i get that you feel like you were put on blast but like... you could have just made a burner blog to respond. mention that you don't wanna be attacked over (what one would hope would be) a question made in good faith. or just like... post about it on your own blog to talk to your followers about. but instead you replied to a "popular tumblr" with your main blog. you sorta reaped what you sewed. maybe this can be a learning experience? turn off messages from non followers for a bit if the messages are so annoying/upsetting/whatever other negative feeling they give.
it's not that I "feel I was" put on blast. let me make this clear for you.
I felt hurt, directly, personally, by OP's comic. I figured that wasn't OP's goal, as I've been reading their comics for years and really enjoyed them.
I figured I must be reading this wrong. so I asked OP, because I figured they had an explanation that I just wasn't getting. I'm autistic, and me not getting stuff happens A LOT. I have to ask.
I would have liked to send OP an ask. I would have liked to send OP a DM. However, OP has all those turned off. So I figured, since I have basically no followers, a reblog-add is effectively the same thing. After all, I have both my asks and my DMs open. OP has lots of ways to contact me privately if what I said bothered them.
And instead of doing any of that, OP reblogs my post to their followers, adding presumably some sort of "wahh this person didn't like my comic". And then you, and a dozen or so other people so far, come into my asks harassing me about it. And every single one of you is doing it as anon, so I imagine that OP probably said something like "don't harass them", thus guaranteeing no one would dare put their name to their words.
You should feel utterly ashamed of yourself, anon, but I know you don't. I know you think your group of friends with the torches and pitchforks are the good guys. Lynch mobs always do.
I saw you complaining and assuming about how idolo "inciting" fans to harass you based off what he posted so since you're blocked I SS their explanation for you to see.
YOU REBLOGGED HIM and he REBLOGGED you back and blocked your rude self but that suddenly makes people responding to your behavior a mob? Lmao wow. Ok. No accountability at all.
I still think you were incredibly rude and tone deaf and weaponized your feelings to insinuate that Bug was being transphobic btw. Your passive aggressiveness in that post was unnecessary and highly accusatory. And calling yourself the next Charlie Kirk sarcastically or not when called out on it is wild. Calling being told off for being rude to a Black Queer GNC individual "lynching" is fuckin rancid btw, I hope you internalize that.
Work on how you speak to people. Plain and simple.
like dead ass you cannot be speaking like this to and about Bug based on your assumptions and then hide behind your autism when called out in your passive aggressive behavior.
That ain't how that works. Bug never sicced their fans on you. You're not being lynched or being called the next Charlie Kirk for people giving you the same rude attitude you gave Bug. Stop Catastrophizing your consequences. Idk how intense your inbox is but this still is not the way to act.
"We're not ganging up on you, we just all REALLY care about making sure you understand your place"
oh and let me make this intensely clear. If you ever, for one moment, showed any sign of actually wanting to talk, I'd stop flinging insults immediately. since that obviously isn't going to happen, I guess this is just gonna be hell site dot txt
wait, hang on, uh
I think there may have been a misunderstanding
okay I owe you an apology, @guessyouarewrong. I'm sorry for being short with you. thank you for screenshotting that for me.
I need you to understand, though: I had not seen Bug's response because they blocked me. now that I understand that those anons were just a couple idiots, I feel a lot better, but I've been fully expecting to wake up to 50+ asks in my inbox. like, this FEELS like the prelude to an onslaught.
So could you, uh, maybe ask them to unblock me? cause I really was hoping to have a conversation with them about it, and I wanted to do it in an author-to-author context. I can't do that if I'm blocked, though.
Being completely honest man, I'm under no obligation to tell any body to unblock you as you still don't understand that regardless of how YOU felt about what was written and drawn, your actions before and after were inexcusable. I understand that you were emotional but we must never act on emotions alone.
I'm truly sorry that some stragglers went out of their way to blow up your inbox, Bug NEVER sent anybody after you. So I'm not the person you need to be apologizing to.
However, if I were Bug, given how quick you jumped to assuming the worst of them not once with their comic but TWICE with being blocked, I wouldn't unblock you either.
You accused their fan base of being naturally hostile when you yourself admit that it was one or two straggling idiots. You say you were their long time fan so why would you assume that of Bug when he is a victim of Hazbin Fans harassing him and has always gone out of his way to stop harassment done to others. Your PTSD attack does not excuse how you behaved.
In all honesty? You need to let this die down. Lock your ask box for a week starting from now and go focus on something else. Go do something productive. You cannot behave this way when someone blocks you, expecting and insinuating the worst when they do a free action like blocking you. You are not entitled to a conversation afterwards, especially when you were ridiculously rude with your insinuations and passive aggressiveness, intentionally or not. Autistic Meltdown or not. PTSD Attack or not.
I just noticed this wasn't your first response to my reblog btw.
See this shit here? This is absolutely unacceptable. You weren't reading to understand anything I said at all, only reading to defend yourself instead of reflecting and then asking for a conversation with Bug after you had an honest to god tantrum? This is ridiculous.
I'm autistic my damn self, autistic and black. Autism doesn't give you an excuse to be a complete ass when you've been slighted. You do absolutely have to at least ATTEMPT to navigate this world at some point socially, and that means apologizing when you are wrong and not doubling down and using Autism or PTSD as an excuse. That's not how this works. Nobody is obligated to wait on you to calm down, stop insinuating and twisting words for your narrative and finally read.
You're not entitled to grace you DO NOT GIVE other people.
I apologized to you. I have done so twice: once when I was in the middle of my flashback, and once today in the other fork of this thread. And now I'm apologizing to you again, this time specifically for the blind post I made right here.
Yes. It was unacceptable and uncalled for, and I regret having said it. I'm sorry for what I said about you in that post.
So? Are you willing to give you the grace another person gives you? I'm not asking you to apologize to me, you don't owe me one. I sincerely appreciate you telling me what he'd said. You are the person who gave me what I needed to break free of the flashback, and I am incredibly grateful to you. I'm just asking you to see and recognize that, now that I am lucid again, I am making a serious and genuine effort.
Yea, I'll give you grace. I have no bad blood with you. We all good man. I hope you get the help you need and I hope people leave you the fuck alone after this. I'll send this whole post to Bug but I'm not sure if he'll reach out to you.
Follow what that one anon said and block people who are harassing you.
@idolomantises figured pinging you here would be more efficient to show that they have apologized and accepted they overstepped
