#explanation post

[billciphersrpblog]

OOC Explanation Post in case anyone needs to catch up on RP events because I know not everyone here is on the Discord to see updates and a lot has happened recently.

Here's what happened ever since the blog got unshadowbanned.

- Eda Clawthorne Bullies Ford To The Point Of Reviving This Blog Even While It Was Shadowbanned - Bill and Ford argue and Ford almost shoots Bill's hat with the last atom of Euclydia in it.

- Ford gets high on stupid sauce, and Bill makes a deal with him on the conditions 1) He would get to possess him, 2) Ford has to make a case for Bill getting his powers back to the Oracle (since Bill and the Axolotl are not on good terms). In exchange for all that, Ford gets... a dirt cookie. 👍 Then, possessing Ford, Bill does stupid things with Ford's body, like using spray paint to "dye" his hair, trying to get tattoos, etc.

- Ford finally wakes up from the possession, enraged by the whole thing, leading to The Bill Death* Arc:

Part 1 - Bill bullies Ford and reveals he wasted the Quantum Destabilizer's only shot. Ford is finally fed up to the point of going completely savage and threatening to use what's left of his gun to blow up the area. Including himself.

Part 2 - Rebecca**comes in to ask Ford about the zodiac wheel right at the moment he was about to kill Bill. Ford lies to her saying she needs to leave to find extra tools for the zodiac wheel, and when she's gone, Bill begs for his life. Ford spares him.

*(Technically he didn't die, I just thought the name was funny.)

**(Rebecca is from this Bill's dimension. RP canon lore is that once Bill broke out of Theraprism, many years have passed and the Pines were dead. Rebecca's a currently alive descendant of the Pines.)

TL;DR- Bill fucks up and is forced to deal with the consequences.

As always, you can check the #lore/#summary tag if you're confused about anything. Or just send an ask and I can happily elaborate!

[cluster-b-culture-is]

Quick question: does DiD count as cluster b?

Good question. The short answer is no. More details below.

DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) is a Dissociative Disorder, not a Personality Disorder. Because DID used to be called MPD, many people think it's a Personality Disorder, but it's not. Cluster B specifically refers to Personality Disorders.

Dissociative Disorders (including DPDR, DID, OSDD, and more!) are characterized by dissociation, or a disconnection from either reality or oneself. DID specifically is characterized by the presence of two or more personality states (often called alters in a medical context) that are highly differentiated (at least some alters have very differing personality, mannerisms, gender, sexuality, age, etc.) and with dissociative amnesia at least some of the time (which is the inability to remember things that happened when another alter was controlling the body/fronting). DID is frequently caused by childhood trauma.

People with DID (like Mod Orange, who is writing this) often refer to themselves as systems, but not all systems have DID, and not all systems are formed by trauma. Similarly, not all people with DID use system terminology to refer to themselves. Many systems have OSDD-1, P-DID, UDD, or are not clinically disordered at all.

Personality Disorders (PDs), on the other hand, are set of disorders characterized by rigid, inflexible, and maladaptive patterns of thoughts and behaviors. People with personality disorders often have trouble with self-perception and interpersonal relationships. Many personality disorders are formed through trauma.

Personality disorders are divided into three clusters: Cluster A (PDs with a tendency towards social withdrawal), Cluster B (PDs with a tendency towards overly emotional thinking and behavior), and Cluster C (PDs with a tendency towards anxious and fearful behaviors).

Cluster A includes PPD (Paranoid Personality Disorder), SzPD (Schizoid Personality Disorder), and StPD (Schizotypal Personality Disorder).

Cluster B (which this blog focuses on) includes ASPD (Antisocial Personality Disorder), BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder), HPD (Histrionic Personality Disorder), and NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder).

Cluster C includes AvPD (Avoidant Personality Disorder), DPD (Dependent Personality Disorder), and OCPD (Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder)

This blog focuses on being a safe space for everyone with Cluster B PDs, since these PDs are very frequently demonized. There are other blogs and places across the internet that focus on other PDs, and on DID or systems. Hope this answers your question!

[asukamood]

Target Syndrome (EX)

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Hello everyone! So, I’m currently in the process of writing the next part of BTH as I’ve noticed a lot of you have taken a liking to that series (I have as well, torturing Hacker is just too much fun for me) and I realized that you guys would be very confused concerning some aspects that I am planning on placing there.

