(I'm finally remaking my introduction post that has been lost to time, yayyy)
Hey, my name is Charlie, I'm an artist and writer. I'm currently writing a FNAF Fanstory called "Frights and Friends", and I plan on starting to do art commissions eventually.
My AO3 is EnigmaticCryptid,my Wattpad is UltimateTrashLedan, and my Quotev is MothLover66
I identify as being trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer . I'm also genderfluid and pronounfluid, they/them is my most preferred pronoun.
Some media I like: GravityFalls, Undertale and Deltarune, FNAF, Pokemon, My Little Pony, Inside Job, The Elder Scrolls games, The Owl House, Bluey, Steven Universe, Marvel, DC, Invader Zim, The Amazing Digital Circus, and More!
You can find most posts I've made with #anoriginalpost
being single sucks [remembers that romantic love isnt the gleaming beacon of salvation that will fix the chasm within me] #mychasm #isupportmychasm [remembers not to trivialize my emotions] but it is painful to never have been deemed worthy of that kind of lasting love [remembers how many incels there are] but honestly you should be totally self-sufficient and never want anything ever [remembers that im evil] im evil
the thing about nonfiction is you come out of it with several more books to put on your to be read list and it's only gonna branch out from there so really the only solution is to read every book in human history starting at the beginning
in my high school a few years ahead of me there was a polyamorous girl named luna who was dating a guy and a girl and the girl was named (i swear to god this is her birth name) marea. they were named moon and tide and they were lesbian lovers. i thought it was the most romantic fated thing ever as a tiny baby queer it would make me sigh in adoration. the boyfriend's name was frank
Dolphins aren't evil spawn of satan, stingrays aren't monsters just because one of them happened to kill Steve Irwin, mola aren't useless barely-alive hunks of flesh
nothing in nature is useless, evil, or straightforward
The US is detransitioning prisoners and just announced that ICE can detain trans people on suspicion of visa fraud. The UK just banned all care for trans kids and is now conducting an "evidence review" into HRT for trans adults and now the biggest DIY HRT web resource just went down.
Trans people need to learn solidarity yesterday, we need to be ready to organise together and set aside anything that we need to in order to get our shit sorted out. We need to prioritise the needs of people who are most at risk: trans women, trans people of colour, trans sex workers, homeless trans people, trans migrants, trans prisoners. Trans people need to organise!
Cis people need to take it seriously that the fascists are trying to completely extinguish transess from existence
Weird Fantasy (1950) #18
written by Al Feldstein and drawn by Joe Orlando, with editor Bill Gaines
So he said it can't be a Black. So I said, "For God's sakes, Judge Murphy, that's the whole point of the Goddamn story!" So he said, "No, it can't be a Black". Bill just called him up and raised the roof, and finally they said, "Well, you gotta take the perspiration off". I had the stars glistening in the perspiration on his Black skin. Bill said, "Fuck you", and he hung up.
Al Feldstein, Tales of Terror: The EC Companion
Just to add context for those not aware of the impact of this story.
The reason it was so important for narrative purposes, was that the plot concerns the visit of the Astronaut, in his completely opaque spacesuit, to a planet populated entirely by self-aware robots (originally from Earth) who have built their own society and are petitioning to be allowed to interact with Earth again as equals.
They have a democratic government and free choice of careers etc. as the orange robot serving as guide tells the Astronaut.
The Astronaut notices that there are two different types of robot on this world; the orange ones, who are in charge, gifted access to all information and facilities. and the blue robots, who are seen as more limited in function, have less access to information and resources, and are not allowed positions of power or as wide a choice of employment opportunities. Even transportation is segregated.
The Astronaut investigates further and discovers that the blue and orange robots are actually structurally identical, there is absolutely no difference between their potential or capbilities, and it is only because the orange are instucted by their Educator system to consider themselves superior, that the difference exists.
The Astronaut tells the robots they are not ready for re-alignment with Earth, until they come to terms with their own unfairness, and how Earth had had to deal with this issue themselves. When that time comes, the robots will be able to ally with Earth.
Then he leaves in his spaceship, and it's only in that one final panel that we see the Astronaut is black.
Not subtle, nor should it be, but for 1950 this was a breathtakingly powerful statement, perhaps the first of it's kind in the genre.
