ok but I have Thoughts about the way Minecraft usernames translate to actual names, both irl and in fanfic. They’re definitely ‘obsessed with structure and grumpy at inconsistency flavor autism’ thoughts but still. I find it weird how we cut and paste the media we’re given to fit what we view as functional worldbuilding, and how that gets screwy when translating online names.
like, you’re working with several categories here. The person’s actual real name, their irl nickname, their gamer tag, a name possibly contained by or possibly the entirety of that gamer tag, and any extra pieces or symbols in the gamer tag. And you have the weird situation where those categories might not easily translate to a ‘First Name Last Name’ structure.
For an example, we’ve got Phil Watson, who’s gamer tag is ‘Ph1LzA,’ and is called Philza Minecraft or Philza. The ‘Minecraft last name’ is a…. Bit? A joke? A reference to a bit of lore? It’s unclear. The ‘Za’ bit was put there for flair and is now an integral part of his name. Sometimes it’s his last name. Sometimes his real last name is chucked in there. the 1 in his actual username is literally never referenced in nicknames or fic it’s like it’s not even there.
But that’s a simple one. What about Tubbo_? because we call him Tubbo Underscore. Like. We say the ‘_’ aloud. Why do we do that. What has possessed us to make that decision? What about FitMC? I’ve usually heard it said ‘Fit Emsee.’ Why say that, and not say ‘Minecraft? That’s not even really a last name, it’s just like…. His full first name. Fit is used more like a shortened nickname.
BadBoyHalo. Like. ‘Bad boy’ is a slang term, not a name. It would make the most sense to call him Halo, that’s the distinct noun in the name, the term the ‘bad boy’ bit is referring to. Like ‘GoodTimesWithScar’ but noooo. Bad. Halo is usually a last name, if it’s there at all. Skeppy on the other hand is… just his name. No last name ever.
Technoblade is also weird. Technoblade is his full name. We call him that. We ALSO call him ‘Techno,’ and use Blade as a last name. We also use Blade as a title. What the heck.
GeminiTay. We call her Gem. We use Tay as a last name sometimes. Her name is a Zodiac constellation. Literally nowhere I’m have I seen that affect her naming conventions.
IJevin. We just… remove the I. For everything. This wouldn’t bother me except we don’t do it with everyone and I’m starting to get annoyed by the inconsistency.
GoodTimesWithScar. Ok. This one also bugs me. Like, most fics call him Scar Goodtimes when they need a name. I’m not gonna dig into it but that’s…. Why? Why that?
Grian never gets a last name. Ranboo sometimes gets chopped into Ran and Boo but usually he’s an Underscore or he’s last nameless. Wilbur Soot functions wonderfully (until the get involved shhhh) but it’s too close to his real name it gets very confusing.
anyway, all of this sucks, I hate it all, we’re a terrible fandom /hj
all that nonsense aside, yknow who has a functional Firstname Lastname username? It’s even got a space, and proper capitals: Mumbo Jumbo. That’s who. Look at that. It’s perfect. Everyone should be more like Mumbo Jumbo. Thank you and good night.
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Edit: I know about Ranboo Beloved and Grian Dreamslayer and the various other characters whose names I didn’t mention perfectly in this post. This was no piece of journalism, this was an old man shouts at cloud meme personified. I was very overstimulated and this was what happened to catch my autistic ire. I’m not upset, just figured I’d clarify, a lot of people seem distressed at my not mentioning Beloved. Hope y’all are having a lovely day 💜
There are a lot of people who love Wolf Keum. This statement goes unquestioned since we can see how Wolf is still being actively discussed in the fandom. Well, I'm not saying that other characters aren't likeable, but I'm just pointing out how Wolf’s character is pretty captivating.
That alluring feeling doesn't come from nowhere. I suppose it comes from his instinctively mysterious nature and how he was depicted in the webcomic itself. He was shown as someone who is relatively impulsive and even got marked as someone who is ‘only acting out of instinct’. However the ‘only acting out of instinct' personality is soon debunked because we can see how he has the capacity to have rational judgements and thoughts as we progressed deeper into the story.
Though, this point isn't my main point that I want to focus on, instead I want to present another thing that captured my attention and toy with it for these past few days.
Since the thoughts I will be presenting have only been turned around in my mind for a little amount of time, thus I'm hoping one shall not expect a complete, comprehensible explanation. Though I'll still try my best to elaborate each point I bring up.
“This book will perhaps only be understood by those who have themselves already thought the thoughts which are expressed in it or similar thoughts. It is therefore not a textbook. Its object would be attained if there were one person who read it with understanding and to whom it afforded pleasure.” – (Wittgenstein, Tractatus)
Wolf's personality isn’t merely enticing, but also profoundly admirable. And here, I'm not talking about his “nonchalant” personality, rather I'm more fascinated by how he lived his life in general.
