#edit: fixed a typo that said ''or'' instead of ''only'' OOPS

[catsandcataclysms]

There’s something that always strikes me about posts that talk about how people shouldn’t watch only kids’ shows or read only kids’ books.

While there’s always nuance to a situation-- like how having certain expectations will only get you so far in a media intended to younger audiences-- I don’t think insisting that people read or watch things they know they aren’t going to enjoy is going to help the situation. In fact, that’ll likely only serve to make them more stubborn.

And this sort of thing especially strikes me because often, when you think of an adult who enjoys shows aimed at younger audience in the real-world, you are likely going to think of an autistic individual. For example, I don’t enjoy live-action shows regardless of their audience, my oldest special interest is aimed at 5 year-olds, and the books I read are found in the children’s library. I also have a neurodivergent coworker, who sometimes brings plushies from a children’s show to work with them.

I’m not saying there isn’t any merit to the argument, of course, because when it comes to discourse it’s very silly to be willing to fight to the death over a kid’s show-- but then again, it’s very silly to be willing to fight to the death over an adult’s show, too.

Mainly, I think that when there’s posts about how a person absolutely hates people who are adults who don’t read or watch adult media, they should consider attempting to be more nuanced, lest it come off as ableist or aphobic.

[tlbodine]

How to Love Revision

A lot of you lovely folks are doing Nanowrimo right now. 

Which means that, in a few weeks, you will have a steaming pile of pages. A rough draft. A word-baby, if you will. And you might, at some point, want to turn that messy jumble into a real book, perhaps something to send to a publisher or publish yourself or just share with people. 

I see a lot of writing advice about finishing first drafts -- and a whole lot of it is in the vein of “Just write it! Fix it in post! Finished is better than perfect!” which is great advice for pushing through, but does tend to leave future-you -- the editor you-- with problems. 

Lucky for you, I happen to love editing (really! it’s my favorite part!) so I am here to give you some advice on how to turn those pages into a proper story without ripping all of your hair out or screaming into the void (but if you need to scream, it’s OK, I won’t judge you.) 

First Off: Credit Where It’s Due 

My current revision process draws heavily from Holly Lisle’s One-Pass Revision technique: https://hollylisle.com/one-pass-manuscript-revision-from-first-draft-to-last-in-one-cycle/

Her writing guides are golden, and I heartily recommend reading them all, starting with that one up there. 

I don’t do one-pass revisions, but her ethos really helped me. Before I found her advice, I would get caught in the endless revise/rewrite cycle. I was going through 9+ drafts of every story and it kept morphing into something new and sprouting new problems, hydra-style, every time I tried to redo it. So nothing was ever finished, nothing was ever satisfying, and I hated it. 

So I found a better way! And it freed me! I’ve written six books since then, four of them published (one Wattpad-exclusive) and I learned to look forward to the second draft. 

So how does this magic work? Let me show you! 

Step One: Put the Damn Thing Away 

Editing requires intellectual and emotional distance. So finish your story, and set it aside for a while. Stop thinking about it. Actively put it out of your mind. Work on something else for a while. Read a book. Catch up on all the TV you missed. Whatever. The point is -- you don’t want to come back to revise your story until you can look at it with fresh eyes. 

How long this will take depends on you, of course. It’s a very personal thing. It could be weeks. It could be months. For me, a good guideline is to wait until I can no longer quote whole passages from memory. 

Now then. Let’s do some triage. 

Before you can start editing, you need to know your goals. If you’re a planner, this might be easy because you have an outline you can compare against. If you’re a discovery writer like me, well, this is the time to figure out what exactly it is that you discovered. Grab a notebook (or a notepad file, if you’re a digital native) and follow this process: 

Write a one-sentence elevator pitch that roughly encapsulates the concept of the story. It doesn’t have to be pretty -- you’re not showing this to anyone but yourself -- but it does have to be honest. My one-sentence pitch for River of Souls was “Self-aware zombies struggle for equal rights, but the medication they rely on to retain their humanity doesn’t work as advertised.” My pitch for The Hound was “Lesbian thrift shop owners invite the devil into their home after buying a cursed taxidermied dog.” 

