Fun, But In No Sense Civilized

A somewhat meaty concoction of fandom, social justice, and whatever else drives me to mash "reblog" like a bird diving for seed.  ♂                                               

[chaifootsteps]

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[moghedien]

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

[moghedien]

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy

[chaifootsteps]

one of the top comments under that Pink King video:

I kid you not. Me and my friends went to her hazbin/helluva panel at the level up expo, and half of that time of that panel was her basically saying that the people that don't like her writing just don't understand what she went through and that they just don't get the deep writing of her show. Hearing that live was severely disappointing. AKA she still can't take criticism.

that does kind of surprise me that she'd have a live panel full of people who already like her work and still just talk about the criticisms, but not in any way that engages with those criticisms

at least when the RWBY creators brought up critiques they'd be like "sometimes we even agree, our problem is that they're so rude about it". They didn't just accuse their audience of not getting it or be like "it's good actually!" Because any creator who really believes that wouldn't worry about an audience they aren't trying to speak to, they'd keep improving their work for the ones who do "get it"

idk, if true it is something to see that Viv's constant need to engage with criticisms isn't just a spur of the moment defensive Twitter thing. at a con you have space to say something more meaningful and engage more if you want to, but this sounds like same old same old

Good lord, that's insane if it's true. Insane, but not surprising...there's an inability to take criticism and then there's Viv, who seems to spend an increasing majority of her time haunted by the fact that not everyone loves her cartoon.

[chaifootsteps]

(Hi, hello. Rant incoming. Also if you are not interested in the whole Zoophobia thing then you can delete this one)

Honestly the whole Zoophobia revival thing makes me a little happy but mostly anxious and kind of sad.

It's nice to see the characters who got people into this whole Vivzie pop thing (probably) appearing in their own show with their little adventures and their little quirks. But it also seems like a total nostalgia bait (as someone else mentioned earlier) to keep the image of Vizi going (understandable ig?). Nevertheless I think it will bring more bad than good.

Now I haven't read Zoophobia like ever (so my opinion is completely invalid but I don't want to read comic that was probably lost to time and I have a vendetta against wayback machine) and the only thing I know about it is the bad webcomic wiki stunt (Viziepop got very, very mad that someone criticised writing of her webcomic and threw a pissy fit)(I guess some things never change). From here you could read that Zoophobia:

— had its premise (about Cameron trying to get back home and potentially fight off her Zoophobia or something) brushed off in favor for some nonsensical plot (some things truly nevery change),

— had way too many characters whose personalities were almost nonexistent or had a few quirks and that's it,

— had things that never made sense or were introduced, raised questions but these questions were never answered (also some loose ends and plot holes),

— the dialogue was stiff and art made environment look strange (?). Also things were happening way too quickly or way too slowly.

Basically Zoophobia had birthed everything that is wrong with Hazbin hotel and Helluva boss. It truly shows that Viziepop won't change her ways about showing her stories to a large group of people and remain completely unchanged even if it hurts basically everything/makes everything fall apart as soon as someone uses their brain power to analyze the story.

Tl;dr— Happy because yey Zoophobia is back from the graveyard. Sad because it's the same writing problem all over again but with different characters and settings.

If it were anyone but Viv, I'd say it would be interesting to see what she changes now that she's revisiting it over a decade on. But unfortunately, all Viv knows how to do is double down.

[orisnitsa]

[thetragicallynerdy]

[ID: the Bugs Bunny in a tux meme, edited to say “I wish all LGBT+ folk who live in countries where pride is banned, illegal, or unwelcomed a very I love you, stay safe, Happy Pride (red, orange, yellow, green, blue heart emoji). The edited text is in all caps, with LGBT+ in rainbow lettering. End ID.]

[sentient-noodle]

(i know, i should've made this post a while ago. and i apologize, i simply was unsure whether i am a right person to ask to make the post. i know this is not a justification, but i was distracted by the people smearing me on here. and i extend my apologies to the person who contacted me, if the final result is disappointing.)

some time ago, a person on this platform has contacted me in regards to what appears to be predatory behavior in a ttrpg community discord server. specifically, the discord server dedicated to ttrpg called "girl frame". most of the screens contained within this post are of the creator who runs the server, named isabelle (known also as anxiousmimicrpgs, thistle and c.m. ruebsaat).

the content below includes: predatory behavior, questonable views on consent, rape fetishization, transphobia, transandrophobia and mention of minors in spaces containing sexual content.

[dailycatsblog]

[chaifootsteps]

No Kendra in the pride poster, but fucking Chaz is right in the center.

