#like I really appreciate people trying to be positive

[shadamyheadcanons]

Hey, it's been a while! Hope you're doing all right! Anyways, I'm curious: have you ever gotten hate from Sonamy shippers or anyone who ships other pairings involving Shadow or Amy? I've never gotten hate for shipping Sonouge, though I wonder if it's because 1. the Sonic fandom has been more respectful of different pairings lately, or 2. It's only a matter of time.

Hey! I’ve hardly faced any ship hate, at least on tumblr. I had one run-in from 2022, but that’s it. The only thing sonamy fans have sent me is positivity, like yesterday’s ask. Just friendly multishipping. I think that’s because tumblr lets you tailor your own experience so much; you can blacklist tags and content and unfollow/block whoever you want, and in my experience, people you follow will add tags to their posts if you ask. It’s not a site with an algorithm that forces topics you don’t like. Users have control.

Side note: if anyone wants me to tag something differently, feel free to DM me or send an ask, anonymous or not. I don’t mind one bit!

Tumblr’s structure and culture of “block and keep scrolling” is something I really appreciate. AO3 has it down to a science, too. The only people who are here are those who want to be here. Whenever I do see shadamy hate, it’s on sites like youtube or twitter from people who haven’t figured out where the back button on their browser is.

I think sonouge is pretty safe. I’ve never gotten hate for shipping it, either, just a few comments like, “huh, I never thought of that. Makes sense.” It doesn’t pop up often enough in the wild to aggravate anyone who doesn’t like it, not the way shadamy does, heh. I don’t think shadamy fans are pushy, exactly, but we’re...present. Whenever Shadow and Amy have a “moment,” like Shadow only checking on Amy in Dream Team, you’ll see shippy comments about it.

I also wonder if specialty blogs like ours avoid the worst of it because we’re “too far gone” to them. If you’re trying to rid the world of shadamy and sonouge, you wouldn’t start with shadamyheadcanons and sonougeheadcanons, would you? We’re a lost cause.

A large chunk of the fandom is done with petty ship hate, but Sonic’s getting new fans every day with different ships and different ideas. My advice to anyone: find a nice community to stick to and block anyone who gives you trouble.

[vonbabbitt]

Hi Von! Dropping in to say that you are absolutely incredible.

I could never imagine how hard it is to do a project of this scale basically completely yourself, save for the voice actors and people who help with editing. It takes a level of dedication, responsibility, and patience that many people do not have. Whenever I mention Tetro to my friends (which happens quite a lot), the moment I mention you and go on a spiel of everything you do, they're all stunned.

What I'm getting at is that you're so talented, strong, and just an all-around powerhouse. Tetro is such an amazing and interesting series, and I commend you for being able to finish it and start a second season. Not only me, but the entire community. The fact that you and your staff get treated with disrespect is so shocking to me. It has not only some of the best voice acting I've seen in a while, but also some of the best writing and representation of disabilities I've seen. You and your staff deserve as much love and appreciation as physically possible from the community that follows you. I do hope that the good outweighs the bad, because you already work so hard that the added stress of fans who harass you is something I don't even want to imagine. You also deserve as much rest as possible.

You don't have to answer this ask. Ever. But please let this serve as a reminder that the community appreciates everything you do for them. It's okay to take as many breaks as you need. You're an incredible writer, artist, voice actor, director and creator.

I wish you the absolute best going forward, and I hope you have a good rest of your day.

thank you very very much anon its really reassuring to hear

the positive response to tetro definitely outweighs the negative, which is something im definitely trying to get better with accepting instead of focusing way too hard on one or two people who arent enjoying it. im also learning to accept that just because someone doesnt like something doesnt mean that something is BAD, regardless of whether or not they say it is. just because people dont like my writing doesnt mean my writing is bad (not that it would matter if it was bad either way, as im only doing this for fun!)

im really really grateful for the level of support people have shown me and going forward into the new year im going to try and be better with letting criticism roll off my back - this is my passion project and at the end of the day, my opinion on it is the only one that matters. im the only person who knows my intentions in every line, im the only person who poured myself into writing it, im the only person who has any sort of obligation to tetro. if others like it, im glad! but its not the end of the world if they dont

thank you for the kind ask anon!