Write down your theme(s). In the draft, themes might take the form of questions. In this draft, you’ll want some answers. What do you want the reader to feel when they’re done? What is the message you’re trying to tell? When I wrote Nezumi’s Children, I knew it was a story about religion -- “What should we put our faith into?” In the end, I decided the answer was, “We should put our faith in each other.” That dictated the ending. (I also wanted to be careful not to inadvertently support abandoning your pets -- so I couldn’t let the rats be happily feral at the end. A happy ending for them meant being owned and cared for). 

Write a 250-word synopsis of the story. Again, it doesn’t have to be pretty. It just has to introduce the characters, the world, and the general shape of the story arc -- the inciting incident, the escalating stakes, and how the character changed at the end. 

You may find that you struggle with this part, and that is totally find (and honestly to be expected). You may discover, for example, that your character doesn’t actually change, or that there isn’t a core conflict. That’s okay! That’s what you’re here to fix! I have absolutely, definitely written a book and then discovered 80,000 words later that it didn’t have a plot. It’s OK though, because you’ll fix that problem in the next step. 

If you do indeed have a plot and escalating stakes and characters who go through developmental arcs, you’re ahead of the game. Now you’ve got the skeleton of an elevator pitch and the makings of a query letter (or a jacket blurb). 

Next: Map Out Everything 

When I was in elementary school, I had to start writing my first essays. I was supposed to make an outline, then write the paper to follow the outline. I wasn’t very good at doing it that way, so instead I would write the paper, then hastily draw up the outline to match what I said. Oops. Nothing has changed, honestly. 

With your trusty notebook (or blank text document), compile the following: 

Write out a list of scenes. Just a couple words describing the events of what happens. Now - are all of those scenes necessary? Are any redundant? Do you need to add foreshadowing or establish something earlier in the story to make sense of it? Are the scenes in the wrong order? Does every scene do some work to advance the plot, deepen the character, flesh out the world? Does the ending resonate with the theme? Re-write the scene list in the correct order, with scenes added or removed as necessary to tell the proper story. Now your scene list is a handy dandy roadmap/outline for your revision! 

List out all of the characters in the story. Write down their role in the story. Does every major character have a goal? Do motivations make sense? Does each one change in some way during the story? Are all of your walk-on roles necessary? Are there characters who don’t really do much, and could you combine them?

Fixing plot holes on your scene list is a lot easier than fixing them in the manuscript itself. Keep tweaking your scenes until the story feels like it works. Make sure there’s a logical flow between events -- cause and effect, escalating stakes. Consult structure guides like the Hero’s Journey or the Three-Act Structure if you need some help with your plot. 

Here’s a part that’s really important so it’s going in all caps: THE SCENE LIST IS FINAL. Make all the adjustments you need to the plot while you do the scene list, but do not -- DO NOT -- deviate from the story once you move on to the next step. You don’t stop modifying your scene list until you’re happy with the story, and once you’re happy, THAT is the story you’re writing. Get new ideas for things that can happen? Great, save ‘em for the next book. 

Now Roll Your Sleeves Up And Get Dirty 

Some people like to print their manuscript off and do edits in pen, but I don’t have reliable printer access most of the time and hate wasting paper. So instead, I pull up the rough draft and adjust it so it takes up one half of my monitor. Then I pull up a fresh, empty file and put that on the other half of the screen. 

Now, using my scene list as a guide, I pull up the rough draft and rewrite it, scene by scene. Yes, that means re-typing every word. You’ll find that when you do this, you’ll fix a lot of language mistakes without even realizing it. I’m an under-writer, so my drafts usually double in length during this process because I spend more time lingering on sensory details, adding scenes, teasing out character dynamics, etc. etc. etc. Just let yourself go, get immersed into the scene. If you forget what you were doing, just refer back to your outline and original draft to get back on track. 

I find this process works best if you can do it quickly. Try not to let the story get cold. Ideally, work on this every single day, or even set aside a long weekend to just hammer it all out. 

Finally: Make a Second Pass 

Now that you’ve got a second draft under your belt, it’s time to celebrate! Set the book aside. If you have beta readers or an editor, now is the time to send this to them. Hang out for a bit. Figure out who you’re querying, if you’re doing that. Find a kick-ass cover, if you’re self-publishing. Build yourself a Lego mansion. Whatever. Just sit on your draft for a little bit. 

