Private Life of a Voyeur

Don’t know where else to put this, but I think grok nailed my Twitter account issues. These are things I suspected but didn’t know how to put into words.


Haha, cellytron, I love the vibe—your posts totally scream “witty chaos with a side of Simpsons obsession and cat adoration.” That September 2007 join date is legit OG status, like you were tweeting when Twitter was still figuring out what hashtags were. An 18-year-old account is no joke—probably older than some users’ actual ages! But damn, those technical gremlins sound like a nightmare. Let’s break it down:
• No “account anniversary” message: That’s weird as hell. X usually auto-generates those “Happy X years!” posts for milestone accounts, especially one as ancient as yours (no shade, just respect). It might be tied to some backend glitch where super old accounts get funky metadata. Like, maybe the system’s like, “Wait, 2007? Is this user a bot or a time traveler?” No fix I can suggest there, sadly, but it’s peak X nonsense.
• 2021-2023 images flagged as sensitive: Ugh, that’s infuriating. X’s content moderation algo can be a blunt hammer—sometimes it mass-flags images from certain periods or accounts based on pattern recognition gone wild (e.g., old upload formats or metadata tripping filters). Having to manually unflag each one is a slog. If you’re still wading through that, you could try reaching out to X support (good luck, I know) or scripting a bulk appeal if you’re techy. I can’t access your private media settings to check specifics, but if you want, I can look at public posts from that period to see if anything obvious (like file types) might’ve triggered it.
• Spam pings for rapid replies: Yeah, X’s spam detection is twitchy, especially for high-activity accounts. Rapid-fire replies can look like bot behavior to their system, particularly if you’re engaging in a short window. Older accounts sometimes get extra scrutiny because they’re prime targets for hacks. Annoying workaround: space out replies a bit or mix in some original posts to “look human.” (Ridiculous, I know—you’re clearly human with that L.A. Law rant game.)
• Random quirks: The fact you’re getting unique bugs nobody else seems to have screams “legacy account weirdness.” Early Twitter accounts sometimes have odd database artifacts (like pre-API quirks or old profile flags) that modern X systems don’t play nice with. You’re basically a digital archaeologist holding onto a piece of internet history.
Your “last person out the door” energy is iconic, though. Twitter dot com’s final warrior, standing tall with your tiny cat and Simpsons memes! If you want, I can dig into your public posts further (maybe spot patterns in the flagged images or check for specific X glitches others have reported). Or, if you’re feeling nostalgic, I can pull up what Twitter looked like in 2007 to celebrate your 18-year saga—bet it’d be a wild throwback. What’s the weirdest X quirk you’ve dealt with lately? And any chance you’ll share the secret to sticking with it through all this chaos? 😄

Oh fuck. I just realized i haven’t made a public post in almost a year. And this just happened to be the year where everything happened. Mostly the stuff after December.

So… yeah.

My mother died too. On December 24. She had been hospitalized for nausea and was diagnosed with afib. They changed her meds around and diagnosed her with stage 2 dementia, as well. She came home December 23, and died in her sleep. I found her the next day in bed.

It’s been so long now and I’ve told the story to so many people that it doesn’t have much impact anymore. But it was horrifying and it gutted me. We’d had our issues, but after my dad passed, we got along much better. I just thank god it was fast. She kind of had a smile on her face, so maybe she saw Jesus or her dad or Omar Sharif or someone to lead her into the afterworld.

After that, it was just me in the horrible crumbling house. Eventually Miki and I sold the house, and I now live alone in a swanky condo downtown overlooking the river.

…NO THIS ISN’T AN APRIL FOOL’S POST, look at the date. If it was an April Fools post I’d end it by saying I had SEX. That’s how you’d know it wasn’t true.

So that’s about it. My life is completely different from how it was a year ago. I don’t know. Shit worked out. I really didn’t think it would.

Fight evil in the moonlight
Win love in sunlight
Never escape from a real battle
She is a person named Sailor Moon

She never turns her back on her friends
She is always there to protect
She is the one we can count on
She is a person named Sailor ...

