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faesystem · 11 months
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Last Updated: 01/05/2023
Table of contents:
1. Tags
2. About Us
3. Boundaries
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Tags
Q - It is the queue tag, although it is very rare that we actually end up using it. We typically just add things to queue without any signifier.
Upsetti Spaghetti - This is the tag that indicates the content of the post will be heavy in some manner.
Discourse - This tag was the previous Upsetti Spaghetti tag. However, as not all Upsetti Spaghetti posts are discourse related, it will no longer be in use going forward.
Fandom Subsection - This is the tag used for content related to fandoms.
Disabled Subsection - This is the tag used for content related to disability.
Queer Subsection - This is the tag used for content related to LGBTQ+ topics.
Syscourse Subsection - This is the tag used for content related to syscourse.
Misc Subsection - This is the tag used for any content that does not fit into the other subsections. This will include fandom content for fandoms I am not in that I reblogged because they were funny, and anything discourse related outside of syscourse.
Longform Post - For longform discussion-based posts that I have inserted my thoughts into.
Wowza That Is A Lot - This is the tag used for long fandom posts. In particular, ones that boarder on fanfiction.
I Am Providing Prompts - This is the tag used for prompts I provide. This will also include Wowza That Is A Lot posts.
Ert - This is the tag used for art. In particular art either one if us has made, a friend has made, or we wish to save for some reason or another.
ert to study - this tag is used for art we wanna study and learn from! (and by we i mean tim) -mikey
Remember This For Later - This is the tag used on posts that I wish to locate later. Posts that are within this tag may get removed at a later date when I no longer need to recall them, so ensure you are not using my blog to save it.
This Is Stimmy - This is the tag for things that we found 'stimmy'/wish to stim with in the future.
Groundinghelp - This is the tag for content we have saved in relation to grounding.
Mod [Name] [Pronouns] - This is the tag that indicates which alter made the post. It also provides their pronouns. Should the tag be "Mod ? [Pronouns]" it indicates that whoever made the post either did not know who was fronting or did not wish to share. You can use the name Griffin in this case.
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About Me
(TLDR: DID system. Please refer to alters individually not collectively. 17. FTM. Australian.)
We have dissociative identity disorder. This is the first thing I bring up because a couple of things about it are relevant.
1. We are informally diagnosed by our psychologist, who is a trauma specialist specialising in complex cases. An informal diagnosis in our case means that our psychologist has assessed and determined we do have dissociative identity disorder and is treating us for it, but has not provided us with an on-record diagnosis. There are many reasons as to why the diagnosis is informal, feel free to enquire.
2. We have an overt presentation of DID and are working on unmasking to combat dissociation. An aspect of unmasking for us involves allowing each of us to individually express ourselves. We ask that you refer to us individually.
Those two were the most relevant aspects of bringing up our dissociative identity disorder. I do have some other I suppose fun(?) get to know us facts.
We specifically have complex-dissociative identity disorder (also known as polyfragmented-dissociative identity disorder, or C-DID/PF-DID).
We, I suppose you could say, offically discovered the disorder just over 2 years and 2 months ago as of the time of this post. However, there is also a self-insert fanfiction we found from when we were thirteen about us having dissociative identity disorder that was written by four alters we do in fact know exist.
We do not have a host. I do not know how to elaborate further on that, but we do not. Feel free to enquire if you are confused by that.
Beyond us having dissociative identity disorder, here is some other information about us.
We live in Australia.
We are 17.
We are a transgender man. Yes, all of us are a transgender man and we view the body as male. No, that does not mean that our individual gender identities are less valid. If you are confused by this feel free to enquire.
There is not much more I can say about us collectively, and I am going to spare individual introductions for seperate posts.
I suppose I will just end off by repeating what I have said a couple of times. If you have any questions, feel free to enquire. I am always happy to educate.
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Boundaries
Refer to us with our individual names and pronouns. Please do not refer to us collectively. This is the biggest boundary we are putting in place. We are now using tumblr as a place to unmask to assist with some very severe dissociation we have been experiencing for months. This is very important.
The only time it is acceptable to refer to us collectively is if you do not know who was fronting. In this case, Griffin and he/him is acceptable. There is no other instance in which this is acceptable.
If you are referring to things multiple alters have contributed to, for example, please still refer to alters individually as you would if multiple seperate people had contributed to the post.
We understand that this is not particularly accessible. It is absolutely alright if you get it wrong, but please try. It will not be as difficult as it sounds, as most of us are likely to have specific niches we post in.
Treat introjects (fictives) just as you would everyone else. Introjects are not fictional characters, they are real people with real thoughts and feelings. It is never alright to dehumanize someone like that, especially not because of a symptom of their disorder. It is incredibly ableist. If you are genuinely trying not to do this and do not know how, feel free to send in an ask.
Do not interact with us if you are blocked. This includes screenshotting our posts to respond. If you are blocked and have read all of this, I highly doubt this will stop you, but I am explicitly stating it regardless due to one specific individual.
Aside from these two things, we do not have any particular boundaries that come to mind. I would add something like, "Do not be ableist to me for the manner in which I speak," but people who do not care about being ableist are also unlikely to stop that in the face of a boundary. For a similar reason we will not be establishing a Do Not Interact.
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goldheartedsky · 3 years
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I told myself I wasn’t going to make a post like this—that I wasn’t going to stoop to the level of making call-out posts—but I really can’t stay silent after what has happened in the last day or so.
The TOG fandom has a serious issue with excusing antisemitism and allowing people who have painfully hurt marginalized groups to continue to ignore, dismiss, and refuse to acknowledge their limits of intersectionality in regards to social justice. I have seen it myself, been on the receiving end of it, and have talked to other Jews in this fandom about what’s been going on and it needs to start being addressed.
Now, I’m not going to name names or tag people (mainly because I have been blocked by almost all of them for this very issue) but if you message me I will gladly tell you the users involved in this. Also, if you have doubts of any of this’s validity and would like screenshots, feel free to reach out to me here or via Discord and I will share them.
A lot of this started when a member of the All&More server had brought up the scientific and medical “discoveries” during the torture and medical experimentation that took place during the Third Reich and how a lot of the origin of it isn’t taught. LR made a comment saying that “we are three-dimensional creatures who are stuck moving forward in time and can’t go back” and added that not using the research won’t make past horrors not happen. When the original user added that there has been a movement in medicine for removing Nazi scientists names off discoveries and that progress was slow moving, she deflected the conversation onto herself, saying “Not using research won’t make my family not harmed by the Japanese” and then immediately pivoted into admitting that, from what she understood, there weren’t any particularly valid scientific discoveries made by them. She then said, in regards to said Nazi atrocities, “Take it, learn about it, put it in context, and then own it and transform it.”
A Jewish member of A&M voiced their discomfort about possibly taking medicine that was a direct result of the murder of their grandparents and other relatives, to which LR said, “Still stuck in the 3rd dimension, still moving forward in time.” I brought up the fact that medicine was built on antisemitism and racism and that starting over would be better than a lot of the procedures we have now. There is a longstanding issue in medicine of disregarding black pain and so much of what we have now is created by eugenicists—including Nazi scientists. There is still a lot of Jewish trauma due to medical experimentation and that is oftentimes dismissed.
LR then made a flippant comment about “Does this count as Godwin’s Law?”—which is about how all internet discussions lead to someone being compared to Nazis/Hitler. When called out on the inappropriateness of the comment, she did not respond and was backed up by one of the mods of the server. There was no apology made nor an acknowledgment about the casual antisemitism of the comments she made and the dismissal of Jewish trauma/pain.
Now, fast forward a couple months when I was contacted by a third party who had not been in the server at the time but had joined and heard about what LR had said there. H said they were friends with LR and had concerns about antisemitism and would like my perspective. I explained what had happened and offered screenshots if they would like them, which they did. They thanked me and apologized that it got to a point that I felt unsafe in the server and had to leave, which I appreciated.
A couple weeks later they reached out to me again and offered to broker a conversation between LR and myself because the situation wasn’t sitting well with them. I was skeptical (because I had been blocked at that point) and didn’t have a lot of hope that this conversation would actually take place but I felt a responsibility to try and be the bigger person and deal with what had been said head on, so I agreed to sit down and have a discussion with her as long as there was a third party in the chat as well—given our history.
After a couple weeks of back and forth with H and hearing that LR had said that she would “think about it”, she finally agreed. I was asked for a time and date and I gave my availability and was told she would be asked for the same. A couple days later, I was suddenly told LR would only be comfortable with this conversation if H acted as a “literal go-between” with us copy-pasting our responses in their DMs so we can “sit with the message and everyone can get to them when they can” rather than it being a session with an actual back and forth and was asked if I was okay with that. I honestly said no, because this was supposed to be a situation where she and I sat down and discussed what she said in the server, not a back and forth message relay where the conversation got dragged out for days or weeks or however long it was going to take. I said if she was serious about meeting me halfway on this, she needed to be able to sit down and actually talk.
H copy-pasted my response to LR and came back that she had backed out of the conversation, which part of me had expected from the beginning—even though all I wanted from this sit down was for her to understand how hurtful the antisemitic comments were and an apology.
These comments that were made in the server are not a secret. It’s pretty well known what was said and again, these were all on record, not privately made in some DM. She has still not owned up to the comments she said, nor has she ever apologized for them. She has ignored message after message about them and blocked more people than I can count. Many of the people defending her when the discourse begins have also been messaged about the comments she’s said and also either block people or ignore the messages completely and refuse to acknowledge them.
Now, this being said, in the most recent conversation about fandom racism, someone brought up the post that was made reducing users on ao3 to faceless, nameless numbers without saying who they were, what they had done, and how they were specifically contributing to the problem of racism in this fandom. They made the comparison of other situations like HR looking at pay stats to see how to fire and included “Nazis, capitalists, and colonizers.”
This is not an invalid argument. There have been other Jews in the fandom who specifically voiced feeling uncomfortable for the exact same reason. However, another person, LT, decided to specifically make a post calling the OP out and drag them for having the audacity to liken it to the Shoah (which, mind you, this person is not Jewish nor did they decide to capitalize Shoah or the Holocaust as they should have). She received a reply saying, “you’re offended by antisemitism? Here’s LR’s (someone LT has agreed with multiple times over racism in fandom) track record of antisemitic comments” which outlined everything I delved into previously.
LT said that they were “unaware of this incident until a couple days ago” but agreed that it was an upsetting display of casual dismissal of Jewish pain and hoped that LR had apologized. She was then called out for being aware of it and still continuing to reblog LR’s posts even after knowing about the comments and was linked to my post clarifying that LR had not apologized and refused a discussion about it, to which LT said that she had gotten “quite a different version outlined in the post linked and corroborated by a third party” and “felt uncomfortable” making a value judgement, insinuating that I was not being truthful about my side of the story.
I messaged LT off-anon and said that I was not lying nor over-exaggerating about what had happened in the server or about the following discussion about trying to broker a conversation with LR, and was immediately blocked by her. I am also not the only Jew who has sent her messages about this topic, only to have their messages ignored.
Now, am I surprised that I was immediately blocked after voicing my issues with what LT had said in that post? No.
She has a history of making antisemitic comments, most of which happened during the brunt of the Israel/Palestine discussion happening, which included statements such as “You cannot be considered indigenous if you hold a position of power”, that, despite having been displaced for 2,000 years, the Jewish diaspora was “integrated” into their respective communities (a wholly untrue statement), as well as linked to and promoted a website with extremely antisemitic articles including one about “Spartan Jews” and how Israeli Jews are violent to “send messages to their deprived self-esteem” that they won’t be victims again. Half of the comments on the site’s front page included such hits as “Death to all Jews” and “Wow, I had no idea this was happening—I guess it is true that Jews control the world and the mass media.” This website was repeated in multiple posts as “unbiased” and “a good resource” for other people to truly know what was going on.
Jewish dissent on the content of some posts and that website went unacknowledged and dismissed.
Being that LT is a relatively big user in the TOG fandom, her posts got circulated frequently. Seeing things like that touted as unbiased was extremely triggering for me and multiple Jews in this fandom that I’ve spoken to.
Now, the reason I made this post in particular was because I have seen a lot of echoing of the sentiment: “no matter how much you disagree with their sentiment, aligning yourself with racists is...well aligning yourself with racists.”
This statement NEEDS to become intersectional. If we are criticizing the work of people because of who they hold company with, why does that end at racism? If we are going to have a discussion about racism in this fandom, why are we letting it come from people who have openly said antisemitic things, people who have stood by them and supported them in silence, and people who have silenced Jewish voices speaking up about this issue.
These are not separate issues. This is a really good post regarding the white washing of Jews in social justice discussion and it comes full circle into the medical experimentation discussion. Jews were not seen as white during the Holocaust. The Nazis were trying to cleanse the Aryan race because they did not view Jews as white. They experimented on them because they did not view them as white and, thus, disposable.
Every Jewish diasporic community is still vulnerable. Even though the US has half the world’s Jews, over 50% of the religiously based hate crimes are consistently anti-Jewish even though Jews make up 2% of the population. Chinese Jews are still holding their holiday celebrations in secret due to government crackdowns. The attempted genocide of Beta Israel was less than 50 years ago. Across the Middle East and North Africa, Jewish communities are barely hanging on after centuries of attempted destruction. These are not just Jewish issues but racial issues as well because when people make the sweeping generalization of “Jew” and they only mean white-passing Ashkenazi Jews, it erases so much of our community.