[domm1etae]

🌟 Hello, my dear readers 🌟

This isn’t my usual type of post, but today I’m reaching out because I really need your help. Life took a serious downturn yesterday, and I’m struggling—mentally, emotionally, and mainly financially. I never thought I’d be in a position to write something like this, but I’m out of options.

As a student, it’s incredibly hard for me to come up with the money I urgently need right now. I’ve been trying everything—selling my belongings, looking for extra work—but it’s just not enough. That’s why I’m turning to you.

If you enjoy my writing and want to support me, it would mean the world if you could donate even a small amount through my Ko-fi. Whether it’s 1 euro or 5 euros, every little bit counts, and I can’t tell you how much I’d appreciate it.

If you can’t donate, simply reblogging this post or sharing it with your mutuals would also help so much! The more people who see this, the better my chances of getting through this tough time.

I wish I could share more details about my situation, bcs i knowyou don't probably want to send money to some random person online, but right now, I’m not ready to talk about it—not even with my closest friends. Thank you for understanding and for being here. Your kindness and support mean everything to me 💕

Yours truly,

dommietae

[welcome-to-green-hills]

Hi Mystery! A question popped up in a discord server I'm in, and I figured I'd try asking you: A lotta fandoms have a “you really had to be there” moment. Like a point in the franchise's life that can never be replicated. Are there any moments like that you know about in Sonic?

Hey Darlin’❤️✨

Woof! This is really gonna show my age (I’ve been a fan for 21 years. I’m 25yrs for a few more days before my birthday) with this ask. I’ll do one negative and one positive.

For the negative, it had to be the Sonic Boom reveal. This was when I first tried to engage with the Sonic fandom online (both Tumblr and Twitter). I remember this being a complete shit show. Like… people leaving the fandom and engaging in fights with one another over the designs.

For the positive, it was Sonic Colors. It was hyped up for a while since it was new. Then it was made fun of for the jokes and the very, very high pitched voice acting of Roger. I think it calmed down after Lost World came out and people started liking it. “Like.” Not “love.” I was 11yrs old when Sonic Colors came out.

I can time jump here and there with this answer, right? I hope so. 👉🥹👈

I remember when Sonic Unleashed was announced. There was still some hype and question for Unleashed. And it was the same criticisms that you have today: the day stages are fun, the night stages are tedious. I think that fans are kinder to it now. That was the game that I BEGGED my mom to have when it was announced in 2007. I didn’t get it until a few years later and drowned myself in that game. It’s my favorite!

There was also Sonic Forces. That went over like a fart in church for the fandom. Such a shame, too. I can appreciate the concept and the goal that it was trying to accomplish immensely. I think that it could have been a great game if it sat on the back burner a bit more.

The 2019 Sonic 1 trailer before the redesign…

I’m sure that there’s more that I’m not thinking of, but these were the ones that instantly popped into my head. If I think of more I’ll reblog😊

[verdantachillean]

Feeling negatively that’s ok, but when they start talking negatively about other things and ways people are trying to help and cheer em up ANGERS ME,

So when I was like 12 y/o I would like respond with over positivity to the people that person is talking negatively to

“THANK YOU VERY MUCH, X, I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU GOING TO THE MINI GOLF COURSE WITH US :D”

But now that super positivity is incorporated into the way I speak and people think I’m sarcastic 😭

hate it when that one person decides to be in a bad mood and suddenly everyone else has to be miserable too

[dykedvonte]

I think it’s so ironic that the Pony Express escapes a lot if not all blame in discussion. I can’t even say I am excused from it but it’s just how hard people circle back to the characters alone without considering the environment they were made to be in.

