Has anyone told the newcomers not to interact with corporations and questionable celebrities? Yeah, that's how we render them useless and make this site unprofitable. The last Twitter exodus had some slimy things crawl in, and we swept most under the rug out of sight.
And on the mobile app, if you hold and drag the make a post button, a fun thing happens.
Yeah, so pay for ad-free browsing, buy goofy add-ons from the Tumblr store, Blaze shitposts, and pay Tumblr's bills in a way that doesn't involve putting up with Brands.
Do you think that Brand Accounts pay money to be here? Do you think they're giving money to Tumblr?
They do not.
We owe them nothing.
Gentle fucking reminder that there's more than one way to fund a fucking website, and if you want to change how shit gets done, then get used to paying for the things you use, because if you're not paying for something, you're the fucking product.
This seems a lot more like the trendy van living thing a lot of rich twenty-something's have been doing. Less "I live in a van by the river" and more, "I spent a year's worth of rent on an apartment to instead buy this fancy van and convert it into a tiny house on wheels to travel around the country because I can afford to do that." How you feel about that choice is up to you but it's for sure not someone being "a bum." What's being shown in this picture is actually a very expensive lifestyle that most people can't afford.
I hear the complaining pretty often and have heard it continually for the last three years, "Just shut up and let the people who are enjoying the game enjoy it!"
I'm not telling anyone not to enjoy it. I just don't want new players to be as blindsided as we were when beemoov inevitably stabs them in the back. Because that was the worst part about the whole ugly mess. We had no warning. The possibility that three of the routes might be erased never crossed our minds. At worst we thought they might just move on with a new main character and a fresh set of new love interests. We never saw the hurt coming.
So no, I have no intention of shutting up or going away. New players deserve to know what this company has done to its players. Twice. So when it happens again, which it almost certainly will, they won't be surprised. Just disappointed.
I hope ChiNoMiko is in charge of the new MCL and Beemoov doesn't ruin whatever nice surprises she has with the new game.
I wasn't there at the start of MCL, and I mean 2011, I arrived a lot later, and was a literal kid back then. I'm a teen now, so I guess I get to grow up for real with the new MCL.
And well, I'm excited, because now they know what not to do. I think we all know Og MCL was flawed but enjoyable, and I'm hoping they can work on the problems it had and avoid them in this new game. I'm hoping they take community advice and listen to criticism. I'm being positive here because I really want it to be a worthy successor if I can phrase it like that.
As much as I would also like this to happen, as far as I know Chino sold all the rights to My Candy Love and its characters as intellectual property to beemoov. She’s just the lead artist for the company now. No real creative control. She can suggest things to them but they call all the shots and always will unless someone else is someday able to buy the game from them. So, as I’ve said many times now to anyone picking up this game for the first time post University Life; have fun, enjoy the story, but keep your guard up and don’t let yourself get too attached to any of the characters. Spare yourself what the OG fans had to go through and just don’t ever trust beemoov.
I know damn well our boys are not coming back, I have no hopes, I just will never understand why Beemoov did that. So I won't try to do so.
I'll do whatever I want with the broken pieces, rearrange them as I want and be happy, and bitter.
Admittedly, I wasn't around when it all went down, so the situation wasn't as impactful, but it became a problem as I started getting more into MCL.
The fandom is broken, I'm trying to do my own thing, but I also can't ignore how Beemoov ignores genuine criticism and good advice and deliberately ruins it for themselves. Half-assing character arcs, rushing shit, abandoning beloved characters and bringing other ones no one asked for.
Seriously, what are they trying to do? Did they think it was a good idea? Did they do it just for kicks? Did they do it to purposefully make shit difficult for themselves? They can't admit they fucked up? Beemoov is confusing as hell.
I’m still mad about Wash dying. Because his marriage to Zoe was one of the only depictions of a long term stable healthy marriage on television. Hell, I’m still mad about Tasha Yar dying because she was the only female character that got to kick ass on that show. Everyone else was a healer or a counselor and those roles have value but I hated and still hate them being the only roles for female characters. I can hold grudges over characters I loved getting fridged for decades. I am nowhere near done being angry. Not even close. I will take this spite to my grave.
I mean, I’m still annoyed that Lysander got such a sad, unfitting ending, but when people who stopped playing the game in 2018 when the old routes were dropped continue to hang around the fandom, their only contribution being negativity, that’s pretty unhealthy.