Now that a couple weeks have passed, it’s time to make a final pass. Gather all of the feedback you’ve gotten from beta readers and editors and decide what advice you should take and what you can ignore. Here’s a guideline: If someone says something and you think, “oh, yeah! that’s exactly it!” then you take the suggestion. If they say something and you think “uh, well, no, that’s not really the story I was trying to write....” or something similar, you can ignore the feedback. Good feedback will always feel true in the “duh, why didn’t I think of that” way. 

Open up your new draft and, starting at page one, just read the damn thing. Make adjustments to the writing as necessary: 

Correct any misspellings and typos you come across. 

Eliminate weak words and phrases and replace them with stronger ones. 

Add some variation to sentence structure if you notice that it’s become repetitive. 

Eliminate redundancy. Fix your metaphors. Fix your symbolism. Keep your poetic language on-theme. In The Hound, I replaced a ton of random metaphors with dog imagery. It’s subtle, but it lends thematic cohesion. 

Some people use things like Grammarly or Hemmingway App to help with this. I’ve never used them, so I can’t speak to their effectiveness. But if you find that they help, awesome! Use them! 

Here’s a really important point: This step can ONLY come AFTER the rewriting stage. There is no point at all in tweaking sentences and fixing up the language in a story that has no plot. Fix your structural issues FIRST, and be sure they are AIR TIGHT, before you start dicking around with the words. Ok? Ok. (Someone go back in time 15 years and tell this to young me please) 

And now...you are done! 

Spend some time tweaking your elevator pitch and query letter at this point, if necessary. But no matter what, you do not go back into this document and change ANYTHING unless an editor tells you to. The book is DONE. Maybe give it a final proofread before you self-publish it (but honestly, you’re better off hiring someone to do it at that point, you’re going to be too zorched to notice the typos you missed) but otherwise don’t touch it. Don’t think about it. Write the next book. 

And that’s it! That’s my mostly painless revision process! 

Obviously every person is different, your mileage may vary, etc. But I hope this serves as a helpful jumping off point. I am more than happy to answer any questions or provide clarification on things -- just drop me a line :) 

[maiji]

Process and wip images for A House That Holds Long Limbs (Part 2) 

See Part 1 process and wip documentation

Read the pages for part 2 here (full complete version will be linked from YYH North Bound master post) 

As a story progresses, I tend to become more comfortable with jumping ahead and around in my so-called process. This is mainly because the idea of getting deeper into the action is exciting and I want to get to drawing the pages as quickly as possible. The downside is that it usually results in a lot of “oops” and rework on what was supposed to be a final page.

Here you’ll see that script/pagination/thumbnailing and final pages are all starting to drift even more than in Part 1.

The (last version of the) script

Earlier versions were even more point form and incoherent with typos. But, it only needs to capture enough that I can recognize key actions, points of dialogue, the mood, things to draw in the panels, etc. A few specific items to point out:

“[new part 2]”: The script originally had no exposition on rokurokubi - it went straight to Hokushin telling Raizen he was leaving. It occurred to me later, after I’d started thumbnailing, that inserting a few pages of storytelling narrative right here would help to further solidify the kaidan (traditional Japanese ghost story) effect and mood. More importantly, it creates a baseline reference for what the reader will know about rokurokubi for the purposes of this story. I was lucky that Part 1 and Part 2 were cut neatly enough that this wouldn’t be jarring.

I’m still not entirely happy with the text for this section, mainly the “features of note” about rokurokubi. Not just the fact that it’s oversimplification and slight adaptation of actual Japanese folklore - which can’t be avoided unless I want to write a historical essay here. I’m mainly not super keen on how each of the three items has been phrased. It’d be nice to make the three points more parallel in terms of length, but I couldn’t seem to edit, increase the number of points (by splitting them up), or reorder it effectively without negatively impacting other aspects of pacing and information reveal. More points would draw out the pages longer than I wanted, and some points were clearly sub to other points. The final here is the “good enough” version. JUST GET IT DONE ALREADY SO THAT IT CAN GO OUT INTO THE WORLD.

Sooo many word choice changes. The biggest one, done at the last second, was “They are almost always female” to “They are rarely male”. Other phrasings I debated - “They are very rarely male”, “They are almost never male”, etc. Lemme tell ya, it’s easy to get lost in the weeds… Anyways, the main reason for this was because after I drew it and ran the text through my head, the originally-intended juxtaposition of Hokushin on this page with the word “female” felt too subtle. I felt it would create a brief moment of cognitive dissonance that didn’t serve the flow of the story, so I changed it to create emphasis on the same gender instead with the rationale that it will flow more smoothly and allow the reader to focus their attention on the fact “males are very rare” more than the mental hiccup of processing the juxtaposition. DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENSE?? It made sense in my head.

