Danny Motta DNI

it/its, born 2001. writing blog at jhclementiii.tumblr.com

[is-the-graph-healthy]

made this for my beloved sibling ( @genus-corvidae )today to explain unfiction!

[genus-corvidae]

ily but i stand by my opinion that unfiction is a STUPID NAME FOR IT

[casualcannibalisms]

Prev tags!

but the thing about unfiction is that it does everything to convince you that its not fiction. its more than just being grounded in reality!

See, the princess bride book was originally marketed as an abriged version of a old, rare book, that the person doing the abridging only remembered bits and pieces of decades after hearing it. There are still some people today that think that the princess bride book is only the abridged version and go looking for the unabridged version. That's why its unfiction!

The same can be said about the blair witch project. it was marketed as a <i>real</i> doccumentary about <i>real</i> people who died. There was even a website where one of the "real" people's diary pages were posted pre movie release. People walked out of of the theaters thinking that it was a <i>real</i> event that happened. That's why its unfiction!

The office marketed itself as a sitcom with a mockumentary framing. At no point does the audience think that the characters are <i>real</i> people. Its grounded in reality but it's not trying to make you <i>believe</i> its real. That's why its normal fiction!

[genus-corvidae]

(me. that was me the first time I read it.)

[photos-of-space]

Today's NASA APOD: Total Solar Eclipse Over Spain

[sanlorenzoherald]

good morning

[sztupy]

[thatlittleegyptologist]

You’ll need the link!

Who wants to help Cards Against Humanity f*** with Elon Musk?

We got Musk off our land. Let's build a monument to remind him he's a sad little b**** with no friends.

[memecucker]

TIL the reason this inconsistently shows up in notes for the same post is bc if you look at the notes from a reblog, replies from ppl blocked by the reblogger don’t show up but if you look at it from someone else like OP they do show up

[orange-catsidy]

huh, i wonder why this person has a problem with being blocked. im sure they have really normal ideas about bringing pets inside restaurants

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

one of today's unluckiest 10K

[battleofthejohns]

Battle Of The Johns Round 1

John Ward (Faith: The Unholy Trinity)

Jonny d'Ville (The Mechanisms)

Voting ended onAug 1

Propaganda:

John Ward:

“blue”

“out of all the johns he has the saddest eyes. tumblr loves sad eyes. look him deep in those baby blues? blacks? and tell me he doesnt deserve something as pure as the role of best john.”

Jonny d'Ville:

“Jonny D'ville is the infamous --captain-- first mate of the starship aurora. He's here for music, violence, music, singing, violence, violence, and more violence.”

“LOVE LOSES!!!!!”

“He's an immortal space pirate with a gun-shaped harmonica. He's also in a band that writes musicals, and he's the lead narrator and he plays harmonica.”

“he's a mass murderer he's aromantic pansexual he's extremely traumatized and i love him”

“He is overdramatic, constantly calls himself the captain when he is the first mate, evil, has committed every crime except sexual ones, killed his father and maybe killed his motherish figure, and is a cannibal”

“Insane sadistic space pirate cowboy, what more would you want?”

“He has canonically committed every crime”

“HELLO LADIES *maniacal laughter and gunfire”

“Hes a silly little bitch who likes murder and chaos and cant play the harmonica to save his life and cant do a southern accent to save his life either despite being New Texan”

“Has committed every crime, with the exception of anything sexual. Murderous. Narrator of a lot of The Mechs' stuff. Probably not straight. Really cool. Killed his father, than killed the person who told him to kill his father. Immortal asshole”

“He has a metal heart, he is immortal and dies constantly, hes the first mate of a space pirate crew/band and tells everyone he's the captain, he sucks so bad and I love him. Also he eats people. just for funsies”

“He's immortal, he's dead, he breaks into hospitals to tell scary stories to kids, he thinks gravity making two moons crash into each other is the pinnacle of a tragic love story, he killed his dad. What more could you want from a man??”

“👉👈🫀⚙️🕰️🏴‍☠️🩸🔪please?”

“Tumblr likes violent poor meow meows with unresolved parental issues, right? What about a doubly self-orphaned, immortal space pirate kept alive by the thing burrowing inside his heart, and telling the same story, the same lie over and over and over again?”

