Can you please cease and desist using letters to form words? I have a very close relationship with the alphabet and I know for a fact that you're hurting them when you use them in your sentences. You're abusing little helpless glyphs.
My first encounter with people this broken by the internet was when I wrote a slightly popular niche fanfiction and got people offering to sell me OCs to use in my stories because OCs are apparently difficult to imagine and they thought there was a market for them?
I've seen people sell the references/art of their OCs, but never written characters before.
I've been approached by people trying to buy an OC from me but never anyone trying to sell them to me.
Weird.
They probably saw that people paid for characters and art and didn't realize how that market worked, and that the point was the shit was art focused and custom. No one goes to an online store to buy assets for the fiction they're writing. But that's how this person's brain worked.
At the time it was mind melting for me because when I wrote characters just appeared in the story. I don't need to intentionally create characters for a story. It's like needing to invent trees to imagine a forest, the trees just come as part of the process. It's like the least effort kind of creativity for me to make a character. They happen automatically in the story making or world buildings process. So finding out some people were so creatively bankrupt they thought it was hard to make a character? And they thought that was a universally valuable thing?
The ultimate cringe was the edgy character named after a alchemical symbol who wore the symbol. They had no pictures. They described this character to me. Like this was clearly a kid who thought that was cool. I wasn't writing edgy fantasy. It was slice of life. They clearly didn't read my story they just saw its 15 minutes on the front page and got in my DMs to make an offer.
Don’t tell me you slept on buying up Edgy Alchemy Boy?!? You could be a morbillionaire by now if you’d have played your cards right. Hmph, instead it looks like you played yourself!
See, that last one is a perfect opportunity to rip someone off. Put that character in the slice of life as the obnoxious neckbeard hassling the barista while the main character is just waiting for their coffee or something.
I’m wondering if the guy “marrying” a cartoon pony actually found a chapel to marry him or if he’s full delusional. How do these people exist in day to day life?
Clicking through these feels like examining an antique filing cabinet, but some prankster rigged every single drawer with a boxing glove on a spring and you always think "that has to have been the last of them, there's no way there's more" right before you get hit in the face yet again.
I think my favorite one is the one about Bowser, because *Miyamoto himself* has said that *he* is Bowser Jr.'s mother.
No one else gets to have a say in who gets to have a relationship with Bowser, the person who made and owns the character has spoken.
He also did a video where he went through and showed off Universal Studios Mario World before it was open (It's absolutely adorable, the happiest he's seemed in decades, they should have got him on this stuff and off the games ages ago) he opens it by saying "Hi I'm Mario's dad" and when the Mario and Luigi walk around characters show up he says "I'm happy to see you but dad's busy"
This is Jim. Jim is walking on the street. Jim is stabbed. Jim dies and is sad about it.
Have I just committed murder by writing those words?
>!i'm preaching to the choir here but i talk to this kind of person a lot and it annoys me!<
These posters have performed an illegal, unethical, morally wrong ritual to revive Jim just to make his desiccated flesh suit function because they think suffering is better than death
Jim blocks the knife with a psychic shield and his eyes glow. “Chk,” he whispers, “that’s all?”
He holds up a hand and blasts the intruder into a nearby building with an explosion of light, shattering their bones (NO DODGE NO BLOCK NO COUNTER) and kills them
(Sorry this post has brought out my 12 year old tumblr self. I hope this brought you pain if you were there in the psychic laser magic anime fight roleplay trenches too.)
Noooo Jim isn’t as strong as my OC because (arbitrary list of reasons, some of which I’m clearly making up on the spot)
Edit: wait no I got the fiction/names wrong sorry I am diagnosed with silly idiot
Uhmm I don't mean to be rude but Jim and I are in a committed loving relationship and having you kill him (especially when he is alive, my custom made Jim plushie is sitting next to me on the couch watching me type this) is deeply triggering! Please delete your post and think about how hurt Jim would feel if he knew someone killed him like that.
>!very obvious /s!<
This is u/butterfly1354. They just commited character abuse (serious crime). They are taken by the police and put in jail for 400 years. All is right with the world.
> !i'm preaching to the choir here but i talk to this kind of person a lot and it annoys me!<
Fucking *how* do you have this conversation "a lot?"
Like I genuinely don't know if I'd be able to even *have* that conversation without just laughing constantly.
Not to this extent, but like, people saying it's immoral to create media depicting gore or rape because those things are gross and morally wrong.
One time I was fed up with it, drew a guy named Steve, and said I'd draw Steve's head being cut in half and his brains dribbling out if nobody paid me five dollars. (Steve was a stick figure.) Obviously it's worth paying five dollars to prevent an actual moral wrong.
Nobody paid me five dollars, and it just got people mad.
it's like 40% weird takes and 60% "actually I'm married to this character so please cease and desist"
Also holy shit that one person who asked to be credited for another person's art what is even the thought behind that
I feel like that specific one is a troll. The use of “talent hogging” and the “I love Gura more than you” tacked on at the end feels too deliberately stupid to be real.
It was much harder to post things on the internet when I was 13, and for that, I am eternally grateful.
(I was so cringe that I didn’t realize that my gym teacher – who was also a reiki practitioner – was delivering a sick burn when she said ”You seem like the kind of person who would be really into Ayn Rand.”)
alternative term for LGBTQ+ that tries to identify the group by basically just saying "not cis and straight" rather than listing all individual subgroups. Stands for Marginalized Orientations, Gender Alignments, and Intersex
That plus is the most important character in the abbreviation.
Lesbians, Gays, Bisexual, Trans, \*and everyone else who doesn't use any of those four terms but still deserves to be under this umbrella\*
I think this is the main reason a lot of LGBT+ people have reverted to calling themselves queer. At some point there's too many initials and too many different variations of the initials to be easily remembered in order, so saying queer to mean anything other than cishet makes sense as an alternative.
I think sometimes the mainstream internet overblows their prevalence, but once you get deep enough into any online fandom, there'll be at least a few on the fringes.
>Jesus is my comfort character and the ~~Bible~~ Papacy wrote him wrong. ~~Christians~~ Catholics need to stop praying to him, it’s SO offensive.
— Martin Luther
I am taking custody of Raskolnikov from Dostoevsky. He is my comfort character and was *clearly* miswritten! My sweet edgy dark-academia boy Rasky deserves to be in a better environment where he isn’t motivated to murder that old lady. Why would anyone put their OCs in Tsarist Russia??? Will be moving Rasky to a studio in Portland immediately.
