#i am still sort of iffy on it but im told that thats how you make friendships more friendshipy sk

[halfdeadwallfly]

hahahahhahha guess what. i asked my friends if they wanna hang out w me:))) fr fr fr fr

[flecks-of-stardust]

Okay sorry im sendi g an ask but the character limit worries me so im doin this here! Trigger and squicks list for bugsnax is as follows:

-alcohol-esque drinks are mentioned and consumed several times

-unnatural changes to bodyparts occur

-this is more a squick but theres a fair bit of romance, idk im aro and you have the flag so idk how much it bugs you but theres three relatively healthy relationships (two are queer if that means anything) and then one thats sorta uncomfortable and iffy

-bullying of other characters (just in case)

-paranoia, theres a character who is very paranoid and afraid and he discusses these things with the player, if you have problems with intrusive thoughts or fear that someone is watching you, this could trigger that

-theres some yelling, notably from a man in the game which may bug some people. Its not super serious and hes got a goofy accent but be warned

-a woman also yells at you in a gruff voice and hits stuff early in the game, though she doesnt appear again, just in case

-there is cannibalism in this game, though not depicted on screen it is mentioned snd the effects of it can be seen

-unsanitary warning, i think thia is minor but im trying to be comprehensive, the characters can sometimes be seen running to the bathroom in game and there is a sidequest where you collect someones poop, not explicit and its all in like a little bag and everything but still a bit icky, and your character is implied to have thrown up at one point, though not shown.

-theres lots of mention of death as a whole and lots of remonders of it. If death scares you, or existential questions and that sorta thing bug you, theres a character that can be found whos sidequest really ventures into that and it could be rough

-sort of melancholy ending no matter what

Overall the game is definitely aimed at kids, but there is darker stuff and its pretty prominent. Sorry for being thorough about this, but im thoroughly hyperfixated on this game and also want more people to enjoy it while being safe!! I hope you do get into it and enjoy it, and even if you dont drop 20 bucks on it, theres a couple people who have streamed playthroughs. Theres also a free dlc coming out in a bit so if that sweetens the deal then go wild.

Sorry to bug you! Have a nice day!!

OH also a couple minor sexual innuendos!

no no this is great, thank you so much!! i really appreciate it! and this is really helpful tbh. im very grateful you thought to mention the unsanitary stuff, because i have fairly severe emetophobia and info like that is really useful to me. i also appreciate you warning me about the romance; for the record, i Am romance-averse to an extent, but unless the romance is front and center itll probably be okay.

it sounds like it might be the paranoid character who might pose the biggest problem, tbh, cause fuckin same. my paranoia is wild and that's the biggest reason im worried about playing any games heavy in psych horror, though cartoony graphics and silly themes help cushion it (and ive been told bugsnax is heavy on the silly). im willing to try it, at the very least!

im still guilty about never finishing one shot but holy hell that game Fucks with me hard, with how meta it is and how anxiety inducing it is to quit out of the game. maybe ill watch a playthrough of that at some point,,

[thevalleyoftriumph]

someone asked Duckie this but I personally would like a second opinion from someone whos equally into the fandom as they are. Is ponythe-ytgem a bad person?

im gonna answer this similarly to duckie [also duckie if u see this hi bro hope ur havin a nice day] and also under a cut cos i can ramble a lot

while the term “bad person” is a suggective term that can have very different meanings depending on who you ask, im just going to assume you mean “just a generaly dislikable person for any reason in particular” as most often do

tl:dr, i dont think shes a bad person, per say, and am cutting her a lot of slack due to being young, but i do think she should express her opinions differently and should also get new friends because wow that crowd is so toxic i need a hazmat suit to get close to it.

ok onto the longer portion.

hold on im cold lemme get a blanket

ok there we go back on topic

i dont really know much abt her aside from what i saw from an incident a while back, plus some other things i saw floating around my dash via word of mouth and some longass game of telephone with my own occasional check at her blog. her most major thing seems to have been some encounter with kiingcorrobo [i genuinely cant remember how the blog is spelled so im sorry :pensive:] and her thing abt seamoon. lets talk about seamoon first, then well talk abt the other stuff.