“He’s committed every crime except the sex ones (including grievous misuse of rodents)”

“hot immortal space pirate. incredibly homosexual in a genderqueer way, incredibly angsty. great singer. very hot.”

[casualcannibalisms]

the replay mod and i are beefing

[dotterelly]

I dunno how many of you are tracking this thing, but I just found out there's now a YouTube account for the Vex Syndicate. They claim to be an organization that edits Minecraft videos. Not sure if this is a real part of everything, or just someone trying for their 5 minutes of fame. Anyone know anything about this?

The Vex Syndicate

We are a syndicate based in the United States that specializes in editing videos related to the game "Minecraft" developed by Mojang Studios

The description from their YouTube:

[dotterelly]

They posted!

[peishathebookity]

@casualcannibalisms

Idk i thiught of tagging you, the lore expands,,,

[casualcannibalisms]

Let's look at what we have. For one, if this channel was associated with the email account there's a way to get the card to display it in the "more info" section of it to dissuade spamming creators by having you confirm that you're a human here. Zacho's card for reference here

Secondly, there's no demo reel. Even if it was a part of the arg, they'd have put up a demo reel to show what their edits look like (perhaps with some clues inside? Though, if this is a real part of the arg, one might be coming in the near future.

The join date is three days before wifies' leviathan video, which might make it seem more legitimate, but the joined date is when you first created your email, if that were the case, then who was sending the emails 5 months ago to Lomedy?

I could be wrong (and there's a bit of evidence to show that (the fact that the icon seems to be high resolution and not like they downloaded it after the icon popped up after emailing the address, the writing style is the same, etc.), but this looks like a game-jacker who realized that the vex syndicate was going to be a large throughline in the arg and decided to get in on it, only posting when enough people mentioned that they had sent emails or were planning on sending emails to make it look like a "legitimate" part of the arg.

[dotterelly]

Every chance you might be right, though it would be more interesting if it was real. I feel like I've not seen conclusive evidence one way or another yet.

I will say though, the join date for YouTube is not necessarily linked to the creation date of your Gmail account. Just look at any youtuber with multiple channels, you'll see different joined dates for each channel. This is especially possible if they created the YouTube account as a brand account so that it could be managed by multiple people more easily.

[casualcannibalisms]

Yeah, that's fair! I'm not familiar with the inner works of youtube accounts but I'll def be doing research into it now :-D

[uss-edsall]

my Jewish grandmother got ordained as a Christian priest on the internet to be able to officiate the wedding between the daughter of my antivax uncle-in-law who’s converted from Judaism to born-again Christianity and her excommunicated Mormon fiancé who has a wife and four kids he may not be divorced to that he can’t speak to because of the excommunication, because they can’t get a Jewish rabbi, a Christian priest, or a Mormon priest to do the wedding

[uss-edsall]

oh and she’s also nine months pregnant and expecting at any moment and the wedding is not only within a week, it’s on 9/11

[uss-edsall]

"In lieu of any red roses, please send a bouquet of red flags to the Bride and Groom,"

[uss-edsall]

Update on this three years later:

Two and a half months later, the groom went out for milk for his wife and two month baby and never returned. He's popped up in tennessee where he's engaged to another woman who is again nine months pregnant before their wedding. who could've seen that one coming

[dotterelly]

I dunno how many of you are tracking this thing, but I just found out there's now a YouTube account for the Vex Syndicate. They claim to be an organization that edits Minecraft videos. Not sure if this is a real part of everything, or just someone trying for their 5 minutes of fame. Anyone know anything about this?

The Vex Syndicate

We are a syndicate based in the United States that specializes in editing videos related to the game "Minecraft" developed by Mojang Studios

The description from their YouTube:

[dotterelly]

They posted!

[peishathebookity]

@casualcannibalisms

Idk i thiught of tagging you, the lore expands,,,

[casualcannibalisms]

Let's look at what we have. For one, if this channel was associated with the email account there's a way to get the card to display it in the "more info" section of it to dissuade spamming creators by having you confirm that you're a human here. Zacho's card for reference here

Secondly, there's no demo reel. Even if it was a part of the arg, they'd have put up a demo reel to show what their edits look like (perhaps with some clues inside? Though, if this is a real part of the arg, one might be coming in the near future.