The black character was not a caricature, or comedy relief, he was a main character in his own right, a human who "simply" was black.
I've long had a love for this short, and I think the most wonderful thing about it is that today it reads (without the context) as milquetoast and common. To have gone from being almost unpublishable to being unremarkable in what it is saying speaks to the achievements of Black Americans in their fight for equality and racial justice, and is a fitting legacy for this story
retropineappleReblogged suffering-and-misery18mhometoursandotherstuff1dFollowpingintech3hpov youre a fish and a truly massive creature beyond your understanding from a different world appears in front of you suddenly and without warning in order to eat grass off the floor3,0835,725
retropineappleReblogged godfrey-the-chaos-duck20mhuffylemonDec 28, 2021Followkettle-keenDec 29, 2021Some kid named Dylan put his name in by mistake and we all worked together to make this ominous message 7466,99687,366
retropineappleReblogged godfrey-the-chaos-duck31mmystrothedefenderJun 18, 2024FollowMy coworker said he was having a bad day and I said 'it can't be that bad you haven't started howling like a sad dog yet' and he let out the saddest most pathetic little howl I've ever heard and I was like 'damn ok do you need to have a break?'mystrothedefenderJun 18, 2024Banned from manager training for making my coworker bark.mystrothedefenderMar 6, 2025This has become such a meme at work i just asked the store manager how her days going and she went awoo 5564,96082,566
retropineappleReblogged sunshineram35mthe-punforgiven1dFollowI'm just saying, if you're going to worldbuild magic being a "raw, primal force, akin to and interweaving with nature itself" you gotta explain to me why animals don't use itthe-punforgiven1dI know the normal answer is "they just aren't smart enough for it" but idk I've seen enough media where a character uses a spell in a moment of brain-off panic ilI feel like animals could probably stumble into a spell or two like, accidentally the-punforgiven1dAlso how funny would it be to see a completely normal regular bear cast magic missile outta nowhere1497,88013,173
retropineappleReblogged dogium44mithinkthiswasabadideaJan 12FollowNew 'my brother in christ' alternative just dropped. Yeah, that's getting added to my vocab 24301,045
retropineappleReblogged kristonkwastaken50mbearieMar 4Followevery post on iwaspoisoned.com starts with a guy being like yeah this smelled really bad and tasted really bad and looked wrong and i became violently ill after consuming it and you look at the attached photo and its a big jug with three X's and a skull on itangelicguyMar 4this is crazy i made this exact joke in a personal discord chat the other day. but this was posted 5 hours ago. what givesbearieMar 4do you want custody of the post angelicguyMar 4I just wanna hang out5,87110,206
retropineappleReblogged godfrey-the-chaos-duck54mchungledown-bimothyOct 26, 2023Followreblog to tell a 14 year old that these are the very, very hard years and they're not wrong to feel the way they do.nojglisrenaissanceSep 29, 2024I had a fifteen minute long crying session yesternight over the fact that all I was 10 years ago, at the ripe old age of 14, is lost and lonely, and now, at 24, I am neither and that filled me with so much gratitudececil-speaksSep 16, 2025reblog to tell a teenager that these aren’t actually the best years of your life and that things can and will get better when you have independance and maybe are away from your situation right now.Its me reblog to tell me that12034,14234,513
retropineappleReblogged punkitt-is-here55mtyphlonectesJan 15, 2025Follow125,0427,932
retropineappleReblogged mail-me-a-snail58mtargetedknowledge5dFollow63,1365,480
retropineappleReblogged spaciebabie59mahotknifeOct 18, 2024Followthe thing is that childhood doesn't just end when you turn 18 or when you turn 21. it's going to end dozens of times over. your childhood pet will die. actors you loved in movies you watched as a kid will die. your grandparents will die, and then your parents will die. it's going to end dozens and dozens of times and all you can do is let it. all you can do is stand in the middle of the grocery store and stare at freezers full of microwave pizza because you've suddenly been seized by the memory of what it felt like to have a pizza party on the last day of school before summer break. which is another ending in and of itselfclearestbluestDec 13, 2024ALT<3shining-bewearApr 3, 202561,49079,199
retropineappleReblogged10hmidnightmuffinofficial10hFollowMy Vanny suit redesign drawn by my friend <3#fnaf#five nights at freddy's#the legacy of spring bonnie#fnaf vanny#fnaf redesign#security breach225
