#rry2k lackadaisy

[gins-stim-emporium]

lackadaisy (rry2k) stimboard ! (for me ^_^)

snails eating / sweater / teddy bear

flower artwork / 🐌 / flower field

star curtains / dress / snail teapot

[merklins]

BEHOLD!!!!!!!! All of the infected forms on epic y2kvrau askblog @rry2k that we've seen so far. I'll probably do another when we meet them all hehehe

[villafordefeatedvillains]

“Ghost Choir” with Lackadaisy? /nf

(I’m totally not bias because I’m their writer /silly)

Let the man sleep, damnit!!!

[rry2k]

Purely for morbid curiosity as I hadn't spotted anything amiss, what were these unintended uncomfortable topics that had come up? (if you feel like sharing, of course. /nf)

Many of the topics of concern had only come up in brief mentions or short scenes, so it's understandable that a lot of them may have flown under the radar, as they did for many on our team too. Now that we're aware of them, we're doing our best to edit out as many of these as we can. I've chosen to list some of these incidents under a Read More, as many of the topics may be upsetting for some members of the audience to hear.

We ask you to please look out for yourself and only read further if you're certain you're in a safe position to do so.

Implied Animal Death and Harm, specifically to Sunkist.

The presumed death of Darnold by Coomer that took place during The Eleventh Hour, as well as accompanying heavy themes such as the emotional impact of losing loved ones.

Allusions to suicide tied to Benrey, as well as the specific depiction of depression present in Lackadaisy that our team felt was irresponsible and harmful.

There were also several topics that these writers had planned for their characters later in the story that thankfully had not made their way onto the blog, and now never will. But we feel it best to disclose these as well, and to be honest about the direction they had been pushing this story in without the informed consent of the whole team. Such topics included:

Emotionally using and abusing Darnold for the purpose of infecting oneself to further indulge in unhealthy coping mechanisms.

Threats of self harm.

Abusive, manipulative, and emotionally neglectful patterns of behaviour towards loved ones.

Not only are these themes that we never wanted to depict on this blog, but the way they've been handled was irresponsible and insensitive to those who have experience with any of these topics. RRY2K carries a lot of personal meaning to our team based on our own experiences, and we hope to use this blog to handle more serious and complicated topics safely, responsibly, and in a way that can help people. The way these topics were being portrayed by the two writers in question completely undermined this, and we're deeply sorry for any harm they may have already caused.

We'd also like to be clear that even though these actions did lead to the official removal of these individuals from our project, their behaviour and treatment of others in private has also caused significant harm to many people even outside of our team on an individual and personal level. Though we won't be disclosing details of those matters on this blog, we felt it was important to put this information on record too.

[crow-of-ohio]

ya okay so I'll give context now

Recently an attempted call-out post was made about me and my girlfriend Nexus on the rry2k blog so I'll just get some misconceptions straightened out:

We left of our own volition after bad personal experiences, we were not kicked off the team.

the "leaks" that happened happened in a private server only with a few friends after I left and I wanted to show off the art I was really proud of that I wasn't going to let them use after I left on grounds of it being mine + wanted to talk about the project with people who I thought weren't going to be looking at it anymore. In addition, Nexus only "leaked" plot points she had never actually proposed to the project manager, as well as a character that was meant for post-canon plot that she revoked permission to use once she left. the rest were done by me and a few of my ex-partners, I assume at least one of which is still on the writing team.

the operator board account was made to drive interaction on the blog and get more eyes on it and only ever posted things that the project leader was frustrated people weren't getting yet, I made it specifically to make the project leader happy. I acknowledge now that it was kind of a shady way to do that, but the characters of Team Switchboard and their interactions with the blog+with other fans were meant to be confined to helping along the plot so we never got stuck at one place or another (which we often did, there were many times asks stopped coming in completely and made the team antsy)

Ultimately rry2k was a project promised to us as something where all the characters would get a moment to shine, but the project manager increasingly locked down on making it all about the character Darnold and wanted to control everyone's story arcs and made it a hostile environment for a lot of the team to work in (I genuinely feel bad for the folks still in that group in that environment, it sounds like people are still miserable if they're bringing this up months after the fact, Nexus and I have moved on)

That post was also unfair to Nexus, she was never an active part of the issue. All she wanted was to write Benrey as a character with depression who was looking for an escape, and wanted his mental health to be treated seriously, but was denied that and made to reduce his character to being, generally unserious comic relief whose plot relevance was only that the other characters had to lug his sleeping body around. I can't stress enough that Nexus is only being treated like this in that post because she's the only person who decided to keep being friends with me after my meltdown and mental health crisis.

In addition, the post claims that we are stealing character designs and concepts from rry2k for future projects. I can only assume this is in reference to Nexus continuing to use "lackadaisy," a character she originally designed and wrote, while updating his design and changing his name to Daisybell. He is not going to be used in any future public projects, and exists in a crack au with a completely different plot that's confined purely to making shit up over discord messages. Daisy is Jonah's character. She can't steal something that was hers to begin with.

yall, it's been months since things went down with that friend group. We were doing our best to put the past behind us and grow as people. Bringing things up now is a petty attempt to ruin the friendships we have now when it looks like we're actually starting to be happy again. I can't express just how petty of a picture this paints of them in my eyes, especially since I already spoke with one of them last month on my birthday to go over why many of my actions while in that friend group were wrong (and I admit that I made a lot of mistakes that hurt a lot of people, but I am genuinely trying to do better now that I've been informed of how exactly many of my actions hurt the people I cared about. I'm using that information to be a better person.)

Thanks for reading my long-ass post

hiiii asking anyone who's seeing unfair claims being made abt me to come and talk to me about it before taking things said about me at face value thanks xoxo