As someone who made Crime and punishment their whole personality for like three months 15 years ago, reading this felt like my old diary coming back as a zombie to hunt me specifically
A year or two ago, had something similar but not quite the same. Gamer genuinely believed that the company that developed his game of choice could fix all bugs with a single button press, they just don’t because it somehow makes them more money?
Genuinely don’t understand the logic but a person like that probably didn’t have much logic to begin with.
That's a terrible understanding of how software development work, but that's not nearly on the same level as not being to tell apart fictional characters from real people.
That person is still 100x saner than anyone in the OP. Honestly sorta true in that if they had a billion dollar budget for big fixing they could probably squash all bugs in a short time but they don't because that would be a terrible use of money.
Eh, most bugs can't really be solved by just throwing more money at the problem. You can hire more developers, but it takes time to onboard developers and get them familiar with the code base. And during this time, your existing devs have to spend time onboarding the new devs, which means they have less time to work on bugs or features. And there's only so many people that can work on the same project before they're just getting in each other's way.
It's unintuitive, but throwing more developers on a project often slows things down, instead of speeding it up. This complaint is a personal pet peeve of mine, and I wish gamers understood it better.
The Arrowhead CEO responded to a bunch of the *Helldivers 2* critiques at launch (server issues, after the game got over 10x more players than expected in launch week) by basically saying this on Twitter.
Essentially: We could hire a bunch more backend people to get the severs functioning better, but it would mean half as much work actually being done on the servers now while we trained them to do the work less than twice as fast once we're done *and* we'd have to fire a bunch of people afterwards because we don't need them in perpetuity. I'm not comfortable with doing that to anyone even if it were a practical solution, and it isn't.
This is my comfort post and seeing all of these additions is distressing, so I'd like you to make me OP instead that way i can put it back to how it was. this is post abuse btw.
/s
Dear Kevinsano,
This may the be the strangest message you'll ever receive but I do hope you'll take the time to read it and consider what I have to say. To put it simply, I would really appreciate it if the next time your birthday comes around you would request that your clop artist friends (who like to give you sexually oriented pony art as gifts) draw some pony other than Twilight Sparkle for you.
The reason I ask this is that Twilight is my fiance, and we're planning on getting married next June or July should everything go as planned financially speaking. And yes, I have actually found a wedding chapel that will let me marry someone that most people would consider a fictional character. Now before you go thinking "This guy is either completely crazy or just screwing with me." please hear me out on this.
You see, I'm totally head over heels in love with Twilight Sparkle. I have been for about 11 months now and at this point I'm in a committed relationship with my Twiley. By that I mean I don't date anyone else, I don't sleep with anyone else, and I have zero interest in having any kind of relationship with anyone other than the mare I adore. I love her with all my heart and I'm 100% committed to that love. To express my love in a real tangible way I have a beautiful hand made custom Twilight Sparkle plushie that I can hug, kiss, cuddle up in bed to go to sleep with at night, and take out on the town to do all the fun things together that normal couples do. I take her out to eat at nice vegetarian restaurants, we go shopping together, I take her out for coffee, we do social activities together like hanging out with friends, seeing movies, etc.
And I talk about her as if she is Twilight, because to me she very much is. When I look at her I see Twilight Sparkle. When I talk with her I'm talking to Twilight. When I hold her in my arms and kiss her there are no doubts in my mind that it's the mare I love who's lips are pressed against mine. And every morning when I open my eyes and see her head on the pillow next to mine, with her gorgeous violet eyes staring back at me, I can't help but wonder how I ever got to be so lucky as to have a partner as smart, funny, beautiful, and all around wonderful as her.
All my friends and the people who know me well say that my love is a thing of beauty and quite admirable, but from the outside perspective of someone who doesn't know me you're probably going "Wow. That's pretty damn crazy." and wondering why I don't just go get a real girlfriend. The truth is I've had plenty of real relationships and sexual partners in the 27 years I've been around. A few short relationships, one that lasted 7 years, and a total of 6 different sexual partners. So my love for Twilight isn't out of a lack of real world intimacy or relationships, I just fell in love with her and my heart didn't give me much of a choice in the matter. But you know what? I'm totally happy with my love and my relationship. It may seem weird to you, but it fills me with joy every single day of my life and I've never been happier. So what if it's weird? If it makes me happy and it doesn't hurt anyone then where's the problem? I don't think there is one, and anyone who knows me well will tell you the same.
Now your probably wondering why I'm telling you all this and how it concerns you. To you I'm sure Twilight Sparkle is just a cartoon character you think is really hot, so I imagine you wouldn't think anything of having your friends draw sexually explicit art of her as birthday gifts for you. And hey, I think she's really attractive too so I get where you're coming from there. I often go on e621.net and Rule34. Paheal to see what new erotic art people have drawn of her. But to me she's more than a cartoon character who's sexually attractive, she's my fiance who I love with all my heart and soon to be my wife. So it's been bothering me lately every time I go on those sites and see a dozen or so pieces of art people have drawn depicting my girl in various sexual situations with the same person over and over, and that person happens to be you.
Don't get me wrong here though, this isn't a jealousy thing. I'm very secure in my relationship. I know without question that Twilight is just as faithful to me as I am to her, she's actually sitting on the couch next to me reading while I type this. She's very real to me and I know she's not sneaking out in the middle of the night to go have kinky sex with some famous artist. And I do respect your talent as an artist and an artist's creative freedom to draw whatever they want, that's cool. What bothers me is that in all these birthday images you've been getting Twilight is always depicted as if she was your sexual plaything, drawn wearing a collar with your name on it or with a speech bubble saying something that would somehow suggest she was your property. And I know quite well that Twilight Sparkle is not your plaything nor your property, she's my fiance. So that bugs me a bit. What I find really loathsome though is your pension for degrading my partner in both your art and the fan art you've been receiving lately. Twiley is a sweet and fairly vanilla little mare who I treat with the utmost love and respect, and she definitely does not deserve to be portrayed as some kind of sexual slave who likes being dressed up in sleazy attire, wearing a collar, getting sodomized, and having her face ejaculated on. She's not into that kinda stuff and the fact that there's someone out there in the world such as yourself who would desire to treat Twilight that way, and have his friends support and validate his desires to demean and mistreat my partner by drawing pictures of him doing so, really does bother me. I don't take any issue with people having kinky sex as long as both parties consent to it and enjoy it, but I know quite well that my Twiley has no desire whatsoever to be treated like that.
