#//Don't worry mod of those in question is fine with this being up

[wishmaker-astra]

Oh, right. Please be warned this is the mission statement of a likely hate group, potential BITE model group, and should not be looked at without caution. I have been informed they have edited and removed their original, so I am providing it here for archival purposes.

Do not look at this if you are in a bad headspace. Please. You really should only be looking at this for academic research purposes and counter-group activities.

@/aethersocietyofficial 's policy statement as of 7/20/24, Unova timezone, Astra reference below the cut for ARCHIVAL PURPOSES ONLY

CW: propaganda of probable hate group, racism potentially, discrimination against pokemon of certain classes, potential human-pokemon separatism, potential colonial imperialism

[lilacqiqis]

OMG HII I‘M SO EXCITED TO SEE REQUEST FOR NARUTO AGAIN EHHE

so could I ask for Naruto being insecure about not being good enough for reader but she reassures him they cuddle and it’s just super fluffy!!

If you don’t accept it’s fine but thank you any way!! 🫶🏻

A/N: THIS IS ADORABLEEE TY FOR REQUESTING LOVE ❤️!! So sorry if it's too short.... Rushed this slightly -Mod Lilac

Characters: Naruto

Scenario: Insecure!Naruto and fem!reader reassuring him

TW: none, fem!reader

"Am I good enough for you?"

more under the cut

Naruto wasn't one to outwardly show his insecurity. It was a feeling that ate away at him, who would ever want to feel that way? A lot of times, he'd even be in denial about his own self loathing, denying the fact he felt like he wasn't good enough at times. So when he got with you, the girl he imagined marrying in the future, he felt himself worrying. Worrying he'll mess things up with his loudmouth. Worrying he'll mess everything up with his clinginess. Worrying he won't meet up to your standards.

Shunned since childhood, even after he got recognition and admiration he couldn't help but have the lingering thought that maybe he didn't deserve all the villagers praise, maybe they'll go back to hating him one day. It was just a thought yes, and he knew that it wasn't likely but still deep inside that terribleness ate through him like a caterpillar through an apple.

It was common for him to try and show off to ease his own insecurities. Praise from you specifically is what he craved, an addiction some may call it. He needed to hear you tell him that you love him frequently or he genuinely will start to believe you're losing interest in him. The feeling is the worst, it's almost as if his own thoughts were against him.

So now you two are in his home, Naruto being oddly quiet the entire time. You, being the attentive lover you are, took notice and went to check up on your beloved boyfriend who was sitting on his bed. "Naruto? Are you okay?" This snapped Naruto out of whatever trance he was in, though he kept his sorrow filled gaze as he turned to you. "...Why'd you agree to go out with me? I mean... I dunno. Sorry I just... You deserve a whole lot better, ya know? Am I... Am I good enough for you?"

The question slightly shocked you. Sure, most people had insecurities at some point, but you didn't expect Naruto of all people to have those kinds of thoughts. A small sigh escaped your lips as you walked over to where he was sat down, bed sinking as you placed your weight onto it. You lied your body down on the bed, opening your arms for Naruto to come into. For a brief moment, he paused, but he couldn't reject a cuddling invitation. Never. The boy let you take him inside your arms, head resting on your chest.

"I love you, no matter what. I don't care if you think you're 'not good enough'. You're perfect to me, flaws and all. My strong pretty boy." Your hands gave his head small caresses as he wrapped his arms around your waist. A smile crept onto his face, eyes closing as he buried his face into your chest. "Ya really think so?" "I'd never lie about that." "Heh..."

With the way you kissed him on the forehead and how you're holding him, maybe he'll be just fine with you. Maybe there really wasn't anything to worry about after all <3

[savelockwoodandco]

Hi Admin, hope everything is fine with you, because I truly need your insight.

Whilst I understand that we must approach a battle with high spirits, the way the world goes and with it the media industry really saddens me.

Are we really gonna get the show back?

Do we think CF or the Strouds will really tell us to stop if they think all is over?

I might be far too cynical, but for the Strouds any publicity brings more people to the books.

As for CF, it's still free publicity.

I know that of course none of them will ever be straightforward with us - if anything is happening behind the scenes - because they can't, I guess, but where does the Clowning stop and become simply Delusion?

I keep looking at CF reply for their 5000 followers, and I get it, it looks sus. But are we building a castle made of thin sand out of it?

I'm sorry, Admin, I don't want to upset you. :(

I will still support the show campaign, but I'm so, so, so sad about everything...

Hi Anon! Thanks for the question, and no worries, you didn't upset us! We've got decades of experience in this media game (and in cancellations specifically), and we understand that it can be challenging and frustrating at the best of times.

We totally get being discouraged due to the state of the media industry. It's never been a particularly kind nor relaxed space, and everything about it seems to have been heightened within the last decade or so. What's good -- acknowledging the impact that actors have, the ability to tell stories that would have gone unseen in years past, feeding fan interaction through behind-the-scenes looks while filming and the newfound safety of transformative works (i.e., fanfic) -- has become really, really good. On the flip side, the bad parts of media -- encouraging division and in-fighting, poor treatment of non-administrative professionals, the blind-eye to any profit beyond exponential growth -- have gotten worse.

This isn't a doom-and-gloom statement, though -- these things come in cycles. The Hayes Code Mentality is coming back into full swing, but at least we're past the point of forcing actors to get married in order to promote their films. Some things improve, some things fall back, lather, rinse, repeat. We get being discouraged due to the media landscape -- but remember, all problems are temporary, and bad things will come and go just as often as good things. The good things, the progress, the encouraging changes are no less good simply because they're accompanied by uncertainty.

And if we had to pick a mission statement for answering this ask, I suppose that would be it. There are so many good and encouraging things that have happened -- watch this space, as I (tumblr mod) am going to have Twitter Mod, in all her beneficence, grab me some screenshots from Twitter to show off good/hopeful/encouraging things that have happened recently, since not everyone (including me!) is on Twitter -- that, while we may encounter doubts, disappointments, and uncertainty, it would be as foolish to throw everything out as it would be to assume that we're completely in the clear.

Recency bias, negativity bias, and plain ol' uncertainty have a way of reminding us that there's still doubt and uncertainty surrounding us in this campaign; at times, to borrow a quote, we can feel like we're braving a storm in a skiff made of paper. When a day, a week, two weeks, or more pass without Absolute Confirmation of being picked up, it's easy to lose confidence, to become discouraged, and to believe that nothing we do matters.

And yes, to just simply get sad. And that's okay, that's normal and understandable.

To answer the question posed at the beginning of this ask: yes, we still firmly believe that we're going to get our show back. So many good things -- Nice Things -- have happened and continue to happen (once again, watch this space for a screenshot-heavy post about those things!), that I think it would be wrongheaded to ignore them.

Yes, CF would tell us if there wasn't a chance. It's not really 'free publicity' to encourage people to support a campaign to save a show that they don't have a stake in.

And yes, they make Lockwood and Co; but without a second season, there's no opportunity to make more profit off of it -- sales off DVDs only apply when the show will be put on DVD, after all, which is increasingly uncommon for streaming-premiered shows. Positive word of mouth of "oh they made that really good show that netflix unfairly cancelled" -- a true statement -- only goes so far when negative word of mouth -- "they led fans on when they knew there wasn't a chance" -- is the trade-off.

CF isn't a huge company, they need that positive word of mouth to draw in viewers for current and future projects. On top of all of that, they're human. It's tempting to see every business, no matter the size, as a soul-sucking machine that wrings fans dry for profit, but that simply isn't true, especially of smaller outfits.

The same goes for the Strouds -- there was so much of a rush for the books when the show first came out; people had to wait weeks and weeks for more copies to be printed and sent out through Amazon/Barnes & Noble/other booksellers, and libraries had hold lines for months. That fervor only holds out so long, though, without something concrete -- another season -- to keep it up. In this age of 'receipts', Stroud isn't going to risk his reputation (and provide a lot of clean-up work for his agent) by stringing us alone without any hope.

