WHAT THE FISH TACOS 2: THE TACO'S EXILE

Do you like speculative evolution and/or designing creatures? Are you fascinated by ancient communities on the internet, and/or does the idea of permanently contributing something to one appeal to you? Because if so, dear Tumblr, do I have a recommendation for you.

Sagan 4 is a really old forum community worldbuilding project–dating back to 2006, having been made in the hype of Spore as basically a way of playing it manually before the game actually came out. Miraculously, the project actually kept going after that–even after Spore came out, it continued on and even gained new members, producing over 5000 unique species made by over 100 contributors over its several hundred million year in-universe history and still going to this day over 16 years later.

And ANYONE can join and submit their own species.

As a collaborative project, Sagan 4 has a myriad of species ranging from realistic to frightening to whimsical and made by creators of all skill levels, all of which can be found on the Sagan 4 Wiki. Though it can be a little intimidating for newcomers (and even just readers), I’ve found as someone who only joined 3 years ago that it’s something you learn more about as you go along–I’m still discovering new things even after contributing well over 100 species, and not even veteran members know everything about what the project contains.

Even if you are not an artist, Sagan 4 might still interest you if you enjoy reading worldbuilding or, perhaps even more so, if you have an interest in old forum communities and lost media–because boy does Sagan 4 have some community history and even a little bit of ancient drama, much of which is lost or fragmented.

If Sagan 4 interests you, here are the links:

• Forum
• Wiki
• Discord
  

I watched a YouTube video about abusive relationships and the lady started talking about abusers suddenly wanting to snuggle after harming you and I tensed up so bad it was painful

thedarktowerdames:

Art Credit to Barry Kitson

idk maybe whoever wants to prod me every few weeks to a couple months for kicks doesn’t notice bc who pays attention to gaps in timestamps but I’ve been able to be fine for weeks, months, even the better part of a year at a time not thinking about Wren at all until some bullshit happens and I start to spiral

I mean, “fine” relatively speaking. I don’t think I’ve been truly fine since before December of 2021.

Idk maybe from the outside it looks fucking weird that a little bit of anon hate about some guy I was in a bad relationship with years ago can debilitate me like that. It is fucking weird. But do you have any idea how terrified I am that all that bullshit might secretly be true

When I’m spiralling I can’t get the idea that maybe I’m actually crazy and delusional and psychotic after all out of my head. I was told over and over how I was doing all these weird and creepy fucking things that I didn’t even remember doing and I even get accused of sending the anon hate to myself and I’m scared that maybe I actually did somehow. Maybe I secretly wrote some python script or something to secretly send anon hate and password reset emails on a French VPN while I’m at work in front of witnesses. Maybe next I’ll secretly take sleeping pills and pass out in a trailer and get shipped to a warehouse in Minnesota so I’ll be forced to ask Wren to help me get home or smth and not even know I did it.

And like I knooowwww logically that that’s stupid and impossible and won’t happen. But what’s not stupid and impossible is spotting his name or the name of one of his family members on a package and impulsively doing something bad and weird with it. It’s bad enough that I know his irl name bc Facebook was creepy about data collection and started recommending random people I know online (like, it hit me with Tumblr mutuals too) but I’m scared that maybe I actually secretly really did find it by stalking that I don’t even remember doing bc I keep getting people telling me I’m stalking him and that I’m delusional so maybe I’m actually having a delusion that it was just a Facebook recommendation. After all the whole point of a delusion is that you believe it!

Do you think I want to be obsessed with him for decades. Like how my mom has been obsessed with my dad all this time when they’ve been divorced for twenty fucking years. The idea is terrifying to me and every time I get random fucking anon hate calling me obsessed or someone blocks me and I look and they’re talking to Wren or one of his friends about me being obsessed I freak out bc what if I’m secretly just like my mom and I’m gonna be unconsciously randomly showing up trying to get him back for decades. I don’t want to be just like my mom with her crazy obsession with my dad and her declaration that the military found a penis inside her body and how she thinks she is capable of parthenogenesis and her weird decision to tell everyone about her foot fetish at her own father’s funeral.

And that’s not even getting into how apparently his fucking ex girlfriend is someone in my contacts bc Twitter keeps telling me to follow faer when I enable contacts and I don’t even know how fae could possibly be in my contacts unless I secretly stalked faer to put faer in my contacts under the name of someone I know. Which is fucking insane but I’m apparently secretly doing all this other creepy stuff that Wren’s friends keep accusing me of so maybe I did! Maybe I have some kind of creepy secret alter ego who keeps going and doing things so creepy that even I get creeped out by it

idk maybe that full psych eval is gonna come back with OCD or smth. it probably will now that I think about it. but regardless I’m fucking sick of the idea that I’m making a conscious choice here. Short of a miracle I’m not gonna stop freaking out about Wren at random intervals until I stop getting prodded about him or losing friends to bullshit allegations that make me scared that they could actually be true at random intervals

nuclearlemons:

dubious potion that makes you de-extinct

disgustedorite:

LGPT

lesbian generative pretrained transformer

LGPT

willabee:

ALT

what was that

(via gooeytime)

I cannot believe I have to say this but what happened between me and wren was not “hot”

magicalmysteryperson:

bravelycowering:

magicalmysteryperson:

bravelycowering:

bravelycowering:

bravelycowering:

bravelycowering:

bravelycowering:

a rather unfortunate hobby of mine is recreating undertale/deltarune songs so that i can replace the melody with megalovania. i dont know why i do this

like this

i will not be stopping

fav response everyone else go home

I’m calling this AU “Undertale: The One Skeleton Play”

He teleports super fast to play multiple characters at once

So there is some effort, but not a whole lot of effort.

I think the one man play would have a cult status in some regard

This is amazing

I have multiple ideas for what could be the fire

It could be

• A bone painted red
• Trash
• And this one is a really, really, really dumb idea… Sans plays the fireball and all the other non-bone attacks

(via bravelycowering)

mildlybizarrecorvid:

Well yeah, WD-40 is used to stop squeaking

Not to dig up old news but

I just remembered this bit from serial killer anon and it’s like. Wow tell me you’ve never been trauma bonded without telling me you’ve never been trauma bonded

Every now and then I get hit with a random ass memory of Wren interacting with my other online circles, it’s so weird sometimes. I remember being in VC with Wren and OviraptorFan once, and Wren making a joke about OviFan “breaking the balance”. It doesn’t feel quite real that they ever interacted, yet they did.

tomgirlhysteria-deactivated2023:

this post altered my brain so now whenever i have a bowl of any food i think Oh fuck yes it’s a little bowl of seeds for me

(via bravelycowering)

man whoever the fuck french anon is, like

Comment ne vois-tu pas que tu as fait passer ton ami pour un violeur?

disgustedorite:

Not French nationality. I know he’s Lakota and another person from the group is some type of native American in the same general region who speaks French. And that French is more common further north in general.

I originally disregarded him as a potential identity for French Anon because I didn’t think he spoke French, but after he reacted to the fake @ that used French Anon’s alts, either he is French Anon, or he is directly communicating with the real French Anon who I might add would be acting quite shamelessly in that case. Though, if it’s the latter, the only people I can think of (only including known French speakers with some tie to both Wren and Mark) are either someone who would not think I was talking about a different person from Dante when I referred to Wren, or a former mutual of mine who I don’t remember ever acting that way at all towards anyone.

with that in mind I will be very pissed if it’s the former individual after everything they said that led me to conclude they were not french anon. if it’s the latter, wtf.