Genuinely fuck the steady hands company. I’m very tired about being nice about it in their comments because they will not stop fucking responding to me. I made a comment saying that their video that was titled “we’re not clowning around” with my comment being “actually most of this clothing is jester attire so yeah I guess you aren’t actually clowning around. sorry, my bad.” And then in response, they immediately became super passive aggressive and started trying to make me look like a dumbass, and then, when I explained my joke, they started acting like I was overreacting and being an idiot for typing more than a sentence. 
They even acknowledge the fact that yes it’s not even clown clothing, so I was right either way I just stated that it was a adjuster and not a harlequin, which partially isn’t even true because harlequins are inspired by jesters that originated in Italy and then were reimagined in France.
This is just a genuinely absolute shit way to handle your customers or just even people trying to be nice. I don’t think me making a joke about wordplay is me being evil and overdramatic yet this company seems to think that it is the most annoying thing that I could’ve ever done and is still yelling at me in the comments as I’m typing this, they will not stop responding to me and it’s really fucking annoying. I’m never buying from this company ever because they’re just insanely unprofessional. 
I wanna be very clear about this and rephrase how I initially wrote this because I initially wrote this very angry and clouded by anger and I sounded very immature so I want to approach this from a more normal standpoint. I had a “conversation” (in air quotes because it was one singular message to someone in the notes of their post). Where I said something along the lines of
“calling STAT from regretevator “pedobait” is weird and says more about you than what you think the creators were intending to do. You should not accuse people of being pedophiles for making ageless, adult characters have a cute clothing style. YOU also should not be supporting creators that have been known to talk to pedophiles in the past and continue to financially support pedophiles in the past. It is very easy to complain about something or if you see something that you don’t like simply block the person leave and do not respond to them, which is what I’m going to do to you now. What you’re doing is weird, please seek help.”
Note: I think somewhere along the lines I mentioned “I’m probably older than you.” This is just for a small detail later.
I then blocked this person and went about my day. In fact I went about my day for around two weeks. I would say my perception of time is pretty bad so that might not be correct, but I did not think about them at all after this. Then today I looked at my strap page and I noticed I had 21 gimmicks/notes sent to me. Here is my first reaction to these:
My reaction in the video is a bit aggressive, and I am still very very angry about this, but this person IS younger than me and I was correct. I am a grown adult. I am in my 20s and I am older than this person that said “I’m 18 by the way”. You are still a child to me. I am older than you. That doesn’t make you less of a human being, but I am in fact older and my point in bringing that up was that I don’t believe you understand how Internet culture or a lot of decisions in game design work as a teenager.
What I can tell from this is this person is in very deep and severe psychosis and I won’t be attaching their name to this post at all because I don’t want people to harass them in anyway, but I do want them to be held accountable for their actions. Maybe they’ll see this post and it’ll hit them “Hey this stuff isn’t okay” or maybe they’ll see it and do nothing or have a breakdown again. My reason for talking to them initially I’ll be at a bit rude on my end. I made many mistakes in my teenage years and I simply wanted to give a bit of a shove more than a gentle push in the right direction, but I think I was also high at the time so that probably vaguely explains my anger but isn’t an excuse for my rudeness. My general consensus for this—although it is just a sort of private matter and I will probably end up deleting this since it’s not very important—I just want to bring it to anyone’s attention that sees this or sees any people acting like this online. It is very triggering to have people harass you and send you a bunch of messages. I myself have personal trauma from abusive partners messaging me and begging me for forgiveness and screaming at me, so getting this sort of stuff on my straw page is a bit freaky. But at the end of the day, we do still have to recognise that these are people and children and teenagers behind the screen. Some of them are definitely misguided, and there is some overlap in misguided teenagers where some of them are very, very mentally ill and in psychosis and they may act foolishly online because that’s just what the Internet is made to make people do the Internet is made to make you talk about everything. The Internet is made to make you feel watched. It’s not a safe place for teenagers or kids or really even anyone anymore so at the end of the day I don’t entirely blame this person for reacting this way the world is really awful right now and I do just hope the best for them, but it’s very scary to get these messages.
