It's Frickin' Bats

Mid-20s. Anime, video games, RP, personal silliness. NSFW, rarely (tagged). about | @nolifepoints (YGO)

[battymarionette]

Alrighty. Getting ducks in a row to either delete this account or, at the very least, mass delete all the posts and retire it.

Just some initial reassurance that nothing has happened to me to prompt this (at least, not recently). It's just time to move on, y'know?

The clear out will happen anywhere from three days to a week. Please message me before then if you want to catch up with me on my new personal. Even if this account still exists, I will probably not be checking it.

Feelings/personal stuff below...

Old news, but a recap for anyone that doesn't know: a couple of IRL stalkers found my blog years back. I've never felt 100% safe online since then, especially not here. I've been trying to let go of this for a long time, and I think I am finally ready to do it. I've established myself elsewhere, and I can afford to clean up my online presence.

It is a little emotional, though. I'll always be bitter that people I thought were my friends made me feel so unsafe that I had to change a part of who I was before I was ready to. Maybe some other day, as some other person, I'll talk about how I conceive my identity and why this matters. But for now I'll only say that, for a time, battymarionette was an important part of me.

And I had a lot of good times here, even if a lot of it is also deeply embarrassing to look back on. I deepened my understanding of myself and the world around me. I made friends where I thought no one would even know I existed. I survived (what I hope will remain) the worst era of my life, and having this blog as an outlet certainly played a role in that. My memory isn't good, partially because of what I've gone through. Having a concrete record of my existence, both the good parts and the bad... that may be one of the biggest reasons I didn't delete this blog a long time ago.

So... yeah. All in all, sad. But I know I'll also feel better when it's done. See you, space cowboy... or something.

[battymarionette]

"that's my fursona" omg

well it is

[battymarionette]

Tagged by @sakuramacarons! Thank you~

Answer 7, Tag 7

1. Last Movie I Watched: I think... Cat Soup in rabb.it.

2. Last Song I Listened To: Slowmotion by Pinocchio-P w/ Hatsune Miku (right now, actually, heh).

3. Last Book I Read: I think the last one I finished was Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire. It was pretty short.

4. The Last Thing I Ate: Pita grilled cheese with spinach and garlic.

5. If I Could Be Anywhere Now, Where Would I Be: With someone I like.

6. Where Would I Time Travel: As always, to the future.

7. What Fictional Character Would I Spend The Day With: Ahh, this is hard... let’s say Mai from YGO, because hanging out with Mai sounds like a great time.

I’ll tag.. uh... @the-cryptographer @rainstormcolors @@mywaywardcupcake @jew-gi-oh @improfem @atern @bardock--obama (only if you want to of course :,D)

[bananonbinary]

This was the funniest hour of my life

[bananonbinary]

At the end of the panel we gave them a round of applause for being so brave in trying to write straights and cisgenders

[bananonbinary]

Especially Jasika, who got very emotional about her childhood with straight parents

[bananonbinary]

types of comments on this post:

-straight people saying :/ love is love :/ gay or straight why does it matter ://///

-gay people saying wait no really i’ve never written a non-lesbian pls help

-people pointing out that even straight people don’t know how to write straight people without unnecessary romance

[catsidy14]

Is it supposed to be a satire? Like honestly I’m p sure it’s not serious…

[bananonbinary]

yea its satire but it was a real actual panel at podcon and was basically just 60 minutes of group catharsis for a room full of queers.

[the-cryptographer]

@battymarionette

[battymarionette]

Once you get this, you have to say five things you like about yourself, publicly. Then you have to send this to ten of your favourite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool~) 🌈🌈

Aww, thank you!! Five things I like about myself, hmm... I’m pretty okay at writing, I’m funny sometimes, I can coordinate colors/outfits (my one artistic skill :v), I like my hair (when it’s behaving), and... hmm... I think I’m generally kind and chill? Or at least I try to be. >w>;;

I don’t send these on, sorry. ; w; But I love my followers and y’all should say some nice things about yourself if you feel like it!

[battymarionette]

finally back home, on an actual computer, so at some point I can get to answering asks and going through my dash for real and... everything else

con highlights:

got a tarot reading after a tarot-related panel, and the cards didn’t hate me

found out White Russians are pretty good

watched a hilariously bad hentai dub with a really good sound system in our hotel room (like, with a subwoofer that required two people to carry... we turned it down lol, didn’t let the sound leak out of our room... but the bass on that crappy porn was 👌)

randomly met a guy whose troll comment turned into a con-wide meme... might tell the full story later cause it’s pretty great, but in short, he accidentally wandered to our hotel room trying to find his own, and my friend’s friend invited him in without knowing who he was just because he was cute and he had passed up the opportunity to let a cute lost guy in earlier (my friends were so into this meme though, they died)

another friend’s friend brought a rare arcade machine he owned that the con let him put in the arcade room, and he was watching a guy who was really good play it... turned out this guy had the #1 high score in the world for this game and racked up a score of over a million on his machine

went to Denny’s, got decent service, and received all the correct food in a timely manner, which is (in the group’s collective after-con Denny’s experience) kind of a miracle 

[battymarionette]

I'm feeling kind of bad rn for several reasons but my friend's friend just walked into the room and made kind of a soft raptor screech and said "that's called I need orange juice" and it was exactly what I needed at that moment

[saltamiya]

‪I’m re-doing my older comics at www.Saltamiya.art !‬

‪#kofxiv #kingoffighters #kof #k #kuladiamond #maxima #teamk #kdash‬

[battymarionette]

@supernovatype2

[battymarionette]