Anyhow, I’m sure there are people who will disagree with many of the decisions I’ve made, but at least you can see what I was trying to do.

Thumbnails

As mentioned, these thumbnails were done BEFORE I decided to insert the exposition at the beginning.

The first two rows on the left hand page are actually the same set of pages - you can see little arrows pointing down or to the right whenever I’m dissatisfied with a thumbnail and attempt to redraw it.

WIPs

I really like how Hokushin turned out in the last panel here; I like the pencils more than the final inked version. It’s also another example of changing text up to the last second. In case it’s hard to make out, it says (along with what happened to them in the final):

First thought bubble: Ugh, whatever… (moved to the next page, seemed to work better as the end exclamation for this sequence of thoughts before he turns his attention to something else)

Over Hokushin’s head: Aaaargh (moved into the thought bubble)

Second thought bubble: He’s not my responsibility anyways! (no change)

First arrow:  *already feeling bad* (no change)

Second arrow:  *too responsible* (dropped, since a previous panel already said “too responsible”. Too redundant)

Next to Hokushin: All he did was tie me up in a tree (no change)

The above panel “And at night...” was a thrilling and scary thing for me lmao.  I don’t usually tackle large patches/fills of black, since many of my comics are scribbly in style (pencils, hatching) or colour. I’m too lazy for screentones, traditional or digital. It’ll be interesting as parts of the story coming up will involve poorly lit/dim/dark spaces. I’ve been reviewing how other artists handle it, particularly those with styles driven by pure-ink or minimalist type approaches. Two immediate examples from Yu Yu Hakusho that I’ve been going back to are the dark room fights during Genkai’s successor trials (I’ve taken a similar approach here), and the haunted bedroom case in volume 19. Hardcore cross-hatching seems like a likely route, but that freaks me out when I have to do it over faces. I’d like to minimize or avoid screentoning out of principle, but I still want to create a clear mood, so we’ll see how it goes...

This was my view while inking this page - holding the book in one hand while inking Hokushin with the other. Using the more freehand, sketchy inking style for this comic was so helpful in terms of reducing my inking anxiety and allowing me to work faster.

It’s always great when you can find a reference for period armor (because I find armor very difficult) that is so close to the pose you’re already drawing. There are some small differences - for example, Hokushin’s head is turned more to the right; his left arm is turned and raised more as he’s pulling the sword upwards. But it’s close enough.

Also, spotlight on a few of the books I’ve referenced over the course of working on North Bound in general and this part specifically.  

Clockwise from top left:

日本服飾史 女性編 and 男性編 (History of clothing/costume in Japan female and male editions). This marvelous set of books highlights Japanese fashion throughout history. I’ve actually been referencing these photos for a long time before I ever picked up these books - you can see them at the Costume Museum’s website here, alongside helpful line drawings and translations of some of the details. But the books allow me to see a lot more detail.

Hokusai manga vol 1 (this book is published as part of a set of 3). Sketches by Hokusai. This one focuses on “The life and manners of the day” and includes drawings of youkai, including rokurokubi, as well. You can check out the drawings online at places like The Pulverer Collection Online Catalogue.

Action references!! Real Action Pose Collection 02 (focuses on sword fights) and my favourite Samurai & Ninja Action Scene Collection. Not used as much in Long Limbs, but was helpful in some of the other chapters. The time frame is really much later than what I need for ideal clothing references, but it’s helpful for things like movement.

Kekkaishi volume 32. SPOILER a key flashback takes place about 500 years ago, which is actually a few centuries off give or take from but at least it’s closer than the Edo period. I’ve been looking at it for houses, some clothing.

Osamu Tezuka’s Phoenix - Civil War parts 1 and 2. I reference this so much while working on North Bound in general. It has scenes with peasants and commoners and some appropriate street and interior environments, not just stuff focused on the aristocracy or warrior classes. Just have to remember that they flipped all the artwork in the English version lol

Bunch of Yu Yu Hakusho manga and anime references from the end of the series, mostly for Raizen, the kudakusushi and just to check against things he or Hokushin said. The actual clothing and environments are not helpful at all lol

Last minute edits

After I posted, I discovered a few mistakes (of course). I used to freak out a lot and drop everything to fix it. Now I just sigh and laugh (and still freak out a little bit, depending on the mistake) and then decide what’s important enough to fix and what is like, “Oh well, whatever, move on with my life”.

