All of our identities are equally invalid;

Don'tcha think that there's a chance that your could live without it? Winnie | 21+ | Any pronouns except it/its

[cardboardslugs]

Someone looking for my fics let me know, so I popped back in just to say:

-I don't use this account anymore. It exists as archive.

-If you're here from anywhere that's not my Ao3 of the same username, it's not me.

-My Ao3 is now the only active way to contact me, as a fic writer. Feel free to leave a comment! <3

-Yes, both the police and my lawyer are actively involved and monitoring the situation, from multiple different angles.

4/4/26 EDIT: I do have an auxiliary blog now!! It's https://cardboardslugs.carrd.co ! I've also been informed I'm ok to post certain art on here :3

cardboardslugs

im too eepy rn

[cardboardslugs]

I think my issue with Artfight can be most cleanly summed up in that the Moderators are too busy being Pedantic to bother enforcing the rules where they actually matter.

Like okay, it has to be safe for ages 13 and up, ergo, no extreme horror and no obvious porn. Fine. Logical. Whatever. The rules of AF however imply to me that they're having a REALLY HUGE PROBLEM with Bad Faith Actors who are trying to get around having their work taken down because its genuinely pornographic or body horror-y by weaseling more and more nuance from wording that no sane human being would ever argue with in the first place. like when i was in school there was a rule all boys had to wear a tie. They never said where, so one kid came in with his tie as a headband until they changed it to "all boys must wear a tie around their neck". then he wore it backward, so on and so forth. THAT's what the "clothed but outline of nipples visible" rule feels like to me, and why "pubic hair is allowed" simply feels like them saying "yeah your character who has a happy trail in their crop top isnt gonna get rulebooked". HOWEVER. and this is a HUGE however:

Given Artfight Moderation's Usual Bullshit (tm) The rule about nipples isn't going to be enforced on people who are drawing naked ass characters who have bodysuits LITERALLY painted on, or some wet t-shirt contest bullshit. This rule is going to be enforced on people who are drawing characters who happen to look like the average mom in a grocery store. The kind of people who DEFINITELY are not bad faith actors and are just drawing characters. In similar vein, People who have cartoon characters that happen to have cutaway tails or something with a legitimately anatomical pattern will get carded for gore, but often NOT the people drawing Actual, legitimate gore. In character rulings, Characters who are just canon image with angry eyebrows slapped on in MS paint rarely get carded, but intricate, individual characters who are based HEAVILY on canon characters will. Also with the "trigger" censors I dont see any reason why you cant just forcibly tag a character as having certain features and people cant go into their profiles and just say "i dont wanna see that" and it gets auto removed from your browsing. instead of an arbitrary force of "YOUR CHARACTER IS BODY HORROR" when like. bestie. its an anthro housefly. calm your ass down.

Cant see the Forest for the Trees kinda stuff going on with that mod team, And frankly the only way to "fix" it is to adopt the same policies and tagging systems as Ao3, explain internet safety, and decide what people do off-site isn't your problem and can't be arbitrated by you. because its not and you can't.

[cardboardslugs]

Dangan Ronpa Mastermind AUs are such an art that nearly everyone fucks up and boils down to "comically evil because they loooove the chaos of Despair and no other reason and also they've Hot Topic-ified their outfit". like. First of all, the latter? she changed literally TWO things about her entire outfit, calm the fuck down. Secondly, re the former? This calls for a willful misunderstanding of Junko as an entire character.

BEFORE ANYONE GETS FUCKING WEIRD WITH ME im saying this from a functionally narrative POV. if you're playing single-moment dressup for funsies then no one cares, keep having fun and doing you, I'm speaking about this from a multi-chapter narrative plothole/character bastardization standpoint.

Junko Enoshima does this because Despair is her JOY. This is her version of bringing World Peace. She Genuinely and Unironically thinks that she is making other people Finally Understand and also feel the Sheer Unadulterated JOY she gets out of Despair. She is doing this because she LOVES her FRIENDS and fundamentally has a few screws loose. Therefore, anyone else who would be the mastermind would have a similar goal: Use the power they have to make their peers understand something they've understood forever- something that everyone around them just does not seem to GET.