The join date is three days before wifies' leviathan video, which might make it seem more legitimate, but the joined date is when you first created your email, if that were the case, then who was sending the emails 5 months ago to Lomedy?

I could be wrong (and there's a bit of evidence to show that (the fact that the icon seems to be high resolution and not like they downloaded it after the icon popped up after emailing the address, the writing style is the same, etc.), but this looks like a game-jacker who realized that the vex syndicate was going to be a large throughline in the arg and decided to get in on it, only posting when enough people mentioned that they had sent emails or were planning on sending emails to make it look like a "legitimate" part of the arg.

[chloesimaginationthings]

Happy birthday five nights at Freddy’s in FNAF

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

a thing that was so interesting about the vampires in Sinners is genuinely what huge losers they are. get bit and immediately start talking like the most annoying youth pastor you know.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

which is a really cool choice because it emphasizes how deeply Off they are. there are obviously the big tells in their behavior, like Bo not reacting to a man getting mauled five feet away or Cornbread getting weird at the door, but the way they speak is also really off with the cadence of the movie the audience has gotten accustomed to. the characters are friends, family, they know each other enough to make jokes, trade barbs, argue, swear. they talk in an informal, natural way with each other. one bite later and it's "excuse me my brothers and sisters in the one race, the human race, won't you pretty please let me come inside to rejoice in your company 🥺"

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

the kkkouple that remmick turns first are a really effective storytelling shorthand. we know basically nothing about them pre-vampening except that they're trigger happy racists, so when you see them turn up all smiles at a Black juke joint parroting everything remmick says you immediately get a pretty solid grasp of what getting bit does to a motherfucker

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

obviously I'm arriving to this party really late and I've already seen almost every bit of this movie dissected down to the minutia, but I've not seen anyone talk about klanwife's line about how the vampires are "starting a new klan, built on love." crazy good line, made me figuratively need to take a seat. really cuts right to the heart of the dissonance between what mr. o'vampire says he believes and the nightmare bullshit that he's actually doing.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I keep thinking about the big vampire group song because it's like. god this scene is good. it circles back to my point about remmick being a loser, because getting a couple dozen new vampire thralls and using them to do an elaborately choreographed song and dance is peak loser shit.

but it's also horrifying, absolutely horrifying, for the living characters who are looking on because a.) they're watching their dead family and friends and neighbors, most of whom are covered in blood and visibly injured, get danced around like puppets and b.) it's the first time the characters are really getting a taste of the hivemind bullshit the audience has already been clued in on and c.) sure, they're just dancing for now, but they're realizing just how many hungry vampires are waiting outside to kill them at the first opportunity and take Sammie. so that's a nightmare for them.

so you could read that as a deliberate intimidation tactic on remmick's part, trying to overwhelm the survivors into giving up, but then you're like, okay, maybe in his mind this is a display of how good it is to be a vampire. isn't it good? doesn't it look fun? look how much fun we're having! you could come have fun too if you want! just let me in :3 I don't think that's impossible, that he'd be totally oblivious to how he comes across. the newly-turned vampires seem pretty bad at faking their interpersonal skills; all memory of how to act human beyond the most superficial level seems to really go out the window pretty immediately. remmick seems a little cannier than that, since we see him try to play on people's emotions more than once--appealing to the kkkouple's fear of the Choctaw to gain their shelter when he realizes they're klan, trying to lower Mary's guard by sympathizing with her over her dead mother, pressuring Grace by threatening her daughter. obviously some of those efforts are more successful than others, but he at least seems to have an ability to read the room that other vampires lack.

but it's also not a stretch at all to think he might sincerely be that clueless, because that whole song and dance number is remmick's whole thesis statement, which is that when he says he believes in "equality" he means that he'll kill anyone and turn them into one of his tools regardless of who they are. like sure, whatever, I'm willing to believe that he does sincerely find the klan objectionable, but he's also just packed full of shit. his version of equality is one where everyone's equal under him, acting out his own culture and history for his pleasure. thinks he's not racist because he doesn't care that Sammie's Black but still wants to take away everything that makes Sammie an individual and just keep the musical talent to perform a crude facsimile of being Irish.

