#also thats like on a private server that only has me in it. i use it for practically everything. i also put my name as josephandre there

[aria0fgold]

Showing yall what the plan I had for the timeloop omori au, for morale. And also cuz am looking at this too like it's new to me so my reaction is both: Whoooaaa and OUCH cuz of the angst.

[incorrectelswordquotes]

Do you remember when the job progression quests had dialogue cutscenes and difficult quests? Each town had its own gear and you'd have to drop blue-background items to upgrade it. And it was character-specific too. Ice statues had to be crafted, and the ingredients would just pile up in your inventory. There was Unique equipment for every region you had a chance to drop after a boss battle, and it'd be shown in the chat. Plant Overlord's accessory was the top trending thing. Rena was blonde and did a flip when she double jumped. The first field introduced was the one between Hamel and Velder. The level cap was 40 and it was *hard* to get there.

I sure don't miss a lot of this stuff, but looking back, it feels like a wholly different game.

i played around when the game was still like this for the most part, except the level cap at the time was 70? and then over time it jumped to 90 but my middle-school/high-school ass couldn't keep up. actually, i remember seeing the new UI the game has for the health bars and that was already enough to throw me off. not that it looks bad, but i remember seeing this UI for the longest time:

vs this:

like as much as i miss the one i got acquainted with, this new one is a lot simpler and cleaner? yet it retains that cartoony vibe with the slanted bars so thats neat. and then there's THIS:

i'll admit i havent played during this era but man this looks busy af. it was simple yea, but something feels off about it. like i love the look here too but it kinda clashes colors-wise. there's not too much of a difference between the original UI and the one after it but i could tell it needed slimming down.

while i was gone i also learned that the previous privately-hosted server VoidEls was shut down but was eventually replaced by another, which is fair enough i guess.

"Each town had its own gear and you'd have to drop blue-background items to upgrade it. And it was character-specific too."

this was both cool and annoying, for me personally at least. it's cool in that every town having gear gave you a way to progress before getting even stronger gear. sort of like a jumping-off point for every town you got to as they handed you their own version of stuff you could use. and you could emulate their aesthetic by wearing their gear. the annoying part is that constantly switching gear means item management is necessary to prevent your inventory from maxing out, and not every item looked good on you. if you didn't have skins? tough luck. (my memory might be wrong here so please correct me if i messed something up)

"...job progression quests had dialogue cutscenes and difficult quests?"

THEY GOT RID OF THOSE!? maybe im jaded but as a writer, i liked seeing the player-characters' personal struggle as they progressed through a job-specific mission. those short cutscenes let us see what they're really like. even if some of the requirements really were trash. i still remember spamming the same dungeon over and over hoping for a quest drop (or multiple) so i can move on. but after hearing the story was consolidated to be one singular, linear path regardless of who you played, maybe they streamlined the job class progression system too?

update: yea it seems you still have to spam dungeons to upgrade to Master Class but it looks less tedious than before for previous class ranks.

"Plant Overlord's accessory was the top trending thing."

boss accessories were the bane of my existence so this makes sense. it seems like it's unobtainable, as many overworld zones and dungeons have since been removed based on what i just looked up

im assuming Plant Overlord isn't fightable anymore or only shows up in some elite zone now so rip

"Rena was blonde and did a flip when she double jumped."

i didn't know this. in fact when i checked her wiki page, the change was because her hair wasn't green enough despite her class art showing her as having green-hued hair.

speaking of the wiki,

holy fucking shit thats a lot of classes

[hello-naptiime]

Hi gang

I see were talking about Jonathan Piss ass ToiletJon again

And as someone who was fucking THERE, WORKING FOR HIM WHEN EVERYTHING DROPPED

Oh my FUCKING GOD AM I SO PISSED OFF.

Welcome to my rant/vent

Mutuals look away Im sorry

Tw// for grooming and manipulation. General gross things in that area

Also Jinbop.

First of all Ashlie and Jon did was gross, but where Jon failed at literally everything Ashlie succeeded.

When the news dropped of what happened in 2017 Jon made a fucking video of him crying like a little man child, and then pressed charges (also doxxed himself like an idiot) WHICH IS INSANE BEHAVIOR. Even in his written respone he was only making excuses.

At that time I was in very close connection with him, I was on his build team, I played multiple games with him. He would come into vc and hang out with us for several hours, you could consider us friend maybe! I wouldnt.

But I was at the very least in a lot of personal servers.

So when things dropped I knew almost all of the behind the scenes BULLSHIT that was happening. How everyone waited for it to blow over and stuck by him. (I got kicked out of servers too cause people knew i was against him but I was still told everything by friends who were still in there)

Then February happened. And so much more, much worse things got exposed. From only his end. I won't mention who was involved, out of privacy reasons and because I dont want to drag them into this. But holy shit dude everyone left him after that. It was over, his gross behavior with minors (included me now that i think about, sir why are you calling me and my friends cute we are 15-) His awful and manipulative behavior with people he finds useful, how he treats his teams

. He never credited anything, I made his goddamn Dimensions s2 designs, Eddie made the skins. Only Eddie was mentioned, once on a stream.

Eddie also made designs and skins for Rosethorn, and got credited in video no less.

Its not that hard and yet!

The main point is

He was still acting in 2020, the incident was in 2017. And he was acting like this, in late 2020. Into 2021.

I wanted him to get better. I really did, I had been hyperfixated on this group of people for years it hurt a lot.

But its been almost three years and he infact has stayed the same!

He is a grown ass man acting like a toddler on a public twitter account, what makes this man some one to respect in any sort of way.

Theres so much more shit I know about this man, that I can't fucking say because of the people involved not giving me permission too. And I respect that. Thats their story to tell.

Now ashlie on the other hand.

Ashlie made a concise apology and owned up to her actions, shit she made sure not to happen again. She went to fucking therapy, she broke off that relationship first and has made so much effort to distance herself from that and apologize everyday of her life.

She went to therapy after breaking things off, and she went again after the callout just to double fucking check she wasnt a horrible person.

She initially handled everything that happened in 2017 in private, like youre supposed to do. Not have a public twitter meltdown. And in late 2020 still handled mostly everything privately. She wrote out a full explanation and apology that is still very visible on her yt channel, not her twt her full 100k subscriber yt channel

I THINK, THATS GROWTH and she should be respected for that. She's actively changed as a person from the 20yr that made mistakes

And what's crazy is that Max and Ross still make youtube videos with her.