Now you can do this a lot of ways, and it functionally depends on HOW you understand the character you're playing and what the absolute CRUX of their issue is. Where a MM Kiyotaka might be extremely similar to Junko, and Raze the Earth to make everyone understand how the deck is always stacked against you and trying to redeem anything about yourself is a Sisyphean Task, inclusive of staunch rule-following in the game he's made, Someone like a MM Chihiro might not actually hurt anyone, but use tech prowess to make literally everything look just dandy from the outside, and use motives where if you bothered to THINK or CARE about them past your first assessment, you'd realize that it's an empty threat with no real reward, highlighting that the crux of Chihiro's problems is "No one ever sees me for me-- just a version of me that is convenient or useful for them," thus trying to teach peers the value and power of Empathy.

Outfit wise I can't see any reason the vast majority of them wouldn't just remain in their regular clothes, Honestly. Junko is Like That to have a visual difference from Mukuro, who is Her Twin, so people don't get confused. It's the same reason they made Syo visually different from Gloomy despite the fact No One Ever Mentions any kind of visual change beyond how she holds herself. No One Else has A Twin. Like you ARE in fact going to have to come up with another way to make whoever you're swapping to be the mastermind get rid of themself. You're also probably going to have to play Junko and Mukuro straight in something like a Mastermind AU.

Junko ALSO, notably, manipulates Sakura into being her mole and Henchman. Depending on who you make the mastermind and WHY, this would ALSO need to change. Maybe it wouldnt be Sakura. Maybe there would be no henchman at all. Your call, but that's also functionally about how you understand what the dynamic between the two you have is.

[cardboardslugs]

"oh man it's so hard to put the Fujisakis in low-tech settings :( Guess they don't get to appear here-" MAKE THEM FUCKING CLOCKMAKERS!!! MAKE THEM ALCHEMISTS AND WEIRD STEAMPUNK LOSERS AND FUCKING *COGSMITHS* THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN PRECISION HIGH-TECHNOLOGY THAT ISNT COMPUTERS SOLUTIONS FOR THE TIME PERIOD YOU HAVE ZERO REASON EVER TO MAKE THAT FAMILY NOT EXIST IN YOUR AU AND NOT DO WEIRD SHIT WITH THE POWER OF QUARTZ AND INSANE MATH!!!!!!!

[cardboardslugs]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Approved tumblr posting moment. New fic be upon ye!

[cardboardslugs]

do bots just tag you in wordsalad now or some shit.

[computerstickman]

YOU REALLY THOUGHT A CHANGELING COULD CHANGE?

[cardboardslugs]

look. I know the ship is canon. I understand the exact appeal of it. I have anaylzed the narrative and understand both the characters personal motivations and the greater narrative meaning and motivation to put them together. HOWEVER. Through the grace of fandom you have given me the power to make both of them fuck literally anyone else for their own sake and by GOD I am going to use that power.

[cardboardslugs]

You misunderstand. This post is for the haters. This is for your canon NO-tp but unfortunately having the reading comprehension to be forced to acknowledge why it exists and why it makes sense. This post is for the bitches being told in the comments sections of their own copium fanfics that 'YOU CANT SHIP THHEM BECAUSE BILL WIBBLY CANONICALLY IS IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH BIRDY BROWN!"

[uncharacter-istically]

useful gif for when you engage with your special interests

[eldergoblin]

yes YES put them in the blender hehehehe

[hyrude]

i've searched every combination of words imaginable and i still can't find that gif of the german star trek parody where gay spock is quickly drinking coffee and smoking freaking out PLEASE send it to me i need it urgently

[lamphous]

matched set

[depsidase]

[punkjabi]

[bearforceone00]

#mynothing

[elfstrogenized]

You are perma tf'd into the first pokemon you generate on this website, how happy are you wit your new form

[dekuinthelake]

wow. continuing my lowly life as a worm. going from worm to worm. Fuck this

[dekuinthelake]

Never forgetting or forgiving

[tecmosecretofthestarz]

Sucks to be you at least im serving c*nt.

[tailsbot98761]

im a lil now

[shoepile]

Im just a pigeon lol I'm cool with this

[cardboardslugs]

PLEASE STOP PUTTING ME IN THE TORTURE NEXUS,,,

[ratcarney]

y’all ever see a piece of fan content about your favorite character that is so horrifically different from what you personally believe and you just

[disabled-dyke]

its so fucked that no car company makes a wheelchair accessible vehicle themselves. it’s all third-party companies that convert them. and its not cheap, it can cost between $20,000 to nearly $50,000. so you might spend *more on the conversion* than on the car itself. it makes me sick.

[iwilleatyourenglish]

my partner and i have become fixated on this stupid comment left by a conspiracy theorist on instagram and we can't stop saying it and i just know i'm gonna slip up and say it to a normal person

[iwilleatyourenglish]