I absolutely agree that this fandom needs to have a discussion about race and portrayal in fic and what we can do better moving forward—and I want to see that done—but we also need to acknowledge what so many people starting this discussion have said and the marginalized groups they have hurt along the way. I see these posts come across my dashboard and know exactly who they're coming from and what they think of people like me. If we are going to say, “No matter how much you disagree with their sentiment, aligning yourself with racists is aligning yourself with racists,” then we NEED to be saying, “If you are aligning yourself with antisemites, you’re aligning yourself with antisemites.”
We all need to move forward. But that means moving forward together. Jews included.
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More Divaz confos
Mod: Round two of these, previously: link. There’s some interesting customer reviews in this batch (5 and 8) which may be useful to readers.
1.Vic3mage "the secret bjdivaz vip group is just pictures of boxes coming in and going out". Yeah, between the bitching about d0llshe, asking people to post on doa for them, dunking on ex-customers, posting pics of random doll parts that they can't identify which doll they're supposed to go with, whining about how little money they make, whining when ppl e-mail them, whining. Yeah, other than that it's just boxes, and alpacas u can buy off amazon anyway lol.
~Anonymous
2.The butthurt users crying and guilttripping under every Divaz confession who have never been seen before elsewhere on this blog are extremely unsuspicious and unproblematic and definitely unconnected to Divaz and unbiased in every possible way
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~Anonymous
3.idk shit abt bjd1vas but v1cemage i can absolutely tell you the shit about ch0o is 100% accurate, fucker's got a long, long history of being an awful little man that stretches well beyond his involvement in the doll community. between the two i'd still trust bjd1vas over ch00 ch00 the fool any day!
~Anonymous
4.The Z3st and Div4s thing is really silly and both entities were being shady but did they really have to take the DZ waiting room down with them? :( He had even made a separate thread about it......
~Anonymous 
5. RE: BJD Divaz
I’ve been a customer of BJD Divaz since they first started, when it was only run by Chart3rline. I even contacted other BJD companies trying to persuade them to work with Divaz as their US representative. Most declined because they didnt like D's commission fee, but I was able to persuade a few of them.
I asked them to purchase a doll off DOA because I couldnt afford the asking price, and while they did, I found out later that instead of agreeing to purchase the seller's price, they negotiated the price to be lower. This significantly cheaper price was not passed down to me. I paid the full price +the commission fee based on that full price. I am disappointed I was not told this. This is when I stopped viewing them as a "friend" and instead, as a business. I dont hold this against them, it’s context to what Im going to say later.
I’ve stopped purchasing from D after my recent order from them. This company usually takes 3 or less months to make a doll. I’ve ordered the doll from D and it took 11 months. They let me know it arrived to them in March and that it will be shipped soon, except it only shipped on July, and only after I sent them several "reminder" emails. Before people in the comments try to put the blame on me for not sending a reminder soon, please keep in mind that I acknowledged the email in March and confirmed everything and they keep stressing to not send them emails because they are busy, I’ve emailed once every month since. I’ve since switched to ACBJD and Ive been happy with communication and the dolls ordered. I imagine ACBJD gets the same amount of emails, but they dont berate their customers if they email more than once.
I regret when people wanted a D0llshe, but not deal with him, I always recommended D. I would warn people of ordering directly and instead go through D. They assured buyers they would be handling communication and all the efforts so they wouldnt worry, except they didn’t. A person that I’ve recommended D to, who surpassed 2 years, keeps messaging me for help because D wouldnt reply to their emails. She is respectful, sweet and a timid person, not a Karen. This person, emailed D without a reply so would email a week later, only to be told that their email would be pushed down to the bottom if emailed again. No response, so she goes to FB and IG, who both tell her to email because they arent the person running orders. Finally got a response that they would get their refund, after D0llshe sends D's payment, but minus the PP fees. 3 months later and theres no refund, only a promise of them getting it later. Why is the customer missing out on fees when they have no doll? Customer emails d0llshe and he says he cant offer refund, because they didn’t order through them, which is understandable, but when all options are out for a customer, do you blame them for chargebacks?
If anyone files a chargeback, D will be blacklisting them from every company they rep, as in blacklisting you from buying direct from those companies. I urge everyone who has negative experiences with D to email the companies they rep instead of venting on confession blogs, and writing your experiences on social media. Make it count and send letters to the companies they represent, and please provide proof because they will try to make you out to be a liar.
Speaking of, they made vague posts on cl0ver singing for charging paypal fees, and that they offer guarantees as an official dealer, except when offering refunds, to non delivered products I might add, they are keeping the fees, and offered no help with d0llshe, even before they ended their dealership with them. Someone on DOA was told to not email them unless the wait time surpassed 1.5 years. They are even so petty that they post screenshots with the full name and address (dox) of the customer on purpose and then delete it out a day later as if they just realized their "mistake".
Before you try to make excuses for them about the fires, keep in mind, I am dealing with a business. The lower price negotiation with the DOA sale, I am in no way obligated to give them a pass or treat them as a friend when they made it clear that our relationship is strictly business. Their issues, are not my issues. D0lk got dragged for not shipping in time, others, including artisans, got dragged for being so late with communication and sending back refunds for cancelled orders. Why does D get to be exempt?
The supporters are the worst part of this, because of instead of being honest so D can improve, they support them for being "real". For example, look how micemage words it, to make it seem like this criticism is from one person, when there are people on addicts who didn’t have good experience. Check the bjd dealers tag here, you will see the supporters in the comments going off on any and all criticism of D. Some have sane comments, but the majority are cult like and try to identify the person venting as if it’s one person. Addicts deletes threads with criticism asking people to instead direct it to their feedback group; which lets be honest, no one is going to do because its "not that bad", and most dont want to join a new group, which is mostly dead.
This is my first and last confession on D, I’ve emailed each company they rep and told them my experience as well as contacting the 3 month wait company, with screenshots of my order, how they handled it, and the excuse they used to put blame on the company for being so late (package arrived march to D, 4 months to be shipped is on D, not the company). I’m not using company or order details because I know they are petty enough to try to identify me and publicly shame me like they have to others. This and the threat of suing is why not many people like to go public with their experience. They just keep feedback neutral, move on and never deal with again.
~Anonymous
6. Listen, I can't take you seriously in regards to BJD!vas because you're posting on a confession blog. If you were serious, you would have posted in buyer beware groups, DoA reviews or the board to get things resolved, or you would have made a complaint to the BBB. And your language makes you come off more as someone with an agenda rather than someone who is trying to warn people. If shipping is the issue, stop buying with standard shipping and pay the extra price for express shipping. I saw one of you complain that it sat with them for 20 days; that's probably because you're not the only one and they more than likely have a queue to check and then ship out. Do mistakes happen? Yes, because we're human. I've been in this hobby for a few years now and it seems like most people know you're going to have to wait, sometimes even outside the expected wait time. And shipping something as big as a doll is a timely endeavor. I shouldn't have to say that.
My point is simply to stop complaining on an confession board and either take it to the places previously mentioned. Posting here behind the anonymous mask makes you sound like a petulant child who didn't get their way right away.
~Anonymous
7.My only issue with BJD Divaz is how I never get any updates. Every email, they tell me to join their facebook page for status updates. I dont have a FB and I dont want to create one. I bought my doll through their website, updates should be posted on their website, or they could send me an email. That isnt asking much.
~Anonymous
8. Since there seems to be a lot of either "completely negative everything sucks" or "everything was sunshine and rainbows" confessions about bjd!vaz I thought I'd chime in with a neutral review.
PROS
-They were always polite and professional in their emails, and gave me very detailed answers to my questions.
-I got exactly what I ordered, so no mix ups or missing parts or anything like that.
-I think them being forthcoming about personal issues (only one person on staff, illness, the flooding isue etc.) on social media is good, since it keeps customers updated as to why there might be delays.
-If you live in the US their shipping is very reasonable.
CONS
-Reply times were varied. Sometimes it could take over a week, sometimes a couple hours.
-My order took about 10mo which, when comparing to other people who ordered through the same company around the same time, was about 3x as long as if I bought it direct and 2x as long if I had gone through a different dealer. I get some of the waiting time is out of their control, but it was kind of ridiculous.
-They dont necessarily ship the same day they send you a tracking number. I wish they said something like, "Here's your tracking number, our pickup is Xday so it should start moving after that" just so I could be aware.
All in all no major complaints. I got my doll and all that. Their lone employee is clearly overwhelmed. I hope they hire another person, if only to give the one a break.
Truthfully, I most likely won't buy through them again. I'd rather pay the international shipping and go direct, than deal with the extensive wait time. I'd still recommend them to someone looking for a very long layaway, though. I paid in full, but if I had a 12mo layaway I would've never known they weren't ready to ship my doll until month 10.
~Anonymous
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ohhstuffandfluff · 4 years
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I think what people miss about the ao3 discourse is that moderating a site like that the way people want them to is damn near impossible. Lemme preface this by saying though, first of all, that obviously I don't support explicit works involving minors, CP, the glorification of rape, or anything like that, alright. I'm well aware of where the anger is coming from and I understand it, I feel it too. And while I view fiction as a tool for allowing us to explore themes and ideas that are maybe evil or taboo, fiction does have an impact on reality, and those evil or taboo subjects handled poorly can have lasting negative effects. With that in mind...
First off, how is AO3 meant to monitor and moderate these kinds of works? If they were to remove the tag and any tags associated with it, that's arguably more dangerous, as it prevents people for being able to filter out fics tagged as such, basically guaranteeing someone's going to wind up seeing something they don't want to see. Furthermore, if they just flag or delete any fics tagged as such, then you risk fics that cover those topics in respectful, narratively valuable ways getting deleted or removed, and again you end up with people just not tagging shit correctly and people not getting warned properly.
If you say to just not allow certain fics with certain characters above a certain rating, that would require IMMENSE LABOR, volunteer or otherwise. Do you know how many fics there are on Ao3 ? How many fandoms? How many listed characters? And what if there's dispute on how old a character is supposed to be (I'm looking at you, season 1 Sh*ro from Voltr*n)? Do characters who are lolibait (ex. "I look thirteen but am actually 1000") count? Trying to determine what fics are allowed by character is a logistical nightmare and leads into...
Who gets to be morality police? We've seen how this can break bad before, like what happened to livejournal. If mods gets to decide what content is or is not morally reprehensible, then what's stopping a mod from deeming any fic of X ship is wrong, or any gay ship is wrong, or any fic even mentioning rape or abuse is wrong. You're putting a lot of power and a lot of faith into mods that may not end up being on your side, which is why livejournal is now a dead platform.
A user-based reporting system is a good idea, and should definitely be taken into consideration regardless, but that also requires immense labor on Ao3's part, because you KNOW people will report fics for bullshit reasons along with the real ones, like not being the ship they like, or for having queer relationships and/or LGBT+ characters, or for just being poorly written. Not to mention the moderator would have to read said fic for the reported troubling content, which not only requires a decent amount of time but also knowledge of the source material and a willingness to sit through potentially horrible, triggering content. People like that need to be paid! This is true for a reporting system or for a dedicated moderation team regardless, and people who hate ao3 have made it very clear they hate when ao3 asks for money for any reason, so how are these mods going to get paid? You'd need a LOT of them for a site as big, diverse, and widely used as ao3 for the kind of content reporting critics are talking about. And as YouTube has shown us, a fully automated system is not only expensive but often doesn't work at all as intended, and malicious players can and will game the system.
So what's the solution y'all are hoping for? What kind of moderation system are you thinking ao3 needs to implement? I'd love to see any actual solutions to this issue bc I do think Ao3 needs SOME kind of content moderation for things that are straight up illegal, like CP, but I've not seen any Ao3 critic propose any sort of content moderation system they'd like to see. They mostly just tell people to rot for supporting the only fanfiction archive with ANY decent content filtering system. The tagging system isnt perfect, but at least it allows you to avoid fics tagged with triggers or underage ships. Proper tagging and the exclude feature allows you to make sure gross fics don't get hits aside from the freaks who actively seek that kind of thing out. It's not perfect, and I agree shit like CP shouldn't be allowed on the platform, but the only options I can think of to effectively moderate Ao3 either lack delicacy and nuance or would require large amounts of manpower and money, and even then some of those options put us at risk of another Strikethrough.
I would genuinely love to hear solutions for Ao3's moderation issues, especially if theres something I'm not seeing, instead of harassing people for giving a shit about a content platform that has provided hours of enrichment and entertainment for largely women and queer folks for ages now, and for protecting those same women and queer folks from legal retaliation. Ao3 has problems, no doubt, but it does a lot of good for a lot of people, and the critics I see don't seem to have a solution either. If anyone has ideas on how to make Ao3 a better place, I would love to hear them.
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officialcatastrophe · 4 years
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Starting July 20, 2020!
HI EVERYONE !! i’m so sorry that this blog has been so dead lately and we haven’t gotten the chance to host any special catastrophic events due to work. However, ever since the pandemic (hopefully you’re all staying at home and staying safe!) occurred, I (Mod Guren) decided to reopen the catastrophic summer event! I AM SO SINCERELY SORRY THAT THE LAST CATASTROPHE EVENT WAS A DISAPPOINTMENT. But now I have taken measures so that I do not repeat the same mistake for this event. 
for those of you who are new to this blog, hello! please take the time to read the information down below to understand the rules and the events!
