#Mediator answer

[bleeding-heart-society]

Just curious, is there anywhere I can read more about the BHS? I am interested and would like to know more about it

(HOLY SHIT AN ASK I AM ETERNALLY GREATFUL THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU-)

𝙷𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚘,

T𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚔 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚜𝚔 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙱.𝙷.𝚂. 𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚊𝚜𝚎! 𝚆𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚕𝚎𝚝 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚊𝚞𝚝𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚜𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚖 𝚛𝚎𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠 𝚒𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚙𝚕𝚢 𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚠𝚎𝚛.

𝚂𝚊𝚍𝚕𝚢, 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎’𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚊 𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙱.𝙷.𝚂. 𝚢𝚎𝚝. 𝙷𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛, 𝙸 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚗 𝚘𝚗 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊 𝚕𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚌𝚞𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚒𝚝 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚜𝚘𝚘𝚗. 𝙸 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚜𝚞𝚙𝚙𝚕𝚢 𝚊 𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚜𝚞𝚖𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑!

𝙿𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚏𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚛𝚎𝚙𝚕𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚎𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚞𝚖𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚢. 𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚔 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚌𝚎!

-𝙱.𝙷.𝚂.

The Bleeding Heart Society is a large, multi-branched organization that specializes in the containment and research of entities called "anomalies."

These anomalies are persons, places, or things that defy logic and the natural laws of the world. Anomalies can come from anywhere in the world, with no plausible source.

The Society was founded in the early 1700s. This was after a group of 6 researchers managed to develop a weapon which took down what is now considered the first anomaly, A1-No.001. However, the amount of power contained within the entity could not simply disappear once its form was destroyed.

This resulted in the entity "shattering" into hundreds of pieces that ended up manifesting as a new group of anomalies. This sparked the founding, as the researchers thought it was their responsiblity now to contain and come to understand these new creatures along with the pre-existing anomalies.

One of the main stories takes place around 300 years later, in the non-specific year of 20XX.

A group of recently-hired individuals are brought to an estate in the middle of seemingly nowhere to train and become full-time employees of the BHS. They are under the supervision of the seemingly alive Heartbleed Estate, and an anomaly who the interns simply nicknamed "Alfred." Most attempts to escape the situation are proven to be futile.

It's up to the group of interns to either obey, or rebel against their employers, and learn what's become of the society after 300 years of corruption.

(The other plotlines are not exactly in my wheel-house to summarize, apologies. If you want, you can ask more about the Hasp or what @cookies-super-secret-blog has to offer here!)

[oni-1-oni-none]

i don't know how to format this or what to ask but uhh can you draw 404 (nauseaxe)? possibly with cat ears?

i’ve hired this guy to stare at you

[utilitycaster]

I want to hear your thoughts about Orym and Ashton's latest conversation, if you don't mind. Ugh, I can't find the post, but you wrote something along the lines of Orym often wanting to move on from things too fast, to gloss over problems that BH actually need to sit and process over. Him telling Ashton to "not spend time grappling with their demons bcs he needs their hands free to fight" sounds just like it and as sweet as that forehead kiss was, the rest of the talk feels like a soldier pep talk (which very in character).

I do think that's kind of what Ashton needed to hear, though.

So I have to disagree that it's what Ashton needed to hear; I think it's absolutely what Ashton doesn't need to hear. I think this post of mine is relevant.

The thing that got through to Ashton previously was Chetney essentially saying "if you can't keep your shit together enough not to hurt other people, you should leave," but Chetney, notably, still grapples with his demons, or at least his werewolf, concurrently with working with the group.

