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"ow ow ow ow ow"-carmen sandiego

@itsdappleagain / itsdappleagain.tumblr.com

welcome to my blog! here's everything you need to know.

⋆ you can call me dapple or oliver! or just "hey you" works ⋆

⋆ i use any pronouns. this includes neopronouns! ⋆

⋆ i block literally anyone for literally anything so if i have you blocked sorry it is most likely not your fault ⋆

⋆ ESCAPED CONTAINMENT posts you may know me from are jesus on T and Show About Women. ⋆

⋆Carmen Sandiego posts you may know me from include this carmen can't drive comic, missing footage from the fishy doubloon caper comic, julethief barbie redraw, and many others lol ⋆

⋆ my most active fandom is carmen sandiego, and more recently shoot from the hip! however, i also engage in some select mcyt, severance, arcane, wings of fire, warrior cats, and probably most kid's cartoons you could name. i also enjoy musical theater! :) ⋆

⋆ i have a whump sideblog! @aughhaughaugh its whump (hurting fictional people) so at thy own risk. ⋆

⋆ that being said, I rarely tag things well, if at all. the only exceptions are if I've been specifically asked (feel free to do so) or after a new episode of something i engage with comes out for spoilers. ⋆

⋆ you can find me as itsdappleagain on ao3 and most things. i write mostly angst and whump for carmen sandiego! ⋆

⋆ i enjoy acting, singing, writing, drawing, and dabbling in animation in addition to whatever crazy craft or project catches my attention for a few weeks. its the adhd baby ⋆

⋆ UNWELCOME: terfs, maps, j.k. rowling supporters and harry potter fans, queerphobes, trump supporters. fucking obviously ⋆

⋆ ACAB ⋆

⋆ my qp polycule is the amazing @jackie-shitposts and @emily-prentits 💕💕 i love you so much ⋆

thanks for stopping by! have a lovely day :D

just saw a chair so photogenic I had to reevaluate my feelings towards plastic furniture

do you see this. beyond ridiculous

I hired a wizard to cast png on it. effervescent

i have for a while been using stepping on somebody's toes as a metaphor for misgendering. and i genuinely think that it's kind of a good one.

if you keep stepping on somebody's toes for a long time at minimum they're probably going to start really hating you and at maximum you might cause them lasting damage.

if you do it on purpose you're a dick. if it's on accident but you keep doing it that person is still going to be mad at you because you don't care enough to try not to step on their toes

if you give a grovelling begging apology after accidentally stepping on somebody's toes one time you're going to make the whole thing awkward, but not giving a quick "sorry" before moving on is still kind of rude.

Oh you're aroace? You should watch Blimpus and Jumbie it has an aroace character! Their name is Splonky and they're introduced in season 3 they're in six episodes, have a total 25 minutes of screentime and an average of three lines per episode. They're absolutely groundbreaking aroace representation, the show's creator confirmed it on twitter when he posted a doodle of Splonky holding an asexual flag. Oh that's not your cup of tea? Here's a list of aroace books they're all about high schoolers discovering that they're aroace after trying to find a significant other and it ends with the message that you can just make up for being a terminal virgin by third wheeling the gay couple you're friends with

You go into the splonky blimpus and jumbie tag and there's like a handful of cute fanart and appreciation for Splonky, and then every other post is people drawing Splonky making out with a variety of other characters from the show and the rest is people writing mini-essays yelling at people who ship Splonky with anyone as if that killed their grandma

What is Blimpus and Jumbie even about? Who the fuck cares? There's an aroace character who was introduced in season 3, is in six episodes, has a total 25 minutes of screen time and an average of three lines per episode, the creator confirmed it on twitter when he posted a doodle of them holding an asexual flag! You're aroace, you'll love Blimpus and Jumbie, it has aroace representation! Btw the target demographic for Blimpus and Jumbie is 10-14 year olds.

The truth of the matter is that if you’re going to seriously pursue writing, not every line can go hard. It can’t be hard 100% of the time, or the hard just becomes soft. Sometimes the line just has to get the writing from point a to point b.

MOON 0 NEXT

I have played many moons ahead and can promise you some extremely juicy crazy shit goes down with these three and this clan.

❌ “friends don’t look at friends like that” devalues friendship/platonic forms of love, pushes amatonormativity

❌ “historians will call them friends” devalues historians and forces complex relationships into modern simplicities, also devalues friendship/platonic forms of love

✅ “do they know its legal now” suggests the characters are stupid, poorly suggests that this is the only barrier to their relationship—both of which are funny as hell

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.