retropineappleReblogged shayspeaks10hurie2dFollowamericans are sooo desensitized to guns and sometimes it manifests in ways that affect your media literacy. like remember in the first episode of sherlock when john watson opens up his drawer and you see a gun in there and youre supposed to understand that this is narratively significant and conveys his suicidality as well as his willingness to skirt rules and laws but the first time i watched it i was like oh well theres his desk gun. lots of people have those1097,49314,189
retropineappleReblogged shayspeaks10helbiotipoMar 15FollowAlso, regardless of your feelings on human nature or anything, I think that a world where children can go to school without fearing being bombed from an ocean away is a world worth aspiring to and worth fighting for. Okay we might never abolish war because the inherent human nature or whatever mighty idealism you have. We could at least try to stop these wars, though?elbiotipoMar 15Again. Everybody get more anti war right now.7,4209,713
retropineappleReblogged im-a-fucking-dumbass11hmiiilowoJul 13, 2023Followi desperately need like a canopy bed or a tent bed or an in-wall bed or something i need to be tucked in i need to be protected from the elements i need to be in a little hole in a den in a nest im just a prey animal trying to get bymiiilowoJul 13, 2023do you get it or do you not know anythingcrabussyJul 13, 2023call out post now8334,93344,445
retropineappleReblogged theo-in-the-toaster11hpukicho3dFollowThe best part of the beach is pretending to fight the ocean by beating the shit outta them wavespukicho3dI always lose but it makes me feel important, and it’s fun pukicho3dI'm pushing 30, whygay-cripply-scientist1dWhy are u pushing 30 of them593,45311,982
retropineappleReblogged spaciebabie11hbatmanisagatewaydrugMar 27Followmy notifications are once again devolving into a spirited debate about the ethics of actions that could potentially make someone uncomfortable, and at risk of sounding like someone about to get a lot of irate anons I think we're frankly giving way too to much moral weight to hypothetical discomfort batmanisagatewaydrugMar 27the thing about discomfort is that it's an extremely nebulous category that can be triggered by virtually anything and that's far too broad a category to have any inherent moral quality to it. like. my mom was mad uncomfortable when I stopped shaving. that didn't mean I was doing violence against my mom it just meant she needed to get over herself. many such cases it must be said. batmanisagatewaydrugMar 27there's not a single example I could give that's better than this batmanisagatewaydrugMar 27anyway rn my notes are full of a lot of "you should never try too hard to befriend people because you might make them uncomfortable" and "you should never tell people you're attracted to them because you might make them uncomfortable" and I guess I'm just wondering why we're acting like a little social awkwardness is the worst thing that could happen to a person 11011,51016,491
retropineappleReblogged brosif4011hgaymolegamingJul 17, 2025FollowDo not let gamers near nonbinary charactersshadowblade8192Jul 18, 2025yeahseelcudoom1dyeah549,34213,215
retropineappleReblogged gay-stardrake11hprobablyasocialecologistMar 10FollowMeta Workers Say They're Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users' Smart GlassesMeta contractors in Kenya told two Swedish newspapers that they're being told to review highly sensitive footage recorded by smart glasses.FuturismMuch of the footage being recorded by the glasses is being sent to offshore contractors for data labeling, a widely-used preprocessing step in training new AI models in which human contractors are asked to review and annotate footage. It’s a laborious and highly resource-intensive process that tech companies often gloss over when discussing the prowess of their latest AI models.
The reality can be messy. Meta contractors based in Nairobi, Kenya, told Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten in a recently published joint investigation that they’re being told to review highly sensitive and intimate data.
“In some videos you can see someone going to the toilet, or getting undressed,” one contractor for a company called Sama said. “I don’t think they know, because if they knew they wouldn’t be recording.”
“I saw a video where a man puts the glasses on the bedside table and leaves the room,” one data annotator told the newspapers. “Shortly afterwards his wife comes in and changes her clothes.”
Other footage included imagery of people’s bank cards, users watching porn, or even filming entire “sex scenes.”
An employee added that they felt forced to watch and annotate or else risk losing their job.