We recognize the fact that he's more drawn to the given present moment, rather than fixated on the potential of the future as he can't bring himself to care about the consequences of his actions in the upcoming times. Doing what he wants is the main goal in his head. Though I’m aware that he probably doesn't have a clear distinction between wants and needs. The things he wants to do become something he needs to execute. This is perhaps why he's framed as a “mad dog” since he never hesitates on handing out a punch.
This type of trait strongly hooks my interest, because of the unattainable nature, almost impossible to embody in the real world.
Society has constructed a system in which our actions shape how we are perceived as individuals. However, identity is not merely passive, it’s also active, as we often unconsciously adjust our behavior to align with others’ perceptions of who we are supposed to be. In the end, it becomes a continuous loop of identity formation.
This sort of system forces us to be aware of our actions and sometimes we can’t help but feel a little performative since we are always weighing what other people would perceive us if we chose to do something. It makes us not only the one who is actively doing the things, but also an observer of our own doings.
I’ll bring myself as an example here. At my school, we have quite a strict rule regarding phone bringing, in which we have to print out a form and fill it before asking our parents to sign it, marking that the parents are aware we are bringing phones to school. You must have the significant urgency to have your form approved. If they deem your reasoning as not so important, then they wouldn't accept your form. Though, a lot of people bring phones to school even though they didn't fill the form.
But for me, since I am aware that I am perceived as a good kid by my teacher, I decided to just not bring my phone to school. Instead, I bring my book to read whenever I have to wait for my bus.
So? What's the issue?
I just feel performative. It feels like I'm performing the acting of a good kid that the teachers want to see. And I think this is because at that moment I'm not merely reading, but also observing the condition that I'm reading. It shows I'm not fully living in the present moment. I try to appear as “nonchalant” while reading my book, but inside I’m anxious whenever someone walks past me, because deep down, I care, perhaps too much, about how people see me whenever I read my book, considering most of the students in my school prefer to stick their eyes to their phones.
I feel performative by acting like I'm not trying to be different from others. Well, I'm not trying to be, but I hope you get what I mean. And please keep in mind that I actually like my book and enjoy myself a little reading, hence it also makes me confused why I feel this way. Might be because the perception of me being a good kid by others that unconsciously put me in a position to oblige the expectations.
Essentially, I often overthink people's judgement of me.
And seeing Wolf’s way of living his life sparked my genuine interest. I love his careless sentiment since it reveals that Wolf is really living for himself and doesn't care what people have to say about him.
He completely owns up his loss and isn't reluctant to acknowledge someone's victory. (When he was fighting with Gray, he said that he despised Gray’s dirty tricks, though at the end, we can assume Wolf granted that Gray has the ability to take him down, because there’s no desperate attempt to reclaim pride, no insistence on a rematch to reassert dominance).
Perhaps that’s what sets him apart. He doesn’t seem tethered to the usual systems that govern how people present themselves. Most people, consciously or not, adjust their behavior to fit into a narrative others can recognize. Reputation usually becomes something to maintain, but obviously he doesn’t operate like that. The idea of living up to others’ expectations of him as a “scary delinquent” doesn’t appear to concern him, not because he’s trying to reject it, but because he simply doesn’t care enough to engage with it at all.
There’s no visible effort to reinforce a persona for the sake of consistency. His actions aren’t guided by how they might be perceived or interpreted, they just are. In that sense, he feels strangely detached from the loop most people are caught in, where identity is constantly shaped and reshaped through external validation.
And that makes his actions feel real, like they’re genuinely rooted in something internal. What makes it even more compelling, though, is how unattainable that way of being feels. It almost seems incompatible with how most people function. We’re so used to moving within that loop, shaping ourselves in response to how we’re seen, even when we don’t realize it.
His detachment from that system isn’t something you can easily 'replicate', because it requires a kind of indifference most people can’t sustain. And maybe that’s where the admiration comes from.
After everything above, it’s worth clarifying that “acting in accordance with how you want to be perceived” isn’t necessarily wrong or bad. If anything, it’s a pretty fundamental part of being human. Our sense of self is constantly shaped, adjusted, and reinforced through interaction, expectation, and pressure. So that loop, where perception influences behavior, and behavior reinforces perception isn’t odd at all. Most of the time, it could actually somewhat be a great thing and beneficial.
And I’m not suggesting that Wolf exists completely outside of it either, that would make him less human. Like anyone else, his actions don’t appear from nothing, something precedes them and triggers a response. Social context still exists around him, whether he acknowledges it or not, but what stands out is the nature of his reaction to it.
Where most people instinctively adjust in subtle ways to align with how they’re seen, he doesn’t seem to engage in that negotiation. There’s a kind of immediacy in how he responds, as if the space between stimulus and action hasn’t been filtered through the usual considerations of expectation.
