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ridiasfangirlings · 14 days

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How to buy K merch in the Year 2024

I got several asks about this so rather than do each individually, I’ve decided to just make one big How to Buy K Merch in the Year 2024 post. I’m going to skip over the more obvious western sites like eBay and focus more on Japanese sites here. Because there hasn’t been much new K merch in some time keep in mind that most of what you will be looking for is secondhand, which means availability will vary.

Shopping Services

For some of these sites you will need a shopping service, so we’ll start there. This is by no means a comprehensive list of available shopping services, just ones I’ve used and liked.

FromJapan - This one is very straightforward — copy and paste the url of the item you want into their search bar. For anything in certain sites like Rakuten this will pull up a page that will give you the item and its price in your currency and you can just click add to cart. For other sites you may need to request a price quote, there’s a small form to fill out and they’ll get back to you on if they can order it. Timing depends on when you make the request. The nice thing about FromJapan is they will hold items for you for 45 days, so you can collect multiple purchases from multiple sites over time and have them all shipped at once. The bad side is that after 45 days they will discard your items, so keep an eye on when your oldest item arrived (you can see how long it’s been at their warehouse on your account page, and they will email you as the deadline gets close too).

Treasure Japan - Treasure Japan is a much smaller service than the others on this list but also the one I’ve used the longest. Being a smaller service means they tend to be more able to purchase items that might have seller restrictions, particularly from places like Mercari. Some listings when pasted into other shopping service sites will have a ‘cannot purchase from this seller’ warning, because some sellers don’t want to deal with shopping services. I haven’t had much trouble with this merchandise-wise, but when I’ve run into it with j-fashion Treasure Japan has been able to order when the bigger services couldn’t. Their site is set up so you will input different sites in different sections, there’s one for auction, one for ‘flea market’ (this will be places like Mercari) and one for shopping sites.

Buyee/Tenso - Buyee is a shopping service, Tenso is a forwarding service. They’re owned by the same parent company but are separate sites and you’ll need a separate account for each. Buyee is directly integrated with some sites like Mercari and Yahoo Japan, you can put in the url into their search bar and get a listing that you can buy immediately. Like FromJapan, any sites outside of the ones they’re integrated into will require you to request a quote (I found this more difficult with Buyee than FromJapan, personally) and they will sometimes be unable to purchase items. They will hold your items for 30 days at no charge, and you can request to consolidate packages for shipping.

Tenso, as I said above, is a forwarding service and somewhat more complicated. Basically when you sign up they will give you a Japanese address (presumably one of their warehouses) and you can then buy directly from Japanese websites, inputting the address you were given in the address field and paying with your own credit card. The items will be shipped to Tenso and from there you can have them sent to you. Obviously this is more complicated than a shopping service. I’ve used it mainly for things that didn’t involve an item being shipped (this is how I signed up for Fan Clan back in the day, for example, though my lottery goods were sent via Tenso too) or sites that require you to sign up to purchase from. I wouldn’t recommend it for any marketplace type site unless you’re fluent in Japanese, since sellers on those sites may try to communicate with you.

Stores

AmiAmi (no shopping service needed) - AmiAmi is mainly for new goods but I’ll mention it here anyway, in case K ever gets more merch. AmiAmi usually sells out on preorders, you place your order and they will let you know when the item arrives. You pay at that time. They do sometimes get used merch though so you can keep an eye out there, sometimes there will be decent deals on items that only have small flaws like the box being damaged.

Amazon Japan (may or may not need a shopping service) - Did you know overseas people can buy from Amazon Japan? You do now! You will need to make a new account, even if you have an Amazon account in your country. Whether you need a shopping service or not depends on the item. Anything sold directly by the company will likely not need a shopping service — the majority of my K manga and the stage plays were all bought directly from here, and when I was supplying raws for Countdown and LSW I was buying the magazines from here as well (I’ve also used it for Pokémon plushies and sewing books). If the item is being sold by a third party seller though you will likely need a shopping service. The site will tell you when you try to check out.

Surugaya EN (no shopping service required)/ Surugaya JP (shopping service required) - This is a secondhand shop and a great place to find merch. The main difference between the English site and the Japanese one is that the Japanese site has a larger selection (particularly doujinshi, and even more particularly spicy doujinshi). The English site periodically has free shipping sales so keep an eye out. Surugaya also has physical stores and will sometimes share merch between the store and the site so keep that in mind too, I have had items canceled before because they sold out in store and the listing hadn’t been updated yet.

Mandarake (no shopping service needed) - Another secondhand shop similar to Surugaya. I have not actually purchased from them myself and am not fond of their interface but I know people who have bought things from here. Like Surugaya they share stock with physical stores so something you want can sell out even after you’ve purchased.

Lashinbang (shoppng service required) - More secondhand shops. Lashinbang is rather small though so they don't always have much stuff, at least not for K.

CDJapan (no shopping service needed) - This is also better for new merch than secondhand but still worth a mention. I’ve found their prices tend to be worse than a lot of other stores though, this is more of a last resort for me.

Otaku Republic/Goods Republic (no shopping service needed) - Otaku sells doujinshi, Goods sells merch. The main draw is that these two are easy to search if you’re uncomfortable dealing with Japanese sites. I haven’t used them in quite a while but when I was buying from them they would send me free gifts with every purchase (my S4 cup came from them, as well as a bunch of clear file folders that I didn’t take pictures of because they’re being used as sewing pattern storage right now). The main downside is that while shipping is free over $50 they massively mark up the base prices to make up for it. I eventually stopped using this site because the shopping service was cheaper even with shipping and fees, you are paying for convenience. A lot of their ‘inventory’ is just listings from other sites including Surugaya, so check there first.

GoraShop (shopping service required) - This is Gora’s direct bookshop! They only have the season novelizations and Idol K books right now, as well as some Ayaka stuff.

Kinkurido (shopping service required) - This is the King Amusement Creative shop. All Memories was sold through this shop but is currently sold out, if they ever restock Gora will likely announce it on their Twitter. They do have some other small K goods available, including some CDs and artbooks (and Sarumi body pillows).

Marketplaces

Mercari Japan (Shopping service needed) - If you’ve ever used the English version of Mercari, here it is again but Japanese edition. You can find a lot of good used pieces here but prices are set by the individual seller so be wary of overpaying the first thing you find. Be sure to use a translator to look at the description in case you're buying a damaged item. Sometimes shopping services can try to negotiate the prices if you ask.

Yahoo Japan Auctions (shopping service needed) - Similarly as above, if you’re familiar with eBay this is fundamentally the same thing. Some shopping services will allow you to place last minute ‘sniper’ bids, and most will let you set a maximum bid and keep bidding on your behalf until that max is reached.

Shopping tips and things to know

The good news about buying from Japan right now: the yen is weak, so you can get deals! In the US, anyway. This may depend on your country so if you’re unsure on the exchange rate you can google “[your country’s currency] to yen exchange rate” and it should give you an approximate.

The bad news: shipping is killer. Keep that in mind, especially if you’re buying heavy items like bags or shoes (yes, K has those, there are several SuperGroupies collabs. If you want a S4 purse or Yata Misaki shoes keep in mind you will probably be paying through the nose for shipping). For the European types, you may have additional taxes too so be aware of your country’s import laws. Ditto when it comes to customs. For my fellow Americans, I have never had a customs issue even when buying fairly pricey dresses so you’re probably okay on that end but I can’t speak for other countries.

