Welcome to the Cup Blog here since circa 2013 with incidents at a semi-regular pace.
Previously cupsmp
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I am multifandom so I post whatever I like forever. Main postings right now: House MD, Scrubs, Pitt, ER, Psych, St. Denis Medical, Severance, BG3, The Sims, Minecraft, Some mcyt, Some DSMP, Tommyinnit, Supernatural, Anime/Manga (DBZ, Lucky Star, WHA, Gachiakuta), TADC, Clair Obscur, and more!
What Am I Writing Right Now: I have some unfinished DSMP/OSMP fics I am slowly working on to finish (The Legend of the Exiled God (& His Diner, I Rose From The Fire, A Gas Station Phone Answering Machine series), House MD (A Study into Dying and Coming Back to Life (+ Other Medical Mysteries), Returning Home, Pt3 of Occupying Space Series), Psych (Mechanisms of a Soul, In Sickness and in Undercover Cases). + other WIPs (unposted). If you want to hear about OCs and OC writing, follow the sideblog!
DSMP/MCYT CCs: All DSMP characters are removed from the ccs at this point and to me they are our (fandom's) OCs. I do not support Wilbur Soot, Dream, and many other CCs at this point due to their horrific actions. I still watch and support Tommyinnit mainly and a few other random ccs.
Writing Requests: Open 2026 (Thematic Challenge).
Sims 4 Build Requests: Open (non-specific challenge; feel free to send an ask!)
Banners in order: lotings message, battenna post, my sc, my sc, sunblazes post sc, my sc faggottonystark tags, my sc, mysc wibur, mysc, banner by @scaryfaggot, blinkies cafe edit by me (all 3). this blinkie i forgor who made but i stole from @metfell bc its about me yay
Name: Cup
Age: 27 - grad student
Pronouns: they/he/it
bisexual and genderqueer, and i prefer masc or neutral terms primarily.
I am autistic I may ask for tone clarification and I often use tone indicators. I also have auditory processing issues so sometimes I can mishear certain words or misunderstand a sentence -> If i do this with quoting a video/stream/etc let me know!
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Past Zines/Fandom Exchanges: Dreamoire Zine (Characters: c!Eryn, and c!Wilbur), DSMPPoetryZine (Writing: c!Ranboo, c!Sam, and c!Wilbur). Mcytblr Summer Au 2022, Mcytblr Holiday Fic Exchange 2022
Past Surveys: [DSMP Nicknames (if anyone can find the link to the results of this lemme know!)]
Series of tiktok comments funny out of context: 1
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Tagging System:
Chatting: my musings
Favorites: fav
Saves/References: save, writing reference, art reference, for later, read later, web weaving inspo
Important (i.e. political news): us politics, psa, etc.
Maintags: Art, writing, politics, mutual aid (ie palestine gfm)
Liveblogging a stream: CC.LIVEBLOG (ie tommy.liveblog for tommyinnit)
Non-main fandom tags: cup.FANDOM (ie cup.wha or cup.spn)
Fics (general): cup.fics or cup.poetry
Surveys: cup.survey
Blog theme stuff: cup.themes, cup.pfp
sims builds: cup.builds
mutuals: tea.cakes
anons: tea.cups
discord/etc messages with friends: cup.chats
I tag common tws as tw [trigger]. Let me know when to add one. I also try to tag discourse if I feel like it's relevant/people ask to block it.
DNI: I block bigots, terfs, rude people, dream/wilbur soot/lovejoy/etc freak cc supporters. I also block proshippers. Sometimes i just block because im annoyed but its not really that deep or personal. If we were mutuals before I usually try to soft block (nuanced).
Boundaries on my writing/art/sims builds: You may always rec the things I do without needing to ask me first. You also dont need my permission for fanart but I'd appreciate a tag and I can def link it in my fic! Webweaves/inspired works please cite me/tag the fic or me. For sims builds I only need credit if you're going to do an inspired build from one of mine. If you're just say renovating the build/using it for your sims or blogging id appreciate a tag because id love to see it but not necessary to credit me. Any more specific boundaries are on my ao3
Boundary about my graduate program: though i am happy to direct people to resources if i know of any off hand please dont ask me diagnose you in my ask box it makes me very uncomfortable especially because i am not finished my education and do not know you.
i wish more people talked about the political undertones in the phm book.
What i've been thinking about recently is the way Andy "Apolitical" Weir hardcore stereotypes each nationality he represents. the Chinese officials are spying on our scientists. the Russian officers are 80% vodka. this Dutch/German is stern. whatever the fuck was going on with that Canadian. like ok my man we GET it. even if we didn't know anything about Weir, we can clearly deduce this book was written by an American from its sheer lack of self-awareness, especially when it comes to stereotypes about Americans-- you ever talk to a non-american who witnessed american behavior in the wild?