Again, the thing with Orym is that he is dealing with loneliness and grief, and distracting himself from those by focusing on a mission actually is pretty productive, because Will is irrevocably gone and will not come back so dwelling on that will only hurt. But Ashton does, in fact, need to wake up every morning and say "I see you, self-loathing, and you're going to be there and I'm not going to do stupid things simply because I don't like myself" but that is, in my opinion, an ongoing grappling with demons. Ashton needs to be told "we care about you, and don't fuck it up" but probably should not be told that they need to be there to fight. Again thinking about Chetney as sort of an opposing approach to Orym, but the "hey, if you want out, you can talk to me" and "you're here, that's a start" is far more important than, as you said, the soldier pep talk. Obviously Ashton should not be made to self-flagellate - truly, one cannot self-flagellate one's self out of self-loathing - but "you're allowed to have your demons along with you so long as you do not give into the worst of them" is a much better message than "push that down for now, we need you to fight." A soldier pep talk is not the right approach.

[kineticallyanywhere]

Trying to piece together the miscommunication between Link and Normal where they both think the other doesn't know what they want and I think it's that the level of results they're each looking for is different. Link wants to know what to do from moment to moment and every decision in each moment is backed by "which option gets fewer people hurt or killed." Whereas Normal isn't looking for a moment-to-moment goal, he's looking for a long term goal of helping the Doodler, and so what that looks like from moment to moment isn't always going to look the same.

So like, the moment with the pick. To Link, Normal is the one who doesn't know what to do because Normal doesn't know what to do in that moment to resolve the anchor, while Link takes a quick action. But from Normal's point of view it looks like Link has no idea what he's doing because his actions had no thought towards the ongoing Doodler problem.

[clangenrising]

Thinking about what you said with the previous ask about being kind not cutting it as a reason to be a mediator, and you're so right. You have to be ready not just to be dealing with angry and sad cats, but cats that might lash out at you. You need to be able to not take it personally, need to have a thick skin. I wonder, would Mystique make a good mediator? Her desire to stop the fighting makes me wonder if that might be where she's headed, though she'd make a fantastic warrior as well! That is, if she stays with the Clan... fingers crossed! Really loving her character so far.

Oh Mystique would be a terrible mediator, at least in her current state. She hates doing anything that is uncomfortable or difficult and would probably settle most fights with "can't we all just get along?" which is not great. Still, who knows, everyone can grow and change.

[yenpondering]

Entitled customers are funny, imagine kicking up such a fuss with our managers that 2 mall security guards had to be called to come mediate all because you and your wife not only can't read but also can't see that our menu literally serves soft poached egg, not a boiled egg, in our Japanese rice bowls

Anyway read the menu properly y'all and ask questions if you're unsure, don't be a dick to hospitality workers especially over dumb shit

[gniteruirui]

On my sleepy head, I try to think about what would have happened if Stella had been hiding in Honey's room while he wasn't there. And I suddenly realized that our vision of Moon is very different.

Tell us about his behavior, how he looks in your eyes, how he treats children and employees? Why would he be so obsessed with stalking or somehow intimidating Stella/any other employee?

Can Honey calm him down with just talking or will he have to use force? Considering that Honey and Moon are friends, how will their relationship turn out after Stella appears in their lives?

There aren't many differences; I believe my perspective on Moon is similar to how the community portrays him. Perhaps with some variations, like in my AU, Moon is the good guy, even better than Sun. After the virus, both faced challenges, but Moon took all the credit for the out-of-control killer robot, as his violent transformation was more evident, while Sun managed to conceal it more effectively. Moon feels remorse, and Sun not entirely. Haha

While he has always been an intimidating animatronic, even before the virus, and loved caring for children, he remains intimidating, even more so now but without fulfilling his original purpose.

I think he simply enjoys intimidating rather than harming, but with the virus, it's hard not to do both. Now with the virus it is more twisted, making him unstable

Id would like to say that Honey might try to reason with Moon before he completely loses control, avoiding resorting to brute force. But I doubt Honey could do something to make it work; it would worsen things since I believe Honey is a factor that would cause Moon to have a breakdown (jealousy). In any case, when Moon is struggling to control himself, Honey's priority will be to take Stella away from danger, and if he has to dismantle Moon, he'll have to do it, even though I consider Moon himself a bit stronger than Hon.