The reason for that is I’ve changed and added a lot of headcanons to Hacker’s backstory (like, a lot) such as a fictional disease that I am going to present right now.

This post is an explanation post, it might not be the most entertaining thing ever and I am quite sorry about that, but I can hardly think of a way to explain the subject in a story like I am going to with the psych ward episode.

Anyway, enjoy?

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What is Target Syndrome?

It is the name given to the disease caused by a soul malformation. It is a rare disease, having only 300 000 cases registered in the multiverse ever since it was first discovered in 1925. Its name stems from the shape the soul tends to take in most cases.

This disease affects both the physical and mental health of an individual, the severity of said impact depends on the stage reached by the individual.

How are individuals affected by the disease diagnosed?

The shape of the individual’s soul is both very useful to detect whether an individual is affected by the disease and how far the disease has spread. Since soul screening often requires magical equipment, universes whose inhabitants lack magic have a difficult time to accurately diagnose patients.

(Note: Patients are often misdiagnosed as depressed or anxious.)

Besides soul screening, no accurate method of diagnosis exists.

What differentiates the stages from another?

Stage 1: The patient's soul is a usual heart-shaped organ. The only difference with a regular soul is that there is a visible white outline inside of the heart. At this stage, the patient is hardly distinguishable from any regular individual. The only thing that could distinguish them would be the unusual pang of pain one would feel sometimes. However, these pains are bearable and are mostly overlooked.

Stage 2: The patient’s soul is an upside-down heart; the presence of the white line can still be seen. The pains that were mentioned earlier get worse by this stage. They get so bad that it is not uncommon for patients to be rendered unable to function properly because of these. They may also display constant signs of distress or general discomfort. Some of their limbs may also cease to function properly temporarily.

Stage 3: The patient’s soul will be shaped like a round target, the white line now more prominent. The pains are now (almost) constant and unbearable, being so bad that patients affected by this pain can be heard screaming or passing out. They will show themselves to be hostile to most people, as well as hot-tempered, defiant and defensive. They are more likely to engage in dangerous behaviors for both themselves and the people around them. Severe signs of distress including, but not exclusive to, self-harm, suicidal tendencies or frequent meltdowns.

Stage 4: Their entire body will hurt as if they were burned alive. They would not be coherent enough to say anything intelligible or be aware of their surroundings. In that state, they do not, or rather cannot, react to external stimuli. Medication does not have any effect on the pain felt by the patient. After 12 hours, the patient succumbs to the disease as their soul, distorted and broken, is unable to provide enough energy to keep their organs functioning.

(Note: There are “in-between” stages that mix the symptoms of two different stages.)

What are the causes of the disease?

Its origins are unknown, though it is not a hereditary disease nor a mutation of a gene. A correlation between the soul state, the body state and the production of serotonin and dopamine (and other hormones of this type) has been established. However, the exact cause and effect relationship between these factors have yet to be determined.

Does a treatment against the disease exist?

No, currently, no treatment can cure the disease. However, reverting a patient to a preceding stage is possible thanks to a consummation of specific dosage of anti-depressants and/or anti-anxiety medications.

Although, this method is rarely employed as the administration of a different dosage than the recommended one threatens the patient’s well-being. This applies to other medications as well, including painkillers.

The environment in which a patient is kept also seems to have a direct effect on the development of the disease. Without the aid of medications, it is possible for a patient to revert to the previous stage if the environment they are in is in favor of recovery.

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Hacker is affected by that disease no matter what AT or AU is used.

Relevance to BTH: During the first two posts of BTH, Hacker was in Stage 1. From Hurt to According to plan, Hacker was in Stage 2.5, closer to Stage 3 than Stage 2.

Relevance to BTH-2: ---

[conkreetmonkey]

Why I was banned from r/curatedtumblr: a very belated explanation/apology post

Before migrating here from Reddit, I used to be a regular participant in r/tumblr as a commenter, then r/curatedtumblr when r/tumblr became unusably bloated with repost bots, and the useless mods did nothing because Reddit's leadership system is dumb and broken. Hence the name, curated tumblr; an r/tumblr replacement that was actually moderated. All of the regulars, including me, migrated there, and now r/tumblr is like 90% karma-farming bots endlessly upvoting each other, presumably so the accounts can later be sold for advertising or political astroturfing purposes. Happens all the time.

