#orange mod

[pinksnow]

you neevr answereed what phreak;s facbvorite fish is

Im SO sorry

Its all of them

[homestuck-writing]

I'm having a bit of a bad day at work, and I'd like something to help. Can I have red HCs for a slightly overprotective Karkat who doesn't like seeing his s/o get yelled at, but he's still super sweet and patient with them at the same time? Thank you so much.

//I love this idea!!! Also I hope that your days of working only gets better... If that makes any sense. -Orange mod//

We all have those moments where we can't get a simple math problem right, so when you can't figure out why 2x5 is equal to 5+5 Karkat will wait for you to figure it out or for you to ask him to help you.

When you figure it out he will celebrate with you and praise you for understanding the math. Which probably means watching a movie of you choice and icecream.

Karkat speaks extremely soft with you, not whispering but still soft and caring, because he believes that you are better than most of the trolls/humans that he has ever met so you don't need to be treated like a Grub Baby.

And maybe the fact that you might leave him because he is loud.

If anyone ever speaks to you over there normal time of voice he will shout at them to be quiet when you are away. (Definitely not Dave most of the time after he gets done blasting music in his headphones... Totally)

If anyone where to truly yell at you-

Three words-

Hold.

Him.

Back.

[chameleonlife]

So I know this isn't normally what you deal with, but I found out today that my boyfriend is ex-red. And obviously I'm not going to keep dating him, especially not after he lied to me like that, but I don't want him to think I'd murder him or out him to his boss or anything. How do I break up with him without scaring him?

Orange Mod Says:

You say, “I want to break up”, and if he says, “are you going to [out me to my boss / hurt me / steal my stuff / tell our friends / report me to the dating site where we met / inform the landlord / threaten to do any of those things if I don’t let you have uncontested custody of the houseplant], you say “no, of course not, I'm just breaking up with you”.

[chameleonlife]

If reds don't think pollution is good then why would the ones in Voa pollute everyone's food? Did they just want it for themselves? Maybe if you were unclean and really hungry that might seem okay to do even though it's so selfish. I was taught that reds love pollution and hate cleanliness and that's why we can't trust them but if that were true wouldn't they be scared of getting cleaned? I just don't understand. I'm scared that we're letting bad people into society but you don't seem that bad.

Orange Mod Says:

I don’t think anyone’s seriously put forward a suggestion that more than perhaps five, and probably fewer, reds in Voa participated.  There are about five million reds in Voa.

These five or fewer reds were approached, likely personally, by a blue.  You know how stereotypes of permissions countries work, where if a blue tells a random down-on-their-luck purple to assassinate someone they’ll do it?  That’s with permissions.  Voa doesn’t have permissions, and it’s never been the worst country to be red in, but if a blue wanted a red dead (and accordingly unable to have any children or see their existing children again) he could make that happen.  If a blue wanted a red’s entire family dead slowly he could make that happen.  Maybe it’s a little inconvenient in Voa.  It’s not inconvenient enough.  I don’t know if Savo threatened them, but he didn’t actually have to.

So you have one-in-a-million reds, if that, with a blue telling them what to do.  At this point it doesn’t matter if they like the idea or not.  Sure, food prices for people who didn’t mind if it was unverifiable dropped, and reds are poor, but by and large reds aren’t literally starving to death outside of Evalee that one time, and Voan reds are among the least desperate.

Reds don’t like pollution.  Reds don’t hate cleanliness.  Reds are not scared of getting cleaned; they know it’s the only way to become full fledged members of society.  Reds and ex-reds are not bad people.

[chameleonlife]

How come you identify with the reds that used to exist? Reds are made of pollution, you're not made of pollution, so there can't be anything that's the same between them and you. Maybe people would be less grossed out by you if you didn't make them think you're reds.

Orange Mod Says:

All moderators of this blog are ex-reds.  We remember being red.  We have the same personalities and memories and families.  We mostly want the same things we did before.

Currently existing reds also have personalities and memories and families.  They matter to us and we want them to get cleaned and integrated in their home countries or Miolee as soon as possible so they can have better lives.

[chameleonlife]

Orange Mod Says:

He’s not going to attack me or press charges or tell anyone.  That’s really the best I could have hoped for.

I’ve asked my supervisor for a recommendation letter somewhere else.

Don’t be like me.

[chameleonlife]

Heyyy so I *am* hosting an ex-red on my couch and um. She's pretty?? And nice and smart and funny and yeah. I know it'd be a bad idea to say anything now, I don't want her to be like "I have to act like I like this person back Or Else". But like. In a year, when I'm just "that girl whose couch she crashed on that one time", do you think...? She's so great though I bet by then she'll have found someone ahhhh. Okay this is dumb, I'm sorry.

Orange Mod Says:

So, yes, waiting a year might mean that she’s not single any more, and not waiting till she’s off your couch might make her feel pressured and frightened.  Those are the options.  Congratulations on identifying them.  If she’s stealth she might feel pressured and frightened by the possibility of being outed even later on.

Purple Mod Says:

Orange Mod is being a grouch.  Personally I think this is what Being Really Obvious But Not Saying Anything was invented for!  You don’t have to say “hey you I like you wanna bang”.  You can just sigh at her and smile wistfully a lot and be nice to her!  And then if she’s interested she can flirt with you.

[chameleonlife]

One of the ex-reds I'm helping asked for advice on hiring sex workers. I can do all the parts about how-it-works-for-cleans-in-my-country, but is there anything extra I should be saying or not saying that I'm not thinking of? (I'm guessing they're also asking ex-reds, or people who asked ex-reds, but I still don't want to say something that's obviously stupid given who I'm talking to.)

Orange Mod Says:

It’s a bad idea for stealth ex-reds to have sex with anyone, including professionals, who are not explicitly okay with having sex with non-disclosing ex-reds.  In Anitam, Silver Night now has a profile item for expressing willingness to accept ex-red clients without knowing which clients they are.  If your country does not have an equivalent, ex-reds interested in hiring professionals will have to find this information some other way.  Everything else you know about how born cleans interact with the industry will probably remain applicable.