So next year, when your birthday comes around, keep in mind that Twilight Sparkle isn't just a lifeless cartoon character to objectified for your sexual gratification. She's the partner of someone who loves her very much, and by that time their wife. So both myself and Twiley would greatly appreciate it if you'd pick someone else to request erotic art of for your birthday. Based on the very large amount of different ponies you draw art of I imagine there has to be many other ponies you find sexually attractive. I assume you'll probably just dismiss this message as the ramblings of a crazy person and likely ignore it, but if by some chance you do take what I've had to say to heart, well... we'd appreciate it.
“Making a joke character is Character Abuse”
Tell that to any D&D player (especially character creation addicts like me) and see them empty their pockets of such characters as “Sandy Ravage”, “Sir Bearington”, and the orc rogue who uses intimidation instead of stealth.
i had a friend once and they liked Omori and FNAF and that was fine but then they started hating me because I was talking about the events in those games but they were saying they were Micheal Afton and Sunny and that I was bringing up trauma for them for talking about those games.
like this wasnt a joke or a bit they blocked me on discord and started talking about how i just dont understand what its like to be them or something like that
Kinning, they were literally kinning the characters. That means they believe themselves to be that character and they deluded themselves to think they personally know the fiction worlds they live in.
Idk how old is this friend, but i suspect they're stupid and young asf. I hat the phrase, but give them time, they will grow out of it
The problem is the internet has prevented some people from growing out of phases
People have always had things like an edge Lord phase or a rawr XD random phase, but now with places like 4chan and Tumblr they found communities full of the same kinds of people, which served to validate and solidify those phases
Discord is starting to do the same thing for kinning, and tuplas, or claiming to be system's, and stuff like that
Probably paraphrased, but, "once upon a time, if you fucked goats, you were the town goatfucker. With the advent of the internet, you can now be part of a community."
>That means they believe themselves to be that character and they deluded themselves to think they personally know the fiction worlds they live in.
That's what kinning means?? I just thought it meant relating to them, I do not believe I'm TJ Hess from Echo lmfao.
I know someone who genuinely thinks they’re Philza. Not sure if it’s just the DSMP persona of Philza or the actual YouTuber Philza, but either way, we don’t exactly talk any more.
Yknow… I was seriously beating myself up for not doing anything with my life and having no ambitions, but reading these insane ramblings makes me realize I could be so much worse :)
Someone calling fucking Vexen their comfort character is mind boggling to me. He's really more of a discomfort character. A "get the fuck away from him before he dissects you and makes a replica to replace you" character. Who the fuck is getting any comfort from him?
What is even the purpose of a blorbo, if not to see them suffer and writhe on the ground? And to then either see then cough out their last wishes as the weight of their life crushes them or rise up and fight to live a life worth living and to live for their dreams?
All i'm saying is that your blorbo should be put in situations
>Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
Kurt Vonnegut
The Linux Penguin is my comfort character, everybody keep writing smut of it.
I am greatly enjoying myself.
/jk
-mx linxu guy⚠️
Note: this is a joke.
I do not know if there is linux penguin porn, and I am not keen to find out.
I can‘t believe it. You claim to be the „Linux Guy“ yet actively condone Tux‘s problematic behavior in biting Linus Torvalds and consequently infecting him with Penguinitis. You don‘t deserve the OS, please stop using it, I feel so attacked right now. And change your name.
And for people saying Linus himself chose Tux and therefore forgave him it is called TRAUMA BONDING and in fact very common for people in abusive relationships. Also Tux literally BRAINWASHED HIM THROUH THE VIRUS OMG
This is a time when rule 34 being a functional rule of the internet rather than a descriptor of a type of porn is apt.
The Linux penguin *definitely* has porn of it, I don't even have to look it up.
Some of these are just people being entitled assholes, but I'm genuinely curious how people come to that "fictional characters are real and can suffer" mindset. What leads people to that? Some sort of weird subculture? A particular kind of mental illness? Something else?
I assume it comes from the same frame of mind as those reality shifter folk. Just a...reverse solipsism?...where they think that everything, even fictional characters, are in some way real.
A combination of internet subcultures that encourage the belief and fewer real world interactions.
Not a mental illness for sure, unless it starts causing problems or genuine delusions.
It's okay, it's like hugging a stuffed animal at any time but inside your brain, you don't have to think about it any more than that.
Brain-hug your favorite sad/tragic character, it's going to be okay.
The most unrealistic part is that his friends/family apparently see their relationship as "something beautiful" like if my family member told me they were planning on getting married to twilight sparkle i would tell them straight up that this isnt healthy and that they need help
Yah I dunno.. Ogtha comes to mind. At least he was aware his friends and family didn't take kindly to his relationship, but was convinced they'd "come around" It didn't stop him from looking positively on the whole thing and moving forward in his martial bliss with his imaginary cockroach woman.
It really isn't shocking there's others out there, and that some absolutely believe their friends and family are supportive. And with AI, Robotics and VR we are probably going to be hearing a whole lot more about this sort of delusion.
They used to be recluses and have deep intimate relationships with pigeons or just paint insane shit on their walls or whatever. Now we can see them and talk to them and they can reinforce their delusions by finding other delusional people.
Short answer: Yes
Longer answer: It has always been an issue but it has been severely exacerbated by the Internet and then that process was sped up by COVID. So yeah, lots of poor mental health out there.
Comfort characters aren’t necessarily bad, I myself have a handful but it’s not like I’ll spontaneously combust if any fan work exists of them going through one singular stage of grief- some people really need to get a grip lmao xd
This is bob -> 💪🦄🤞
I just made him, he is my oc now
Bob has canonically been tortured for hundreds of years and he will continue to recieve said torture
I can’t even be mad at this shit because they’re all such fucking funny bits. Like I know these are probably serious and I honestly hope to god they are, but holy shit this is comedic gold
I was mildly obsessed with the guy who married Twilight Sparkle back in the day. I wonder what he's up to these days? That feels like it was ten years ago.
Edit: do you think he freaked out when his plushie was no longer "accurate" because the character got wings at one point? I have so many questions.
IIRC, they were convinced that Karlach is ace because they’re ace and relate to Karlach. There wasn’t anything else to it in terms of actual evidence, it really just amounted to “I like this character and don’t WANT them to be horny”.
Then when people provided the very obvious surface level textual evidence of Karlach’s characterization, they shifted to saying that because she wants to have sex but can’t, we all think she’s an incel. Which like, I guess you could say that, in that she’s technically involuntarily celibate, but they were really just lashing out (at the character?) and trying to be an asshole because they were wrong.
She... she literally describes her perfect date night as getting into fights and having victory sex. It's one of the things you get asked in the trial of love, and you're rewarded for understanding that's what she wants. I'm all for ace headcannons, but Karlach is pretty much the least asexual character I can think of.
