#Moderator note

[askdrunkjimmy]

Mod Note (Discussing Upcoming Arcs & Other)

So, I have a few arcs that are on their way (unfortunately these blogs are "real time" so they are going to be seeded well in advance).

1. April 8th will spark the END of this arc and the BEGINNING of the following arc. That arc will probably last all of April and some of May. (its a long one, I know, but it will be worth it, I swear).

To Add: I'm working on getting my calendar together (and actually following my original deadlines), so it should be a little more streamlined in the future.

2. Curly has started journaling daily, so it's worth your time to hop onto his account when you get a chance because there will be some hints to what's to come.

3. Daisuke will become a key player in the following arc. He has an account now so feel free to start asking him stuff if you'd like!

4. I'm looking for someone who might want to work with me running Anya's blog (and help with Daisuke's) because... well, I don't think I can run 4 blogs by myself and she will also be a pivotal character in the next arc. I have some people in mind but I'd love to reach out to more people.

5. I want to pay closer attention to my straw.page. I've been lacking and I want to do better so I'm making it a point from now onward that I'll check at LEAST once a day.

6. I KNOW you guys want Swansea but I promise I PROMISE it will be worth the wait I swear I am so sorry it's taken me so long to introduce him but he has a place in the story and unfortunately that isn't until the end of the next arc/beginning of the following one.

7. I'm thinking about creating a FAQ post because I get a lot of similar questions relating to the story. It also seems fun so I probably will work on this soon.

8. I'm also debating on doing Arc Recaps. I think it might be helpful for new people, but also it seems just as fun as the FAQ and any excuse to talk about this AU is a good excuse.

[polling-sonic-fans]

Genuine question, do the attached images add value for you? I spend most of the mod time for this blog actually just sourcing and compiling images. My perception is they might make the polls more eyecatching and give them a better chance of getting votes, but if they aren't adding value let me know.

[jonmartinweek]

Hey there! Thanks so much for hosting this event, really looking forward to it :)

I was just wondering - I live in a timezone where my date is often one ahead of the rest of the world, or America, at least. Is there any specific timezone I should whack into a converter to figure out when to publish pieces? No worries if that's too prying, I can always just take my best guess. Thanks again!

Each day there will be a pinned post at midnight London time which will officially 'start' that day. Submissions for that day's prompts can be posted anytime after it, including later in the week (so if it's Day 3 and you want to post something for Day 1, that's perfectly fine too).

Other than that, posting time is completely up to your preference of what works best for you.

[ask-one-badassatron]

Mod is going "Ahh!"

This blog is run by no other than a simple college student. Unfortunately this college student decided it was a good idea to stack her classes because she wanted to finish early. That was stupid. As it's now nearing the end of the semester and the next two weeks are finals, asks and reblogs are closed (We are currently at 0 so now seems like a good time). Mod is losing her mind and will not make this same mistake again next semester.

Thank you for your patience and asks will be open as soon as possible.

[askgrantcurly]

im sorry :(((((

Mod Note:

THIS MADE ME SO SAD FOR SOME REASON so there's something for you under the read more.

Sorry Curly was a dick to you he has been a fucking jerk lately

[polling-sonic-fans]

It seems anonymous submissions will be removed by tumblr: if it is gone for you already, that was not my action. If you would like to continue using the submission box anonymously, please mention it clearly somewhere and I will make a post based on the content of your submission. I have to turn them into a different post anyway to attach a poll to them.

Equally, askbox is accepted and will always have anonymous available.

Carry on.

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[malaisequotes]

Moderator note: My queue is running low and I’m too busy at the moment to load in more quotes, so I’ve temporarily switched to one post per day instead of per hour. In the meantime, feel free to message or submit your own favorite quotes and their sources! Recommendations are always welcome.

[feketeribizli]

thats another successful weekend wrapped up for the boy 😁

[ask-one-badassatron]

Holy crap.

Just about every rp blog I know are already tagged (and I don't want to flood their notifis) so just a few that aren't for sure:

@ask-slipstream-bloodlines

@ask-knockout-bloodlines

@ask-glory-haddock-and-others

@one-and-only-alpha-trion

@starscreamscrownoflies

Stay safe.

IMPORTANT UPDATE!

Asks are going to be off for a while due to an apparent raid that I’ve been made aware of. Im unsure how long they’ll be off.

If you’d like to know more, please look at this post here.

TLDR; certain fandoms have been sent gore of real people and have been having their blogs removed due to it.

[askdrunkjimmy]

Mod Note:

Spotted one of my silly Jimmy edits from this account in the wrong organ server AND copped a follow from bichianti... i have truly made it 🙏🏻

[polling-sonic-fans]

Tumblr Biases

Recieved yet another note on a poll expressing concern that it would be a biased result because the population of tumblr does not reflect all Sonic fans. This is true for all of this blogs polls - they can only, and only aim to, capture data on the Tumblr Sonic community.

