#foxeh

[randomthefox]

Since none of your anons have said it yet, I'll be the one to say it. What your friend went through was fucked-up, and I'm sorry it happened. They didn't deserve to be treated that way, let alone over a meme of all things. May they rest in peace.

I also have to get this off my chest: I've had people over the years wag the finger at me because I "condoned" harassment toward Flynn - who I have never talked to, ever - while ignoring any abuse I or my friends have endured at "the other side's" hands. I don't say the word "abuse" lightly, because being told you and your language should die on Mother's Day probably counts?

Interesting that, in the years these people have been concern trolling, none of them have said, "I'm sorry, what you went through wasn't okay."

Instead, they're quick to say, "Not all of us are like that, though! You can't condemn extremists for what we do! You're tarring us with the same brush!"

If you have hundreds of people calling you an idiot and a coward and a jerk, and strawmanning your points, and making you out to generally be the scum of the earth whose mere presence causes crops to wilt... It's going to mess with your perceptions of who is safe to talk to and who is not.

And if you think that, why are you so quick to believe the worst of me based on what my friends say? I can only speak for myself and my own experiences, but it's like deep down they believe I deserved that type of abuse, and that seriously messed with my head for a while. Coupled with recent break-up with a friend, for a while I believed I was a negative presence in fandom and my absence would only improve things.

There are two dimensions to this: the discourse and the unspoken things said behind the discourse. People only see the former but not the latter.

I've Seen Things, man. Former friends turning on other friends, calling them names, saying they "deserved" it for being dumb. Not just me, but my other friends as well. The walls of text preaching about how we poison the well, and the hundreds of notes that accompany them. The tweets where people who once left glowing reviews on your fanfic now say, "Just thinking about you ruins my day." The insults. The glee at our suffering, real or imagined. The sheer venom in their voices.

That kind of thing sticks with you.

I know I'm not perfect. I know I haven't always treated others with respect during this shitshow, and I apologize for that.

However, if you're so concerned about my sins, how come none of you have ever so much as said "That was fucked-up?" The silence speaks volumes here.

This will probably get me branded as playing the victim, but there's a reason I don't Trust Like That(tm) when it comes to the more virulent IDW stans.

Note the distinction here. I am not talking about 17-year-old Susie who runs a Whisper RP blog and just thinks Surge is neat; I do not interact with Susie and have no wish to. I am talking about those who I have interacted with who have displayed cruel and callous behavior. Who number more than you might think.

Cries of "you're illiterate" are background noise now, simply because I've heard it so many times. Nothing compared to the stuff I sometimes get flashbacks over.

It's like, holy shit man, you're uncomfortable because of the untagged opinions I post on my blog and do not shove into people's eyeballs? Do you get flashbacks, too? Can we be flashback buddies?

It's not that I believe they're all evil extremists, but rather, enough of them have acted That Extreme or otherwise said nothing about the extremism to warrant caution in their presence. For instance, the number of people who called Flynn a "saint" in the comments of a paid Bumblekast with Lavi. To wit, Lavi paid to merely ask Flynn questions and folks still reacted with "How dare you?"

I don't trust people like that because I don't trust them to treat people like people, instead of ideological bludgeons with which to beat me over the head. Besides, I can trust my friends to not have a total meltdown if I post an opinion they disagree with.

If there were IDW fans who were just chill, who didn't disparage the games and come into my inbox or notes to be like "um ackshually"; if collectively, their virulent side didn't generate this atmosphere of coercion under a smothering veneer of uwu-smol-bean-ism, then I'd be more inclined toward a charitable view.

I don't have a problem with those who just live and let live compared to the ones who are actual death-threat senders and stalkers. (One of them legit made an AITA for "calling out an asshole on their lies over my favorite comic book," where Regular People chewed them out for stalking. Predictably, they threw a hissy fit.)

Once bitten, twice shy. As long as people believe I'm some sort of monster, this feeling will persist. And so I take shelter from the rain in the warmth of mutuals' blogs.

Slightly apropos of this, whenever we get into discussions of IDW's mediocrity or the behavior of their more virulent fans, I keep thinking back to that one games fan on Twitter who told me they were going to keep their discussion confined to private Discord servers from now on because the larger fan space was pushing them out.

