Lythbound Drama Blog

Because nothing in this life is perfect.

[lythbounddrama]

Bringing in some guidelines finally.

We will not be entertaining any asks shitting on someone's mental illness. Simply put, it's shitty and will not be tolerated. This includes speculating on whether someone actually has a mental illness or not. This is not the place for that shit.

We will not accept design shitting-type asks. The only exception is dekudogs. Your credibility as a designer is questionable if you have to rip off someone else's design. Izuku Midoriya, but as a flyte, is not your character.

Serious accusations need proof. That is, zoophilia/pedophilia/ableism/etc. The big guns.

Death threats will not be tolerated. Nor will 'phobic remarks towards anyone. We're here to document the failings of Lythbound and it's staff, not bully members.

Even though the Lythbound staff claims to not look at this blog, we urge that asks be sent on anon. We will not post off-anon asks unless given explicit permission.

Jack has made a response to the blog, which you can view here: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/lythbounddrama/690531763489996800

We will close down some topics when needed, such as if it's repetitive. Consider them opened back up after a week.

If your ask wasn't posted, it may have been eaten.

Positivity blog here: https://www.tumblr.com/lythboundsugarblog

Regular members may not be namedropped. Staff members(current and former) may be name dropped.

We accept asks to add species and websites to the lythbound alternatives list. However, all other asks related to species other than Lyth will be deleted. Please take those asks to other blogs such as @csvent-2 or @csmeanyminy

The list of Lythbound alternatives is found here: https://www.tumblr.com/lythbounddrama/716761751849418752/lythbound-alternatives?source=share

~Mod Zebra

[csvent-2]

The main common denominator between species with dedicated vent blogs are staff and owners who shut down any and all feedback and criticism. Another commonality is being ban-happy against members for minor slights.

Wyngro isn’t as relevant now but in my opinion is a perfectly clear example of this. They made major decisions that upset the majority of their community, and instead of listening or compromising, they banned everyone who spoke out. This happened multiple times until the species inevitably lost its community entirely.

I see this echoed with Succubuns and Terraliens most, which are also the CS with the most active dedicated vent blogs.

If you run a species, and you’re afraid of having it come up on vent blogs? The biggest thing you can do is learn to take criticism well. Someone saying they think your species could use more FTO-friendly mechanics isn’t personally attacking you. Someone saying that MYO approvals are too nitpicky and inconsistent isn’t trying to insult you.

Obviously, sometimes, even species that do their best will end up on vent blogs if they piss off the wrong person, but in the end, pissing off one person who posts one vent or leaves your species individually is better than pissing off an entire community to the point where they make a whole dedicated blog to let out the criticism you refuse to accept face-to-face.

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[lythbounddrama]

Coming out of the dead to respond to this.

Full disclosure to the CSvent-2 mod, Lythbound no longer is a CS as of august 16th 2023, the date their site shut down.

Even in a small CS, it is a refusal to take criticism or QoL suggestions that often lead to drama blogs or, at best, unsatisfied members. In Lythbound's case, it was a mix of forced positivity, the inability to take criticism, lack of transparency, and dissatisfaction on how members were treated that lead to the creation of this blog.

How well you treat and listen to your members often determines how well your species will thrive. If you don't care about the community your foster, it festers. Lyth's story is one of those.

~ Mod Zebra

[lythbounddrama]

It's gone.

It's sad to see it go. I wish both members and staff well on their future endeavors.

~Mod Zebra

[lythbounddrama]

The site is still up. Right now may be your last chance to save your art and characters before user content starts getting purged.

~Mod Zebra

[lythbounddrama]

1 day. I guess you could say... It's the final countdown.

tomorrow, you will not be able to get your art off the site.

~Mod Zebra

[lythbounddrama]

This is the final day to save your characters and art before the site gets purged.

~Mod Zebra

[lythbounddrama]

By any chance, does anyone know who the owner of the Symphony species is? It literally doesn’t say anywhere and I really want to make sure I can properly void the one Lythian I’m keeping (who is a Symphony, by chance).

For a retrospective, I don’t really have much to say. What started as a positive group experience ended up draining me when I realized just how much I had to grind to get anywhere in the actual game. I hadn’t been active for awhile when Lyth finally closed. Yeah. Mod edit: Symphonies are owned by Sol. And according to the screenshots we were sent, they are an open species. Link1 Link2

[lythbounddrama]

[lythbounddrama]

Looking back on things and how the staff interacted with me and my friends, I can now say a lot of the stuff they'd say seemed to be fake nice?

As in; some of the things they said seemed to be somehow mocking while masking as nice, and I got a similar feeling anytime I watched a staff members livestream.

Looking back at an older submission we've received, you may not be the only one that's experienced that, sadly. It is unfortunately common with closed species staff.

~Mod Zebra

[lythbounddrama]

2 days

Tomorrow is the last day to save your characters and artwork! ~Mod Zebra

[lythbounddrama]

So, blog mod, what do you plan on doing with the blog once Lyth is fully gone? I know you said you wanted to keep it up for people to send in memories of their time on it, but it doesn't look like people are interested in doing so.

I will stick to my plan. At the least, it'll be an archive of Lyth's last year. If people want to send retrospectives, they can. If they don't, they don't. This goes doubly for the sugar blog. Just because Lyth had things it could have and should have improved on doesn't mean there wasn't any good to come out of it. I'm sad to see Lyth go at all, even with its faults.

~Mod Zebra

[lythbounddrama]

3 days

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[lythbounddrama]

Please save your art and characters. There's only a few days left. ~Mod Zebra

[lythbounddrama]

I don't mean this in a mean way or anything, but with how jack handled lyth and the species involved, they seem very scattered? i don't know if that's the right word for it, it's like they can't really pull everything together properly.

It could be very much just be ADHD. Which can make organisation difficult. Which is by no means an excuse, but could explain why things were scattered the way they were. There's a few methods Jack could use to help keep track of things, but they all take work on Jack's part. The disorganisation and lack of transparency were the biggest things holding Lyth back. Even if I don't like some of the changes Jack had made, I'd be lying if I said Lyth didn't have potential.

~Mod Zebra

[lythbounddrama]

4 days to go

Please save and record your characters and their art if you haven't already.

~Mod Zebra

[lythbounddrama]

Right, so I've spent a bit of time thinking after reading that, and from what I can understand, Jack has been operating under the belief that they were the Licence Holder (Owner) of the species in question, but was actually the Distributor.

And since Jack acted under the assumption they were the Licence Holder they treated the four species as their property, despite the fact that Jack and Lythbound were simply the Distributors.

The way that Jack worded the messages sent to the true Licence Holders made it seem as though Jack was transferring the Licences that they did not have in the first place back to the true Licence Holders, something which as the Distributor, Jack did not have the right to do.

All in all, from what I understand on this, Jack's actions with the handling of the Nudinym, Pompip, Lillipeep, and Symphony species was technically illegal, as they acted as the Licence Holder and not the Distributor as intended.

That's a yikes from me. ~Mod Zebra

[lythbounddrama]

Unrelated, but who the fuck uses compact mode on discord?

I have no clue, but more power to them. ~Mod Zebra