#they banned me from both fucking servers there was extremely private shit in there

[thegardengrows-infrozenrain]

be right back, killing myself.

[aqours-remade]

Thoughts on Pillowfort so far.

I’ll do more posts when the site finally stops crapping all over the bed and works but here’s my analysis so far.

I won’t lie, I discovered tumblr when I was 18 specifically for RPing, so that does to an extent make up a big aspect of my thoughts, and I want to share it with both people who intend to be regular users and roleplayers in general.

Good aspects of pillowfort:

Community system is a feature not given by tumblr or twitter, and in an era where forums are becoming more of a niche if this takes off you’ll be able to experience forum-based interaction in addition to everything else.

Community system also gives a place to users who don’t like interacting with people heavily and so publicly like twitter and tumblr a place to use the site even if their blog itself is relatively untouched.

When you delete an OP post it deletes it from everyone else’s blog too. So if something goes bad with a post or you get embarrassed, blam! Its gone everywhere. Of course, this also means we might lose some good posts now and then...

Able to make reblogs and stuff private like on twitter.

Pillowfort’s TOS protects your intellectual property as an artist.

Built-in blocklist.

You can export your blog to your new pillowfort account.

ToS regarding harassing, callouts, mob mentality and the like specifically exists to oppress kinblr for the most part is very fair and reasonable and is specifically designed to keep the site relatively drama-free and actively punishing those who create lots of problems. People who do not like the drama associated with this website or the feeling of screwing up will be relieved by that.

When it works, the actual system for styling your post basically already has absolutely everything you could already want:

Bad aspects of pillowfort:

THE SITE DOESN’T FUCKING WORK YET YOU CAN’T USE THE WEBSITE IN ITS CURRENT STATE WITHOUT IT CRAPPING OUT EVERY 10 SECONDS.

I’m not saying that to be sarcastic or anything I genuinely cannot recommend the site in its current state until pillowfort’s team can stabilize the servers. As it is I can only recommend it if you’re determined to snag a good canon url now. It has a small anime community (rn its mostly Marvel) and not too much of a gaming community yet so... if it does take off now’s your chance to snag one-word name urls and just kinda bide your time until its actually functioning, that’s certainly an idea. I’m very happy I was able to get the dream url there that I wasn’t able to get here... but with the site Error 500ing me so much I can’t really use it.

We‘re still not 100% what the NSFW situation actually is, as the TOS is vague and there are conflicting beliefs about what .io’s policy on NSFW actually is. If you’re coming SPECIFICALLY because of the NSFW ban that’s going to be implemented I would encourage you to wait until we have 100% confirmation. Personally I like it already enough even if tumblr were to reverse the situation I think I’d use this place. I think Pillowfort really needs to come clear about this very soon, because if they don’t and people learn that “oh we can’t host NSFW after all,” despite claiming it a lot of people are gonna want their money back or at least wait until its free to use. The general belief is that as long as you don’t post NSFW in tags that doesn’t belong (like porn in #gardening) then it should be fine... so they say. We really need pillowfort to address people’s concerns, even though I think it’ll be fine, as this is a major reason why people are considering the move. The staff of pillowfort have said on twitter that they are in the process of finding a new domain. As such, as of this moment, pillowfort does not allow for nsfw. However, it will in the future. The best thing to do is be patient until then, I think the goods outweight hte bads.

Even though it’ll go away in 2019 you kinda. Gotta pay to use it right now. That’s kind of a thing.

No sideblog feature nor do I believe its planned, but I do believe the pillowfort team wants a system like the twitter app to quickly switch between full blogs.

While some people might consider this a plus, being able to add onto a post with text or photos has been a staple of both tumblr and twitter since the beginning. I see this changing as a major factor of whether or not people make the big move.

MCU, Detroit Become Human, Supernatural, and apparently hockey (and maybe Overwatch?) are the only big fandoms right now. While that already appeals to a lot of people, those of us into anime and the like have relatively few blogs from what we’ve seen. While this might change as time goes on, at least for the time being, anime and video game bloggers aren’t gonna have a lot for us. On the other hand, though? This also gives you the opportunity to make your claim as a fandom content creator.

Inability to make Communities private (right now) leaves that at potential risks of being raided.

(Minor) No custom themes it looks like, but that might be fore the better in the same vain? In your blog desc you can still link to other sites so now might be a good time to get used to listography instead of relying on custom links. To an extent you can control the colors of your blog though. Some people who hate eye-strainy themes on here or autodirect themes might actually find this a plus.