Why would they design a ship where only two of the rooms lock? Not the bathroom? Not the sleeping quarters? We assume that all the companies in the universe are this shallow and careless to their workers but we explicitly know the Pony Express in extra vile. They are fed processed slop pack they can’t even really cook and the ration of those pack is meager at best. They hired and made people with a plethora of conflicting demeanors and beliefs work together on a mission where cohesion is important if not an outright necessity and punish them for not being happy about it. There’s no social protocols, not chain of command other than Captain’s word/choice and the only way to enforce that is with a literal firearm. They don’t allow them to celebrate freely and even took away leisure activities that would make them less stir crazy. They are only allowed a few hours of sleep despite their being no other real responsibilities or work on the ship, no matter the position or its importance. With any crew, with any level of synergy, this was a powder keg waiting for a spark.

I’m not saying characters that made mistakes didn’t make huge ones, but I think part of the horror is that at least for some (this is targeting Jimathan) those mistakes are partly made by a force of the hand. There’s a running theme of lack of choice and being forced into something and the very nature of how The Pony Express expected them to function plays a big part.

[uncanny-tranny]

"haha, are you an art gay, a science gay, or a math gay"

Actually, I find the division between art, science, and math to be a very nebulous idea and useless when you actually interact with the universe. The more you learn about the world, the more you surround yourself with art and science and math, and you'll never be able to see it any other way and it will be beautiful. When I take your hand, it won't be the science of our atoms closing the distance between us that we will experience, but the math of our fingers interlocking and the art of our bodies that we will experience. You are math and you are science and you are art, and nothing will make you any lesser💛

[brittlebutch]

the thing is, you’re absolutely right! because what neurotypical people sometimes don’t understand is the massive difference between the average level of social interaction that they themselves vs other people get outside of organized or scheduled events like work or school, and also don’t understand the massive difference between what failure looks like, and how those two things overlap. i’m told that among the average neurotypical person, they’ll make a point to talk to people in their lives or hang out with friends or go on dates or chat with other people in public spaces, al to have casual interactions, multiple times a day, multiple days a week. meaning, if they have a failed social interaction, it’s buffered by the many successful interactions they’ll go on to have. failure most likely won’t mean complete isolation, because they have multiple avenues of interaction to fall back on. and, moreover, a failure in a social interaction when you have (on average) fewer than most means that now rather than that person going “oh that was a weird interaction, i talk to them a lot and it’s not usually like that, maybe it was an off day” they go “huh i don’t know that person very well maybe they’re just like that?”, which means that the odds are way different on whether relationships stay good after mistakes.

social skills are not actually as inherent as neurotypical people like to think. it’s just that when you’re always in practice, always getting back on the proverbial horse, the advice “just get back out there!” does actually work very well. but if you’re not able to do that for any variety of reasons, you can’t play the game the same way. my advice is not “try harder”, it’s “lower your expectations for yourself on what a good interaction and a moment of connection might be”. just as it’s possible you’re somehow unintentionally upsetting people, it’s possible you’re unintentionally making them feel happy, or valued, or heard, even in small, passing interactions. remind yourself that you’re working with fewer resources and a much more limited data pool. a lot of the advice being given is coming from someone who assumes they understand what the math looks like for you, because it’s very difficult to imagine that other side. so instead of trying to overlay a system made for someone who has resources that you just don’t have, you need to figure out what a functional system of interaction looks like for you, and adapt the advice given to fit your situation. my advice, bearing that in mind, is that finding communities and groups can look like a lot of different things, and getting your social needs met can come from a lot of sources, and ideally should! you would understand best what your situation is, and there’s no shame in changing tact to accommodate for your own needs and boundaries.