I don’t mean the people who still make hsl content and still post hsl thoughts with the occasional negative comment. I mean the people who only exist in this space to rant. There’s a point where it stops being media criticism and becomes an unhealthy obsession
You’re not wrong there. I think I’ve kind of been stuck in the You Oughta Know phase of this bad breakup with this game I loved so much and put so much money and time and creativity into. (Even if my fanfic currently sits in the trash writing folder on my computer never to be seen by any other eyes there’s still a mountain of it in there.) It just feels like walking away, letting myself and the people like me be forgotten by a new fandom that doesn’t know or doesn’t care how callously we were treated feels like letting the bastards win. Sometimes you just need to call in the middle of dinner to remind them you still exist. It still hurts. Especially at times like these when the wound gets another helping of salt. You’re right though. It would be healthier to walk away. When the game is well and truly over maybe I’ll finally be able to.
I’m still mad about Wash dying. Because his marriage to Zoe was one of the only depictions of a long term stable healthy marriage on television. Hell, I’m still mad about Tasha Yar dying because she was the only female character that got to kick ass on that show. Everyone else was a healer or a counselor and those roles have value but I hated and still hate them being the only roles for female characters. I can hold grudges over characters I loved getting fridged for decades. I am nowhere near done being angry. Not even close. I will take this spite to my grave.
Trigger warning for #beemoovnegativity I guess. Probably throw that warning on everything I’ve posted since UL launched and everything I am likely to post for the foreseeable future because I hate beemoov. So much. I hate very nearly all of the writing choices that were made through LL, with everything surrounding Eric taking 2nd place on the worst story choices of the whole game list right behind the student falsely accuses their teacher of sexual assault plot. I just really hate cheating plots. I have also been obliquely accused of hating the Eric fans and I just want to clear up here and now that I only hate some of you. Most of you I am happy for. But man.. some of ya’ll have some utter garbage opinions and I’ve had a couple wine coolers today so I’m ready to no filter on all my own opinions about this whole mess. Click through if you want them.
Starting off.. Yeah, I said it would be funny if the wedding episode ended with Candy cheating on Eric and you know why I said that? Because if your Candy is with Eric in the first place it’s only because your Candy is a cheater. Canonically. In the real story of the real game. Not your fanfic version which we’ll get to in a bit, I promise, but in the actual game as it is actually written, if this is the path you chose then, canonically, your Candy is a cheater. She is selfish. She cares about no one and nothing but herself and what she wants in the moment. And, frankly, it seems like some of the players feel the same. I vividly recall many screen shot posts by Eric fans getting offended that their former love interests were angry about being cheated on. Citing that anger as justification for the cheating even. “This is how they react to the news? Ugh! I’m glad I cheated on them. They deserved it.” And that’s just.. reprehensible. Truly. Ya’ll remind me of beemoov, tbh. Treating someone’s anger at being stabbed in the back as a good enough reason to have stabbed them in the first place and an excuse to never have to apologize or even acknowledge the hurt.
So that’s Camp One of the Eric fans (probably the smallest camp tbh, but still very much one that exists) - the people who acknowledge the cheating aspect of the storyline but think it’s a good thing and yeah, I actually do just hate those people and their attitude. So to those people let me just say - 1) Monogamy isn’t sex negative. You’re ridiculous. 2) This storyline isn’t non-monogamous representation. It’s cheating. Those aren’t the same thing. 3)Betraying someone’s trust is always -always- a selfish, cruel, morally reprehensible thing to do. (And before anyone starts strawmanning at me about but what if that person was abusive - stop. That’s not what we’re talking about here, and you know it.)
So on to Camp Two of the Eric fans - the drama addicts. The people that took the cheating route just because it was the first interesting thing to happen in the story in about 15 episodes. This is a camp I don’t hate but man oh man do I get frustrated by the way that all media and storytelling panders endlessly to them. This type of fan is the reason I can’t have nice things. The reason I can’t have a simply told story that builds to a narratively satisfying conclusion but instead get ass-pull twist endings that are exciting by dint of being unexpected but make no sense when you stop to think about them for five seconds. They’re the reason I get to be constantly frustrated by slow burn romances that last seven seasons and then end with the characters finally hooking up only for one of them to die two episodes later because happiness and contentment are boring. Heaven forbid a story ever slow down to focus on character development. If no one’s being killed, or cheated on, or getting pregnant without knowing which of three guys the father might be, or getting kidnapped, or diagnosed with a fatal disease, or lying to their best friend then there’s not even a story there. No tension. No drama. Why bother watching? Who wants to see characters being happy? I do. Please. For once. For more than a scene or two before something devastating happens to end it again. Just let me have nice things. For the most part this camp of players seems kinda meh about the idea of a wedding episode and would probably agree with me that Candy cheating on Eric during it would be funny. Feel like a lot of them meme on Eric as best LI because they like watching drama in the fandom as much as in the game. And I do genuinely hope they’re enjoying it while it unfolds. We have polar opposite tastes but I dream of someday living in a world where we can both have our own definition of nice things and both be happy.
