Also people better not bully cosmica for any of this . No point in cencoring names anymore and genuanely the way shes been treated in general throught those four years has been also horrible. and it all stems from jealousy . Because they believe that she didnt "deserve" any of that(attention from the devs) because her art isnt "good enough" and because people find her cringe . Apart from other aspects of her behaviour that i do think should be criticized , it has never happened in a constructive , humanizing and good faith way . If people wanted to actually give advice they wouldnt have been preparing a google doc expose. They wouldnt be sending her awful messages in her dms .
Im bringing cosmica up because shes an example of how anyone can be objectified on the internet. People are simply jealous of her . Thats just it.
I genuanely wish more people would be openly critical about Massive Monster's involvment with the fandom. Fandom culture is awful right now but cotl even more so because of this direct involvment with fans makes it so much easier cliques with parasocial connections to form and for cyber bullying campaigns to spread. Adding a whole new quest because of one obsessed fan and then apologetically talking to them in public is so deeply unprofessional and endangering to said fan. MM can hide behind a pr team , the fan will instead face bcyber bullying and discrimination and they have to pick up themselves all alone.
Having so many people with large following in your beta server , some of them having appeared in previous beta runs just allows for this high school mentality to take root even more deeply. If someone doesnt like you because they find your opinions annoying / or misunderstands something can so easily lead down to serious accusations that threaten the economic livelyhood of indviduals (lots of people in fandom are artists that support themselves through their online art)
I do not believe the devs are bad people or have any malicious intent, they do seem liek genuanely nice people but this marketing strategy mostly based in insecurity is not helping at all man .
The people behind this will jsut go on about their days peacfully . They dont have to apologize or reflect on their behaviour and the scariest part is that this could repeat again at another place or time with entirely different people . Its so fucking easy to leverage your social media popularity to villanize someone online whos biggest sin was that they were annoying , they got favored by the devs or they had opinions that you thought were annoying . I dont want anything bad to happen to hese people genuanely. I just fucking wish we didnt live in a social media climate that allows this type of behaviour to go unchecked . I wish people could be held accountable in ways that didnt endanger or encite harrasment to reach the perpatrators side too .
I wish people could just dislike you normally and not villanize you because they find your opinions insufferable/stupid/annoying.etc
A good friend of mine (@lamb-kind ) has been accused of being a pedophile publicly through multiple comments under their reddit posts. Im making a about this given the how cliquish the cotl fandom ish and how we very plausible know now that it was the result of a a false claim spread through a very bad case of telephone around servers.
Some very light context ( i will try to cencor as many names as possible) : Fio was in a server that was preparing an "expose doc" that was basically a cyber bullying campaign. They hated how the artist(we will call them Pear) was being ridiculed and accused of having "predatory vibes" when in the same server they prepatrators where sharing cropped porn with minors to make fun of it. Fio warned the artist about the upcoming smear campaign and it resulted in them actually becoming friends with one of the persons preparing the doc (they apperently talked things through). Fio was never thanked , instead one of the other perpatrators accused them of accusing them of being a pedophile , even though Fio only pointed out that sharing porn around minors , even jsut to make fun of it , is still enambling behaviour regardless.
Back to the artist (Pear). Turns out they had entirely misunderstood and thought Fio, the person that warned them about the campaign , was actually one of the other perpatrators and the one that was sharing the porn somehow?? I have no idea how this even happened but Pear venting about something that never happened in their private server (which they have every right to do) . This resulted in the cascade of bad telephone being passed around from server to server (as it always happens with those cases) and this is the tangible , real result:
Theres many more under threads that have been deleted. The cotl fandom is extremely parasocial and cliquish and this is the result of it . One simple mistake having a butterfly effect , and all because my friend tried to protect someone .
I genuanely wish more people would be openly critical about Massive Monster's involvment with the fandom. Fandom culture is awful right now but cotl even more so because of this direct involvment with fans makes it so much easier cliques with parasocial connections to form and for cyber bullying campaigns to spread. Adding a whole new quest because of one obsessed fan and then apologetically talking to them in public is so deeply unprofessional and endangering to said fan. MM can hide behind a pr team , the fan will instead face bcyber bullying and discrimination and they have to pick up themselves all alone.