…
I really want to act without immediately reflecting on how it looks, how it’s perceived, or what it says about me. There’s something almost freeing about the idea of “just doing what you want”, instead of being split apart by self-awareness. Though, for me, if we're talking realistically, this world isn't designed for us to just do whatever we want. Thus, I suppose Wolf is in some way living my idealized life.
I admire, even feeling envy, how he lives his life.
Note : I sincerely apologize for not being so active, I just really have a lot of things to do. It genuinely surprised me when I found out that I still have school projects even after the final exams.. (༎ຶ ෴ ༎ຶ)
A few snaps of it.. (ugh.. that butterfly really rips my soul out of my body..(*﹏*;) )
And this post was meant to be just my thoughts. I know I'm not really great at getting my point across, I feel like the things are just circling around, probably because I'm mixing up a fictional world and the real world so that's why sometimes it doesn't feel connected.
Basically in a nutshell, I wanted to extract Wolf's character as a concept (if that makes sense) and see if it can be applied in our real life world. Turns out, it's not very applicable since it's really going in the opposite direction of what we are used to. Though, nonetheless, his character is still charming, and the fact it is unattainable in the real world, makes it more alluring, even making me feel envy on how Wolf can live that way. (• ▽ •;) (I don't know if that could clear up the confusion but yeah..)
This is so random but today I found out tom Daley had a husband so I went to go look and see and guys WHY DOES HE WEIRDLY LOOK LIKE PHIL?!
Maybe there is some lore behind these two that we haven’t even heard of. Or tom Daley has a type which you know I guess good for him? It would make sense why dan seems weirded out by it maybe he knows something we don’t. It’s just so funny the shenanigans phil gets himself into like OF COURSE you had an Olympian pining and yearning for you OF COURSE!
When discussing representation—good and bad—in media, it's always very interesting how one side seems to only regard character choices as being intentional when it challenges their unquestioned defaults.
In their minds, casting a white man as the captain of a starship isn't a choice, but casting a black man or a woman is, because they've lost the insight that the media they consume is constructed. To them the white man sitting in the captain's chair already existed in the universe, and is being retroactively replaced by the announcement of a character who does not meet those standards of whiteness and maleness.
And I think that's where a lot of people make their mistake in trying to ague with those people. Assuming that they are consciously aware that media doesn't take place in a real living universe, that everything was put there by someone, and every person, place, and thing was a conscious decision.
Are there black or female Space Marines? No. There aren't any Space Marines. Anytime someone puts a chiseled aryan face on a Space Marine it's because they decided, "this is the face I am going to put on this character." They didn't peak into the Warhammer universe and reference all the real Space Marines they saw there. When the text literally says that "The process by which Space Marines are created relies inherently on the hormonal and biological make-up of the human male, meaning that only males can be subjected to the transformation," that's because someone wrote those words with the specific intention of restricting Space Marines to only men—also, if you actually put any real thought into it, it actually makes more sense for all Space Marines to be female. But people will cite that as proof that there can't be female space marines, because they do not consciously understand that that was a choice made by a writer, not a rule of a persistent universe.
So before you get into one of these arguments, it's best to check and make sure the person you're about to waste your time on understands that, because in my experience they will usually very proudly tell you that they do not.
goodmorning sorry for my very abrupt rant but charles can you PLEASE PRETEND that you like max back ATLEAST goddamn, like leaving all lestappen aside idk its like max posts charles up on his story, hes the one who turns to charles, hes the one who includes charles in his post, hes the one who talks to charles over his quite lit best fucking friend and what does charles do NOTHING idk maybe im in wayyy over my head but im talking canon, although charles has insane respect for max no doubt i have seen so many clips of him also laughing at maxs expense or not standing up for him while max does everything in his power to tell people that charles is a great driver in a bad car. IDK MAN I JUST WANT MAX TO BE LOVED AS MUCH AS HE LOVES.
this is such a weirdly specific rant, but why do so many people draw human Nick Wilde as a white man? Did I miss something?
At the end of the day, I can’t stop you draw what you want; but zootopia is a very blatant allegory for racism and like…would any of this have happened if Nick was a white man? Like be honest with me rn
something I haven’t really seen people talk about in poppy playtime is how unnatural the nicknames given to us by the toys can feel. Like goblet calling us the butcher. It doesn’t really work considering that the kind of name you make to dehumanise a murderer, when in reality most of the toys calling you that would be actually happy with you? It’s weird to me. The angel nickname kind of works, like when dog day called us poppys angel it felt relatively normal considering all the religious imagery in chapter 3 but any time we get called the angel after chapter 3 just feels out of place. Idk if it just me being biased against the writing for chapters 4 and 5 since everyone else kind of hates on it but it’s just doesn’t feel normal
