MillenniumAspen

Call me Aspen! 30 | she/they | writer | Michigander This is a personal/multi-fandom blog. I use it to post my writing, occasional pixel art, anything related to my fandoms, media analysis, or just whatever strikes my fancy. Fandoms you'll likely see here a lot: Amazing Digital Circus, Persona (especially P3), Pokemon, Warrior Cats

[millenniumaspen]

[sotha-sel-of-telvanni]

"Come, my friends, gay or lesbian come. Come and look upon the Pride, and the Flags. And bring your slay... I have need of it."

Come to the Queer Chamber. I wait for you there, where we last met, countless ages ago."" Come to me, through love and protest. I welcome you. Welcome, Queer-and-Proud. I have prepared a place for you. Come. Bring Wraithguard to the Queer Chamber. Together let us free our cursed closeted brethren." "Welcome, Nerevar. Together we shall speak for the Law and the Land, and shall drive the mongrel dogs of the Republicans from Morrowind. Is this how you honor the Sixth House, and the queers unmourned? Come to me openly, and not by stealth. Dagoth Ur welcomes you, Nerevar, my old gay "friend". But to this place where slay is made. Why have you come unhappy? Welcome, Queer-and-Proud to this place where slay is made.

credit to: @DagothUrTheGod on X.com

[snoomfies]

snoopy pride flags :)

[catchymemes]

[collimiidk]

She looks like she is going to be blown away.

My 1st pixel art, hope u like it! ^^

Drawing on: Pixquare (Edit: I read the reviews and they said the app is made by a creator from MY COUNTRY!?)

[prokopetz]

If nothing else, you have to give Gooseworx and the Amazing Digital Circus crew credit because they're all very online people and 100% had to know that making a show whose basic premise is "what if a bunch of people who are all fundamentally a bit exhausting to hang out with were forced to hang out with each other at gunpoint" was a fandom discourse bomb waiting to happen, and they did it anyway.

[millenniumaspen]

(Source)

Today is my birthday! My friend Strayhowl drew this wonderful gift for me. She knows me too well, and she's a great artist.

We've known each other for eight years now, and I couldn't be more grateful for all that she's done for me over that time. I can't believe how old we've gotten! Cheers to many more years together!

Reuploaded with permission.

[neowiz]

“Memories of you “🥹❤️❤️

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[pragnificent]

This is Money Snake. She only appears every 312 years. 

If you reblog her picture within the next twenty-five seconds you will have good luck and fortune for the rest of your life. 

[millenniumaspen]

F4F?

you can help write my TADC AU

Tell me about this AU. I am curious

[norithelord]

Gangle and Zooble post 👇

those artists and their weird stuff 🤨

[mask131]

I wanted to make this post anyway, but the previous reblog actually urged me to put it first before the others.

When I was digging through the leak tag to block the leak-enthusiasts, I noticed some strange specific wording being used about them justifying their reactions or their behavior. Such as saying how much they had "bonded" over specific characters and thus whatever happened to this character would be very dependant and absolutely key to their behavior towards the show or how they would consider the show in its entirety. Now, if you are used to the TADC fandoms and pseudo-dramas, you know people have been getting unhealthily obsessed and disturbingly "possessive" of their characters since day one.

But the thing is it isn't just happening for TADC, it is happening for a lot of other shows and products as well, and... As I looked at the wording of the sentences a disturbing comparison hit me. The way some people spoke about it was religious. Not in content but in tone and implications. When you look at a lot of these people getting obsessed over specific characters, while jokes are expected at nerds or parasocial or delusional people or whatever, I invite you to consider it by a religious angle.

We are talking about people devoting their life and time to these fictional figures, basing their decisions and their view of the world solely on them. We are talking about a lot of FAITH here, with the theories, the headcanons, and when the official things (or other people) contradict this faith they have, these beliefs they have, they treat them as people used to treat heretics back then. (And then there's also the reverse with the literal demonization of specific characters or even IRL figures in relation to fictional characters).

People joked that the old religious wars were replaced by the fandom wars, but this comparison is becoming so accurate it is not a comparison anymore. There is a religiosity in the way people treat fictional characters and cartoons nowadays (ESPECIALLY cartoons - you see this less with shows or movies using IRL actors because the very presence of the actor as a human being existing outside of the character tends to break the full "faith immersion", but even then we all know it still happened too many times that actors were treated as their own character).

And this disturbing religiosity echoes a lot of other recent things that happened... The way a lot of the so called "neo-pagans" on the Internet are actually sharing entire conversations they presumably had with their "gods" and you see that they treat them as imaginary friends more than actual deities... And this whole wave of insanity about people believing their dreams their real, that lucid dreaming was travelling to other universes, and fantasizing about specific events made them as real as IRL ones... And more recently you can see how heavily dependant and reliant people become on AI-running virtual entities that they often themselves create, this whole AI-chatbot addiction...

There is something so disturbing in all that. With the worst part being that these people want to pass it off as "normal" behavior and are working VERY hard to normalize it. But when you treat a cartoon character as religious authorities historically treated saintly figures, you have to understand you have crossed a threshold.

[millenniumaspen]

After this leak stuff, I truly feel bad for Gooseworx. I've not seen any of the leaked stuff, but it's evident over the past few days how much this sucks for her and the fandom.

My similar age to Gooseworx (she is less than two years older than me) has always made it very easy for me to empathize with her, but also not put her on a pedestal. I know a lot of younger TADC fans idolize her, but to me, she just seems like a normal young person who unduly had the weight of the world placed on her. Being in that age range... I just can't imagine having those kinds of expectations placed on me. Gooseworx is a talented woman, certainly, but she's still a normal human, just like the rest of us.

I think as a fandom, we need to extend her grace for not always acting how we think she should, and respect any desire for privacy. I do worry about the state of her mental health. It would probably be good for her to fade into obscurity after being thrust into the public eye like she was, if that's what she desires.

In any case, even if I end up accidentally spoiled in the next eleven days, I am still going to see The Last Act in theaters on June 4th. Win, lose, or draw, I sink or swim with this series. I want this to be a joyous occasion, no matter what. I want the series to be remembered for the way it brought so many people from so many different backgrounds together, and I hope for the woman who created it to get the peace she deserves.

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[millenniumaspen]

I was taking a nap and woke up to news that TADC episode 9 got leaked, including the ending. WTF?

I guess that's my cue to step away from this fandom entirely for the next two weeks. It'll be hard, but I'm not gonna actively look for content until the official release. I don't want to get spoiled, and I definitely do not want to support leakers. This news has made me very upset.

[persona-game-info]