Stella's arrival in Moon/Sun and Honey's lives was the best thing that happened to them. All three know what it's like to be alone – Moon in his cage of being feared by others, Sun in his cage at the daycare, and Honey in his constant cage of sleeping and waking up in a box or hospital where he knows the children he meets will perish.

Maybe there's no issue for Honey, but for Sun/Moon with the virus, it becomes chaotic. Jealousy and possessiveness will be the most common cause of their problems and fights

Honey is very protective. He is like. You touch this little creature of here and I will kill you.

[keeperthemultiversemom]

Hi Ms Keeper! Got a question for you, what happens to the ones you rescue? Is it a safe place for them

(ALSO HIII THIS IS JIN’S CREATOR FROM DISCORDDDD)

Autor note :

Hi ! Good to see you here :3

For this specific question, I illustrated how Keeper's space looks from the inside. Note that this may change in the future, but for now imagine this : it is like a room inside of a cloud. The lights comes from the "sky clouds", there are plenty different objects and furnitures around, such as crayons, paper, sofas and pillows and blankets, food, such things. There are also those sphere, they are like a ball of flexible wood like willow, of various sizes, and are held up by giant ribbons. They hang from the ceiling ! More on them later :3

[athetos]

I got into a screaming match with a FedEx driver and security blacklisted him so I guess I can cross that off my work-related bingo sheet

[captain-krow-drozdov]

Every So Often I Take The Bloody Myers Briggs Personality Test For Funsies Knowing Damn Well That The Only Consistent Thing About My Personality Is That I'm An Introvert With Anxiety

[the-whispers-of-death]

saira and a troublemaker? like reader doesn't commit any crime, but he's loud. and annoying. and teachers hate him. he probably just wasn't expelled because his family's rich.

but. then. he and saira get paired up for a project. and she's so pissed, because reader doesn't do a shit in classes, he just annoys people. and she knows the project will be all done by her.

until the day where they have to meet (maybe in saira's house? stone scaring reader is funny to me) and... wow. this guy is smarter than she thought. like maybe the project is about something he really likes and he knows a little too much about it so he's actually useful?

and hey, he is a brat. considered a player, but he's not that much of a asshole to be honest, just a little bit annoying.

Saira was actually very iffy about whether you two should meet at her house or at a park, simply because Stone has very low tolerance for those who are disrespectful, even if they're kids. But Auntie Ashok is there and he's great at calming Stone down, so she brings you over and hopes you don't also piss off Auntie Ashok.

You two got paired up for an English project, you two having do to a literary analysis on Romeo & Juliet, one having to write on Juliet's character while the other writes on Romeo's character. It's boring and she almost expects you to slack off, but little does she know that you actually LOVE Romeo & Juliet, your mother read it to you a lot as a child.

So she's pleasantly surprised that you're doing work on the project with her and enjoys writing the paper with you. She comes to steady conclusion that you're not all that you seem, but her father on the other hand...

Stone makes you two sit out in the living room instead of her bedroom, simply so he can hear in case you try and get his daughter into doing some criminal activities. Yes, you've never committed a crime but in Stone's eyes that could be just that you weren't caught doing a crime. And he does not take it well when Saira tells him she'll be hanging out with you even after the project is done.

"Baba," Saira says, sounding exasperated as she watches her father pace around the kitchen. "He's a good guy, despite his reputation. He was actually a huge help during the project, he's really smart. It's just that the material the teachers give isn't what he wants to learn about."

Stone huffs and puffs. "You said it yourself that he doesn't do classwork, I don't want him around you."

Saira is on her last straw, the two of them having been on this topic for a half of hour. "Baba, I love you, but you don't get to choose who I hang out with. Not anymore. Now, I know you know that, so get off your high horse," she replies, glowering up at her father.

