Shura's lair 🪷

Toyhouse drama circlejerk (or not really, so I guess I'm another drama blog)

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ANNOUNCEMENT POST

Hey slugs, I know I have been going on and off a ton on the blog due to health issues. However, I think I'm no longer able to keep moderating the blog. I'll keep the blog up for archiving purposes, and if anyone wants to make another blog with a similar concept, then you're always free to do so.

It's only been a short four months of this blog running, and I'm grateful for all of the slugs that kept this place alive. We have 1.2k posts as of today, and a big part of them came from you, slugs!

I'll be taking an indefinite hiatus from moderating this blog. There's no saying I'll be back or not in the future, but I'm leaning towards no.

Thank you all for your support always. Cheers, Shura out 🪷

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Every once in a while I see a rouge mention of a freebie mass claimer or someone who's a whale for an artist by buying up all their adopts or slots seconds after they drop. While I do agree we can't fault the other too much because it's a hobby that makes them happy and that's a common point others bring up too. Along with art being a luxury yada yada. Are we forgetting it's other people's hobbies too? Like at the worst those who complain are merely hoping that one person eases up and lets other people have a shot. What's wrong with multiple people being happy vs only one? And this isn't even saying the person who's adopting and buying a bunch has to stop completely. Oh no someone adopted a design they really liked once. idk guy maybe work out a trade? They don't want to trade from their enormous collection for this new adopt? Well I guess they didn't want it that bad after all, wait for resale or another drop. Same doesn't apply as cleanly to freebies but neither claiming all within eyesight or not getting a chance won't kill ya. However going the considerate route by only picking a favorite and letting others get a chance seems better overall. This is a community of people not XYZ's exclusive shopping cart. I could go into another ramble on how something about oc and adopt ownership or hobbies in general seem to bring out these more selfish mindsets but I'm referring to those who try to claim a bunch of concepts, color palettes, accessories, species, etc as their own that only they can use. Maybe collecting shinies unlocks something in our brains that leans into that. Anywas thanks for coming to my TEDtalk.

Real talk slug 🪷

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I feel like I post the same couple ocs in the forums too much and it’s annoying, but I also wonder if that’s only in my own head and nobody else cares at all. I wish I had a way to find out without it feeling like a ploy for attention or affirmation.

On art forums? Don't care. Forum games? Depends. 🪷

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really love how you can sort your messages, but not your subscriptions or links. like ah yes, I surely do care about all of my dead messages in my inbox that were a pain to write out because they work worse than emails. and surely I don't wanna sort people by reason of why I subscribed to them (pretty art, adoptables, shelter, friend, etc).

Sudo trying to make the most incovenient UI combination on toyhouse:

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There is an actual elderly nazi named Hans on toyhou.se 😢😢

Toyhouse users namedropping someone who has same face syndrome: ✨️👍💞🥰🤑

Toyhouse users namedropping an alleged nazi/pedophile/scammer: 😡🤚👿🪦🫩

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it is so funny to me seeing people who have me blocked trying to get my designs second hand lol

Hate the artist not the art ahh 🪷

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about certifiedartist - apparently people in help&question forum figured out why he was banned, turns out it was not only block evading and not only being annoying in forum games but also not doing art games claims. xd good riddance

Forum regulars that hate him rn:

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yo did that one user ever do that one thing?

Not sure but I heard they did a second, worse thing 🪷

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do u agree with me guys? I’m a left winged person who hates conservatives.

I put “DNI cis men” on my toyhouse warning. Sorry, I don’t want any cis men on toyhouse. They can go back to being dumb and autistic. Cis woman and trans men are the real ones! No dumbasses here!

Uhm how about transphobes, homophobes, nazis, and pedos? You don't hate them? Cancelled. 🪷

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When you dislike that one forum regular, but they make good threads:

Angrily reading threads and reluctantly agreeing 🪷

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okay, toyhousers, i need your help on this one since its been bugging my mind for a while

so you know how people go "dont take inspiration from my characters/designs"? i was wondering how that rule applies to adoptables for quite a while now. like... okay, for the sake of this argument/thought experiment, we are going to create the most extreme hypothetical scenario (since it's the easiest to work with).

person A does not allow ANY inspiration of their characters. person B couldn't give less of a fuck, even if you 1 to 1 copy their characters. lets say B adopts a character from A - if C, some rando, takes inspiration from said character, are they offending A's boundaries?

and the other way around too. if A adopts from B and C takes inspiration, are they offending the boundaries?

(lets also assume no changes were done to the designs at all, again, for the sake of this argument)

im mostly wondering this bc i always look at my adopted characters as mine in story, but still belonging to the original designer in design (unless they went through enough of a redesign for me to say I had a big hand in how they are looked at now). and I'm wondering if someone took inspo on one of my characters whose creator doesn't like inspiration, would they (in case this was found out) be under fire for it? i do understand that once a character is in my hands, it is mine, but, again, the design wasn't made by me, hence why I dont much understand when people go "dont take inspiration from my designs". do they mean their current designs? or even adoptables, even if the current owner allows it? I'm definitely overthinking lol but I want some input on my thoughts, please (even if its just "you're overthinking it" or whatever, its fine, just stay respectful, okay? <3). anyway, uhh, imma turn my brain off now, slug out

/uj I think boundaries should follow the og designer's rules. So if C adopts A's character from B, then yes they'll be offending that rule. Doesn't work if A takes inspiration from B since B allows that, but it just seems hypocritical to do so, isn't it?

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This week's award for "Toyhouse User Overshares on the Internet Again" goes to:

https://toyhou.se/~forums/11.general-off-topic/722178.latest-pee-color

They're trying to overthrow the diarrhea thread, feeble attempt 🪷

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Ever get scared of joining art games because fear someone may presume your baby face OC or Short child height base on oneself character maybe mistaken as a child and people ignore the ages and accuse you of being a creep or breaking some no proship rule

Because TH users reading comprehension is not the best it seems and somehow seems to forget short adults exist and babyfaced adults exist

Webtoon might've ruined them with stereotypes 🪷

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People on these drama blogs be like "yo did that one user ever do that one thing?" and not elaborate.

Remember that one anon that said "I make shit up on these blogs", that's likely the case 🪷

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Blows up toyhouse with my mind

Can you do it again, it seems to be back up 🪷

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sometimes i roam blogs looking for my name and usually all i get is the 59th apodoforcas ask in a row

How does ikeakaze lead to apodoforcas 🪷

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followed an artist for a bit because i liked their style but then they posted commissions with a “won’t draw because it makes me dysphoric” that read like this:

women

boobs

nipples

long hair

like…. i’m not going to get on a high horse and say shit like “LOL a DRAWING makes you dysphoric??” because dysphoria is weird and unpredictable sometimes. but you have to learn to overcome it so you can function irl. i don’t mean it in a “youre a snowflake that wouldn’t survive in the Real World” way, i mean it in a “this cannot be good for you to have panic attacks over women” way. i get that toyhouse can be a safe space away from triggers for some people but also ????

also sometimes as trans men we have to be able to recognize when something is dysphoria and when it’s internalized misogyny. tbh

(do not post if off anon ! thank u! mwah)

/uj preach, anon