What is this? An event focusing on the lovely ships of the Catastrophe at Sixteen series, involving only the Catastrophe at Sixteen characters~
Who could participate in this? Everybody! Anyone who could create! Fan Art, AMVs, Fan edits, Graphic Makers, Fic writers, etc. Everyone! No matter what you create your contribution would be greatly appreciated! ( However you must also abide to our Guidelines when participating ^^ )
When will this take place? 20 July to 26 July, 2020. 
How does this work? The goal of this event is to spread positivity to the Owari No Seraph fandom, who else is tired of seeing the same characters every year being drawn and only specific events for specific ships? This is the event that promotes all sorts of ships and characters to bring some exposure to new artists, new members of the fandom and new writers! And even if you don’t participate it’s totally fine! Help your fellow creators out and leave nice and encouraging comments, and reblog their content!
IMPORTANT NOTE!!: Due to some past issues, your contributions might not show up in the tag in the first few days! So please please please tag us in your creations and posts! @officialcatastrophe
Notice ( Very important!! ): We’ve changed the event up a bit, thank you for your feedback on how to make this event more enjoyable than last time! Once the week ends, please do give us some feedback and how we could make this more enjoyable for you all! Thank you!
Rules:
Do not disregard any participant nor attack anyone for their ships or their characters. Consider yourself blocked, reported and your contributions would not be shared on the blog.
Tag everything correctly! No one wants to see any triggering content! ( ex. bl-ood/ g/ore/ d-eath/implied incest/etc. )
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Reminder: All must be Catastrophe at sixteen related! It has to follow the Catastrophe Timeline!
If you wish to get a head start on making your submissions and contributions the prompts under the ‘keep reading’! Have fun everyone! (Keep in mind we’re using similar prompts again due to the fact that last summer event did not go as planned). 
Day 1 -  Camp | Confessions | Popsicles Day 2 - Beach | Secrets | Longing Day 3 -  Festival | Parties | Letters Day 4 - Sunset | Midnight | Lost Day 5 -  Islands | Video Games | Vacation Day 6 -  Sick | Water Games | Boats Day 7 -  Apologies | Memories | Mermaids 
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vanderlindeandco · 4 years
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The Long Haul: Chapter 1 (Felix Millstone x The Captain)
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It was supposed to be a fairly simple job. The Unreliable needed a replacement part, and Nyoka had heard rumors that a ship had crashed in the wild on Monarch some years ago, a ship similar enough to the Unreliable that its parts should be compatible. We’d found it all right, Felix and Nyoka and I, and while she and I held off the mantisaurs, he had pulled the part that Parvati needed. Unfortunately, we’d managed to step on the toes of a large group of local marauders on our way back, which led to our hasty retreat to the Unreliable.
“Fixed it, Captain!” Parvati’s voice rang from deep in the ship and I keyed in our skip destination quickly, ignoring ADA’s warnings, as much as I knew we shouldn’t. The ship shook with the impact of a grenade launcher.
“All right, everyone hold on!” I clutched the arms of the captain’s seat in the Unreliable as the engines roared to life, wincing at the sound of bullets pattering against my ship’s sides. The ship rose, quivering at the beating it was taking, and then we were blasting towards the edge of Monarch’s atmosphere. I was about to skip the ship when Parvati’s voice rang through the halls.
“Captain, something’s wrong!” The smell of smoke reached my nostrils before I got to the engine room and found Parvati with Felix standing helplessly behind her, Parvati's gloved fingers moving a mile a minute over the recently-repaired engine. “I swear I put it in right, I-” she broke off, reaching a hand back. “Felix?”
He handed her the wrench he was holding and she went to work again. I knew there was nothing I could do to help and I’d only distract her by asking, so I waited, heart pounding, ready to grab the fire extinguisher hooked to the wall if need be. “Almost… got… it,” she muttered, switching the screwdriver with a wrench to crank something tighter. The smoke stopped suddenly, and she sat back on her heels, pushing her goggles back up to rest on her forehead. “I think that should do for now,” she said, her shoulders slumping with relief.
“What happened?” I asked.
“Law, I have no idea,” she said. “Everything was working just fine and then next thing I knew the engine was overheating. I-I’m sorry, boss. I must have done something wrong.”
“It’s all right, Parvati,” I said. “You got it taken care of. You had to install it fast, too, so I don’t blame you one bit.”
“Thank you, Captain,” she said. “I thought I knew how to do it but maybe I don’t know as much as I thought. If we could go to the Groundbreaker, well, I’m sure Junlei could help us.”
“You sure you only want to go there for her help with the ship?” I teased, and she blushed furiously.
“Captain!” she exclaimed, “We really could use her help!”
“I know,” I said, “I’m just teasing you. Think we can make it there?”
She looked back at the repair and nodded slowly. “I can’t promise it, but I’m pretty sure.”
“A 'pretty sure' from you is good enough for me,” I said. “Let’s go. Anything else you need to do before we skip?”
“No, ma’am,” she said.
“All right, then. Good work, Parvati.” I turned to return to the cockpit, Nyoka next to me. “Where’d Felix get off to?” I asked. I hadn’t noticed him leave the engine room, and didn’t see him on my way to the cockpit.
She shrugged. “Probably went to find some food. You know how he is.”
“Yeah,” I said. Still, I was a little surprised he hadn’t stuck around to see the problem through to its end. That wasn’t like him. True to Parvati’s word, we skipped successfully to the Groundbreaker, and I went upstairs to find Felix to ask if he wanted to come with us onto the ship. I knew Junlei and Parvati were likely to be working for some time, and Felix would be disappointed if Nyoka and I left without him. His bedroom door was closed and I knocked twice.
“Come in!”
I pushed open the door and stepped inside. He was sitting at his desk, cleaning the grenade launcher that he always used with such gusto. He looked up briefly, barely meeting my eyes with a smile that felt forced before his gaze returned to his task. “You disappeared earlier,” I said. “Everything okay?”
“Oh, yeah of course,” he said. “It just didn’t seem like there was much for me to do there. You know how I can be when it comes to that kind of stuff. More harm than good, right?”
“Maybe,” I said. His demeanor was off. He seemed nervous, and Felix wasn’t supposed to be nervous around me. It didn’t feel right, and I didn’t like it. “So everything’s ok?”
“Yep,” he said.
There was no point pestering him; I had learned Felix’s MO - if something was wrong, he’d bring it to me eventually and nothing I could do would get it out of him before then. “All right, I trust you,” I said. “You’d tell me if it wasn’t. You trying to come onto the Groundbreaker while Junlei helps Parvati with the ship, or do you want to stay here?”
“I’ll come, if you don’t mind,” he said, reaching for a rag to wipe his dirtied fingers on.
“I wouldn’t have asked if I minded. C’mon, let’s go.”
“All right, Boss.” He seemed lost in thought as we descended the ramps to the base level of the ship. He was probably just tired from the mission, coming down from the stress of it all. That made sense.
Nyoka joined us as we left the ship, and we crossed the landing pad, moving into the heart of the Groundbreaker. “Anyone looking for anything in particular?” I asked.
“I was thinking of getting a drink,” Nyoka said. “Anyone care to join?”
“At 11 AM? I think I’m good,” I said, and Felix laughed. He seemed a little more himself now, and I liked that.
“Suit yourself,” Nyoka said. “I’ll see you back on the ship.”
“What about you, Felix?” I asked as we continued down the thoroughfare.
He shrugged. “Nothing in particular. Just thought I’d tag along.”
“All right then,” I said. “I’m trying to find some deals on ammo. Wanna scare Belle into cutting me a discount?”
He looked at me incredulously. “I don’t know about that, Boss.”
“Oh right, ‘cause she’d be the one doing the scaring, wouldn’t she?”
He frowned, his lower lip jutting out in a pout that somehow tightened my chest. “That’s not fair,” he whined. “She sells weapons for a reason.” Even though it was fake, I hated seeing him upset. Of course, I felt that way about the rest of the crew too, but lately, I’d felt a little extra protective over Felix and I hadn't had the time to put my finger on why.
“I’m just kidding,” I said, nudging him with my elbow. “Cheer up.”
“Felix, is that you?” A female voice interrupted our conversation, and both Felix and I looked over to see a woman jogging toward us. She was tall, nearly as tall as Felix, dark red hair tucked into a loose braid that swung gracefully as she moved. A heavily modded revolver hung off her belt, and well-muscled arms emerged from her armor. Her face was pretty, dark gray eyes set under a strong brow, a dusting of freckles across her tan cheeks.
“Alaina?” Felix asked incredulously, opening his arms to embrace the woman as she reached him.
My stomach tightened slightly, a sour feeling in the back of my throat. Oh. That was why I had been paying a little extra attention to Felix lately.
Oh no.
I couldn’t let myself get distracted like this. Not when there was so much to get done. My romantic history was messy to say the least, and the last thing I wanted was to risk fouling up my friendship with Felix by letting my feelings get involved.
She had stepped back, and I realized she was holding out a hand for me to shake. “I’m Alaina,” she said.
I cleared my throat, shaking her hand firmly. “Rose Cornett. Pleasure to meet you.”
“I’ve heard of you,” she said. “Never thought I’d find Felix on your crew, though.”
“Why’s that?” I asked.
“Oh, you know. He’s a troublemaker. Didn’t think he’d be much for a crew like yours.”
“Shut up, Alaina,” Felix protested. “I’m not like that anymore.”
She raised an eyebrow skeptically. “You don’t seem very different to me.”
"Well, I am," he said obstinately. "I've got plenty of stories."
“Well, tell me 'em over the lunch you're about to buy me,” Alaina said. 
“Yeah, sure,” Felix said. “Wanna come, Captain?”
“Already ate.” The lie slipped off my tongue automatically. “Be back at the Unreliable in an hour. We’re out of here as soon as Parvati’s done.”
“Oh. Okay.” His face had grown more serious and I knew he had noticed the tone change I had failed to disguise. “See you then.”
“Yup.” I walked on towards Belle’s, silently cursing myself. Of course I had feelings for Felix. The stupidest thing about it was that I hadn’t realized it earlier. I was close with everyone on my crew, but now that I thought about it, I didn’t find myself admiring Nyoka’s smiles. I didn’t laugh as much with Parvati. I didn’t feel as much myself with ADA. Of course I liked him. He was kind, and brave, and loyal, and smart? Well, maybe not so much that. But Law, he was easy on the eyes. The thoughts crashed over me like a tsunami and again I cursed my own ignorance. Had it been so long since I’d had feelings for someone? Well, not counting the decades I spent on ice. How stupid could I be? I did my business with Belle quickly and then returned to the ship, holing up in my room and trying not to think of Felix’s date, or whatever it was, and how tightly he had embraced Alaina. I sat back, resting my feet on my desk and willing Parvati and Junlei to hurry up. The sooner we were out of here, the better.
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Obligatory Cyberpunk 2077 rant
(Spoilers, duh; also I'm an absolute noob)
Somehow I didn't enjoy the game, and I think I may have figured out why.
I guess I approached the game with the wrong expectations.
I expected there to be more gang politics. You had a goddamn trailer about gangs. I expected to make allies and enemies. To fight in battles between them. Turn the streets of night city into a warzone. I didn't expect all gangs to still exist once I finished the game. Or at least make interacting with them in any way more meaningful than changing the voice lines of your enemies/friends. Change the items shops have to offer. I didn't notice a diffence in combat styles, but I may just be inattentive. You changed the cars, why not the rest?
I expected to not only see the skyscrapers from the outside (with a few exceptions). I expected to have firefights on rooftops and apartments, to jump across skybridges. Maybe fly from rooftop to rooftop in a helicopter?
I expected the corporations to not be distant entities which do... Something? I expected to be involved in their actions. To work for various employees. To hack the cameras of boardrooms, steal files, to manipulate, persuade or blackmail my opponents. (Don't get me wrong, there are "steal file" type missions, except they don't matter at all)
Perhaps I even hoped to be able to play my enemies against another. Frame a rival gang for the murder of a corpo.
This is the big one:
And I guess I didn't expect the world to be so horrible, the story so unsatifyingly sad. I was under no illusion that I would be playing in a dystopia. But I was also expecting that I would be playing as an overpowered protagonist killing machine (and in combat, you do). From this I concluded that I would be able to "fix" the world. After all, noone can stop me. Except the plot, apparently. In cp2077, "mission completed" has a good chance of meaning either "nothing I cared about happened" or "someone I cared about died, and there was nothing I could do". And I'm not talking about a dramatic death; I'm talking about pointless deaths ofscreen, without me even beeing there. All important choices are between bad and worse (and of course the npcs will blame me for it). (Or maybe these are just the parts that I remember).
