Lost-cyptid - Cryptid Corner

My gender was lost with the rest of my childhood memories. There is nothing but an inkling of it

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the thing is. The THING is. Uhhhhhhhh. Watching interviews of Andrew where he talks about his spiderman is heartbreaking, sometimes. Because he's trying not to say directly why exactly it was compromised, but you know exactly what he's saying. He says he went into the project thinking he was going to bring something to the character, and that was taken away by the corporate america, that he was too young to have been exposed to that kind of system. Stephen says playing Spider-man was a harmless experience, to which andrew is quick to laugh, "oh yeah it was harmless" he mocks. And Stephen is like oh was it not?? And andrew is like, let's not get to that, Stephen. Its all light, it's all funny, until you know exactly why it wasn't harmless. Andrew just wanted Peter to be free, he wanted Peter to have an MJ who didn't fit the typical standard. He wanted Peter to become more inclusive than ever and put that in the cinema. How powerful would that have been? How beautiful, and eye opening, and a breeze, too. It would have been cool to realise that oh yeah, superheroes are normal people. They can be gay. Spider-man represents all of that, Spider-man is white, skinny, black, a girl, a middle aged man, Spider-man is also a pig, for god's sake. Spider-man could easily be bi, too. But that was too forward for 2014, apparently. And it truly breaks your heart seeing him trying to talk about the injustice that happened to him, the kind of shock it must have been to realise that people- people who are supposed to be perpetuating new ideas and should be a medium to bring awareness- are in fact, downright homophobic. And if not homophobic- let's give them the benefit of doubt- they would definitely not want to take the risk. They will not put their jobs at risk. They would not, in fact, help him make this character reach it's potential. And it's not just about him, it's about so many characters who become wasted potential because of this. Fiction imitates reality a lot of times and it's heartbreaking to realise that so many people in real life also don't reach their full potential because of this system.

And now. NOW I'm so happy he's got to be Peter again. And he's got to throw a peace sign and be a disaster bi. Truly deserves it. Truly phenomenonal and beautiful and makes me wanna jump like a fucking seal and clap and dance and give him all the flowers and say love that for you. Love that for you, Andrew. Love that for all of us, you lovely human being.

It's gonna be such a funny mess when Donald Trump dies of a stroke on April 1st, 2024.

Naturally everybody will think it's fake because of the date only to lose their minds (both positively and negatively based on their opinion of trump) when realizing it's real

There will be massive celebrations in the streets and on social media and lots of predictable "don't speak ill of the dead" discourse about those celebrations

Weird evangelicals will pull some weird number trick talking about how Jesus was conceived on April 1st and that makes Trump a sort of messiah and people will make fun of that

The Republicans (after they're done with the faux-sadness and faux-outrage) will stomp over each other to be his successor but none of them will succeed. They'll tear each other apart and have no single nominee for the November elections.

There will be discourse about if Biden and the living former presidents should go to his funeral (they won't, he was a traitor insurrectionist)

The Ukraine-Russia War immediately goes in favor of Ukraine as morale in the Kremlin is reduced. China similarly backs off from its threats on Taiwan.

Ten thousand new memes are made, some sticking around for years to come.

Not a month later a bunch of unofficial biographies of Trump hit the bookshelves, many with new details about just how awful he was.

Aight so excuse this massive thing I’m freaking out.

I’m a massive simp for many things, you know me you know this to be true, and I’ve been watching RE Village play throughs because oof man (also I’m poor I can’t get my own copy rn) right but here’s the thing, I write fan fiction, and thus I go researching shit right, now I’ve been under the impression that The village the game is set in was somewhere in Romania, I don’t remember exactly where I got it into my head I think it was to do with the big titty goth girlfrind’s name being Romanian or something right.

But okay so y’all remember the book in the intro to the game, that Mia is reading to bby Rose, when she closes the book you can see the title of the book is ‘Village of Shadows’ right so me being the fanfic guy that I am seeing that there’s no cannon name for this village thinks “Ah! I’ll just go look up the Romanian for village of Shadows!” Whomst the fuck was gonna tell me ?????!!

A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

do u ever just

These are so feckin cute!!

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I want one.