And now on to Camp Three - the people I think this wedding episode is mostly for. This is the camp I have nothing but sympathy for. These are the people who just genuinely liked the character. He simply clicked with them more than the other LIs, was closest to their idealized partner. So they ignore the way he was used in the story, headcanon away the cheating or write in their own version where the breakup happened before the sex scene, or the original LI was abusive, or maybe they were just never in another relationship through LL at all in their version of events. They just really like this character and want to have their Candy get a happy ending with him. And I have sympathy. I do. I would have loved for beemoov to give an option to end up with Eric without being dishonest. But they didn’t. That version of the story is just fanfiction. And it frustrates me when people get so invested in a fanfic version of a character or story that they start insisting the canon version is wrong and that people reacting to the canon version are misinterpreting it. I sympathize. I do. As a Lysander fangirl, I understand very well the emotional attachment one can develop to a character and story you mostly had to invent yourself because the source material never bothered to. But you can’t get offended at people being disappointed or even angry that the cheating route got a happy ending just because your personal fanfic version of the story didn’t include the cheating. The anger really isn’t being directed at you but at the canon story choices you probably also hated. I wish the story had been different for you. I really do. And hey, you all get the last laugh, in the end, as it seems the story is getting whitewashed or retconned or just generally is planning to ignore the ugly parts of what happened to give you the big white wedding of your dreams with your perfect man. And I’m happy for you. We should all have had that chance.
But we won’t. Because beemoov still doesn’t care about a lot of us. That’s where this anger mostly comes from. And it’s why I can’t agree, even slightly, with the people who are pointing to this decision and saying “Look! They’re listening to the players finally. Maybe things will get better.” Because they’re only listening to some players. Some of us have been begging to be heard for years now and they still won’t listen. And they never will. Much as I'd love to be wrong about that, I’m not wrong and you all know it. I’m happy for the people who are happy right now. But I’m warning y’all.. Don’t get comfortable. Don’t ever trust them. They’ll rip your heart out, tell you you should like it, and turn their backs on you forever while you bleed out. Don’t think it can’t happen again. It can, and knowing beemoov, it probably will.
Imagine playing this game for 10 years, being loyal to your lost route and asking over and over again for Kentin, Armin and Lysander to come back so that a guy who has appeared like in three episodes comes and has his own happy ending with the protagonist, whose relationship arose as a result of cheating on her old partner.
I'm happy for the Eric stans, really, but personally it seems like a bad joke. Beemoov should learn at once how otome games really work.
I was so loyal to this game back in HSL. I was one of this game's whales. Spent literally hundreds of dollars on AP and replays because I wanted every illustration on all the routes. But Lysander was always my favorite. The one I kept as canon. The crush I always reset to when a new episode came out. 30+ episodes I paid them money to play through multiple times and all the happy ending that bought me was a prom night sex scene followed immediately by an off screen break up and an invitation to try my luck again at picking a love interest they might actually care about. And now this. I wish I could go back in time and take back every penny I ever gave this game. I wish I could take back those 10 years of playing. I wish I'd never cared.
Also pouring one out for all the girls that really wanted to be able to choose Dake but were never given that chance. I wasn’t one of them. Kinda hated that guy. But if the Eric stans can get their happy ending the Dake stans deserve theirs.
Man, I didn't think this game even could piss me off any more but just.. god damn is this a slap in the fucking face to players who chose one of the three doomed options from High School Life. The ultimate disrespect. Even the Bad Ending option from like four fucking episodes of Love Life is more worthy of a happy ending, apparently. Infidelity is more worthy of reward than loyalty to someone the writers stopped finding interesting, I guess. More than five routes would be IMPOSSIBLE TO WRITE they said...
Jesus Christ on a pogo stick fuck this company. I am LIVID over this shit.
Apologies to all the Eric stans. Hope y'all enjoy that Happy Ending your undying loyalty over four episodes won you. Just really wish those of us that spent 20+ episodes and years of our lives loyal to our guys could get the same consideration. But they've already doubled, tripled and quadrupled down on the giant middle finger in our direction so why the fuck am I even surprised they'd quintuple down on it now?