and this is getting so long but that scene of all the vampires dancing in step in the dark, cold and washed out, is contrasted so well with the earlier scene inside the juke where everyone is warmly lit, revolving around Sammie but not beholden to him, dancing in their own styles side by side with spirits of the past and future blending different styles and cultures. that scene is such a gorgeous visualization of musical traditions persisting through time and place, connecting people across generations, growing and changing fluidly as people take inspiration from the past, while all of remmick's songs show people being very forcibly trapped in the past, unable to grow or move on. when he encounters something beautiful in the present all he can think to do is own it, destroy it, bend it into the shape of history. pathetic!

[grimark]

did you see they made jane prentiss from the magnus archives real

this is the correct way to feel about having a wasp's nest in your house.

[grimark]

oh fuck you were not kidding

[manyblinkinglights]

#Two months on‚ Rothney is in a co-working arrangement with the nest‚#which is now more than a metre tall and swallows an entire bookshelf of ring binders.#owns. of course they feel safe around her bc she is a queen

[prokopetz]

RPG where it's very easy to overcome all of the bosses nonviolently through correct dialogue choices, but actually doing so locks you into the bad ending; in order to get the good ending, you need to do a bunch of obtuse side quests in order to goad them into fighting you.

[prokopetz]

#honestly this sounds fun#gimme the options #i wanna know what my choices are #how ambivalent can i be? #but also it's so much funnier that this concept makes violence the correct answer (via @cuzosu-blog)

Yeah, you could definitely play a scenario where violence is the morally correct answer for laughs, but you don't have to.

If you wanted to play it straight, one might imagine a game about fighting a fascist state where all of the bosses are The One Good Nazi types with very sympathetic, human reasons for collaborating with the regime – there's the Sad Dad who's only committing mass murder because they're holding his kid hostage, the idealist who genuinely believes they can reform the system from the inside, the moral coward who rationalises their atrocities as harm reduction because if they quit, whoever replaced them would be even worse, etc. – and all of the talky nonviolent options for dealing with them involve compromising the player character's principles.

The final boss is naturally a totally unsympathetic Hitler 2.0 type, but before you can fight him he hits you with the old Mustapha Mond monologue, and if you've let even one of his buddies off the hook, he turns the tables on the conversation-fu trope and persuades the player character to stand down.

The achievement for getting the good ending is, of course, titled "The Only Good Nazi Is A Dead Nazi".

[prokopetz]

RPG where it's very easy to overcome all of the bosses nonviolently through correct dialogue choices, but actually doing so locks you into the bad ending; in order to get the good ending, you need to do a bunch of obtuse side quests in order to goad them into fighting you.

[percexe]

something compelled me to draw him. maybe it was the gods. maybe they're trying to commune with me. i need to gore a pillow pet to find out

[drxmastral]

[assiraphales]

I don’t think we’re rick rolling each other enough anymore. 1. it CANNOT die out 2. this under saturated market is perfect for unsuspecting victims who’ve been lulled into a false sense of security. be the person you hate. bring back the dastardly link

[json-derulo]

someone actually studied the falling Rick Roll rate for their Ph.D dissertation recently and published the paper

[junefrombug]

okay but this made me wonder if there was actually any academic literature on rickrolling and YES THERE IS this is a paper about rickrolling WITHIN academic literature. As in, studies that attempt to rickroll the people reading them. Best part is no one is going to believe me and click that link even though it’s 100% true.

[niltia]

My friend's book is mentioned in this paper!!

[teaboot]

There is no earthy way of convincing anyone that the rickroll study link is real. But for what it's worth. It is

[cat-26]

I have a new goal in my almost-finished PhD dissertation.

[thatwasfunnypleaselaugh]

Second link's good guys, truly

[type-blaze0]

Teaboot's right, there is basically nothing on earth that could convince me to click the second link. I genuinely believe it might be real, but i'm not touching it.