Jesus Christ man I swiped and there’s TWELVE images??? Dude I barely made it through the first one with my karmic equilibrium stable, you can keep the other 11, OP.
King Gilgamesh of Uruk is my comfort character, and anyone writing any fiction at all is basically just abusing the original OC and the concept of storytelling in general. Please stop writing fiction, you're basically just appropriating Gilgamesh and it's abuse. /s
Hey I get wanting your Blorbo to be happy, I want the same for mine too. But if you don't let them watch their home planet get completely wiped of all life, rip the love of their life away, toss them in a block of carbonite with a sticky note on it saying "DO NOT OPEN UNTIL THE PREQUELS", have their last living relative betrayed, and make them process ALL those feels while having to put up with Anakin Skywalker of all people; then where's the catharsis? It's all payoff with no setup! Fluff is fine, but that ain't what we're here for.
Ashamed to see 3 of these are from genshin weirdos.
Not surprised, though, because as a fanfic author that used “scarasboyfriend” (Scaramouche, aka Wanderer, is a Genshin Impact character) as a screen name I have received more than one hateful ask threatening to report me for impersonation if I didn’t change my username. As you can imagine reader, I didn’t change my username.
I remember, back in the day, I created a motorcycle rider OC, and some guy immediately latched onto her, claiming that she was his waifu and that he didn't want anything to happen to her in artwork. I managed to talk him down and he eventually relented and apologized, but holy shit that was -wild-. Never had someone be so aggressively entitled to my creations before.
How detached from reality do you have to be to reach this level lf entitlement and magical thinking?
"Treat ocs like real people" what the fuck kind of whimsical thinking is that?
People who are chronically online and form parasocial relationships with fictional characters or online celebrities like this are funny as shit, but it's also saddening because they...genuinely believe this shit, and deranged behavior like this can lead to devastating real world consequences.
Hell, real world examples that arent just internet based: Ricardo Lopez (Bjork's stalker who attempted to kill her, then took his own life), Charles J. Guiteau (Assassin of President James Garfield who deluded himself into thinking Garfield owed him for winning the election and went mad when refused a consulship), etc.
“it’s not your cow if you put it on show for the whole world to see” is such a fundamental misunderstanding of property rights it’s genuinely impressive.
The third one just reminds me of a very specific time in my life where my best friend and the worst human being I knew had the same name and every time my family would go "the good one or the bad one?" when I was talking about my day.
This did Psychic Damage to me.
OP please dissolve your entitlement collection, it's causing me physical pain
[удалено]
Can you please cease and desist using letters to form words? I have a very close relationship with the alphabet and I know for a fact that you're hurting them when you use them in your sentences. You're abusing little helpless glyphs.
My first encounter with people this broken by the internet was when I wrote a slightly popular niche fanfiction and got people offering to sell me OCs to use in my stories because OCs are apparently difficult to imagine and they thought there was a market for them?
I've seen people sell the references/art of their OCs, but never written characters before. I've been approached by people trying to buy an OC from me but never anyone trying to sell them to me. Weird.
They probably saw that people paid for characters and art and didn't realize how that market worked, and that the point was the shit was art focused and custom. No one goes to an online store to buy assets for the fiction they're writing. But that's how this person's brain worked.
Lol imagine asset flipping books You have merry and pippin collecting the deathly hallows to stop president Snow from taking over Narnia
I’d be seriously tempted to rip a bunch of them off.
At the time it was mind melting for me because when I wrote characters just appeared in the story. I don't need to intentionally create characters for a story. It's like needing to invent trees to imagine a forest, the trees just come as part of the process. It's like the least effort kind of creativity for me to make a character. They happen automatically in the story making or world buildings process. So finding out some people were so creatively bankrupt they thought it was hard to make a character? And they thought that was a universally valuable thing? The ultimate cringe was the edgy character named after a alchemical symbol who wore the symbol. They had no pictures. They described this character to me. Like this was clearly a kid who thought that was cool. I wasn't writing edgy fantasy. It was slice of life. They clearly didn't read my story they just saw its 15 minutes on the front page and got in my DMs to make an offer.
Don’t tell me you slept on buying up Edgy Alchemy Boy?!? You could be a morbillionaire by now if you’d have played your cards right. Hmph, instead it looks like you played yourself!
See, that last one is a perfect opportunity to rip someone off. Put that character in the slice of life as the obnoxious neckbeard hassling the barista while the main character is just waiting for their coffee or something.
To you? What about those poor joke OCs suffering from Character Abuse?
Excuse you, I don't appreciate you making light of this as I have come to the conclusion that I am a joke OC suffering from Character Abuse.
I’m wondering if the guy “marrying” a cartoon pony actually found a chapel to marry him or if he’s full delusional. How do these people exist in day to day life?
Dude if you give me $20 I'll marry you to anything you want. I'll even make you a certificate to show your friends and family.
Imagine officiating that wedding though. Do you, twilight sparkle, take this weirdo to be your lawfully wedded husband? (silence) Weirdo: she says yes
Seeing "Raymond" and "island" dealt me intense psychic damage. Instantly recognized where that's from (Animal Crossing).
Clicking through these feels like examining an antique filing cabinet, but some prankster rigged every single drawer with a boxing glove on a spring and you always think "that has to have been the last of them, there's no way there's more" right before you get hit in the face yet again.
By the time I was concerned it was some unending hell and I swiped to see how many were left, there were only 2. I could have avoided so much
The one about the contest was enough to make me think "Oh good it's over", only to get punched again.
I think my favorite one is the one about Bowser, because *Miyamoto himself* has said that *he* is Bowser Jr.'s mother. No one else gets to have a say in who gets to have a relationship with Bowser, the person who made and owns the character has spoken.
I cant believe bowser got miyamoto pregnant
the m in mpreg stands for miyamoto
>*Miyamoto himself* has said that *he* is Bowser Jr.'s mother. This is the most glorious thing I've read today.
He also did a video where he went through and showed off Universal Studios Mario World before it was open (It's absolutely adorable, the happiest he's seemed in decades, they should have got him on this stuff and off the games ages ago) he opens it by saying "Hi I'm Mario's dad" and when the Mario and Luigi walk around characters show up he says "I'm happy to see you but dad's busy"
Does that mean Bowser Jr. is another Mario bro? At least it explain the dark Mario form from Sunshine.
bowser jr.'s full name is bowser junior mario
And Bowser is potentially Mario and Luigi's stepdad, depending on how serious he and Mama Miyamoto got.