I just felt so bad for them, man. And that's what I always think of whenever people insist "IDW is canon, just accept it" over and over. You're pushing people away with this behavior.

Thank you for your kind words, I really appreciate it<3

And yeah you're exactly right. There's a reason I call these comic fans a cult without any exaggeration or hyperbole no matter what anyone else says about how unfair or extreme that label is. Anyone who disagrees that Ian Flynn fans are a cult either doesn't know enough about how real life cults operate, or they haven't seen what I've seen.

I wouldn't have a problem with SatAM/Archie/IDW fans (because they are all the same) if they just stayed in their lane. Fleetway fans stay in their lane. They leave me the fuck alone. They don't obnoxiously shove their negative opinion about the franchise into everyone's faces on a daily basis and demand that it be accepted as irrefutable fact. They simply enjoy what they enjoy and that's it, but Flynn fans don't do that. They don't even seem to enjoy what Flynn writes tbh, they simply hate everyone and everything that doesn't conform to their outlook.

Which just always pretty much boils down to "games bad, the people who make the games bad." And thus they treat actually enjoying the games and respecting the people who make them as blasphemy that must be punished with holy righteous fury.

They feel fully and completely justified in enacting the most depraved violent actions they can possibly conceive of committing across the digital barrier of the internet while feeling fully justified in doing so because we are ontologically evil and deserve it for our unforgivable crime of DISLIKING A FUCKING COMIC BOOK. And then when you have the nerve to CALL THEM WHAT THEY ARE, they have the audacity to act like THEY'RE the victims and I'M being the asshole. They're innocent uwu little beans who just like their little comic and ain't done nothing to nobody, look at how bad you are for what you're saying - blind to their blatant hypocrisy that I'm posting my harmless opinion in my own blog space which they can easily block and THEY are going out of their way to interact with ME.

I have NEVER sent a single negative message to Ian Flynn or anyone else involved with the comic. I have never sent a tweet at Ian Flynn saying "I hate you and I hope you die." I have never sent a Tumblr ask to Evan Stanley saying "you're a bad writer." Anything bad I have ever said about any of them has always been on my own personal blog or video channel which they would either need to go out of their way to look for while ignoring the tools these websites provide to curate their own experience, or because someone else sent it to them. If they ever see any of those bad things and it makes them feel upset, it's not MY fault. I never said it TO them.

Meanwhile I get anon messages from people calling me nasty disgusting evil and telling me to kill myself on a daily fucking basis. And like you said, whenever we publicly discuss the FACT that we receive these messages, the response is ALWAYS to defensively dismiss those anecdotes and assert their own personal moral purity and double down on insisting on our own sinful degeneracy of DISLIKING A COMIC BOOK AND PUBLICLY EXPRESSING IT.

They NEVER express sympathy. NEVER say anything like "I deeply apologize for what you've been through, I understand that dealing with treatment like that for having a contrary opinion can make you feel jaded and antagonistic. But you should still consider that your words and deeds can impact those who have never tried to hurt you and treat them with the consideration that you hope to receive." Which would still be bullshit in that Just Let The Bullies Pick On You And If You Stand Up For Yourself You're The Bad One kind of way, but at least it'd be an effort.

No, it's ALWAYS just more defensive tribalism.

The people that I'm talking about when I say these "nasty disgusting" things are people who would gladly murder me for disliking this comic if they had the opportunity to do so and thought they could get away with it. I know this about them, because they have TOLD ME SO THEMSELVES. And I'm not going to apologize for it and nobody can convince me I'm wrong for doing so. Because, again, what am I doing exactly? Oh yeah, I'm making blog posts and YouTube videos where I express my opinion, posts and videos that NOBODY IS FORCING YOU TO READ/WATCH and you can easily avoid by simply blocking me.

Compared to what Ian Flynn fans have done to my friends? I'm the fucking saint here. I will not be gaslit into thinking I'm doing anything wrong. I will not be cowed into submission. I'm not doing anything wrong by expressing my opinion in my own space which can be easily avoided. YOU are doing something wrong by sending me ulterior anon asks trying to coerce me through hook and crook to change my online behavior instead of just fucking blocking me like a normal person. It's not going to convince me to change my ways, it's just going to anger and vindicate me.

