strong relationship with them. The decision maker(s) are the stakeholders you need to manage the closest. 

To get the most out of your relationship with decision makers:

Schedule regular 1:1 meetings with your direct manager and skip level. Make sure you understand their needs, respond accordingly to their requests, and prioritize your work based on their guidance.

Ask for feedback regularly. Focus on the areas you can improve and less on the things you’re doing well. Human beings naturally gravitate towards praise and away from criticism because praise feels good and criticism feels icky but you need to fight this tendency with all your might because it’s your flaws that will hold back your career– not your strengths. You don’t want to be blindsided come performance review time when you could’ve caught the problem early, fixed it, and succeeded. You don’t want to lose time. 

Perform at the next level while in your current level. Many people refuse to take on more work from the next level unless they get a promotion, but I’ve done the exact opposite– I take on more work from the next level before a promotion because it demonstrates that I can do it. If you’re a graphic designer who creates graphics, then ask what a senior graphic designer does and request those responsibilities. You can make a better case for promotion if you’re currently operating at the next level because it removes any doubts that you can do the job and it minimizes risks to the organization that you may fail. If your manager somehow doesn’t see your value despite taking on more work, then you can leave the company with next level experience under your belt and negotiate a promotion and hefty raise in your next role.

Note: If you have an awful relationship with your direct manager, then your options are to: 1) talk to your direct manager and mend the relationship 2) transfer to another team with a manager you actually get along with and who likes you or 3) leave the company. If your direct manager dislikes you, then there’s a high chance your career in that role is dead in the water. Trying to fight your direct manager is like trying to fight your teacher or professor– they’ll just slap you with a bad grade, screw up your academic transcript, and go along their merry way with no negative consequences to themselves. Only you’ll get screwed. 

2. Understand performance metrics

What’s important to the organization? This to understand what the organization defines as success. Some questions to consider:

What are the expectations of your role AKA what are you supposed to be doing?

What are you being evaluated on AKA what are they looking at?

What is their definition of “good performance” and what is their definition of “bad performance?”

In most organizations, there are called OKRs (objective key results) and KPIs (key performance indicators) that you 100% need to be aware of. An OKR is the goal, while a KPI is the metric that measures how well we’re moving towards the goal. For example, if an OKR is “lose 10 pounds in 2 months,” then a KPI is “I am losing 2 pounds per week, I am on track to lose 10 pounds in 2 months.” It could be anything from “sell from cars” for a car dealership to “build more products” for a tech company to “make fewer medical errors” for a hospital to “design more homes” for an architecture firm. 

To understand performance metrics:

Know your organizational OKRs and KPIs. If you don’t have a clue– get one. Ask someone, usually your direct manager. “What are our goals for this quarter and for the year? Where do we want to be by the end of the year? What can I work on that will help us get there?”

Ensure the work you’re doing feeds directly into those metrics and goals. Why? Because your leaders’ performance are being evaluated based on achieving those OKRs and KPIs which makes them very important to the people who have a direct influence on your career trajectory. If it’s important to your leaders, it’s important to you. If you can help your leaders become successful, then they’ll see your value and they’ll fight to keep you around. If they’re willing to fight to keep you around, there’s a strong case for you to be promoted and compensated well. Align yourself to those goals.

Note: If your personal interests (what you want to do) don’t align to the organization’s goals (what the organization wants to do), then your options are to 1) be high and powerful enough to change those goals 2) compromise your interests to move up in your career or 3) leave and find another job. If you want to bake cupcakes but the organization wants to make sushi, then you need to either convince the organization to bake cupcakes or you need to suck it up and make sushi or you need to leave and find another organization that wants to bake cupcakes. 

3. Develop and market your personal brand

This is the one most people screw up. This is a critical step to build your reputation and market your skills to colleagues and leaders. Some questions to consider:

What skills are you good at and known for in your organization?

Who knows that you’re good at those skills?

Who knows what you’ve achieved with those skills?

What can you do to make more people know about your skills and achievements?

Most people miss this step because they mistakenly think that “a job well done speaks for itself.” No, it doesn’t– you need to speak for it. This is a mistake I commonly see made by introverts, women, minorities, and people from more collectivist cultures (East Asia, parts of Europe, etc.) where self-promotion is awkward, uncomfortable, and/or can be frowned upon. In America, you need to market yourself and you need to do it often. Speak up. You must advocate for yourself at all times.