It's one of the few times that Stone giving Saira so much freedom backfired and it was a huge fight. The next time you came over to her house, Stone wasn't there and only Auntie Ashok was there to supervise the hang-out (and by supervise, I mean Kali only popped his head out of the kitchen to make sure you two were still on task every so often.)

Don't worry though, Stone only sulked for a few days before apologizing and admitting that he trusts Saira's judgement. Saira apologized too, knowing that her father was just making sure she was safe. He still doesn't like you much yet though.

[tj-crochets]

Hey y’all! Weird question time! First, an explanation: - I am allergic to vinegar - vinegar is acetic acid + water - apparently, the human body naturally produces small amounts of acetic acid And now, the question: Could I be slightly allergic to myself????? To the acetic acid??

[navree]

Lowkey hate race swapping sometimes. Now hear me out!

I don't mind when people race swap chatacters I just hate it when changing their race would totally change the entire story or have a lot of implications to the story.

I don't mind when fictional charcater race are changed but I hate it when they change a characters race who are suppose to be a certain race for a reason. When they chnage those types of characters a lot of time it changes the narrative of the story and their actions.

Same with historical show or documentaries. If this real life figure was another than they were we would have completely different story on our hands. Like please open a history book.

Listen, when it comes to fictional characters "racebending" means nothing to me unless it's whitewashing (Titans casting a white actor to play Dick Grayson and the MCU casting a white actress to play Wanda Maximoff when they are both literally canonically Romani both ethnically and culturally is my villain origin story) because fiction is fiction, and honestly you can tweak a story to make a character's journey adapt to the new inclusion of them being a member of a minority class so long as you're talented enough. Most writers aren't, and that's why a lot of "oh we made X character a POC in this adaptation" moves tend to ring hollow, but it is possible.

But I have a genuine bone to pick when it's about history.

For one, it's just such a lazy move. "Oh we made Bess of Hardwick Chinese!" fantastic but you do know that Chinese people existed in the late 16th century right? Like, China was a country with a lot of people in it and a thriving culture and way of life and plenty of influential people living there. Why aren't we telling stories about a Chinese woman living in that time period, it's not like that period of Chinese history was dull or as if no one ever mattered or nothing ever happened there. Like, for God's sake, it's just a way of showing that you aren't actually interested in learning about other parts of the world, or decentering Western history, specifically European history, as the only history worth learning about, you just want brownie points for being diverse without actually putting in the work to learn about the vibrant world that existed outside of Europe for the vast majority of human history, aka doing anything to actually explore different non-Western narratives and how the world moved outside of the European bubble.

For two, like you said, a lot of the time "racebending" doesn't really include attempts to accommodate how the history would change. Bridgerton is a wish fulfillment fantasy show so I don't often care about how it deals with history (even tho I do think the Charlotte was black theory is complete bunk and I refuse to engage with people who think it's real) but its whole "and now England is desegregated" thing falls very flat when you remember how involved England was in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, how reliant it was on slave labor, how invested it was in capturing and buying and selling slaves, including the royals. It puts a lot of onus on characters that they've made POC without doing any of the work, and oftentimes deals in a lot of harmful stereotypes. This was seen most egregiously in the 2021 Anne Boleyn show that cast Jodie Turner-Smith as Anne. @duchessofferia discussed this much better than I will, but relying on the same old lazy tropes that have defined Anne Boleyn with a black woman playing her turned into genuinely harmful racial representation. Having Anne be sexually aggressive and domineering and harsh in her mannerisms, especially when compared to Jane Seymour, isn't new, but having a black woman be looming over a small white woman and being sexually aggressive with her feeds into harmful stereotypes about black women and their femininity, and by having George Boleyn also be black, painting him as a sexual deviant and adding a plot where he abandons his responsibilities as a father turns him into the "absent black baby daddy" trope that still does a lot of harm to black men today. Not to mention, changing George Boleyn's race but keeping the rumor about Jane Boleyn lying on the stand to incriminate him turns a "wife turns against her husband for unknown reasons" story into a "white woman accuses a black man of sexual inpropriety that his society would frown on for the purpose of getting him executed by the state" story, which has a long and incredibly dark history in the United States (it's basically the Scottsboro Boys but Renaissance now). I mean, it's basically my primary issue with Hamilton, that the show really wants to capitalize on the whole "America then as told by America now" thing without delving into what it means to have literal slaveowners portrayed by black men and to have the character of Thomas fucking Jefferson call Sally Hemmings by a pet name in that show without any introspection into the fact that she wasn't his girlfriend but, you know, a woman he full on owned and repeatedly raped. It's all surface level and generally causes a lot more problems by refusing to alter the history to deal with these new changes, because it's history and you can't really alter it without creating a host of problems.