There is NOTHING that I have EVER DONE that is anywhere near as bad as what Ian Flynn fans have done to me and the people I care about. And if you think I'm such a bad person, then I want you to think about that.

If IDW fans want me to stop saying nasty disgusting things about them, all they have to do is LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE. But they're not going to do that, are they? You know why? Because they're cultists. And no cultists worth their salt can allow blasphemy to be spoken against their Lord and Savior without reprisal. So they're going to keep trying to manifest the ability to stab us all to death through their computer screens, and then shrink away and act like they're innocent victims who never did nuffin to nobody whenever I tell them to fuck off. And I'm going to continue to call them what they are because of it.

I don't expect anyone to feel bad for me or mine. Or care about what I do. Or think it isn't cringe that I'm making a big deal out of dipshits saying mean words on the internet. But I don't care what anyone else thinks. It matters to me. And I'd rather be cringe than unhappy.

[randomfoxehs-belly]

Mechanical Foxeh that transforms all the little friends he (Safely and gently) noms into little tamagotchis that are stored in little pockets on the inside of his cute, and round tummy panel. His teeth are made of a soft rubber so no ouchies occur during the noms process. Even when he might accidentally catch one of his little pals with his jaws if they slip out of his hands on accident. Whoopsies!

His throat, and stomach are made with soft rubber, and waterproof cloth so his tummy is extra comfy to sleep in. He also gets a form of passive energy recharge when there is a weight in his tummy, so tummy cuddles are Very encouraged. And it also means that any prey that is too skittish to be pudged, can still help out via snuggles!

(He gets energy by transforming bunnies, and his other friends into tiny little tamagotchis that he uses to take care of them. It's probably like a pulley system where the energy generator spins when a prey get plopped into his stomach, and then the counterweight spins it the other way when the prey is transformed into pudge and moved along to the pudge storage chamber.)

His friends can be summoned from the tamagotchis by removing them from their pudge pocket, and then holding them out into the air. The little bot will float into the air, spin, and in a beam of brilliant light, allows Foxeh's pal to take their independent form again. Of course, they're probably just gonna ask for tummy cuddles again so they hop down Foxeh's throat again!

That's a cute visual. I like the idea of a robot pred having a CRT esk curved screen on their tummy that can display a representation of the prey they ate. Swallowing someone up and then they get like a little 8bit depiction of themselves making little vpet animations on the belly screen. Showing off the collection externally.

Landing in belly and being gurgled into a little vpet device and then lined up and embedded along the inside of the belly walls like a collectors shelf.

And can just belch out the little vpet thing and show it off to new prey being like "this'll be you soon ;3 " or by way of letting them beam out and back into their proper self.

That's actually very cute and fun and kind of a fun angle to think of for my foxehmon digimon ideas ngl. Has a very monzemon + toyagumon kind of mental image to it, but just foxehized.

I like it, this resonates with me quite well.

[randomthefox]

Even in how you phrase the question you display your unexamined bias. Your transparent motive is to try and present a question that lends to a pre-determined answer that you think will trap me into some kind of intellectually stunted "gotcha." When the fact is the way you interpret fictional entertainment media is so antithetical to my own that the question itself is incompatible with me.

You might as well be asking who determines if a baby is born. The answer is nobody, and many people. Art is both a collaborative process with countless cooks in the kitchen providing their own ideas and building off of one anothers, and also the result of innumerable happy accidents that cannot be attributed to anyone.

It is a false question. The text is as it is presented to us. It must and can only be regarded as it appears in the final state of release. And the author is dead.

[randomthefox]

Whatever "your community" is, I've never been a part of it. I'm in my lane, in my own space, posting my own opinions on my own social media pages and YouTube channels. It's all of YOU who constantly seek me out to get your panties in a twist instead of just blocking me.

You can't kick me out because I've never been one of you. I love the Sonic games, and all of you OBVIOUSLY do not. I hate these adaptations because they ARE badly written, OOC, and unauthentic to the source material which is the video games.