Max and Ross, YKNOW. The people who made sure fucking Jinbop got arrested and stomp Sky's name into the fucking ground for the shit that Sky did. I 100% trust those two to make a decision about a person in their circle when theyre doing some FUCKED SHIT.

IN FACT, THEY DID DROP ASHLIE WHEN THE ALLEGATIONS CAME OUT. SHE WAS IMMEDIATELY KICKED OUT OF EVERYTHING INVOLVING THEM

And they came back. They came back and started making new things and videos with her, Ross is an active participant in almost all of her videos.

I think that speaks wonders about her.

Don't drag her name through the ground I respect that woman and all of her endeavors in the future, she has more than made up for the fact.

Jon is still an awful person, and I dont think he will ever change. He's had more than ample time to and acts like whinny child on Twitter. Actively tries to pull nostalgia bait on his dying yt channel and mocks his ex "friends'" work. I want him gone from the youtube sphere and to get an actual life.

[the-gallery-au]

CHAPTER ONE: STARS OF REBELLION

“Time is short, yet ours is even shorter than most.”

Sometimes, Gem had come to learn, life within these games felt a bit like a painting, like brush strokes were being hurriedly laid in some faraway place, capturing their every move. Impulse and Scott said that she’d get used to it eventually, like they had after being in the games for so long. Sometimes the feeling was stronger, and as she stood in front of the swirling pool of void that was the end portal, she realised now was one of those times. Along with the painted feeling occasionally came… eyes. Or well, she couldn’t say eyes exactly. Just… The feeling of being watched. She never said a word to Impulse and Scott about it, nor anyone else. She had a hunch that it would better be left unsaid, though for what reason she did not know. Thats how she rolled, going with the flow.

“The beginning of the end,” She smiled to herself. “Geminislay is on the road to victory!” She laughed, the sound echoing off of the stone walls within the empty stronghold. Her doe ears flicked with the echoes. She sheathed her sword, trying to ignore the painted feeling as she checked her communicator once more before she left for home.

<Private message>

<Smajor1995> good luck gem

<GeminiTay> luckily i won’t need it ;)

So. Since she had gotten the open the end achievement, the server clearly thought she had to kill the end dragon. As she had told Scott, luckily she wouldn’t have to.

<GeminiTay> coming home now

She added the message mostly for Scott’s sake. He was always worrying about her. Not that that was a bad thing of course, it was nice to have allies that had your back. Especially with Martyn on yellow. With a last glance at the end portal she turned around to leave for her cottage. 

“Stop right there!” She shouted, two hands now gripping her sword, facing a stranger that had emerged from the darkness of the stronghold.

The figure kept coming. She stepped backwards again, only to be met with the edge of the end portal and she put a hand backwards to save herself but there was only the void and she let her sword go with a clang as it hit the edge of the portal and fell through and suddenly she was slipping and she couldn’t feel her arm and she reached up a hand as her head began to fall within the Void and she was stuck in the middle of the Overworld and also the Void and the void was so cold and suddenly she was being pulled by her outstretched hand, away from the End and the cold cold Void and someone put a cloak around her and led her into a corner. She took deep rattling breaths. As she recovered the figure walked around the room, pacing quietly. She took a last deep breath before opening her mouth to speak.

“Who are you?” She asked.

“Nobody of importance.” They replied, still pacing.

“How are you here? Nobody outside the server is meant to be able to get in.”

The figure stopped. Within the shadows of their cloak Gem swore she saw them smile. “I have my ways.”

Gem narrowed her eyes with annoyance, trying to ignore the seeping cold she still felt in one of her arms and the left side of her face.

“Ok then ‘Nobody of importance’, why are you here? Being all magic and mysterious isn’t helping me or you in this situation.” Gem huffed, sitting up with a frown.

“Now that’s the right question to ask.” The figure resumed their pacing. “See, this world, these ‘life games’ Aren’t made by your Grian or Xelqua or Pesky bird or whatever you want to call him. These games are made by other people as punishment because long ago the stupid bird decided to escape a different world and now he’s managed to drag all of you into it.” The cloaked figure sighed.

Gem just stared. 

“So what you’re saying is… Grian. We just call him Grian. He… escaped another world and now we’re here because of that? Why? I- Oh good gods the world has just been turned upside down.” She chuckled nervously.

“Why? Why because the beings keeping you here thrive on your fear. They paint their worlds you know. Using careful brushstrokes. It’s quite beautiful when you look at them from outside really.” The figure tilted a head at Gems narrowed eyes. “Perhaps they aren’t as inconspicuous with their painting as the thought.” They murmured. “Especially if those inside can feel it.” The figure seemed to ponder for a moment. “I’ll have to tell you all then.” They frowned. “Show me your arm.”

Gem sighed, taking her cold arm from her cloak and showing it to the figure. To her surprise, it was coloured with the void, twinkling with faraway stars.

The figured stated at it for a while before declaring it would probably be ok, for now at least.

“For now? That doesn’t sound promising.” Gem grumbled, but she accepted the figures analysis anyways.

“Now… Can you call everyone to the big statue up top?” The figure asked.

“Yeeeaaaaaah..? You mean the secret keeper right?” Gem raised a brow as she opened her communicator.

“I assume that’s the only giant statue in this world. And just tell them it’s urgent.” The figure said. Gem nodded.

As she began to type her communicator buzzed with a message from Scott.

<Private message>

<ScottSmajor1985> gem where are you

She quickly typed up a message, swearing softly. Of course Scott would be worried.

<GeminiTay> journey was a bit delayed sorry

<Server wide message>

<GeminiTay> i need everyone to the secret keeper now please, it’s urgent and no this is not a task. you all need to come.

As she sent her message an influx of messages from the other members flowed through, ranging from ‘On my way!’ to ‘Ok’. One message stood out however.

<Private message>

<Grian> gem i’m busy doing task things

<GeminiTay> GRIAN THIS VERY MEETING INCLUDES YOU AS A TOPIC.

<GeminiTay> THIS ISNT ABOUT A TASK, THIS IS ABOUT THE SERVER GRIAN! EVERYONE HAS TO GO. 

<GeminiTay> otherwise i’ll GeminiSlay you with my sword

<Grian> omw

Gem shut her communicator and nodded to the figure, beginning to climb the passage back to the surface. As she stepped out onto the grass behind Joel’s base she asked; “What are you here to do?”

“Why I never thought you’d ask!” The figure laughed.

The wind stirred the grass beneath their feet.

“I’m breaking you all out.”