If whoever sent this abundance of messages is reading this, I do hope that you are okay and I hope that you get help. There are people out there who will love you in the future regardless of your past mistakes, but you should still put your all into being a better person. It makes life a bit more bearable. That is all, but I hope things are okay at home and in your personal life. Please stay safe and reflect when you can, it helps.
Seeing everymanhybrid and kasper mixed together is literally like being handed meth and cocain mixed into a burger im going to start bleeding from my eyes and screaming
Honeypot ants are such silly creatures! So wonderful and whimsical! A bug whose butt is so full of nectar that she acts as a honey dispenser for her sisters? That's so ant. Of course it would be an ant to do that. And yet, there is no honeypot ant Pokemon! In fact, there's only ever been one, in Durant, which is a cool ant... but it's a huge shame that it only has the one form, when ants are known for the incredible diversity among their nest members!
So, what would a honeypot ant Pokemon be like? What type would it be? Let me tell ya: I don't know. Let's go through every possibility, and see which is the best option!
BUG: Starting off easy! The pure Bug version is the default honeypot ant from real life. The honey may often have plant origins, but it's been processed enough by ants that it absolutely counts as a Bug Substance.
GRASS: Very similar to bug, but this time, it's just pure, unprocessed NECTAR! How did it get in there without being processed into Bug Honey? I don't know. Maybe the abdomen has a little door that opens for easy access.
FIRE: LAVA! The classic fire liquid! This ant is able to safely contain lava within its body, because of a layer of protective mucus. Mucus is so useful!
WATER: This is sooo easy. This one is full of WATER, duh! It's just like a water balloon. That's all. I'm so good at this. They should hire me to make real ants!
ELECTRIC: Oh god it turns out this is not sooo easy. I need to fill an ant with Electricity Liquid? What the hell. I don't know. Let's just put a PLASMA COIL in its abdomen. Please don't get mad at me that it isn't liquid.
GROUND: Back to liquid! This one is filled with MUD, of course. Her fellow ants don't get much use out of this, but she doesn't care. She's making quite a pretty penny selling her unique blend of mud to mud-dauber wasps on the internet! She's the only ant in the colony with a car!
FLYING: Flying is always represented with feathery wings and birds, but I will not be putting any feathers in an ant. The Flying ant is very full of herself, boasting about her accomplishments any chance she gets. This ant is full of hot air! But enough about her personality. This ant's abdomen is brimming with HELIUM.
POISON: The other ants are so naive. They think that when they bring nectar to their replete sisters, it's getting stored in their abdomens for later, rather than being swallowed normally. The fools! THIS ant's abdomen is full of STOMACH ACID! She'll digest if it's the last thing she does!
ROCK: kidney stone :(
FAIRY: The Fairy type is associated with sugar, but some sweet liquids are already off the table here. Honey is already covered, as a Bug fluid. Maple syrup would be Grass. But I think it's okay if we distance ourselves from the source material! This ant will be full of PANCAKE syrup. Not maple syrup! Naturally-or-artificially-flavored syrup where the first ingredient is high fructose corn syrup! "Yummy"
ICE: It's just SNOW. Sorry. There aren't many options here, in this one type that's specifically defined by the fact that it's the solid version of another type.
FIGHTING: This ant has really worked up a SWEAT! Internally! Her abdomen is full of her own sweat as a result of rigorous exercise. It sounds unpleasant, but as a replete, she can simply regurgitate this sweat into the open mouths of any receptive worker ants. Is this yuri?
STEEL: Everyone loves FERROFLUID! Yippee ferrofluid! What a funny fluid. This ant is magnetic. But it better watch out... the magnetized anteaters are coming! What a predicament! And boy are they weird looking! I'm looking at them now, in real life. I sure wish you could see them!
NORMAL: What's more normal than a mammal's signature liquid? And what's the most normal of all mammals? I'm going to say a vole. I feel like it's a vole. So, the Normal ant has an abdomen full of VOLE MILK! You'd better like it! Do you have any idea how hard it is to milk such minuscule teats?