I expected to win. Or at least to be able to. To save my life. "Oh no, your body started rejecting you because the relic overwrote it with johnny. We only have an AI a that can swap engrams at will and the relic still stuck in my head. It was even designed to work on dead bodies. There is definitely nothing we can do. /s". And why? I get that raising the stakes last moments is a plot device or something, but not after I did all the things, shot all the npcs, made my way to the big glowing monolith and pressed the button labeled "you win". Not with zero foreshadowing. At this point I expect to have the credits roll, wake up and continue playing side missions (properly after the mission, none of that "reload last save" bs)
The last two paragraphs were major story complaints. People sometimes use the term "emotional rollercoaster", but rollercoaster engineers are artists. Every bend is just wide enough to not actually hurt you, every acceleration is just low enough to still be fun, and once you get off it, you enjoyed it. Cp2077 is a pair of rocket boosters and infinite 90° angles. The game can't decide if it wants to be a lighthearted power trip or whether you should experience total helplessness, leading me to enjoy neither. I do not care about floating items, t-posing enemies or what must be worst car AI since forever (even though I do appreciate the "drives to side of lane to let you pass easier" part), if you just make sure your game doesn't feel like it was designed to make you feel bad. I guess I expected the "game of the decade" to be happy. (Also, does anyone else find it weird that the ending clearly labeled "none of your friends die" is considered the bad ending?)
I am actually quite happy that you almost didn't do the whole "Skillchecks for better endings" and diplomacy skill bs, because it would have turned the game into "how must I invest my skill points to pass the next check", which I consider extremely boring. Slipped up in the last Delamain mission though.
There are a couple of small letdowns like that actually, for example, why is a 90k €$ motorbike worse than Jackie's arch, which you get for free long before you get 90k €$?
On the topic of €$, I actually quite like the 2077 slang.
Another note: what tf is the deal with max tac? They get their own special introduction in the into-car-trip and an ominous loading screen tip, and then just don't show up for the entire game???
I guess I also expected more diversity in items, especially Cyberware. The current one is fine, but I exped more than fine. There is still a bit of stuff locked for me, but my point still stands. You could have done something more with eyes and legs at least. Increase movement speed? Reduce fall damage? Increase max-tagged enemies count? Detect enemies though walls short range? Display camera fov? Honestly, I'd pay just to make the enemy highlight less obnoxious so that I can see if they are standing before or behind cover.
I expected crafting to be less boring. You have a whole skill tree for that! But it's installing generic mods, creating items, and a generic "upgrade" option that just adds a bit of damage. I expected to take my guns apart, build or configure scopes, firering-patterns, magazines, barrels, stocks, ammo types,... But I do absolutely love the "turn any weapon non-lethal" option.
And I expected this game to have a descent UI. Ignoring the glitchy HUD (actually, don't ignore it, pleaaaase make the minimap zoom out while driving), what's up with that inventory menu? How am I supposed to navigate that? Find aything? I get that you have to optimize for controllers, but seriously? Is there any real structure? You have your main page, which is nice, but then you have all the subpages, form which you can navigate to some others. Sometimes there are random elements dotted about? The Messages and shards menu are almost unusable. Have you never heard of "sort by new"? And the grouping is off anyway. Also, why tf do car advertisements not include the car's ps / curb weight?
Worst part is, I will come back to the game. I can just leave a broken world. I enjoy the combat. I even started to like driving with a keyboard. The scenery looks beautiful. But for some reason they need to keep telling me how terrible the world is and don't allow me to do anything about it. Maybe realistic, but if I wanted realistic, I wouldn't play a videogame. Overall it's not fun, at least for me.
Does anyone feel about the story like I do? The reviews mostly praised it iirc, but it just make me feel bad, and not in the enjoyable melancholy way.
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Sorry you had to read that.
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faesystem · 11 months
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I really dislike the current narrative surrounding dissociative identity disorder online. I suppose it is more accurate to say I dislike ableism, or perhaps that I dislike living my life in fear of it.
We have an overt presentation of DID. We have known for over 2 years, and ever since the host during early discovery went dormant, we have not had any form of singletsona or proper host in the way other systems do. It was primarily just that I was our only consistent fronter, so the others dubbed me host.
I do not believe I am the host anymore. For months we have been in a near-constant state of intense dissociation. And I have realised that the cause of that is masking. When we mask, we dissociate.
Which means that the best way to address the dissociation is via unmasking.
I am frightened to do that.
Masking for us, especially in person, used to involve alters fronting, having amnesia, and doing their best to adapt to whatever is going on. Then after we got on testosterone and now are in a place where most of the time we pass, having alters with feminine voices speak is a safety risk. So they mask. And that causes them to dissociate.
And I am autistic and because my manner of speaking is so different to others, I try and mask it. I sound angry to people. I never try to. Even if I explicitly state my tone, people do not seem to pick up it. And in particular, in contrast to other alters in the system who are very hyperexpressive due to being autistic, I just do not want to come off as mean.
Which is probably why I have begun dissociating so much.
Even online I have begun to do so. I have many memories of beginning to alter the way I am making a post only to have them fade off as it caused me to dissociate.
It is not even necessarily that I wish to stop masking, it is a necessity. We cannot spent months losing all of our time because there was simply no one in front, not truly, just a blurry dissociated mess. It is necessary, but frightening.
Online is a good place to begin. It gives us the privilege to be able to take our time. We do not have to respond quickly, which allows us to escape the subconscious process of slipping into this masked dissociative state.
However, it is a scary as fuck place to begin.
I recently decided that perhaps tagging our content would be a good idea, or even trying sideblogs again. (Tumblr hides our sideblogs posts. Perhaps it is because we have too many, maybe I should delete them. It is simply difficult for me to let go of old things, even if we never use it, but that is not the point right now.) A part of being more organised on here would involve tagging who wrote what. An aspect of unmasking is visibly differentiating ourselves.
I just fear the potential consequences of putting something like, "Front: Tim," in the tags. I feel as though it makes people discredit what I have to say. And I know, logically, it does not truly do me any harm if I somehow wind up on something like FDC, but it still frightens me that I will.
I do not why I am so scared. I mean, I suppose I do, I am fearing ableism, but also logically it is the internet. If someone discredits me because they are ableist, it does not truly matter and I do not care about them because I do not care for ableists. If I end up on FCD, I simply will not look. In fact, I would likely never even know, because I do not look.
I do not know what the point of this post is.
We are likely going to begin to tag our posts. Including who is fronting. To be honest, we may make it things that do not say, "Front: Tim," because we are afraid, but at the same time I wish to have people be able to get to know us individually. At least, get to know me individually.
Perhaps something like Mod Tim? That way passers by simply assume it is run by multiple people, and those who look closer can tell those multiple people are multiple alters.
If anyone has any advice or wishes to add to the conversation, feel free to do so. And I did say dissociative identity disorder as this is a more personal post about my experiences, but obviously this applies to other disorded like otherwise specified dissociative disorder.
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incorrect-marauders · 5 years
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THE OWLS ARE IN! IT’S TIME FOR THE SURVEY RESULTS!
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So, as many of our followers are probably aware, we recently did a survey to get a feel of what people thought of our blog. We got a total of 57 results and we are grateful to each and every one of you for taking the time to let us know your thoughts. Now, we’re here to share the general consensus of what people thought and how we will accommodate these opinions.
We’ll definitely have some changes to the blog, so read on to see what those changes are!
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Before we begin, we have a few things to briefly mention.
The results are pretty scattered. We didn’t want to restrict anyone, so most were free response or included “Other”. In hindsight, there were a few questions that could have easily been multiple choice without really restricting anyone. (Side eyes the first question.) Therefore, most of these will just summarize the results we got. Occasionally drop the graph for the multiple choice questions.
Because of the large amount of responses we got, not every answer will be listed here. We highlighted the things that were either most commonly mentioned or had us thinking the most.
If anyone would like to see the full results for some reason (par the names, to keep anonymity), feel free to email us at [email protected] and we’ll send it over!
And yes, we are making changes to accommodate these results! That’s what this survey was all about!
We’ll be opening applications for new mods within the next couple days as well.
We’ll have a tiny hiatus as all of this is going on.
Now, we begin...
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How long have you been following incorrect-marauders?
The most popular answer seemed to be around 2 months or 10 months. A lot of people filling out this survey seemed to either be relatively new or here since the beginning. Kudos to you incorrect-marauders veterans, and welcome newer followers!
How did you find incorrect-marauders?
Somewhat as we expected. Keep reblogging us, lovely people!
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What do you love MOST about incorrect-marauders?
"It's funny.” (x50)
No really, we got 50 variations of “It’s funny,” “It’s hilarious,” “The humour,” “The funny text posts.”
Thanks, we appreciate it!
“How weirdly in character the quotes always are.”
(Similar variations include, “How actually accurate your post are,” “That not every post is as funny, imho, but that they do keep true to the characters,” “How much they fit the characters.”)
“They offer new content to the Marauders 'franchise' as it were because some stuff within the fandom is constantly being reused.”
“How correct it actually is if Joanne made it canon.”
“McGonagall with the marauders and that the sources are listed.”
“Accurate representation, variety of ships and relationships, isnt toxic.”
“Very funny and can be great art/writing prompts.”
“The taste.”
“EVERYTHING.”
These are all very nice, thank you all. Glad we hit where we were aiming.
What do you love LEAST about incorrect-marauders?
The most common response was, “Nothing,” or a variation thereof, but that’s no fun for this question, so here are some of the legitimate criticisms we received!
“Quote sources, I think, occasionally aren't there.”
Our original quotes often don’t have sources. But if there’s one where a mod forgot to credit a source, please just message us and one of the admins will fix that!
“There isn't a particularly nice aesthetic to the blog, e.g. a matching layout and profile picture or quote.”
Yeah, we’re working to fix that. I like pretty blogs too.
“Could be updated a little more.”
(”Not much posting in my opinion,” “Long time between posts.”)
Strangely enough, we got this a few times but our later poll about how often to post were contradicting this. So, unfortunately, we will not be adjusting this.
“I mean I would say that Peter is on it, but can’t really get rid of him...”
(Got a few of these, like, ”Peter being seen as a good person.”)
Sorry!
“Some are a bit too small.”
“I don’t like the long quotes.”
Well, then.
“Seeing my #notp but that isnt rly a minus?? Its called diversity so im not gonna hate or anything.”
Thank you for appreciating the diversity. We get occasional hate over it, but we also get hate over not posting some of the other ships. I suppose that’s what happens when you have lots of different followers of different opinions.
“If I send you a text post you credit the source in # but i'd like you to include a link to my tumblr in the post itself so people would actually find my tumblr. I doent send you text posts anymore, cause it doesn't really profit me and it feels like you get credit for my work.”
We’re sorry you feel that way. We always put it in the tags, just in front of the source. We are more of a mod-based blog rather than a submission-based blog. Anyone is welcome to submit, but about 98% of our posts are created by our mods.
“Sometimes I feel like the wrong characters were chosen or not well thought out.”
We can assure you our mods put a lot of thought into what characters to use, but you are welcome to message us with your own suggestion! (But please note that we are a Marauders blog; we got a few comments about how we don’t post enough Hinny or Romione, but that’s not what our blog is about.)
What makes incorrect-marauders stand out?
Once again, we got a lot about how funny we are, so we’ll skip over those and highlight the more unique answers!
"They don't use things from other people without credit.”
“The love and attention put in to everything.”
“Don't think there are any other blogs about marauders in this style.”
(We got this a few times. ”Like the type of blog and incorrect-marauders was the first one Harry potter themed I found,” also, “Its really funny and pretty much the only blog that just does this kind of post and i LOVE it.” But alternatively... “There are a lot of textpost blogs like it, but it is one of the only ones that I have found that consistently keeps characters in character in the posts and appeals to my sense of humor.”)
“I feel the quotes are in character and from multiple sources which Is cool.“
“How open it is.”
“The continuous content.”
“The posts arent so often that my dash is spammed like other blogs of the same nature.”
“Not sure but I like you.”
Not much to comment on these except we’re happy to see people think this about us!
How satisfied are you with the blog and the posts, in all?
So, you’re telling me, we opened a public, anonymous survey and not a single hater filled it out? Am I impressed or disappointed?
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Please explain your response to the previous question.
“I just love the whole blog.”
“It's not my favourite blog ever ever which is why it's not a 10 but i still love it.”
“You guys are just so awesome! But it'd also be cool to have a little, meet the creator(s).”
“Its good but I don't have or want notifications on.”
“It’s the #qualitycontent i signed up for.”
"Always room for improvement, and also there's no 9 3/4 option.”
Awesome! We definitely agree that we can always improve, which is what this survey is for!
How often should we post?
We got a lot of variety here. Some say once a day (which is how often we currently post) was ideal. Others put stuff like...
“I wouldnt mind my entire blog just being filled with your posts.”
While Once A Day is the most voted for, the rest of the options put together, which we’ll name Two or More Times a Day, do win overall. Since we have one new post followed by a reblog, we’ll compromise by posting two times a day, but with one new post a day (the second being a reblog).
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In UTC, what times do you prefer us posting?
As expected, not many people cared. But two people felt very strongly and voted for 12am, 1am, and 6pm UTC. So, we’ll consider that.
What characters, relationships, universes, etc. would you like to see more represented in our posts?
We got a lot of responses here, primarily being more Wolfstar, Jily, and BFFs James and Sirius. We also got a lot saying we should post about Hinny, Romione, next gen, FBAWTFT, etc. in which I remind you that this is a Marauders blog.
We also got the hilarious response that said we should maybe post about the “merauders”. Well, we can certainly promise you that.
We also got a lot of people saying more McGonagall. That’s something we can definitely do.
Would you like to see more original quotes from us?
For the longest time, the option 50/50 was at exactly 50%. Kind of disappointed that is no longer, but the 25% option is at 25%, so that’s something. Anyway, we’ll aim for 50/50.
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What else would you like to see us post?
This was one of the results that will make the biggest change to the blog. People seem to really love these ideas. So expect...