“You understand that it is someone’s private life you are looking at, but at the same time you are just expected to carry out the work,” the employee said. “You are not supposed to question it. If you start asking questions, you are gone.”2 March 2026Source: futurism.comelvensilkMar 16i wish more people in the notes were concentrating on the 'meta is exploiting and traumatizing kenyan workers' part of this, instead of just the 'lol this is what these dumb idiots deserve for buying this product' partdykepuffs5dIt's such horrifyingly automated trauma too. As in, half of the Glass owners will have no idea that there is a Kenyan worker being forced to watch them butchering a deer, or speculating on their own haemorrhoids in a mirror etc - And then there will be a chunk who DO know and who are deliberately looking at the most revolting things possible in order to exert their control, the same way as privileged kids will deliberately make a mess at their table in a fast food place in order to force the cleaners to clean it up.But most of the users will have no idea that anyone is watching, and most of the bosses will have no idea how much of the content is traumatising, and the Kenyans in the middle get brutalised.6,9717,395
retropineappleReblogged sunshineram11horteil42Oct 26, 2023Followsocial media sites should let you add custom buttons on your profile. like maybe you get max 3 buttons and they can have whatever text you want. and each button has its own persistent counter for how many times it's been clicked. here's some concept artbramblepatchOct 26, 2023The person who made cookie clicker thinks we should all have buttons that you click and the numbers go up? You don't say.9340,47351,672
retropineappleReblogged brosif4011hchampagnemoonApr 20, 2020Followbody positivity has largely failed because people started arguing for attractiveness and romantic prospects instead of respect and dignity carewitchprojectJun 21, 2020this is truly the best summary of what all of this SHOULD be about186171,111154,505
retropineappleReblogged brosif4011hbatshit-auspolAug 29, 2024FollowFun fact for our international followers: If someone in Australia cuts down a tree on public land to improve the view from their house, the local government will install a sign to block that view again25146,61263,550
retropineappleReblogged18hcreekfiendMar 13Followjust got phone call from my neurologist WHO IS ON VACATION may his name never be erased, basically being like. "ok so your insurance is trying to kill you. I've referred dozens of people to Duke for this and this has never happened. they're being purposefully confusing and sending us all in circles. they keep sending me forms asking ME to agree to pay for your treatment no matter how many times I explain that I am THE REFERRING PHYSICIAN. so here's what you're going to do-" and gave us instructions on what to do when the health insurance corporation is trying to kill youthis is not his job. his job is being my neurologist. his job is not "call patients after hours while I'm on vacation because I'm afraid if I don't give them this guidance their insurance company might murder them and so even though this isn't my job it feels like a fucking hostage situation"anyway. he confirmed that the shit my insurance has been pulling for a month and a half is explicitly Trying To Kill The Patient behavior. told us to get everything in writing. sending us a whole packet of every single relevant form and piece of paperwork so we have it all on hand. told us to contact the patient advocate and if that doesn't work, we're going to have to go outside the company entirely and get the state insurance ombudsman involved. so. that's fun. and a totally productive use of everyone's time and resources. I've had insurance companies be shitty to me but I've never been the Patient They're Explicitly Trying To Kill before. like I've never had them throw this much energy at blocking a procedure this lifesaving. it actually feels even worse than I thought it would!353,4817,856
retropineappleReblogged godfrey-the-chaos-duck18hdarkspaceboytoyMar 6FollowIncredibly violent take of mine but I actually don’t think you need to relate to a story in any way to enjoy it. You can enjoy a story even if you can’t point at a character and insert some aspect of your personality or identity into them. In fact I would argue the need for a character like that to be present in every single story you experience is a sign of stunted growth. headspace-hotel1dIt is a peaceful and serene take, actually. 13317,24327,277
retropineappleReblogged fanvoidkeith18hmaswartzMar 14FollowAI toys for young children need tighter rules, researchers warnIn first study of its kind, Cambridge researchers found AI toys could misread some children's emotions.BBC News31222,32536,509
retropineappleReblogged godfrey-the-chaos-duck1dfunstyleMar 21FollowIm always like "i will not add my two cents. i will not add my two cents" but i cant lie the pennies are getting sweaty in my hand3624,19232,061
retropineappleReblogged numberonechesterfan1darchibaldtuttleJul 12, 2023FollowI want to show you an actual training slide from my customer service job that I had to see yesterday.targetdotcom-deactivated2026011Fińàncial HarmtittyinfinityNov 5, 202310668,49873,893