forgot to answer this for a bit lol BUT yeah, the post was a little bit more about the Conceptual argument than it was about me specifically, so I'm definitely already with you re: 'finding out what your Individual social goals are and working based off of those instead having high expectations based off of other people's metric' stuff. You definitely have a huge point with the "social buffer disparity" between NT people and ND people, where failures are both less demoralizing internally and less impactful externally when you're able to have a greater average of interactions generally also

but I really appreciated the "just as it’s possible you’re somehow unintentionally upsetting people, it’s possible you’re unintentionally making them feel happy, or valued, or heard, even in small, passing interactions" aspect of this message. I do definitely have a recurring problem of like, labeling Myself as an Uncanny Valley Person and automatically assuming that every interaction I'm involved in must be some level of uncomfortable for the other person -- it actually was kind of a revolution moment reading this and realizing that OH it does make sense that if I can unintentionally make people uncomfortable, it's statistically just as likely that I can unintentionally lift people's spirits in one way or another! So thank you very much for that!!

[16-puppies]

I don’t really have the energy right now to argue any more than I will in this post as to why I don’t really like the phrase but since im ‘traumagenic’ I just want to say beforehand that personally, it just makes me uncomfortable. It’s not necessarily about what it represents, but it’s the wording and what it could theoretically imply, just going off of wording alone. Obviously, since my system comes from trauma, I’m biased towards that viewpoint but I do understand that plurality isn’t limited to what I experience. It’s just hard to shake the idea that plurality can be something purely positive since that’s just not what I experience. That’s my own problem though, I suppose.

I do understand where you’re coming from in some of these points and after reading it I do get what you’re trying to say and accomplish here, although I have an additional interpretation. It’s like the lefthandedness chart to me, plural acceptance will lead to more people realizing they are plural. And that’s a good thing, yes! But I need you and everyone else using the phrase to understand that at first glance it really doesn’t come off like what you’re describing or even what I just described, and it seems like many of the people who are in favor of it aren’t interpreting it the way you see it either. I’ve seen many posts about it claiming that it *doesnt* imply there will be more plurals, in an effort to look better to traumagenic systems like myself who aren’t completely on board with the phrase. I also don’t appreciate how traumagenic systems who take even the slightest offense to it are being treated by the ones in favor of it just because the phrase bears resemblance to other phrases calling for acceptance like “the future is trans” — i feel like it’s obvious that when including systems who are formed from trauma the community should be receptive of their concerns since this is a very sensitive topic, and yet I’ve seen far too many people compare traumagenic systems to angry transphobes who are “traumatized” by the “woke left” just because they don’t want their very Real trauma seemingly paraded around like some award, even if you and others claim that’s not what’s happening.

Overall I think the phrase could have used some workshopping to avoid confusion , or the usage of the phrase should have been completely defined from the start so that confused and concerned onlookers have easy access to a post that explains what the movement is about in depth rather than tacking important info on to my random post lazily complaining about syscourse (/lighthearted) Obviously you can’t control all your followers or supporters of the phrase, but maybe if it was handled differently there would have been less assumptions about it? Either way, I think it’s well within the right of traumagenic systems to dislike the wording regardless of what it represents. You can’t force everyone to like it, even if it is meant to represent a good idea.

Again, I want to reiterate that I get where you’re coming from with this and I would love for plural acceptance too obviously, but I think it should have been handled differently because the feelings of traumagenic systems are important too.

(I won’t be responding to this any further, the original post was just meant to be a jokey thing anyways.)

i love seeing system positivity posts because it makes me feel less Fake about it but god i hate all the discourse. why is tumblr just discourse. Everyone explode NOW

also why is plural tumblr so bad at wording things. “guys nooooo ‘the future is plural’ is about acceptance of plurality!!1!1!” okay but. surely you see what it sounds like right. Surely you do. Why are you defending the worst slogan i’ve ever heard This hard. ‘the future is singlet’ doesn’t sound right either. Can we all just kill ourselves /ref