Marauder Mondays! Every Monday we’ll have Marauder Monday, where we’ll answer asks, reblog posts, and have a party! Probably when we’ll post the “extra” posts, like our GIFs, graphics, aesthetics, videos, etc.
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How would you feel if we did sponsored posts?
Combined, it seems like ~75% of those who took the survey are good with sponsored posts.
These results honestly surprised us. We’ve gotten a lot of offers of sponsorships in the past but have always denied them because we didn’t know how our followers would feel. We probably won’t do this in the near future, but it’s an option.
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What kind of projects would you like to see us host?
We got so many people suggesting merch. Shirts, stickers, pins, other merch... So we’ll keep that in mind! We’d love some Marauders shirts ourselves.
“Projects that other blogs can get involved with to help other accounts grow.”
Noted!
“An art challenge maybe? like, 30 day challenge where you have to draw them as characters from movies/tv shows? like, friends, clueless, avengers, dc characters etc.“
Definitely interesting. Art challenges would be a lot of fun. Hopefully there’s an interest for this!
Which of our other accounts do you follow/would like to follow?
We’ll look into bringing on people to regularly post on other sites.
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What device do you use to browse our blog most often (whether through Tumblr or our site)?
Why are we bothering with a redesign again? Oh, right. Personal vain.
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How often do you visit the blogsite?
Those numbers are higher than expected...
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What kind of things would you like to find on our blogsite?
“Character aesthetics.”
“Fanfiction links.”
“Marauders fan art would be cool.“
We’ll be working on this! Thank you for the suggestions!
More meet the creator(s) (if not comfortable with should, maybe just telling a funny story)
We got a lot of people saying they’d like to know more about us. We are anonymous, but this particular comment had us thinking. We’ll be implementing something in the near future. We will still remain anonymous, but we will have “blog identifies”, I suppose you could say. More info to come!
Other than show, character, and ship lists, what would you like to see in our navigation?
We didn’t get many new suggestions for this, except for fanart, aesthetics, etc. which we will add as more people join the blog!
Do you have any additional suggestions for us?
"Maybe find a blog that could do fan art, but only if you’re comfortable with it. Also, you’re blog is already so amazing, and any redesign would just make it more awesome!!! Don’t let anyone get you down espically if some one puts something negative on the survey because it is so so great already.”
We got no negative feedback (just constructive criticism), but thank you for your concern!
“um. keep doing this. i like it. it helps fill the gaping void in my soul“
Mood.
“Thanks for making the survey, caring about our feedback, and being awesome overall :)”
Of course! This is not just our blog, this is the Marauders fandom blog. Your feedback means everything to us and we hope you will like the changes we’ll make in response to it.
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And that covers all of it! Cookies to anyone who read all of that! Keep an eye out for those new mod applications if you’re interested in joining our team!
We’ll be taking a tiny little hiatus as we’re figuring some stuff out.
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all-the-weeks · 5 years
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I’m afraid to post anything related to soft or bottom Tweek when there’s a good chance I’ll get death threats from psychotic anons. Turning off anon is an option but I don’t want to lose my only mode of connecting to new people. Blocking doesn’t work on tumblr anymore so now I can’t help being paranoid in a fandom that was supposed to be fun
Shades, have a brownie and let's talk.
Most people don't inherently hate Bottom Tweek, just like most people don't inherently hate Bottom Craig. Their sex life is not where the hate stems from.
Hatred of such sexual acts between the two male charaters fall into one of two categories. Now for the sake of politeness, I'm going to call the two categories Douche Bag and Turdsandwich.
Your douchebags are the ones that look at your week and immediately jump to the charaters canon age. They have a hard time wrapping their head around the fact these characters are fictional and aren't real 10 year old children who have been 10 years old since I was 10 years old (yeah. I get it. I'm old.) They hyper focus on this one issue and stick to their guns about it. They can't grasp a reality where these characters may eventually grow into adults and that's what people are writing about. Hell even teens write trashy fanfiction about the characters being their age and that's fine. It's a nice way to safely explore things. Just tag things properly so people who want to avoid it, can!
However I am in no way saying a 15 year old should be involved in a week for Not SFW content. Just saying some want to write things that they themselves want to express.
The Turdsandwiches, they care about how the charaters sexual positions are reflected in their personalities. If you noticed, all the shit started once Bottom Craig Week was announced could have been mostly avoided had someone asked probing questions about the week rather than jump to the conclusion that it was an excuse to write Craig as hyper feminine. Turdsandwiches tend to only really enjoy works if one character in the ship is displayed as overly feminine. They are the ones sending the anonymous hate to particular writer in the fandom who maybe writes Tweek in a dress. They are the people who send hate to a particular artist who likes to draw Craig in a dress. They are the people who send hate to someone over a satirical piece about how the fandom likes to address some characters in relationships as the man while the other is the woman despite it being a mlm relationship.
Fandoms as a whole (and I mean this having been involved in MANY fandoms) tend to view one character in a relationship as the woman. People don't hate that Kyle may take a dick, people hate when a that flight is written out of Kyle and he's turned into societies version of a woman, but he's got a penis. And the fandom latches on to that look, until the point new fans, who may have joined because "You're getting old/assburgers" were really good episodes, and they read these fics, decide that's how they are in canon, until it spreads and people mix up fandom and canon and they truly believe "this how they be!" And it just irritates people who know better, but when they try to correct people, it's seen as homophobic because "you're saying a man can't be feminine." This is a rant for a different blog. I just want you to understand where some of the "bottom discorce" comes from.
Both Douchebags and Turdsandwiches spread hate in some pretty volatile way. And it sucks and I wish they didn't. But they do. They have no Tegridy.
So what I'm saying is, people are going to hate no matter what. You do things that make you happy. If you want that, but don't think you can handle the hate messages, get a friend that can, and have them run the week with you. Tumblr allows you to add mods to a blog. If running one wouldn't be enjoyable, be patient. You've planted the seed, just see if it grows. And just keep yer Tegridy if you come across something you don't particularly like.
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theshinobiway · 5 years
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Mobile FAQ
Welcome to the Blog!
Before you submit a request, please keep in mind the following:
✫Who are the Mods?
This Blog is managed by one mod (Pumpkin) as of right now. Headcanons will not take very long, but scenarios might! I try to have things done within a few weeks of their submission, but if life happens I’ll post about it on the blog to keep you updated.
✫Do you do Reader-Insert?
Reader insert HCs and Scenarios allowed! Please specify pronouns/race when submitting a request if you desire, otherwise HCs/Scenarios will be Gender Neutral. If I ever use a specific pronoun (Usually because it makes the prose flow better) always feel free to request a different version utilizing a new pronoun.
✫Are LGBT Requests Allowed?
Very LGBTQ+ Friendly! I am Bisexual myself and use She/Her pronouns. If I am not informed enough to feel comfortable writing a specific paring/identity, I will make a post requesting more information. Additionally, my messages are always open. If you want to offer your assistance with your request, simply send me a message and I’ll work through it with you. If your request is anonymous, I will make sure to keep your blog’s identity private.
✫Do you do Shipping Requests?
I do not do character x character HCs and scenarios. I don’t personally ship any of team Gai with any other character, and I don’t want to delve into the Tumblr shipping community. Please do not send me requests for ships, I will delete them.
✫Are Pre-Shippuden/Kid requests allowed?
I will do Genin/Academy team Gai! Crushes allowed for this age, but all true romance HCs will be reserved for Shippuden-aged Team Gai. (Might Gai is obviously exempt from this rule.)
✫Do you allow NSFW content?
NSFW is allowed, but keep in mind that characters for these will always be 18+.
Please do not submit NSFW requests unless you are 18+.
✫Can I request a character doing x/y/z unsavory thing?
It’s officially canon™ that none of the members of team Gai engage in pedophilia, non-con, abuse, neglect, etc. I won’t write scenarios that include them doing these!
Part I Neji’s calloused treatment of Hinata and early cold demeanor towards his team which was shown in brief in the anime, but Pre-Exams Neji would not engage in the systematic abuse of any other character. Genin!Neji would verbally put down other characters, threaten/belittle them if they pressed on his insecurities, or give them a swift but impersonal beat-down if they challenged him. His murderous anger would only be reserved for the main branch (or enemy-nin), and only exuded in situations that are within the rules and guidelines. Instances of his anger outside of this would be shut down by Gai or by having his curse seal activated. Remember that Genin!Neji is still a 13/14 year old boy with anger issues and trauma. He is, at worst, a teenage bully who might take things a little too far.
✫Can I request scenarios that involve abuse/disorders/violence?
Yes, but keep in mind all HCs/Scenarios that involve readers coping with abuse/disorders/unsavory events will be summarily labeled, excessively tagged, and hidden beneath cuts. These requests may be pushed back in favor of others because they will take longer to write.
✫Why do “High-Risk” content requests take so much longer?
HCs/Scenarios that involve characters/readers coping with abuse/disorders/violence will take much longer. I will not write about something I have not done research on, so please be patient! I want to be sure that I avoid harmful portrayals or stereotypes. I know fictional HCs/Scenarios can be therapeutic and provide escapism, so I want to handle these requests with care to keep the environment of this blog welcoming and friendly for everyone who loves team Gai.
Helpful Tip: Send me a second ask/DM that mentions your request and some pointers or specific things you would like me to touch on/avoid in your request. This will be very informative for me and will speed up the time it takes for me to write! Plus, it’ll be anonymous!
About Me:
Name: Pumpkin (She/Her)
Age: 24 (I’m an adult, so minors please keep this in mind!)
Loves: Pumpkins, Coffee, Team Gai.
Dislikes: OLIVES.
Favorite Character: Neji. I always go for characters with emotional depth and he has so much of it. Also, Hyuga politics are incredibly compelling and should have had their own arc in the series. I am not a fan of how his arc ended overall and I have complaints about Naruto’s talk-no-jutsu in the chunin arc (because it didn’t actually address Neji’s major problems), but overall I find that Neji is a character with the perfect balance of strengths, flaws, motivations, and his stoicism is balanced by his good heart. 
Lee is a very close second, followed by Tenten and Gai who are tied for a close third.
Least Favorite Character: Sasuke. While not technically my “least” favorite, I find the Uchiha as a whole to be extremely…boring. Sasuke’s character and motivations weren’t very compelling or consistent (and while inconsistency is pretty human he isn’t humanized well) and the last arc did not do him justice and did not fully redeem him. 
I’m also not a fan of how he turned out in the epilogue. In general, he wasn’t handled well as a character. As a main character for the series, I felt like I was always expecting more. I dislike him because of the inconsistent writing, but I do believe he had potential.
Favorite Ships: Naruhina. Naruto has someone who literally only wishes for his happiness and success, Hinata has the support and affirmation she’s always looked for. They have a very sweet and fluffy dynamic, and their characters are almost perfect compliments for one another.
While the series failed to do them justice, “The Last” as a standalone arc for them was lovely and should have been inserted in the actual series, preferably sometime before the last war arc. I really wish they had more in the series to further their relationship.
Least Favorite Ships: Oh boy. I do not ship NejiTen or LeeTen and I oppose both ships. 
I ship Tenten only with herself. In the shinden novels it’s mentioned that Tenten has never had any romantic goals. A major character development piece is her finally coming to terms with the fact that she’s fine being as she is without the societal pressure of having to marry or pursue romance. Shipping her with anyone is a huge disservice to her character and a core part of her identity, and disregards a major part of her personality. Also read: it’s OOC.
Tenten’s bro-ship with her teammates is golden and a wonderful portrayal of how guy/girl friendships can be extremely deep and comfortable while still being platonic. That needs representation!
Additionally, neither ship has a real foundation. With the exception of Chouji/Karui, all romantic connections were stated explicitly in the anime/manga OR in the Gaiden novels (Chouji/Karui was alluded to in Sakura Hiden.) Tenten, when she IS in Konoha Gaiden, explicitly mentions she is disinterested in romance. This is consistent with her character and a perfectly acceptable choice for her narrative, which is why I support it.
Neji and Tenten only bond over being too mature for Gai/Lee shenanigans and training together when Lee/Gai are off. In the Chunin arc she comments that both Sasuke and Kakashi are cute, but makes no mention of Neji aside from her admiration of his abilities. Neji comments on her abilities as well during her fight with Temari, but Lee is the one who gives her open support. Their relationship is shown as friendly, but is strictly a Nakama bond. Most of their interaction in the Chunin exams is related to, or entirely revolves around the absence of Lee. There are no allusions to their relationship, even as a joke. In a shounen anime, romance is almost always explicitly mentioned or alluded to. In Naruto, this was also true for virtually all pairings and love triangles. Neji and Tenten never had this. Any development is purely-fan made or fan-imagined.
I especially dislike this pairing because from a narrative/storytelling standpoint and the way they are characterized, they do not (and would not) contribute to the other's personal development in any significant fashion. Tenten trained with Neji in the Chunin exams for two reasons; her abilities were most suited for training Kaiten, and she was his teammate--therefore the only reasonable choice to secretly practice a technique that Neji was not supposed to learn. She was his primary supporter in the stands because she trained with him and Lee/Gai were both absent to also comment on Neji. Even though Kishi made a lot of questionable choices when it came to romance, not having Neji and Tenten together was not one of them. It made perfect sense for both characters to work together when necessary, but they have zero shared themes or development arcs. The only one, "Getting stronger," is a Team Gai-wide theme.