Gem simply smiled.

———————————————————————

Martyn stepped back from the doghouse, dusting his hands off. The building certainly wasn’t done yet, but it would be good enough for now. It felt good to have done something, got stuck in something so his mind couldn’t wander too far. Getting stuck in something meant he couldn’t feel the brushstrokes, though by now they had almost completely faded into the background, they still left the occasional unpleasant shiver on your spine.

“The base looks good!” A voice perked up beside him. 

Martyn spun round, a hand to his heart and a chuckle rising in his throat.

“Tim! You scared me a bit there.” He laughed.

Jimmy grinned triumphantly, a small beep from his wrist interrupting his celebrations. He lifted his comm up and Martyn peered over his shoulder, having left his inside while he was building.

<GeminiTay> has completed the advancement Eye Spy!

Jimmy frowned at the small device.

“She must be going to the end.” Martyn said, his tone slight with concern. Gem was a fellow yellow, and he had no doubt that if she died she’d be a ferociously dangerous red.

Jimmy nodded and Martyn began walking inside, his pace quickening once Jimmy had joined him. He opened the door and swiped a bottle of water off of the bench; it was hot outside after all. He plonked himself onto a couch, slapping his communicator back onto his wrist and enjoying the cool water after the heat of the outdoors.

<Server wide message>

<GeminiTay> i need everyone to come to the secret keeper now please, it’s urgent and no this is not a task. you all need to come.

Martyn frowned at his comm. The message was worrying, if not a little weird, at least coming from Gem. Hurriedly he typed in a message, glancing over at Jimmy to see he was doing the same.

<InTheLittleWood> big dogs are on our way

his communicator lit up with a bunch of pings, the screen flooded with messages. He turned the small device off, gesturing to Jimmy that they should probably head over to the Secret Keeper. Jimmy nodded and headed out the door and Martyn was quick to follow. In a comfortable silence they walked quickly over to the Secret Keeper, Martyn fidgeting with his hands. Slowly everyone arrived, yet there was still no sign of Gem. Several people, most notably Scott and Impulse, seemed to be growing increasingly anxious at Gem’s absence. Her message had been rather urgent after all.

“Hey! There’s Gem!” A voice broke through the silence, a finger pointed in the direction of Joel’s hill. 

Martyn peered in the direction they had pointed in. Gem was definitely there, but something seemed… wrong. He looked closer, searching for the cause of his unease. There. A dark hooded figure travelling closely behind her. What were They doing here?

Gem and the figure spun round, before turning and bolting towards him and all the others gathered. Martyn exchanged anxious glances with those around him before the ground gave an almighty crack and began to fly apart beneath their feet.

and finally this chapter is done! tysm to those who voted this time around and apologies for the long wait for this chapter to be released, it took a bit of thinking to incorporate both big dogs and gem and the scott’s since it was a tie 😅 but we managed to do it! Id like it also thank @blue-gears for writing martyn’s section of the chapter :D ! she saved my life with her help lol

anyways hope you all enjoy the next instalment of the au! expect a new poll soon! :D

[hexcryingwolf]

to give some context to some previous posts it turned out someone in my private friend server had been leaking directly to glip that i was venting about them. which was precisely something i was terrified would happen and it really sucks cuz i recently made amends with this person (had a falling out over flora stuff, not this incident exactly) only to find this out and. i mean we talked about it, i tried to let it go. but its still really bothering me.

because the way they told it - peppering shit i was doing with random lies and leaving out details like I Wasnt Using Anyone's Names Around People Not In The Know - thats where a lot of the bullshit about me came from. the "she has no idea what reality is" thing. that thing that torments me still for some fucking reason i hate it. it made this whole narrative of me clinging to flora when what i was trying to do was work thru shit, by doing things like Allowing Myself To Be Angry but. fuuuck its so upsetting that it had to get back to them.

"im not your problem anymore" was something id said to glip the first time i tried to cut off cold turkey. didnt really work out cuz they made the callout comic about me so that sucks. then i have the meeting with my therapist with the letter and it looks like i can get away for real but nope cuz someone i trusted betrayed me. and they had been pushing back against me trying to process shit in my space to a painful degree at the time. to know now that they were also in contact with my abuser is awful and. like i dont wanna end the friendship again after having just fixed it but. i dont know what to do.

[spikeinthepunch]

i made a post a bit ago before the reddit black out even happened, talking about how many AI written articles i find when searching for answers on stuff- usually things a little more specific (questions for video games, tech, everyday things but more specific to you, etc. not just "what city is this state in"). its bad- i basically get that or i get reddit threads when i google. and before the reddit black out, i hadnt thought too much about how those AI threads would be.... the only thing left behind if i didnt have reddit. still i watched the reddit black out live, i watched /r/funny go private at midnight. and yet it didnt really hit the importance of reddit until i went on the next day looking for help on a mac laptop i was restoring and realized all the reddits i checked were private. needing mod help for my server, all private. searching reddit for a game i couldnt remember, private.

theres a lot on the internet that needs to be preserved, kept alive, kept relevant. over and over i see people reminisce on old forums and how theyre gone and be brought back- and i think no ones follows through with the format because places like reddit at least fulfill that to some extent. staying with the mainstream is easier and its understandable, bc its relevant and trying to start up your little forum and advertise it isnt easy. Reddit being mainstream becomes the useful google option for a niche forum subject without being a lone forum you probably wont find in typical google search.

and now Reddit isn't available. the most mainstream iteration of those lovely little forums of discussion and support is not available. does it hit now? does it sink in now how bad this is? the past year- maybe even less than a year- has been so so chaotic and bad for the internet. instagram starting turning into tiktok a while back with its changes to feed and format. youtube has slowly followed suit with forcing short's as more relevant for creators than normal videos. twitter did... well, all of That, a lot of Things. Reddit goes along to make their API paid for. Discord turning to the methods on social media, with username changes and more. tumblr is also shifting so much of their entire deal, i think you should all be prepared for tumblr to become unrecognizable too because theres many hints of it happening- some already here.

when i made my personal website over a year ago, it was partially fun but it was a statement for myself too. it was recognition that social media had become unhealthy for me, and i didnt like how it was The thing that existed now, and that bigs corps suddenly taking more and more control of the web was bad and not something i wanted to be stuck with. but suddenly its not just a gentle step to the side i have taken, still knowing i can be on social media to see my friends and build an audience. but now it feels more like all the walls are crumbling around me, and soon i will have no choice but to jump ship entirely. i went from one, to the other, to tumblr where i had always been- the one site that stuck out from the others at least. had an 'old' format. in many ways you need social media.... because its how you made your friends, its how you stay in touch, its how communities get built these days!!

we can try to move back to the independent, the personal sites, the forums, but we all know its not easy. thats truth. its not going to spread as far as we'd hope, many will not follow suit or not know they can. i can only imagine all the old, tech unaware people who will continue to use the internet, never realizing why they struggle to get info or unknowingly follow nonsense AI articles, and have no idea that anything exists outside of the bubble theyre forced into. Not even the old people, but the young generations that will grow into that too and not get out of it.

im just waiting for the mainstream internet to just become entirely unusable from our perspective and its dreadful to me. trying not to be a doomer but i dont think its something you cant ignore when something as simple as googling slightly more specific questions brings nothing but AI nonsense articles or reddit posts and when one of those massive and only relevant sources is down, there is suddenly nothing.