Everyone involved in this, from the production studio to the author to us, the fans, has a vested interest in not just creating buzz but in actually making a S2 happen. Simply from a business standpoint, it's better business to supply an in-demand product than to not. Attention spans -- and business experts' opinions of attention spans, which is almost more important -- are famously short nowadays. Businesses cannot and do not plan on a small injection to produce long-lasting loyalty and results -- and when they do, like Netflix has been, it bites them in the rear repeatedly.

The sad, sorry fact is that they can't be open and transparent with us about renewal efforts, you're completely right about that. The legalities of contracts and deals within the media industry demand absolute silence until the ink is dry, and sometimes for a bit after that. To use a recent example, the showrunner for Warrior Nun tweeted in March that the show being saved would be because of fan efforts to make it happen. A full 3 months later, he was allowed to announce that the show had officially been picked up. The wheels of media move slowly, but they move.

When does clowning become delusion? The only situation where it would would be if CF came out and told us to stop and that there was no chance. Barring that, it doesn't become delusion. We like to toss around the term 'clowning' -- and it's a fun term that we, the mods, use regularly -- but all we're referring to is the process of distilling what we see into tangible data.

I don't mean to make it sound like some scientific process, but...isn't it? Isn't this all some grand experiment in the name of a grand hobby?

We plot, we plan, we infer, we record, and at the end of the day we turn all of that effort into tangible results. Those results -- trending every single day since cancellation, usually with multiple hashtags/phrases, numerous articles written about the show, its cancellation, and the efforts to save it, a petition with nearly 25k signatures, award nominations, you name it -- are very real, and very helpful.

While ultimately we can't sign the contracts or enact the business deals that will cement our pick-up -- trust us, if we could, they'd be signed by now -- we can provide strong reasons through our engagement for business to want us. The higher we raise demand, the more of a no-brainer providing supply -- a second season -- is.

To all of LockNation, we thank you for your continued efforts. Your tweets, posts, fanart, fanfic, hashtags, signatures, articles, and most importantly, your relentless cheerful dedication, mean the world. We heartily thank you and we heartily encourage you to take breaks, to take care of yourselves. We're confident that, in the future, we will be able to look down at our little skiff made of paper and find that it was made of sterner stuff than we thought.

We're confident in the continued future of Lockwood and Co. We can do this. Look to other successful campaigns; we may have months to go, but we can get through them and come out the victors on the other end.

[subspaceskater]

Do you have any celeste mod recs? My friend finished Farewell a while back and I feel like she'd enjoy chewing on some more fun level designs.

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay i love questions. i'm gonna go through some basic stuff before i get into my personal recs.

so if she hasn't done any modding at all then the first step is installing the modloader. it has all the information you'll need on now to do that https://everestapi.github.io/

don't worry about downloading dependencies when you get the mods, when you launch the game through the modloader it'll go through and download all the dependencies you're missing.

then go here to find map mods. there's all kinds of other mods on the site but those are to be applied per taste so i shan't recommend them. https://gamebanana.com/mods/cats/6800?

what i did at first was just kind of sort it by most downloaded or most liked and then just read the descriptions for the top ones and downloaded whatever i liked the sound of. there's a lot of good mods out there and the scene is just getting bigger and bigger!

there's also the celeste modding central youtube which has trailers for things and is a good way to find mods that maybe came out recently https://www.youtube.com/@CelesteModdingCentral

another thing to do is just like pay attention to difficulty levels on the mods.

beginner levels are usually a-side to early b-side difficulty

intermediate are late b-side, most c-sides, and some of farewell

advanced are around or higher than the difficulty of the hardest farewell and c-side maps and will often introduce mechanics that arent in the vanilla game but aren't too difficult to perform if you've already cleared farewell

expert is above all vanilla difficulty and will introduce mechanics that are hard to do! lots of scary shit here. but very cool looking maps. i havent really finished any expert mods but i've been able to clear a few rooms in the ones i've tried/the ones in collabs.

grandmaster is above everything else. this is where you go when you're bored of expert or really wanna do sicko shit. it's cool.

however it's also important i think to play maps that are below the difficulty level you can complete. because a lot of them are fun! and cute! and just because you can clear it in one try with no deaths doesnt mean you won't enjoy the experience. a lot of them have really cute custom art or music or custom mechanics and they're completely worth it.

now i'll put my actual recs under a cut

of course i'll just start by saying the 2020 spring collab is maybe the most well known mod because it is so fucking good. this is a great place to start and a great place to just have a big mod with a bunch of maps in it that you can complete without digging for a ton of things.

the strawberry jam collab, secret santa 2022, and secret santa 2023 are also all really good. the second two have lots of in jokes between modders that i dont really get because i only really play mods without being involved with the scene but that doesn't detract from them being fun to play.

i will say that my biggest gripe with collab packs is that sometimes there will just be a level in one that i hate. never like a bad level but just something that is antithetical to what I enjoy in a map! and it feels a little bad to be like "no i'm not fucking doing this" and just ignore one map in a floor and then not be able to do the big combination map at the end. but it's fine. maybe you aren't as whiny of a bitch as i am.

glyph is a huge one that a lot of people love. it has a bunch of really cool stuff. cannot recommend glyph enough. it has its own b-sides.

into the jungle is a custom campaign the ramps up in difficulty starting from where 7-A was.

rupture is really good. short intermediate mod with 16 rooms.

lucy's summit is a fun beginner difficulty summit remix. (a kind of mod that just sticks to vanilla level theming.)

cosmic sands is a short intermediate map with some fun mechanics i enjoyed a lot

sentimental is a 10 room intermediate map with some cool secrets

and nutty noon :) kirby.

that's probably enough recommendations.

[bulkheadzine]

The Bulkhead zine: QnA!

As Mod Applications are still going! Finally, your long awaited questions for the zine have been answered! Read bellow for more! [drawing done by our sweet art/general mod @rubski02 ]

What to expect?

Well, for anyone new, this will be a calm little project centered around Bulkhead. Once you join, you will be invited to the Zine Discord and there, you will begin your work for the zine itself! 

I'll be explaining more and more about it there so you don't have to worry, me and the mod team will explain everything there needs to be explained!

Is there a specific theme?

Nope! As long as it includes Bulkhead, all is good!

Will this zine be SFW or NSFW?

This zine is completely SFW! No 18+ content will be allowed. 

Who are the organizers?

Why it's Bulkhead himself!!.. (actually it's myself @mightyfoz , @rubski02 and @23-punnybee (but we will be adding more to our Moderator team seeing how much interest there is!)

Would mods still get to contribute to the zine? All mods will be free to contribute to the zine if they want to!

Will there be a schedule?

Yes, there will be one! Mostly so we can keep track of all the contributors!

Is there an age requirement?

The only age requirement is for you to be 13+, due to Discord's rules.

Is the zine beginner friendly?

Of course! We are happy to have you in the zine! No matter your level of experience with zines!

Will you need a small portfolio or examples of art/writing?

Yes. You will be allowed to highlight any of your works. A social media link works as a portfolio, as long as we are able to see your work! So don’t worry about not having a website prepared beforehand.

Are Collabs between contributors allowed?

Yes! We highly encourage collaborating between both artists and writers. Collabs between artists and writers are totally fine!

Are black and white illustrations alright to submit?

Black and white illustrations are alright, as long as they are fully rendered pieces! We won't accept sketches/only-linework pieces.

Are written works restricted to fanfic only?

Nope! Written works can be anything from fanfics to meta analysis and even articles! This opens quite a nice area for collaboration between artists and writers as you can have your piece illustrated!

What versions of Bulkhead are allowed?

All versions of Bulkhead are allowed! Human/Bot, heck, even cats or dogs or any other type of AU or fan-made designs of Bulkhead will be allowed, as long as it's clear it's him!

Is there a limit on the writing portion of the zine?

Yes! Most writings should be 2,500 words! No matter if it's a fanfic or simply you wanting to voice your opinion on Bulkhead.

Is this a charity/profit based zine and will the zine be free?

Nope this zine is not profit or charity based! This zine is completely free!

Will this zine be physical? The zine will be digital only!

Will you have to have drawn Bulkhead before?