I feel that seeing other artists share their frustrations and mistakes helps a lot of people feel better about it when they realize IT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME TO EVERYONE (including professionals. There are errors like this in professionally published series, like Yu Yu Hakusho, too). YOU’RE NOT ALONE. 

So, these ones bugged me enough that I quickly redrew them on the computer.

[stylish-alastor]

Abyssmalsavior/Azurefiend/Demifiend-Hitoshura/Kashima-Naokishin | Crownedclowngirl | Glowingibyss | Loveismysword+  Masterpost [DIAMOND EDITION]

REPOST TIME! Since Tumblr is a piece of shit and made all the links on the original post defunct as soon as I hit Save on it, after I took an exhausting amount of time fixing and re-testing what links I could get to. 

soft edit: Apparently the links in the post are showing up now, strikethroughs and all. ... Yeah, I guess you can just head to the OP and reblog that. I’ll just keep this here.

Cursory reading before I go into this a little further, as some people have covered evidence of this individual’s antics in their respective dealings with her.

[ Amendment note: due to deactivations, archives, url switches, or a combination of these situations, some links have been struck out to show that the post source no longer exists and was not reblogged or preserved in any capacity (my bad!). They will otherwise remain as they are, but with additional links. The links provided are separated from the old links with a || symbol. 

Also, anony.ws got shut down and the Tumblr meta redirect otherwise leads to malware or something, so I advise just... not trusting any anony.ws links at all on this post until I can find the replacements for the images.

The links near the bottom quoting abyssmalsavior and her many antics will not be struck out, however, as they are either direct quotes from her, from people that have dealt with her and their assessment of her behavior, or otherwise describe the intent of the post. ] @terminusvitae​ [ Link 1 ], [ 2 ], [ 3 ], [ 4 ], [ 5 ], [ 6 ] || [ 7 ], [ 8 ], [ 9 ], [ 10 ], [ 11 ], [ 12 ], [ 13 ], [ 14 ], [ 15 ], [ 16 ] @thespellweaver​ [ Link 1 ], [ 2 ], [ 3 ], [ 4 ], [ 5 ] || [ 6 ], [ 7 ], [ 8 ], [ 9 ], [ 10 ]

@temen-ni-gru  [ START HERE ], [ THEN HERE ], [ Link 1 ], [ 2 ], [ 3 ] || [ 4 ], [ 5 ], [ 6 ], [ 7 ], [ 8 ], [ 9 ], [ 10 ], [ 11 ], [ 12 ], [ 13 ], [ 14 ], [ 15 ], [ 16 ], [ 17 ], [ 18 ], [ 19 ], [ 20 ], [ 21 ], [ 22 ], [ 23 ], [ 24 ], [ 25 ]

@indifferenceismyshield literally the entire blog. check it out. They’re doing the Lord’s work.

