#bc i try not to do that and again i dont want anyone to think i like. expect ppl to give me money that i absolutely have not earned

[enden-k]

"Wait...but how's that skirt doing such a high thigh slit??" I said, looking at Abel (?) confused

It's not

He's lifting it

(Also elf snack doodle lol. I missed seeing my fav anxious little guy!!)

(Also VIKA ONE CHANCE PLEASE I CAN (hopefully) BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU!!! VIKA!!! ONE CHANCE!!!)

(Hehehe also Yoma's little chibi is fun to see! Littler guy)

(Also also. What tags can I find the rest of the guys in? If they have any? I didn't realize you had so many protags! I wanna seeeeee)

-🦜

AHAHHA if you are not familiar with abel yet then now you know. typical abel behavior, my shameless little "teehee :3" rascal

(try going for it when saran is blinking---)

well, those are only a handful of protags, i have more AHJCKSBKJ...........drew too many stories all my life.................anwwww only 4 of them have been posted!

abel is from grimms game

then ofc yoma from echo

vin from kingslayers

and ofc our baby vika from amygdala

kain is from a project i started 7 yrs ago or so i think. still alive and smth i might pick up again since i spent lots of time working on it

rize is from a special and prolly darkest story i did that i wont ever post. ofc every story and certain characters carry pieces of me but his is one i started to deal w trauma and fears when i went through a difficult time and i wouldnt feel comfortable showing it to anyone bc its personal and i dont want ppl to analyze my brain but also bc i would get extremely angry if i had ppl turn it cutesy and fun by calling anything "silly"

aster, chroma and ragna are all protags from old stories that i abandoned. i prolly wont ever continue or post them and i recycled lots of characters and ideas i drew in their comics for other stories so yeahhh. only 4 so far have been posted and have their tags

[faunandfloraas]

okay i'm glad to see you bring up the teasing of seungmin bc it was also rubbing me the wrong way but i didn't know if i was just being sensitive or what. obvs we don't know what goes on behind the scenes and obviously they all care about each other and tease each other as friends but when time after time the joke targeted towards seungmin is "we don't like him and he doesn't understand things" it's like. hm. it starts to feel mean spirited!!

sorry for the rant i guess i didn't realize how bad this was annoying me lmao

Yeah, tbf I think it's just one of those things where even if Seungmin is 100% unbothered by it, and the guys dont mean anything by it, its still fine and understandable for people who have ever been on the end of jokes like that- whether in your own friend groups or at school, at work, etc. to not really enjoy it.... So I don't think you're being sensitive! But also I did question even making my post last night for the same reason.

The jokes are also just not funny 90% of the time lately which makes it more egregious bc seeing any joke get beaten into the earth gets old eventually- like they do make jokes at his expense sometimes that /are/ funny, so I'm not saying they cant ever do that, it's just that the minute the jokes arent funny, well then its awkward at best or actively uncomfortable at worst so 🤷‍♀️

[bunnyboy-juice]

i may not be into fauxcest but i am absolutely a friend of the family

[reel-fear]

Genuinely so curious who Mike thinks is gonna be buying The Cage or the new DCTL GN bc with the way he tweets as far as he's concerned, it's not gonna be:

The queer people he has actively admitted he will never show any representation of in the games.

2. The POC he has actively fought against representing in his franchise. [Who he also mocked for thinking they would be represented in his franchise]

3. The Bendy fandom which has always been concerned with topics of diversity esp in the sense of queer people since its creation. Who he has responded to really poorly esp in regards to the GN.

4. The fans who critique him. [He blocked me for doing so lol]

5. His fans in general who he tweets about like this currently. [He's being vague about why people were mad at him or sent him 'nasty messages' because if you actually looked into why you'd see he was in the wrong. Either way, a very hateful way to speak abt ur own fanbase.]

Reminder while Mike is trash talking his fans he has always treated them rather poorly. The fans who won the fanart contest for Chapter 5 never got their posters actually in game due to it being rushed. Not only was chapter 5 a big slap to the face story wise, but it was literally so rushed he couldn't be bothered to add in the art his fans gave him for his game FOR FREE. [Meatly blames this on a crazy timeline, reminder him and Mike are the literal ceos of this company. The proposal of future updates here is also pretty cruel considering Mike nowadays happily admits he corrupted Chapter 5's source code and therefore literally can't update it At All currently. Because he is a moron]

At least they got to be in Boris and the dark survival, and by that I mean that was the Only game they got to be in so far, isn't that just treating your fans like you love them? Shoving their hard work into a spin off game almost nobody has played or addresses much. [Hell, who knows if with the Lone Wolf rebrand they'll even stay there. In which case they'll be in None of the games, only in the credits of BATIM]

6. The Bendy fans who just generally disagree with him on stuff. Like the new ink demon design where there is literally a public poll showing people generally prefer the old one.

7. The Bendy fans who can see he is actively lying to them. To their fucking faces.

He says this has always been the case, but screenshots and links to tweets regarding the books being canon prove it was not. Does he really think bendy fans are stupid or something? [Unless he's admitting here he lied to Kress when he told her the books were canon which sounds worse!]