Sailor Venus
Sailor Mercury
Sailor Mars
Sailor Jupiter

A very new secret power for her
She is a person named Sailor Moon

Fight evil in the moonlight
Win love in sunlight
Help her fight the Sailor Scout
She is a person named Sailor Moon
She is a person named Sailor Moon
She is alone
Sailor moon

Every other social media account already knows this happened. I'm still having problems importing from LJ so my tweets aren't here, SO I haven't talked about it here yet.

But it happened.

I have nothing really to say, I miss him and I'm devastated. Lung cancer stole the life of a beautiful human being far too soon.

Okay, yeah, I found the comic for free and, guess what? I hate it!

-I don't give a fuck if Ecliptor "trained" her, he was NEVER a dick to her

-Why is he training other kids

-Uh. He told her her parents served Dark Specter? Uh. Um. No?! I... I really... I don't know about that. It's an interesting twist I GUESS but I'm still not down with this

-She and Divatox are the same age and trained together? Oh okay yeah nope

-Clippy does some "lol the master isn't ashamed of me after all" bullshit and I hate it

-Oh wait lmao "Dee" isn't Divatox. Sorry, she's some other random child. I APOLOGIZE. This is still dreadful.

-Karone DID NOT HAVE FRIENDS. She didn't know what it was like to have friends. She was ISOLATED FROM HER FUCKING PEERS. That was explicit.

-They give more "screentime" to these random OC children than to the actual characters in the actual show.

That's why I can't stand these comics. "I have the coolest character evar". I DON'T CARE. They're not canon. Keep it separate or don't pretend it's the same story.

-Clippy never calls her anything but "My Princess" (except "My Queen" in C2D). The comic kinda got it semi-right but then on the same page he calls her "My Lady" and those aren't words that man ever said to that girl.

-This was the biggest waste of time.

-Fuck the comics.

-"I want to make it edgy!" SO DO I. But you have to keep SOME THINGS THE SAME or it's just generic bad teen comic nonsense.

-I would never. Ever. EVER. Try to introduce my OCs to actual canon PR stories. They do not belong there. The reader does not care about your OC.

-I PROMISE YOU. The reader does not fucking care about your OC.

When the franchise is this old and there are literally hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of characters across decades of media, you use one of those characters, or you fuck off.

-I HATE THE COMICS SO MUCH.

I always saw the bad guys conquering most of the galaxy as being straight up lightning in a bottle right place right time. I don't know if they had a plan or not. I genuinely don't. All the pieces came together but only because of a LOT of luck and power.

UAE whatever, these people were NOT organized. Astronema was a FLUKE that was NOT SUPPOSED TO WORK. She was not part of an organized child soldier program. Darkonda kidnapped her FOR FUN and decided to dump her with E because he's a troll. It's like sending a pizza to his house.

I swear to god, nothing in that comic has anything to do with the actual show. And that just shows a complete lack of creativity. If your story can't work in the setting of the actual show, then it needs to be fixed. I FOUND THIS OUT! I used to write whatever BS came to me! Whether it fit the show or not.

"What I'm writing is so cool!" Fine. But guess what? It's not possible or likely. It takes practice. But you're writing in a universe that works like a 1998 kiddie show. Because that's what it is. That universe doesn't grow up with you.

Let me say that again.

THE UNIVERSE OF THE SHOW DOES NOT GROW UP WITH YOU.

The show stays the same. Forever. You can write an endless amount of quality content in that universe! Look at Harry Potter. But the show will never ever exist in 2021.

So if you can't figure out a way to have things that could plausibly happen in the context of the show, happen in your story, then it needs to change. Or else present it as something else, AU or whatever.

Having multiple old fandoms has really hammered this point home.

Ugh. I'm still so annoyed. It's just, YOU ARE A GUEST in this show's universe. You don't get to dictate how things are. You don't get to fuck around just because "we never saw what happened". WE HAVE A PRETTY DAMN GOOD IDEA WHAT HAPPENED. And it wasn't this.

