#im sorry if this post makes anyone upset

[jupiters-ringss]

I'd like to remind everyone of a couple things that I was very, very painfully reminded of today.

people who work at the store are people too.

if you would like some help with something, please ask politely. do not just gesture and act like we are animals you can call over by snapping.

put carts back where they belong, not in random places in the parking lot.

do not walk in the middle of the parking lot when the sidewalk is right next to you.

don't say "lemme give you something to do" to someone, it's likely that a. they're actually already doing something and are either waiting for someone / something, or taking a break from doing something.

please don't leave big trash in your carts if you can help it.

please be patient with your cashier, chances are they might be new, or don't have the clearance to do what you'd want them to do. they're there to help you, don't be rude to them. please. most of the time, they're doing their best, I promise. that's not to say don't ask if you need something, just please be kind.

people have to live in tourist towns too.

please, please drive safely. especially in small towns.

is this gonna make people upset? sure. but the biggest message is please, please don't be rude to customer service people. especially with how difficult this summer has been heat and tourist season wise. most small town places are very, very understaffed and are doing their best.

[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.

[oceanwithouthermoon]

ive been unhealthily fixated on kubosai for the past few weeks, i just have no idea how to put it into words. kuboyasu aren and saiki kusuo are in love btw

[bunnihearted]

i cant fully control my emotions during a breakdown and then i come out of it and im like oh fuck........ ._.

[numberoneanika]

Honestly the roleplay blogs are stronger than I am because if I saw a post where people were saying my blog was annoying and calling me corny I would jump in a large pit and rot away

[eye-of-yelough]

OH. okay

[hella1975]

my mum: you've always absorbed every feeling around you. you feel everything you feel and everything everyone else feels all at once and i worry that it'll drag you under and convince you that life is meaningless and you cant save anyone and-

me: makes me a good writer tho lol

my mum, eye twitching: i mean yeah but

[99naive]

im doing a tiny bit better today but tbh im still lowkey struggling upstairs today so i apologize if im a bit more quiet today . . .

[moonlit-orchid]

good evening to everyone except a certain few fucking anons

[indigodawns]

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[toastsnaffler]

tried going to bed early bc ive just been sitting staring at the wall or my phone all afternoon but it's been 3 hours now and I can't stop crying. :(

[t4tpumpkinduo]

man.

[risingsunresistance]

ugh

[silverstarfics]

“They're nice. And I..." He hesitated. "All my friends are dead, aren't they? Other than Conrad. Everyone we knew is gone. Including Brandon."

HOW COULD YOU BREAK ME LIKE THIS

*evil laugher*

I mean uhhh oh nooo I’m sorryyy

(It’s all part of my secret plan to launch my own tissue company eventually)

[gouacheshipping]

GouAche ship name P.S.A

THE NAME "GOUACHESHIPPING" (WHICH I CAME UP WITH BEFORE JOURNEYS BEGAN BECAUSE I NEEDED A SHIP TAG & BECAUSE IT WAS A PUN ON THEIR NAMES) IS NOT AND WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE USED BY ANYONE WHO BASHES FELLOW ASH-SHIPPERS (AMOUR, PALLET, NEGAI, ETC.)

[alchemiclee]

WHY ARE WORDS HARD.

anyone else always at war with words and never gets along with them? because they refuse to say what you want them to say? and people always interpet words differently than you? 😅