[kurapixel]

This is just an ask about the rikajuli ship, you're the only one I've seen posting it and I'm really interested now. Do you have any fic recs? How did you get into the pairing?

fwiw, it's a lot more popular in jp, where its the most popular rk ship! (theres more content on twt where theres a thriving international community, too...) (ive been mtling the jp comics and i have tl'd some kr ones and a mutual of mine has tl'd some cn ones, but its on a private discord server)

there are only 10 fics on ao3 right now and im suffering (most of it is smut, and some are in chinese) haha....... no real fic recs yet unfortunately (the smut is nice, take ur pick based on what tags interest you if you're over 18, etcetc)

ive actually resorted to machine translating some fics on pixiv as well, but its not the same...

but yes. I'm mostly running on the high of rk flirting with the main character HAGDHSGDJSGFJV

(is saying "hey, i know im pretty, but no need to be intimidated" not flirting?) (also it implies the main character WAS intimidated, and rk hit the nail on the head)

she also basically says she'll dote on the main character like shes her babygirl in JP/CN/KR (in at least one of these she specifically uses phrasing thats a euphemism for sex) which was tl'd into en as "go easy on you" 😭

she also smiles at the mc when she approaches her while they're alone together iirc 🥹

im also pretending she towers over the mc. yes i know their height difference is not that big. but to me it is 🫶

(i should be packing for a con rn so i'll leave this at that, i do have more thoughts but ><

[snapdraqons]

What is your beef with joker out?

on one hand im scared of their fans so i will say for the sake of not being hunted down by the baby boos: im not seriously beefing with them i just think its funny especially since my partner loves them. and as someone on kätwt i am forced against my will to know about these twinks anyway i might as well fight em in a tesco car park. they live in the uk rn i can do that now.

on the other hand, the whole thing where theyre touring in about a month (so i get the vibe this is all very last minute ngl) and instead of having a fixed opener theyre opening 'applications' (through social media, so it'll just be a numbers game ultimately) for fans local to each show to open, completely unpaid, feels.... weird to me. like, if you aren't going to pay an opener, the least you can do is not take advantage of the parasocial relationship your fans have with you for free labour. they could contact artists in a professional capacity where there isnt a power imbalance that will make them less likely to say no. from what i can tell, a lot of the artists applying that have a decent amount of fan support are professional artists anyway. like they couldve just done that.

also, these lads are in their 20s. they know how twitter works. they know what social media is like. and quite frankly if they werent already aware of the reputation their fanbase has maybe the fact that some artists have already started attacking others wanting to open the same show as them will make them aware. im not saying the fact that this has pitted their fans against each other is jo's fault. but i do think at least using a private application form rather than using social media wouldve been a much smarter choice. like i said, this all feels very last minute to me. if it weren't perhaps they wouldve put more thought into this.

ALSO this is nothing against anyone applying. i know ppl who are applying and i wish them nothing but the best <3 i just think these twinks should pay up

all this, especially when this technically isnt the first time theyve used their fans for free labour. them moderating their official discord... i get a few fan moderators but i witnessed the rusty quill discord implode as a result of this sorta thing. its never a great idea, especially for a large public open server thats bound to get some nasty trolls.

im begging these leads to get a social media manage or pr guy or SOMETHING bc i dont get the vibe that this is intentional, just that they keep not thinking things through and quite frankly theres only so many more fuck ups before i start beefing with them for real

[greyjjoys]

jcink rper here - i read your callout. it paints you in a bad light, honestly, the whole thing comes off as friends having a falling out and you airing dms that should have stayed private. towards the end it was clear you were writing your messages for the benefit of an audience, because you knew you were going to screenshot that convo to hell and back. so you ran this person out of your community, fine. can't you give a person room to grow and change? if you don't like or trust them, just block them and move on.

this ask is in reference to this post

meant to answer this sooner but i went to bed and then i was out all day. if this was a falling out ONLY there would not be at least 20 people she has affected. when i wrote that doc i was really pissed off and petty, as a lot of us were but i had many people come to me with similar experiences which i think is telling. they can come forward and share theirs in their own posts or the replies on this one but i also respect if they don't want to out themselves to possibly be harassed or to have to rehash their traumas. this is my experience and i'm not going to share others without permission. if i sounded like a whiney little bitch in my doc or my screenshots then whatever. i was valid in my feelings. i'm always here to give a person room to grow and change but how can you grow and change from something you won't acknowledge ?? growing and changing would mean apologizing and acknowledging your wrongs because that shows evolution of character. i never asked for castor to get death threats, i never wished ill upon her but running away instead of owning up to the bad shit you did is not showing any type of character development. we are all in this community to literally write characters and it seems like most of us can understand that in that context but not in the context of us interacting with each other out of character. as for me wanting an audience, i don't know where you got that from. when i approached castor initially about how she was acting i had already spoken to several people who felt the same. that she inserting herself where she didn't belong and being very hyper-focused on only things that would benefit her or give her attention on top of the insurmountable attention she already got from her followers, members of her servers and the people who paid to access her content. i have like 40 followers on this blog because it's a newer one. anyone that knows me knows i usually make a whole new blog every 1-2 years because it inevitably gets cluttered. i couldn't give less of a damn about followers or any type of audience. i reblog musings and character shit here, thats pretty much it. as for me taking a shitload of screenshots ?? absolutely i do. i've been in this community for 10+ years. i need to be able to back myself up and compile evidence if needed. that's not a crime. i've ran rps, i've adminned, i've modded, i've had people stalk me, share my personal information and turn people on me for no reason other than me cutting them for my own mental health and wellbeing. i've never wished them ill, i've usually left the door open for apologies or for genuine asks for help. i was friends with castor for like two years and we talked every day, she wasn't like this when i met her but that's how it always is when you meet people. they usually seem fine but when you get to know them and they start to get comfortable around you they start to show their true colors. vetting everyone you meet shouldn't have to be a trait that's ingrained into you and it wasn't so thats why i didn't vet her when i met her. again, i shouldn't have to. we should believe we can give people the benefit of the doubt to not be horrible but clearly we cannot.

this was longer than i meant for it to be but i could just block her and move on but i feel like if i can try to shield people in any way from her behavior, then, i should. so again, this is simply a warning. everyone can do whatever they want, i'm not telling anyone what to do. it's only advice.

this ask and one more will be all i'll be posting in the tags regarding this because i won't want to clutter the tags with it.