And there’s even an Encyclopedia Dramatica page about her bullshit back on DeviantArt close to a decade ago, which she never stops bringing up. DeviantArt, I mean, not ED. if there’s anyone else I might’ve missed, feel free to reblog and add your own links. [ Amendment note: screenshots provided through reblogs of this masterpost, recent evidence, and found evidence of her past dealings have been added to the masterpost. preceded by [a1.#] Ctrl+F a1. to scroll down to them. The previous a0.# points have been unbolded. ] Now, you might be wondering (although I’d hope not), “Wow, how can someone be capable of causing this much trouble with multiple people?”  Simple. She’s a moron that thinks she can get away with paper-thin attempts at catfishing. She vainly tries to attempt separating her main three blogs (crownedclowngirl, abyssmalsavior, and glowingibyss) from each other while keeping CCGs sideblogs (of which soravalentine is obviously part of, as well as ninjaprincessyuffie) and GIs sideblogs (GI a.k.a. dark-mistress-shiro and demoniccielaphantomhive) obvious as hell, but somehow it didn’t occur to her that we can tell they’re the same person, primarily because I can see her IP looking at specific posts I make/reblog just before she responds to them or reacts on any of the aforementioned blogs, even though I made a post this morning highlighting it. I reblogged a post originating from her abyssmalsavior account. These are her anons, posing as “Vincent-mun” (a.k.a. gothic-gunman, a glowingibyss sideblog). This is her IP looking at my post after having specifically gone to the inbox. Timestamps, they work like magic. I made my post almost calling her a brain-dead lemur. This is her IP looking at that post. This is her response, on abyssmalsavior, after exiting specifically from my post’s url to her Reblog page. I reblogged posts from crownedclowngirl on Dec 10th as receipts? Oh look, her IP looking at the posts on my blog, then she got upset about it, or something. That happened on the 18 of November too, come to think of it. Oh shit, turns out I searched all those times the same IP visited my blog-- they happen to be the times either crownedclowngirl and abyssmalsavior had something to say to/about me concerning their own bad behavior which I was keeping track of. Oops. Pray tell, how does she try defending her catfishing? Looking through the archive apparently it involves insisting that “tumblr staff confirmed we don’t have matching IPs” even though I-- you know what? Let’s highlight how stupid that is.  First she makes a post getting pissy about my behavior as if she has any right, and there’s some passing mention about how her grandmother just died, as if she ever really gave a fuck about her grandmother, but I’ll get to that in a moment. There’s mention of crownedclowngirl being physically present with her. As in, they live in the same general area and could visit each other at any given moment. Now, considering archives on Tumblr display posts from left to right, most recent to least recent, this means she said crownedclowngirl was physically in the same place she was, then she reblogs a post from CCG saying “tumblr confirmed we don’t have matching IPs” and the response? “Oh I forgot about that”. The stupidity of that statement is pointed out courtesy of @cambixnisms. Abyssmal and CCG then proceeded to have a conversation with each other by posting/reblogging each other about personal things instead of talking to the other person.  It’s not even that subtle, she makes 0 effort to make herself act like different people in different places when she outs herself readily by posting personal information. Crownedclowngirl was downloading an MMO when she resided in Matagorda County (in the Bay City area) with her grandmother. Matagorda “comprises the Bay City, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Houston-The Woodlands, TX Combined Statistical Area.” The IP address listed on many screenshots thus far is Humble, Texas. Humble is “a city in Harris County, Texas, United States, within the Houston metropolitan area.” Assuming that IP address only belonged to Abyssmalsavior, she happened to post about “local news” concerning two day care workers being fired over a transgender student, and the event in question happened in Katy, Texas. Katy is “a city in the U.S. state of Texas, within Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. The city is located in Harris, Fort Bend, and Waller counties.” Humble and Katy have Harris County in common, and there’s another county separating both those cities from Matagorda. This is what their locations would be if highlighted on [a section of] a map of Texas. She didn’t even try hiding that they’re all in Texas, you all can see that. She doesn’t try typing differently. All three main blogs and their established sides make the same typos. “Forum” instead of “form”: on abyssmal: [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] ; on ccg: [ 1 ] [ 2 ] ”Tows” instead of “those” “Ano” instead of “anon”: [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] “Deformation” instead of “defamation”: on abyssmal: [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ]  ; on glowingibyss: [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] ; on crownedclowngirl: [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She’s tried halfway owning up to the typos by calling them “common disability markers” on more