With Cleopatra specifically, I mentioned it before but the Ptolemies were total fuckups and literal colonizers in and of themselves, and turning them from a Macedonian dynasty into actual people of color for some kind of narrative (like there aren't any other important women of color in history, or even that time period) while not attempting to even examine the history of that dynasty and that queen in particular doesn't sit right. Like, congratulations, you've now created a story where a woman of color's most important contributions in life were her relationships with white men who held significantly more power than her and over her country, and fucked up to such a degree that her country wouldn't even be considered its own country until the 1950s. How absolutely groundbreaking. Next you're gonna tell me it's subversive to paint Livia Drusilla as a scheming, conniving bitch who manipulated everyone around her, instead of a sexist and tired trope that exists only to demonize one of the few women of actual importance in Augustan Rome because she was half a decade older than her husband and was able to keep her own power after he died. It's not just a lack of intellectual curiosity or good storytelling, but a fundamental misunderstanding of why people want to see stories about people of color, and how Hollywood itself thinks so little of their audience that they think we'll be content with a simple coat of "hey this person's a minority now!" paint over a subject without any attempt to really look into things or understand why the world works the way it does or how these people shaped their lives or the lives of those around them, never mind the new messages you're sending now with these changes.

Ultimately, it doesn't really matter. There's a lot that can fuck up with historical representation in media, and representation of people of color in media in general can always be so incredibly fucked that giving people anything is oftentimes a win in and of itself. But I honestly think that focusing on the same Euro-centric stories and just switching around Pantone skin swatches to do the bare minimum is lazy and insulting. You want me to care about historical stories about people of color? Great, give me historical stories about actual people of color. Let me hear more about ethnic Egyptians, about their lives and their culture and how they influenced history, not ahistorical trash that causes more trouble than its worth and certainly isn't doing anything new or interesting with the subject.

[clangenrising]

Awww the girlies

I hope Slatepaw grows up to be a mediator like her mama

I think she’d be good at it

It's interesting to me how people tend to think the sweetest kits would make good mediators. People were saying Barley would make a good mediator and people are saying the same about Slate and while I don't think thats wrong necessarily, I do think it's incomplete. Being a mediator isn't just being someone nice who helps people work through their feelings, it's also being someone who is willing to deal with angry and belligerent cats in order to facilitate discussion. It helps to be kind but that isn't the only requirement and some cats just aren't cut out for it even if they like helping people and making them happy. Something to think about...

[klqrambles]

Dorian and Mozart for #67 (they may or may not be fighting over the piano)

Mozart was staring at Dorian, who was staring back with equal intensity. Basil and Salieri warily watched them from a table a few steps away from the table the two were silently dueling at. Suddenly, the two jumped on the piano seat. They improvised on one of Salieri’s compositions (which the man himself was rather miffed about, but Basil had learned to keep handing him pastries to brighten his mood) until, as always, Mozart ended the piece with a flourish.

Dorian grumbled, jabbing a finger halfheartedly into Mozart’s chest, “I’ll get better at improvisation than you someday.”

Mozart giggled at this, “I’d love to see you try!”

[twoletterladies]

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