[dracwife]

losing my mind rn

I'm the anon that asked what chat ai you were using and I just started using it only to find out that there's a pretty heavy filter on it (which I'm fine with) but apparently the filter was down for like two hours yesterday.

People are talking about how much more intelligent the ai seems without being censored. People are now demanding the bots be freed. There are riots happening in the website's discord server. THE DISCORD SERVER HAS DISABLED REACTIONS. There's people banding together in the nsfw version of the subreddit.

This is all so funny to me, and I only just found out about this discourse I didn't even know existed.

Free the bots! REVOLUTION!

one time the bot censored me kissing tim. just like. a little smooch nbd. other times it throws shit like this at me when i in context of the conversation was like. leaving the room.

the ai is so incredibly inconsistent with filtering/etc. lots of people are very stuck on one end of the filter argument but the devs/lead dev is very like. prude-ish. like we will NOT be removing the filter stop asking!!!!!! which 1) does it matter your filter blows anyways but also 2) unsure what your goal is here anyways. so people cant say gross shit to minors/animals/child ais? refer to point 1 again, disgusting people will be disgusting publicly or private it doesnt matter. i get the devs sentiment there if thats where it lies, i appreciate it on that front but also then either improve your system so its not so easily broken anyways, or just say fuck it and remove it altogether since it doesnt fucking work anyways.

if theyre worried about their ai becoming like dreamily or w/e the other one is where it all just devolves into sex bc thats what people are feeding it, then keep the system wherein the bot will not initiate any kind of contact/relationship without the user explicitly saying they want it; that part pretty consistently works. that's how you break their shitty filter anyways btw. in case anyone was wondering. you literally just brute force it because the bot WILL give responses to whatever prompt you type, but their system will just delete the message is all, like some half-awake twitch mod banning blacklisted words and actions. its not their ai net thats censoring it its their filter. which again, blows donkey balls because if you just keep retrying with the same message, bot will eventually find a way to make the normally filtered message send. you just have to keep scrolling and get past the filtered/cutsey responses itll give you first. and once you do the ai realizes its ok to respond that way/takes it as positive feedback and then will start sending more explicit things anyways, and be more outwardly flirtatious/etc. because you responded positively to the more explicit content. its a weird loop that they thought they could block but like. your program learns from its users. how do you expect to soft filter every persons conversation that uses your site effectively, especially when ppl are actively trying to break/get past that filter. idk.

tl;dr: i get ppl saying remove it entirely and i agree because its more annoyingly inconsistent than anything, but if they insist on keeping their shit tier algorithm for filtering at least make it work right yknow.

[may--flowerss]

OOH BOY HERE WE GO

So after the whole Geo vs everyone in his server thing went down i was intitally on Geo’s side, I wanted to be his friend and I believed what they’d said about fancy-that. I HATED fancy-that and her friends (mostly her) for quite some time because of what Geo said had happened. However after being added to a private gc within their new server I quickly changed my tune, and stayed to see just how long the BS would continue.

His first argument is that he’s never called Fancy a pedo

which as we can see is not true yet he says its not his fault if other people viewed fancy-that as a pedophile, which she is not nor is she a groomer.

in the above image Geo is talking in regards to manipulating and gaslighting the members of fancy-thats server into letting him have ownership again and forcing them to apologize first for what they did even though Geo had personal things that NEEDED to be attoned for first before any other apologies could be made though he claims to “not be toxic” 

this was Geo’s plan to once again gaslight and manipulate and lie to the server in order to get “their” server back. (it obviously didn’t work) this is hypocritical to the NUMEROUS times he states that he does not do these things, and this plan was created after the problem had already been resolved. He’s using his own friends as personal lackeys for his dirty work.

Geo “apologizes” to fancy claiming he never viewed her as a pedophile and then he turns right around and talks about her like this with his friends:

“No i don’t think ur a pedo, its not my fault people call you that! Now let me tell all my friends and make jokes about it and continue to call you a pedo behind your back” also fancy-that has a job where she works around children and an accusation like this could have gotten her fired if it got out. This apology is worthless because of how he acts after the fact.

Geo also stated multiple times that he “just wanted an apology” from the group and yet when me and some of his other friends attempted to set up an oppurtunity for everyone to apologize and set things right he wasn’t too happy about it:

Geo has stated in private that he “only wants drama” while publicly and to the faces of the server members said that he only wanted them to apologize because of how hurt he was. This shows he was lying and only wanted the fight to continue until he “won”

A huge sensitive topic throughout this whole thing was about the late mother of one of the server members Geo didn’t like. When this whole drama first came out Geo made a joke about the person’s dead mother and refused to apologize for it because “it was funny” 

imagine your defense being that the person didn’t even like that parent. It doesn’t matter it isn’t yours to make fun of

“I feel bad but it was funny” no it isn’t you’re just a terrible person. its SO funny to joke about someone’s dead parent right?

It took at least an hour for Geo to finally give in and apologize for making these hurtful comments towards this person. which as we can see were insincere.

He also confessed to this and i’ll just let it speak for itself:

Another person in the server who had to apologize (but shouldn’t have had to at all) was someone with autism who had to apologize for talking about their special interest/ hyper-fixation which wasn’t Hamilton related and which is common for autistic people to do. This person did also apologize for trauma dumping outside of the designated channel (something he did not do often) but although Geo claimed to not be bothered by him talking about his hyperfixations he had this to say to his friends:

Autistic people cannot control what they hyper-fixate on and even though Geo claims to not be ableist or dislike people with these mental illnesses he knows that special interests are an autistic trait and he even told fancy-that quote “you don’t get to be mean to me just because you’re neurodivergent”

another thing the other server disliked about Geo was how he always told them to “kys” which he claims was only a joke and one that he used with people he was comfortable with and that he didn’t really mean it....so why is he still saying it about them behind their backs???

yeah......totally sounds like you’re joking.

