(pushing my fingars together) what if you d. whatif you drew.......a special little guy
what if i was an autistic car mechanic in rural kentucky and you were a neurotic guy with a botany degree and i found you in a patch of clovers. and we were both boys
man i have nothin to say for myself on the front of ‘putting the murder mystery guy in a miku outfit’ other than thank me. perhaps. obligatory @tigerdrop for his guy
>_< ;;;; so ive been a little quiet lately.... and i want to be honest about why that is. not just to be transparent with moots and oomfies, but truly to raise awareness for the gaslighting and abuse that weve normalized online.......
thats right ;; im talking about softblocking
(thank you for clicking thru already >w< its good someone cares.....) ;;;;
first of all, im not going to name names! rlly >_< firstly i wanna be the bigger person here..... and secondly cuz just.. there are too many names to name.
but anyways. you are maybe asking why softblocking is so bad? and its ok! ^^;; i get it. setting boundaries can be hard, and sometimes u need to manipulate our digital reality ;;;; now read that last sentence again.
when you softblock someone (for those who dont know: quietly blocking and unblocking a user so that their account is no longer following you), you are forcing a change of the status of their social account against their consent. literally if it werent for this loophole, you would have to log in to their account and unfollow for yourself- imagine how invasive that is!!!!
(and if youre wondering, i dont have to imagine! people in my actual real life have taken my phone from me, opened instagram, found their account, and forced me to unfollow multiple accounts! multiple times. i still havent found everyone i was made to unfollow ;; i really do not write this as a traumadump, quite the opposite: i need you to hear and know the very real pain that comes from this, ok? THERE IS A HUMAN ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SCREEN.)
if that doesnt have you convinced though, let me ask you this: how many times has technology glitched on you! maybe a message didnt send? maybe a fic didnt update/post, maybe you saw a post that you swear you had licked before but instead the button was empty, cold, and colorless. you probably questioned your own sanity, right? a piece of your reality?? that wasnt as you thought it should be? because why would reality lie to you!
well...... thinking youre crazy? literally the definition of gaslighting! i thought i was crazy for so long because people just... stopped appearing on my dash! imagine how this impacts people with shakier grasps on reality! (shout out to them btw <3 youre doing so great, i promise you this world IS real)
anyways...... i want to keep this short and sweet. if you have to remove someone from your digital world, PLEASE:
i realized after the fact that this isnt a question but i have a fun fact and an answer to a longstanding internet mystery, so here it is - tavros nitram's name comes from "nitram" being the name "martin" backwards. i was dating the poster who suggested it way back when (jesus christ i know) and that was his name. the mspa wiki has a baffling etymology about nitrates and fish diseases or whatever and i think that is kind of funny in a karmic kinda way. anyway have a nice day and Cool Comic
i actually knew this because i too was on those forums back then and was pushing back hard against naming an alien “martin” bc that was the original unironic suggestion
characterization: describe your favorite character(s) you’ve written.
Majima is, unsurprisingly, my favorite character to write, both from his POV and from other people’s POV lmao. I am a big gay and he just *clenches fist* fucks supremely
carnegie: what authors and/or books/stories have inspired you to write or influenced your work?
I used to read all the time but I haven’t read many like..... published books recently at all lol, so it’s largely just a large and varied history of fanfiction feeding into more fanfiction.
the big one that pushed me to write a multi-chapter thing that was actually original in concept instead of just aping “Majima Everywhere but Horny” that a million other people had already written (and I love each and every one of them) was The Wanting Weeks cause that slapped my nuts clean off.
and to be 100% honest your Denouement absolutely kicked me out of my “it would be too self indulgent to write Majima as a trans guy. that would be cringe of me” and into “it is my moral obligation to write Majima trans as often as possible” so thank you for your service
o’connor: what tropes/genres do you dislike writing?
This one’s kinda tough cause if I dislike something I just..... don’t write it lol. I’m not interested in writing whump or angst for the sake of angst annnnnd I don’t think I could write crackfic. I am constantly pulling myself back from shoving more justification into things that really don’t even need justified lol