Even if Tenten was given more personal development in the series, her development would have revolved around herself and the development of her own abilities as a shinobi. She was never a character that was meant for romance. And it's perfectly fine for her to be that way.
Lee and Tenten have more personal interactions and far more relationship building moments in both canon and fillers, but they especially don’t have romantic chemistry--more brother/sister. They are confirmed as not together in Boruto for this very reason. They are fiercely supportive of one another and a fantastic duo. This does not mean they need a romance, either.
Feel free to ship who you like, but please do not request character x character on this blog, the request will be summarily deleted. This is not a shipping blog, but there are others out there that can cater to your needs. Thank you!
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reconditarmonia · 5 years
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Dear Trick or Treat Author
Hi! Thank you for writing for me! I’m reconditarmonia here and on AO3 (and have been since LJ days, but my LJ is locked down and I only have a DW to see locked things). I have anon messaging off, but mods should be able to contact me if you have any questions.
Far From the Madding Crowd | Simoun | Spinning Silver | The Strange Case of Starship Iris
General likes:
– Relationships that aren’t built on romance or attraction. They can be romantic or sexual as well, but my favorite ships are all ones where it would still be interesting or compelling if the romantic component never materialized.
– Loyalty kink! Trust, affectionate or loving use of titles, gestures of loyalty, replacing one’s situational or ethical judgment with someone else’s, risking oneself (physically or otherwise) for someone else, not doing so on their orders. Can be commander-subordinate or comrades-in-arms.
– Heists, or other stories where there’s a lot of planning and then we see how the plan goes.
– Femslash, complicated or intense relationships between women, and female-centric gen. Women doing “male” stuff (possibly while crossdressing).
– Stories whose emotional climax or resolution isn’t the sex scene, if there is one.
– Uniforms/costumes/clothing.
– Stories, history, and performance. What gets told and how, what doesn’t get told or written down, behavior in a society where everyone’s consuming media and aware of its tropes, how people create their personas and script their own lines.
Smut Likes: clothing, uniforms, sexual tension, breasts, cunnilingus, grinding, informal d/s elements, intensity; stories whose resolution isn’t the sex scene.
General DNW: rape/dubcon, torture, other creative gore; unrequested AUs, including “same setting, different rules” AUs such as soulmates/soulbonds; PWP; food sex; embarrassment; focus on pregnancy; Christmas/Christian themes; focus on unrequested canon or non-canon ships.
Fandom: Far From the Madding Crowd
Character(s): Bathsheba Everdene
One thing that always sticks in my mind about this novel is the way Hardy calls Bathsheba “the young farmer” just as he refers to the men as farmers - which, just saying, is more than most people writing about this story can do - and so, that being the case, what I’m most interested in is something about Bathsheba as farmer. One day in the life or four seasons in the life or five plantings/harvests in the life, or pseudo-academic fic about a case study of a woman farmer in the Victorian era, or a conflict between the farm and nature that Bathsheba has to decide how to solve.
Feel free to bring in other characters if it suits what you’re trying to do, but what I’m really looking for is a focus on Bathsheba’s work, determination, and process of learning. (I like how Bathsheba's relationship with Gabriel ends up playing out in canon, but I don't want shipfic.) Other ideas: something like a merchant ship AU (as the first alternate setting that came to mind where it would be not exactly the done thing for her to captain her inherited ship and make commercial decisions herself - although I do have to point out that contrary to popular belief, there were a lot of women on shipboard in the age of sail, may this be useful - but also where nature and luck/fate are as influential as they are in the original setting), or something in which the land, superstition, and ritual are more overtly magical.
I've only requested treats for this fandom, so I would prefer that the outlook of the fic, including if you decide to incorporate non-canon magical or spooky elements, be ultimately positive. A seasonal treat would be right up the alley of this request. I'd also be into interactive fiction.
Fandom: Simoun
Character(s): Neviril, Paraietta, Mamiina, Rodoreamon, Yun, Dominuura
This is a perennial request for me and anything would make me very happy. I'm so interested in how the war changes all the characters and their relationships with one another, how Everything is Beautiful and Then Shit Gets Real but amidst the war-is-hell there's still the creation of bonds of trust and loyalty and chances to do what's right (the bits with the Plumbish priestesses, for instance). Every character gets a chance to develop and make choices that are all brave in different ways. Would also be curious about post-canon (what happens if Neviril and Aeru make it back to the main world when war is brewing again, but Neviril has no one from the old cohort to lead because they can’t fly anymore?) and/or about magic and time weirdness retconning character deaths or disappearances.
I've requested either tricks or treats here. For tricks I'd prefer "dark" to "cynical" - throw as much shit at them as you want in terms of war-is-hell and weird magic and time horror, but I believe that the characters mostly want to do what they believe is the right thing and help each other. My treat preferences are, I think, more about thematic focus than content - if it's slice of life, how is that life striving towards their ideals even in small ways? (Helping the war orphans, flying the Simoun, growing a garden?) If it's more about Things Happening, in the war or whatnot, what do those things show about their growth or the changes in their relationships? I would also be super into interactive fiction.
As far as ships go, I'm on board with most of the canon ones (no romantic/sexual Dominuura/Limone, please) but have a small soft spot for postcanon Paraietta/Rodoreamon as well.
Fandom: Spinning Silver
Character(s): Miryem Mandelstam
I love hard-headed, practical, ambitious women who get into adventures because of, rather than in spite of, those qualities, and so I love Miryem and her good sense, pride, and rules-lawyering. I’m really interested in what the book does with power - Miryem’s real-world power of accounting and hardheadedness becoming magic in the Staryk world, being a queen in one world while belonging to a disenfranchised minority in another. What happens when Miryem is back in the human world, post-canon? I never got the impression that she’d be happy just avoiding the whole question of the town’s contempt for her by finding power elsewhere - what’s it like if she comes back a queen? (Can she use the mirror from Irina to do an end run around the whole Persephone setup and travel back and forth whenever she wants, and if so, what sorts of plot would make that fun to play with? If not, that’s still fine.) Or, what are some adventures in the Staryk world where she could use her Accounting Powers, other than the post-war rebuilding the book talks about? Or tell me more about Miryem practicing Judaism in the Staryk world, and the application of Judaism to that world and those customs that we get some hints of (that’s a hell of a diaspora - what would the rabbis think of it?).
I'm very uninterested in Miryem's romance with the Staryk Lord unless you feel like making it f/f, so while I don't require you to retcon it or break them up, I don't want a fic focusing on it. If you're interested in shipping her with Irina or Wanda, I have some previous prompts for them in my "dear author letters" tag. (These may also be relevant to platonic fic that includes Irina or Wanda - like Wanda becoming a magical gatekeeper to Miryem's land or having the "magic" of reading/writing that Miryem gave her become magic-magic in the Staryk land, or Irina and Miryem's different ideas of who their commitment as queen is to - but there's more detail and prompts in the tag.)
I'm happy to receive either tricks or treats for this fandom. I'm explicitly okay with a story in either category involving anti-Semitic prejudice, but would prefer that the dark/scary elements in a "trick" fic come from supernatural horror rather than the human capacity for racist violence. I suppose treat fic would be about finding or making one's place in the world, the place where you can use the powers that you've got and make your world safe for yourself and others around you.
Fandom: The Strange Case of Starship Iris
Character(s): Sana Tripathi, Arkady Patel, Krejjh, Brian Jeeter, Rumor Crew, Agent Park
I just want MORE of any or all of these people because I love them - Krejjh's dashing pilot thing ("feast on my leavings, mortality! I am danger on wheels and those wheels are rooOOOOLLING!") and what it masks, Brian's geekery and humanist passion, Arkady's tough outside and squishy center and Sana's soft outside and iron center, the crew-as-found-family, Park's fifth-cup-of-cold-coffee burnout and wry edge. Slice of life? Their backstories? Things they like or get excited about? (More about the music they like to listen to/sing/play!) Arkady and/or Sana (or other crew members) on missions off-ship, or the crew all facing a problem or a heist together? Dwarnian customs (and Krejjh introducing Dwarnian customs to their friends and how they maybe pick some of those up - or adopting human customs and how they're different)? Park adjusting to the crew and them adjusting to him (and what's his role going forward)?
I've requested treats only for this fandom, no tricks - I'm totally fine with characters' angsty pasts and angsty present feelings being included, but I'd prefer that the overall mood of a fic that involved angst be one that focused on a better future, bonds with others, a cause to believe in, etc.
I ship Arkady with Sana (that loyalty kink!), but I don't mind if a fic includes Violet/Arkady (after all, it is canon) as long as it's not shipfic/focused on their romance. Brian/Krejjh is good too.
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funkymbtifiction · 5 years
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[answered asks for this week]
Inside:
Finding character typings
Enneagram 6 / resources / split between thinking & feeling
Personal Responsibility & Fi / Fe
Integration / Disintegration lines (Enneagram)
Do functions dictate what we like or dislike?
Advice on explaining things simply
Do variants influence the Enneagram wing as much as the core?
Which type is the most curious?
Is it common for ISTJs and INTJs to mistype as each other?
How can an INTJ learn from an ESFP about Se?
Can you be organized even if you have no Te?
How are ISFJs so organized all the time without Te?
The character typings are getting harder to find now that you’ve been discussing Enneagram and typing people, especially with the influx of asks. Sometimes I just want to see all new MBTI typings, but there’s only tags for each specific type, franchise and character. Can you start giving character typings their own tag, like #typing?
Good idea. The mods will work on implementing more characters into the tag, but for now we’ve put our most recent ones here: https://funkymbtifiction.tumblr.com/tagged/character%20typing
Thanks for taking the time to reply, ENFP mod.
I think you make a good point about coming up with one’s own arguments/opinions rather than sort of leeching of other’s.
However I do think I process the opinions or arguments of others to some degree… at least some of the time. I distrust my own feelings/thoughts but I also distrust the arguments of other people too.
Socrates is noted as saying “The unexamined life is not worth living” but I also take issue with an ‘over examined life’. I feel like I am constantly analyzing myself and over thinking everything to the point of not knowing what to trust (whether it is because there are so many perspectives that leaves you thinking well… how can I say I’m right if so many other people have different opinions?). 
I suppose one answer to this is to just consider ourselves for the individuals we are in a sort of “well it’s true for me…”. However something about this makes me feel uncomfortable and tbh I often feel like I don’t know how I feel about a variety of things.
As a 6, I do understand. That’s a common problem for 6s. They tend to not know who to trust and if you distrust too much (I assume you’re an sp/so?) then there’s no one to trust and learn from, which leaves you high and dry. You need to learn how to grow in self-awareness and integrate to a calmer sense of self.
Google “Growth for the Enneagram 6″ for resources to help you. :)
Hi! I submitted a question, don’t know if tumblr "ate it",if not, sorry for asking again. Could u help with a concept please? Said thinking that everyone is responsible for their own feelings is a common Fi belief (because since they take personal responsibility for theirs they project this pattern on others).Does that mean that the belief that each person is responsible for their own feeling is not a matter of good boundaries but a Fi biased? I don't mean like u shouldn‘t apologize for feelings u have hurt or that u shouldn‘t care about the emotional effect u have on others, or that u don’t have to b empathetic/help ‘cause it isn´t ur responsibility. I mean that u shouldn’t have to stop yourself from living your life (be with who u love, traveling, leaving) cause living it might upset/hurt others. I used to deprive myself to not upset others, learned about boundaries & now don’t know what is/if there is a “right” If boundaries is a Fi biased?  Could u please help? Thanks             
There are a lot of great books out there on how to set boundaries. If you struggle to assert yourself, I highly recommend checking out your local library, they probably have at least six.
I have noticed a chronic inability to set good boundaries among a wide variety of thinkers and feelers both, so both Fi and Fe can be over-accommodating, to their own determent (including and especially if they are a core 9).
Some good things to remember are:
I will never say yes to anything I feel uncomfortable about or that goes against what I believe is right. (And if your “friends” constantly pressure you to do this, find other friends. They do not respect you.)
I will not respond to emotional manipulation. Do you know what that looks and sounds like? It often involves “If you were REALLY my friend…” “If you ACTUALLY loved me…” “Well, I WON’T GO IF YOU DON’T…” Anything that amounts to emotional blackmail. Any situation where the other person will not take “no” for an answer and tries to make you feel guilty.
Next, you have to learn how to shut down people. How to say no in a way they can’t argue with you, and then repeat your answer. “I can’t, but I’m sure you will have a great time. I look forward to hearing all about it.” “I cannot do this for you, but you are smart and talented. I know you can do it. :)” Etc. Better to sound like a broken record than be a doormat.
Regarding what you said about stopping living your life for other people:
You only get one life.
How you spend it, is up to you.
Other people cannot and should not dictate your life, because it’s not theirs.
When you make all your choices about the other person, you are giving them your life – you are stepping away from yourself and either allowing them to dictate your life, or using them as an excuse to avoid living your life out of fear.
Some people really do want to interfere in your life and make your life all about them – and often, these people are manipulative, selfish, and inconsiderate. They guilt you if you do not make all your decisions based on their responses. These are the people with whom you need boundaries, because they do not have your best interests in mind – they have themselves in mind. And nice people (regardless of type) tend to get “used” by people like this, because nice people want to be … nice. Avoid conflict. Keep others happy. Be kind.
