Hi, Rando Advice Giver here again with something I forgot to say in my original post: I've been following you since back when you were first starting your 035 blog. I don't interact with your posts as much as I could, but seeing your art on my dash always brightens my day. I'm here silently cheering you on, and I'd bet my bottom dollar there are more like me doing the same. The SCP stuff might have been what made me a fan, but I'm def. sticking around for anything else you do!
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Most of my following really kicked off with the 035 blog, and I really enjoyed the fact that so many people liked my work, especially since I was going through a very rough time in my life during a good amount of the beginning duration of that blog.
I know not everyone is going to like my original work, my other fanart work, ect, but I do highly appreciate each and every follower I get who enjoys my work whether it’s just for a specific fandom, my original work, a patchwork of things, or just sitting and trucking through every bit of mayhem I post, lol.
And thank you, your pep-talk really has brightened me up. ;v;
(In reference to the haunted butthole post) "#me when my ass briefly became a 4chan meme" Excuse me WHAT. Ratthew, I am SO curious to hear this backstory. Like, the 'my ass' in conjunction with the post being about buttholes makes me think it was your actual ass that was the meme, and that raises /so many questions/ xD
oh my lord lmao I’ve mentioned this a few times before I think but not for a while... honestly as you can imagine it doesn’t come up much but I’m truly surprised it comes up at all 😂
basically Back In The Day™ (2007-2010 era, so approximately a million years ago in Internet Time) I was a fairly prolific creepypasta writer on 4chan’s Paranormal board, /x/. back in those days the creepypasta content was pretty good, a lot of the classics come from that time period, alternate reality games were popular, etc. I spent a lot of time on there taking prompts or inspiration from the creepy pictures people would post, and a lot of people started recognising me around. the honourable citizens of 4chan decided they liked me, and this meant a kind of personality cult status where people would draw pictures of me and have a few memes here and there and basically have me as a kind of mascot, which was pretty wild.
one day I wrote up and posted a new creepypasta that went down really well. the thread was alight with people talking about how it scared the hell out them, etc, and one person commented that, and I quote, “this story is so fucking good I want to die and come back just so I can haunt your ass”. this is an exact quote, because this is not the kind of thing you can forget. anyway, for some reason this comment above all others seemed to resonate with everyone, and the idea of a ghost haunting my ass took off. just my ass, mind you. not my house. not even me personally. just my ass.
there were creepypastas written about me and my haunted ass. there were comics drawn of me trying to live my life with my haunted ass. there were intentionally bad creepypastas of me and my haunted ass. people were using tripcodes/nicknames related to me, my haunted ass, or both. someone wondered if we could create a cult based around my haunted ass. it was a wild time. it lasted a few weeks, which for 4chan back then was quite some time, and then faded out.
ITT: Meta, bitching, and @antipuff letting me have my Opinions and putting up with my mad ramblings.
Harinezumiko:
(ITT we never finish our goddamn fics)
god, I should relent and reread the Jaspearl Kyou Kara Maou Fake Married fic and finish it
I say knowing I went so far from canon that I would die from it
ROSE WAS STILL PINK DIAMOND THOUGH
GOT THAT SHIT RIGHT /SHOT
Antipuff:
YOU SURE DID XD
You have amazing precog
Harinezumiko:
I think I actually had Jasper call Pearl out on being Pink's Pearl because Everyone Knew But Steven in that fic
where's the Pearlnet Sugar woman
I came for the OTP when do I get it
Antipuff:
You've guessed everything correctly, you deserve the Pearlnet xD
Harinezumiko:
I. DO.
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Garnet also, by How Writing A Character Arc Works, deserves to a) have the autonomy to decide if she wants sum fuk individually and not just declare that it'd be impeding on Rupphire, b) needs to be demonstrably wrong about her future vision in a way that isn't just for comedy or just to idiot ball a plot point, c) get sum fuk damn son she and Pearl are both hopeless romantics why are they not dating, d) stop being a pillar of the group and actually make good on letting the others in where we get to see it, e) not end the series being Solitary Black [Woman] Who Don't Need No [Man]™
having said this, I would also accept option f) get down to Bismuth ;D
also permafusion needs to stop being the only romantic demonstration of love between Gems
also why did we get "Three's a Crowd" declared twice and then Steven tells Amethyst Bismuth's third wordplay namedrop would be funny and get proven wrong, why are you not giving me my rule of three with Three's A Crowd, where the fuck is the final note
I mean I guess the numbered Lion episodes wasn't 3 either but >_>
Antipuff:
xDD
But yeah, those are some good points
Harinezumiko:
also I feel okay with my e) point mainly because [friend] not only agrees, I think they're the one who gave me the formatting, so.