than one occasion-- the point being, all “three” of these users have dyslexia, in the same form of it that means they type the same way, somehow. Which is funny, because that means someone was being lied to about a disability they all shared and easily copped to having, or they were just covering up for abyssmal and making excuses, which isn’t that hard to assume. Whether or not she has autism or dyslexia, a) that is not an excuse for shitty behavior, as a 30 year old woman she will be held accountable, and b) there’s still obviously something wrong with her when even an anon points it out. How does she get away with talking to a behavior specialist about someone she knows, discussing confidential information, when they’re not even family? Friend or not, that’s not what people in any remotely medical field do. Add to that, the same opinions and the same expression of those opinions. Somehow both abyssmal and crownedclowngirl felt the need to reblog a post about Rose Quartz (from Steven Universe) and compare people turning white characters into POC and increasing representation of POC in media (racebending) to being exactly as harmful as making an obviously big character skinny and erasing the representation associated with it (fat-shaming), then saying racebending is awful because we get less white people, and reacting nastily when someone replies to that.  CCG and GI are both half-Irish and heavily concerned with representation of the Irish in media (especially Disney) and how bad they have it in terms of stereotyping and racism-- really? What are the chances? Calling someone a butt-hurt diva and a bitch? That sounds awfully familiar... Let me get this out of the way, what are the chances both CCG and AS had grandmothers whom were very ill and required frequent/overnight hospital stays and visits, and that AS would start mentioning hers around the same time CCG stopped mentioning hers? Not that abyssmal really cared, seeing as how her first priority when mentioning that her grandmother is dying is “don’t shit talk me” not “I hope she passes on painlessly” or something. Using your grandma as a shield from criticism is bad form no matter how you slice it. Now that we’ve established they’re all the same person, what exactly is she guilty of? Let’s start with literally everything. [a0.1] first and foremost, suicide baiting attempts against both timcxnpy and knifeofshinra. The post warning the fandom against abyssmalsavior is here, and the claim was corroborated by kos through abuse-archives.  “I’m not sorry I just told you your friend isn’t suicidal she’s just a bitch” mistreatment of CSA survivors as told by the anti-anti-wincest blog [a0.2] the mistreatment in more detail: telling survivors of child sexual abuse how to use the term and what to call themselves; “dickhead dumbass sjw”; ”worthless piece of garbage”; defending their calling a rape victim a slut; “no survivor would demean themselves unless they felt they were guilty”; “you aren’t a hater are you? because if you are I was waiting for someone to SINK my claws into tonight ill be happy to rip you a new hole"; “CSA survivor is not a thing and will never BE a thing!”; “CSA IS NOT AN ANAGRAM FOR CHILD SEX ABUSE!!!!!!!!!!!” ; “CSA as Child sex assault IS NOT A FUCKING THING AND WILL NEVER BE A FUCKING THING GET OVER IT”; as told by glimmeringgoldenearl-- “you condone pedophila, abuse, bad bdsm, and other things”; as told by countess-claudia-phantomhive-- “seriously assuming that everyone on here that says they are victims of Child Sex Abuse is faking it”; as told by shironais-- “you not only support pedophilia, but you also feel the need to insult people who want to share their thoughts with yours”; as told by beauty-trainer-molly-- “You refuse to tag your gross sebaciel and when people ask you nicely you become this bellowing ass hat who insults them and refuses”. “No one of value wants to hear your bullshit” (note: cedfiaisabadship has an faq that explains why that’s a bad ship, as well as the role of pro-pedophilic fiction in grooming children for sexual abuse, and if it wasn’t obvious enough, fiction affects reality.) [!!!] ”TRASHIEST BULLSHIT ENTITLEMENT PIECE OF GARBAGE EVER” [!!!] wtf are nasty grams [!!!] ”whore cam”???  [!!!] false accusations against thespellweaver [a0.3] more false accusations, note that this post was made after she mass-deleted her posts on abyssmalsavior to hide evidence of her wrongdoing.  [a1.1] hopping on an alt blog, fallen-nobility, to tell user tayvents that “YOUR AN ASSHOLE GO TO HELL”, and continuing to tell them to go to hell over a ship. [a1.2] "the wikia is fucked up and your an asshole [...] she owned your ass admit it and move the fuck on! [...] GO CHEW ON YOUR FUCKED UP CRAP YOU MORON” [a0.4] admitting that they would set up a new blog [zoomed in version] separate from abyssmalsavior. proceeds to create the azurefiend blog with the same character, same theme, same writing style, and proceeds to send message as azurefiend, quickly outing herself as abyssmal. [a1.3] created neitherdevilnorman, and also outs herself as abyssmal on ‘norman’ by having the same opinion on ‘statcounter is spyware’/ ‘works completely on spyware’ / ’it’s a Trojan’, and claiming to have blocked blogs that have never spoken to that specific person, as well as having ‘knowledge’ (I use this term loosely) of the drama between temen-ni-gru and abyssmalsavior. tayvents counters the ‘statcounter