Not really! All artists are welcome, you will have plenty of time to practice drawing him for your final piece!

Do merch artists have to produce the merch themselves?

Nope! All merch will be digital! The only printable merch that we will include will be sticker sheets and posters, but those will only be included as digital files for all viewers to print for themselves!

Will the zine include ship content?

Of course! What better way to show love to our sweet green lad, than drawing him with his loving partner(s). 

As long as the ship itself revolves around Bulkhead being loved of course! All ships are allowed with Bulkhead (as long as it is morally acceptable. 

For example non-morally acceptable ships are: Pedophilia/Incest/Toxic relationships/etc.).  

Is Angst/Whump allowed?

Since we want this to be a happy zine, only Mild Angst is allowed. 

For example: Bulkhead is sad over something about himself or something else, and his friends/partner/etc. cheer him up! 

So please if you are to write/draw anything angsty please keep it mild! Thank you!

Those are all the questions for now! Remember if you have any questions feel free to ask us here on Tumblr! Or check the #the bulkhead zine:qna on our blog for questions we've answered.

[best-kirby-character-tournament]

If it's okay, I have a few questions about how exactly the copy ability tournament would work!

Would it be copy abilities only? Or would transformations like mouthful mode and the metamortex transformations be allowed? Would the super abilities, ravel abilities, and power combos count? Are the robobot abilities allowed and would the evolved abilities be considered separate from the originals?

No worries if you can't answer all the questions! /gen

These are great questions! ^-^ /gen

Mod will go over each question in the order you asked, short versions first, and place the long version of each answer under the cut!

Short Answers:

'Would it be copy abilities only?' No, since there are over 64 Copy Abilities in total!

'would transformations like mouthful mode and the metamortex transformations be allowed?' Transformations are something mod didn't think about, so there will probably be a poll about that later, hehe >w<

'Would the super abilities, ravel abilities, and power combos count?' Super Abilities and Ravel Abilities? Still deciding on that. Power Combos? Yes, those will be allowed!

'Are the robobot abilities allowed and would the evolved abilities be considered separate from the originals?' Robobot Abilities are still being decided on, but Evolved Abilities will be considered separate. They could be put against other versions of the Ability during the first (few) Round(s). :3

Long Answers:

'Would it be copy abilities only?' Mod originally planned on it being an Only Copy Ability thing, but there are around 68 Copy Abilities total, which is about 4 over the even 64 tournament bracket number. Mod thought about how some Copy Abilities are similar to other Copy Abilities and thought about only using the 'modern' version of the similar Abilities, but that wouldn't be fair, and it would get rid of a lot more Abilities than needed >w<

'would transformations like mouthful mode and the metamortex transformations be allowed?' Mod is still coming up with rules for Transformations as a whole, since they don't function the same way Copy Abilities do, especially since mod wasn't really thinking about them when they had the Copy Ability Tournament in mind. If mod isn't able to decide on whether or not Transformations should be allowed, they'll make a poll and have everyone decide for them :3

'Would the super abilities, ravel abilities, and power combos count?' The Super Abilities and Ravel Abilities are something mod has been debating on, so mod will probably also be making a poll on whether they should be allowed, but mod is definitely going to allow Power Combos into the tournament! They don't function that differently from normal Copy Abilities, so mod thinks it should be fine :3

'Are the robobot abilities allowed and would the evolved abilities be considered separate from the originals?' The Robobot Abilities are something mod still has to decide on since they kinda function like Transformations/Super Abilities (if that makes sense), but mod is allowing Evolved Abilities to be separate from the original Abilities! If push comes to shove, mod can always just pit the Evolved Abilities against the other versions (like pitting Pencil Drill against Twin Drill, or Toy Hammer against Wild Hammer) in the first (few) Round(s) :3

Hopefully these make sense! Mod just woke up so if anything needs more clarification, feel free to ask! ^-^

[katoska]

About (I'm paraphrasing) "Why does the OTW not send all reports of CSAM to crime-fighting agencies directly? Why is it on the PAC team to evaluate that with their own untrained eyes on their own computers, risking their safety and mental health, when NCMEC have far better tools and training to do that work?" questions and worries brought up by current anti-ao3/otw talk going around.

Do you WANT the NCMEC to be spammed with hentai?

More than it is already, I mean. Yes, website mods and evaluators of reported content do not have access to the databases that would let them determine whether a pornographic photograph/gif was of an actual, already identified child, or just of a short adult porn actor with a baby face whose porn gets reported frequently enough to be in any database under "Not CSAM". And if there were any A.I.s who could determine the likely ages in new/non-archieved material, they probably couldn't afford them (though I personally would not trust those tools to be accurate or incapable of messing up - in either direction - one bit). These A.I. would be extremely unlikely to impossible to be better at that work than human beings.

Evaluation and moderation - if a site chooses to do the latter - is important work, and while it sucks that many websites outsource it to barely-paid workers offshore or have to rely on unpaid volunteers to do it due to the sheer manpower it requires for larger sites, it's still necessary to do it. No matter how unpleasant and taxing it is. I'd love if everyone who did that work was well-compensated for it and had access to mental-health services, but that just isn't affordable for organisations who aren't specifically given money to do that (unlike police and agencies).

Someone needs to sort through the (reported or actively moderated) content to seperate the fanart of Steven Universe from the photos of real people, and the photos of what appears to be actual children from photos that appear to be of adults. Do those people sometimes fuck up? Sure. Wrt "cartoon vs photo", even, child protection organisations that should really know better have fucked up on occasion. To say nothing of the amount of people reporting cartoons as CSAM/CSEM all over fandom/the US-based internet.

That's why those layers of evaluation are so crucial to enabling actual law-enforcement to do their jobs. You see something that you believe is CSEM on a website, you report it to the evaluators on that website. They make a call whether that is a child in danger and, if yes, pass it on to the NCMEC or similar, and then they make their own evaluation to decide whether or not to notify the police, who makes their own evaluation to determine if it's truly legally actionable and then opens a case and tries to find the perpetrator. But if it doesn't look like any child is in danger according to the lower layers of evaluators - from the average person making a good-faith judgement to professional organisation workers allegedly trained to deal with this stuff - actual investigators don't have to waste their time dealing all by themselves with it. Or, to put it another way, so it's not all left up to the judgement of cops whether or nor someone committed an online sex crime.

Encouraging people to skip those layers out of worry that members of an Abuse Team - who took that job voluntarily, (well-)paid or not - might get disturbed by doing their jobs, is a terrible idea. And as long as those evaluators have a report to point to in the unlikely event that police find suspicious pictures in their cache during any unrelated investigation of them, they are gonna be fine wrt accusations of possession. Nor is the OTW liable if someone evaluate a ticket and determines the content legal when it later turns out it wasn't, as long as the illegality wasn't obvious (eg the words "Does anyone want to buy some photos of naked minors?" in a non-fictional context) or could have been proven with the tools at their disposal (which, since those tools are "human eyes and brains", means there's only proof of liability in fairly obvious cases). And that is as it should be, because lot whole lot of porn could be argued to feature people who aren't clearly 18 or older. You can't report all porn of people who look between 16 and 25 as CSEM, cause that would create a lot of false - and if not false, not proveable - reports.

The OTW cannot moderate all content, and the nature and purpose of the site makes forbidding certain suspicious words or tags pretty much impossible (but is also why it would be hard for anyone looking for criminal content to find and download it). But if they were to moderate certain suspicious-but-not-obviously-illegal content/tags, it would then make them liable if any content they didn't get to due to sheer volume - even as of yet unreported content - turns out to be illegal. Because it could be argued that if they moderate/screen a tag, they were likely to know about illegal activity in it, or at least suspected that the tag fascilitates such activity (cause why else moderate that tag but not others?). So they should have banned the tag, since they couldn't adequately moderate it. Which is why the people of the OTW don't look at anything or evaluate it unless it's been reported, and they don't kick it off the site "just in case" because then they would be moderating and liable. Kind of like how writers can't admit they read any fanfiction, only much much worse.