A few expected biases that come to mind immediately, that you should be aware of interpretting the data from these polls (and many others on this website:

Tumblr seems to have above average incidence of neurodiversity when comparing large polls to global data (See Table 2). This is expected to affect polls regarding narrative readings, specifically in interpretting neurodiversity in characters, and interfan relations/ fandom culture.

Tumblr is known to overrepresent non-hetero sexualities (regrettably, citing buzzfeed here); this might suggest that polls will skew towards reading characters as LGBT, and a preference for same-sex pairings over more typically 'straight' user bases.

Tumblr has a higher proportion of women/ female identifying people, as well as a large non-binary and trans population. Considering that in 2015 Yougov found that more women than men listed Sonic as their favourite video game, (although we cannot extend this data too far - it is out of date, British, and a very specific wording), it could be said that this doesn't impact our polls as much as gaming communities with more men in them, however we should be aware that tumblr has a distinctly smaller community of cisgendered men.

Tumblr is perceived to lean left, although this is a difficult metric to quantify as 'left' is so broad. Still, we should expect polls relating to politics, ethics, and activism can be expected to be affected by this.

70% of tumblr users are Gen Z and Millenials. This should not be a major issue, as it is expected that the majority of Sonic fans will be under the age of 50 at present, but will impact the life stages we expect most users to have hit.

There will be more ways in which the data gained in these polls is biased by hosting on Tumblr. Blogrunner does not have ambitions to host polls on any other site, as this is where it is active. However please consider these and other biases if you intend to use any data gathered here for your own purposes, as well as the following caveats:

The reblogging nature of this site means that polls with small sample size cannot be considered reliable: one large blog might be able to share a poll and encourage their followers to vote in kind with them. I recommend that until polls start reaching 500 votes minimum, they cannot be considered fair representatives of the tumblr Sonic community, and as always the more votes the more reliable.

I am asking polls in English: these questions can only be considered to be reflective of the english speaking population of tumblr.

Polls on tumblr do not allow for changing vote - if wording is complex, votes are more likely to be inaccurate.

Polls regarding characters will include that characters tag, and therefore recieve more traffic from fans of the character who frequent that tag, than those who dislike the character, who may even have it blocked. Same for ships and games people may either follow or block.

That's all that's coming to mind right now. This post will be pinned as a disclaimer, please always do your own research and think critically about the ways in which netnography and survey are limited data points. Thanks.

[jonmartinweek]

You could do weeks for other couples as well!! So we don't have to wait a whole year :3

My humble suggestions: polyarchives (romantic or platonic), what the girlfriends, lonelyeyes, doorkeay

This blog is dedicated to Jonmartin.

If others would like to create similar events for different ships, this blog is in full support of them and would signal boost.

[askgrantcurly]

(To the Mod, sorry Curly!!) Honestly, I thought anon asks were off because Curly would see the shit that Jimmy's inbox would get, and thought, "No. No, I don't think so." XD

Mod Note:

Okay you know what I'm gonna pretend that you are right and that was 100% my intention instead of me being a dork

[abyssalzones]

actually I'm starting to think my 14 year old self was right

[verbosenerv0sa]

🧃🐢

this tortoise doesn't even know his juice is 110 because the nutrition label is facing the other way. He definitely can read and comprehend it, it's just facing away, that's the only reason. He probably doesn't even care about that tho. Not because he's a tortoise, but because he's a naturally skinyspo badboi babugirl with a metabolism that is faster than he can move

ok bye 👋

[musashi]

hie so…. Inquiring minds wish to know…. Is your ace attorney discord server respectful and welcoming to folks with “problematic” ships and headcanons and stuff? Or is it a touchy subject

"problematic" has no real meaning (like, problematic by who's standards?) but as long as it's not like... super major illegal stuff (like lolicon and actual incest) no i don't give a shit and the vibe of the server is "who give a shit"

but if you're talking about like. maligned / "condemned" ships by the annoying cunts on twitter and tiktok yeah we've made a point to make it a welcoming space. we have dedicated narumayo & cykesquill channels and there's a lot of other stuff of that flavour in the more general shipping channels like mitsumei and narumei and whatever else people like to make up problems about.

as for headcanons again like you'll have to be more specific... you're talking to a person who famously got excommunicated from the fandom simply because i think manfred von karma is nice to his kids. the ace attorney fandom is full of pearl-clutching, joined-fandom-during-covid, fanon telephone worshipping meangirl puritans with such abysmal media literacy skills that i struggle to believe they're not doing a bit most days.

i legitimately have no idea what you mean when you say "problematic" because to this fandom my silly little lead poisoning headcanon once got me accused of being a real life pedophile. like you gotta tell me what you mean here fghfdghgf