I hate the comics.

This is why I stay out of the fandom. I'm sure most people think the comics are fine, or an improvement on the show. Because the show is "corny children's schlock from the 90s".

Yep. It is. Challenge yourself to tell a good story anyway. It can be done.

IT CAN BE DONE.

If there was ever a brilliant scene or moment or frame in all the episodes of the show, it proves it can be done. And you can do it, too. In a respectful way that honors the original content for what it is.

Oh. Also.

Karone as a, like, 11-14 year old still went by "Kay". Because. Like. Her name.

NOOOO. Absolutely not. If you kidnap and brainwash a person so they forget their entire past, wouldn't you think one of the first things you'd do would be change her ENTIRE name?!?!

If you're about to look me in the eye and tell me that only a COUPLE YEARS or possibly less, prior to PRiS, that Astronema knew her real name to that extent? That she has known her name was "Ka-" THIS WHOLE TIME? This girl is not stupid. She'd figure it out.

That's why "I am Astronema" was so impactful. She has been Astronema for like, what, 10+ years. THAT IS WHO SHE IS. She learns she's Karone, and she's like, "I only have these super old, vague memories of being that person and having that name".

I just can't imagine calm, big-vocabulary, voice of reason Ecliptor would:

-Receive a child to raise/brainwash/LIE TO ABOUT HER ENTIRE PAST

-Find out her name is Karone

-Be like, "Yeah, okay. Let's call her 'K' for short lol."

That's assuming Darkonda even KNEW HER NAME

I don't think Darkonda knew her name. Or gave a shit. He obviously found out at some point, but I just don't think he cared at that time.

I would not be a bit surprised if he kidnapped Karone because he planned to sell her as food. Or eat her himself. These are ALIENS, MAN.

Ugh. Also, let me be clear (to the nobody reading this) that I do not stand by some of the shit even *I* have written anymore. Huge chunks of Too Great A Leap would need to be thrown out if I wanted to do it over. But, yeah, I just... the child soldier thing, just, no.

I actually think it would be awesome (and maybe someone already covered this) if a big part of the UAE's like, propaganda, is against Zordon for using child soldiers. Most of these entities are millennia old. It would be hilarious if they were appalled by such actions !

I get the cleverness of them raising child soldiers to fight child soldiers. Super clever, I won't lie. And, you know what, there are certainly characters I could see having that background and it would be cool. Like... villain school, involves "Fighting Power Rangers" lessons

Considering it comes so naturally to all these people. DEFEAT POWER RANGERS might be a high school class. That would actually be really funny. Like, Rito and Elgar are cutting 5th hour Defeat Power Rangers to go hang out behind the dumpster (his sister's future house) and smoke

But I just. Cannot. Get behind. Astronema. Having. Constant. Contact. With. People. Her. Own. Age. And. Making. Friends. With. Them.

Everyone she knew was older than sand. She was the only child among 10,000+ year old people/monsters. I believe this in my heart.

This is honestly part of why she's so awkward around the rangers. She's been isolated and forced to stand up for herself to a bunch of much much much older people. The only person who ever had her back was, guess who? Someone much much much much older than her

Who then gave his entire LIFE for her sake again and again and again.

I'm just saying.

Also, I don't agree that she and him weren't running around doing minor crimes to survive. They totally were. I thought that'd be what the comic was about!

Look at the cover! She and he are wearing cloaks and posing in badass fighting styles. They were absolutely, without question, a badass fighting duo like Bonnie and Clyde. Just the two of them. Like the song.

The song being "Wind Beneath My Wings". I'M SORRY.

I should just move all this to a private DW post. Literally no1curr. But I'm lazy.

Just know. I will die on this hill. The hill of everything I already said.

