Bring out the Brackets!

I post whatever I want to. Fandoms, characters, art, etc. See pinned post for more info.

[ashlynniis-bracketeers]

Alrighty, have a remade Pinned Post

Decided to go ahead and remake my old pinned post. This should have all the info about me you need lmao. Will probably have some copy-pasted info, this is mostly for formatting, adding extra information, and the like. Also should be easier for me to edit.

I don't use "Carrd" or whatever you people are calling it nowadays. I grew up in the era of “don’t give out personal information dear god wtf are you doing”, so this is basically going to be the only info you’ll know about me, most likely for a long time. You are not obliged to give out your legal information (age, living location, etc.) to self-entitled randos on the internet. The internet honestly shouldn't know anything about you lmao.

Also no real specific DNI, if somebody doesn't like my content then there's no need to bitch at me, and if I block somebody, this is my space first and foremost for me to curate. My blog, my choice as to what I reblog. Closest thing is that I don't trust people who make aggressive dumbass discourse/stupid in-fighting discourse 99% of their identity lmao, people like that could be actually learning about nuances and doing actual activism instead... And I'm going to leave that at that.

Seriously, stop in-fighting, you're just making it easier for jackasses to legislate you out of existence because you're divide-and-conquering/eating yourselves instead of having proper solidarity and respect for people's personal choices/experiences/variance/identity. It's getting extremely annoying. I guarantee that 99% of people outside of the community/microcommunities don't even know about all of these arbitrary distinctions/arguments, let alone care. You're just cannibalizing yourselves while alienating potential allies/potential members of your community. This world isn't black-and-white, stop stressing yourself into grey hairs before the age of 16, what the fuck.

Shipping/fanfiction discourse is stupid. Don't come to me about shipping/fanfiction discourse. None of the terms used in the "greater" discourse mean anything, they're vague, ephemeral, and easy to rewrite. Both "sides" are ridiculous and filled with jackasses and fools, both have serious problems with using abuse survivors as "gotchas" against the other, being racist, queerphobic, xenophobic, and literally every other prejudice under the sky, and not having any discipline, tact, or the ability to mind their own damn business. Both sides need to learn some self-awareness, proper tagging (especially if being posted in a public forum), proper blacklisting, and that 90% of the shit they're fighting about doesn't matter in non-fanfic media spaces. I don't consider myself to be on either "side" because my experience with people who get so wrapped up in it has been overwhelmingly negative and with people on both sides accusing me of being on their opposite side. There's a lot more nuance here. Some people just read things in bad faith, whether it be through ignorance, being deliberately malicious, or the story just being really badly written. It's ridiculous.

If you have no unique icon+description+content when following me, I'm probably going to report you as a bot. I know about this place's bot problem (and the forms the bots can take) and don't really like taking chances on that.

I also do not share donation posts. Those are not my wheelhouse and I can never tell if it's a scam or not.

Related to the above: Guess who turned off Anons? I keep getting anon scam donation posts. I don't know when/if I'll ever turn the Anons back on.

Other than that, if I think you're annoying and/or the like, I block. I've been getting more liberal with my blocking lately.

Name: [REDACTED]. I am not giving out real names, what the fuck? Just call me Brackets, though I still respond to Ashlynnii and sometimes to Frost/Ashes (i.e. my Steam username).

Just try to figure out my pronouns lmao. I don't really give any fucks, this is the internet and again, nobody is entitled to that information. I'm honestly fine with anything.

Also, Asexual (I think... I've don't really recall ever having sexual attraction to anyone, real-or-fake) and [still-figuring-it-out]romantic. 👍‍

I’m all over the damn place with my fandoms, honestly. That’s for you to figure out. I also feel gender envy for unhinged middle-aged/old men lmao.