The other possibility is using other people and their feelings as an excuse to avoid doing things you are scared about doing – like, “I can’t leave and go to college and get a career or be with this person, because my mom needs me.” In that instance, you make it all about your mom – but she may or may not need you, and if she’s a healthy individual, the last thing she wants is for you to sacrifice your future and your happiness and your chances on staying “for her.” In that instance, you’re just using Mom as an excuse not to admit you’re afraid.
The easiest way to spot Fe vs Fi in terms of things like kindness or making decisions based on others is that a Fe will want to bring others into emotional harmony and a Fi will not.
For example, you have two friends who are fighting. Actually, one blew up at the other one and now the latter person is not talking to the former person… who has no clue the latter person is actually angry at her. So the former person continues to be friendly in group e-mails. The latter person has not replied to any of them and says “I am done with that person.”
Now, a Fe would feel responsible for bringing harmony to the group, and actively mediate and/or interfere to bring about a resolution. They would not feel “okay” having two people in their close friendship circle scrapping, so they would try and fix it, because that’s what Fe does – it focuses on the emotional tone of the chosen group. If the people were non-responsive, it would pressure one or the other to do the right thing and apologize / forgive / make up, because Fe can’t go home and feel okay about this until everyone is back in harmony.
The Fi would look at the situation, be annoyed at the inconvenience this is causing them (forcing them to choose between their friends and/or take sides) and… either tell them off or leave them to sort out their own problems. Or say, “To hell with their over-reactive bullshit, if she wants to act this way and exclude herself to hold a grudge, she can do that. It’s not my problem” – and go on with their life / day and ignore the whole thing, shutting the ‘problem’ person out.
I'm not sure if this has any relevance to typing but something I keep thinking back on is this split between your thoughts and feelings (or at least that is how I articulate it). For example to be told something that makes complete rational sense, accept it at the time but then fall back into a state where you just sort of ignore what you've been told. It's like you're stuck in-between the two, like you can't fully trust or buy into the rational argument or your feelings. 6 type perhaps?
It sounds more like a lack of internal processing.
“to be told something that makes complete rational sense” <- allowing someone else to do your thinking for you and give you a solution, which means you hear it, you do not process it (think through it, articulate it in your own words, or see if it makes logical sense to you), and you discard it.
The best way to avoid ‘ignoring what you have been told’ is to process it. Think about it. Put it into your own words. Reason it out. Decide if it’s logical or not. Being “told” is not the same as “thinking” something through. The reason you cannot fully buy into it is… it’s not your argument.
You have met passionate people, right? They may be completely wrong, but they are passionate about their beliefs and/or argument because it’s THEIRS. The person parroting someone else’s argument is not passionate about it. They will abandon it, they will back down from it, they will discard it, because they put no real thought into it, they just took something from someone else and used it for a short time, rather than coming up with their own reasoning.
This is easier to do than framing your own argument or determination of logic, which is why almost everyone does it – but that’s why it goes in one ear and out the other. It didn’t involve YOUR brain. When you think about something, you truly think about it. It fires neutrons in your brain. It takes time to process, and it leaves a more lasting impression on you. It’s the same as the people who never learn from their mistakes, because they never sat down to think about why the mistake happened, the repercussions of the mistake, and what they think / feel about the mistake – how it reflects on and shapes them, and if they ever want to avoid making it again. They didn’t process it, so they’ll repeat it – and wind up expecting different results from doing the same things without variation.
The ideal thing is for your T and F process to work in harmony together. For you not to do anything that violates your sense of right and wrong (F) even if it’s rational (T); and to develop a sense of moral responsibility (F) to go with your natural reasoning and problem-solving skills (T).
You can see an imbalance in people when their functions are out of sync – like the F who is all F, all emotional reasoning, and no T strong foundation to back it up; or the T who is all achievement based or rationalizes that there is no good / evil, it’s all relative and subjective, who lacks a moral foundation (F).
6′s do tend to distrust their feelings. You are right about that. Emotions lead to emotional decisions, which lead to potential blind spots and unsafe things, which a 6 wants to avoid. But the 6 also has to realize that they are not purely rational, they do make emotional decisions – because they find logical reasons to avoid the things they fear. Fear is an emotion. Fear drives the 6. They are emotional but logical. Does that make sense? The 6 has to learn to see their emotional decisions and accept them, be honest about what’s really driving their logic. And they have to learn to be okay with being emotionally vulnerable.
If you want things to work in tandem in your stack, you have to learn to internally process things on some level and to come up with your own arguments. If you feel they are weak, study on how to make better ones. Look at what others do, but test all the arguments yourself – to see if they are sound, if you agree with them on a logical or moral level, to figure out if they are factually based (work in the real world), to find their flaws. Doing this will be good for you, regardless of your type. You need your own voice. Your own principles. Your own arguments. If you are a 6, the thought of doing this might feel a bit much at first – but it’s the only way you will come into “self-trust.”
Are the lines of integration and disintegration more important than identifying with the character traits of an enneagram type? What happens when you relate more to the traits than the healthy or unhealthy lines? Or the opposite you see yourself in the healthy or unhealthy lines but relate less to the core type? Thanks
Odds are you’ve never faced a full disintegration (which can last months) and aren’t old / wise enough to have integrated (my mom is just now moving into her 7 integration), so you should pay most attention to the overall type, its motives, its coping methods, its fears, and its behaviors. If you haven’t found one that makes you cringe, while also making you feel good about the virtues of that E type (both of which you share), you haven’t found your core type.
Have you ever looked at highly divisive movies/TV shows/musicals/books or just specific genres to see what functions are in play to cause that division? For example there are people who love the horror genre, and others who can’t stand to go near it. Or Call Me By Your Name was super decisive; half the viewers saw it as a beautiful love story, the other half as a horrifying tale of statutory rape. Or Love never Dies; around half see a deep layered masterpiece, the others are horrified by it either thinking it’s poorly made or the story should never have been told. 
So the other half of the question is: have you seen patterns in what kinds of genres of stories each function is drawn to? Or on the flip side, what genres they can’t stand?
Something as complex as personal tastes is much too deep to define  through cognitive functions. A lot of factors go into why people react or do not react to something – personal experience, trauma, what society thinks of it (is this accepted / not accepted?), mental health, likes and dislikes, etc. When you start trying to box people in by saying this or that type is drawn to this or that kind of entertainment or would be disturbed by this or that, you create giant generalities that can easily be disproven if a handful of people are completely that type but definitely not of that entertainment focus. (For example, I once had an INFJ tell me she knew I wasn’t an INFJ because I watched Hannibal, and a “real” INFJ would find that show much too violent and grotesque / be unable to separate their feelings from the emotions on screen. I didn’t tell her that another INFJ got me into it in the first place. ;)
This question actually allows me to say something I’ve wanted to for awhile now – cognition, MBTI, Enneagram, and other things… will never explain everything about who you are. It will never explain all your tastes, or thoughts, or passions, or interests, or eccentricities. You are a unique human being. You can think in patterns that correlate to cognitive functions, but that does not make you a robot coming off an assembly line. You get to have unique tastes different from other people with your personality type. You are far, far too complex a creature to have one or two simple explanations that define you. And that’s glorious.
So in short, no, I haven’t noticed any real patterns between tastes and how people respond to entertainment, except to say that one or two people (especially among critics) “start” the emotional response and others copy it. (Have you ever noticed how a lot of reviewers use the same words and, often abstract, reasons not to or to like something? You can tell someone who is genuinely concerned about a piece of entertainment, or who was disturbed by it, because they put it into their own intense, passionate and detailed words.)
Hi, this is a semi-mbti and weird question, but since two of the mods are Ne-doms, do you have any advice to high Ne users who want to be better at explaining stuff? I admire how the ENFP mod makes good analogies to explain stuff, which I do too since I'm INFP, but despite Si being higher in me, I lost connection to it and I feel useless and incompetent. What I say/write is lost in scattered abstractions which make me sound unreliable, which abhors Te and my (4)w3.
You need better Te development. Te is all about finding something that works for everyone that uses it – a streamlined process that produces the same results in a variety of different people. This is why a good analogy appeals to Te, because the information it is talking about has been simplified into language anyone can understand. It’s tempting for any intuitive to stay abstract in their conversation – but imagine yourself trying to explain whatever you are trying to explain to a child. What language would you use? Simplicity (if you can find it, some things are tremendously complex) is best, because not everyone speaks the same language – literally.
So if you find yourself being vague or abstract, slow down in whatever you are doing, and think about how you could make this more detailed or plainer in expression. This is HARD at first. Extremely hard. And it will be hard in some topics going ahead, even after you have gotten good at it. Most people are not simple and straightforward in their communication. They leave out details. They need others to ask them clarifying questions. Think about that, when you are looking at whatever you are writing – even if it’s just an e-mail. Is this clear enough that they will know exactly what I mean? If not, how can I make it clearer? Keep working on it, until you are being clear.
For non-Te users, and especially INTPs (I like y’all, but sometimes I don’t know what you are talking about) the key is to know what the point you are trying to make is, and to lay it out clearly without deviating into sub-trails. I realize you cannot do this in conversation, you process in your head as you go and that switches your conversational tracks, but when sending someone something you have written, you need to use the same idea – SIMPLE. Straightforward.
As for finding other things to compare it to, what’s an analogy everyone can relate to? That’s a good place to start. What do humans all have in common? (Basic needs, desires, and emotions.)
The thing I admire most about one of my INTJ friends is that she says exactly what she means and she means what she says, and if you ask her to explain what she means, she can do so in a way anyone can understand. She said she worked hard to develop that skill (to be plain-speaking) but it’s tremendously useful in her professional and personal life. So my advice is to practice saying what you want to say, and to make sure you are clear. When in doubt, ask someone else if they understand what you mean. If they say no, keep working on it. Practice. Make it a habit.
Does the instinctual variants affect the wing as much as the main enneagram type? Thank you.
I would say so, yes. In fact, I would say that while discovering your core is THE most important part of Enneagram (you get that right and the rest of your tritype wrong, you are still good, because your core’s the only thing that matters in terms of self-understanding and self-development), if you are in doubt about your wing, checking the iv’s on either side can be a useful tool in settling on one.
If you are an so/sp, for example, your entire stack will be so/sp. Your tritype should align with so/sp for all the main numbers and your first wing (they can fall in line with the second and third fix’s wings too, but your second fix’s wing matters less than your core’s wing, and your third fix’s wing is almost nonexistent in terms of influencing dramatically your personality).
Hello! I was wondering is there any type significantly more curious than the others? Or maybe is there any function which is connected with curiosity? Thanks! :D
You probably cannot beat an INTP 5w6 sp/so for curiosity. Ti wants to know how everything works, Ne has about a thousand different interests, and 5 wants to read everything it can / escape the outer world through knowledge. Sp is focused on fulfilling all its own needs, and sx-blind means no impulsive distractions – so all the time in the world to sit and read up on a million things.
HOWEVER… people of any type can be and often are curious. ;)
So I've recently taken some online MBTI quizzes, and I'm quite surprised that I got ISTJ in some of them. For around five years, I've always considered myself as an INTJ. This made me curious if I indeed have changed over the years, so I read the cognitive functions of the two types and compared them. I think there is some similarity between the Si and Ni but I can't seem to pinpoint which aspect. Is it normal for an INTJ to be mis-typed as ISTJ and vise versa? Thank you!
You don’t change type. It’s possible you’ve developed your lower functions more, or were mistyped INTJ when you are actually an ISTJ (which happens all the time on tumblr – sensors mistyping as intuitives because the S stereotypes are wrong / inaccurate / lack an understanding of sensing, since intuitives wrote them, and intuitives have very poor Se/Si and therefore do not understand instinctually how they work).
The simplest method of telling the difference is whether your regular daily pattern of information processing is to gather details in order to build a complete picture (S) or if you start deconstructing the big picture down to the details (N). The former is more focused in what’s tangibly possible, the latter is more abstract. The former may struggle to see the bigger picture easily and quickly, the latter may struggle to know which details are essential and which aren’t.
The similarity is that both process information carefully and methodically, and want to fully do so before engaging with it or putting it into motion in the outside world. The difference is your approach to the information. (Check our intj x istj tags. And http://ill-be-istj-if-no-one-else-is.tumblr.com/ is a good source for Si-Te processing examples.)
Female INTJ here. I didn't realize it until a few days ago, but I actually really admire some ESFPs. I admire their independence and their drive to go out and just do things(albeit poorly planned out and a bit impulsive). I find myself quite hesitant to do anything unless I'm 100% sure and then sometimes it just doesn't happen if it doesn't quite go my way. I was wondering if you had any tips on how I can successfully better myself by taking some cues and examples from ESFPs? What can I work on?
Start challenging yourself to do one thing a week without being 100% sure. Stick with ‘safe’ things for now (ie, not something that might wreck your life if you make the wrong impulsive decision) but learn to loosen up and pay more attention to taking opportunities as they arise rather than waiting endlessly. It also sounds like you might have an Ennagram 5 fix. They like to be totally prepared before they start, but what they fail to realize is the thing they fear most – going out into the world and getting life experience – is what will help them the most – going out and trying things, instead of just reading and thinking about them.
So, start trying to DO and not just THINK ABOUT.