I explain this because it's important to understand that a) I was a part of the community for quite a while, and b) r/curatedtumblr was heavily moderated, so as to avoid the mistakes of its predecessor. Fine and dandy.

I was a high schooler at the time, terminally online and working a shitty fast food job to save up for the PC I'm typing this on. Thus, I'd spend the days endlessly interacting with the people on r/curatedtumblr, and the evenings working at a Taco Bell, unable to use my phone until breaktime.

One day, I forget the exact context, but the subject of r/FDS came up, which for those of you who are unaware is a hive of femcels. Named as an acronym for Female Dating Strategy, the sub was infamously sexist towards men, going on about things like "high/low value males" and how men below 6' were inhuman scum and basically doing everything incels do but with the gender roles flipped. And just like incels, everyone there was unaware the real reason The sub featured a nauseating glittery pink colour scheme a la Claire's, and everybody there talked like a popular high school girl in a Nickelodeon movie, all "yaaaaaass queen" "you go girl!" and shit like that.

So this sub comes up, and if memory serves we were shitting on it, or at least I was? Again, the context has been lost to memory, and since the sitewide search tools you used to be able to use to find multiple year old comments have all kicked the bucket, and the Reddit UI for finding old content is stupid and requires you to trudge through the entire histroy of a user chronologically until you find what you're looking for with no option to jump to the desired time period, I'm probably never going to be able to find it. I was making fun of the kind of shit they said on that sub, and I said something like "yass kween dump his low-value ass he only makes 800k a year ur worth more gurl," and then went to work.

Now, I didn't know it at the time, but as I worked, somebody saw the comment and thought I was mocking AAVE. They accused me of being a "4 Chan Nazi." Things kind of snowballed from there. Now, and this is embarassing and I've been hesitant to admit to it, but I'm here to explain and apologize, so:

when I was in high school, I did not know what AAVE meant.

I took offense to being accused of being a Nazi, and I forget what my reply was, but it was snarky towards the accuser, which made me look like a POS. Since I did not know what AAVE was, I did not refute the claim that I was making fun of it, and this made me look really, really bad to anybody who did.

I was then banned for this alleged racism. I looked up what AAVE was, realized I totally did look like a racist in that situation, but rather than fight the allegations, me, being an anxious teenager, instead eternally procrastinated on doing so, afraid of further anger directed at me.

It was a dumb choice to make, because now I'm afraid anybody on here from r/curatedtumblr who remembers those days might still think of me as "that guy who turned racist out of nowhere and then ran off." It's been eating at me for years, so I've decided it's time to rip the bandaid off and finally clear the air. I should have done this a very long time ago.

tl;dr, I made a string of bad decisions that made me look like a racist piece of shit. I could have easily undid this by immediately explaining the situation, but being an anxious, then-internet-inexperienced kid at the time, the sudden social rejection scared me, and I hid from the problem.

I'm sorry. It was a bad move. I never intended to mock AAVE, nor appear as if I was doing so. It's a valid English dialect, it's culturally important, and I respect it and those who speak in it. I apologize to anybody I may have offended by accidentally appearing to imply otherwise.

I hope anybody from those days who still remembers me can find it in their hearts to forgive me. Or they can choose not to, as is their right. I'm not here to beg for forgiveness, I'm here to finally explain things and put them to rest. This is what happened, I am sorry, and I hope you also see it as a poorly-handled misunderstanding and nothing more. I just needed to finally move on from this.

[chukundur]

heyhey welcome zdravey here's a list of my blogs

@chukundur is my main old ass blog from early high school which is now exclusively nature-related reblogs, i also interact from this blog bc i have no choice lole

@leaf-thief is my oc ecology blog where i share pics from my job and museum visits

@takovata-img is my oc photog blog (mostly film) , has some art on there, too

@brimkata is my oc fiber arts blog

@lhomme-et-la-nature has specifically human-animal interactions. i felt like i didnt want people on chukundur

@meem-thief is memes duh

@grezdey is my blog for anything else that doesnt fall in the themes of my other blogs. i try to interact from here and prefer to be tagged as this

yeah its a lot soz hope u find sth interesting

p. s.

i use #death to tag potentially triggering images that include dead animals, predation or the like. please feel free to block if this is not your cup of tea

[askwhispangle]

I thought that whisper was 16?

