#anyways i gotta start posting my fnaf art here eventually hi everyone

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“Shipping fnaf characters is cringe” Well I think in an adult au Cassidy and Charlie should kiss and hold hands. And also grown up cc + a brief jessica are here too ig

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“*inhales deeply* *ehxales slowly* hoo boy”

pour the tea G

Well grab a goddamn mug, cause I’m about to spill.

please note this is entirely my opinion and experience and there will be s a l t

(okay this is getting long so)

tl;dr: Good art doth not maketh a good person, a hard lesson I learned after years of mild fixation and just as long a time of observing repeated drama, callouts, and temper tantrums. Their attitude towards their fans is about as nice as the obsidian covering a pool of lava, too; dig any deeper than the surface and you’re bound to get burned.

On an entirely related note, if you want to know why I’m paranoid about talking to Big Name Artists in streams, asks, art, or in general? Read on.

Alright so back when the world was younger, FNAF was new and only had one game, and we were only around Purgatory instead of the 5th ring of Hell, there was an artist named Rebornica who ran a popular AU. They had comedic comics, amazing art, terrific tales to tell, and, alliteration aside, they seemed interesting.

And I, a baby tumblrist, fell head over heels into obsession and checked their blog once a day for years. ...wish I was kidding.

See, when I said they had great art? That’s not wrong at all. Allow me to demonstrate with some character art (read: two characters) I can pull from google images in the next five minutes.

FNAF 1′s night guard, Mike Schmidt. Swearboat, loves his gal (Doll), a little bit possessed.

Purple guy. Fucking nuts. Treated like a meme. Afraid of needles. Motherfucker in multiple senses, I’d bet (he’s dtf at least). (one (1) spooky image at the end please be aware)

don’t worry they died

anyways they do have comics but I’m not pulling those up, would take too long.

So from FNAF the first to FNAF the third, they acquired an appreciable following of people, and we all had a good time. Had some laughs, submitted some asks, had a lot of asks eaten, got to see plenty of dash drama between them and other people- wait what.

...

...yeah, this is where shit turns a bit towards the ‘#bad vibes’ tag I overuse.

Bones was great at art, and I emphasize this heavily because this was a lot of the draw for me. They told stories well. I loved it. I focused on the surface level. As a person, they weren’t super bad either, at least on the surface. Dig about three inches down and check the other side of most of the stories and...

...well shit. Turns out they have a lot of callout blogs. Wonder why.

But of course, I persevered and ignored it. Sure, they had a lot of bad events surrounding them, but they weren’t all bad...!

Hah. Haha. Ha. I’m a terrible liar.

After FNAF 3 rolled out and they had their kicks for a while, they got fed up with all the uncalled for drama (potential misinterpretation but they DO act like this), abandoned their AU to the wilds (read: gave ownership to someone else, said to everyone else they’re giving it away but don’t care anymore liar liar, then took the character concepts and jumped ship), then went off and made their own storyverse.

Pilot.

By the way, that art?

I

wasn’t

kidding

fam

it’s good shit

And for a time all was as usual in the world. Drama came and went, we had streams on Picarto for all to see, everyone had fun with it.

Then one day, as is the way with all things, they decided they were fed up with all the drama-

(READ AS: A group of people calmly and rationally asked for an audience with them on Discord, which they accepted. They all spoke in turns. Then Bones [Rebornica > Dapper Deoxys > Mx. Bones, they’re now the skeleton general or whatever] eventually lost their shit, felt attacked, and basically decided to follow their impulse drive)

-and deleted their blog after a last post announcing it and a week of silence.

The discussion wasn’t even irrational, either! They just wanted Bones to apologize for some of the harm they’d caused, and Bones took it as a personal attack on them.

I read all of this, and yet weeks later when their stream came online and they started drawing again? I watched with glee.

And I kept following their works.

...until.

We’re now in the BATIM era. They’ve gotten involved in an ask blog, and I, with what little shaken faith and adorement I still had, attended streams in silence out of a quiet and, surely, misguided fear of speaking out in a stream chat in case the opinion was wrong. (haha, here’s your sign)

I attended a stream in which they were drawing one of the ladies putting down one of the guy’s “childish attachments to a character”, and the stream chat became livid. As in, foaming at the mouth, expressing an intent to harm- and Bones did nothing. They kept drawing.

I spoke out. For once. “I gotta say something, this isn’t a good attitude right?”

So I put in the chat that maybe we were taking things too far?

Of course, Bones says something at this. Surely it’s gotta be rational, noticing the attitude of their fans at last, right?

“It’s satire, sweetie.”

..............

satire

(it wasn’t satire by the time the chat got a hold of it)

That... that was it. That was the final straw on the camel’s back. That was all it took for me. I stopped watching their streams (even though part of me missed them), I stopped following their content, I stopped peeking in their Discord, I was tired and done. Too much drama and paranoia, too much worry about fitting in or getting kicked out, too much worry that they would Disapprove Of Me, and,,,

...Well, maybe it’s silly that one sentence was all it took for me to Lose Faith Completely, but... I was done. I didn’t want any more part in it.

Trust me. This isn’t the worst of it. I was just one fan worried about appearances, on the outskirts of A God’s Attentions.

It could be worse.

It could always be worse.