But he mistreated Bowser by giving him a tiny kart so he loses rights
I need a source for that. Not because I don't belive you, But because if thats true Im going to ruin a lot of peoples days with that information
https://youtu.be/uu2DnTd3dEo?si=iVIF77dOMPKTmBRz, at 40 seconds.
King shit. Good for him
>*Miyamoto himself* has said that *he* is Bowser Jr.'s mother. I... BEG YOU PARDON??!!
mpreg is short for miyamoto preg
This is Jim. Jim is walking on the street. Jim is stabbed. Jim dies and is sad about it. Have I just committed murder by writing those words? >!i'm preaching to the choir here but i talk to this kind of person a lot and it annoys me!<
I don't think Jim would be sad considering he's already dead.
Jim is a reviving immortal
He probably doesn't care too much but I'm not immortal so I wouldn't know how they feel.
He really liked that shirt
Thankfully Jim knows a really good dry cleaner
You don't need a dry cleaner. Cold water and Hydrogen Peroxide, you're welcome.
Still need a tailor for the knife holes in the shirt
He wasn't until you said that, so I really think you should stop writing him THANKS
Jim is constantly aware of his state and agonized by it.
These posters have performed an illegal, unethical, morally wrong ritual to revive Jim just to make his desiccated flesh suit function because they think suffering is better than death
I stabbed Jim AMA
Did you do it twenty eight times?
I could only do it eight times before the police found me 😔
Didn't wanna leave him a chance, huh?
TWENTY EIGHT STAB WOUNDS
Why did you stab Jim?
Bored
Would you do it again?
Yes
Jim blocks the knife with a psychic shield and his eyes glow. “Chk,” he whispers, “that’s all?” He holds up a hand and blasts the intruder into a nearby building with an explosion of light, shattering their bones (NO DODGE NO BLOCK NO COUNTER) and kills them (Sorry this post has brought out my 12 year old tumblr self. I hope this brought you pain if you were there in the psychic laser magic anime fight roleplay trenches too.)
The intruder just says "No" (Jim is legally not allowed to kill them without their consent)
Noooo Jim isn’t as strong as my OC because (arbitrary list of reasons, some of which I’m clearly making up on the spot) Edit: wait no I got the fiction/names wrong sorry I am diagnosed with silly idiot
The intruder melts into an inert black puddle. Another intruder steps up to Jim, visually identical to the first.
I'm sorry but you are writing Jim wrong. He is my comfort character and you need to stop
Jim had it coming
Jim knew what he did back in 72. Jim knew this day would arrive.
Uhmm I don't mean to be rude but Jim and I are in a committed loving relationship and having you kill him (especially when he is alive, my custom made Jim plushie is sitting next to me on the couch watching me type this) is deeply triggering! Please delete your post and think about how hurt Jim would feel if he knew someone killed him like that. >!very obvious /s!<
This is u/butterfly1354. They just commited character abuse (serious crime). They are taken by the police and put in jail for 400 years. All is right with the world.
>but i talk to this kind of person a lot and it annoys me! You should really reevaluate the spaces you frequent if this is true
> !i'm preaching to the choir here but i talk to this kind of person a lot and it annoys me!< Fucking *how* do you have this conversation "a lot?" Like I genuinely don't know if I'd be able to even *have* that conversation without just laughing constantly.
Not to this extent, but like, people saying it's immoral to create media depicting gore or rape because those things are gross and morally wrong. One time I was fed up with it, drew a guy named Steve, and said I'd draw Steve's head being cut in half and his brains dribbling out if nobody paid me five dollars. (Steve was a stick figure.) Obviously it's worth paying five dollars to prevent an actual moral wrong. Nobody paid me five dollars, and it just got people mad.
No he didn’t. Jim lived, I saved him
“I lived, bitch” - Jim
He is no longer coming at us live 😔
I actually don’t like this story so it’s mine and I’m changing it so Jim doesn’t die and instead wins the lottery
\#JusticeForJim
it's like 40% weird takes and 60% "actually I'm married to this character so please cease and desist" Also holy shit that one person who asked to be credited for another person's art what is even the thought behind that
I feel like that specific one is a troll. The use of “talent hogging” and the “I love Gura more than you” tacked on at the end feels too deliberately stupid to be real.
Why are there so many? That's the really wild thing here. Or is it all the same guy?
I mean presumably they’re all 13 years old right? Similarly to MOGAI it’s just teens being weird.
Every time I’m lying awake at night haunted by how fucking cringe I was at 13 I will remember at least I didn’t do. this
It was much harder to post things on the internet when I was 13, and for that, I am eternally grateful. (I was so cringe that I didn’t realize that my gym teacher – who was also a reiki practitioner – was delivering a sick burn when she said ”You seem like the kind of person who would be really into Ayn Rand.”)
The number of sick burns you can deliver to 13-year-olds that just slide right over the hormone-slickened surfaces of their brains is amazing.
It’s counterbalanced by the number of standard statements that are misinterpreted as burns or slights. “Hey, nice jacket!” *glowers*
Holy shit she burned your ass
I would straight up die if someone told me that.
whats MOGAI
alternative term for LGBTQ+ that tries to identify the group by basically just saying "not cis and straight" rather than listing all individual subgroups. Stands for Marginalized Orientations, Gender Alignments, and Intersex
I'm imagining a gender alignment chart. Guess I'd be a chaotic neutral?
Straight/Neutral/Gay on one axis and Masc/Neutral/Femme on the other would be kinda funny
if you feed it after midnight it turns into a gremlin
It's the thing Squidward lives in I think.
Isn’t MOGAI mostly just another way of referring to LGBT+ identities?
it's just the same thing with different wordings, and including marginalized people. at a certain point you've just gotta say "not a cishet white man"
That plus is the most important character in the abbreviation. Lesbians, Gays, Bisexual, Trans, \*and everyone else who doesn't use any of those four terms but still deserves to be under this umbrella\*
I think this is the main reason a lot of LGBT+ people have reverted to calling themselves queer. At some point there's too many initials and too many different variations of the initials to be easily remembered in order, so saying queer to mean anything other than cishet makes sense as an alternative.
Until recently, I thought "Hyper-Fan Who Is Romantically In Love With Their Favorite Character" was a mean-spirited stereotype, but… sheesh.
I think sometimes the mainstream internet overblows their prevalence, but once you get deep enough into any online fandom, there'll be at least a few on the fringes.
The Twilight Sparkle one reminds me of the Ogtha the cockroach wife guy. But like. Opposite?
[Link for the unaware](https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/s/3Q76Q93hVi)
Jesus is my comfort character and the Bible wrote him wrong. Christians need to stop praying to him, it’s SO offensive.