Canonically, Whisper is 16. Yes. But I'd like to have a head-canon that her anniversary of when she had her first appearance in the Sonic IDW series is also tied to her birthday.

Just an innocent and harmless head-canon, Shark. (⁠ ◡⁠ᴗ◡⁠)

[voyage-inferno]

One of these days my braincell will return to me

Explanation for my lack of activity? A long time discord RP has been revived, and my writing spoons flew to it like they were magnetized. Mix that with normal work and family stuff, and you get a Kes who's maybe not operating at 100% Blog Capacity.

This is not an intentional hiatus, nor am I dropping any threads. I'm just a bit delayed, I'm sorry. Hopefully soon I'll enter a period where I can smash out all the replies and get those up. Thank you for your patience.

[ladynyx-worship]

The reason why I worship or devote the day I choose to Lady Nyx

Thursdays- I was going through the days of the week thinking about which should be spent as a devotional days for her.

I thought Monday meaning moon day was inaccurate while yes the moon is present at night it isn’t always and I thought that day could fit another deity while Lady Nyx worked with another.

Tuesday just didn’t seem like a right fit, I had no other reason but it did not feeling right. Wednesday also didn’t fit her, Wednesday is the middle of the week and just didn’t seem right.

Something was telling me Thursday it was near the end which I felt was fitting, it was also before the last day of the work week which allowed me to look forwards to something.

Friday seemed nice aswell but it’s often associated with scarier things or bad luck during current times, and that day seemed to be more tailored to Aphrodite so I wanted to keep it open for her or Loki.

Saturday just seemed like a wrong fit, something could work better then this day. And Sunday was not chosen because it is meant for the sun, something that ended the night and is more fit for a sun deity.

21- I wanted to give offerings on one day of a month as well for each deity I worship, so I could be put in a routine. I choose the 21st because I was born on the 21st day of a month. Since once I have enough experience I’m going to become a devote of Lady Nyx I thought I should spend a special day to me worshiping her and giving her an offering.

Sorry for the late post I ended up being busy this entire day and just got back on the internet. If your wondering on if I have a offering day to any other deities I do, the 13 for Loki. I still should ask if that’s fine but I think it should be.

[askglitchedfrisk]

Story on Tumblr

Story on Ao3

Designs masterpost

[daemon--404]

@daemon-404's backup blog

I randomly got termed on fucking APRIL FOOLS DAY 2025 only to be reinstated just a few hours later. so here I am. happy fucking april fools to me

[taffywabbit]

they should invent a new type of "staying in bed for 2-3 hours after you wake up repeatedly opening and closing apps on your phone" where it makes you feel awesome and energized and emotionally fulfilled

[countespiral]

so about my next post please DNI if you have any problems or kinks towards the age regression community, NSFW blogs, you all know the drill. I will probably do a side blog for age regression stuff

[mineashthetrash]

LONG ASS POST ABOUT CHAPLAIN ANGELS AU

Been a long time since i posted any physical/traditional art, and that's for a reason- my cameras suck! But i was doing some sketches and planning for chpa and don't have it digitally rendered, so.

I use metallic pens when i sketch, as its both pretty and helps the eyes and details to stand out, helps me remember where they are and recognize them. This sometimes fucks with the camera though, so im sorry but a lot of the colors are either muted or fucked up in other ways. These sketches are about chpa, so i kinda have to fully explain it now. Sorry.

my chpa au shuffles the events of po3 back into OOTS, due to the three all being born in the same litter (or the five, i guess?) It also revamps Starclan into a more, spooky cosmic afterlife inspired by the 'biblically accurate' trend a while back. chpa stands for Chaplain Angels, since the medicine cats still act as a 'chaplain' spiritual guide and connection to 'god' (Starclan), but also take on the appearance of Angels and are direct connections, as opposed to indirect. That is, they take on part of the powers of Starclan, instead of just ferrying vague messages.