Having so many people with large following in your beta server , some of them having appeared in previous beta runs just allows for this high school mentality to take root even more deeply. If someone doesnt like you because they find your opinions annoying / or misunderstands something can so easily lead down to serious accusations that threaten the economic livelyhood of indviduals (lots of people in fandom are artists that support themselves through their online art)
I do not believe the devs are bad people or have any malicious intent, they do seem liek genuanely nice people but this marketing strategy mostly based in insecurity is not helping at all man .
A good friend of mine (@lamb-kind ) has been accused of being a pedophile publicly through multiple comments under their reddit posts. Im making a about this given the how cliquish the cotl fandom ish and how we very plausible know now that it was the result of a a false claim spread through a very bad case of telephone around servers.
Some very light context ( i will try to cencor as many names as possible) : Fio was in a server that was preparing an "expose doc" that was basically a cyber bullying campaign. They hated how the artist(we will call them Pear) was being ridiculed and accused of having "predatory vibes" when in the same server they prepatrators where sharing cropped porn with minors to make fun of it. Fio warned the artist about the upcoming smear campaign and it resulted in them actually becoming friends with one of the persons preparing the doc (they apperently talked things through). Fio was never thanked , instead one of the other perpatrators accused them of accusing them of being a pedophile , even though Fio only pointed out that sharing porn around minors , even jsut to make fun of it , is still enambling behaviour regardless.
Back to the artist (Pear). Turns out they had entirely misunderstood and thought Fio, the person that warned them about the campaign , was actually one of the other perpatrators and the one that was sharing the porn somehow?? I have no idea how this even happened but Pear venting about something that never happened in their private server (which they have every right to do) . This resulted in the cascade of bad telephone being passed around from server to server (as it always happens with those cases) and this is the tangible , real result:
Theres many more under threads that have been deleted. The cotl fandom is extremely parasocial and cliquish and this is the result of it . One simple mistake having a butterfly effect , and all because my friend tried to protect someone .
These are anurans of lower classes, this whole thing is gonna be a little bit all over the place, bear with me here okay, okay!
From left to right;
Farmer
Inspired by middle anatolian modern-ish clothing. It is really hard to find middle anatolian references from the 18th century :( Fabrics are mostly cotton, dyes are from mushrooms and grasses. Animal fibers are also used (wolves, bears etc for stuff like shoes, outer coats, armour...) living animal resouces are used but mostly not the dead's. Sacrifices are often eaten but natural deaths are burned. Using an animals body permanantly is seen as inappropriate amongst theese people. (Not for the entire anura, mind you.) musrooms are also used as printing blocks, alongside wood. The prints are of pastural objects, such as plants, and are often simple silluettes that are symetrical.
Middle class worker
More prints, brighter colours, actively wearing your bank account on you with those gold bangles, these people are tailors, crafters, lacemakers and people with specialised skills. No jewlery bcz the people of famine are all pious and humble like that.
Celebration costume
Dressing up means long sleeves that are not fit for work but good to dance in, yellow garments that shouldnt be worn daily lest they get dirty, can be worn as your "sunday best" to show your devotion and joy. Also in any weddings you attend for the same reason! Still not expensive, but takes more effort to make.
Some cool resources I found;
In this dynamic Mushroom Color Atlas, explore the colorful universe of fungi through the spectrum of colors from dyeing with mushrooms.
20 okt. 2019 - Traditional costumes & garments from Turkey (+ some items from the Caucasus, Central Asia, Syria, Yemen and the Balkans). Lo
This is a great visual collection of middle anatolia.
This is about istanbul but backs up some general claims I have made in the other post so here it is.
Unfortunetly all my other resources are in turkish, but ill try to find more english articles in the future. For now heres my main inspo for starting this as well, only the intoduction is english but you can also look at the visuals
Also found this while looking for the links but havent read it yet:
This is about the same subject in a much smaller scale, but in english!
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hot take: maybe a game about cults isnt for you? or people who have religious trauma for that matter?
With all due respect anon , i think this is more of a "entirely missed the point " take . Most of my critiques/ bitchy rants have focused on either critiquing the accidental romantacization of cults through fandom and the superficial integration of some general themes that just skim the surface, in favour of pandering to a very fandom central audience. Among these I've also bitched about specific gameplay issues (cotl is a roguelite base management hybrid at the end of the day , so it is expected someone would only look at it strictly as a game) . I have no idea what youre specifically reffering to , but clearly the bulk of my criticism regarding my personal experience with fandom is about not doing enough (I've actually never archived certain headcanons here because i specifically do not want anyone who cannot be respectful about certain kinds of abuse to comment )