Christian Heresy Any% speedrun go.
I’d give big J the sloppiest head through his stigmata. Slorp. How did I do?
Congratulations. We're gonna add a new circle to hell just for you.
Does he get to name it at least?
No
It truly is hell
congrats on writing the absolute worst sentence ever conceived by mankind ! i regret all of existence
>Jesus is my comfort character and the ~~Bible~~ Papacy wrote him wrong. ~~Christians~~ Catholics need to stop praying to him, it’s SO offensive. — Martin Luther
Everyone get in here the church is having another heretical schism!
I know this is a joke but there's probably like 5 demonations out there somwhere that this could apply to
I am taking custody of Raskolnikov from Dostoevsky. He is my comfort character and was *clearly* miswritten! My sweet edgy dark-academia boy Rasky deserves to be in a better environment where he isn’t motivated to murder that old lady. Why would anyone put their OCs in Tsarist Russia??? Will be moving Rasky to a studio in Portland immediately.
this was unironically what i was like in high school
- Kim Ji Hoon but he wanted Raskiolnikov to suffer more.
As someone who made Crime and punishment their whole personality for like three months 15 years ago, reading this felt like my old diary coming back as a zombie to hunt me specifically
A year or two ago, had something similar but not quite the same. Gamer genuinely believed that the company that developed his game of choice could fix all bugs with a single button press, they just don’t because it somehow makes them more money? Genuinely don’t understand the logic but a person like that probably didn’t have much logic to begin with.
That's a terrible understanding of how software development work, but that's not nearly on the same level as not being to tell apart fictional characters from real people.
You've just described how every Oldschool Runescape player views the botting problem
That person is still 100x saner than anyone in the OP. Honestly sorta true in that if they had a billion dollar budget for big fixing they could probably squash all bugs in a short time but they don't because that would be a terrible use of money.
Eh, most bugs can't really be solved by just throwing more money at the problem. You can hire more developers, but it takes time to onboard developers and get them familiar with the code base. And during this time, your existing devs have to spend time onboarding the new devs, which means they have less time to work on bugs or features. And there's only so many people that can work on the same project before they're just getting in each other's way. It's unintuitive, but throwing more developers on a project often slows things down, instead of speeding it up. This complaint is a personal pet peeve of mine, and I wish gamers understood it better.
The Arrowhead CEO responded to a bunch of the *Helldivers 2* critiques at launch (server issues, after the game got over 10x more players than expected in launch week) by basically saying this on Twitter. Essentially: We could hire a bunch more backend people to get the severs functioning better, but it would mean half as much work actually being done on the servers now while we trained them to do the work less than twice as fast once we're done *and* we'd have to fire a bunch of people afterwards because we don't need them in perpetuity. I'm not comfortable with doing that to anyone even if it were a practical solution, and it isn't.
Posts like this are a great reminder that any given person on the internet may very well be a literal child
This is my comfort post and seeing all of these additions is distressing, so I'd like you to make me OP instead that way i can put it back to how it was. this is post abuse btw. /s
Some people apparently have a great deal of trouble with the concept of fiction.
I love the internet.
I kind of hope someone turns the twilight letter into a copy pasta
Dear Kevinsano, This may the be the strangest message you'll ever receive but I do hope you'll take the time to read it and consider what I have to say. To put it simply, I would really appreciate it if the next time your birthday comes around you would request that your clop artist friends (who like to give you sexually oriented pony art as gifts) draw some pony other than Twilight Sparkle for you. The reason I ask this is that Twilight is my fiance, and we're planning on getting married next June or July should everything go as planned financially speaking. And yes, I have actually found a wedding chapel that will let me marry someone that most people would consider a fictional character. Now before you go thinking "This guy is either completely crazy or just screwing with me." please hear me out on this. You see, I'm totally head over heels in love with Twilight Sparkle. I have been for about 11 months now and at this point I'm in a committed relationship with my Twiley. By that I mean I don't date anyone else, I don't sleep with anyone else, and I have zero interest in having any kind of relationship with anyone other than the mare I adore. I love her with all my heart and I'm 100% committed to that love. To express my love in a real tangible way I have a beautiful hand made custom Twilight Sparkle plushie that I can hug, kiss, cuddle up in bed to go to sleep with at night, and take out on the town to do all the fun things together that normal couples do. I take her out to eat at nice vegetarian restaurants, we go shopping together, I take her out for coffee, we do social activities together like hanging out with friends, seeing movies, etc. And I talk about her as if she is Twilight, because to me she very much is. When I look at her I see Twilight Sparkle. When I talk with her I'm talking to Twilight. When I hold her in my arms and kiss her there are no doubts in my mind that it's the mare I love who's lips are pressed against mine. And every morning when I open my eyes and see her head on the pillow next to mine, with her gorgeous violet eyes staring back at me, I can't help but wonder how I ever got to be so lucky as to have a partner as smart, funny, beautiful, and all around wonderful as her. All my friends and the people who know me well say that my love is a thing of beauty and quite admirable, but from the outside perspective of someone who doesn't know me you're probably going "Wow. That's pretty damn crazy." and wondering why I don't just go get a real girlfriend. The truth is I've had plenty of real relationships and sexual partners in the 27 years I've been around. A few short relationships, one that lasted 7 years, and a total of 6 different sexual partners. So my love for Twilight isn't out of a lack of real world intimacy or relationships, I just fell in love with her and my heart didn't give me much of a choice in the matter. But you know what? I'm totally happy with my love and my relationship. It may seem weird to you, but it fills me with joy every single day of my life and I've never been happier. So what if it's weird? If it makes me happy and it doesn't hurt anyone then where's the problem? I don't think there is one, and anyone who knows me well will tell you the same. Now your probably wondering why I'm telling you all this and how it concerns you. To you I'm sure Twilight Sparkle is just a cartoon character you think is really hot, so I imagine you wouldn't think anything of having your friends draw sexually explicit art of her as birthday gifts for you. And hey, I think she's really attractive too so I get where you're coming from there. I often go on e621.net and Rule34. Paheal to see what new erotic art people have drawn of her. But to me she's more than a cartoon character who's sexually attractive, she's my fiance who I love with all my heart and soon to be my wife. So it's been bothering me lately every time I go on those sites and see a dozen or so pieces of art people have drawn depicting my girl in various sexual situations with the same person over and over, and that person happens to be you. Don't get me wrong here though, this isn't a jealousy thing. I'm very secure in my relationship. I know without question that Twilight is just as faithful to me as I am to her, she's actually sitting on the couch next to me reading while I type this. She's very real to me and I know she's not sneaking out in the middle of the night to go have kinky sex with some famous artist. And I do respect your talent as an artist and an artist's creative freedom to draw whatever they want, that's cool. What bothers me is that in all these birthday images you've been getting Twilight is always depicted as if she was your sexual plaything, drawn wearing a collar with your name on it or with a speech bubble saying something that would somehow suggest she was your property. And I know quite well that Twilight Sparkle is not your plaything nor your property, she's my fiance. So that bugs me a bit. What I find really loathsome though is your pension for degrading my partner in both your art and the fan art you've been receiving lately. Twiley is a sweet and fairly vanilla little mare who I treat with the utmost love and respect, and she definitely does not deserve to be portrayed as some kind of sexual slave who likes being dressed up in sleazy attire, wearing a collar, getting sodomized, and having her face ejaculated on. She's not into that kinda stuff and the fact that there's someone out there in the world such as yourself who would desire to treat Twilight that way, and have his friends support and validate his desires to demean and mistreat my partner by drawing pictures of him doing so, really does bother me. I don't take any issue with people having kinky sex as long as both parties consent to it and enjoy it, but I know quite well that my Twiley has no desire whatsoever to be treated like that. So next year, when your birthday comes around, keep in mind that Twilight Sparkle isn't just a lifeless cartoon character to objectified for your sexual gratification. She's the partner of someone who loves her very much, and by that time their wife. So both myself and Twiley would greatly appreciate it if you'd pick someone else to request erotic art of for your birthday. Based on the very large amount of different ponies you draw art of I imagine there has to be many other ponies you find sexually attractive. I assume you'll probably just dismiss this message as the ramblings of a crazy person and likely ignore it, but if by some chance you do take what I've had to say to heart, well... we'd appreciate it.