If me voicing my easily ignorable complaints somehow spoils your capacity to enjoy this dog shit comic, then you have a psychosis. And that is NOT my problem.

Get over yourself.

I'm minding my own business. The only people being bothered by what I say are people who are seeking me out to get upset.

The only thing you've accused me of which is even remotely bad is "sending death threats," which I've never done. Everything else is just you being a pussy.

[randomthefox]

Very funny to hear someone who I have no idea who they are and have never interacted with say they've been "dealing with" me for the last three months. I just imagine him shouting at a brick wall while I'm on the other side not even knowing he's there, vibing, moisturized, in my lane lol.

>has sent death threats to Ian Flynn

News to me. Wasn't aware I've ever done that. Sure would love to see some screenshots proving that claim. That Twitter thread of me saying I'd be happy if Ian Flynn died because it'd upset his psycho fans who viciously harassed and doxxed my dead friend who was fighting cancer at the time doesn't count as "sending death threats" btw.

>claimed that IDW writers hate the series

If the shoe fits. Funny to me that he's listing that claim on the same level as "sending death threats." Really goes to show how off the deep end these IDW cultists are, they consider making insinuations about the artists motivations based on the end product to be an unforgivable offense.

>and has gone off multiple times and said that IDW, TailsTube, even the Chaotix Casefiles are all non-canon to the series.

Yeah?

Because they aren't.

So?

Again, very funny to me that he buried the lead with "sent death threats" and acts like saying non-canon spin offs aren't canon is an equivalent crime lol.

Also very funny that this is one of the screenshots he's including as some kind of exhibit E of my crimes.

Prude lol.

How is complaining about a shitty adaptation that's badly written something that is "wrong" with the fandom? Isn't having higher standards and not just mindlessly consuming slop supposed to be a good thing? Is he unironically advocating we just consume product then get excited for next product?

Also still would love to see those death threats I've supposedly sent to anyone.

I'm not doing anything wrong by expressing my passionate complaints about these shitty comics on my own social media feed in my own lane in my own space that isn't being directed or @ ed or DMed at anybody. Nobody is forcing anyone to read what I post. If some of you psycho IDW fans are sending my posts to the IDW staff to report what a naughty boy I am, that is not on me. That's you people being fucking creeps. I can assure you that they do NOT appreciate that you're doing that.

>They may share valid criticisms at times

Now you got me curious lol

What valid criticisms do I share? What have I said that you agree with?

I'm so sincerely interested in hearing what you consider my "valid criticisms" to be.

>they “wrote the characters wrong” or “are treating this characters like garbage for the sake of their shitty OCs” (an actual quote from someone out there most likely)

Yeah, that's me. I said that. That's my quote. You're quoting me lol.

Voicing our complaints and criticisms of this dog shit comic isn't "denying IDW fans their right to enjoy the comic" you fucking crybaby. YOU people CONSTANTLY complaining about how bad the Sonic games are sure as hell doesn't me my ability to enjoy the games. But hey if we're pretending that criticism = denying of enjoyment, maybe y'all should practice what you preach and stop shitting on the video games all the time every single day.

I agree. The comics do not ruin the games. The games are untainted. The games are pure and perfect and sublime and they never fail to make me happy. The comics are irrelevant in the face of the games. The comics can NEVER ruin the games.

He stops talking about specifically me after this so I don't really care about anything else they have to say lol.

Always very funny how I live rent free in these people's heads when I have no idea who they are.

[randomthefox]

It's hard to overstate how important Tails is to me. His impact on my life is unquantifiable. I would be a measurably different person if I had never encountered this character. He is intrinsically intertwined in my very sense of identity, to remove him from the history of my life experience would be to fundamentally alter who and what I am to the point that I would be unrecognizable. He is more important and significant to me than most of the real life human beings I have encountered in my 30+ years of life.