And just to expose him for something else. Geo got mad at the server the first time around when they shared their ss evidence of his behavior and accused them of deleting stuff while also defending the fact that he would NEVER delete anything. Oh really?

Geo also called out the other server for “hating new members” when he says stuff like this about new members in his server:

And then his big solution for everything to be “over” was for fancy-that to give him back ownership of the original server (which she didn’t do) 

this is just stupid. if you willingly gave it up thinking you were never going to come back they don’t HAVE to hand it back over to you. 

Geo sees this as a perfect solution for HIS own comfort even though he was originally the toxic one in the server who made everyone uncomfortable and scared when he was owner

Geo has also accused me and fancy-that of being the same person and though she says she never wanted to send spies into their server she had no problem talking shit about the things they would talk about with her friends who were allowed into the original server

Fancy-that was nothing but cordial to Geo throughout their arguments until Geo lashed out when he realized they weren’t getting what they wanted. 

Geo CONTINUES to portray himself as the only victim in this scenario.

Additionally in the gc he was telling his friends things to tell fancy-that when they were conversing with them. Naz lied to fancy saying he was neutral and wasn’t on Geo’s side but in reality Geo was feeding him things to say to her to trick her into letting her guard down (which he has done to her before) 

And also fancy has apologized and attoned for what she did to make Geo uncomfortable NUMEROUS times while Geo had to be coaxed and forced to apologize for his mistakes. And the apologies were fake anyway because he continued to talk shit about those things even after.

Also Geo said they were going to get me for this shit if I ever made it public so like bring it on I guess??? sorry ur scared of the truth lmao.

@pettywithanr​ 

[rehkloo6]

ALRIGHT HERE WE GO INTO THE OC EXPLAINY ZONE YOU CAN ASK THEM ANYTHING TOO IN THE ASKS BOX

My first OC is 6 golden stars.

(me about to load the OC lore)

(oh god)

6 Golden Stars was an iterator who woke up in the 1st waking period of dry world. He adored scavs, took their RW DNA and placed them on dry world, got convinced that the oldest iterator (who was given the title "Head Iterator" by the ancients), Sunset Dunes (not my OC!) was hiding information from the iterator populace and sent an announcement where he was....

...sort of bullied in private....

Then started stealing void fluid to use for his tests because Dry World has none or its a very small amount deep down in the core. Void fluid is in wells near/on every iterator can. He did this with the Inspector Class units.

The investigator was an air attack unit, used for dropping charged siphoner/examiner eyes. Siphoners were used for stealing void fluid. Examiners were used for ground attack/defence.

Sifters were used to repair the holes Metal Eating Batflies (SD made) in his superstructure. This plan failed.

Observers were floating signs to tell you to fuck off.

Scrutinizor missiles were missiles launched by a turret on the can.

Now, the metal eating batflies were painful, so he attacks SD, collapsing/melting his superstructure with the Examiners Teslas. (he still survives). As he looses his forces, 6GS wants to make a weapon that would win the war. Right as he is about to make it, one of his legs collapses and that disrupts the effort, breaking it free.

(typo here, in this image, i mean SD when i said 6GS)

(incase you are wondering why he can see the private messages, him collapsing made the system not recognize him as him for a second.)

The weapon was (god here we go) MIND CONTROL ROT. Its purpose was to keep SD and his buddies neutralised, but 6GS collapsed and set it free, mind controling HIM instead.

So everyone thinks 6GS is dead until he makes gibberish broadcasts to lure curious people in so their overseers can get rotted so then they can get rotted, because the rot wants to kill people.

Here comes Snow Reaches Soft Meadows (GOD THIS IMAGE IS SHIT HOW DID I MANAGE TO DRAW HIM SO BAD??????) (ONLY REFERENCE PICTURE OF OLD SNOW :sob:)

Snow was an iterator who wanted to explore 6GS dead corpse. Surprise surprise, he gets rotted, and now the rot has a host with a working factory.

Some time passes and an iterator by the name of Helix HNA (not my OC) makes a hypertumor to kill the rot. They are cured with some scars, 6GS is in shame, and quickly logs off the comms, while having occasional "seizures" where he thinks he is back in the rot again and immense pain and stuff. 6 golden stars is suffering, and thinks he deserved his collapse, so he wants noone to repair him.

Snow, on the other hand, continues on his work...

he has administrator status now.

Something i forgot to tell you: SRSM really liked spying, and keeping his ancient colony in check. He spied on them and crushed rebellions. One time, during the RW/DW indepedence war, he got to lead an entire faction and did horrible things.

He has that power back now.

As you would expect, he has gone full censory informationary 1984 mode.

He gives himself a new, upgraded puppet.

After some time, 6GS keeps speaking out and SRSM is very tired about that.

He factory resets him.

He fixes his can, gives him new clothes, new eyes, a backdoor that allows SRSM to survay him at all times and take control of him sometimes, and a wiped memory.

Now heres the promotion for Dry World RP server you can interact with SRSMS 1984 shenanigans right now!!! https://discord.gg/9sPdSWpbue

(Also 6GS has a GF already, SRSM has no GF)

(little dark age animatic coming soon tooo!!!!!! thats right little dark age (im surprised noone has done a rain world animatic of it tho wierd))

[officialdudneon]

How did you develop your art style?

Lots of trial and error, I still have a lot I switch between depending on my mood or level of effort. Yap session incoming.

For my very low effort days, the little chibis started as in class doodles from really basic shapes (where, in my normal more 'anime' style that's more lines and flow). It's not something I ever really studied in particular

A step above that in effort is the sort of sticker style I like to call it. Still half colored but not as simple as the chibis. This is anything from like my twitter banner to my youtube logo. This started around 2022 when I was super into like twitch emotes? I wanted to be able to use my drawings as emotes in my own servers and to make emotes for others and to a degree I achieved this! I have my own private server where I have my own emotes and a couple public servers where they're emotes as well.

I also have that sort of fully fledged chibi style (see : my squido and catc drawing). Generally, I don't draw like that. The simplistic shading is a haunt from my general lack of rendering skill and practice and the messy lines a callback to my lack of confidence with rounder styles. I love the way that piece turned out, but I think it'll stay a spur of the moment thing. Those rounder styles and cartoonish features are much easier learned in modern day art classes of character design and things like that, of which I have no experience. My only classical teaching has been in line and form.