To market yourself and develop your personal brand:

Develop a pocket skill. Meaning, be very good at something, anything, and be better at it than other people. For me, that was leadership, strategy, and client management. I’m very good at leading projects, bringing order to chaos, managing difficult personalities, and achieving excellent outcomes in catastrophic/disaster scenarios. I’ve developed a sterling reputation in my industry for this and I’ve pulled off ballsy projects across Asia, North America, and Europe to prove it. For my colleague, he’s a data analysis wizard: SQL, Python, Excel, Tableau– you name it and he can do it. For my other colleague, he’s a product expert who can design, launch, and manage a product with his eyes closed. What’s your pocket skill? Remember that you don’t need to be the best, you just need to be better than the average person.

Aim for projects that have a senior audience (senior leaders, C-suite executives, large accounts) because they’ll have huge impact on your career. Remember: if it’s important to your leaders, it’s beneficial to your career. Ask to contribute to highly visibly and highly impactful projects even if you’re not leading them. If you can help with an analysis here or there, write an update from time to time, and talk to a few people a few hours per week, then you’re a contributor and your name will be attached to the final product.

Send updates on your work to important stakeholders (clients, bosses, colleagues) to give them visibility into what you’re doing. I never go a single week without someone important knowing what I’m working on whether that’s an email update, a weekly meeting, or a casual conversation. Talk about what you’re doing: talk about it in meetings, talk about it at lunch, talk about it on a train, talk about it on a plane, talk about it over green eggs and ham, Sam I Am. At no point should anyone ever look at you and think to themselves: “What are they working on and what the hell do we pay them for?”

Mentor junior staff and colleagues on a specific topic, skill, or area. This establishes yourself as an “expert” to colleagues and helps expand your network. At Google, I teach internal classes on business psychology, project management, and management consulting (strategic thinking). I’ve met tons of senior leaders in other organizations like engineering and marketing who’ve become part of my network and regularly seek my advice on these topics. They learn from me and I learn from them. 

Get involved with internal activities and groups. Join employee resource/affinity groups (LGBTQ employee groups, Women in Tech, etc.) and get involved in recruiting and onboarding. These will expand your network, increase visibility, and give you insight into how hiring and recruiting work which is important for when you’re job hunting.

4. Get professional mentor(s)

At this point, it’s like beating a dead horse but I’ll say it again and again until Tumblr shuts down its servers: get quality mentors. This is not optional, it’s mandatory. To find a mentor, consider the following questions:

Who is currently in a role senior to you that you want to have in the future?

Who has a background/career journey similar to yours?

Who is advancing quickly in their career?

Note: People are more likely to agree to mentor those they share a lot of similarities with. This includes similar career goals (ex: you both want to become neurosurgeons), similar academic backgrounds (ex: you both attended the same university or had the same major), similar ethnic backgrounds (ex: you’re both from the same country or area of the world, you both speak the same languages), etc. This is why networking is critical to success. You’re more likely to get a “yes” from someone you know than a random stranger so the more people you know the more potential mentors you have.

Mentoring has been extensively covered in my blog: Search “mentors”  for more posts.

5. Leave if there’s no path forward

Self-explanatory, but regularly evaluate your career trajectory to make sure you’re not going down the wrong path or that you’re stuck in a bad situation. Staying in a job that goes nowhere is like patching holes on a sinking ship– you’re only delaying the inevitable and you’re wasting precious time and energy while doing it.

To evaluate if there’s no path forward, some questions to consider:

What growth opportunities exist for you? Are there any positions that exist above where you’re currently at? For example, if you’re currently a banana peeler, is there a senior banana peeler role available? Do you even want to be a senior banana peeler? Always keep your eye on the next level and if that next level doesn’t exist then it’s time to leave.

Is your direct manager on your side? This is related to #1. If they don’t, you need to change managers or leave the organization. If your manager has no power or has fallen out of favor with senior leaders, this is another red flag to leave because they won’t be able to fight for you to get great projects and to get promoted. 

Is the company doing well? Self-explanatory. If the company isn’t doing well, there’s a high chance you’ll get laid off and you never want to go down with a sinking ship. It’s not your company, it’s not your family’s company, so move on if you notice that things are getting bad very quickly. Signs of a sinking company include: poor financial performance, cancelled projects, senior leaders quitting, negative media coverage, reduced employee benefits/perks, etc.

To avoid becoming “stuck”:

Keep your resume and skills updated. Keep your finger on the pulse of your industry. What’s hot right now? What companies are doing well? What skills are in high demand? Right now during the pandemic, gaming and media companies like Netflix, Hulu, Unity, Nintendo, and Sony are hot because people are at home and they’re consuming tons of entertainment. What are these companies hiring for? What are their needs? Do you have the skills they want? If not, how can you get them? Revisit these questions every 6 months.