This shuffle is actually caused by this, as medicine cats cannot have kits once they're full medicine cats (as in, biologically impossible. there is nothing there). Their body mutates slightly due to the influence of starclan and the direct unfiltered connection to their powers, and its less of a 'vow of celebacy' and more of a 'your body's change makes it impossible'. Lots of medicine cats have kits, but leafpool is the hardest to get around because she wasn't a warrior, or it was before she got her full name, or it wasn't a thing yet (like mothflight). So she cannot give birth to the Three, hence the shuffle.

ALL THIS TO SAY. a lot of shit gets shuffled and changed. Sol actually goes to Windclan, since the three weren't there in thunderclan to influence, and he had no reason to be walking on the Shadowclan border in that moment. Instead, he finds a grieving windclan lead by an irrational leader, and takes advantage of that. Why are they grieving?? FINALLY time for what this piece is actually about!! THISTLEKIT!!! WOO. Dark river happens before the three are born, but they don't really do much in the first few books, so most of its the same. Graystripe and Millie come back, Heatherpaw finds the tunnels still, Thistlekit and their siblings still go into the tunnels and get lost. Except this time, there's no Jaypaw to be guided by Fallenleaves, no five cats to carry them safely through the lake. It takes Heather and Breeze a lot longer to find them, and by that time, Thistlekit is already half dead. Jaypaw isn't there to warm them up and keep them alive until they get home. And even though Rock briefly shows up to make sure they don't die (spirit to spirit connection to Thistlekit, they find the strength to say a few words to Heatherpaw due to her body heat warming them up just enough), the cold of the river quickly kills them for good. Even if they did survive the cold, Breeze and Heather can only grab two of the three by their scruff. Heather tries to keep Thistlekit with her, but they get swept away, washing up to shore later.

All this to say, i killed Beechfur without really looking, considering he shows up for 2 seconds, and made him the spirit guide to Thistlekit. Starclan cats have a spectrum of forms, from the cat form they take to interact with the living, to the incomprehensible form that makes no sense. Their cat form, or 'comprehensible' form, is still a bit weird, but its mostly a cat. Beechfur is weird, because his fur doesn't really look like the grayish bark of a beech. So i gave him eyes the color of beech leaves in LeafFall, which is a beautiful reddish orange. It doesn't show up well in the photos, but i used a pale vermillion mixed with sunny yellow. Then his spirit form was pretty simple, i gave him textured fur (like a rug with patterns shaved into it) like a tree, and some leave accents on his tail and ears, plus a few scattered around his fur.

I also jotted down a few notes about how the afterlife works. Kits in chpa's starclan take the idea of the kits not ageing and uh. changes it. They still age mentally, but instead of always being baby for no reason, they just dont shift forms a lot. They almost always look the same as when they were alive. As much as kits being forever kittens unsettles me, the idea of aging in heaven ALSO unsettles me, so instead the spirits are ageless beings and kittens just. Prefer being a baby. They do mimic the adults by collecting cute and shiny things they like that reflect them, and using them to change their appearance. Thistlekit has a necklace of thistles, which never die or dry out. Intentionally similar to the dried thistle necklace i gave to Heathertail, who lives with the guilt of them dying.

Text: Beechfur observable form - Textured fur, like a shaved rug. Tail & ears are beech leaflets? (the bunches of leaves on a tree; i dont know the term for them)

Text: (arrow pointing from thistlekit (bottom left) to gorsetail (top left)), "same, but paler." Note next to beechfur (top right), "eyes the color of fall beech". (Arrow pointing from sedgewhisker (bottom right) to beechfur), "more muted"

[sunshinem0ths]

club meshis

[a-fable-lost-to-time]

Grian: I've decided to have myself and all the other winners explain our game here so anyone who doesn't know about it can read this,sooo *he takes a breath*

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Grian: Third Life is simple, it was me and some of my friends are put into a death game where we each have three lives. The alliances were Me and Scar as the desert alliance. Bdubs, Cleo, and Tango as the Crastle alliance with impulse acting as a mole for them against dogwarts. Dogwarts was Ren, Martyn, Bigb, Skizz, and Etho, Ren declared himself king, the Flower Husbands were Timmy and Scott, and Joel was by himself. eventually there was a war between dogwarts and everyone else, with me and scar being the mains one opposing them. By the end of it all the final to were me and my scar and we settled it in a brawl to the death in a cactus ring