I kept deciding not to go to panels I was gonna go to today but I'm going to a Neopets panel and I'm gonna be equal parts nostalgic and bitter

[catsuggest]

This is batcat. He sleeps in odd positions sometimes

[improfem]

@battymarionette

[battymarionette]

For my rabb.it buddies, I'm at a con, but I might actually be around to do it. There are no panels I wanna go to for that time range, so I'll likely just be chillin' in the hotel room doing nothing anyway. Is boring. :P

(There is a slight chance that's when my friends will wanna play D&D or a board game though, so it's not 100%. We have no idea yet, lol. But I'll post to say so if that happens. :,D)

[battymarionette]

I still can’t sleep and the cans are still exploding outside

which is not why I can’t sleep, it’s just kind of funny

[campbell-duo-deactivated2023021]

one of the best thing about tumblr is that i can shit talk people doing wrong without some mod coming into my inbox saying “umm sweetie it isnt nsfw so please take down your post or we will delete you :)” 

i had hope for writscrib but now it seems like its just tumblr with a mod filter with power hungry mods

[writscrib]

I apologize that you did not know about WritScrib and signed up for it.

We’re going to take forward action and ban your account since you’re taking the time to only post passive-aggressive nonsense.

Stay on Tumblr. The beta isn’t for you, and I’m certain you’ll have a much happier experience on Tumblr where this behavior is encouraged and enjoyed by fellow-minded users. It’s not enjoyed on WritScrib, where users are trying to get away from this immaturity.

[yourladyindank]

Oh my lord. Mmmmm babe. This is good stuff right here

[thespectacularspider-girl]

Despite all the crowing going on at OP’s expense, I feel this is highlighting something else.  OP apparently aired the opinion that somebody’s artwork was fetishistic.  The mod disagreed and then said they should delete their post or risk being banned.

Despite this hellsite being absolutely unmoderated, consider what precisely Tumblr would be like if it had modding like that.  Being critical and blunt about something may get you banned?

Ever mocked a piece of artwork?  Shen’s bike loss?  Oh Joy Sex Toy’s cuck explanation?  Well, it’s now up to the moderator’s personal opinion if you’ll be banned or not.

Writscrib has an issue with making every person on it feel like an isolated island.  This only reinforces this fact by way of making sure comments are sanitized for fear of one infraction causing you to be permabanned.

Additionally, writscrib outright deleting somebody’s account based on criticism of the site’s beta on another site should be immediately worrying to everyone.  Would you be this happy if Tumblr deleted your blog with no warning because your criticized it on Twitter? Even if you were unduly harsh or even wrong in your criticisms.

Honestly?  This entire exchange is mildly troubling to me.

[yourladyindank]

You make a fair point

[shitty-metta-archive-deactivate]

@writscrib pls don’t be as bad as tumblr

[writscrib]

OP went beyond that, in that they said “this is fetish art”, argued with the artist, changed their status to “I hope I don’t get doxxed for this”, and kept banging on about it. Which is against our TOS.

The OP has a strong reason to soften what they did: it makes them not look like a jerk who broke site rules.

WritScrib’s pretty simple: don’t like, don’t look. If you have to get absolutely pissed off about art you don’t like, make a private group to vent about it. It’s disrespectful to go directly to the artist and start arguing with them and then start passive-aggressively vagueing about them.

And frankly: they were blocked because they took a warning from a mod and from the site lead to mean “keep doing what you were doing on site, and also go off site to complain about it”.

Remember that people lie to make themselves look nicer after they get caught. OP was being a jerk and wanted to stir drama. The beta isn’t equipped for drama like that.

[battymarionette]

Ok but you’re being... super unprofessional about all of this, @writscrib. I’m not arguing that what the user did wasn’t against your TOS, but your attitude (toward questions, toward criticism, and in response to issues) has been troubling me for a while now.

For example... hitting back against passive aggressiveness with more passive aggressiveness doesn’t seem like the kind of thing you say you’re trying to promote, and yet, the above exchange happened. I feel like, if anybody but a mod issued a non-apology and said something like “you’re taking the time to only post passive-aggressive nonsense” to anyone on Writcrib, even in defense of something, hey, you’d probably take action! Especially if what was said was said in a way that it would boost it to a bunch of people, so they could all see what OP did and potentially harass them (not sure how many followers you have, tbf, but if it’s in the order of hundreds or more, you need to be careful about doing this stuff because it’s kind of on you if somebody gets swamped).

I get that you’re human. I get that you’re under a lot of stress trying to keep the site in order. But you’re also a) running a business and b) in a position of power over users. This does not inspire confidence, and it’s something I’ve kinda noticed a pattern of as I’ve been waiting for the site to launch. I really don’t feel comfortable using a site if this is the behavior mods resort to when irritated or meting out discipline, on or off Writscrib.

[sailorfailures]

🎆🎊 Happy New Year! 🥂🎉

[slocotion]

Faith, Charity and Mulled Wine bats join the fray (and a miscellaneous jester) 

[cutesycrime]

@battymarionette

[battymarionette]

Guess who finally arrived? Most of what I took didn’t turn out at all due to lighting struggles, but this one looks like it has a moody Instagram filter, lol. 

[emotaako]

DnD Handbook: Half-Orcs…. evil.

Every Half-Orc PC: He has huge muscles so he can hug his friends real tight….

[emotaako]

DnD Handbook: Tieflings…. MORE evil.

Every Tiefling PC: Gay party animal in a crop top and heels

[htjmfisherman]

DnD Handbook: Drow…extrEMLY evil

Every Drow PC: Drama-thirsty fashion-forward goth