Interview with different companies even if you’re not looking to leave your current job. You don’t need to change jobs or commit to anything, but you do need to keep your interviewing skills fresh. One of the biggest mistakes people make is they only look for jobs when they’re miserable in their current one. This makes them desperate to accept anything they’re offered and causes them to make errors in judgment. It’s important to keep looking even if you’re happy in your current role. Consider this: What if your perfect job is looking for someone during a time when you’re not looking for a new job? You’d miss your chance. Interview even if you’re happy at your current job, see what else is out there, know your market value (check your salary), and keep your interview skills sharp.

On job hunting: check the “career” tag on my blog.

I was going to start this off with "aight, fuckos" but I think that undermines what I want to say, so im not gonna, but I think it's a good example of misplaced anger.

All of us who loved Techno are hurting right now. Some people who didn't even watch his content are hurting right now. His fanbase is incredibly large (fitting for an incredible guy), and the spectrum of grief responses are going to be pretty vast.

That said:

quarantine your grief.

Do not go into people's unrelated steam to talk about Techno. Do not make comments on unrelated content from other people. Keep your grief to your own spaces (like your blogs or your private life) and do not harass others with your grief. I'm sorry. I know it hurts.

Why is this important?

The internet is very big, and very messy, but it and its users operate in different little compartments and expectations of what they'll find in those compartments. When you want to see kittens, you go to the spaces on the internet where people share kittens. When you want video games, you go to the spaces where people share video games. When you want education, you go to the spaces where people share their knowledge.

When someone wants to share their content, they carve out their own little compartments on the internet. Twitter or tumblr or youtube or twitch or whatever, and that is their space to make and share almost anything they'd like. That is their space to share their life or their cats or their dogs or their video game content. When you make a comment about something unrelated to that content, you take some of that space away from them.

If someone uses Tumblr to share pictures of pigs but you comment "RIP Technoblade" on those pictures, you're introducing a very heavy topic to an internet compartment that does not belong to you. The response, most of the time, is the person tactfully ignoring your comment and continuing their content, but sometimes that isn't possible, and creators are forced into the awkward position of letting you change their space's topic, or directing their space back on track to their original content. If I'm watching a streamer who is having fun and doing silly things, I want to experience their compartment where fun and silly things are happening. If I wanted a space to grieve, I would be going to spaces where people are mourning. If the streamer wants to grieve in a public space like a stream, they would be doing that. It isn't your place to force that on them, or anyone.

That said.

If you see someone bringing up Techno's death in an inappropriate place (someone else's twitter replies, youtube comments, very off topic discord servers--) do not harass them. REMEMBER: Technoblade's fanbase is very large, which means that we have people who DO understand appropriate outlets for grief, and a large portion who DO NOT. Kids, people with social cue problems, and just plain assholes tend to fall into the latter category.

Breathe. Remember that the majority of these comments are from the innocent ignorant, and that your anger at them is also likely a misplaced grief response. If you have the spoons, inform them (without pithy remarks) about why their actions are inappropriate. If you're convinced this is an asshole, block them, then block and move on. Support the creator in other ways. Remember that assholes are assholes for attention, and you should starve them off it.

We're going to be okay. This is an incredible community and I am so proud of how much support I see everyone already lending each other. Technoblade's content got me through some very hard times in my life, and I'm going to miss him. It's going to be hard, but it's going to get better, and we're going to get through this. In the meantime, breathe. Try to be your best self. Do him proud.

Everyone needs to hear this :)

If you ever feel like you're ugly or you don't love how you look, just remember that theres this Japanese legend that says your present face is the face of the one you loved most in your past life.

So, give yourself the same amount of love you gave in your past life because you are beautiful and deserve it.

<3

reminder that 30 isn’t old, it’s very normal to not accomplish everything in your 20s, and that it is never too late to learn that thing you’ve always wanted to learn. you’re always growing. that’s a good thing. 

Boring old werewolf instincts:

Sexual jealousy

Constant aggression

Rigid hierarchy

Must win sports

Homophobia And Sexism Is Normal™

Eat people

Cool new werewolf instincts:

There is no five second rule

Corvids are friends

Hang out as a pack

Karaoke

Gotta pee

kaito and luka

speech before heaven, iowa

(madison square garden 3/22/24)

Is it bad that I'm thinking maybe we shouldn't all go see Sonic 3? Like Paramount openly supports Israel still. Remember that's why we all wanted to boycott the Knuckles show? Did y'all forget about that? It's not like that would even mean not seeing the movie ever, it would just mean holding off on seeing it until alternative means become available.

Idk it's just kinda disconcerting how quickly the company seemed to win y'all back the moment shadow showed up on screen. I'm a big sonic fan too but there's kind of more important things going on right now, y'know?