8. Anyone who doesn't like the idea of giving money to a guy who laid off tons of employees then afterwards thought it was a great idea to express his anti-union views! Also brag about how good of an employer he was, according to his employees, he was not!

So in summary; Mike is an awful person who has not learned anything from the awful things he did. I will not be purchasing The Cage because, combined with this and his absolute refusal to take any kind of critique or see any differing interpretation of his franchise, I have no reason to think my problems with the franchise will ever be addressed or fixed. I probably will pirate The Cage along with any future Bendy Products [Including the movie] and will do my best to avoid giving it any kind of monetary support. Unless this changes any time soon, I can't see myself making anymore positive Bendy posts soon.

Mike has just managed to make it so hard to speak positively or optimistically of this franchise when he's so willing to broadcast how little he cares about it or its fans. I'm at the point where I refuse to pull any of my punches with my problems with it. What's the point of trying to play nice with my critique when either way the people creating it don't care?

So with this post, I want to invite anyone who feels similarly about the franchise to tell me, make a post or send an ask talking about how all of this makes you feel. It may not change how things are, but genuinely seeing other people share my feelings of anger makes me feel better. It feels nice to see when other people share our same concerns and worries. I'd also love to know if anyone else thinks they'll be avoiding purchasing Bendy products over this.

I'm not forcing anyone to participate in it nor trying to say anyone who doesn't supports mike but genuinely maybe if we can collectively decide to boycott things like the movie, graphic novel and The Cage... It might at least make the bendy devs acknowledge how much they have destroyed their own fandom's faith and trust in them.

The way Mike tweets about his actions like he had no control over why people were mad at him at least proves to me he takes NONE of it back nor regrets it. If you didn't know about his actions and only went off his tweets, you would be led to believe Mike has been needlessly picked apart by fans over things he couldn't control [or in his own words, had his words twisted and taken out of context]. That is not how you speak about your actions if you have actually learned better from them.

anyway, that has been my bendy dev callout post. This is an open invitation to anyone feeling similarly upset about the way the franchise is going to talk about it. It's genuinely nice to see how people feel about this and the more we talk about the more it's likely the bendy devs are forced to address our concerns. I don't think they will but hey, that's why I'm not gonna support them with my money anymore nor am I gonna be nice to them in any content I make critiquing Bendy. I mean I'm also basically making this post just in case anyone asks me Why I feel this way towards to bendy devs/as a way to respond to anyone who thinks I am too harsh in my critique in the future.

As always, it seems the best part of Bendy isn't actually anything about canon but about what the fan's are creating with the ideas Bendy failed to do anything interesting with.

Also the books, the books slap.

[dandyshucks]

NEEDLESS RAMBLING AHEAD:

i told my brother abt GGG just kind of off-handedly and he said he's going to try playing it - this is the first time he's ever shown an interest in anything I've ever talked about 🧍but ouuughhh i hope he likes it .... i genuinely have no idea if he will ....

also i told my dad about the game (ended up going into a ton of detail abt it LOL, we were on a 15-30 min drive and i recently found out he actually genuinely enjoys listening to me talk about my interests,,,,,, sniffles happily 🫶) and told him abt all the stuff i love about it, and he was actually super amazed at how clever and well-put together the story and everything is and I'm just like !!! YES !! YES IT'S SO GOOD !!! IT'S SO SMART AND AWESOME AND CREATIVE AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING !!!! I'M GLAD I'M NOT CRAZY AND ALONE AND THAT SOMEONE ELSE AGREES FHFKDL (... i say, as one of my favourite artists and storytellers ever has been creating full fancomics for it LMAO. i just get scared and unsure of myself, and also forget online is real sometimes bc real life is so much Bigger than online lately)

anyways,, i am marveling tonight at MY INFLUENCE.... GGG FEVER WILL SWEEP ACROSS DA GLOBE !!!

[phannibal]

even just seeing mulder’s mouth form the word bitch raises my blood pressure

[valentinesparda]

unfortunately thinking about ffxiii selfships again

[itsalwaysdark]

i think itis funny in the past when i would list my interests as if i post abt them i donot post abt the shit im into rly Mainly bc im not rly Into Into anything anymore i occasionally watch or read or play something but i dont do fandom stuff rly much.... just sometimes i get brainworms

[phagodyke]

aouuugh my uterus......

[ghastbutlikegay]

dudes ive hit a point with The Horrors:tm: where im unable to convince myself that any of my friends actually like me

[trashbaget]

tell me your failed/embarrassing flirting stories to make me feel better, i’ll go first: today i said “get out of my way” forgot to say “i’m kidding” then immediately said “bye”

[the-casbah-way]

this is the ONLY time i will ever be mentioning this but i made a kofi for tips, if you like my art/writing and wanted to donate anything at all it would mean the whole world to me

[1hyunjae]

Just had the worst panic attack of my life