Character tax is real. Basically, more popular characters will likely have more expensive merch because there’s more demand — for example, Fushimi and Yata merch tends to be more expensive than, say, Silvers merch. Keychains and pins are usually cheaper than larger items like figures and standees either way though.

Most of the Japanese sites will need to be searched in Japanese. For character names, I suggest going to the K wiki and grabbing your favorite character’s name in kanji and using that to search. For pairings, while marketplace sites like Mercari may have listings under the pairing name sites like Suruga will use the two individual character names so you’ll want to search under that. If your browser doesn’t have an add on to translate that’s very helpful to grab in order to make your experience easier. For K itself, in general this is really the downside of having a favorite series with a one letter title. However, using ‘Missing Kings,’ ‘Return of Kings’ or ‘Seven Stories’ can be helpful here but will likely mostly turn up merch made for that specific season/movie.

If you want to look up something specific like a plush but don't know the Japanese word for it, Jisho can be helpful. Look up the kanji for the word you want and then copy-paste into your search. The downside is sometimes there are multiple words for the same thing or a word may be in kanji but people use the hiragana more often and you won't know, but it should get you on the right path to start.

On buying spicier goods: most shopping services have it in their terms that they will not buy adult items. In practice, however, this depends. I've had FromJapan refuse to buy perfectly tame G-rated doujinshi. Treasure Japan has in their terms that they won't ship adult items but like 70% of my doujinshi collection was purchased through them, with an R18 Sarumi book purchased as recently as last year. I've heard Buyee also states that they won't ship adult items but it's hit or miss if they turn down your order, and if you buy directly using Tenso they likely won't even open your package. Keep your country's laws regarding importing in mind, especially if you think customs might be likely to poke around in your package. Don't get in legal trouble just for spicy drawings.

Buying secondhand is a marathon, not a sprint. Sometimes it takes a while for what you want to show up, so just keep looking! When I was collecting my nui set I literally bookmarked the search for “K ぬい” (nui) on Mercari and checked every day or so, which may be more obsessive than you want but it does get the job done (I was molded in the merch search mines of trying to find lolita dresses that haven’t been sold for 10 years, so I’m used to this kind of thing). If you keep looking you may even find things you didn't know you needed, like this Sarumi bedsheet I forgot to add into my collection post.

Happy hunting!

#k project #Talking K #helpful guides #there are other stores I may have forgotten but this is most of what I use #if anyone has alternate sites feel free to put those in the comments #the good news is since K is less popular now the merch tends to be cheaper but the bad news is it's harder to find #you just have to keep looking #I can't believe I forgot my Sarumi bedsheet #it's because this is an older picture I'm not using it right now

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edenfenixblogs · 4 months

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I think that the user who made this post is lacking reading comprehension as to me it looks like Netanyahu is just saying that he wants security controls in place which if we go by the Wikipedia article for security controls, is just tighter security. The article in that post also doesn't include his full statement which adds context.

This article has his whole statement

what are your thoughts on this?

Idk what article or post you’re talking about.

I don’t like or trust Netanyahu. I do not believe anything he says. He’s Israel’s version of Trump. Idk what exactly he wants more control of but based solely on this post it seems like he’s offering to end the war by placing more security and checkpoints around Palestine.

My thoughts on that are that people not dying is better than people dying. But that’s too low a bar. Palestinians deserve better than just “not being under siege.” The steps must be in the direction of increasing freedom, not limiting it further.

This is what I’ve been talking about for months while people have been busy trying to compare me to a Nazi for saying I don’t want Jews to die or be expelled.

The only proper way to behave right now is to actively discuss what a future where both Israelis and Palestinians live together in peace should look like and then taking steps to ensure that future.

If we don’t do that, then Netanyahu will get his wish: tighter controls around Palestine, increased tension between Palestine and Israel, a guarantee that enough discontented Palestinians will look to organizations like Hamas for a solution to their oppression only to end up endangered between a terrorist organization and a hostile Likud-run government that stays in power by casting them as inherently vicious villains.

So, idk man. I can’t know for certain that I have any of this right. I’m just going off context clues cuz I refuse to look it up. Why do I refuse to look it up? Because I’d give myself an 85% chance of being right about what Netanyahu is proposing. Because he’s predictable and a bad person and a bad leader whose only goal is to weaponize both Jewish and Palestinian trauma to retain his own power.

This, even more than the personal attacks from antisemites, is what has bothered me most about western leftist “support” for Palestine during this most recent flair of the conflict. By focusing on attacking Jews around the world and stanning terrorist organizations and ignoring Jewish people and Israelis and even Muslims and Palestinians and Arabs who are and have been actively engaged in working towards peace and against Netanyahu for literal decades they have all but ensured that the most reasonable and informed voices have been effectively silenced. And you know who’s gonna fill that power vacuum? Netanyahu. Cuz it’s what he does.

And then the next time this happens, because it will, we will have to all live through this (or fault to live through it) again.

So, do I get a gold star friends? If I’m wrong I’ll delete this post. But man just the idea of Netanyahu proposing tighter security makes my blood boil. He knows what he’s doing. And it’s bad.

I hope I’m wrong. I hope I’ve misinterpreted something. And I will look it up further. But before I do, I genuinely want to know: is that asshole really that predictable? Did the entire western left literally just fall for his whole schtick and end up helping him to concentrate even more power? Did it work because it relied upon people hating Jews more than they trust Jews or love Palestinians? Cuz it feels like that’s what’s happening.

In the meantime, A Land for All is a solution worth actually discussing. Let’s all work toward that or another equally mutually beneficial solution to this conflict instead of helping Hamas gain adherents and helping Likud retain power:

https://www.alandforall.org/english/?d=ltr

#fuck netanyahu #antisemitism #leftist antisemitism #Jewish Palestinian solidarity #a land for all

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ruffboijuliaburnsides · 1 year

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Hey, earlier in my tumblr journey I came across one of ur posts about shipping, I spewed some anti nonsense(along the lines of as long as you don’t ship xyz), you responded rather politely, but before I could correct my mistake and such, I was blocked lmao

For the record this is NOT hate, it’s a thank you. For some reason ur (old) url always stuck with me bc that small, seemingly insignificant interaction, was what would be the start of my proship journey. I felt incredibly bad, even if i was never directly trying to attack you (mind you I was new to tumblr and such and it was never supposed to come across as hostile)

So yeah, calling me out lowkey helped me understand not only to bother people in their safe spaces, but I went on to look into the whole proship vs anti and stuff. I’ve been happier ever since I just shipped whatever the hell I wanted, and whatever I didn’t like, I just left others alone. Ur cool, thanks for not exploding on me when that happened. Ur cool :)

I do block quite liberally, it's true. Honestly tho, while I'm generally pretty "hey if you've been blocked, respect that and leave the person alone", I'm actually very touched to get this message. Happy to have assisted, nonny.

