#saltblogging.

[fairymint]

What are some things you are tired of seeing in the RPing community?

Lack of nuance, and respect when it comes to conflict. mind you that anything past this first dot isn't recent rather than experience.

pseudo vagueblogging about "bad" people without context. seen with hate anons, "if you do [this issue]", and blocked people- this carryover shit makes it hard for some people to read community meta hour without wondering 'if something happened'. Be Clear. if you can't, that's a good sign to reconsider saying it. Especially if it's offsite or off blog, lest people mistake it for here (or worse, themselves.)

More "I" statements and less "you" and "we" statements if you have an actual conflict- it's where a lot of accusatory statements and rough edges lie. muns are people, not problems. Don't assign yourself as a problem and wonder in the dark, don't assign others' hurting your feelings as 'a problem' without clear basis. ask questions. people are often ignorant rather than malicious. malicious for a reason, etc.

shut the hell up about the people you've blocked; notsomuch the information and what they did. idk possible unpopular opinion here, but don't speculate, don't tease, etc. people can be so quick to tell perpetrators to fuck off without giving that same respect. Right or wrong, most people need some space to process that kinda shit, or might have moved on. similar case if you've been blocked, though there's a fine line between grieving it and doing the above. Like, if you must read up on them, be mindful of that. and re-enter their lives gracefully if you choose to do so. There's a reason that people can be so black and white about things like callouts, and this contributes to it. People have rights, friends, sometimes willingness to change, depending. tl;dr let people breathe ffs.

[peepingcreek]

Oliver head-cannons:

Oliver tracks down every girl and guy Felix ever hooked up with and sleeps with them too.

Right after his triumphant penis dance, he curls up on Felix's bed and cries hot, angry tears.

He makes Duncan do the weirdest and most absurd requests for his own freaky pleasure. "Duncan, decorate the front yard with plastic dildos, wont you?"

Farliegh Head-cannons

He admits defeat in the begining, slinking back to America, but vows revenge. Farliegh and Oliver meet for a passive aggressive esspreso date in Venice, which Oliver pays for.

Felix fingered him LOL

Venetia Head-canons

She's been in and out of ED treatment through high school and finished her education with a tutor.

She never had a good group of school mates, and mostly hangs out with Felix and who he brings around

Felix fufills his savior complex by trying to help her, feeling sorry for her.

Elspeth Head-cannon

She also had bulimia when she was modeling

She is a closeted lesbian and has 0 attraction to sr. James

huge lesbian crush on Oliver

Duncan Headcannons OHHH

His family has been serving the Cattons for generations

He and the servants were all privy to Olivers freaky little escapades, but have a strict no interference policy

Duncan loved Felix, and all the servants thought that Felix was the only decent one of the family, aside from maybe James but idk

[liodennewsreporter]

February's bases

So i know we are all thinking it before we chase after it,what is others thoughts on the February bases even more if your a breeder, of course,your newest news reporter will add her own thoughts on bases and how they look!

starting with the ones from the shop!

Ardor elegance purchased from the flirt shop

its a nice color truly i actually really like it! despite how its not my style or something i would buy i definitely would breed for it, but that's my own opinion! look for more in comments! its definitely is a favorite

Cherry blossom/cherry lips! flirt shop

I honestly love it i cant explain why but how there's a soft lavender into a pink oh my goodness i can't explain it and the soft whites yellows other things the colors yummy ! its just so beautiful, of course i love it ,if you don't like it tell me why! or if you like it i want to hear opinions

cotton candy/taste of cotton candy flirt shop

this is 100% bias as when it came out i immediately started to hunt for a way to get my own cotton candy based lion its such a beautiful base that looks great with white and black i just love it! by now you can tell i love more out of there bases!

fluffiness of flamingo/flamingo base flirt shop

this was such a big surprise this is in the event instead of a craft able item i honestly assumed it would be one by the way flamingos feathers are(of course not a complaint just surprising) i love the trend of pink lions in the month of love its so valentine and i just cant say how much i love it i have no clue why this isnt so popular.

Blush rose/kiss from a rose slap shop

personally i don't like it it honestly feels like a default skin and it looks like if you accidentally applied this to a lion you would be sad, i know how much they work on it but i actually don't like it,but as always tell me your opinion discuss even.

Manakbir Base flirt shop

i cant handle natural bases but this one is perfect a beauty actually its so natural but also just sooo soo pretty i could understand the wait or trying to breed for it.

Merlot Base flirt shop

I love this base so much I loved when it came out just so much its like a wine color I don't know how to explain it like I cant explain my loves for other ones but this one this one is soo yummy to look at.

Peach base/its all peachy flirt shop

I love the colors so much i don't know pink valentine days and peach colors it does remind me of cherry blossom but it still looks good!

Rose Pink Base flirt base

Soft beauty as normal but I love it the colors go well but it doesn't remind me of rose pink I like it.

The craft bases of the month?!?!

Hematite Base 50 hematite

I don't know it feels just a tad bit disappointing, probably me myself as a breeder love bases that show out more then anything! but definitely the colors match the rock sooooo much like i kind of expected like a more colorful scheme or just a bit more light but i do think it totally fits not worthy of being waited for but i totally understand someone wanting it!