I draw and write, though I only post my writings on DeviantArt due to their… strange content. Art tag(s) here are “Brackets Draws” and “Brackets's Art”. For original text posts I use "Brackets Talks", for posting original video game-related stuff that isn't art I use "Brackets Games", if I make a poll I use "Brackets Polls", and if I add something to a post in a reblog (and not just ramble in the tags) I use "Brackets Adds". If I tag something “lmao” it means I’m filing it under “funny”.

...Politics has been heating up more and more lately, so if you don't want to see when I reblog stuff like that, then watch out for the "politics" and "discourse" tags.

Misc. interests include memes, being a furry (just have a fursona, not really a fursuit-er or the like. Fursona’s name is Brackets.) and Transformation content. No, not bloody Transformers, Transformation! They’re different! That’s what my “strange content” that I write about on DA is about, and I also make memes of it on Reddit/YouTube. It’s commonly just called “TF”. If you look in my TF folder on DA… be warned! Weird shit! I post it to Reddit (on a specific subreddit), but I don’t post it on Tumblr! I've seen enough people brigading against TF content exclusively on this site way too much for me to risk drawing in those asses. If you post weirdo horny comments on them you're getting cursed out lmao.

Now to list off other places you can find my content:

DeviantArt - Newgrounds - Reddit - Youtube - Art Fight - Toyhou.se - Neocities (Still huge WIP) - AO3 - Dreamwidth

[cosmic--strawberry]

The government and every website ever apparently: We can't show you any 18+ content unless you give us your ID 🥺 we'll definitely not lose this in a huge data breach or use it against you. Think of the children!!

Also every website ever: Unregulated porn bots and weirdly sexual ads everywhere.

[soljamguy]

i was thinking about zappa getting pants(dont ask.) but then i realized that hes already showing everything off so whats the damn point!!!🤷‍♀️ so i decided to make a silly april foolz gg comic about it,, also if my handwriting is difficult to read, click the alt text!!

never make me draw randy again

(PLS NOTE THIS IS JUST JOKES.😭🤞)

[squipedmew]

this is like 50% of tumblr’s user base summarized

[spongebobloveletters]

Black trans men, you are so adored, and always will be 💛

[checkyourasianbias]

saw this tweet and like. exactly

[getleond]

Real talk tho yall why the hell are we using gender assigned at birth labels to identify “what kind” of nonbinary someone is. First of all AGAB was created by the intersex community to uplift their voices about medical discrimination. And for some reason, people saw it and went “oh goody!! A new box to shove nonbinaries into!!!!”

Yall. It’s not hard to say “person with breasts” or “person with a penis” or “person with a uterus” or “person who menstruates”. Like your “AGAB” doesn’t actually give anyone the information you think it does…

[tmascs-for-tfem-rights]

i love you, nonbinary transfems. i love you, genderqueer and genderfuck and genderweird transfems. i love you, girlthings and it/its girls and girls for whom “doll” is fully literal. i love you, gender non-conforming girls. i love you, xenogender girls and girls who use neopronouns. i love you, girls with all sorts of gender identities and expressions. you’re all a light in this world and this community and you are so loved.

[cosmospicegender]

I love you, girls who don't feel included or described by "doll". I love you, transfems who are boys/men. I love you, transfem butches. I love you, closeted transfems. I love you, transfems who haven't fully figured out their gender or their style yet. You're awesome and delightful and beautiful and amazing and the world is a better place because you are in it

[knighthearts]

happy pride month for it/its users, polyamorous people, xenogenders, non-transitioning trans people, and other "weird" identities. btw

[molabuddy]

^ guy drowning in blood

[thestalkerbunny]

He’s taking full advantage of how cute he is.