To be fair to you, also, I probably did not see it as you attacking me either: I just had and have a deep and abiding frustration for people who say "yes, absolutely! Except for the one thing I like/dislike/whatever." So you saying "sure, as long as you don't ship this thing" probably prompted, at most, a deep, weary, exasperated sigh. Hopefully this is reassuring that you did not upset me in any significant way. :) Welcome to the world of ship-and-let-ship, I'm glad you're finding it good for you.

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lesbianspeedy · 8 months

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Sorry if this is a bad question or more likely just hopeless. I’ve been trying to find a good Connor Hawke comic to read (first found out about him in Damian’s Robin solo and he and Rose were the only two things I liked besides the Robin chase but I’m a bat brat) and I’ve only read the Silver Monkey story and as I’m not a fan of Oliver Green at all (my exposure to him has in no way been positive) and I HATE Dixon and I know he’s the main writer for Connor, but I had to drop the Tim solo because of his obvious, I guess bigotry would be the right word to use here, but he is one of the three writers I refuse to let myself read anymore to try and keep my blood pressure low. Are there any Connor stories or series that exist outside of those parameters to read because I’m having 0 luck. I’m also not sure if you’re a fan of Mia or Emilio or have any go-to stories for them, but I know nothing about them and I’d like to change that if at all possible.

i understand, i do i do. while i think dixon is capable of good character writing, and he did manage to do it in connor's run, i also understand his very very obvious politics shine through all the time and it gets tiresome (at one point in his ga run he manages to write OLIVER QUEEN "both sides"ing literal nazis that he and hal fought in GL/GA). here's the best i can do for recs outside of dixon (though few and far between)

Before i start, i do wanna clarify that his character in robin is. well. pretty different from his actual pre-established character. I'm not saying you won't like him, and im genuinely begging you to give him a shot, but if youre looking for the snarky brawler type, you might be a lil thrown by the polite buddhist monk you're gonna get.

you are in luck, as his first few appearances were by kelley puckett, so if you havent already read GA vol. 2 #0, do that first! #91 and #92 are also by puckett until dixon takes over for #93, so read those if you dont mind just stopping in the middle of an arc, otherwise avoid.

now this next rec IS 1/3 written by dixon but if you can get through it, the crossover connor has with wally and kyle is enjoyable, thats Green Lantern Vol. 3 #96, GA Vol. 2 #130, and The Flash Vol. 2 #135

Connor's JLA run! JLA Vol. 1 #8-#15, #8 and #9 are specifically about connor saving and joining the league, the rest of the issues just feature him in a team setting, as, well, its the league.

if you want to read mia as well, read Green Arrow: Quiver (GA Vol. 3 #1-#10), Connor plays an important role but its almost entirely in the very last issue, and it's more about Ollie's role dynamic with him than anything else, so just read that if it tickles your fancy.

I wish i could recommend more of GA Vol. 3 for connor, unfortunately he's pretty fucking sidelined, and for every good moment theres 2 bad ones. (immediately after quiver he is shot and put in a coma for an arc, somehow this isnt the last time this happens.) Though i do recommend #11, and i think #21 is a good issue to read for ollie and him, but it also includes a pretty huge retcon to Connor and Ollie's past

Other than those, he has One-shots in Green Arrow 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular: "One", DC Pride 2022: "Think Of Me", and DC Festival of Heroes: The Asian Superhero Celebration: "Hawke & Kong"

to answer your second question, my URL aint lesbianspeedy for nothin! Mia is what i breathe and bleed, my recs for her are here!

as for Emi, your best bets are Green Arrow Vol. 5 #18-#20, #22, #28-#34 for her origin (though read N52 green arrow at your own risk, even i havent properly read these), Green Arrow Vol. 6 #1-#7 (this may feel like a completely new character, i'm sorry, dc has a angsty characterisation problem, if you enjoy either of these characterisations, i'd recommend you keep reading said runs past my specific recs for more issues with her!) and Stargirl Spring Break Special + Stargirl: The Lost Children #1-#6

#comic recs #connor hawke #green arrow

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dtblrawards · 1 month

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Official Statement

This wouldn’t be the myct community if an organizer didn’t have to make at least one statement.

first things first: i do not endorse doxxing, i do not support people who bring negativity into this fandom. plain and simple.

this project relies heavily on community influence meaning there will be people involved who i don’t like or others don’t like and unfortunately even people who do not deserve community recognition.

as someone who has a passion for making people smile and spreading positivity my goal with this project was to make sure it was equal opportunity. As I’ve stated before I know polls are a popularity contest i understand generally people with larger follow counts are going to have an easier time getting in and winning. which is why one I try create diverse categories that allow more of the community to be recognized and two I include all nomination graphs on the bottom so everyone has a chance to see if someone submitted their blog.

i allow everyone to be included even if I personally have a bad relationship with them because this isn’t about my experience in the fandom it’s about the collective community. I want this project to bring people together. I want this community to have good positive fun things to enjoy.

the last 24 hours have not been fun. despite my personal struggles right now I decided to go forward with the awards because people were looking forward to them. without throwing to much of a pity party I will just say I’ve been struggling majorly with mental health the last year and I took the very scary step of getting emergency and professional help a couple weeks ago. seeing the asks I’m getting right now has been really tough at this moment.

yes people slipped through the cracks because I don’t check every nominees blog I don’t even know most of the nominees deeper than their url looking vaguely familiar if that. I keep a tight knit friend group in this fandom to allow myself to have a good experience here. I have a full time job including a side business. On top of making time to better myself and really trying to enjoy life again I don’t have much time.

I also don’t want to play judge/jury/executioner. Minus the one person who apparently has a dox tag right in their pin every other name thrown around in my inbox is just interpersonal fandom shit that I have no clue about how do I make the decision to include/exclude people from this when I don’t know the situation and quite frankly do not care to know.

at the end of the day these are silly polls. we don’t have to play morality king of the hill. If you don’t like someone don’t vote for them don’t follow them fuck block them.

understand that i didn’t include these people in the polls knowing any of this shit ahead of time and plain and simple if you dox/literally have a dox tag and you win a poll im just picking the next highest person

im not dwelling on these negative people and neither should you.

I don’t posts doxx’s, I don’t interact with people who do, I did not nominate these people I simply committed the crime of sorting an excel sheet and putting the 5 highest names in a poll. Please keep this in mind when you are sending me anons upset at this situation

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rivkae-winters · 23 hours

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Warning for criticism and what I’d consider some harsh to outright mean words:

So I’ve just been made aware of the project known of as ‘lore.fm’ and I’m not a fan for multiple reasons. For one this ‘accessibility’ tool complicates the process of essentially just using a screen reader (something native to all I phones specifically because this is a proposed IOS app) in utterly needless and inaccessible ways. From what I have been seeing on Reddit they have been shielding themselves (or fans of the project have been defending them) with this claim of being an accessibility tool as well to which is infuriating for so many reasons.

I plan to make a longer post explaining why this is a terrible idea later but I’ll keep it short for tonight with my main three criticisms and a few extras:

1. Your service requires people to copy a url for a fic then open your app then paste it into your app and click a button then wait for your audio to be prepared to use. This is needlessly complicating a process that exists on IOS already and can be done IN BROWSER using an overlay that you can fully control the placement of.