Hello! As I understand, the inferior function is something that one is bad at but can use eventually. However, what does that mean for those that don’t have that function in their stack? For example, those with inferior Te has a want to be organized in the outside world but is bad at doing it. What does that mean for the types that don’t have Te in their stack? Are they even worse at organizing outside of themselves than IXFPs? Or is it that when those who have no Te in their stack organize things outside of themselves it takes so much energy for them that they’re less likely to do so since it’s not natural for them at all? Also, is this concept applicable to all the functions (I.e. no Si in stack meaning horrible at learning from past experiences, no Fe meaning bad at catching the mood in the room, etc.)? 2/2  PS Thank you so much for this blog! I’ve learned so much just from going through everything :)
You can learn and adapt with whatever functions you have, to be successful in the world. High Te’s learn how to “fake” Fe to get things done. SFJs can go get a book on organizing from the library, adopt all the Te author’s methods, and bring their outer world into organization. Etc. Every type is better off when they can learn from someone good at what they want to be – if you want to become organized, read, watch, and adapt material from organizational experts. If you want to learn to ‘fake Fe’ – read material from people who are good at getting people to work together in a Fe way and adopt the methods. Everything has been done before. If you want to learn it, find someone who does it and copy / adapt from them to make it suit your lifestyle.
Learning from past experience has more to do with stopping to process the experience – that’s why it’s useful to either collectively sit down and think through what happened to you at the end of a day (how you felt about it, how you responded, how you can better respond in future) or write it down. It’s proven that writing help us clarify our thoughts. We also get to know ourselves and our opinions much better through writing them down. If you write down something, you have to think about it – how to say it, what you really think or feel about it, and that forces you to process the incident. Processing often means learning from. It’s the people who never stop to seriously take stock of themselves that never learn from their mistakes.
If you are a Fi who wants to feel the mood in the room, start watching other people. Paying attention to them. Read books on how to read people and their moods, their “tells.” Do you know the difference between a genuine smile and a fake one? Between a smile and a sneer? Can you tell when someone is actively interested in what you are saying (watching you, leaning forward, asking questions) or just tolerating you (glancing around, not asking questions, leaning back in their chair)?
Whatever you want to learn in life – there’s someone who is doing it. Find them. Look at what they do. And then find a way to adopt it into your life.
Why do the ISFJs I know all really good at organizing and getting rid of clutter? Isn't Te their PoLR? It doesn't make sense to me but I'm sure they're typed correctly and it's been confirmed by multiple sources.
Si.
There’s about ten thousand decluttering books out there. Being sensors, your ISFJs have probably read those books. Si anywhere in the stack thinks, “If this worked for them, it may work for me.” Si believes you can repeat success by following the formula. If this other person did A + B = C, I can do A + B = C.
Intuitives often waste time trying to re-invent the wheel, because “copying how they did it” never occurs to them.
Plus, as sensors they are oriented to their living space and how it makes them feel. Si is a fussy dominant function that adheres to the abstract sensation of things, so a Si-dom who likes to keep things tidy so that they feel in harmony with their environment is naturally going to gravitate toward processes that help them keep their space tidy.
This is not always the case. Some Si-doms packrats collect and imbibe things with ‘memories’ and ‘sentiment’ (their feeling function) and wind up with clutter.
- ENFP Mod
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ABOUT ME:
> Hello! This is the mun. I am known as Zaynah; female and uses she/her pronouns. However, you are free to refer to me as they/them if you don’t know me personally.
> My age is currently 21 years old. This isn’t a big deal or anything, but this is just me stating out that this is my actual age.
> I am introverted, shy, and reserved. It’s not to say I’m afraid of approaching new people or people I know/care about, but it’s just I’m not the kind of person to jump at the gun when it comes to things. My communication may come small at first, but if we get along really well and known each other for a while, I turn out to be very outspoken, excitable, and ready to talk to.
> I know that this is mentioned in my mun section of my blog, but my sexuality is all platonic (aroace in fact). My feelings towards something is just entirely that: Platonic. I don’t feel any romantic or sexual attraction towards people. When I say “I love you” it’s more familial in that regard.
> Here’s the biggest kicker in regards to me: I have terrible, terrible anxiety. I know that a lot of people have anxiety, but I need to point this out anyway because it’s important. The smallest of things can render me into a full blown panic and honestly, most of it isn’t personal and I don’t wish others to take it personally. I get triggered really easily when it comes to the triggers I have and it makes me prone to anxiety/panic attacks incredibly easily. I do have a list to blacklist these triggers, but I want you guys to be aware of this because this is something I cannot control.
> I don’t like speaking personally about this, but there’s a piece of it that needs to be addressed when it comes to threads: I am born with a condition that makes my emotions go haywire on me and causes me to overstimulate very easily. I usually have to tend at things at my own pace or I immediately freak out and have mental breakdowns. I cannot be rushed. I do apologize if responding to threads is a slow progress when it comes to me, but this is how I can make this hobby fun rather than mentally taxing. Again, don’t take this personally.
ABOUT THE BLOG:
> I am a multi-verse and multi-ship kind of blog. Interactions and ships are their own separate reality unless discussed with the muns in question. I don’t mind any ships that are love triangles or unrequited, but again, they are usually their own universe unless it’s discussed.
> It’s primarily SFW, but I won’t hesitate to darker themes as long as there isn’t grotesque details of gore of any kind. I will accept subtle details of it to an extent, however. This also means I don’t do any smut. With that in mind, I don’t mind at all that you guys do NSFW on your blog, as long as it’s tagged.
> My blog is independent yet selective. I would say private as I interact with mostly mutuals, but most of the time, I’m very lenient to just following a blog whether it’s from interest or if they’re willing to interact.
> Reblog Karma: Listen, I don’t mind if you reblog a meme from me. I get that for the meme, not every meme is going to apply to your muse. That’s understandable. The thing is; I don’t want it to be excessive. I’ll really appreciate memes being sent to me. If you spam reblog memes from me without sending anything in, that bothers me. I don’t like to used as a meme archive. Please don’t use roleplay blogs as meme archives. It’s disrespectful.
> I am lover of crossovers and AUs, so I am fine with all that in my book.
> I also welcome in OCs, whether they’re fandomless or not.
DRAMA:
> This is probably the longest section of the batch but this is severely important to me: If there’s any user out there who is being toxic/manipulative/etc. To a close friend of mine and stirring up drama for whatever reason, I won’t hesitate to block them and even report them if it gets far worse. I like to get healthy relationships with others and I know that not everyone I meet is gonna be a ray of sunshine, but this is something to keep in mind. Drama isn’t good for my health and it’s not good for anyone’s health. It’s something I don’t tolerate and it can spike up my anxiety very badly.
> That said: I don’t get involved into drama unless it’s something in the matter of my friends. I won’t get involved if I’m told not to get involved. If it doesn’t concern me and if the mun doesn’t want me to get involved, then I’ll respect their wishes. I will defend a friend though if necessary.
> Furthermore, do not follow nor interact with me if you’re the type of person that loves to stir drama. It’s fine if you’re calling out someone who’s dangerous to the roleplay community, but if it’s just out of spite and not warning people? Then you’re blocked.
I do not point fingers, but I also don’t like to stand around when people are being harmed by one toxic individual. I know people out there are anti-drama and that’s okay if you want to focus on your mental health; that’s perfectly fine. But if you’re someone who sees drama as one big hullabaloo then, I’m sorry, but there are people out there who cause harm to others and sometimes, they need to be called out.
> However, there are people who are harmful to others in a way that needs to be called out upon. And by that, I mean, please don’t follow nor interact with me if you associate with or follow user Grusel-high. She has been proven to show ableist, homophobic, and transphobic behaviors in such a disgusting way that feels unreal. Here is the callout post here that explains what she has done and is backed up by good evidence. If you see her around, stay safe folks.
> There is also another person (who interacts with the person above still) known as ..astra-hero../.battle.fcrgcd. who’s been causing great anxiety to one of my dearest, closest friends, and I can’t help but get anxiety at the sight of this person’s urls. There is a post here that explains mostly of what he did and why it bothers so many of my friends here. So, please, don’t interact with me if you support this user or any of his supporters; thank you.
> And finally, don’t follow me if you interact with With.out-Worr.ies. They were banned off of Tumblr for a reason. He is disgusting and doesn’t respect people’s boundaries. Here are posts here and here explaining what he’s done. 
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> No god-modding or info-modding involved. God-modding is a form of controlling another person’s muse in a certain shape or form that makes it hard for that person to control their own muse. Info-modding is when someone’s muse knows about another’s muse, but they aren’t supposed to. For example, Spid.er Man shouldn’t know about Bat.man’s secret or of what happened to his parents unless pre-established by the muns in question. I hope this explains it well enough.
> That said in regards to muses in general, mun doesn’t equal muse. I do not condone the terrible actions my muse can do, and the muse will not be glorified or romanticized for that manner. If there’s anything I’ve written that is uncomfortable to you, please don’t keep me in the dark and let me know.
> Personal blogs: I don’t mind your presence here. I don’t mind it at all. However: Please don’t reblog my threads or spam my likes. I don’t want roleplayers spamming my likes either. It’s not only a hassle, but it clogs up my activity and makes it hard to see any notifications for, well, anything really.
> Guilt-tripping? Is a severe no-no from me. I’ve been a victim of guilt-tripping, and I know people out there who are also victims of that. Guilt-tripping is something I don’t condone and I do not tolerate. Using the victim card? Also a no-no. If you’ve done something wrong, you shouldn’t twist the words to make it seem like you’re the victim. You must take responsibility for your actions.
> All I really ask from followers is to please respect me. I know it shouldn’t be a thing labeled on here, but to me, it’s important that people are respectful to me and those I befriend.
> Even though I don’t do smut, here’s something on the matter of smutting; don’t lie about your age to me. I don’t care if you’re a minor, it’s not right to do. Doing underaged smut is illegal and can get people in jail. So, please, don’t follow me if you’re someone who does that or someone who follows someone who does that.
> We must plot or have chemistry first with our characters before our ship can sail.
> I like to be asked if an ask can be turned into a thread. Most of the time I say yes, so don’t be shy!
> Roleplayers do not have to have icons in their posts, but it’s more preferred in my case.
> Please cut your posts; I beg of you.
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> This should be obvious but: Don’t harass anybody because of their race/sexuality/culture/ etc. We are just people who just want to play our favorite characters. Let’s leave it at that.
TRIGGERS (that need to be tagged):
> Gore
> Incest
> Pedophilia
> Anything that has to do with needles
> Jumpscares
> Child porn
> Spiders
> Epilepsy
> Bright lights/neon colors
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> This Sonic is Modern Sonic/3D era of Sonic and follows the lore of him throughout Sonic Adventure 1 all the way to Sonic Forces and so on. Sonic Boom, and Sonic Mania/Classic Sonic are all different alternatives universe according to my blog.
> My AUs are most likely lore-heavy with the backstories but with plotting, threads can be worked out.
> While this blog sticks to the canon of the games, there are some hints of canon-divergence due to my headcanons.
> Every now and then I will post drabbles that explain the world of Sonics AUs or where I’m going with Sonic in his canon verse. That includes IC (in-character) updates.
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No, we am not going to score participation and there will not be a winner. This challenge is just to have fun and enjoy more poly content.
Is there anything I can’t do?
No extreme underage (anything 13 or under). Other than that, as long as you tag for content (non-con, dub-con, underage, mcd, violence, sexual imagery, that sort of stuff) then you can write or create whatever you like.
What if I don’t want a particular ship on my card?
When you sign up, there will be a spot on the form to let us know if you don’t want a particular ship or character, and you can also let us know if you don’t want femslash, slash, or multi ships on your card. We will also limit your card to 3-person only ships if you don’t want 4 or 5 person ships (there aren’t many of those).
If I don’t like my card, can I get another?
Yes you may. We’ll change your card once if needed. If you get a card with only a few squares you really can’t stomach, point out those in particular and we’ll just hand pick a few new ones for you.
What do I do once I’ve created something for my Bingo?
Tag it for ‘spnpolybingo’ and we’ll reblog it here. Please allow up to 7 days to find/reblog content. If we do not have it reblogged after 7 days, just shoot us a message. We’ll never ignore anyone on purpose, but sometimes tags are wonky.
When will I receive my Bingo card?
Sign Ups will be open March 15-April 15. Please give us at least a week-ish to make your card, but you can usually expect it much sooner.
Can I give suggestions on ships to include in the masterlist or AU/Trope ideas?
Yes please! We’m not putting up an AU/Trope list because those are very generic and shouldn’t be a problem, but you can feel free to send in AU/Tropes (nothing sexual/kink related) and send in additional Characters or Ships that you’d like to see. :D
What if I don’t understand what a square is supposed to mean?
Just ask! There are no stupid questions. Seriously. Ask us questions. We have put some poly terminology on the Prompts list, and we’ll be putting up links for a few interesting poly articles/internet pages for you to check out. But if you’re looking at a square going ‘huh, how’s that work’, then just ask!
What do I create for a Square that doesn’t have a ship?
You can literally create anything you want (except extreme underage) as long as it involves a polyamorous relationship between 3 or more characters. Poly relationships do not have to include interaction/romance/sex between all parties involved. Sometimes all poly partners are involved with each other, and sometimes they aren’t.
Who’s running this bingo?
That’d be Laura Kay and Sim. You can find LK at just-another-busyfangirl and you can find Sim at ladysimoriah. Feel free to IM us or send asks. We also want to give credit to the OG mods of this challenge, Christy and Maya.
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