Andy Weir (probably) pictures himself, and by extension Grace, as the Normal and Default, and so he doesn't portray any American quirks or stereotypical behavior (other than the "Thinking In Imperial", which doesn't really extend to outside of Grace's head)
However, in doing so, Weir is actually inadvertently portraying an American who is totally oblivious to his own behavior and biases. Which is, I would say, the prototypical American behavior. Weir just didn't know he was writing a stereotypical American because he was just portraying himself a Regular Guy.
so by criticizing the american-centric mindset, I'm sorry to say, Weir has, on a technicality, stumbled into being pretty woke. Unfortunate. he won't let it happen again
in my little pony universe youd go to a job interview and theyd be like so how does your cutiemark reflect your dedication to this position. And every time youd have to spew some bullshit about how your cutiemark of two tennis rackets actually means youre a team player and good at multitasking and view the market like a playing field. or whatever. and you wouldnt even get the job
Thanks to Equestria v Sugar Sprinkle, cutie mark interview questions are considered hiring discrimination, so if anypony asks you any cutiemark related questions or even alludes to any questions about your cutiemark such as "In your own words, describe your life purpose" you can and should refuse to answer. Know your rights, ponies.
advancing gender equality by making my female characters bad listeners and self-serving and focused on their own shit and politically incorrect and disinterested in the inner worlds of the men in their lives and hostile to other women and emotionally immature and ruthless and cunning and apolitical to their own detriment and complicit and
there should be a term for characters you personally don't care about but you defend them anyways because the way people treat them is really uncomfortable. like ok this is a very middle-of-the-road character for me but the fandom's either been super misogynistic, racist, etc. about them or harassed innocent people who try to genuinely explore that character warts and all, and i find that more annoying than the actual character.
the term should by 'my client', like you're a lawyer defending your client that you are completely indifferent to but you are obligated by your job (or your morals) to defend
Apparently some people still need to hear this so: using an 'ai checker' is still using ai. If you are feeding someone's fic to one of these checkers, you will still not be sure their fic is ai because they are not 100% accurate, but you can be 100% sure that you are using ai. For fic. Furthermore you are doing the work of an ai scraper for them. You are, personally, feeding the machine. There is no actual excuse for using an ai checker on fanfic as a hobby. YOU are the problem.
If you think a fic is ai, mute it and move on. That's it. That's all you do.
"Americanization" is a real phenomenon, and how non-Americans should be cautious of it is taught in different countries at school. It's taught in Greece and people from other countries told me their elementary or middle school teachers (using the American grades, to make it make sense to the majority on the site) talked to them about it.
It's common sense here, except for USians, so I'll analyze it a bit more for the dominant demographic here. In a globalized setting, the most dominant culture affects the others and sets the trends. The way our language works, how we think, our levels of politeness and intimacy, and our levels of respect. (flash news, they are going down 😂)
I don't want to imply that there is nothing good in the US. There are plenty of positives in the country. It's just that for the rest of the cultures online it's a constant daily fight to not forget our roots, with the degree US media and brands have permeated our lives. In Greece at least we watch more US American media than Greek media nowadays, and many of our shows are rip-offs of USian ones, with little adaptation to Greek reality and culture.
And to demonstrate the amount of this exposure, a 22-year-old Greek asked me the other day "if something happens we call 911, right?" This might have literally cost them their life, in a dangerous situation! Because all the movies and songs they consumed (not an unusual thing for the Greek youth) were what they knew. And I found a similar comment in this comment thread.
Lots of Americans in the notes failing to understand this post. It's not about not liking the US. It's not about you feeling ashamed or guilty for being American. It's not about you.
It's about American media drowning out native language media all over the world, and workplaces requiring the English language in your repertoire more and more. It's about proper translations and foreign language dubbing of films disappearing because "everyone speaks/should speak English anyway." All of this is leading to the deterioration of native speaker groups of languages worldwide.
In my country, Dutch language courses can't find enough people who want to study the language, while English language courses are overflowing with people who want to study the language. There is even widespread distaste for the Dutch language for being crude or sounding rough or what have you. That's our native language!!! That is our culture in its purest form!!! That is knowledge we inherit from our parents as they did from theirs!!! That is how we learned fairytales and folk stories and myths!!! That is the language that shapes our communication and our way of thinking!!! To hate your native language is to hate yourself at the deepest level.
And yet it's so normalised. Droves of foreigners living in the Netherlands will never learn a word of Dutch, because "everyone speaks English anyway." We are the world's leaders in non-native understanding of English, but it comes at a cost. A grave cost we will continue to pay.
If you're looking to support your non-American friends in any way that is not performatively shouting "I hate being an American" into the void, first of all, unlearn that hatred of yourself and your culture. You are of no help self-flagellating, and there is a difference between holding your country accountable for its issues, and denying yourself your culture because your country is doing and has done bad things.
(I am not going to get into arguments about whether or not US American culture exists. It does, and if you think differently you are welcome to change your mind.)
Secondly, learn about other countries. Learn a bit of Chinese. Take an interest in the Italian political system. Ask your friends about their countries' folklore. Watch documentaries about art from Nigeria. Absorb information that is not fed to you by American media.
And thirdly, quit expecting your non-American friends to communicate in a way that appeals to you. The French and Dutch will always seem rude to you because our way of communicating is far more direct than the way you communicate. People from other cultures may seem vague to you because their way of communicating is far more indirect, and you're not used to that either. Quit being frustrated when you don't get what we mean exactly. Quit assuming we mean the absolute worst thing you could imagine just because you didn't get what we meant the first time. Ask us to explain if you need us to, and learn to accept that we are different from you.
We are already adapting to your culture 100% of the time we are online. It's your responsibility to adapt to us, too. At least do your friends the courtesy of learning about and adapting to them.
We are already adapting to your culture 100% of the time we are online. It's your responsibility to adapt to us, too. At least do your friends the courtesy of learning about and adapting to them.