I played Sonic 2 before I even knew how to read, I first encountered the game when visiting my uncle's house. We eventually got a SEGA Genesis entirely and specifically for the purposes of me playing Sonic 2 and 3 on it. I played the games frequently, almost always playing as Tails when I discovered the option that allowed me to do so. We got a Dreamcast again specifically for Sonic Adventure 1 and 2. I was really into Dragon Ball Z by that time so in my imagination I would pretend the Sonic characters were Dragon Ball characters while playing the story mode, and I casted Tails as Gohan because Gohan was also my favorite DBZ character. He was always my favorite character to play as in SA1 and SA2 but I preferred his gameplay in SA2 because it was fun to shoot a bunch of robots. He was also the best character to play as in Sonic Advance, a game that was permanently glued into my Gameboy Advance SP. And in Sonic Battle he used a mega buster, just like MegaMan the other game series that was a foundational aspect of my childhood.

I resented the Sally Acorn cartoon because it heavily minimized Tails, to the point that there was only one episode in which he played a plot significant role and that role consisted of him trying to warn his older friends that there was nefariousness afoot and none of them believing him which upset me greatly since I had a complex about adults not accepting information I had to share even when I knew I was right. The only episode of AoStH I had on tape and actively rewatched was the one where Sonic got frozen into a block of stone and Tails had to be the one who saved the day by Home Alone-ing the bad guys. By the time Sonic X was airing I was old enough to have standards and I always changed the channel when it would come on, but I remember catching a few minutes of episodes sometimes and asking "why is Tails with that weird looking alien girl? Don't they know his girlfriend is Cream the rabbit?"

None of the adaptations ever did Tails proper justice and I'm like 99% certain that's why none of them ever appealed to me as a kid, even though I did still consume any piece of media that had the name Sonic the hedgehog on it ravenously because I was just that into the franchise. If I wanted to see Tails properly represented, I had to just replay the video games. And so I did. Frequently and often. Sometimes I would just replay the Sonic Adventure 2 story mode over and over again all day long. My little siblings really loved the Chao garden, so my family was playing that game so often that we burnt through the disc. My mom had to rebuy new copies of Sonic Adventure 2 Battle on the GameCube with frequent regularity, and we would have a collection of discs which were damaged in different ways so we would have to disc swap between stages.

I loved Sonic and Shadow sure, but SA2 was the Tails game to me. He drove around in a blue plane mecha, and blue has always been my favorite color. Tails was introduced into the story deciding to fly to the military island to free Sonic from jail. Tails had the last chaos emerald that was the linchpin for Eggmans plans of destruction. Tails had a really fun racing stage to track down the president and hacked his limo to find out Eggman was in space. Tails was the tip of the spear to getting into Eggmans pyramid base. Tails had the plan to create and use a fake emerald to blow up the eclipse canon. Tails had the big climactic final boss against Eggman where he got to avenge Sonic. All of these moments had significance and resonated with me.

The reason I'm so into foxes is because of Tails. Tails was a fox, I loved Tails, so I loved and identified with foxes as a consequence. I felt a spiritual connection to foxes to the point that I would attribute physical patterns on my body to being associated with foxes, for example if you played connect the dots with the freckles on my back you could make a picture of an animal head and I designated that it was a fox head. Because I liked foxes. Because of Tails.

I think about Tails the same way I think about my left hand. In that I frequently don't think about it specifically. It's just a part of me. Its functional significance to my life is so inherent that it doesn't even bear particular acknowledgement most of the time. Tails is in my heart always, he's a part of who I am and everything I ever do in the backseat of my subconscious every single day of my life. I owe... Everything. To Tails.

[randomthefox]