I'm not sure what would happen to AO3 if no one in PAC was willing to take "potential CSEM" tickets anymore. It's not like anyone can force them, nor should they. I doubt the OTW would be allowed to forward content to NCMEC automatically, in that case. Both because of the "layers are needed" argument above, and cause I'm sure that if website owners didn't have to hire their own people to deal with illegal material, they (the for-profit ones, at least) mostly just... wouldn't. So the most likely outcome would be that AO3 would have to be shut down.

[opinionated-hive]

Welcome to Out of Canon!

The newest Homestuck blog in town. We got everything you could ask for here, whether you're a system member, otherkin/fictionkin, or maybe you're just a lot sillier than you are goofy, we have exactly what you(s) need!

To those who already know us: As this is our new pinned post, we will be restating a few things previously stated due to our new and hip marketing techniques. (The Carrd. We spent so much time on the Carrd. /g)

To those who sadly don't know us: This blog is run by two mods, Mod Decay and Mod Bleed, for a full introduction into us specifically check out the Mod Introductions in our carrd. While our shared content remains completely readable to the naked eye, our personal posts are typically done in our personal typing quirks.

What's new?

We've finally decided what we're going to do with this blog! Don't worry, we'll still be posting random crack interactions, you'd have to sedate Decay if you wanted those to stop.

We've opened up our requests! Why? In an attempt to keep all these Homestuck Losers alive, 'cause clearly we're the special two cookies in the box to do that easy task. So, don't be afraid to send us a request! We'd be honestly delighted to do it for you! Hell, you don't even have to request anything in particular, we're completely fine with a small conversation starter or a question being asked in our ask box, we're talkative little guys.

Blow up our inbox and we'll blow your mind. Maybe. No promises made. They're like mid-tier not like mind-blowing, but you should still blow up our asks. No refunds.

A simplified list of things we are willing to do:

Moodboards, stimboards, tarot readings, playlists, icons, care kits, userboxes, sprite edits, panel edits, doodles, shufflemancy, canon calls, affirmations, suggest names/pronouns/titles, flags, and we are open to trying to fulfill requests outside of our listed options. Check the Carrd below for specifics on what these entail and which mod is willing to do what.

A simplified list of things we are not willing to do:

Non-specific requests, anything Bro Strider related, Incest, Illegal ships, Alpha/Beta ships, and NSFW. The list is small, but will be added to as time goes on. We are honestly willing to do nearly anything within our abilities however we do reserve the right to decline any requests as we see fit.

Possible trigger warnings (they will likely be around the blog just from who we are as people and what we enjoy aesthetically): Death, Exisistentialism, Blood, Gore, Space, Spiders, Needles, and Out of Canon behavior.

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[spoofyleaf]

I dunno about this whole "farewell flyingbark, welcome wildbrain" part of your zine because like?? I thought you wanted the pieces centered around the animation studios and that sounded kind of depressing tbh 😭 but I read your tags and I get what you're going for, and if this is your first time running a zine, typically you're going to need a mod team. running digital zines is generally easier and faster than going through the process of producing merch and physical copies. Past zines I've seen usually gave contributors free copies but that also needed a select number of purchases + to be able to reach the stretch goals. What you absolutely DON'T want to do is end up with a finance mod pulling what that one genshin zine pilfering 20k did. Also, a tumblr poll is fine but I've usually seen interest checks conducted over google forms bc the mod asks questions like "how will you like to contribute, are you interested in purchasing, do you have any merch suggestions you want to see, do you prefer a digital or physical zine, etc and so on!" best of luck.

The “farewell flyingbark, welcome Wildbrain” is just a place holder name for the moment dw! I want it centered around LMK to thank flying bark for all they did, as well welcome Wildbrain into LMK, I’m just bad with names and rn that’s not on the tippy top of the priority list of things to be done (altho it IS up there).

The goal is to have it so every contributor can have a free physical copy, but that will depend on presales unfortunately. (At the bare minimum they’ll get a free pdf and pay as little as possible for shipping and the physical copy).

The tumblr poll was just a quick “hmm. Would atleast a couple people be interested?”, a google form survey thing is currently being made up to do a more proper interest check.

Trust me, there’s a LOT being planned out behind me going “lol guys what if 👀”, I just don’t wanna give anything away besides “hey I wanna make a zine lol”. My poor close friends who I’m blabbering to about all this.

Idk what happened with the zine you mentioned, but those doing financing is going to be me and a friend bc I have ✨trust issues✨.

Tldr:; don’t worry, there’s a lot of planning going into this that you guys aren’t seeing yet

[mlm-mod-taka]

hi! so i saw ur requests were open and i wanted to ask if you could maybe do hajime, byakuya and fuyuhiko w a male reader who is super stressed about a test that they have but just cant understand any of the material and is like always close to tears about it no matter how hard he studies? sorry if thats super specific! this has been happening to me w a math test 😓😓

STRESSED WHILE STUDYING S/O • byakuya, hajime, fuyuhiko x male reader

yes, sure! if you have already done your math test, i hope it went well. exams and things like that are really stressful and i hope you're doing good, don't overwork yourself too much! thats all, please enjoy these headcanons!

tws/cws: mentions of beating up but its light hearted & stress.

|| -> mod taka <3

he's definitely been there before. besides, he's been one of the top students in some of the best of schools and the most complicated classes. he understands exactly how you feel.

gives you some tips that he learned over the years. he actually helps you a lot, and it makes the study sessions a bit more bearable. the advice that he gives would honestly work for almost anyone.

doesn't try to micro manage you to help out, he just goes to check in on your lessons every once in awhile. you can go to him if you don't understand your lessons. he will simplify everything so even a newborn baby could understand, he is pretty good at making things look easy.

is completely fine with you crying about it. he gets that school can be a tough thing, so he awkwardly gives you a side hug, with some stiffly said comforting words, and just lets you sob it all out before he continues helping you study.

really does believe that you can do it. isn't exactly one to hype you up, but he instead cheers you up by bringing down your opponents and lifting you up. in his eyes, you're better than all of them, so you have absolutely nothing to worry about!

if you're ever worried about looking stupid/having byakuya be dissapointed in you, you also have nothing to worry about. he assures you that theres much worse people that he's seen, and they pale in comparison to you. he could never be dissapointed in you, he swears.

when the test does eventually come, he waits for you outside your classroom. it doesn't matter if you pass or not honestly, he's just happy that you managed to answer some of the questions. is proud of you either way, and would buy some of your favorite food for dinner to calm your nerves from the test!

would study with you, since you're both gonna take the same test. honestly, he's not doing much better than you, but atleast he has someone to freak out with, and not do it on his own like usual.

when you start crying because of how frustrated you are, he starts to do it as well. he doesn't like to see his boyfriend sad, so you two actually start to sob together while staring at your extremely hard textbook.

hajime isn't the smartest, but he'll help you out with whatever he does know. granted, he's not the best at explaining the concepts, but its better than being left in the dark about what the topics actually are.

i feel like he's one of those people that know how to give a pretty decent massage, so whenever you're feeling too tightly wound up about the test, he'll place his hands on your shoulder and rub them until you feel a bit better.

gets both of you flashcards relating to the tests topic, and makes an easy training test for you. its to reassure that you'll do perfectly fine in the actual test, and that you will pass either way!

when the test eventually does come around, you're both pretty nervous, but he grounds himself so he's sane enough to try and calm you down. you two are basically very anxious, but atleast you're both anxious together.

while you two are taking the exam, you can always look to him for some moral support. if you look behind you, after he notices your concerned stare, you'll be greeted with a smiling hajime, cheering you on in silence.

after the class finished and you pass your papers in, he reads your score out to you so you don't feel too stressed out. if you failed, thats completely fine! he will drag you to your favorite restaurant and stores to treat you to whatever you'd like, and it goes the same way for if you pass!

celebrates your grade either way because he knows that you tried, and you studied the best that you could with all the struggles that you were experiencing. wants you to remember to not base your worth on grades, because he would always love you no matter what!

doesn't really know how to help you out, but anything you need, he'll give it. just say the name of what you want and it'll arrive in a few minutes. he hopes that this can calm your nerves and atleast slightly help your stress levels, he would rather not contribute to his dear boyfriends panic.

