From now on, if you spam my blog with likes I'm blocking you.
Moderators see that as people using separate accounts to gain likes, which can get you shadow banned. The same applies for reblogging sadly. Before I thought it was a nice gesture but now I know it just screws the likelihood my account will be spread to other people.
And for a "small" blog like mine, that could spell disaster.
Like what would be the point of me posting if no one's going to see it
Headcanon: Carol and GF totally do each other's nails. You can not tell me that two girls that'd watch Hamilton together wouldn't do each other's nails. Period.
oh my god they totally would-
they'd probably paint it in each other's favorite colors too- like they come out of the room with Carol having bright red nails and GF having purple nails-
Ah, I noticed that Angie and Ibuki haven't written a lot yet.
How do you usually filter out requests through the 3 of you? Is it like a first come first serve kind of thing?
I mean I know that not all mods work under the same time zones and can usually get really busy with life as is, I'm just kind of curious.
> Yeah i got alot of work and didn't have time to do stuff but i think i'm able to post something in a few days or something lol, dunno 'bout Mod Buki, also it's okay to be curious! Usually Anons will say what Mod will do it but if they say no one in particular then we'll probably just do the first come first serve thing.
> Mod Angie who's surprisingly alive and just procrastinating <
Ok everyone I'd like to talk about something important today.
At least, it's important to me.....
tw: Harassments & Bullying, Emotional Distress, Sexualitization by minors, venting
So we all know how some fandoms can be full of some pretty toxic fans, right? Well, I'd just like to take some time to tell you all about one of the most negative experiences I've had in a rather big fandom, before I make some stupid comment to set someone off.
Please read this all the way through, it's important to me that everyone understands where I'm coming from.
Ok, so back when I was about....mmm 16/17 I was fairly obsessed with Hetalia, I had been an off-and-on fan of it for about 7 years. So, when I started using Instagram for posting art, I attracted quite a few people from the fandom due to my fanart of it.
I had made some friends, and was invited to quite a few group chats with people who were....fairly younger than me. Ages ranging from 12 to 18, I was fairly still awkward at the whole "socializing" thing, as I am now. So I had made friends with these kids, got into editing video of the fandom due to a friend and then later quick, yada yada, y'know the whole shabang.
Let me tell you, the experiences of the first groupchat I was in was absolutely disgusting, like it had started off pretty normal and everything but it was just a downward spiral of these kids sending dozens and dozens of images of rule 34 and talking about sex constantly. When I would get home from school I would get hundreds of notifications from these kids just going off about every sick thing you could possibly imagine. Now me not knowing how most kids are online, I would just play along despite being uncomfortable, y'know I'd never send anything nsfw or anything but I'd make jokes.
Later along the lines, and like 20 new groupchats later, we have new members come in and out like usual. I become close with a single individual in particular. It was an utter mistake for me to have been nice to any of these people in the first place.
For the sake of this explanation, let's call this person Blue. So, Blue and I become friends, I learn a lot about and get a feel for what they're like. I realize that Blue has been dealing with depression for several years due to bullying. At their school, they were harrassed a lot due to both their gender and ethnicity, y'know due to racism. Couple of weeks go by, nothing really bad (that I knew about yet) had happened.
Started talking to the group's "leader" of sorts, let's call them Red. Well I thought was Red was pretty nice for a while, they would occasionally be mean as what I thought was jokes at the time. Come to find out that this kid hated me, was jealous of me because I had more followers than them (among other things) and basically caused me to be cancelled in the Hetalia fandom altogether due to a few things happening which I'll explain next.
Ok, so first thing I have to explain is that Blue had made a pretty remarkable statement to me about our friendship. One that set off some pretty big fucking red flags I might add. Something along the lines of "If it wasn't for you, I'd be alone." Now let me tell you, to hear that out of someone older than me, was scary. So what did I do? I tried to be nice and make sure that the others in my group made sure to check up on them.
Well, it didn't end up going so well with me. It caused a really big fight between me and Red to happen. So, yeah, I left the groupchat, I didn't even think to take pictures. I was still friends with most of them at that point. So yeah, wasn't a good day at all.
I ended up drawing some vent art after a few weeks, when I was once again brought back into the group only for these kids to intentionally act disgusting in front of me again. Another fight broke out, I separated myself from most of the people in the group.
Was contacted by the first person that tried to help me, let's call them Izzy. Izzy had shown me these texts Red had sent about me, calling me petty, obsessed with their best friend (That I was mad that they had other friends other than me), brought up the age of my boyfriend at the time (which was none of their fucking business!) and was accusing me of manipulating everyone in their group to believe my "sob stories". And by sob stories she means all of the fucking people she sent after me to harrass me, send me gore, and tell me to off myself, Red had told all of these people that I was the one harrassing them, "bullying" as they called it.
This whole thing went on for months and months and little by little I started to understand that one, I shouldn't have shared my vent art with anyone, because they contained song lyric bits that no one else other than me understood in context. I had explained the meaning to this "friend" "Heidi" but apparently she didn't show that explanation to the group bc Red told her I was talking shit behind her back.
These kids searched up and listened to the song instead, coming to the conclusion that I was a stalker, and that I was stalking Blue in particular. So, what do these kids do? They send someone new to spy on me and add me to groupchats even though I had Red blocked at that point. Red was continuously saying rude things to piss me off that I couldn't see until the others screenshoted and sent to me. Things about my kin (N. Italy), basically making fun of me through the use of my comfort character.