2. This is potentially killing your own fandom if it catches on with the proposed target market of xreader smut enjoyers because of only needing the link as mentioned above. You don’t have to open a fic to get a link this the author may potentially not even get any hits much less any other feedback. At least when you download a pdf you leave a hit: the download button is on the page with the fic for a reason. Fandom is a self sustaining eco system and many authors get discouraged and post less/even stop writing all together if they get low interaction.

3. Maybe we shouldn’t put something marketed as turning smut fanfic into audio books on the IOS App Store right now. Maybe with KOSA that’s a bad idea? Just maybe? Sarcasm aside we could see fan fiction be under even more legal threat if minors use this to listen to the content we know they all consume via sites like ao3 (even if we ask them not to) and are caught with it. Auditory content has historically been considered much more obscene/inappropriate than written content: this is a recipe for a disaster and more internet regulations we are trying to avoid.

I also have many issues with the fact that this is obviously redistributing fanfiction (thus violating the copyright we hold over our words and our plots) and removing control the author should have over their content and digital footprint. Then there is the fact that even though the creator on TikTok SAYS you can email to have your fic ‘excluded’ based on the way the demo works (pasting a link) I’m gonna assume that’s just to cover her ass/is utter bullshit. I know that’s harsh but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it’s probably a duck.

I am all for women in stem- I’ve BEEN a woman in Stem- but this is not a cool girl boss moment. This is someone naive enough to think this will go over well at best or many other things (security risks especially) at worst.

In conclusion for tonight: I hope this person is a troll but there is enough hype and enough paid for web domains that I don’t think that’s the case. There are a litany of reasons every fanfic reader and writer should be against something like this existing and I’ll outline them all in several other posts later.

Do not email their opt out email address there is no saying what is actually happening with that data and it is simply not worth the risks it could bring up. I hate treating seemingly well meaning people like potential cyber criminals but I’ve seen enough shit by now that it’s better to be safe than sorry. You’re much safer just locking all your fics to account only. I haven’t yet but I may in the future if that is the only option.

If anyone wants a screen reader tutorial and a walk through of my free favorites as well as the native IOS screen reader I can post that later as well. Sorry for the heavy content I know it’s not my normal fare.

#it’s especially insulting the way this is marketed as solving a problem when the solution already exists #ableism #lore.fm #terrible app ideas that shouldn’t happen #serious #accessibility #screen readers #lore.fm should not launch #accessibility tools that are inherently ableist in design #I wish I was making this up

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grelleswife · 11 months

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Hi! I wanted to ask your opinion on why you enjoy Kuroshitsuji if it isn’t too much to answer. Recently I have been feeling like I’m being ‘punished’ for enjoying Kuro because I always see people talking bad about it and Yana on twitter. 😅 I am well aware Kuro has a lot of issues but I really enjoy the characters and such but the opinions of people about the series kind of has been hurting me as a fan and thus I have been losing interest🥲 I was hoping I can talk to someone who is a fan of Kuro that can help give me some mindset or something. I have been drawing for Kuro for years so I’m quite passionate towards the series and Yana herself and but this has been bugging me. If you can’t answer this it is totally okay and you can delete this ask❣️

Hi, anon! That’s not too much at all! My apologies for the late response; I wanted to make sure I could sit down to properly get my thoughts in order before answering.

My love for Kuro was originally (and is to this day) rooted in the source material. The manga and anime introduced me to some of my most beloved fictional characters, including Miss Grelle—as attested to by my url! 😉 The story instantly had me hooked with its campy hijinks, tragic undertones, and forays into the dark corners of the human psyche. Even with the current lag in pacing, I’m excited to see where the Phantomfam’s adventures take us next! And, of course, I would be remiss without mentioning the artwork. In a visual medium like manga, aesthetics can make or break your enjoyment of a series, and Kuro’s Victorian steampunk flair is perfectly suited to my tastes, especially with the steady improvement in quality as Yana’s honed her craft over the years.

However, particularly during this dry season of short chapters and plodding plot progression, it’s the community that grew up around Kuro that nourishes my love for it the most. Naysayers condescendingly sneer that the fandom is dead, but the incredible art, funny memes, awesome animations, excellent fics (some of which outshine published novels I’ve read), insightful meta and more that I see across my dash and in the tags suggest otherwise. And when we come together (such as during past fandom weeks or @anewp0tat0 ‘s recent event to celebrate the 200th chapter) that display of talent burns even brighter. As a writer, building up lore in headcanons and fic or reading my mutual’s creative interpretations of Yana’s world is just as fun—if not more so—than engaging with the actual manga. That enrichment alone is enough to keep me invested in the Kuroverse for the foreseeable future.

The series also holds considerable sentimental value for me because it served as the catalyst for my queer awakening and brought friends and loved ones into my life who I would never have met otherwise. Even if the day comes when I put Kuroshitsuji on the shelf in favor of other stories, that positive impact will remain.

However, that doesn’t mean that the series or fandom are perfect. Yana’s sleazy past and irresponsible pandering to the gross side of the fandom are an unpleasant reality with which we must contend, as are the fujoshis, transphobes, and other creeps—some of whom proved to be a genuine danger to minors—who continue to give us a bad name. But those people who blindly label Kuro as wholesale trash and accuse all fans of condoning the problematic content merely betray their simplistic, black-and-white way of thinking. We cannot and should not sweep the objectionable aspects of the series under the rug, but we can interact with Kuro critically—recognizing and calling out the areas in need of improvement while also cherishing the best parts of this cursed butler manga. As long as you’re consuming media responsibly, and in a way that doesn’t actively harm others, then you have no reason to feel guilty. You sure as heck don’t deserve to be punished!

Ignore the haters as best you can, and try to focus on what first ignited your passion for Kuro; don’t let those jerks steal your joy. 😤 Alternatively, if you need to take a break from that onslaught of negativity and just rest for a bit, that’s fine, too! There’s no shame in stepping away to recharge, and you shouldn’t push yourself to participate in fandom if doing so is detrimental to your well-being.

I’m sorry to hear that you’ve been having a tough time over on the bird app, but I hope my answer was helpful and that Kurohell can continue to be a happy, welcoming place for you! 🖤

#kuro asks #kuroshitsuji #sorry for babbling as i tend to do #but i hope this helped!

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celibate-batjokes-mpreg-yaoi-911 · 1 year

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my girlfriend never got her kronkk shirt so I’ve been causing drama for her for over a year. I’ll start rumors and try to get people to cancel her. not over real issues like silly issues because it’s all half hearted because I support evil women and my girlfriend still likes her and doesn’t know. but every piece of drama surrounding kronkk for the last year or more is tied to me and the shirt issue. I once tried to get kronkk canceled for breaking up with a mutual she never even dated which oddly started fanfiction trends. I spread rumors she’s a man to new radfem blogs just to bother her. I told this one person she was a hollywood nepo baby and they blocked her. I found out who her ex girlfriend was to try to get info but she never responded. I tell people she’s pro life or very religious or calls herself a bi lesbian. I spread rumors she’s a freakfem and that’s she’s actually you. I spread the rumors that she and lavenderfeminist were the same person because lavender’s less funny and I wanted people to think kronkk stopped being funny. I spread a rumor she’s vegan so the hardcore vegans follow her then yell at her for the leather. I spread a rumor that’s she’s a minor so adult people unfollow her. I spread a rumor she’s 50 so the minors unfollow her. I spread a rumor she murdered her former url. I spread a rumor she’s the reason radicallyaligned left tumblr. I spread a rumor she’s the one getting the one person termed. I spread a rumor she’s a trans women or trans man or tra so tras follow her then get peaked or upset at her feminism. I spread a rumor she and you stopped being friends. I anon messaged her mutual and told her I knew her from her hey mamas days and recognized the hands. I spread a rumor she’s annoying to menalez. and I spread a rumor she’s stana for obvious drama reasons. now I feel slightly bad because turns out the shirt issue was a misunderstanding

ok i genuinely cant tell how much of this is just trolling and if theres any truth to it so.. @kronkk

#ask #radblrgossipreborn3.0

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obsoleteozymandias · 6 months

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Hey hey! Can I please have a male marvel match up?