Antipuff:
*nod nod nod I think that one's the best point!
Harinezumiko:
I do too! Although I also don't think that the ship should sail solely to subvert the trope. But like... what was the point of Sardonyx arc if they end the series more emotionally distant than they started it?
like, Pearl lying to Garnet [and Ruby and Sapphire] is so distressing that Garnet can't exist over it
and they then make it clear that this is Not Normal and also that finding out Rose was a lying liar is at least as distressing when they drop the Pink Diamond Bomb, when do I get resolution
Antipuff:
Right??
Harinezumiko:
like, at least lampshade it outside of the book on fusion where the only page with Garnet as an individual component to the fusion other than Rupphire is the Sardonyx lead-in where Sugar used a line typically describing romantic relationships for it
I would not be #satisfied but like at least have someone say it in the show??
give me someone from the rebellion noticing they're domestic damn you Sugar
Antipuff:
xD God, right? Don't just tease it!
Harinezumiko:
right??
like, it wouldn't even be totally unprecedented, we literally have Bismuth and Amethyst who've only seen them at wildly different points in knowing each other
and Bismuth already remarked on Pearl's affectionate behavior being Not What She's Used To like a liar, because give me touch-starved overly-affectionate Pearl who lavishes affection on her friends after battle because she's afraid she won't see them again because she has to go back with Pink and pretend they didn't just fight Yellow's troupes directly and Pink's not disposable like she is
it would be completely appropriate for her to be like Amethyst wtf they're attached at the hip, I have never seen this, and Amethyst to be like yeah no they were worse, also this is why I visit the barn always, Steven's room is too crowded now that he's got a neck
//shot
Antipuff:
sgfbhrwbhgwal too crowded
If Bismuth isn't used to it, I wonder at what point they started being touchy-feely with each other?
Harinezumiko:
Right?
Pearl was pretty handsy with Amethyst in the early-90s because someone had to reign in the feral child, so my assumption without shipping goggles was that they were all more physical before Rose died
and where Amethyst and Pearl clashed utterly on Not Dealing With That Shit and wound up fighting about everything, Pearl overcompensated for losing both the opportunity to cling on Rose and the closeness she'd had with Amethyst by gluing herself to Garnet's arm all the time, and Garnet allowed it because her new Leader Spot prevented her from being outwardly vulnerable
and then the +shipping opinion on my end was that they've been in love the entire time because OTP friends-to-lovers, and Garnet never said anything because Rose Reasons, and was waiting for Pearl to get her head out of the sand
...and also, obviously, in Pearl's case, a side of "oh my god the Gem I was made for is half of a meaty human baby now and everyone from the rebellion is either shattered or corrupted, I can't lose Garnet too" which only gets gayer the longer the series goes on
but I don't think Sardonyx would be who she is if the closeness was just after Rose died
Antipuff:
No, I don't think she would be either
I don't think they'd been Sardonyx since Rose died tbh
Harinezumiko:
I think if they had, it would've been to get shit done, but I generally agree
it would've only been short-bursts
but it'd also explain Amethyst's buttmad if she had a snag in her mane deep down that they still formed Sardonyx but she and Pearl couldn't form Opal
Antipuff:
Yeahhhh that absolutely tracks!
Harinezumiko:
watch, though, Sardonyx only existed post-Rose because Escapism outside of instances where Amethyst's life was at stake, but Amethyst being Amethyst only ever needed Sardonyx Intervention right before poofing
not really. i feel like that kind of thing can be explained by creaky pipes, subtle vibrations, little kids sneaking into a murder house and getting caught on camera, and all that
though for some reason im able to suspend my disbelief for the specter of newby church?? idk. i sure hope he’s real, he looks like a friend