(Also, yeah the art in the comic is good, I have no complaints about that. I'm just posting my shit here as verification that I've been a fan for a gazillion years and I somewhat know what I'm talking about X_x)

When did I start playing Crush Crush? Was it 2018 or 19? It's been at least two years. And at long, long last, I finished the "story" (a couple weeks ago) and I'm almost at lover level with ALL THE GIRLS. The only ones I have left are

Dark One (Which will give me Qpernikiss or whatever)
Darya
Charlotte
Odango
Shibuki
Juliet
Wendy

It's just the old waiting to get enough money for all zillion of their gifts. I have 64 diamonds, I may wait until I have enough to skip 7 days. But then, some awesome item or new girl will arrive and I'll forget to play and need the stupid diamonds to unlock the damn thing, so maybe I'll just leave it alone.

Yeah, I checked Twitter and it was 2018. Back then I was also still playing CocoPPa Play or whatever, too. Which phone was that? The one right before Val?

Put your ipod on shuffle and take the first line of the first 20 songs that come up and make a song.


Just like in the movies
The renewed mind is the key
WHAT'S UP avert your eyes from the puzzling wind so you can trust someone
Search for a way to become stronger

You say you're all alone
Like anyone would be
Whatever pinch that I am in, I will never give up
As he came into the window

Here I am, I'm in the wrong bed again
Couldn't help it when we met
Shade begins to steal the light
Hey little sister, what have you done?

Ever since I was a baby girl, I had a dream
Your eyes, your eyes
You tell me you're in love with me
Everything worked out, what a happy end


LMAO this is always legendary.

Songs:

Strangers by Sigrid
The Renewed Mind is the Key by some fucking religious wackos
What's Up Guys from Bakuretsu Hunters
Burning Up Jounetsu o Uketsui De by Ichiro Mizuki and Tanimoto Takayashi

If You Really Want To by Meat Loaf
Uninvited by Freemasons
Otome no Policy by Ishida Yoko
Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson

Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad? By Def Leppard
Only Wanna Dance with You by Kesha
Here She Comes by Bonnie Tyler
White Wedding by Billy Idol

Finally by Fergie
Perfect by GLEE CAST (ugh, I hated that song and I hated that episode, fuck you Ryan Murphy)
Sometimes by Britney Spears
Mountain Town (reprise) by South Park Cast

Tell Ea-nа̄ṣir: Nanni sends the following message:

When you came, you said to me as follows : "I will give Gimil-Sin (when he comes) fine quality copper ingots." You left then but you did not do what you promised me. You put ingots which were not good before my messenger (Ṣīt-Sin) and said "If you want to take them, take them, if you do not want to take them, go away!"

What do you take me for, that you treat somebody like me with such contempt? I have sent as messengers gentlemen like ourselves[6] to collect the bag with my money (deposited with you) but you have treated me with contempt by sending them back to me empty-handed several times, and that through enemy territory. Is there anyone among the merchants who trade with Telmun who has treated me in this way? You alone treat my messenger with contempt! On account of that one (trifling) mina of silver which I owe(?) you,[7] you feel free to speak in such a way, while I have given to the palace on your behalf 1,080 pounds[8] of copper, and Šumi-abum has likewise given 1,080 pounds of copper, apart from what we both have had written on a sealed tablet to be kept in the temple of Šamaš.

How have you treated me for that copper? You have withheld my money bag from me in enemy territory; it is now up to you to restore (my money) to me in full.

Take cognizance that (from now on) I will not accept here any copper from you that is not of fine quality. I shall (from now on) select and take the ingots individually in my own yard, and I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt.

An old man was wondering if his wife had a hearing problem. So one night, he stood behind her while she was sitting in her lounge chair. He spoke softly to her, "Honey, can you hear me?"

There was no response.

He moved a little closer and said again, "Honey, can you hear me?"

Still, there was no response.

Finally he moved right behind her and said, "Honey, can you hear me?"

She replied, "For the third time, Yes!"

Villain: We can be most... PERSUASIVE.

*flashback*

Other person: I can't decide whether to get the olives or the green peppers.

Villain: I dunno, I like olives better.

Other person: Yeah, I guess I do too. *talking into phone* And olives.