[dolichomorph]

manifesting a new bee!chloe in season 6 🕯️🙏🕯️

[edge-oftheworld]

one thing I love about following celebrities/artists who are honest and proactive about their mental health struggles etc is I can’t count the number of times someone I know is going through something and I’m like ‘I’ve got a song for u’ and how much of my life involves telling myself ‘if [redacted] can do something/get better/etc then so can i’ (and having actual real evidence of it in front of me) and I can’t understate how much I appreciate these things.

but at the same time it involves a whole lot of watching people I care about suffer and you learn to read the signs and infer between the lines in songs and interviews, and yes we can never fully know what they don’t share with us, but when they do share things it’s not a big stretch to be like ‘this seems like it’s what life is like for you and I have taken encouragement from it but you deserve so much better’. and it’s easy to find ways to get angry at a predatory industry and realise things that could be hurtful if you’re already fragile.

and we can advocate for some things and help ourselves and the people around us feel better but it’s hard to meaningfully reach your faves as an individual. and there are things we can’t say on the internet in too much detail, speculation becomes the harmful kind of gossip, and so sometimes it’s a whole lot of internally saying ���you’re doing incredibly well to have gotten to where you are but I wish for your sake things would get better faster’

[punch-love]

1, 6, 7, 28,

Also I feel like lately you’ve gotten a lot of really heartfelt and wonderful comments and responses from others and I just wanted to let you know I’m genuinely so happy for you :D!! I hope your firm boundaries continues to reach and curate to a chill, respectful, and supportive audience.

Do you prefer writing with black or blue pen?

black! I own over 20+ inking pens and then a handful of writing specific pens. nothing makes me happier than smooth black ink. blue pens, I don't even KNOW you.

6. Do you prefer baths or showers?

showers, though I think partially because I have curly hair and I feel like a bath is only good for getting my body clean so it feels less effective. I enjoy the occasional magical/cleansing bath though.

7. If you could be a mythical creature, which would you choose?

probably a phoenix. I have a flair for the dramatics and like the idea of getting to die every once in awhile.

28. What would you want your legacy to be?

I am an ambitious person, so I think I would want my legacy to be long. It's less that I want history to remember me, and more that I just have a lot of aspirations. I want my written work to be known and impactful, I want my creative work to be on people's bedside table or pressed inside their journals. I want to do TedTalks and write articles and influence minds in positive and significant ways.

I also want to start a non-profit targeted as an alternative to half-way houses for at risk teenage girls and I would like that exist when I'm gone. If I ever acquire wealth, I would like to start foundations and scholarships that are continuously fed in my absence. I think, ultimately I want my legacy to be transformative. I want people to interact with me/my work/my structures and be transformed in a way that is positive and ultimately useful for navigating life.

As a person though, I want to be remembered as honest as kind. Blunt, but fair. Charismatic, but private. I want people to remember that I dressed well, was incredibly hilarious, and intentionally made sure people felt safe around me even though I clearly was aggravated by them often.

[crescentfool]

ohh the joy of videos and streams... i like listening to people talk about things they like/think about it’s very contagious... 🥺

[anonymusbosch]

welp. meow meow meow

[dennisboobs]

this is genuinely... so funny to me. like the hilarity of copypasting rational tweets. i'm literally right. it's not even a funny copypasta because it's literally just. objectively correct. it's a criticism of twitter culture and that makes it funny to you because...... god forbid you actually have empathy for other people. caring is for losers if you're on twitter dot com, you have to be snarky and funny at all times.

[angelnumber27]

y’all I’m also just a sad mentally ill lost person I am not a therapist I do not have any professional experience and have never claimed to. It is totally okay to say how you feel but I’d really appreciate if y’all didn’t try to straight up completely negate my positive posts. I understand that state of mind I really really do but I make these posts in an effort to help others and in a strange way also help myself and it kind of just makes me rly sad when certain things are said :/ you are entitled to say whatever you want on your own blog of course but please do not do it on my posts that are clearly intended to build people up and provide encouragement. Thank you 🖤