Scott: ok so my game was called Last Life, each player was given between 2-6 lives, you could give a life away, there was also the boogeyman curse, where if you didn't kill a green or yellow name by the end of a certain amount of time, you would go immediately to your last life. The alliances were, Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss , which is Cleo, Myself and Pearl, The Southlands, which had Impulse, Grian, Jimmy, Martyn and Mumbo. The Fairy Fort, Lizzie, Bigb and Ren , Cleo used to be apart of this but she was betrayed by bigb when he had the curse there was also a shadow alliance with, Martyn, Lizzie, Ren and Bigb. Joel and Scar were technically an alliance but it didn't really seem that way. Joel and Grian were chaotic. Grian unleashed a wither. And in a four way free for all with Pearl , Martyn, and Ren, where ren killed Pearl, Martyn was blown up by his own end crystal, and a zombie killed Ren, I ended up the winner

Pearl: my game is called Double Life, each player had three lives, but they also had a soul mate , if their soulmate took damage so did they, and if the soulmate died they died. the pairs were, Impulse and Bdubs, The Ranchers Jimmy and Tango, Boat Boys Etho and Joel, Scar and Grian, Ren and Bigb. though Bigb and Grian had a secret soulmates thing, they basically cheated on their soulmates. and Then Me and Scott were soulmates and finally Martyn and Cleo were soul mates.. but sense me and Martyn took to long to find our soul mates. Cleo and Scott decided to ditch us for each other. I went kinda crazy and tortured Scott using the soulmate link, i also formed the Broken hearts club with Martyn and Ren.in the end me and scott were the last ones standing and He blew himself up to make me the true winner. oh also tango summoned a warden at one point

Martyn: my game Limited Life was quite different, instead of lives everyone had 24 hours, with each death taking of thirty minutes, and each kill giving the killer an hour, also usually only reds could kill but in my game yellows could kill greens..the boogeyman returns with a twist, if you kill someone you gain two hours and they lose one hour. the alliances were myself and Scott as the mean gills. Tango, Impulse, Etho, and Skizzleman as TIES. there was the clockers/family with Cleo as the mom and Scar and Bdubs as her sons, Etho was the absent father. Pearl and Bigb were the nosy neighbors, and Joel, Jimmy and Grian were the bad boys. In the end it was me, scott and impulse. they were trying to do a fair fighr, but something came over me and i snapped betraying them both, and taking the win

Scar: my game was called Secret Life the lives were back, everyone had thirty hearts but no regen, we could give a heart to one player per session. The game also had secret tasks we had to complete and couldn't tell anyone about , if we succeed we could turn it in to the secret keeper for up to ten hearts and if that would put whoever received it over thirty hearts it would give rewards instead , if we fail we would get nothing. There was also an option to trade for a harder task, if it was succeeded the rewards were doubled, but would take ten hearts. yellows could make you fail if they guessed your task correctly. and if a red killed another play they would get ten hearts the alliances were Gem and the Scott, The Mounders, which included Pearl, Joel, Mumbo and Bdubs. The Big Dogs, Jimmy and Martyn. then there was Etho, Cleo and Grian. The Heart Foundation, Skizz, Tango and Bigb. Then me and Lizzie were by ourselves. Bigb Gaslight everyone. The secret tasks made me do stuff that was considered villianous. Gem opened the end portal, Bdubs killed the dragon. Lizzie threw a party and only her husband showed up. Etho and Grian summoned a warden and wither to fight each other. Gem was the catalyst for an apocalypse that only scott, cleo and grian made it out of. Cleo became a human afterwards. In the end it was me vs pearl and i beat her in a bow and arrow duel to win

Cleo: my game was called Real Life, a handful of us were hooked up to a virtual simulation with the same rules as third lifeand had wires and chips put into us, that made it so if we died in the simulation our bodies would also die. the alliances were myself, Pearl and Scott, with Gem eventually joining. Martyn, Ren and Skizz. and then the red club which consisted of, Jimmy, Grian, Impulse, Scar and Joel, though everyone in that but jimmy died quickly and he started working with bigb . the winner was decided in a 1 v 1 v 1, between myself, Scott and Gem.

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Grian: hope this helps

[n3xus-apparatus]

Oh yeah just a little explanation for my username change; some friends I had a falling out with recently posted my regular one in their discord server without my consent and I didn't want strangers I've never met before to have the ability to find me online casually, anyways back to our regularly scheduled reblogging