Kunzite Base

lavender/lilac bases HAVE.MY.HEART its so pretty! i just lovvee it like its totally worth waiting for and i could imagine putting the base on a gen1 young chase and being obsessed with it, i would buy out every single kunzite to get this base

Rhodonite Base

I love it I don't know I would keep it and it seems just like something a queen would have and I could see it with a bunch of decorations I just obessed with this? but also don't like it I don't know that's why I like it so much!

Rough Ruby Base

I love colorful wine colored bases and how it was more colorful oh my goodness i love it i love it i love it! I'm so so obsessed with it.

I so much wanted to put branch prices of the apps and such but honestly that would be actually no use to you all i would recommend looking into the comments, let's discuss I'm also looking for my own style for blogging at the moment!

rec?

It's easy to find rocks i would recommend getting the apps at the month mostly because people are selling their rocks alot make a cute cave of gen 1 chased rocks for combo bases or something! in my own personal thoughts people forget about the rock bases sooo much when their so pretty and so useful for putting on chases/gen 1s

[catinheadlights]

PSA: The pet game Sylestia uses AI generated "art".

Sylestia has been using AI generated assets for a long while now, and I decided to write this up because I'm not sure how well known this is among the remaining playerbase (not that I think many of them are gonna read this but I guess it's here now if they care to). Krinadon (site owner/admin) has explicitly said this in a mass PM before, screenshot and examples below context.

Context: This was a mass PM from late 2022 sent to a large section of the playerbase with a long list of allegations against different users. Some of the claims were blatantly petty and others were seemingly serious but in reality extremely shaky. Some players receiving the PM had no involvement in any of the perceived antagonism, and not everyone receiving it was in some kind of clique like the wording in the Glaselk section would suggest. Krin was largely complaining that people were criticizing him and Faiona (other owner/admin) in a private discord server, of which a handful of people sent him screenshots. For transparency, I committed two apparent crimes: one was assuming the AI assets were made by people, and in a private discord server, criticizing the decision to update them over focusing on more important parts of the site. The second was complaining about the shitty stereotypical "Pow Wow Costume" (since renamed but otherwise unaltered) and associated clothing items in its set, as well as the name of the "Wild Wendigo Morkko" theme. As far as Krin complaining that people think he was giving Glas special treatment... well, if you know, you know. No clue if they even play anymore, but you all know that harassment is bad already, so don't do that. I didn't edit that section out of the screenshot because idk if that'd be seen as suspicious or something.

[Image ID: A screenshot of a private message from Krinadon on Sylestia titled "Official Player Conduct Warning (1 of 2)". The last section of the message says the following: Experience Orb and Magical Pie Art: No, no artist time was spent nor wasted on these assets. No, we did not divert any site resources to the specific creation of these assets. We were learning and testing with artwork created by AI and these were our initial test projects. The end results actually ended up being pretty decent, so we decided to use them. No, we are not going to replace any artists with AI artwork. However, we most definitely are looking to supplement where we can so that our artists can continue working full time on more important projects. I think that we are aware of how to properly budget our time and resources. We have been doing this for a decade now. And yes, our artists are aware that we are using AI artwork. /.End ID]

Now, I think the first thing I should point out is that the artists knowing the site uses AI doesn't necessarily mean that they like the decision. I don't know the artists personally, but I do know that at least one of them has, unsurprisingly, posted about not liking AI art.

Secondly, it wouldn't be fine even if the site artists loved AI, because as it is, it's unethical to use regardless. The training data is artwork scraped from the internet without consent from the creators. No amount of promising that you won't replace human artists will erase that. Informing the site artists that you're using AI won't erase that.

Here are the confirmed AI official assets (descriptions in alt text):

(The orb pic is comically large because they kept it at >500x500 for a while and I saved it)

Additionally, there are background items that are almost definitely AI generated:

Some have glaring issues while others may be less obvious, but when comparing them to the art styles in other items, the difference is apparent, and is not explained by having multiple artists and the seeming lack of a style guide.

There were also several coloring contests with obviously AI generated lineart:

And also official threads where players were to design pets based off of AI generated images. These ones were from the faelora design raffle during the 2023 spring festival:

If you're not convinced they're AI, the images on the thread were hosted by Sylestia's server's and reverse image searching didn't turn up any matches. They would never commission these, and they didn't just take them from another site. They were generated for the raffle.

Do not support this site. The are so, so many games made by people that actually respect artists.

[santae-salt]

I'm not young and read SMR and the old DR all the time. It's clear the owner of this blog is heavily negative leaning to the point I find it incredibly hard to believe they care about the site. Agree with everything bad and post anything without any proof.