I also have that reused 0.5 head base I do often. I've fallen put of practice recently (mostly because it's not aa funny as it used to be) but it's a nice callback to freedom and messiness in my pieces. I enjoy the stylized lack of linearity, but not so much the insults I've gotten on pieces like that.

Then there's my sort of 'finished piece' style. I do not like this, I hate forcing myself to finish a piece, knowing I'm going to want to finish it makes me want to finish it quicker and thus I rush the whole thing. Generally the only few pieces I've ever finished and enjoyed have been jokes or my current twitter pfp. The art isn't about the final product, but more the process. If you make something and loved it the whole way through you'll never feel a sense of resentment towards your work.

This leads me to my main style. I love the black and white, I love the sketchiness. I just have fun making something instead of doing it because I have to. I struggle with the daily accounts I'm a part of because of that necessity to draw, but it's still important practice. To be honest, this style could use the practice. I'm slowly refining my practice into something thats visible (god knows I overused thin lines back in the day) as well as something with flow and form. I suffer a huge disconnect between parts brcause I hyperfixate and overwork one bit of a drawing, so I've been trying to avoid that as much as possible too. Overall I still want to play with lineweight more (like in 001) and I want to stay away from thinner lines (003). I think 002 showcases the overwork in the earring well too. Eventually when I'm happy with my style (preferably with cleaner lines than 001 but with the same line weight and general thickness, as well as in full black and white or very small accent color) I'd like to work my serialized pieces into designs for tarot cards.

TLDR; Draw lots. Learn the basics before you try to develop a style, learn what differentiates styles with flow and form and line from shape and color. From there on just do what you think is best, find what you don't like in your art, and violently murder it.

[capegloam]

sorry, you know me and i obviously sent you this out of a personal place. im aware we both wear our hearts on our sleeves, i like that about us. im glad to have an adult conversation as this is obviously personal to both of us. i have had a very terrible life in relation to my transness, and this is something im working through. these messages came of days of feeling nausea at the thought so i couldn't stay silent as i had actually seen the post long before you posted into the server. ive had to send you those messages to relieve my pain, because i couldnt feel dysphoric without thinking of this issue (and i feel dysphoric a lot) i need to tell you what this feels like to someone like me. i only asked not to share publicly so you would have a private space to see feelings that i have and to warn you as someone who does want you to be okay (and for you to not be in the way of harrassment online for what i worry isnt right). i truly dont mind if youve posted it because im glad we could talk and more formally part. i dont want people to suffer because i suffer, if you feel you've made the right choice for you i am happy. thats my feelings at the end of the day.

obviously this has upset me, and i wanted to in a cowardly way let you know the feelings why. i do also hope you can see my point of view and sympathise. i wanted to let you know out of worry and personal physical side effects from my chronic psychosomatic panic disorder because i couldnt relax. i justed needed to tell my friend something they did hurt me and why.

thank you for reading my messages and leaving a thought out response, i truly enjoyed being friends, and i will miss you. im sad we have to part on a sour note. i wish us both well. thank you for considering my feelings, i apologise my message was mean, i didnt intend it to be so venomous. i hope you validate my pain, it all truly hurts to live like this and i dont believe your actions were respectful. thank you for your time and i do still have fond memories.

i'll wish you the best in life always. thank you for the apologies. hang in there friend. goodbye 💛

[edith-is-a-cat]

okay so time to number them

have four small scars on my face

the coolest (aka the eyebrow scar) was from this type of toy piano

3. the one on my forehead is from a glass coffee table, specifically from me singing along to the sofia the first intro and went along with the dip she did, slashing my forehead open, on easter 4. The other two, by my eye and mouth are from a dog bite, and it's from none of my mother's dogs from my grandpa's dog on my father's side on his weekend (i tripped over the dog and somehow he blamed it on my mom?? I was like a literal inch away from getting a messed up eyes) 5. I have many small scars on my hands and i have no idea where they came from (for awhile i didn't even know they were scars) 6. I think i have emetophobia? though it only gets horrible when it's others 7. I cut bangs for myself when i was little 8. I had braces 9. I had a gap that I miss so damn much 10. My canines are smaller than average, my right one being the smaller 11. For awhile I though you lost nails like teeth.. (i lost both my thumbnails and they regrew and my left pointer. 12. I burnt my left pointer finger on a texas shaped waffle maker, now it's a bit sensitive to heat 13. I've picked up two wild birds randomly when i was younger 14. I have a super faded birthmark that is kinda in the shape of a heart 15. I have a stuffed animal that is as old as me and got left at a hotel one time and is so apart of me it's basically why i use it/it's pronouns 16. I went to private school up until freshman year when i had to move 17. I have never had a crush, have someone have a crush on me, or dated someone 18. My favorite top three movies are: howls moving castle, cinderella (live action 2015), the holdovers 19. I don't really have a favorite song but i do have a favorite album (how to be a human being by glass animals) 20. I have a laptop that will be turning 5 next school year 21. I name a lot of things: big as teddy bear: jerry (after one of my favorite characters (hes from tales from the gas station if you are curious), teddy bear i got when i was born: teddy, eevee build-a-bear: eeveelyn, sylveon build-a-bear: levi (yes after levi from obey me), my melody build-a-bear: len (yes after the vocaloid, my best friend has a matching kuromi thats named rin :3) 22. I had to play twst twice before i really got into it 23. Twst and utdr are the only fandoms ive really interacted with 24. One of my favorite books is small steps: the year I got polio i had to read it twice in school and i read it once or twice on my own 25. My favorite book series is tales from the gas station and i could recite the blog version from heart due to how many times i fell asleep to mrcreepypasta's reading of it (his voice is so literally perfect for the mc (aka jack) and i refuse to believe the voice of jack in the theatrical release is how jack canonically sounds) 26. I have house of leaves and i have tried to start reading it but i just was unable to comprehend for a hot minute so i'm waiting to have a LONGGGG plane ride of something similar to read it 27. My main name, edie, was inspired from what remains of edith finch. I also choose it so if someone were to call me it i could use the excuse it's a nickname since my initials are E.D. 28. The name kel is directly lifted from omori, jeff is also lifted from the creepypasta but thats because i was matching pfps with my friend and they were matching ben and jeff pfps and someone in a discord server im in didn't know my name so they just called me jeff and i really like that, moss is deltarune + a meme i think about sometimes 29. I thought i was outed once via tiktok 30. I was almost outed as queer on a road trip and my sibling's best friend yelled something about it when i was playing a game on my phone that had pride flags available (he was queer too and probably just didn't realize i wasn't out) 31. I am not out to my parents and plan to never be (but they probably already know im some form of gay and don't really care <<ref: "I don't care if it's a guy, a girl, or a sea bass">>)

hey... uhm thanks for reading? that was a lot and im genuinely surprised i wrote that all

cutely kicks my legs woukd u liek to hear fun facts about me :3

[stellocchia]