when you start to tear up, he scooches a little closer to you, showing that he's there to give his best version of comfort if you want to sob in his arms before you continue studying again. do be aware that he's a little bit like byakuya during these times, but just like togami, he's also trying his best.

offers to lightly beat up your teacher, then when they take a day off to recover, it gives you more time to study! the only response he gets to his idea is a disturbed stare, then you go back to staring at your notes.

if you're a person that gets motivated by insults/tough love, fuyuhiko can definitely provide that service for you! he specializes in that kind of speech, after all. if you're more into the positive kind of talk, he's pretty much screwed; but! he will show some cute support by giving you a thumbs up and a small smile when you look over at him.

he's not the smartest man ever, but if you want to be helped by peko, he'll definitely call her over for some advice. she knows a good amount of knowledge for school in case fuyuhiko ever forgets his lessons, but she would happily give you some notes! you are the person that her master loves, so she will treat you with the respect you deserve.

when the test comes in, he'll walk you over to your class, and wait right outside until you're done. actually leaves for a small amount of time to get you some of your comfort food, so he can help you relieve some stress that the quiz caused for you.

like everyone else in this post, he would be happy that you just tried your best during it. doesn't let you degrade yourself or your intelligence, because in his eyes; you're perfect and smart for him.

[hesokuri-wars]

Are you guys alright? Like, personally? I'm worried about you :[

✨I can only speak for myself, but I’m alright! Sorry to have just vanished without a word. I honestly didn’t intend to and always hoped I’d get back into the swing of this

Last year I started a new job that is really physically and sometimes emotionally exhausting. I’m very happy there!! But I also have 2 part time jobs on top of that, so I’m just a wee bit burnt out and tired lmao

I've been Chronically Offline for a while, not just here; working 5-7 days a week without weekends or holidays means my free time is quite limited. And yeah, that free time has not included Heso at all, so I really can’t answer any questions about the game from the last year even when I am rarely around :/

So like... when will I come back? Will I come back? Big shrug. I do love the game and this community, I just don’t have the energy for it like I used to. So don't get your hopes up, I guess. Sorry

(And yes, I literally can't figure out how to format my mod icon into this post ✌😎✨)

💙Mod Kara

(Actually, it's great that you don't have a mod icon, because I can't be bothered myself to recover my own batch of icons for this post. This is good.)

Heeey, anon. It's super sweet of you to have sent in this ask, so I thank you for your concern. To answer your question, I'm doing fine, too. Like Mod Kara, I've got a job as well, but unlike her, I'm as online as ever, so what's my excuse?

Well, I haven't exactly touched anything Heso-related in... since the last time I posted actual Heso news, whenever that was. At one point, I sort of just stopped opening up the game and mostly left things up to Mod Kara. Truth be told, it's been a long time since I've actively been interested in Heso for a variety of reasons, ranging from my issues with the game itself, my current dedication to other interests, and the admittedly less-than-ideal way that I perceive this blog that I've owned for the past 5 years.

I'm aware that my explanation isn't as... justified as Mod Kara's. She's not active because she genuinely has too much on her plate at the moment, while I'm not active for reasons that can essentially be boiled down to I Don't Want To. Because of that, I do feel some degree of guilt for not being around for people who follow this blog, so I'm not going to bother defending myself. All I can really say without going full-blown TMI is that there are a handful of different factors that contribute to my lack of motivation, and I simply can't take responsibility for a long-term help blog when I'm like this.

Does that mean I'm quitting, or does that mean I'll be back one day? I'll just repeat what Mod Kara said above: Big shrug. I've learned a long time ago that I'm wildly inconsistent, so I'd feel like I'm lying if I committed to one particular resolution right now. And thus... I guess you could say this is a really belated hiatus announcement?

(inb4 anyone asks if we can just get new mods on board: that would be the obvious solution, but those things have only led to mods being cyberstalked. out of the question.)

~Mod Ichi (I’m sorry if I’m late!) As for me... it’s really been a mixture of things! I’ve made a lot of big steps in my life and I’ve gotten a lot more busy at work now that I’ve taken on more roles. I also recently got married so that’s awesome! (Planning the reception party has been so stressful aaa...) My wife and I are also looking to move into a new place soon, so that has also been taxing.

But to be honest, it’s also because on my end, like Mod Ichi, I’ve also been interested in other things. Between work, my social obligations and my other hobbies, my attention has been pulled in a million different directions. I feel really bad and I’m sorry to all of the folks who still follow the blog and look for news / updates.

But all the same, thank you always to everyone for all of your support. It means a great deal and it’s very sweet of you to check on us. ~ 💚 Mod Choro

[strangerthingsrpdiscord]

Hello and welcome to the tumblr blog for the Stranger Things Roleplay Discord Server! What a mouthful.

This blog is essentially for managing entry and applications for the discord server I'm going to make for the RP community here to join. As a lot of you know, it's very easy to hit post limit as a RP blog on tumblr, and that's something we won't have to worry about on Discord. Tumblr also doesn't have a group chat feature and Discord is a solution for that as well.

Now, here's a rundown of how this server will be:

18+ ONLY. No minors will be allowed into this server. Full stop. Please do not lie about your age. If you do and mods find out, you will immediately be kicked with NO opportunity for reentry. Ever.

Literate roleplay only. This means writing your thread replies in full, third person paragraphs with proper grammar and spelling. There will be a "group chat" channel where characters can essentially "text" each other in first person. However, for proper threads, no first person or asterisk roleplay.

Each person can have a maximum of one canon character. There are a lot of people who want to be in this server and play canon characters, so letting anyone play more than one really wouldn't be fair.

Dead characters are still playable. We're essentially functioning in an AU where these characters either died and came back (through ooky-spooky Upside Down magic) or had a near-death experience rather than actually dying. You're at liberty to decide how/why your character is alive. Making them undead, a vampire, a ghost, etc. is totally okay.

OCs are welcome. That being said, do not assume a relationship with any other characters without discussing with the writer of that character! That means no sibling/lovers/exes/parents/etc. unless you've cleared it with the person who plays that character. If you play a canon character, you are not obligated to say yes.

If you'd like to change your character a little bit from the canon, that's okay, just make it clear with the mods first. Small changes are fine.

This server will include NSFW. Threads that include smut, gore, death, drug use, or any other potentially triggering topics will be allowed. All I ask is that you discuss these topics with your RP partner before starting a thread. Do not throw these topics into a thread without making sure your RP partner is okay with it!!

There will be both SFW and NSFW channels, so if you aren't comfortable with NSFW, there will still be spaces for you.

If you'd like to play one canon character and one OC, that is okay. Just ask the mods before adding any character(s).

As time goes on, canon characters that haven't been taken will become available to server members. Meaning if we're three months in and no one has picked Lucas, for example, someone in the server who already plays a different canon character would be able to apply to write for Lucas as well.

Underage characters can be written for, just stay out of NSFW channels as those characters. If you write 18+ content as these characters, you will be kicked from the server.

For the love of god, please don't start drama. We're all adults. I don't want to have to manage everyone like you're children, so just... no judgment please.

We'll have activity checks about once a month. If you go inactive without informing a mod that you'll be gone, you'll be kicked to free up that character for someone else.

There will be a strike system for minor infractions; starting fights, posting in the wrong channels continuously, interrupting threads, etc.

Now, as you can probably tell, I've decided that it just makes the most sense if we only have one of each character. I know that's unfortunate and probably disappointing, but I just couldn't really see a way to make it viable to have multiple of one person.

So, if you'd like to apply to be in the server, feel free to fill out the application below and DM it to this blog! Don't be afraid to ask questions, either!

I will make a post to keep track of which characters are taken as we accept people <3 Also, I'm looking for mods! Anyone I interact with often and know I can trust, DM me if you are interested!

Writer Name:

Writer Age (18+):

Writer Pronouns:

Discord (Numbers included!):

Character(s) Wanted:

Writing Example (2+ Paragraph preferred):

What are you most interested in writing?:

Do you promise not to judge/bully?:

Triggers/Nos:

A fun fact about you:

[ibuki-loves-you]

Trigger Happy Havoc Girls with an S/O who is like Mikan

Warnings: Mikan's personality/actions

Mod Ibuki: Hey hey hey!! Sorry for the long wait on this :/ I hope it was worth it, though!