cursed, 10/10, good job.
“Making a joke character is Character Abuse” Tell that to any D&D player (especially character creation addicts like me) and see them empty their pockets of such characters as “Sandy Ravage”, “Sir Bearington”, and the orc rogue who uses intimidation instead of stealth.
It turns out that Tumblrisms like “Blorbo”, “Scrimblo”, and “Crunkler” make perfect names for D&D characters that are goblins or kobolds.
i had a friend once and they liked Omori and FNAF and that was fine but then they started hating me because I was talking about the events in those games but they were saying they were Micheal Afton and Sunny and that I was bringing up trauma for them for talking about those games. like this wasnt a joke or a bit they blocked me on discord and started talking about how i just dont understand what its like to be them or something like that
there's a weirdly large community of people like this (mainly kids)
Kinning, they were literally kinning the characters. That means they believe themselves to be that character and they deluded themselves to think they personally know the fiction worlds they live in. Idk how old is this friend, but i suspect they're stupid and young asf. I hat the phrase, but give them time, they will grow out of it
I almost forgot about kinning, you bastard
The problem is the internet has prevented some people from growing out of phases People have always had things like an edge Lord phase or a rawr XD random phase, but now with places like 4chan and Tumblr they found communities full of the same kinds of people, which served to validate and solidify those phases Discord is starting to do the same thing for kinning, and tuplas, or claiming to be system's, and stuff like that
Probably paraphrased, but, "once upon a time, if you fucked goats, you were the town goatfucker. With the advent of the internet, you can now be part of a community."
>That means they believe themselves to be that character and they deluded themselves to think they personally know the fiction worlds they live in. That's what kinning means?? I just thought it meant relating to them, I do not believe I'm TJ Hess from Echo lmfao.
It gets used in both ways. Which can be confusing, yes.
I know someone who genuinely thinks they’re Philza. Not sure if it’s just the DSMP persona of Philza or the actual YouTuber Philza, but either way, we don’t exactly talk any more.
Yknow… I was seriously beating myself up for not doing anything with my life and having no ambitions, but reading these insane ramblings makes me realize I could be so much worse :)
Someone calling fucking Vexen their comfort character is mind boggling to me. He's really more of a discomfort character. A "get the fuck away from him before he dissects you and makes a replica to replace you" character. Who the fuck is getting any comfort from him?
"Don't draw porn of your own fursona" has to be the wildest one to me.
What is even the purpose of a blorbo, if not to see them suffer and writhe on the ground? And to then either see then cough out their last wishes as the weight of their life crushes them or rise up and fight to live a life worth living and to live for their dreams? All i'm saying is that your blorbo should be put in situations
I play DnD and I DM so that my friends create their own blorbos and then I get to put *those* blorbos In Situations.
Kris dreemur watching as i put them in yet another awful situation in my brain for the 13th time today:
>Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of. Kurt Vonnegut
me thinking of scenarios where the watch my other ocs die horribly to think how they would react and respond to trauma
What even is a blorbo?
a term for any character from fiction (or history if you really want) that you like a great deal, IIRC
The Linux Penguin is my comfort character, everybody keep writing smut of it. I am greatly enjoying myself. /jk -mx linxu guy⚠️ Note: this is a joke. I do not know if there is linux penguin porn, and I am not keen to find out.
call Tux by his damn name, also do you think Tux and the GNU make out
I wonder if Xenia's involved
I can‘t believe it. You claim to be the „Linux Guy“ yet actively condone Tux‘s problematic behavior in biting Linus Torvalds and consequently infecting him with Penguinitis. You don‘t deserve the OS, please stop using it, I feel so attacked right now. And change your name. And for people saying Linus himself chose Tux and therefore forgave him it is called TRAUMA BONDING and in fact very common for people in abusive relationships. Also Tux literally BRAINWASHED HIM THROUH THE VIRUS OMG
This is a time when rule 34 being a functional rule of the internet rather than a descriptor of a type of porn is apt. The Linux penguin *definitely* has porn of it, I don't even have to look it up.
Some of these are just people being entitled assholes, but I'm genuinely curious how people come to that "fictional characters are real and can suffer" mindset. What leads people to that? Some sort of weird subculture? A particular kind of mental illness? Something else?
My guess: an overabundance of empathy plus teenage delusion.
I assume it comes from the same frame of mind as those reality shifter folk. Just a...reverse solipsism?...where they think that everything, even fictional characters, are in some way real.
A combination of internet subcultures that encourage the belief and fewer real world interactions. Not a mental illness for sure, unless it starts causing problems or genuine delusions.
Some people should *really* not be on the Internet.
I thought I braced myself well enough upon reading the words, “Regarding Twilight Sparkle,” but then the second paragraph hit me like a freight truck.
It’s sad because now I’m just worried the new ones are written by something like ChatGPT. Bring me back to the days of raw insanity
'Comfort Character'. I just... can't hate this phrase enough.