Personality: I’m super chill until you mess with someone I care about or I feel overwhelmed. I’m a nerd when it comes to history (I’m a former history teacher), cultures and music. Although I’m not shy or have that much trouble making friends, I’m kind of a loner. To the point that I’ve moved to other countries by myself and often travel alone. I’m pretty adventurous and I’m an ENTP. I also try to stand up for what’s right and be understanding of those different from me. I’m pretty chill on the outside despite me having both adhd and anxiety and I’m generally friendly to everyone which can get me in trouble sometimes when it’s looked at as flirting. I can be really impatient and easily bored when it comes to romance. I can also be a bit impulsive at times and a risk taker. I’m usually the friend that throws parties or plans trips or hang outs. I’m pretty independent too. I can talk to anyone but I have to recharge and sometimes that can take hours or days of me being alone. I’m really bad about standing up for myself but I stand up for others easily and hate intolerance.

Appearance: I’m a 28 year old black woman with locs that I sometimes put crystals in. I sort of have a whimsigoth style but I also can look like a rockstar’s girlfriend. I’ve been compared to a fairy as far as my features go since I have high cheekbones, look young for my age, feminine with sharpish features and expressive eyes. I have a really smirky smile as well. I’m also genderfluid and can dress pretty androgynous at times.

Interests: I love listening to music, I play bass guitar, love traveling and experiencing other cultures. I also like being in nature, roller skating and crocheting. Depending on the vibe and who I’m with I can be both a partier and a homebody.

Quirks: I’m clumsy, sometimes stutters when my thoughts are too fast and my mouth can’t keep up, if I’m really really attracted to a guy I don’t really talk all that much because I’m nervous that I’ll ramble or say something stupid.

Thank you!

Sorry for the delay chief!

== Marvel ==>

I match you up with…

Pietro Maximoff

Am I biased given your url? Yeah. But I also see the sparks flying.

The first step is getting the two of you past the “talking” stage. Neither of you is particularly keen on love at first sight, so it takes a while to get together in the traditional sense.

What’s most important is that you two blend perfectly.

Pietro isn’t for the faint of heart, however. He needs a relationship where he feels challenged and a partner with a mind of his own, and you’re more than happy to meet him halfway.

Anytime you two argue he comes out of it feeling a bit frustrated, but mostly impressed and thinking “that was hot”.

Sidenote: he finds your musical talents equally hot.

For one, Pietro is all for the punk/whimsical/goth aesthetic. He likes styles that are rebellious and unique in general, but he especially can appreciate when you combine a sense of otherworldlyness. It makes him feel like he’s dating a goddes!

He can respect your need for time to yourself, but he absolutely wants to spend every second of the day with you. He wants the two of you to explore the whole universe together, and though he can certainly do these things on his own, being with you makes it all the more magical.

Perhaps what Pietro admires most of all is your will to stand up for others. He’s seen the evil of this world, and knowing that you exist, not to mention that you chose to be with him, reassures him that there is still good in the world.

Y’all are cute! What else can I say?

#oz’s requests #marvel x reader #marvel matchups #marvel #pietro maximoff #pietro maximoff x reader #matchups

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evansbby · 1 year

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Hey everyone 💜 This is just something personal I thought I’d share. For no reason, really, except I felt like I wanted to and that I should. I’ve never shared this with anyone before and there’s really no purpose to this except I just wanted to write it all down. Please don’t reblog! (Not that anyone would lmao, but just saying). tw: suicide mention

A few years ago, when I was about 17/18, I was quite active on tumblr in a different fandom (not this blog, this is a sideblog that used to be empty and was one of my saved urls before I started posting on here in Feb of last year. Anyways, there was this one person whom I befriended on tumblr and we used to talk on messages like every day. And it got so unhealthy, to the point where I’d feel bad if I was online and didn’t reply to them, and felt like I always had to reply to them or else they’d get passive aggressive? I remember once I told them something along the lines of “hey! maybe it’d be okay if we… didn’t talk every day? like we’d still be friends, friends don’t have to talk every single day” and oh my gosh, they got so passive aggressive about it and made me feel so so guilty that I took it all back. I remember crying actual real tears over this, which is so crazy thinking back. Now, this person wasn’t a bad person and I wish them all the best in whatever they’re doing now and honestly don’t really have any ill feeling towards them. What I’m saying is that I was not emotional equipped or mature enough to be dealing with something like that. And then I remember another person (completely unrelated to this first person) randomly messaged me one day all like “you never speak to me, I thought we were friends!” And wrote all these paragraphs talking about how I don’t speak to them when we were never really close to begin with? And yet I let myself feel bad once more. I just did not have the emotional maturity to be creating boundaries online and all of this was a result of that. So I took a break from tumblr and I remember crying real tears and having a panic attack in the toilet and hoping these people would forgive me for taking a break. A BREAK FROM A DAMN WEBSITE. and then I came back a while later and I had my boundaries set very VERY high.

Which is still true now. Like, I never expected this blog to blow up as much as it has or the sheer volume of asks and messages I get every single day. (Not showing off but idk how else to put it). And I love it, like I love this type of interaction and I feel like this fandom is so much friendlier and healthier than any previous fandoms I’ve been in. Yet a lot of the time I still feel like an outsider, like I have this imposter syndrome. Like all these other blogs are all friends and I’m just there like 🧍🏻lmao. But I feel like that’s bc I’m still so wary bc of what I’ve been through on this website in the past. Like I’ve put up these high walls and I get anxious that a repeat of something like what happened before, will happen again. I feel like I’ve matured from that experience enough to set my boundaries so that I don’t EVER find myself in a position that I’m crying over someone being passive aggressive to me online (although I doubt that would ever happen again, I was like 18 when that happened and I was emotionally a child). And I feel like this is partly why I get overwhelmed so easily when my messages pile up that I just leave them ignored — bc i know this sounds deep and weird but I said to myself that the moment this stops being fun, I need to delete this app bc it’s not worth my mental health.

And it was only much later, when tiktok became a thing and people started sharing their experiences about how they were 12/13/14 and on tumblr trying to persuade a fully grown adult not to unalive themselves, that I realised that so many people have had similar toxic experiences on tumblr. Having grown people trauma dump on you through dm and you feel so guilty and don’t know how to cut them off and you think it’s a true friendship when really it’s not.

