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And obligatory extra disclaimer that the pushback I got on Kintsugi largely annoys me because man, that was so avoidable. I could have given more grace, and frankly I could have been given more grace but since then I've discovered that apparently my tone just constantly grates on people on this site anyway, so it's, like. Not really anyone's fault.

 

I've since figured out how to better pitch Rekudo. Rekudo has since improved as a tool. I've figured out exactly what kind of users and fandomgoers Rekudo is for, and just a while ago I still had a clickthrough/adoption rate that was something absurd, like 6%, compared to the notes on the Tumblr post.

I just get so extremely frustrated by this every time I see a writer say "I abandoned/removed my fic because I felt too discouraged by the sense of rejection and people got mad at me". That was so fucking unavoidable, actually, that could have been avoided.

 

At least I no longer have to see people going "writers who want feedback are selfish and hang their self-esteem on the attention of others" as much, there has actually been development there and people take the more nuanced position of "being obsessed with metrics-based popularity is generally bad for you" and "if writers were writing for themselves exclusively then they would have zero reason to publish things."

 

Instead of a brain there is Infinite Dendrogram.

 

Taking a break from thinking about bear boy and crime slime to look at Rekudo's stats to feel good about how many people actively use it :)

 

Holy shit Shatterpoint is so good.

 

I know I'm literally friends with the writer but my peers in Transformers, Shatterpoint by autobotscoutriella is so fucking good.

 

oh the person straight-up leading a victim blaming campaign against a peer is gonna lecture me on narcissism now?

 

I am made of solid salt, apparently, I will forget about the existence of SZ and the cowriting cadre until someone on Tumblr reblogs them to my feed and I go "we still listen to this asshole?"

 

Amelie Doree my beloved

 

Murder Drones is surprisingly effective as a kind of gory body horror action piece, but I would be lying if I didn't say that the animation and intrigue is the only thing that keeps me going through the painfully insecure glib-disaffected humour.

Also, the jokes about V and N randomly killing people is very undercutting of the drama.

 

Like it has that problem where it wants the violence to be impactful and dramatic and also just use it for what amount to elaborate visual gags and it both cheapens the death, which cheapens the horror, and it ruins the tension through bathos because the show is juuuuuuust not quite confident enough to play the tone shifts straight.

It's got potential, and considering Glitch went onto make the Amazing Digital Circus, an astoundingly confident production, it's very clearly production growing pains. Like. A lot of this shit probably felt cooler and funnier when it was being written because "we wouldn't want to seem too obsessed with our own story, right?" instead of realising that you shouldn't be writing your stories for people who aren't willing to accept the bargain of taking your story seriously.

 

N is very cute, though. Like, I thought I'd find him annoying after the pilot, but nah. He's probably the best character on the whole, and his presence steers Uzi away from the cringing insecurity of her character pitch, which makes Uzi less annoying.

 

I spilled glitter inside my oven :|

 

Oh nooooo D:

 

Honestly I gotta hand it to Kellen Goff for all his work in the FNAF series. I like how none of the more deranged characters he's done sound anything like each other in the way they sound off, like how Sun has definitely had a few cups of coffee too many vs Funtime Freddy definitely doing cocaine.

 

I know it's petty and antisocial of me but seeing someone who I've repeatedly encountered flying too close to the discourse sun finally saying something so outrageously stupid it gets people piling on them going "are you stupid?? No, really. Are you genuinely this stupid??" is very satisfying.

It shouldn't be! Pileons are not social consequence! People do not learn from them, they only dig their heels in harder! They will not learn from this!! But the second best thing is that the people who follow them for the hot takes, who genuinely see them as an aspirational figure, get to see this person mocked into embarrassment and dig their heels in, and hopefully it makes their audience realise this is not a person worth emulating.

Discourse trends do not end when people learn to be better, more compassionate people. They end when the locus of the discourse becomes too embarrassing to associate with.

 

Literally EVERY FUCKING TIME I see someone complain about the pedojacketing of trans women on Tumblr, I go check their blog and realise they're either openly an "proship DNI" type.

So pedojacketing trans women is wrong but pedojacketing women and transmascs is a victimless crime because they're too into a media property. Gotcha. Thanks for letting me know you have absolutely nothing to say that is worth listening to.

 

Similar but equally irritating is the type that complains about being constantly tone policed and forced to act with inhuman cordiality who get spitting furious at anyone on the Fandom Website daring to tag their posts as a fandom thing.

Literally from the bottom of my heart -- turn off tag preview and block people. You can't both complain about being unfairly called a mean asshole while getting aggro with people who don't know you fucking exist.

 

I literally do not feel safe around 99% of the people on Tumblr, knowing what they know about how easy mass harassment campaigns are to incite and how devastating they can be to the target because they're constantly complaining about them being done to people they like and sympathise with and are still constantly flirting with inciting them against people who they find "annoying". God forbid I commit the crime of existing near someone who happens to have a bad day and sees me as an easy target to use as a stepping stone to feeling Cool and Mature and Like They Have Real Problems.