The kid they sent to spy on me started out as one of those kids that harrassed me and then turned into a "fake friend" that pretended to know what I meant. Call them Japan because that's the kin they used all the time. Well, me and my dumbass said some rather mean things about Red, mostly because I was fucking pissed about how this 13 year old was acting. Japan sent all of that info back but continued to pretend to be on my side the entire time until the very end when they told me they were done with me shitting on their friends. I let you know he and others were part of a secret discord that he let me know about to make himself look better to me, as well as let me know when I followed one of these kid's multiple fake accounts, to which the kids went crazy over.
Kid on the fake account told me that I should be apologizing to Red for all that I did and to stop stalking Blue. At this point I was fucking done with all of it, I apologized to Red but outed Japan in the process due to this kid pissing me off to the max.
To say the least, I had the worst panic attack I ever have had in the history of my life, to the point where I was literally shaking. I was cursing and screaming to the point that my neighbors could hear me. I had tried to explain everything to my grandmother and it led to me not being able to use social media for a course of 6 months, and multiple therapy visits. I slept on the floor in front of my grandparents bed that night because I felt too sick being alone in my bedroom, the shaking wouldn't stop.
6 months later, I think everything is fine, what do these kids go and do? They make a hate post about me taking several dozen of my texts out of context, claiming I was misgendering and harrassing Red, stalking Blue, and generally an overall shit human being by showing everyone my vent art along with it as "evidence".
So yeah, a lot of people blocked me, I had to change my account to private, get a new separate account as my safe space (which was later leaked to these kids yet again) and on and on it went, they even made a "draw this in your style" contest depicting my Italy-insert chasing after Blue's insert (America) holding a tan folder with the words "New BF" on it. Finally some miracle happened when my lovely friend Tree had decided to actually ask for my side of the story instead of just blocking me like their friends told them to.
So I told them, and god bless them, they revealed to me that another one of the people in the group that I felt I could actually trust (Canada Kin) was just relaying information back to Red all along, and was actively encouraging that they push this process out for a longer period of time just to make me feel even worse. Canada called themselves a sadist in the texts to Red, who didn't even know that they were on Red's side until the last minute. So, basically Tree exposed everyone involved in Red's ultimate scheme to make my life a living nightmare, they had planned to send dozens of people after me to send me images of gore, rule 34, and death threats. I was able to block everyone involved! And since 2019, that was the end of it.
Thank god! Others weren't so lucky, but I am glad to say that I have been able to move past it all, even though it still triggers the hell out of me. I still like Hetalia but I just can't interact with the fandom, I still feel pretty paranoid that these pre-teens are going to come after me for revenge or something.
So yeah.....That's pretty much it...
Thanks for reading all the way to the end...
- Treat
I had been reminded of all of this when @shuichiswritingcorner had mentioned America from Hetalia, and I just wanted to make sure that everyone knew that while I'm somewhat feeling better about the fandom, it still triggers me at times. It was just a really bad experience that left me feeling very distrusting of people in general.
Ok since I've figured out how to make icons I've made a bunch. So far I've made 13 for myself, like this Kagehara one, which I just finished like 2 minutes ago.
And then there's the cute girl icon, that I made to really....kinda represent me I guess? Idk... I just like it.
After I figured it out, it was suppppeerrr easy to do! Though I wonder if I need anymore? I did get that Yuri set lately from the lovely @allys-edit-cafe, thank you by the way! I love them!
Resized my Sayori Icon! Shouldn't need anymore for a while....
Whats your opinion on Danganronpa series as a whole? At least, Danganronpa, Goodbye Despair and V3 ones
-Cookie
Opinions on all of the games up the V3?
Huh, I guess I really never thought about it much. I mean, I wasn't really all that interested during the beginning of the first game, but towards the end I was a fan....
Characters I felt the most sorry for: Chihiro, Taka
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The second game was....different to say the least, I mean it had a similar set up, a nice set of characters, some funny lines and some things I didn't really expect....Chiaki and Monomi's execution pissed me off so much.... The ending scene with virtual Junko was so weird but I didn't really mind it....
V3 was a mess, I loved the characters, hated most of the exactions, ugghhh Kaito's and Kokichi's..... oh for god's sakessss.... The ending was literally the most disappointing thing in the game for me...
Was it all real and Tsumugi lying to them? Was it actually virtual reality and everyone is fine just mildly traumatizing? I WANNA KNOW SO BAD UGHHHH! That whole "Love Suite" thing? They literally traumatized a teenage boy by making him sleep with over half of his class! Shuichi should sue Monokuma, seriously.
Favorite Characters: Shuichi, Kokichi, Kiibo
Characters I felt the most sorry for: Gonta, Kokichi, Maki
What characters are overrated/underrated in your opinion
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12. Depends on what fandom you're talking about, Pokémon, Danganronpa, FNF?
I don't really care for H*m*ko if we're talking bout V3, she's cute, just kinda boring. Loki is a pretty cool character though, wish his mod got more attention...
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13. I can barely think straight for this question oof.
Underrated: Any pregame characters bc this is my opinion so fuck it, Loki (FNF), Rosie (FNF), Allister (Pokémon), Hex (FNF), Gonta, Kazuichi?, Tsumugi?, Hoshi, Maki