Idk why I’m sharing this except for the fact that I just had to write it down. And it still makes me anxious now, as much as I try to deny it. Then I have to remind myself that I’m a grown ass 23 year old now who will never have to go through experiences like that again, bc I am in charge of who I talk to. And this is why I kind of just… am so nervous about talking to people sometimes. Although tbh as I said before, this fandom has been so good to me. Like everyone is so nice and understanding of boundaries and I really love that. I’m happy to be a part of this community and I want to be everyone’s friend but I’m just so in my own head about it. Idk if I’m even making sense anymore, I just feel that a lot of the time I have to second-guess every interaction I make bc I don’t want people to hate me or take my humour the wrong way or find me annoying. Like, that’s my other biggest fear. Or rather, my default feeling: that people on here find my annoying lmao. And I’m not looking for sympathy, and I’ve said this before and y’all amazing people have reassured me that I’m not. But I’m just writing my feels down rn bc it’s kinda therapeutic idk. And idk how to end this so I guess I’ll just end it here lmao. Anyways

#wtf do I tag this as #my thoughts 💭

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well i know asking cledubs for anything but cledubs is a crime, but for the writing prompt, 16 and ranchers? (or anyone else! gladly will accept cledubs <3)

don’t worry about it anon! my url before this was literally teamrancher sooooo

16. have you ever / you wouldn’t dare

team rancher

(ask game)

(i think this is the silliest thing i’ve ever written. so sorry anon. also this was not looked over and also written at like 12am, so beware of any mistakes lol)

(please think of this with the same energy a sleepover has)

It’s just about midnight when Jimmy breaks the silence.

At least, Tango assumes it’s just about midnight. He can’t see the moon through any of the windows, so it must be right above their base.

The two of them should have been asleep ages ago.

“Have you ever eaten plain wheat before?” Jimmy asks

“What?” The question is not at all what he would be expecting, but he certainly is intrigued. “No?”

“Oh no, I was hoping you have! I was wondering why cows and sheep like it so much. It doesn’t seem all that great just by looking at it, yeah?”

Tango hums thoughtfully, and brings his hands up to rest beneath his head. He thinks about the wheat for a moment. It’s very plain, and it doesn’t look very interesting. He definitely wouldn’t eat it on it’s own. “You do have a point there, my friend. Why do they like it so much? And they eat it every day! It can’t be that good right?”

“That’s what I’m saying! Imagine chewing on that all day. Kind of gross, isn’t it?”

Tango nods, but he realizes that Jimmy can’t see him in the dark of their room. “Yep, agreeing with you there.”

The quiet returns for another few minutes. Tango can hear the quiet moos of the cows that are still awake, much like himself. The sound strikes an idea into his head. It feels like one of those lightbulb moments from a cartoon.

“Jimmy, I just had the best idea.” Tango says, sitting up in his bed.

“Do tell!” Jimmy replies, equally as excited.

“What if we asked someone else to try eating the wheat, so we don’t have to? In case it’s gross!” He suggests.

“But why would anyone want to eat wheat? Especially if it’s us asking, I feel like they would be suspicious.”

“Oh. True.” Tango lies back down in his bed, his metaphorical light bulb having turned off.

The silence falls over them again.

“Do you think anyone else has eaten wheat?” Jimmy asks. “I think out of everyone here, Martyn is most likely.”

“That’s a good one!” Tango says. “Hmm. I think Ren would be most likely. He seems like the type of guy to eat plants that he shouldn’t.

“True, true. I feel like Joel would, but he would lie to everyone that he hasn’t.”

“That does seem very Joel!” Tango agrees. “I think my top three most-likely-to-eat-wheat list would go like this,” He holds a hand outwards. “At the top, Ren. He would eat all types of grass, no doubt!” Tango takes his other hand and puts it below the first one. “Second, Martyn. He’s a curious type of guy!” He takes the first hand and moves it to the bottom of the stack. “Third, Joel. He just would.”

Jimmy hums in agreement. “You’ve made a good list! That’s a solid top three if I’ve ever seen one.”

“Mhm mhm, I’m a genius, I know.” He grins. “Best ranker there is. I should be given a medal with ‘best ranker ever’ engraved into it.”

Jimmy laughs. “You should! That would be so great!”

“Oh no, now I’m actually tempted!” Tango laughs along with him.

Their laughter dies out, and for the third time the room falls into quiet.

“What if it tastes really good? I mean, bread tastes amazing, and we use wheat to make bread.”

“We do…” Tango replies slowly, thinking. “Oh you’re a genius, it probably just tastes like bread!”

“You get it!” Jimmy says, louder than he should be in the middle of the night. “Why don’t we just try some? If it tastes like bread, it can’t be that bad right?”

“Right.” Tango sits up, and steps out of his bed. He lights one of the torches on the wall, illuminating the room in a soft orange light.

Jimmy joins him and they both walk over to where the wheat storage is. They each take a bundle.

The two of them lock eyes. To them, at midnight, that is the funniest thing in the world. Laughter fills the room and Tango leans against counter, trying to hold himself up.

Jimmy takes deep breaths. He manages to calm down, wheat still in hand.

“Should we?” He gestures to the bundle.

Tango shrugs. “I mean, that’s what we came to do right?”

“I’ll count down.” Jimmy decides. “Three.”

Tango looks at the wheat.

“Two.”

He desperately tries to avoid looking at Jimmy’s face. It would be a shame to start another laughing fit.

“One.”

They bite into their respective bundles of wheat.

There’s a pause, and they look at each other.

“It’s so bland.” Jimmy sighs.

“Yep.” Tango agrees.

#this was so dumb #goodness gracious #hope you enjoyed #i haven’t written either of these guys before so sorry if their dialogue is off :((#i do watch tango regularly tho so if i got his voice wrong then that would not be very good #sam.post #hmmm i should start a fic tag #sam.fic #double life smp

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seattlewa-hq · 1 year

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An Introduction to the Beta Editor

Hello all! I’ve gotten some feedback that the tutorials on using the new Beta editor and xKit Rewritten has been confusing a few people, so I wanted to make my own! I’ll try to cover everything below, but if something isn’t clear or you need extra help, let me know please! This post is gonna be pretty long, but I sectioned it up so hopefully you can find what you need with ease.

Step 1. Switching to Beta

You very well may be able to skip this part, because all new blogs are automatically switched to the newer editor. But if you’re still using an older blog, don’t worry, it’s easy! There should be a big purple button in the corner, pretty hard to miss. Should look like this!

Go ahead and hit “Let’s go!” and, well... let’s go!

Step 2. Getting to Know Beta

The Beta editor is very, very different from what we’re all used to. But really, it’s kind of intuitive in a lot of ways. You have to know a lot less shortcuts. Whenever you highlight your text, you’ll see this little guy pop up:

Now, from left to right, here’s what we’re looking at: strikethrough, bold, italics, small text, link in text, and colored text. Most of your keyboard shortcuts should still work (I can’t speak for all computers, but the shortcut for small text no longer works for me with the Beta editor), but we also have handy-dandy buttons now, too! We also have the 'Regular' drop down menu, which opens this:

This one is pretty self explanatory, and it shows what the text will look like if you select that option.