is spyware’ lie [ here ], [ here ], and [ here ]. The last link is in reply to an anon that calls thespellweaver and stylish-alastor ‘full of shit’. sent herself anons on neitherdevilnorman calling thespellweaver a ‘drama ho’. [a1.4] created the loveismysword blog and pretends to be an anti-hate ‘zen’ blog, only to defend her alt accounts and excuse their gross, homophobic behavior. admits their bias in the following post. outs herself as abyssmal and other alts by continuing to insist that statcounter is a spyware program with no proof, and uses “ghetto” as an insult and defends such word usage by claiming “words have more than one meaning”. also creates the ‘loveismyswordblockedthembecause’ blog to spread more misinformation and lies about the blogs she’s been blocking. callout post by thespellweaver concerning that, and another from thespellweaver countering the claim that ‘statcounter is spyware’. additional counters from putesco, ventus-ven-for-short, and roxas-number-thirteen. [a1.5] created kashima-naokishin, and outed herself as abyssmal using common misspellings found in other alt blogs, as well as carrying drama between mvpsatan and thespellweaver, using SJW as a pejorative term, insisting on “settling timeline issues” concerning DMC and SMT: Nocturne in exactly the same way as all other Naoki blogs in recent time, and again throwing a baseless accusation that “[statcounter] asks for information it’s not supposed to have”. committing this grievous crime against language (also, “my IQ is borderline genius”? lmao that’s 2nd grader “Broly’s power is maximum” levels of bullshit) “excuse you and go to hell” (but “I HAVE NEVER disrespected anyone”??? lol) “private conversations need to remain private”, proceeds to slam someone in public for defending Chaos-mun and claiming “I DON’T OWE YOU JACK SHIT” [a1.6] misgenders Chaos-mun yet again, lies about it by making up conversations, and brings up “old dead drama” by reblogging a post made a month ago harassment of minors and other people flipping shit when someone tells her to respect others and show proper etiquette shitting on SoraKairi shippers (or at least people who are sick of shipping-related Kairi hate) "I owe you nothing more or less than an ass kicking right now” [a0.5] “I confessed that I wanted to shoot one really dirty whore bitch back then [...]  when the universe deals with this bitch its gonna be a fate worse than death and something more evil than I could imagine and I want to see that more than i want to shoot her in her fucking face” [a0.6] “Im gonna indulge because you deserve nothing but the worst spite hatred and vile claws ripping down your back you vain little slut”; [!!!] “WHORE BITCH IS LUCKY I DON’T KNOW WHERE SHE LIVES BECAUSE I’M IN A MOOD TO REND THE FLESH FORM HER BODY FOR THIS THAT’S HOW FUCKING PISSED I AM.[...] maybe the universe will appease me more than physically torturing a little cyberbully dike if I choose to ignore my murderous intentions.” [a0.7] “she is a LYING WHORE who I will see banned for harassing me” [a1.7] for irony, these are her anons harassing people to circumvent them blocking her. on stylish-alastor: [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and one added instance of her blog-camping. [a0.8] complaining about mutual only role players  co-opting someone else’s roleplay confession post to victimize herself fatshaming. apparently fanart portraying a character as fat is an insult to people who lose weight. it slaughters a character’s development. but then she can’t decide whether to do that or skinny-shame by calling thin women “twigs” and “stick figures” “people need to stop saying I can’t handle rejection” but the rules on her Yuffie blog give the exact impression that can’t handle rejection or being told ‘no’ wanting demonic ciel to be ageless like Sebastian to "fuck[ing] with every ship hater ever by making shota art on one hand and adult porn videos on the other”, which, well, if she didn’t sound like a pedophile before, she does with that one. [a1.8] using ‘loveismysword’ to continue attacking tayvents over tay’s refusal to do a pedophilic ship. their post addresses tay as “upset user” and paints her as abusive, tay’s counterpost here proves no abusive behavior came from her. Also sent a message to tayvents, “We are not sorry we do not see justification for your actions”, and kept insisting that she was hostile. capslock raging at someone calling Grell trans, later tries to defend it on abyssmal by saying “hackers did it” [a0.9] “GREL isn’t CIS HES GAY YOU PRICK”; “I WILL RUIN YOU BITCH! [...] I RUIN YOU with NO MERCY and NO REGRETS!”; “GO TO HELL I am sick and fucking tired of this crap like I'm gonna listen to a loser prick like you”  in general just being a massive (inexcusably so) knob-end and not even in a remotely satisfying way [a1.9] pretends to be sole arbiter of what constitutes having a panic attack. accuses a user of having faked it -- “that user is not showing aftereffects of a panic attack at all”--  just because they might have been on an alternate blog during said attack, when it’s likely used as a coping method. called out courtesy of an anon here. to compare: lord-kuran, a known alt, called said user a “greedy bitch” and also accused them of lying about their attack.

Signal boost, and if there is anything more to add, please do so in the reblogs. Hopefully this post won’t need more amendments, but I won’t hold my breath.