Sorry for the abruptness of this ask, but recently I've been thinking about my friendships. I'm not much for waxing poetic to my friends in public because it can feel a bit performative sometimes - like having a camera shoved in my face. But since the topic is on my mind, and since it is nice to hear words of validation on occasion, I'd like to take a moment to tell you why I appreciate you as a friend. Since certain things have happened in my life, the value of honesty has become incredibly important in my relationships. I like that, basically, with you, what you see is what you get. While I don't always enjoy or agree with everything you say, it's not as though you play mind games with people. It's actually kind of hilarious sometimes because you'll say "I like pancakes" and people will be like "So you hate waffles?" I also appreciate how you don't kowtow to social pressure, or bend and twist yourself in order to fit in. I don't really respect people who cut people off - or demand that you do - for social clout, because then you're never sure where you stand with them, or if you're next on the chopping block. But I never really got that sense from you. If we say some opinion the other doesn't like, we just ignore it, like adults. Differences of opinion don't have to be matters of life and death. Sir this is a Wendy's. Even though a lot of folks would like to reduce you to your worst moments, I think you have the capacity to apologize and change, since you've done so in the past. I definitely trust you more than I trust people who would hold everything you say against you like it's a court of law. There's a difference between being an honest asshole (no offense lol) and someone who says all the correct things out loud but acts otherwise in private. I also appreciate your games purism! It's rare to find people who appreciate the craft of video games and even prefer them over other mediums. Most of all, I appreciate how you make your friends feel seen and heard, like people instead of utilities or as extensions of others. You make the effort to remember the little things. I think I realized that when you said "I'm proud of you" unprompted, something that I don't always hear irl due to some reason or another. I'm sure I ramble about the most boring bullshit things whenever I'm on here, but after everything, it's a relief to be able to drop in and say "hey man how's it going" without strings attached. Anyway, just wanted to let you know. Have a good pupper <3

I don't know what to say 🥹

I'm very bad at taking compliments lol

I strive if nothing else in life to treat my friends the way I think they deserve. You all mean the world to me.

I appreciate you from the bottom of my heart<3

[randomthefox]

Hey there... Now this is not bullying, harassing, disrespecting, or anything but.... Did you really threaten Ian Flynn? I want to hear your side of the story...

Just because you're finding out about this today doesn't mean it happened today. This drama is from literally years ago. Build a bridge and get over it.

You want "my side of the story" here it is:

a dear and long lasting friend of mine sent me a screenshot of the trending tab of Twitter where Ian Flynn's name and also RIP was listed next to each other because he thought it would amuse me. It did, and I responded with a meme. This exchange was not publicly posted via quote tweets or whatever, he @ ed me and I replied. So the exchange was entirely within the confines of our Replies tab. Someone would have needed to specifically visit my Twitter profile page, click on replies, and scrolls down through it in order to see that interaction.

Apparently someone had done exactly that, and after I had went to bed they proceeded to spread it around and Ian Flynn's psycho cult of fucking shit headed FUCK faces proceeded to harass the shit out of my friend. They doxxed him, they sent him death threats, they accused him of pedophilia, the whole nine yards and he was forced to lock his Twitter page. I found out all this went down after waking up the next day.

So upon discovering that a good friend of many years was being systematically attacked, a good friend who was battling cancer and who actually passed away from that cancer this very year, I was to put it lightly so pissed the fuck off that I could have strangled someone to death. So in my state of anger I said that if Ian Flynn died I would welcome that as good news because his death would cause this INSANE CULT OF TRULY EVIL PEOPLE to suffer and feel sad, and they deserve to feel sad because they're scum. Just as the Alt Right would be sad if fucking Ben Shapiro or whoever died, and frankly the Alt Right aren't HALF the monsters that Ian Flynn's fanatical cultist fuck sticks are.

I did not send any messages of hatred to anyone, I did not DM or email or @ anyone. I posted an expression of my feelings on my own personal page, which nobody who wasn't specifically seeking it out would have seen. If Ian Flynn saw my posts and was hurt by them, it is because he sought them out to find them or more likely because one of his parasocial psycho fucks sent it to him. I did not direct any words of hate towards him with intent to cause him turmoil. I posted on my own page, in my own space in my own lane, an expression of my feelings of vindictive fury over the fact that these people had been harassing for eight hours my friend who was suffering from a cancer which did eventually kill him.

I don't regret a single god damn thing about it and I'd do it again because absolutely nothing has fucking changed about how I feel and how they behave. My only regret is that in my short sighted anger I did not consider that those same people who had just been harassing my friend would proceed to be fueled by my words and actions to unleash the flood gates and viciously and violently harass my OTHER friends who weren't even involved. Which, frankly, the fact they did that in response to what I said? Kind of the entire fucking reason I said it in the first place, and why it still stands as far as I'm concerned.

So TL;DR answer: saying "I'd be happy if Ian Flynn died because him dying would make you evil scumbags suffer and you deserve to suffer" does not constitute "threatening" Ian Flynn, so no. I did not.