#neospring

[burningdownthehousecomic]

from the neospring

[furfcozy]

insane to me that anonymous q&a sites are somehow the hardest thing imaginable to keep up when it's literally just "submit question to user, let user read question"

and yet they keep fucking it up

they keep bloating it into something "bigger" (see: "worse") by adding following, feeds, media upload, and overall trying to spur it off into yet another generic social media feed site

nobody asked for that, we just want to submit and receive anonymous questions

like most people just use it by screenshotting questions and posting them elsewhere anyways, a dedicated feed of answers isn't needed

but then of course you couldn't turn it into a failed startup, which is exactly what the smoothbrains at Neospring have decided to do

Neospring was killed off by its creators because they weren't able to make money off of it. So they made a bloated social media Mastodon-clone that's invite-only and in order to join without free invitation you need to pay for a monthly "supporter" account.

They claim the reason for Neospring's shutdown is "due to lacking features that our new site has!" while also putting Neospring users on blast for daring to push back about the shutdown and migration to a paid platform with more restrictive TOS than Neospring.

Fuck Tetratto, fuck your failed startup shit, fuck your whining about users wanting to use your free website for free, nobody asked for your bloated garbage. WE JUST WANT AN ANONYMOUS ASK SITE THAT ISN'T A TUMBLR BLOG AND DOESN'T BAN FOR ADULT CONTENT. IT'S NOT THAT MUCH OF A REQUEST, IS IT???

[angevinyaoiz]

It really depends!  Medieval sexuality was considered under different fundamental and social assumptions than in modern times. So even though what we would now call queer sexualities certainly existed, people of that era would not have sorted themselves into "gay" or "straight" etc in the same way as people do today. This is further complicated by the fact that there were gender standards and ideals, that sometimes correspond to modern  masculine and feminine ideals but sometimes do not.  Because of this, the "starting point" of what historical figures' specific personal sexualities are remain unknown, as all we have to guide us are external reports of their actions and how they were perceived at the time. Gabrielle Storey's article does a really good summary of this in relation to historical masculinities.

However the good thing about this is that it gives ME a lot of fun creative room to operate, which is what I do (long post so readmore)

Because of sort of more traditional portrayal rather than historical accuracy, in my headcanons I tend to stick with what works with the kinds of stories I'm going for in a way that maybe isn't historically supported BUT also isn't necessarily contradictory (I.e., no one said they DIDNT do xyz...) . I usually go with Richard as gay (very aware of it, flips between not caring and doing purges/penances for it) and Philip as bisexual (doing his best to be the most Unaware of it, leaning really hard on that "Christian brotherhood" excuse). I also like to portray Henry II as bi (no real historical "proof" of this, but every single media I've seen him portrays him as serial womanizer with token yaoi situationships), John is very straight to me but like historically in modern visual media he gets extremely gay-villain-coded in dress and mannerisms which i think is interesting to play around with.  (I've talked about how I like exploring "straightness" in yaoi stuff a lot before, so no surprise to those who know me)

However these are just shorthands bc I find character's internal specific orientations much less interesting than say, their specific relationships to sexuality based on their values. To focus on RichPhil (blorbos bias etc) bc to me Richard's identity was centered around the ability to do knighthood well I can see him being periodically unbothered by various "deviant" habits and behaviors as long as it's private and he "makes up" for it lol, vs Philip whose entire core of identity and masculinity rests on being sacral so would require some more creative delusions (i.e. having trouble coming in a woman? Must be WITCHCRAFT!!!) This is also a big oversimplification of my thoughts/hcs about them (I have a lot on Philip and his relationships with his wives over the years) but u get the gist. 

