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@boyinthevoide

*slides down ramp on a skateboard* good evening

This message is for all the guys who idolize lesbian relationships in media and irl,

YOU CAN BE A LESBIAN

For me I didn't know why I loved lesbian relationships so much but I adored them, I even had a phase where I thought I was gay because I hated the idea of seeing myself as a boyfriend or a husband despine having little to no attraction to men and sooo much attraction to women, it took me another 2 years to fully figure out I was a transfem sapphic, and probably would have figured it out a lot sooner if somone had grabbed my little teenage cheeks looked into my eyes and told me if u want to be a lesbian you can be one so that's what I'm doing here,

YOU CAN BE A LESBIAN

If you're a guy who likes lesbian relationships

YOU CAN BE A LESBIAN

If you're a guy that thinks lesbian relationships are better, then het relationships and doesn't understand why

YOU CAN BE A LESBIAN

If you're a guy who fantasizes about himself in a lesbian relationship

YOU CAN BE A LESBIAN

If your a guy who's attracted to women and hates the idea of being a boyfriend or husband

YOU CAN BE A LESBIAN

If your a guy who doesn't think he's "worthy enough" to be a lesbian

YOU CAN BE A LESBIAN

If your a guy who thinks he'd be happier as a lesbian

YOU CAN BE A LESBIAN

Seriously you can give being a girl a try if it's not for you that's ok if it is then congratulations on figuring it out! You don't have worry about being "right" or "wrong" it's all a part of discovering yourself

What the hell is this doing on my tumblr dashboard in 2021. What’s happening. None of you know what this is. Nobody even heard of this when I was on it in 1998.

“Palace Chat” was a chat program that worked like club penguin except it came out almost ten years prior and it was meant for adults. When I got addicted to it in 1998 I had to be in the 1% of users under 30. The smiley faces were default avatars you had if you didn’t make a proper account. Once you had a username you could import any image files you wanted into Palace “Props” you could edit, share, mix up and reposition to make your own avatars. I grabbed this screenshot off google but I have literally been in this very room. Milton’s avatar looks cool, does anybody know what that’s from? People made palace chat servers that were like elaborate exploration games with free props hidden around like items which was cool but none of the users seemed to care about that stuff so they’d just hang around the main entry room and talk all day about their sex lives or whether or not Bill Clinton ruined America. I originally watched the world premieres of Futurama and later Invader Zim in real time with a bunch of people on “The Anime Palace.” I had a “TV Card” in my desktop PC allowing me to watch television on my computer and take screenshots. I made an avatar out of a screenshot from the intro. I had possibly one of the world’s first Invader Zim chat avatars. Then I had an argument with someone who thought it was going to be trendy just because Jhonen Vasquez made it and they didn’t believe me that I actually hadn’t heard of him before.

Sorry I re-reblog more often these days (nobody sees edit additions and nobody knows what I’m talking about if I make a whole new post??) but here are other funny memories of this obscure internet chapter:

  • Positioning yourself where your avatar overlaps or touches someone else’s without their permission was considered so rude a mod would step in.
  • Making exactly the same avatar as someone else on purpose, even if it’s just a popular video game character or whatever, was even ruder.
  • Every time you moved or you changed avatars, the server had to process it for everybody. Being too fidgety could lag or crash other users.
  • You could assign favorite avatars to hotkeys. If you mashed those keys quickly enough it would lag everyone so bad that doing this often got you a permaban.
  • You were able to move by either clicking or using the arrow keys but using the arrow keys or “sliding” also lagged everyone, like everyone’s chat would freeze until you stopped moving.
  • So a troll could just hold their arrow keys and hotkeys simultaneously to glide around the room cycling through their avatars non-stop and basically giving everyone blue screens of death.
  • Mods had the ability to lock you into the default avatar, which people thought of as “stripping” you, and they could trap your avatar in place which not only “stripped” it but displayed chains and padlocks over the smiley face.
  • EVERY troll would say “….kinky” whenever that happened.
  • Lots of couples would make complementary avatars or avatars that could fit together.
  • It was possible to position yourself so your username was off screen and some people would then wear an avatar made from a piece of the room’s background image, perfectly camouflaging themselves.
  • Some people did this in private rooms hoping to eavesdrop on people who didn’t know this was a thing or that you could check the actual number of users in the room with you
  • You had to download the official Palace color palette file and apply it to your chosen image in a paint program for it not to look like complete ass when imported as an avatar
  • People skilled enough at making avatars look at all decent would be rewarded with rare props, mod powers, whatever
  • There were private rooms and private chat function but accidentally broadcasting your text as a public announcement to the whole room was one misclick away
  • One time a moderator disappeared with their girlfriend into a private room for a while and nobody had ANY means of contacting them to tell them they were sending their internet sex as a stream of announcements to all 100+ rooms and 1000+ users on at the time for like an hour
  • Crucial to your appreciation of that last note, announcements were often set up to display as speech bubbles from the mouths of like, anime characters or the MST3K robots integrated into the background images

we-

we were...

rIGHT THE FIRST TIME?????

WELCOME BACK INTO THE WORLD YOU LITTLE SHIT

HIS BODY TYPE IS THE EXACT FUCKING SAME WHAT WE WERE ACTUALLY RIGHT THE FIRST TIME. WE DOUBTED IT BUT WE WERE ACTUALLY RIGHT. DOWN TO THE FUCKING SHORT GREMLIN BODY.

HOW???? WHAT???? HUH????

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