PSYCHIC: This one is full of BLOOD! But not just any blood! Blood from the Blood Brain Barrier. The most intellectual kind. Blood that wears glasses!
DRAGON: This one is full of DRAGON BLOOD! Because dragons are special, I guess. Like animals, but special. Feh. As if the humble earthworm isn't special. I'm going to replace this ant's wyrmblood with wormblood when nobody's looking! Then it will be Bug/Annelid type. Annelids actually exist, so Annelid just makes more sense as a type than Dragon. You agree!
DARK: This one is full of blood too, but I promise there's a good reason! Dark is one of the most abstract types of all, as the Mean and Evil and Schemes type. There are some evil liquids in the world... and they're poisons! Won't work here. So this ant contains the metaphorical BAD BLOOD that exists between enemies!
GHOST: Finally, the most ghostly substance of all... NOT ectoplasm! That is not real. It's BONE MARROW! From a scary skeleton! Don't worry, it's not from YOUR skeleton... unless you're scary! This is an extra creepydeepy choice, because imagine the skeleton the marrow came from. Now its bones are hollow. They're make an extra-eerie sound when played like a xylophone!
So, that's a honeypot ant of every type! Which one would YOU choose as you starter- what? No. Come on. We really have to say that? We're not even actually affiliated. Ugh Fine. Which one would YOU choose as your First Partner Ant?
wait, so what is the actual story behind the mlm flag? (the one people seem to really hate so much).
buckle up.
in 2016, someone messaged a pride flag tumblr account (ask-pride-color-schemes) about what the gay/mlm flag could be. they suggested since the lesbian flag (at the time) was the lipstick lesbian flag without the lips, maybe the gay flag could be the bear flag without the paw.
another suggestion was to use the same set up as the lipstick lesbian flag (seven stripes with white in the middle).
the pride flag account pointed out that the colors of the bear flag might be too associated with bears for that to work, and that purple/blue in that set up was already being used as a butch lesbian flag, so they made a green/blue one instead.
in 2019, someone (gayflagblog) decided to alter the flag that ask-pride-color-schemes made in order to address some of the issues people had with it, such as no meanings being attributed to it, and the assumption that it was just "lesbian flag but blue for boys".
the changes made, color-wise, are subtle enough that i still see people thinking they're the same flag made by the same person. the green stripes are more green than green-blue, and the blue stripes are slightly different shades. each color seems a little more distinct, whereas the colors of the first flag are very similar to each other.
as for the meaning of the flag, it's inspired by the creator's research into queer history, their and other people's experiences as gay men, and gilbert baker's flag.
people started aggressively hating this flag for being a "recolor" or "hue shift" of the sunset lesbian flag (orange/pink), but the sunset lesbian flag (the five stripe simplified version*) was voted on in a poll as the lesbian flag in 2018, a year after the green/blue gay flag color scheme was shared.
even though the final altered version of the gay flag was shared in 2019, it wasn't based on or a hue shift of the sunset lesbian flag.
(*the sunset flag was originally seven stripes by emily gwen, but was then simplified to five and three stripes by purrfectbycath, with the five stripe flag winning the poll.)
and yes, the gay flag was intended to have the same set up as the lipstick lesbian flag without the lips. but in 2010, the lipstick lesbian flag was stolen from the cougar flag, right down to the lips, which was created by a gay drag queen (fausto fernos) in 2008.
the cougar flag was inspired by the leather and bear flags from the '80s and '90s, which have nine and seven stripes, respectively, with white in between and a symbol in the corner.
sometime in 2015, the lips were removed from the lipstick lesbian flag and it was declared "the lesbian flag". once people learned of the lipstick lesbian flag "creator" being racist and lesbophobic and a terf and who knows what else, people started making alternatives, combining the lipstick and butch flags being the most popular idea, and thus the sunset flag.
so all in all, the seven stripe with white in the middle flag set up is not specific to lesbians, and actually originated amongst gay men. the gay flag is not stealing or copying from lesbians. gay and lesbian culture and symbolism is intertwined, and there's nothing wrong with being inspired by one another or wanting similar symbolism to represent shared struggles and solidarity.