When it comes to the AUs I like trying to keep main things the same but I like being able to translate their complexes into like, modern complexes. Devilsburger is kind of a big cartoon simplification of a lot of things, so characters are in more modern tropes in that kind of young people "coming of age" type of story. So in DB Rich easily falls into that YA yaoi story trope of gay and aware but repressed/private about it bc of father issues so tries to self-define through excelling in other interests/actions, I also see him dabbling in those goofy nofap/volcel types of trends for the kind of porn purging behaviors. DB Philip also to me is more guy who likes girls but struggles to connect with them (bc of sexism but also a level of shelteredness/inexperience), also has guy crushes but doesn't recognize it as such for a while (Christian brotherhood strikes again) so just gets into some weird friend dynamics. Also Henry translates well into a modern type of homophobic divorced bi dad with wild conclusions about gender type lol.

In modern day it's interesting bc we know more about queerness and it's obviously a freer time than in the past but also people still have prejudices and brainworms and concern about safety and how they "look" to people on the outside, and those restrictions are interesting to me. (Henry Jr and John are still straight to me but they also got stuff going on ...I'm bi Geoffrey truther just bc I like giving him issues and also shipping him around. But I like to think he figures himself out in a more timely/healthy way than the others)  In general though, just like with the historical settings, I find characters’ exact identity category labels less interesting than their behaviors and thoughts about themselves in the world.

Yuriburgers is like, an entirely different level from the original AU since thinking about "what if they were girls? What if they were trans?" Kind of adds new types of explorations. Bc of that the sexualities of course have to adapt, although to me it's less trying to keep things "intact" and more trying to think organically how these characters would evolve to relate to themselves and each other in this new context. Also bc there's more freedom I can kind of make up lots of new relationship stuff, so im still kind of exploring it too.

To bring it back to my Pairing tho I think Valerie would still like men but also still have a kind of holy maiden distance feeling about it (I have thoughts about her dynamic with a modern Mercadier character but hmm ..), also it would be funny bc re her feelings for Marie-Denise she would then I guess loop back around to doing the tsundere Yuri denial "well I don't even LIKE girls" song and dance but then still getting involved in various lesbian misadventures (I want to draw her and Henrike doing their weird accidental bdsm and then feeling hmmm about it). Marie Denise I see being more into women but maybe still flirts with guys now and then, despite  not respecting them very much lol (the sacral is still strong, God's Special Girl...)

I think it's neat to play around with bc like, now in the modern day a lot of queer ppl like to kind of think back to historical people and relate to them even though we are completely different types of people from across time and place. And I think even with the difference and distance of gender and geography there are elements of flaws and virtues we can identify with and see in life even if in a time much more alien to ours.

[toletoles]

SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT!! since neospring has fully shut down (🕊️) ive created a tetratto account to fill in for my neospring:

View @katt's profile on Tetratto!

i decided to make it more personally themed this time but i'm still using it for blog inquiries as well as personal inquiries

[supsbat]

uhm how do ye use neospring

like does anyone have any coding i could use for my layout . . im not used to css / html anymore lmao

[furinathefountain]

i really dont like how my neospring looks and i dont know what character should it be on the theme 😔 i really need recomendations

[devilsburger]

ve drawn him before here! He's Henry's college mentor buddy and Junior's godparent. In this AU Becket helps Henry out a lot with revamping his business in the early stages and they are Very Close Friends(tm) situationship. However being friends and being business partners is very different things and it causes stress in the relationship, since Henry is def kind of exploitative but Becket also starts coping by going down the deep end and being the Bad Bitch to Jesus Freak pipeline.

My idea is that Becket kind of sparks a mini dumb culture war discourse over Devilsburger (bc it is DEVILS) which is really stupid but becomes like an entire local news cycle for a bit and Henry keeps making it worse by forgetting his PR training and talking back which causes conflict in the personal family life. Eventually it blows over and he feels really sorry about it (cue long Instagram notes apology) and DB gets a hasty rebranding to move away from the negative connotations from the drama. This is also why Henry starts that Scholarship Program bc he wants to atone...unfortunately that gets corrupted too lol.

Anyways Becket is otherwise very offscreen bc he's like that fun family friend who u realize when u grow up was actually causing a lot of drama. Junior was just sad he wasn't allowed at his 5th grade graduation and doesn't understand why everyone can't just be happy and get along 😭

[justbeasdreamz]

Obsessed with Neospring??