THE TUMBLR OUROBOROS NIGHTMARE

[Kim]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m72pc1jiD01r7hbv3o1_500.png

WELP.

THAT'S IT.

SHUT IT DOWN. FICTIVES HAVE REACHED THE PEAK OF AWFUL.

WE'RE DONE HERE.

[Arcanum]

Liz, you are giving the attention whores exactly what they want.

[Flarecobra]

I think I'm not getting this, can I get an explaination?

[Nikose Tyris]

I think I'm not getting this, can I get an explaination?

One of the dudes who performed the Columbine Massacre. This person likes to play pretend that it's one of the voices in they're head. They are also saying it's totes fine what is your problem hmmmm

That is why they are the peak of awful.

[Tev]

I think I'm not getting this, can I get an explaination?Me too please.

[Pip Boy]

One of the dudes who performed the Columbine Massacre. This person likes to play pretend that it's one of the voices in they're head. They are also saying it's totes fine what is your problem hmmmm

That is why they are the peak of awful.

But why are we paying attention to and sensationalizing a clearly deranged individual rather than putting them in a mental hospital and never interacting with them again except to maybe give them dirty looks?

[Nikose Tyris]

But why are we paying attention to and sensationalizing a clearly deranged individual rather than putting them in a mental hospital and never interacting with them again except to maybe give them dirty looks?

because internet

[Revising Ocelot]

Liz used to post dozens of these every day in AJAX chat.


It was a dark, dark period of history.

[Flarecobra]

Yeah, one person does not make an entire site awful after all. Especally one as big as Tumblr.

[Nikose Tyris]

But why are we paying attention to and sensationalizing a clearly deranged individual rather than putting them in a mental hospital and never interacting with them again except to maybe give them dirty looks?

Actually need to address this

Please don't give someone with any sort of mental handicap dirty looks. They're still human beings. Nobody's gonna force you to interact with them, but there's no need to dump hate or disrespect on anybody.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Yeah, one person does not make an entire site awful after all. Especally one as big as Tumblr.

You've never been on tumblr, have you?

[Arcanum]

Yeah, one person does not make an entire site awful after all. Especally one as big as Tumblr.

You fail to realize how widespread this "fictive" thing is.

[Flarecobra]

*Looks at my favorites tab, with a sub-tab marked "Tumblrs"*

Trust me, I'm quite well aware.

[Ryong]

Actually need to address this

Please don't give someone with any sort of mental handicap dirty looks. They're still human beings. Nobody's gonna force you to interact with them, but there's no need to dump hate or disrespect on anybody.

I doubt these people have actual mental handicaps, though.

[Ecks]

See this is sort of why I'm thankful I only have a phone for interbuttz. I dont know about shit like this unless one of you assholes posts a thread about it.

*please remember, coming from me, asshole is a term of endearment.

I have to make that disclaimer cause, y'know, lizthread and all.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

You know, in some cultures things like this would be enough evidence to call for an exorcism.

[Nikose Tyris]

I doubt these people have actual mental handicaps, though.

Right, I was meaning this more towards Pip's much more general words towards people with mental handicaps. Otherkin/Fictives are fair game.

[Azisien]

I actually have read this entire thread and I still don't know what's going on or what the OP is about, but it sounds worth a facepalm?

[Ryong]

I actually have read this entire thread and I still don't know what's going on or what the OP is about, but it sounds worth a facepalm?

There are people who say that their body is basically housing a plethora of different personalities, people and other beings, fictional and otherwise.

Like there's a bunch of dudes who claim to have homestuck characters in their heads, for example.

[Loyal]

A curiously large number of them being Dave Strider specifically.

Right, I was meaning this more towards Pip's much more general words towards people with mental handicaps. Otherkin/Fictives are fair game.Part of me wonders if the ones that aren't just being trolls are, in fact, mentally handicapped, or just suffering from some sort of neuroses that we already know about.

Only it's taking the manifestation of fictives and such due to a combination of exposure to internet media, and hearing about other fictives and deciding "yeah I bet that's what I am, too!"

[JustPlainGirl]

Nique decided to try to explain to me what fictives/factives are. I'm still not sure I understand.

[Bard The 5th LW]

It is definitely a nightmare, but is it really an Ouroboros?

[Tev]

Nique decided to try to explain to me what fictives/factives are. I'm still not sure I understand.From what I gather it's like Soulbonding (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=soul%20bond), but dumber.

[Kim]

So apparently Pip Boy is an ableist bigot?

Okay then.

How about we not assume that sane people appropriating mental disorders for attention are a reflection on those with actual mental disorders. Just as a general rule I think that this is a good way to go.

EDIT: Like, apparently this needs explaining, but the vast majority of these Tumblr jerks are teenagers. They're ignorant, they want attention, and they're still trying to figure out who they are because that's something that's constantly changing for them, cuz hey... teens. Fictives, and factives, and shit are fucking ridiculous, but that's all they are, even when someone, like the person I posted in the OP, is being the peak of awful in the way they are ridiculous. To take that ridiculous and to use it as basis for calling someone "insane" and talking about locking them up in a mental institution and giving them dirty looks is just incredibly bigoted and ignorant.