Kyoko:

Kyoko was immediately worried for your safety

She had a lot of questions

Why were you so shy? Had you been through something?

She kept those questions to herself though

If someone ever made fun of you, she’d glare

Literally just walk up to you, wrap on arm around your waist and the other on your arm

And glare

If you ever took a fall in front of her she’d carefully lean down and help you up, suggestive or not

Although she might blush a bit if it was a suggestive position

“There, you’re alright. It was just a small trip, thankfully.”

If you ever offered to take your clothes off for her, she would be appalled

“Love, I don’t want you to take your clothes off because I’m not in a particularly good mood. Bad moods are normal, that doesn’t mean you take your clothes off every time it happens. Don’t offer that to me unless you personally want to do it.”

Kyoko is not someone you can look at and feel as if she’s mad at you, because she makes it clear if she is

But if you did think she was, she’d be pretty upset

“No, love. I’m not mad. You did absolutely nothing wrong. Nothing at all. I honestly don’t think I can be mad at you. You just seem to make everything better.”

Kyoko’s heart skips a beat whenever you’re around <3

Hina:

Hina LOVED YOU

The minute you two met she did not let you out of her sight for long periods of time

She was just worried someone would hurt you or take advantage of you

If someone ever made fun of you, she’d be so mad

No one wants to deal with mad swimmy baby

“That is so rude, you know!? That was completely uncalled for! There was absolutely no reason to say that! Now apologize!”

If you ever took a fall in front of her, she would honestly fall too just to make you feel less embarrassed

She’d cover you if need be, though

Either with clothing or with herself when she “falls”

If you ever offered to take your clothes off for her, she’d be in shock

Mainly because you offered it to her because you thought she was upset

“What!? Please, S/O, no! Don’t say that! Taking your clothes off won’t make me feel better, cuddles will! Get over here! Because of that statement, I demand you let me cuddle you!”

If you ever thought Hina was mad, which is rare, she’d he so upset

“Baby! No! Not at all! I could never be mad at you! I swear! Your face is just too adorable to be mad at!”

Swimmer baby just wants your happiness above all

Celestia:

Celeste would never admit it if anyone asked

But she loved you the minute she laid eyes on you

Your personality only made her want to be with you more

Not many people dared to bother you, but if an unlucky soul did try to do such a thing…

Celeste would give them a run for their money

“Are you fucking kidding me!? How dare you!? Why don’t you crawl back into whatever ditch you crawled out of and leave my significant other alone! Do I make myself clear!?” She’d turn to you and give you a soft smile. “Come on, dear. Let’s go get some tea to cheer you up, yes?”

If you fell in front of her, she wouldn’t be able to catch you without falling herself, but she’d immediately take your hands and help you up

“Come now, darling. Don’t cry, it was an accident. Everything is alright.”

If you ever offered to take your clothes off for her, it would take a second to click

But once it did her reaction was similar to Kyoko’s

“Darling, I don’t wish for you to take off your clothes merely because Yamada put me in a foul mood. I would much rather you keep said clothes on and have a cup of tea with me, maybe some conversation as well. Please don’t offer yourself to me out of pity.”

If you ever thought she was made at you, she honestly thought she was gonna cry

“W-What? Dear, no. Not one bit. Not one ounce of me is angered by you. I love you far too much to be mad at you. Now, come here and let me hug you.”

Celeste truly does care about you, more than she has cared for anyone before <3

Sakura:

Protective

That’s it

Sakura wants your safety above all, because she knows how shy people can be taken advantage of easily

If anyone dared to make fun of you, oh boy

Sakura is fucking terrifying

“I suggest you run before I snap you in half.”

That’s all it takes to send them on their way

If you fell in front of her, she would definitely be able to catch you

And she would!

But if you did manage to miss her arms, she’d pick you right back up and hold you

“See? I got you. Everything is okay.”

If you offered to take your clothes off for her, she’d be calmer, but nonetheless upset

“Hey, don’t do that. I don’t want you because of your body. I want you because of your personality. That’s what I fell in love with. Don’t offer yourself to me, or anyone else. Ever. It’s your body, you can most certainly choose what to do with it.”

If you thought she was angry with you, she’d be so quick to tell you otherwise

“No, not at all. I am not mad in the slightest. Even if I was, I’d never take my anger out on you. That’s wrong, and I love you too much to even think about doing that.”

With Sakura as your girlfriend, you will always be protected. And that’s a promise

Mukuro:

Mukuro is shy, but definitely not as shy as you

Like Sakura, she wanted your safety above all

Let it be from others or her cruel sister

If someone ever made fun of you, she’d be pretty angry

Hell, she may put those skills of hers to good use

“Hey. Don’t let me hear you say something like that again. Ever. That’s just plain disgusting.”

If you ever took a fall in front of her, her reflexes are extremely fast, so she’d try her absolute best to catch you

More often she does, but on the off chance she’s unsuccessful, she’d apologize with a bright blush

“I-I’m sorry, love. I tried to catch you, uh, I’m sorry. Here, grab my hands.”

If you offered to take your clothes off for her, she’d immediately say no

“S-S/O! No! No, I-I don’t want you to do that! I-I’m not in a bad mood, and even if I was I wouldn’t want you to take your clothes off just to try to improve my mood! Please don’t offer that to me, that’s practically violating you! And I don’t want to do that!”

If you ever thought she was mad at you, poor girl might cry

“L-Love, I’m not mad at all. I-I promise. Even if I was mad, I don’t think it could be caused by you in all honesty. I love you, okay?”

Soldier baby’s heart go brrr

Sayaka:

Shy or not, Sayaka’s a cute blushy mess around you

She still teases you in a friendly manner, but always makes sure you know she’s only playing

If anyone over bothered you, she’d be incredibly salty

Like, pettiness and all

“Oh, so that’s how you’re gonna be? Well, I’ll have you know that my significant other is NOT gonna do that. You’re a rude person and I hope karma hits you hard.”

If you took a fall in front of her, she’d screech so sound and try to catch you, but would most likely fail

When she saw that you were embarrassed, like Hina she would trip to make you feel better

“See, S/O? It’s fine! Now we both tripped, hehe! Isn’t that funny!”

If you ever offered to take your clothes off for her, she’d hug you immediately and try to make you happy

“Nope! I don’t want that, okay? I want to kiss your cute face! Not rub up on you because you want to make me happy! Now c’mere, so I can kiss your cute face!”

If you ever thought she was mad at you, though, she’d be really sad

“What? No, I’m not mad at all! Let alone at you! I promise, S/O. Even if I was mad, I’d have a peaceful conversation. Not a screaming match about it! Now, give me a hug!”

Sayaka will hug you as much as you please, as long as it makes you happy <3

Toko:

Toko thought you were annoying at first

But then she realized how similar you two were

Not long after, she fell in love with you

Just like in those cheesy novels she writes

If someone ever bothered you, she’d get pretty mad

Lowkey considers letting Syo out

“H-Hey, asshole! T-That’s a r-real d-dick t-thing to say! S-So w-why d-don’t you just g-go back to w-whatever ditch y-you crawled o-out of a-and d-die!”

If Syo was around when someone bothered you, well I think we know how that'll go

They aren't around anymore, especially if they were a pretty boy

If you ever fell in front of her, she’d lowkey get second-hand embarrassment, but would help you up anyways

“Hey, l-look, you’re fine. N-Not a scrape or anything. Y-You’re okay.”

Syo would leap into action immediately and pull you to your feet

"See!? It's like you never even fell! You're okay! No tears, I hate seeing you cry!"

If you ever offered to take your clothes off for her, she’d freak the fuck out

“W-What!? N-No! D-Don’t do t-that! K-Keep your clothes o-on! I-I’m n-not mad! E-Even if I w-was, I w-wouldn’t w-want you to s-strip! Y-You’re t-too p-pretty for t-that!”