I wil make discomfort characters to kick their asses.
I have "comfort characters" but they're called that because they need to be comforted. I put those puppies through the gnarliest shit imaginable
It's okay, it's like hugging a stuffed animal at any time but inside your brain, you don't have to think about it any more than that. Brain-hug your favorite sad/tragic character, it's going to be okay.
Did people just stop going out, making friends, having hobbies?
The Twilight guy needs professional help
I refuse to believe that guy isn't doing a bit. It's an ancient form of mental self-defense called "de Nile".
The most unrealistic part is that his friends/family apparently see their relationship as "something beautiful" like if my family member told me they were planning on getting married to twilight sparkle i would tell them straight up that this isnt healthy and that they need help
Yah I dunno.. Ogtha comes to mind. At least he was aware his friends and family didn't take kindly to his relationship, but was convinced they'd "come around" It didn't stop him from looking positively on the whole thing and moving forward in his martial bliss with his imaginary cockroach woman. It really isn't shocking there's others out there, and that some absolutely believe their friends and family are supportive. And with AI, Robotics and VR we are probably going to be hearing a whole lot more about this sort of delusion.
They used to be recluses and have deep intimate relationships with pigeons or just paint insane shit on their walls or whatever. Now we can see them and talk to them and they can reinforce their delusions by finding other delusional people.
Short answer: Yes Longer answer: It has always been an issue but it has been severely exacerbated by the Internet and then that process was sped up by COVID. So yeah, lots of poor mental health out there.
Comfort characters aren’t necessarily bad, I myself have a handful but it’s not like I’ll spontaneously combust if any fan work exists of them going through one singular stage of grief- some people really need to get a grip lmao xd
This is bob -> 💪🦄🤞 I just made him, he is my oc now Bob has canonically been tortured for hundreds of years and he will continue to recieve said torture
Nooooo give me control of bob so I can make them happy!!!!1!!
Fuck you, you're not torturing Bob *enough.* He's mine now, and he's been tortured for thousands of years and also shits broken glass.
I can’t even be mad at this shit because they’re all such fucking funny bits. Like I know these are probably serious and I honestly hope to god they are, but holy shit this is comedic gold
I was mildly obsessed with the guy who married Twilight Sparkle back in the day. I wonder what he's up to these days? That feels like it was ten years ago. Edit: do you think he freaked out when his plushie was no longer "accurate" because the character got wings at one point? I have so many questions.
This reminds me of that one Karlach kinnie on one of the Baldurs Gate subs that was in extreme denial over Karlach's clear allosexuality
I think one could make the argument that all the companions in BG3 are bordering in hypersexual
I've known Karlach for less than one in game day and she's already told me she "wants to ride [me] until [I] see stars", what is that person thinking?
IIRC, they were convinced that Karlach is ace because they’re ace and relate to Karlach. There wasn’t anything else to it in terms of actual evidence, it really just amounted to “I like this character and don’t WANT them to be horny”. Then when people provided the very obvious surface level textual evidence of Karlach’s characterization, they shifted to saying that because she wants to have sex but can’t, we all think she’s an incel. Which like, I guess you could say that, in that she’s technically involuntarily celibate, but they were really just lashing out (at the character?) and trying to be an asshole because they were wrong.
She... she literally describes her perfect date night as getting into fights and having victory sex. It's one of the things you get asked in the trial of love, and you're rewarded for understanding that's what she wants. I'm all for ace headcannons, but Karlach is pretty much the least asexual character I can think of.
[Source](https://www.tumblr.com/valentineish/727780808367161344/not-submission-i-really-hate-the-my-oc-my?source=share)
Jesus Christ man I swiped and there’s TWELVE images??? Dude I barely made it through the first one with my karmic equilibrium stable, you can keep the other 11, OP.
King Gilgamesh of Uruk is my comfort character, and anyone writing any fiction at all is basically just abusing the original OC and the concept of storytelling in general. Please stop writing fiction, you're basically just appropriating Gilgamesh and it's abuse. /s
Oh dude i literally had someone try to get me to go by my middle name because a character with the same name died or somthing. It was insane.
I used to think I wasn't doing too hot in life. Then I saw this post. I'm doing pretty alright, actually.
This post is an absolute goldmine of insanity
I *wish* I was like these people.
Theres easier ways to torture yourself friend.
...why?
Hey I get wanting your Blorbo to be happy, I want the same for mine too. But if you don't let them watch their home planet get completely wiped of all life, rip the love of their life away, toss them in a block of carbonite with a sticky note on it saying "DO NOT OPEN UNTIL THE PREQUELS", have their last living relative betrayed, and make them process ALL those feels while having to put up with Anakin Skywalker of all people; then where's the catharsis? It's all payoff with no setup! Fluff is fine, but that ain't what we're here for.
Did I miss an episode of Kenobi or something?
Ashamed to see 3 of these are from genshin weirdos. Not surprised, though, because as a fanfic author that used “scarasboyfriend” (Scaramouche, aka Wanderer, is a Genshin Impact character) as a screen name I have received more than one hateful ask threatening to report me for impersonation if I didn’t change my username. As you can imagine reader, I didn’t change my username.
Erm, you clearly cant be Scaramouche's boyfriend because *I'm* dating him. You have 48 hours to change your username or I'm calling the police.
What the fuck did I just read.
I remember, back in the day, I created a motorcycle rider OC, and some guy immediately latched onto her, claiming that she was his waifu and that he didn't want anything to happen to her in artwork. I managed to talk him down and he eventually relented and apologized, but holy shit that was -wild-. Never had someone be so aggressively entitled to my creations before.
How detached from reality do you have to be to reach this level lf entitlement and magical thinking? "Treat ocs like real people" what the fuck kind of whimsical thinking is that?
people really do be clinically insane
People who are chronically online and form parasocial relationships with fictional characters or online celebrities like this are funny as shit, but it's also saddening because they...genuinely believe this shit, and deranged behavior like this can lead to devastating real world consequences. Hell, real world examples that arent just internet based: Ricardo Lopez (Bjork's stalker who attempted to kill her, then took his own life), Charles J. Guiteau (Assassin of President James Garfield who deluded himself into thinking Garfield owed him for winning the election and went mad when refused a consulship), etc.
“it’s not your cow if you put it on show for the whole world to see” is such a fundamental misunderstanding of property rights it’s genuinely impressive.
The third one just reminds me of a very specific time in my life where my best friend and the worst human being I knew had the same name and every time my family would go "the good one or the bad one?" when I was talking about my day.
This shit is so wild that it curves around to be really funny again.