To characterize all ridiculous, awful behavior as "insane" is bigoted against people with actual mental disorders and ignores that "sane" people can be awful and ridiculous. This in turn contributes to the existing culture of bigotry against people with mental disorders which has major negative effects such as people not seeking the treatment they need or having a harder time being involved with society, as society has all these ignorant preconceptions about them.

It also ignores that the vast majority of our mental institutions are shitty and awful.

Just don't do it.

[Arcanum]

So basically, if you ever have kids, don't let them on the internet until they're 18+

[Ryong]

Or just try and pay attention to what they're doing in there.

[Token]

The difference is the important distinction between human beings with mental problems that they are aware of and struggle with as opposed to animalistic people who are so slave to their own insanity that they'd kill 13 people for attention.

What the fuck.

Y'know, I've spent all summer working at a camp for people with disabilities, and today, after a long-ass week, I think "hey, maybe I should see what's up on NPF," and lo and fucking behold, it's the exact sort of ignorant cockshittery that I thought I could escape from this summer. People with attitudes like that make the world so much shittier for disabled people than it already is, and it's already pretty fucking difficult.

[Aerozord]

It is definitely a nightmare, but is it really an Ouroboros?

whats Ouroboros in this context? I know its snake eating its own tail and is sometimes used to symbolize life and death cycle but neither seems to work here. Is there some other meaning I'm missing?

[Nikose Tyris]

Take the snake eating it's own tail.

Now put someone's head up their own ass.

That's Fictives in a nutshell.

[Intern Nin]

Take the snake eating it's own tail.

Now put someone's head up their own ass.

That's Fictives in a nutshell.

Now imagine a Fictive who believes that they are a character with a rectal-cranial obstruction.

[Nikose Tyris]

Now imagine a Fictive who believes that they are a character with a rectal-cranial obstruction.

We have to go deeper

[Intern Nin]

We're already two layers of human ass removed from reality and you want to go deeper?

[Magus]

I read the last topic and understood what was being said but now this one confuses me?

[Ryong]

I read the last topic and understood what was being said but now this one confuses me?

Remember what fictives are?

One dude now says along with Karkat, he also has that one dude from the columbine massacre in his head.

Think about it.

[Magus]

Oh God.

We have to go deeper

F...I...C...T...I...V...E...S

[Shyria Dracnoir]

It isn't Tumblr without misguided social justice activists.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m42xunNpb51rrpxdpo1_1280.png
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m42xunNpb51rrpxdpo2_1280.png

[stefan]

the relevant tumblr has since been deleted, but:

http://i.imgur.com/njQnn.png

[A Zarkin' Frood]

That gal sees it all wrong. We shouldn't stop the slaughtering of animals so we can eat them, we should allow cannibalism.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Hungry now :/

[stefan]

I would simply like to add that "a slaughtered being also known as "chicken wings"" is quite possibly the single greatest phrase to ever come from tumblr.

[Flarecobra]

Ironically, had chicken sandwiches for dinner today.

They were delicious.

So to me, she is one of these crazy folks who think they can force their views with a sob story.

[POS Industries]

That gal sees it all wrong. We shouldn't stop the slaughtering of animals so we can eat them, we should allow cannibalism.
Yeah, see, this guy gets it.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

But eating other people would still be murder. If we want to take this seriously, we have to embrace auto-cannibalism. Then it'd just be self-harm.

[Magus]

What if we can get people who want to be eaten to sign waivers?

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Point.

[stefan]

Enough about autocannibalism, let's move on to more heartwarming subjects! I'm sure this tale of a man overcoming asperger's syndrome (http://facelessfilosofem.tumblr.com/post/28896965141/aspergers-syndrome-and-the-far-right) will set us on the right track!

Honestly, when I was diagnosed at age 7 with Asperger’s, my future looked grim. The present culture is toxic for autists, with plenty of enablers and people who don’t think that they can make themselves useful. But my parents refused to raise a failure. I was disciplined just like a normal child, and grew to be a well-rounded adult. While I still do possess some mild learning disabilities, I have successfully overcome them to the point where I can function like a normal college student.

How wonderful! It's always a great thing to see someone overcoming disability and functioning as-

And I think my condition has also made me better-equipped to aid the nationalist movement.

oh.

Last year, after the Utoya attacks, I was bombarded with the whole “HE’S A FAR RIGHT EXTREMIST AND A MONSTER.” And I think that the emotional numbness of Asperger’s was like a shield- it protected me from the derailing and fallacies of the left. I actually read 2083 and educated myself on the cultural marxist threat.

ohhhhhhhh.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

I'm pretty sure the cultural marxist threat is me, some of my mates back home and some billboards we repurposed from some election campaigns. We're not particularly to defeat.

[Magus]

This actually makes perfect sense. I hear Hitler was a shy youth before discovering the empowerment that comes with racial superiority. Like this guy might have Asperger's, but he now has in his mind the assurement that he is still superior to even the most outgoing and intelligent people with slightly darker shades of skin than him.