If Syo was around, she would as well

"What!? Oh no no no, this just won't do! You're body is far to marvelous to be shown so willingly, y'know that? Don't let others see it so easy! Even if it is just me! Doesn't matter!"

If you thought she was mad at you, she’d scoff at first, but then realize you were being serious

“What? I’m not m-mad at you. W-Why would I b-be mad at y-you? I-I have no reason to b-be. D-Don’t say that, I-I’d tell you if I-I was mad at you...S-Speaking as if I-I c-could g-get mad at y-you.”

Syo would latch onto you and hug you, giving you a little spin

"No, dollface! I'm not angry at all! See? I'm happy! So happy! Especially because my baby-cakes is here! Now, c'mon! Gimme a smooch!"

Even though she’d deny it at first, Toko really does love you

[aro-culture-is]

being young, autistic and possibly in the arospec is very confusing. i like putting labels on myself so i can organize my thoughts properly, but since i'm still a kid (turning 14 next month) i haven't had much experience with romantic attraction so i can't really determine my identity. like, i'm pretty sure i experience romantic attraction, but i don't think i'd like ever being in a relationship (the idea of it sounds cool but the reality sounds like it sucks). my experience kind of fits with lithromantic, but i worry that i only feel this way because i'm young and too immature

hi,

I've talked about this before but... the pressure folks feel to "get it right" the first time, especially with identities? It's honestly a huge anxiety piece driven by the perfectionism school pushes, and realistically... the only people who care tend to be those who I'd advise not listening to anyways (like acephobes, for example).

I started identifying as aroace when I was about your age. I'm 21 now. I have never wavered on my aro identity, but... I was a late bloomer on sexuality. I'm not ace. That started to be a thing in my late teens, like, extremely rare where I felt fine being ace still at 17, and only shortly before I turned 20 did I drop the label completely. And... the worst I got was a few questions from those who knew less than I'd anticipated - "wait, you can be aro and not ace?", or "wait, what does aro mean then?"

That said - you can also chose to interact with the communities of identities that feel good to you, and not label yourself. That's totally fine and valid too. Ultimately, labels are just... words. I liken them to clothing - sometimes, a favorite shirt that you've owned for years might not fit as well anymore, but still be comforting and you keep wearing it anyways. Sometimes, you buy dress clothes that you like to wear in special occasions - even some, maybe you only wear when you're alone - and the rest of the time, they hang in the closet. Some fit perfectly but that doesn't mean you like them or wear them willingly. And - sometimes you layer up.

To bring that back directly, if you're worried you're (maybe) lithromantic only because you're young or immature... does it actually harm you to try it on? If you don't want to, you don't have to. It won't affect anyone but you. You could also try a layer up - maybe aro or aro-spec feels more comfortable right now, and that's okay. Maybe you'd like to take the broadest approach - queer - and leave it there. Or maybe you'd rather wait. They're all options.

I can't tell you who you are. I just hope this helps you to feel comfortable exploring it, and to know that as cliche as it might feel, it will be okay.

(I answer more questions like this in the tag "am i aro")

- mod kee

[charlotteswriting]

Hello I do hope you are doing well! I'll be honest I haven't been doing great,,, l'll be introduced to new people but then something bad happens to them and I kinda just feel like its my fault? like im bad luck,,, I'm just slowly getting more scared of meeting new people in fear of them getting hurt,,, is it alright if I could get some comfort from Gundham, Kiyotaka and Fuyuhiko with a reader dealing with those thoughts? Of course you don't need to just do whats comfortable with you - 🎭

Hi, 🎭 anon! It's been a while.. I am sorry I can respond to this ask only now, I had stuff to do. But if you're still dealing with these thoughts, don't be shy to send me an ask or a message! I am always down to talk to you about your problems, etc. Anyway! Just wanted you to know you did nothing wrong, don't let these thoughts get the best of you :) I want to keep this short, so let's get started now! -Mod Kaede

Gundham Tanaka

—"What's the matter, my Dark Queen/King/Monarch? It looks like something's been eating you out." Of course he noticed it. That's why he appeared in front of yours. It was clear that he was confused, no, worried.

—With a sigh, you sat him down and take your seat next to his. Feeling a bit uncomfortable, you tell him what's wrong and he remains silent the whole time

—What he heard from you makes him question if it's a curse, but he immediately shakes off that thought and grabs your shoulders

—"My love, you're blinded by these harmful thoughts but I, refuse to believe you're under a spell. It's only natural for those mortals to face bad things but this has nothing to do with you, you can't keep an eye on them all the time, the fault isn't yours nor you are bad luck. It's their luck, and you have nothing to do with it. If you were, the Supreme Overlord of Ice such as I, wouldn't have fallen for a great being like you."

—Bursting into small tears, you start to hug him. He doesn't refuse your hug even though he's flustered by the closeness.

—"Let them rain, my liege. I shall accompany you until you're at your best."

—And he did as he told. He stayed with you the whole time. When he felt like his words won't cheer you up, he let his Four Dark Devas of Destruction handle you, and they did a pretty good job.

—By the end of the day, you were exhausted from playing Animal Crossing with him and asked if it was okay to sleep, he wasn't really into sleeping together when you can have more fun, but since that's what you wanted, he might as well agree.

Can you tell I had so much fun writing for him 🤧 I love Gundham

Kiyotaka Ishimaru

—"I am sorry, Taka, I hope Mondo accepts my apologies. I just don't feel like hanging out today."

—You've been like this for the entire week. Pushing away people around you and not even giving excuses anymore. You even managed to avoid Chihiro, your best friend.

—And you even skipped your study night! Was he worried.

—"Y/n, what's wrong? What is bothering you?" Taka's voice shaked a bit as he spoke. He couldn't help it, he was worried. "Nothing, really," That was obviously a lie. He gave you puppy eyes and you sighed. You started letting all out

—"You should have told me about it, we could have talked this out..." He says while feeling overwhelming sadness. He looked down, he wasn't disappointed with you, he was disappointed with himself; for not noticing earlier.

—"I am sorry you had to go through this.. But I want you to know none of these thoughts are true," He explained without breaking eye contact. "It's only natural for you to feel this way but you're being too harsh on yourself. I think they're just careless; we can always help them, though. You shouldn't isolate yourself because of that. You are not bad luck, you're the best thing that has happened to me, to be honest."

—Smooth boy wiped your tears away with a soft grin and planted kisses on your face. "You're fine, you did nothing wrong." He opens his arms for a hug and you waste no time to give in.

—After a cuddle session he tells you about his day as well. "It was hard to find excuses to give my bro. Do you know how much I struggled?" He asks you jokingly

—"Pff, sorry about that, I guess. I'm feeling better, so we can hangout sometime. I should make it up to Chihiro as well."

—And he's so happy to hear that

Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu

—Did he do something wrong?

—Because he was the one usually distances himself, it wasn't supposed to be you.

—Sure, he treats you like royalty but he's sometimes a jerk to people around him.. Is this why you didn't want to be seen with him outside? Wait, you don't want to be seen with him?!

—Oh no.

—You two were having a dinner, he was lost in deep thought and you were playing with your food silently.

—"Just how long are ya gonna stay quiet about this?" He finally breaks the silence. "About what?" "Don't act like you don't know. If you don't like me anymore, you can just tell it, y'know. I won't force you to stay with me, you don't need to be trapped."

—"What? I never said I didn't like you anymore.." You try to speak but were cut off by him, again. "Then why're you distancing yourself? What did I do wrong?"

_"Oh. You're talking about that." He misunderstood everything, didn't he. So you explain to him.

—"So.. That's all?" He raises an eyebrow and waits for you to confirm. When you do, he looks relieved. Then he panics, "Wait, no! It's not that I don't care! I thought you were gonna break up with me for a second." He scratches the back of his head and avoids eye contact for a second. "I.. You should have spoken to me or Peko, y'know? You are not alone, Y/n. I don't think bad things happen to people just because they get involved with you. I.. Know you aren't bad luck or anything like that. You're only a.... Blessing." He looks away. He's blushing? Before you started teasing, he continues "So stop hurting yourself. Distancing yourself isn't a solution.. No good will come from that."