[deervsheadlights]

wish everyone could perceive the Vague Concepts in my head because i just know you would looove my Vague Concepts. you would think im so smart if you saw the misty clouds of Vague Concepts floating around in my head. #MyVagueConcepts

[corruworks]

something odd ive noticed while going through some files is that i can find every file for barfriend and its bar, even the collapse versions but not the counters. is it some reused asset im not paying enough attention to find like movefriend's face pieces or is it some other bit of code entirely?

it's actually not an asset at all! the counters are CSS borders with border-radius to add the curves

(the bottom layer is this rule, the other two layers are ::after and ::before that are inheriting the border with different transforms)

[corruworks]

the reactions to this are so funny to me. like I get it, but this isn't even the strangest use of CSS in the game. here are some other interesting ones:

(read more for spoilers on the uncosm, ozo, and EP3)

the 'maze' parts of recosm utilize CSS clip-path, carving out a safe area in a 'damaging' element. you could just drag these points around if you wanted to, to make new shapes.

the council's animations use a sort of 'jointed paper doll' type animation, where each limb is a parented div (i.e. hand is inside arm), and given individual percentage-keyframe CSS animations that each influence movement a little bit.

the 'melee' actors at the end of EP3 work in a very similar way actually, but they have far fewer moving parts

there are probably a few more cursed mechanisms I've been forgetting, or are hard to visually show, like how the 'floors' on most 3D stages are now generated in canvasses with the actual grid tiles hidden to save on rendering performance, and only shown if there's something inside them or they're animated in some way. this is kind of an abstract one

(i.e. this floating tile is actually the individual tile element you'd expect to find if you inspect it, but if you inspect anything to the right of it on the 'ground', that's all one big element called "stagefloor" that's an image that's been generated based on the stage layout. it's a great big deception...)

[ross-hollander]

I assure you: somebody, somewhere, is on the exact same wavelength as you are.

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[pitviperofdoom]

I try not to fall into the "I never liked their work anyway" ditch when an artist/creator reveals themself to be a terrible person

BUT

a feeling I do have and will stand by is "While I enjoyed their work overall I did have some gripes that I overlooked out of affection and whimsy, but now that my loyalty is gone and my affection tainted there is nothing holding me back from enumerating my many grievances, to which the revelations of the creator's shittiness may or may not provide a new and infuriating context."

[beatrice-otter]

#such a good summation of this actually#because yeah there’s usually things that were always present#but which were easy to overlook or give the benefit of the doubt#that suddenly become relevant after a revelation about the creator#and it’s really not the same thing as the self-defensive “’I never liked it anyway’

tags via chimaerakitten

[spiralatria]

'minion' -too closely associated with those yellow things

'goon' -linguistic drift gave her a new meaning. i hope her new life is good for her. i miss her.

'henchman' -too gendered. can be shortened to 'hench' in a pinch, but lacks punch.

'servant' -too domestic to apply to all those who serve evil.

'underling, subordinate' -this one only works if they get off on being beneath you and/or you don't properly pay your workers.

'associate' -this one's good for grizzled mercenaries or lone agents but doesn't work good for broad swathes of an organization.

'slave' -same as underling but more intense. really fun for some of the group. unsavory for others in a way that limits the scope of the thing.

'thrall' -only really applies if you're brainwashing them and that's not something i've learned how to do en masse yet

'flunky, toady, stooge, lackey' -these are just insulting, and that isn't conducive to a healthy work environment. imagine going to work and your job title is 'stooge'.

'acolyte' -works for those that worship you, but again. lacks the scope.

'supporter, follower' -unspecific and vague

'assistant, helper, aide' -not sinister at all. just means you're doing things for me. swagless in this manner. could be good if used to describe someone who's so clearly more that as a way to emphasize their obedience via understatement, but that's only useful for a few members of the organization. and even then, 'associate' works better.

'cohort' -untested in the field. suggests an equal footing in the affair, ideal for post-structuralist evil organizations with a bottom-up power structure that's held in the hands of the evil workers themselves. perhaps we'll explore it together?

[seraphalpha]

may I suggest: 'grunt' – time-tested by crime bosses with a variety of goals and organizational mandates. implies a subservient position with none of the innate baggage of lackey et al.

[spiralatria]

GRUNT IS PRETTY GOOD