Step 3. Finer Details

I’m still personally getting used to a lot of the smaller details that come with the Beta editor, but here are some that I’ve learned! Hopefully I’ll be adding to this list when more troubleshooting comes into my realm of knowledge.

Auto-Readmores: For whatever reason, Tumblr has taken to cropping any posts over a certain length by itself? Annoying, but this is something you can toggle on/off in your Dashboard Settings!

Editing Tags: This isn’t something that needs to be fixed, but it was big news to me! Instead of having to delete your tag completely when you’ve made a typo, you can just edit your post and edit the tag! Handy!

Links on Gifs: This isn’t a bad thing, it’s just new, different, and weird. But if you dislike it, there is a way to stop it from happening! It’s just a manual task. When you copy and paste a gif into your reply, you’ll see three little images on it. We’re going to click on the circled one below.

That’ll open up a link box, with a link to your gif. Just backspace that, hit the ‘Done’ button, and boom! No more link at the bottom of your gif!

Step 4. xKit Rewritten

I know what a lot of people’s main concern is: cropping replies. This is how we get to that point. The first step is going to be to download the newest iteration of xKit. You do not have to uninstall your old one to do this, they coexist on purpose! New xKit and xKit Rewritten have different features, so I’ve found it best to have both and utilize all the features!

xKit rewritten is a Chrome extension, and it can be found at this link! Just follow the instructions on that page to install it. Once it’s all good and installed, it’ll be found next to your other extensions, or by the URL bar on your browser window. Looks like this!

Now you have xKit Rewritten!

Step 5. Cropping Replies

Alright, this is where the money is. Just like with regular xKit, you have to toggle on the setting that allows you to cut replies down. Once you click on that purple X icon, you’ll see a drop down with lots of options. I’ve underlined the one we’re looking for right now, "Trim Reblogs."

Once you toggle that little switch on, you can go ahead and start replying. If you’re replying to a starter, then there is no need to worry about this feature. You have nothing to crop, so don’t worry! But if you’re replying to an active thread, here’s what you’re gonna do. Type out your reply, format it however you want, and then draft it. Then we’re gonna go into our drafts.

Here’s my thread with three tiers to it! The standard is two replies per post, and that’s what a lot of people like to stick to. So let’s make that happen! If you’ll notice at the bottom of that draft, there’s a scissor icon. I drew an arrow to it in the photo above. We’re gonna click on that.

And that icon brings this up! You’ll see it says “Select trail items to remove,” and it shows the trails separately. “Trails” are each individual reblog, and of course, we only want two of those, not three. This is really easy to fix! We’re just gonna select that top “trail,” aka the first reply in the thread, and hit the “Trim!” button.

And once we’ve done that, the first “trail” is gone! You just have the two more recent replies on the post, and you’re good to reblog it!

The one caveat of this is that you can no longer edit parts of other people’s replies, so you can’t format the posts to your heart’s content like we’re used to. A downside for sure, but so far, this isn’t something there’s a fix for. Hopefully in the future, xKit will figure that out for us!

Step 6. That’s All!

Once you have all that down, you’re a master of the Beta editor and a master of xKit Rewritten! Tumblr staff has mentioned phasing out the Legacy editor all together in the future, so it appears this will be our new reality. It is worth it to mention that the Beta editor is still, well, in beta, so it is subject to change. If it does and we get even more features or work-arounds, I’ll be sure to come back and edit this post! Until then, if you have any questions, please let me know! I am here to help!

xoxo, Kirby

#idek what to tag this...#sewa.admin #beta editor

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frecklystars · 1 year

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Hi sweet anon, I wrote a long response for you, I’m going to answer you under the readmore here:

Wow... yes, that’s her, you are correct. I censored out her URL because I don’t want people to go to her inbox and say “oooh people are talking about you” or for her to think I’m trying to start a dumb war against her or whatever. We have every right to vent about our feelings and I’ve been making sure I don’t mention her name/URL because that’s just a recipe for disaster on tumblr dot com. Anyway:

Thank you for taking the time to write this to me, and especially thank you for even telling me about this, I’m sure it’s not easy to type out these bad memories. Your words are extremely comforting. I’ve felt so bad for so long, it eases my mind a bit to know that you are rooting for me... as I am rooting for you, anon! ❤

You are the FIFTH PERSON in my inbox/DMs to come forward and tell me “hey, I think you might be venting about [person] based on the behavior you’re describing, and yeah she hurt me too”. Please know, you’re not alone. It’s extremely unfortunate, especially since she has such a large presence in the Transformers community because she buys commissions from literally anybody who breathes. It’s difficult to avoid her and to escape the bad memories when she’s always floating around. You have every right to be upset about it, you have every right to share your feelings, and I’m really grateful you shared your feelings with me and connected with me.

God, I’m so sorry to hear that she hurt you, anon. I can definitely empathize with you as someone who just went through it, without contact with anyone else at all, I just had nothing but M’s abuse cycling through me for several months. The fact that she even spread rumors about you, after hurting you like that, that’s terrible. If it makes you feel better, she probably spread rumors about me too, honestly that’s why I was so calm and gentle with her even when I was so angry cutting her off. My final messages to her were so polite because I was afraid that she’d spread rumors about me and make all of my friends leave me, because I wasn’t online to defend myself.

It’s unfair that you had to go through someone you trusted cutting you off completely out of nowhere like that, and then spreading lies about you online. I wish you didn’t have to go through that. No friendship is EVER worth that kind of pain.

But honestly why does she even have the right to spread rumors? I have screenshots of her asking my friends for my dad’s phone number, I have screenshots of her saying how she wanted to go after my ex-gf, I have screenshots of her discord messages and her texts where she was showing textbook emotional abusive behavior. Where is HER proof of the things YOU supposedly did? Why does SHE have the right to treat people like this, why does she get pity for being so miserable, when she is the one hurting her own friends? Friends who didn’t even do anything to her in the first place?? I’m so fucking angry on your behalf, anon, what she did is fucking sick and I’m so heartbroken to hear that she’s hurt a handful of people -- and the only people I know of at the moment are the people who came forward!! There’s probably even more people that haven’t come forward who she hurt too. It’s unfair and I am so sorry that you went through any of that shit. I’m so sorry you got tangled into her mess.

You are not alone. I’m sorry she nearly tainted Starscream for you. Speaking from experience of having Starscream and all transformers just in general being completely and utterly ruined, it is a TERRIBLE feeling. My heart goes out to you for experiencing literally any level of that pain. It’s horrific. Thank you for reaching out to me about it and for empathizing -- you are right, in a time when you’re struggling with anxiety and depression, you need your comfort characters!! It’s VITAL to have them! Going from “I have never felt so loved in my life” to “I can’t look at this character without believing he is literally physically going to Hurt Me” is a catastrophic whirlwind of Bad Emotions. You’re absolutely right, anon. It’s a violation. It really does feel like a part of me has been ripped away from me, it feels like my own heart is missing.

I really hope that you were able to reconnect with Starscream, I really really hope you didn’t lose him completely. It’s miserable and you don’t deserve to go through that. You seem like a nice person, you took the time to type all of this out and send it to me when you saw I needed someone to tell me that my feelings were valid.