—He's not the best when it comes to comforting with words, but he is trying. Because he really cares about your well being, so he doesn't want you sad, that's for sure.

—"Also to whoever made you feel like that, you should talk to them and maybe offer them help. That'd make you feel better, I guess." He says and stops, not wanting to pressure you or anything. "But for the sake of god, be nicer to yourself."

—If you want, he'll hold you for a while.. Though it might be awkward.

There, done! I am not sure if these are good.. It's been a while since I wrote comfort, so I hope this is ok! Just you know, you aren't bad luck or anything! I will deny it even though you think it's true. You are amazing and no bad can come from you. Asking for help and talking about your feelings are so important. Your feelings matter and you are valid! You can always talk to me or somebody if these thoughts are messing with your mind. -Mod Kaede

[smol-nevi]

I don't generally make this kind of thing a habit, but I think if you happen to be on the Crystal RP Discord, aka @crystal-rp-ffxiv, you should probably be aware of this kind of behavior, so here goes.

If you're on Crystal RP and the admin team decides they don't like you, you're going to be living under a microscope while they wait for you to mess up, if not bait you, probably while making up conspiracies about you as well. As for how I know this, I was a moderator for about a week's duration and saw it first-hand.

Unapologetically lengthy post. Receipts in the link above, long version below the cut.

From the first time I looked in the mod chat I knew something was wrong. I read backwards in the channel, thinking I'd acclimate myself and see what kind of rules precedents had been set and that sort of thing. I mostly just found out that they had it out for a particular member (at the time using the name Jericho) for not much reason. They'd spent a troubling amount of time over the past few months watching him and another member like vultures, believing them to be the same person and waiting for them to make some kind of mistake that would justify banning both of them...despite keeping different schedules, having different personalities and typing habits, and visibly being two different people. The admin team had come to the conclusion that Jericho was a troll who wanted to make them look bad, and anything he said or did was scrutinized to a ridiculous degree for evidence that would corroborate their belief.

Except none of the things they believed at all were true: he'd had a minor argument via DM with the head admin Benjimir Thursby's wife, Tessariel Aerlinn, who had made an overly broad statement about anime and Asian culture. Jericho had told her that overgeneralization about 'Asian culture' is potentially racist, and she became extremely angry, saying that because she's Asian, she can't be racist against Asians. After that, it seemed that Jericho was considered fair game for whatever retaliatory actions the two of them could justify.

Even a cursory glance at actual racism in Asia pokes Tessariel's statement entirely full of holes, and having personally read the conversation I didn't see anything actually inaccurate in his statement even if she believed it didn't apply to her. I asked what he had done that would merit such a response, because it felt very disproportionate to anything I'd ever seen him do publicly, and that was what I was told. The exchange via DMs had been screencapped and kept in a channel for evidence, and while I didn't get a copy of it, I did read it, and I said that I thought it sounded awfully one-sided and punitive and would have been much better as an actual conversation. I also expressed that I was concerned how much of the channel had been solely devoted to what was basically a witch hunt, considering that some of the server members had over the course of the past couple of months commented that the admins' behavior towards Jericho seemed biased.

I basically got a pat on the head and told that my opinion was "valued" but wrong. This would happen a lot over the course of the week.

Shit continued to escalate. Their favorite punching bag, who was acutely aware of the grudge by now and probably trying to be nice and discuss something that he thought they could all talk about, brought up some articles that stated that LOTRO might be having a graphical overhaul. This actually ended in him being put into some kind of time-out mute, because "everyone knows those articles are debunked already" despite them still being hosted on reputable games news sites. Back-channel, the admin consensus was that he was in fact trying to bait Benjimir and Tessariel into somehow looking stupid in public, because [paraphrasing] 'he knows how important LOTRO is to them.'

Benjimir in fact went off publicly about how he knows the dev team and they sent him 'personalized swag' for 'being himself' and that everyone should just listen to him because he's right. Someone else made a reasonable request for sources on statements that Benjimir made about the LOTRO improvements not happening, and they immediately became the team's private #2 punching bag.

The whole time I reiterated that this was really uncomfortable and I had serious concerns about the way they were handling Jericho. And as always I received a pat on the head and was told to not worry about it, there were really good reasons for it, really. He was 'bringing down the quality of discourse' on the server somehow. Benjimir decided that the only way he would unmute Jericho is if Jericho talked directly to him, and that Jericho tried to talk to any of the more level-headed members of the team first was taken as obvious evidence that he wanted to evade rules and create problems. I asked when we planned to unmute him, and Tessariel immediately jumped to the conclusion that he had messaged me, which wasn't incorrect but the way she worded it felt highly accusatory and I was beginning to feel that I was also in trouble somehow for not agreeing with the rest of the team.

Things came to a head quickly when I woke up and looked at the mod chat and they were having an animated conversation that started with Benjimir asking if it was 'bad that he was laughing at Jericho' and most of the rest of the team talking about how he was stupid, uninformed, a troll, etc. for the sin of having some misgivings about cryptocurrency, of all the things. One of the mods self-described their behavior as bullying. I said that this was extremely unprofessional and that I thought they should keep conversation to actual moderation matters, and if they had a personal disagreement with a server member they should handle it in a personal venue, not via official server moderation channels.

I was, for the final time, patted on the head, and told that this was not something they would consider, because the moderation team 'needs to be able to vent for their mental health' (never mind that the job was not stressful except for the rest of the team committing worse behavior than the server members) and that maybe I was in fact too sensitive for the job. Benjimir heavily implied that I had become too close to Jericho and was being manipulated, managed to misgender me somehow despite my having used solely male or neutral pronouns the entire time I'd been on the server, and after relating a story in which a couple of years ago a well-liked moderator left after having the same complaints as I did (which he saw nothing at all troubling about), suggested that I should be demoted to babysitting the lore channel.

So I took some time to collect receipts, which are linked at the top of the post, and told him where to shove it.

Since that time, things have actually somehow gotten worse on Crystal RP. Benjimir posted an entire page screed vaguely talking about "rampant negativity" that stated anyone with questions should DM him.

Upon DMing him with questions, Jericho was banned, the only reason given being that he was a 'poor fit' for the server in some vague way. I was immediately banned afterwards for calling out this decision as being driven by a personal vendetta in the feedback channel and let him know afterwards via DMs in no uncertain terms that I had logged everything I needed and would be building my case (and that he is an asshole). Jericho was reinstated, though I'm not sure what the conditions of his return were as that was after my ban and I didn't ask since I didn't want to stress him out further. Benjimir also reprimanded someone for discussing asexuality, stating in a DM to them that the conversation was somehow ERP related. I called him out on this via DM as well. Tessariel was not much later caught posting my last DMs to Benjimir in an entirely unrelated server, though she didn't include the part after that where I brought up his aphobia (during Pride Month, in a server with a rainbow icon no less). Benjimir for some reason decided to suddenly start following my FC's Tumblr well after our falling-out.

And as of today (6/24), Crystal RP now has seven pages of draconian rules, because it wasn't micromanaged hard enough before or something. Notably, a lot of these rules describe behaviors that they wanted to punish Jericho for but couldn't at the time justify, or that they'd like to punish me for but have nothing they can do to me. Or they exist to justify their own behavior, as now seen in the very beginning of the channel:

"This approach also provides our volunteers with leeway to act in good faith without the burden befitting a professional occupation."

"So we afford them the means to speak openly, vent, lament, candidly and yes, sometimes crassly and raw about everything and one."

Not only did they behave unprofessionally and shit-talk before, they have now encoded in the rules that this is acceptable and even good moderator behavior, because they saw someone else do it so it's fine (a lot of this wording is very similar to what I was told when I protested it). So rather than address anything I ever said past or present, Benjimir is choosing to double down and giving himself and his team explicit permission to be shitty, right in the opening paragraphs where you'd have expected a mission statement or at least some sort of welcome.

Which is about all you need to know about that server and its owners, in my estimation. I'd considered not even posting to Tumblr about it, but given that it's only getting worse, I think it should be generally known that this is how you can expect to potentially be treated.