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[lorwolfdrama]

Signed up earlier. Good overall, lot of the same things as FR, whatever. I am so confused tho. Like one, my quest is already fucked up because ?? idk. Just keeps sending me back to the river. Idk how to get more water at a sustainable rate. What the hell is the pageant. Also, a pageant? I sound like a boomer but like I've been doing pet sites since 2007 and I have never just been so "ok cool but ??" to like half the features

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[salty-cs]

Tenor idk how to ask you because we don't talk but I know you check saltblog, but is your name perchance based off the gif hosting site? I'd be curious to hear the origin of your name :3

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[fairymint]

♦ What was a mildly annoying thing that has happened to you rp wise?

mostly lack of communication, including those dumbass confessional blogs that were all the rage 10 or 9 years ago. It's a shame that 'positivity' blogs thereafter didn't seem to pick up, but I can see why- They can make some prime fodder for feelings of FOMO, even in the best of times. Communication has improved over the years, but I still advise to start small- whether that be negative or positive, you don't have to wait until the last second to message your partners! whether that's about having your boundaries crossed or questioning, or giving em praise, or asking about plot/shipping/biography shit. small bites is good!

[liodennewsreporter]

lioden main chat and its problems!

Recently despite how lioden is mainly about lions and just trading, There is problems with main chat itself! I'm unsure if I'm going crazy but there's soo much drama and honestly can't blame the mods about it! because its dragged out to tiktok,tumblr,twitter etc almost all social medias have some bit of lioden drama ,even if you go to a simple lioden blog(or what you would assume is a simple blog) you would see drama on the front page as a game that is mainly built on players and economics, and honestly is no way to gain alot of lions without at least trading with people once or twice!

so it's obvious why there's so much drama being spread around that's why salt blogs are so popular, people need to know who you are or who anyone is,who their interacting with if they've scammed people or screwed people over, because you can't find it on lioden (as drama and such like that isn't allowed on lioden or being discussed in general) and some things you can't even chat in dms as mods look at your dms as well.

salt and drama will always be apart of lioden and it'll follow you anywhere so much lioden users when interacting with blogs have to hide their identity in worries of bigger lioden users will harass them( which no matter what you think its happened before) its the truth and not targeting anyone.

main chat problems includes how its so..open? i almost forgot to add this part people argue bring up things that's against the rules but because sometimes the mods aren't online people who does such things get away with it no strikes nothing i think that's been a continuous problem a super popular lioden blog(lioden news) has been mentioned in chat so many times when people aren't allowed to, talks of triggering topics sometimes are just allowed basically because of lioden mods not being online.

Well this is just my thoughts nothing important just a explanation for anyone who doesn't understand! or is confusted upon why a lion game has so many blogs with salt on them!

[alstroemeria-fox]

i think part of it is this blog allows anonymous submissions so people feel less self concious asking things. which could also be why people send in asks instead of reblogging, as well as sending in an ask being more visable to people than being in the notes of some post

missing when this blog used to be a salt blog and not just a random discussion forum. why are you asking here what the price of skincents is. why are you just making an ask to say "haha liking [gene] makes me feel old" or "im from plague and i like the color green". why does nobody comment on posts and instead just make a whole new ask with 8 words in response to whatever post. this blog is such unconcentrated, fluffy filler that its impossible to find any actual salt. more like normalminerising

[lorwolfdrama]

Salty bc everything gets wiped on my birthday

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[saltminerising]

checking the saltblog to see if something bad was said about me bc nobody is responding to me in forum games

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[lionews]

"Apparently a new Wolvden saltblog was made, but I cant see it going too well. The admins tendency to involve themselves in the drama instead of posting as a neutral party is gonna be a recipe for disaster."

Judging by how they're responding to reasonable concerns people were pointing out, the blog is going to spiral into a hellhole if the mod is already somewhat toxic or incapable of at least listening to and considering their concerns. I have a slight feeling that the main conflicts are going to be caused by the mod rather than users fighting with each other... 😅

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[dragon-salt]

Sincerely, fuck off if you think your Oh So High And Mighty Elder Veteran status gives you the right to be such a cunt to other players for having differing opinions about a *checks notes* online pixel collecting game for children. Log off, go look at a sunset and stop waving your dick in the wind before you get piss in your eye.

I'm trying so hard to figure out which of my recent saltblog interactions would have warranted calling me a cunt and I can only assume it's over my response to that "light sprite is ugly" ask? But also I find it very hard to believe that it alone would have pissed someone off bad enough drop this in my inbox. What is happening. Why are people so valiantly defending Lightsprites Ugly anon as if I threatened to kill their family.

(unless this is about something else after all, but I really haven't got a clue what)

[zaerog-infinity]

i gotta unfollow that saltblog man some of these people drive me up the wall and back LMAOO

[proshippers-against-censorship]

I don't make a habit of reblogging from this blog because it's full of really, REALLY obnoxious kids, but I do like that somebody brought up the American-centric thing so to my blog it goes.

Always funny seeing proship stuff on here. It is, hands down, the most uniquely American youth debate out there. Here in Ireland we just mind our own goddamn business unless somebody is physically getting handsy with something alive. Like, why do y'all care so much that you start assigning labels and screaming? It's so baffling. And why do you all use AO3 so much if you hate this 'proshipping' so much? Doesn't that site support everything you're adverse to?

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