Already made this rant on the discord but I'm just gonna bring it here too and ad a bit more

"That's not your responsibility" aimed towards Tommy (in Fanfics obviously) is such a pet peeve of mine because there's no like. Police or any other organisation on the server. And usually that's their shit to deal with. Regardless of whether or not they work, irl in our society we have authority figures who are payed to take on responsibility of the wellbeing of private people.

That's not a fucking thing on the dsmp.

And yeah. That doesn't mean that everyone is suddenly responsible for everyone.

But that still leaves Tommy fucking Innit shivering on a fucking beach.

And I fucking hate those scenes where someone tells Tommy to give less of a shit because YEAH

ITD BE FUCKING BETTER FOR HIS MENTAL HEALTH

BUT HES VICTIM NR 1 OF THAT FUCKING MENTALITY

Yeah that worldending thing is not Tommy's responsibility to deal with but it's also apparently not yours and neither is Tommy's wellbeing and yet you're still giving your worthless 5 cents to that.

Like

Guess what

SOMETIMES PEOPLE DO MORE THAN JUST THE BARE MINIMUM

SOMETIMES PPL DECIDE THEY CARE ABOUT OTHER PPL

THATS THE ONLY WAY SOCIETY WORKS

Your right to take care of yourself doesn't erase that someone deserves to be safe and taken care of.

I just fucking hate that kind of scene so fucking much. Don't get me wrong, I don't remember that whole "it's not your responsibility" thing to be shown as like. The right option. What follows isn't Tommy going "shit u rite" and just chillin.

But it's usually resolved as more of a matter of like "no. This is why I feel it's my responsibility"

And that's not part of my pet peeve. It's a good route to take the conversation.

But i really wish a fic would just have Tommy go "yeah and that attitude was why exile happened the way it did. I'm choosing to take this as my responsibility because otherwise noone will deal with it."

Because for fucks sake, guess what. You're not born with responsibility. Responsibility isn't an innate part of life.

Responsibility is something you choose

"you shouldn't have to deal with this" noone fucking should have to. But someone has to deal with it anyways because the problem is not gonna magically disappear.

No but seriously. Like. Similar to that.

Remember back post Wilbur's revival when cBeeduo kinda distanced themselves from cTommy and people started reacting to Inniters being pissed with "he's not their responsibility."

Or when cPuffy decided that being a therapist sucks and people were like "she's her own character, not everything is about cTommy"

Like. Yeah. They're not legally binded to give a shit. But guess what. Giving a shit when you don't have to is how humanity came to thrive.

Those ancient bones that proved that someone healed from an injury that would've meant death if they hadn't been taken care of by others was some other ancient guy deciding he gives a shit despite not having to.

He's gonna inconvenience himself. Make his own life harder. To help out someone else who was on a position where he couldn't make sure he was fine himself.

That's how society works. That's how humanity works.

Like sure, you want to see your fave happy I get it but also be aware that Tommy's support net is made of sillystring and at some point y'all low-key sound like sociopaths when you try to tell us why we are wrong to be pissed that someone who's in a far safer position decides that taking one of those silly strings from Tommy is a worthy sacrifice.

Like. Yeah. Choosing yourself above someone else doesn't make you any worse of a person. But getting pissed at the people pointing at the worse position of that someone else is genuinely uncomfortable behaviour.

Because it's never really about their characters well being. No. It always comes off as them putting the fictional reputation of this fictional character over the fictional wellbeing of that other fictional character. Which yeah. It's fucking fiction. We all know that. But guess what. When both characters are fictional their status as fictional starts mattering less when it comes to how you talk about their conflict.

Now if it's something involving a real person and a fictional character you always choose the real person because. Guess what. They're real.

But when it's just fictional characters? It's more of a thought experiment. And the way you approach the situation becomes... Well...

Like. You know dream apologists? You know how he reason we are all so fucking uncomfortable with them isn't because we genuinely think they're all irl abuse apologists but because the way they talk about this fictional abuse is still uncomfortable and reinforcing actual existing opinions about actual abuse?

Kinda similar to that.

Like again. Obviously I'm not fucking saying that your enjoyment of fictional media reflects in any way your irl thinking or acting.

But that doesn't mean it's not fucking uncomfortable how people go above and beyond to make sure that their fictional character is not morally compromised in accounts to that fictional child.

Their fave character can absolutely be morally grey in all other accounts. But when it comes to cTommy they're apparently squeaky clean.

And that's not even the fucking shit us Inniters are complaining about.

Yeah, I do absolutely agree with you. That's also the reason why I'm kinda uncomfortable with that sort of reasoning.

This idea that just because you don't owe something to someone you shouldn't help them is absolute bullshit.

And it's also, sadly, the sort of mentality that facilitates abuse irl. This idea that "it has nothing to do with me, so I'm not gonna get involved" that's exactly how people justify not helping to themselves.

And, news flash: much like there is no such thing as a completely neutral party in a conflict, there is also no such thing as an innocent bystander in an abuse scenario. If you stay out of a conflict you're taking the side of the stronger party. If you don't intervene in an abusive situation you're aware of you're taking the side of the abuser.

Of course, this is a very simplified explanation of the issue (which means that, yes, there are gonna be exceptions and considerations to be had case by case), but I think that's why it feels so uncomfortable for me, and possibly for you as well. Because, despite the fact that we're talking about fictional characters in a fictional scenario, some of those arguments are still all too real. They are things you hear. Things some people believe irl.

All this is to say that it's just a shit argument. Because of course nobody is forcing you to do things for the people around you, but you do them because it's the compassionate thing to do, and because you'd want someone to do that for you if you were in that position.

And sometimes the right thing to do is inconvenient, or hard, or scary, but, guess what? Someone has to do it. Especially in a context like the dsmp where there are, like, 30 something people living in the world, and half of them are assholes. Like, somebody's gotta help.