anyway while im personally a little more biased to dislike her [she did apologize for what she did however so ill try not to let this cloud my judgement overall] and because shes a minor like i am [and if i remember correctly around my age? maybe older but im unsure and i dont feel like goin to her blog rn] im not going to be as harsh as i usually would be when dealing with just some random person on the internet whos an adult. because children wouldnt know better either way.

anyway i do personally believe that her opinions abt seamoon are valid but she could possibly go a better way about it.

her whole issue with seamoon is. fine. i get it, you dislike a ship due to personal reasons, you dont owe anyone an explanation aside from “i just dont like it” and as long as youre not a dick over it, i dont see the issue.

i do think she could go about it differently [she once said there was no proof? i think? dont quote me on that my memory is bad] and that it could just be “ohh a best friend stare” despite how heavily its hinted at [i remember that one a lot better cos it got me a little miffed ngl] and like. ok. fine. just acknowledge that its very strongly hinted at and then go on your way, you dont need to insist its not real.

HOWEVER. 

i have repeatedly seen people get angry and violent with her over this. yes, she definately could have gone about expressing her opinions better. yes, she shouldnt disreguard any sort of wlw rep or coding because she doesnt like it for whatever reason. ill admit that much.

but that does not, ever, at all, make it okay for people to have treated her, a CHILD, presumably, the way they have.

people are entitled to their own opinions as long as it isnt harming anyone! and if someones opinions seem a little off, you dont immediately attack them, especially if theyre someone thats young and probably dont know the full extent of what theyre thinking. you tell them what theyre doing and why its wrong or just iffy in general, and help them grow from that. we are human, humans naturally grow to better themselves when given the chance, and if theyre never given a chance to grow from the past, then they cant ever grow up. if you want her to grow up, then give her a fucking chance. 

now. lets talk abt the kiingcorobo thing.

from what i know; someone told kiingcorobo that she supported whitewashing and was homophobic, i believe.

now, im not a person of color so i am not really inclined to talk abt whitewashing, all i can say is that its terrible and fuck anyone who does it, like honestly if you whitewash u have. no rights.

so i cant talk abt this topic much aside from; whitewashing is terrible, dont do it, but i personally have no idea when she [pony] mentioned it at all and honestly im not too willing to go searching thru her blog fo hm. actually no im pretty hung up on this brb

ok no she hasnt mentioned it as far as i can tell. so im unsure on those claims and im more inclined to give her the benefit of the doubt, being a minor and all, and while minors are not autmoatically excused from doin bad shit that just means they still have a chance to better grow from that, so. yea.

anyway onto the topic im actually able to talk abt. the homophobic comment.

lgbt people can be homophobic! wow! doesnt matter if its internalized or youre just genuinely an asshole, lgbt ppl can in fact be homophobic. bi/pan ppl, gay ppl, trans ppl, no one group of the community is completely pure from that. thats just a fact.

however, due to the issues shes had in the past with the seamoon thing, i do think ppl are just taking that as her one defining personality trait. theyre probably seeing that n twisting it wayyy outta proportion.

thats my general thoughts on her and wow this is way longer than i had originally hoped and this reads more as an analysis of her as a person rather than my general thoughts but. eh what can you do.

oh but i do think she could get better friends lmao, shes in such a toxic crowd and for someone so young i feel genuinely so bad for her. 

[caepaecaesurae]

Caefora Internal Dialogue #6

> Caefora: Accidentally talk about how much you don’t want to talk about your triggers with Dee, where Dee can see.  Daydream about punching yourself in the face.  Daydream about Nadaya punching you in the face.  Somehow arrange visit with Nadaya instead.  Profit???