[chaifootsteps]

I genuinely do not understand the constant slut shaming towards Verosika. Maybe it would be funny if it was acknowledged as ironic (because Blitzo is a sex maniac) but given this show always antagonizes sexually promiscuous women it just feels like the writers channels their misogyny into Blitzo and plays it off as a gag.

It comes off like “hahaha yeah Verosika IS a whore” which as terrible as apology tour was, i thought the show was doing a good job at steering away from those jokes.

Unfortunately, that's exactly how the show plays it. "Verosika's a whore and that's bad because she's a woman. Multiple male characters doing the same thing is perfectly fine."

[chaifootsteps]

Favorite 80s songs?

Gypsy, Fast Car, Human Nature, You're My Home, I Wanna Dance with Somebody...the 80s had so many good ones, it's hard to choose!

[chaifootsteps]

new phone, new (but also old) esoteric smash or pass.

on our inaugural outing, I asked if you found the self-destruct alarm of the USCSS Nostromo smashable...but we're neglecting a very smashable ship in favor of her alarm

so...smash or pass, the USCSS Nostromo in her totality?

*dreamy sigh* space ships....

Definite smash. 101/10, would straddle whatever part of the Nostromo vibrates the most.

[yellowocaballero]

writing Naruto [the guy] is genuinely super hard. he has to always be right and everything he says has to be wrong. i can't have him talk remotely intelligently or coherently but he always has to convey the point better than anybody else. he doesnt have normal human reactions or emotions to almost anything, and he does have about three emotions overall, but he has absolute empathy and deep understanding of his fellow man. its like everything he says would be wrong and stupid if he wasn't in Naruto The Manga, but because he is the main character somehow he always has to be right. all he has is a hammer but by sheer stroke of luck he lives in the nail dimension. i dont think other people have this problem and i do think this is a problem i chose to have. but it is my problem.

[yellowocaballero]

i love reading the specific kind of naruto fix-it that's like "Kakashi decided to be a decent teacher so all of the kids are actually good at their job". And fix-it fics/Peggy Sues/etc in general go What If Naruto Was Smart And Less Infuriatingly Stupid?

but for me, I feel like...Naruto already is smart. He is already insanely perceptive and insightful and charismatic. Because he's the main character and he can just say the stupidest shit and it is somehow extremely correct. Local ninja invents therapy just by listening to someone trauma-dump and go, "wow, that sucks. I also know what it's like to be miserable. You should have faith in yourself though!" and they're cured. those are the words of buddha in open toes sandals.

I don't feel the need to make him traditionally smart, or to change who he is in order to signal more easily that he is secretly intelligent. Somebody can be smart in a lot of different ways, and it's boring to me to take a character who is already a genius in a few hyper-specific ways and to give him other kinds of intelligence, and say he's smart now.

my feelings on this do stem from the same place as "Sakura can be girly and make fun of people for being orphans AND be badass". let them be horrible and twelve.

this post has been brought to you by me actually staring at a specific line for like ten minutes trying to figure out how to say The Point in the absolute stupidest way physically possible.

[yellowocaballero]

I think to summarize the entire thing and how I approach it. And I hope my intention and meaning is conveyed to you this way. In my Naruto fic he says this line,

And it's not apparent at all and why would anybody tell this but I hope that you can kind of taste that fact that it's a semi-quote of my favorite Tumblr post [besides I don't dance].

Do you get the vibe. He will tell you it again. He will tell you it again. He will tell you it again. He is your friend. He will tell you it again. He will say it as many times as he needs to say it. He will love you as long as you want to be loved.

[mixterglacia]

Happy pride to my over hyped cardboard box. (Not that he deserves it)

[chaifootsteps]

Happy pride to everyone but mostly the person who made this.

[riotd]

i’m very self aware. which unfortunately hasn’t solved anything

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

Regarding Rocky from PHM

For full clarity, Eridians are hermaphrodites, so it wouldn't be wrong to suggest he's a contender for the sexy enby contest rather than sexy man. Grace just got used to calling him he XD

my propaganda for that, look at my boyfriend's cute little stretch. Even if not, look at my boyfriend regardless.

That’s a very good point

[fireboaserpent]

hey that's a slur. please don't use that. eridians are monosex. hermaphrodite is a slur for intersex people

[mixterglacia]

My apologies, but that's not what I'm using it for. It's a scientific term, and specifically is the verbage used to refer to Eridians. If he were intersex, which he's not, it would be a slur.

But this is quite literally what they are. I hope you understand.

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

I hope it kills the president this year

You and me both