I really appreciate you reaching out. You have no idea how much better you made me feel, knowing I wasn’t completely alone. Please, if you’re comfortable with it, feel free to dm me if you ever want to vent about it, or even if you just want to chat about other stuff, it doesn’t have to be bad memories. If you need anything, let me know, from one Starscream appreciater to another ❤

#anonymous #asks

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bigothteddies · 1 year

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About

Age: 24

Gender: Male(ish)

Name: Teddy

Location: Midwest USA

Relationship Status: Owner of @meatexe

Previous URL’s: @bdsmteddy -> @gothteddies -> @bigothteddies (current)

Kinks: sadism, pet play, bondage, kidnapping, cnc, exhibitionism, choking, impact play, daddy/dad kink, object insertion, breeding, cum play, degradation, objectification, blasphemy, monster fucking, etc. etc.

Additional: I've been around on here for almost 6 years now. I've gone through highs and lows with my blogs and their deletions. I post mostly original textposts, occasionally photos and audios of myself. I also reblog a lot of other creators content, and I have a half baked tag system as well that you can use to navigate my blog for the content you're looking for. Beneath this are some rules for my blog and interacting with me, please take the time to read them as it does not take very long and neither are they very complicated. If you'd like, you can like this post afterward to demonstrate that you've read this post and understand them. Thank you for sparing some time out of your day to check out my silly little blog.

Rules

• please do not leave reblog comments on my posts. Instead, if you have something to say, you can make your own post. If you like my post, you can say so in the tags. If you want to tag a friend, you can dm it to them or send them a link to it.

• please do not send me any anonymous asks with signatures attached to them. I have no interest in getting to know who the latest emoji signature belongs to in my inbox. If you are asking off of a sideblog and want to put your url in the ask so I know who it’s from, that’s completely fine. I have no problem with that, I take an issue with people who use anonymous signatures like emojis or random nicknames/titles in my inbox. I’ve had some bad experiences with them as well as finding them generally creepy.

• please do not send me graphically sexual asks. I find it to be really off-putting and uncomfortable. I don’t want to be told your fantasies, I don’t want to help you get off, I don’t want to sext in my inbox, I don’t want to dm you to talk more, I don’t want you sending me paragraphs about what my posts made you think of, I don’t want people expanding upon my posts and trying to continue scenarios with me that I didn’t ask for. I find the idea of strangers that don't know anything about me attempting to sexually engage with me without asking for consent really creepy and uncomfortable. I don’t have any desire to interact with you sexually, so please respect that.

• please do not try to be funny or write your own sexy posts in my inbox. I know that it was a weird trend on here the last few years to be funny in peoples inboxes to get the bloggers reactions and then for the resulting post to get a ton of notes. I also know that there are other textpost bloggers that enjoy when anons leave them horny ideas in their inbox so that they can talk about it and expand the concept. I don’t enjoy either of those. Please just make your own posts and leave me out of it.

#linked posts #finally getting around to some blog maintenance I guess!

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morelikedoccock · 2 years

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I’m about to dig into some drama because I haven’t felt this incredibly disrespected by someone on the internet for a long time. If you like my content and/or how I deal with things and are curious to know what’s going on, I’m explaining below.

I’m gonna start out with this:

I am not going to answer questions about this.

Do NOT go to this user and send them anon hate.

Sending anon hate accomplishes absolutely nothing and it’s a shitty thing to do. Just don’t.

So, I relatively recently blocked someone here (not going to name drop because that’s fucking rude, as I’ll get into later) and on Twitter for several reasons, but as I’ve said before, no one needs a reason to block here. It’s the internet. I had BARELY even spoken to this person. They responded by block evading to beg for a reason, and also asked their friend to message me about it. I didn’t reply, feeling increasingly like my boundaries were being disregarded and disrespected.

Then I was told that they’d been vaguing about me on Twitter, and as much as I support a little vaguing, it was bordering on obsessive and kinda creeping me out.

THEN TODAY I discovered that they had posted a fic inspired by my au without my permission, but not only that, the first chapter of their fic is a long-winded and wildly invasive author’s note complaining about how I had blocked them. An authors note IN WHICH THEY USED MY NAME. My actual NAME, not my url (which would’ve been just barely been better).

This really upset me. It’s a blatant and open disregard of my boundaries and wishes, and also… posting personal drama to a PUBLIC FANFICTION SITE is so incredibly immature and just not okay. In response to reading their author’s note, I sent them a long and extremely reasonable message detailing why I’d blocked them and that I was very upset. I told them that I wanted them to delete the author’s note. I would prefer if they hadn’t posted the fic in the first place but I can’t tell them to take it down, I just told them to delete the author’s note. They sent me an immature reply and refused.

I was originally tempted to post the full message I sent them and their reply, but I decided that wasn’t the best idea. Instead, I wanna address this one bit of their response:

I’m still snorting over this.

1. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I don’t think I’m a good person. If being a good person means setting aside your own personal boundaries so people can walk all over you for their own pleasure, than I’m perfectly happy being a bad person with clear boundaries.

2. Why the fuck am I your hero?? What have I done to warrant that kind of parasocial worship???? I simply make art, write fic, and complain about stupid fandom drama. I am a regular ass person who happens to enjoy creating and has a decent amount of experience doing so. I do regular people things like work and eat and agonize over existence, and if you have decided to use your imagination to make me into someone that I am not, that is not my problem. Being treated like this makes me not want to share my art or fic. I’m just vibing. Ffs I am just desperately trying to connect with people who respect me/enjoy fandom content. Also, because I NEED to be petty, it’s *heros* (plural) not *hero’s* (singular possessive).

Anyway, after I sent them the message and got their reply, I ended the conversation and blocked them again. But now they have already gotten an anon hate comment on their fic (again, DON’T DO THIS) and they posted about it to their tumblr and Twitter claiming it was me who sent it.

I don’t send anon hate. I’m way too fucking anxious and also too old for that shit. I’ve done my best to take the idea of “the opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference” concept to heart. Yes I will absolutely complain about being disrespected, but I do it in my own fucking space (aka here), and I’ll do my damnest to ignore any drawn out bullshit they continue to stir up.

So yeah. I’m honestly really riled up by this. I had been nothing but reasonable toward them, including my decision to block them, (in fact I blocked them in the beginning because they posted the same fic without asking and then gave them a second chance when they asked) and now they are claiming/implying that I’m harassing them.

If you’ve ever had more than a single conversation with me, or if you’ve ever read any of my long posts about this kind of stuff, you’d know that I try hard asf to be decent. I don’t send anon hate. I don’t name drop. But I do block without hesitation if something doesn’t click for me, and if someone doesn’t respect that boundary, I get pissed.

If you’ve gotten this far, I am platonically and respectfully smooching you on the forehead. If you still enjoy my artwork and writing, I would appreciate if y’all stick around. I know I’m not posting as often, but it’s nice to feel like I’ve got respectful people on here who appreciate what I do.

And finally, if you’re reading this and you know them: good, tell them I said to leave me alone. I’m tired of their childish bullshit.

#cerbin speaks #discourse #respect my boundaries ffs #I’m so goddamn tired #and again do not send them anon hate

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