sugary-empress >Way to go, genius! It's definitely the Cae side that was posting that nonsense and not thinking it through, the Condy side is too smart and also not impulsive at all. What do you do now, about the vent thing? caepaecaesurae > It was definitely the Condy side doing that, they both had access to Cae's imaginary computer, and they were one person anyway there's no way to get rid of the guilt here! sugary-empress Sure, they're one person, but the dumb stuff Isn't Condy. caepaecaesurae > ... ... It wvould be awvkwvard to delete it all suddenly, or change the password, and this is probably a better way for Dee to find out than actually talking to him about it INTENTIONALLY?  Like, it has the concerns about not murdering arlequin right there, and.. > Who cares who the dumb stuff is! > The dumb stuff doesn't exist, that was two minutes ago. sugary-empress >Good point! >Yeah, this is fine, actually. In fact, Condy totally meant for this to happen. It's a good thing she's here, pushing Cae into telling people about stuff so he can grow as a person. caepaecaesurae > ... You wonder if you should punch yourself in the face and take a picture, there'd be some marketshare for that, you're pretty sure. sugary-empress >That sounds painful, but also funny and potentially useful for friendship points. caepaecaesurae Who doesn't like a little pain as long as they are 100% completely in control? caepaecaesurae > ...you wish /Nadaya/ would punch you in the face. sugary-empress >Hot. You could probably make it happen. caepaecaesurae > So hot.  Would it be weird?  Would it be not okay? sugary-empress >It would be moderately weird but definitely okay. caepaecaesurae > Maybe you could broach the idea on the vent blog ??  But then, what if he shot the idea down sugary-empress >There is literally Nothing worse than rejection and being told no. You'll just need to be super attractive so he won't say no. Step one, complete! caepaecaesurae > Okay, but that doesn't alwvays wvork!  There's so many other steps. > You're Caefora right nowv, and as nice as he's being, he still sounded sort of iffy about that. > Unlike Arlequin and Ringleader who are perfect and amazing. sugary-empress >Uggggh. But you hate him and want to be punched in the face and maybe make out a little! This is so unfair. caepaecaesurae "so i'm t)(inking of punching myself in the face, on a scale of 1 to 10 howv likely is it that you wvould wvant to supervwise or )(elp" > and then don't be disappointed if the answer is between 0 and -10.  That's just a no, that's not like, OFFENSIVELY no, that's just how nadaya is!  -11 or worse is definitely personal though. sugary-empress >Add a winky face! >... Actually, don't do that, that's dumb. >You'll be Disappointed no matter what, if he says no! Nobody gets to say no to you. caepaecaesurae > Consent is Important. sugary-empress >Sure, sure. caepaecaesurae > Consent is Important, otherwise we're going to think about bad things for a minute. > You can't fool yourself, you want to be 100% on this one. sugary-empress >FINE, ugh! It's not like Cae's the only one with horrible things that happened when you didn't want them to happen! It's just, you LIKE Nadaya. Not in that way. But kind of in that way. And you don't WANT him to say no. >But you've got feelings now anyways, doing stuff people don't want you to just makes you feel bad. Like with Sal, and that whole kidnapping thing. caepaecaesurae > Those memories are just as valid for making the point as Cae's are.  Part of being better is knowing how to lie to and manipulate your/self/, until you act and think the way you want to be. sugary-empress >But that sounds hard... caepaecaesurae > ..do you still actually want to post that thing to see if Nadaya will come over?  Maybe he'd cuddle. sugary-empress >Yeah!!! caepaecaesurae > well... is it harder than having to struggle with the feelings that the self-lies solve? sugary-empress >... Maybe not. caepaecaesurae > oh no dee replied.  http://pleasegoawway.tumblr.com/post/158153481845/decreasinglycreativwe-actualmolotovcocktail > ..Removing the reply isn't important really, it's off the dashboard so it's totally dead to you now.  You just can't... reply to it. sugary-empress >So tell them that! caepaecaesurae > ...You reflexively want to almost explain what happened, but it feels weird and you don't know how or want to think about it. sugary-empress >You should explain! caepaecaesurae > af,,,ter you're split? sugary-empress >Will you actually have the globes to say anything after? caepaecaesurae > .. Something, yes, everything in complete detail, No. caepaecaesurae > What if we explain to dee how great sugary is instead caepaecaesurae http://pleasegoawway.tumblr.com/post/158153876910/decreasinglycreativwe-its-off-the-dasboard-it sugary-empress >That's always something you should do. Sugary is great. caepaecaesurae > What dee said is a /little/ hurtful, but also they definitely know it's been a while and you might be able to get through to them! sugary-empress >Exactly! When they left you really were pretty bad. Maybe they'll understand? caepaecaesurae > You think you downplayed things Just enough for it to sound like a believable neutral analysis from Cae, instead of a self-analysis from Tyfora... caepaecaesurae > http://actualmolotovcocktail.tumblr.com/post/158154523697/decreasinglycreativwe-on-the-one-hand-yes-but > !!!!  He said sure?? To, holding the camera at least maybe you aren't sure > Or talking you out of it > But.  Arguing?? Physical presence.  That's nice! caepaecaesurae "Oh trust me, wve knowv.  Don't wvorry about that part." > ..what to say for the rest of it??  Help, rest of brain! sugary-empress >Uh, that Condy's as trustworthy as she is beautiful, so it's fine that she knows? Alternatively, that you've got mutually assured destruction when it comes to secrets now, so as long as she's helping, why not include her? caepaecaesurae > Condy knowing is definitely handled, but //Nadaya basically said yes to something and you aren't sure what// sugary-empress >Oh, that. It's fine, it'll be okay no matter what. Alternatively ASK FOR CLARIFICATION, YOU DUMB TOOL, THIS ISN'T HARD. caepaecaesurae > But you lose so many cool points and people think you're stupid fi you ask for clarification as often as Caesurae would need to!! sugary-empress "Sure you'll hold t)(e camera or sure you're talking us out of it or?" >Cae, everyone knows you're not stupid. caepaecaesurae > Cae /acts/ not stupid... > ..and he's brilliant in, some ways. caepaecaesurae > ..god, the entire cae side of this is a disaster and Condy is /carrying them/. > ... Oh hey, if you combine their names into Caendy that's actually super appropo. sugary-empress >Caendy is so good... It even makes up for you not Winning as fare as number of letters. >Anyways, Cae acts not stupid convincingly enough that asking for clarification ONE TIME isn't going to make NADAYA, the lowblood with an inferiority complex, think Cae is dumb! caepaecaesurae > I mean.. Okay. > .. Also the C is shared, so it's more like 3 letters vs 4 letters, so she still wins! sugary-empress >Good point. >Man, of all the people on Tumblr to be deeply, needlessly insecure, you wouldn't have pegged Cae. Everyone likes him and he's fun to talk to so??? caepaecaesurae > The positive regard makes that half of Caefora feel better.  He's //normally// fine, it's just right after being attacked that he gets insecure and unsafe. sugary-empress >Oh, well that's relatable. That's fine then, so long as he knows he's great!!! caepaecaesurae > .. He can be great.  Caefora has this inner fire and drive to defend themselves that the Caesurae part is going to remember, and strive to match. <Nad> #i dunno! guess ill find out caepaecaesurae > !!! > /!!!/ sugary-empress >Nice! 38D caepaecaesurae > He might not hate Caefora the wrong waaaaaayyyy > This self confidence shit is amazing, he needs to get On This. caepaecaesurae > ..Maybe you shouldn't publicly admit where you are where sparks can see, so you'lll take this thing with nadaya into IM's... sugary-empress >Ooh, shit, good call. caepaecaesurae > ...alllso.  ..Also.  Maybe, not suggesting either Sugary's ship, or the Crimson Emperor's hive.  Those are not places Nadaya would go. > ..But that one Meenah's empty hive she offered? sugary-empress >Another good call! Damn, you're brilliant. caepaecaesurae > Practice makes perfect... "I'd be game to meet anywvhere you thought wvas a good idea -- I'm currently staying in some of Tyfora's safe places, but someone in Cae's clade offered a safehivwe that's sort of sitting empty and being a backup rn in case w)(ere I am stops being okay for me" ? caepaecaesurae > ...doing it caepaecaesurae trolljacksparrow: can i showw up at tyfora's safe place? its vval, right caepaecaesurae: yeah.  Are you okay wvith him?  I mean, crimson and evwerything, and I didn't wvant to trolljacksparrow: yeah, he's chill hey hey its fine caepaecaesurae: You're amazing. sugary-empress >This is why you love him! Also, further proof Val is amazing, if even Nads likes him. caepaecaesurae > Everyone is so good... caepaecaesurae > ...The cae half is quickly getting overwhelmed, there's just nothing there but affection.  Nadaya is the opposite of so many things Cae values, but /is a good man regardless/.  Why does he make these choices.  Why is he so good. CC: You're amazing. NAD: thats pretty gay NAD: coords? CC: > Coords! sugary-empress >Nadaya is the best terrible man.