(Minor/Niche) Blogs themselves are bad for RPing if you’re into that. The forums however seem to provide an adequate place for forum-based RPing. But this would also make forum administrators responsible for upholding standards like “not jumping into other people’s RPs” and basic RP etiquette we have here. And forum-based rping would make finding RP partners outside of tags like #anime rp, #indie rp, etc to find people’s promos easier, depending on which becomes more popular. Even if you can add onto posts if you can’t trim the posts like we can on here (ty x-kit) it’d result in extremely long threads that would clog the dashboard significantly. I personally HIGHLY doubt the ability to edit other people’s posts or cut out replies will ever be a thing, so chances are RPing on pillowfort are gonna be Community-oriented and not on dash. At most people will make IC posts meant to be replied to and the like and headcanon memes while keeping actually threading in Communities, which will very well rely on the Community itself to be Not Shit.

Lacks instant messaging in its current state.

Despite the fact the bad really outweighs the good... I liked what little I could do. It genuinely feels like the only “true” tumblr alternative out there, even though its in beta. I just can’t really say much until the servers stabilize. This website is still in beta, so of course it has a lot of issues to work out, and of course it doesn’t have all the features this 11+ year old website has. I’m just stating these so people who are making the move who used this as their main website are aware of that.

I’m very excited to see this website grow, though!

[zucca101]

Transcript with a once-friend

Made on a Discord Server in the room meant for airing out frustrations, grievances and the like.

The names have been changed to protect the ones involved, and if you know who the names are (They’re historical ones!) without googling them, then you win a history star!

Minucius Rufus and I had long been friends until the election, where they inferred nothing short of the absolute  worst in a strawmanning to end all.

In fact, I suspect Rufus to be the mystery anon who kept trying to bait me into saying what they, in their mind, think everyone to the Right of Stalin says.

So Rufus and I made up afterwards and things were dandy, up until Trump’s transsexual ban in the military. The thing whose unilateral nature I disagreed with. Rufus KNEW I disagreed with it. Didn’t stop them from ripping into me since, I assume due to treating anyone to the Right of Mao as absolute dirt, they don’t know anyone else who isn’t Leftist.

It was to Rufus who I was responding with those long posts some time ago back in July.

So, worrying that someone else in the server recognized Rufus, I urged others on the server not to make a fuss.

Zucca Xerfantes-07/27/2017

Need to air something out. There is bad blood between myself and another member of the server, but I give my solemn vow that I will not drag any drama into any of the rooms. It is an unfortunate disagreement and I kindly ask of them to observe the same courtesy and ask of any who know the nature of the disagreement not to bring it in either. Thank you all and love y'all!

To which Rufus responded by making a fuss... X_X

Minucius Rufus-07/27/2017

You're literally the only one dragging it outside private messages to begin with, my guy.

Quintus Fabius Maximus, a very good friend of mine, responded by saying he knew nothing of it.

Quintus Fabius Maximus-07/27/2017

Yeah, I literally didn't know anything about it until you mentioned it.

Although I hope both of you are doing alright, I like all of ya.

Zucca Xerfantes-07/27/2017

There's a few others who are aware and my intent was to issue a blanket statement so as not to name names. Regardless, this is the very last I'll speak of it here.

Zucca Xerfantes-07/27/2017

At any rate... how about them Lakers?

August 23, 2017

Zucca Xerfantes-Today at 11:06 AM

http://ktvl.com/news/local/anti-fascist-vandalism-at-greenhorn-park

This... REALLY pissed me off...

This happened in a dear friend's hometown. He can personally attest, the outdoor museum has nothing to do with the Civil War era, slavery or the like

It was just someplace the little fascist bastards could get to easily >_<

Minucius Rufus-Today at 11:36 AM

looks legit alright, just like "blacks rule" smfh

Could you have found a more obvious false flag?

Oh wait, never mind, you probably thought that particular occasion was real too because after chasing away every last friend of color with your rabid support for the cheeto in charge, you wouldn't even know that no one would legitimately spraypaint this in public and mean it.

Zucca Xerfantes-Today at 11:43 AM

Minucius Rufus, we don't have to get along and interact, but don't lie about me.

Minucius Rufus-Today at 11:44 AM

It was all over your own damn blog, don't lie.

Zucca Xerfantes-Today at 11:46 AM

I'm just venting here. And if you want proof I haven't, as you lied, 'chased away my friends of color', then I can link you to the DA pages of my IRL friends of African, Filipino and Japanese descent.

You're the one who's lying. Neutrality on Trump does not equal support unless you're a cultist of one extreme or another

Minucius Rufus-Today at 11:47 AM

Neutrality? https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/rbz5bnvfgwufqkz/zucca1.png

Looks neutral, alright. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/bwgq14047q2jiet/zucca2.png

Zucca Xerfantes-Today at 11:49 AM

It tickles me that he upsets the Establishment on both sides but that's about it, Minucius. And between him and Hillary, I selected the lesser of two evils

I just needed to vent about Fascist "Anti"fa tearing up my friend's childhood memories at the Pioneer outdoor museum. That's all

Zucca Xerfantes-Today at 11:51 AM

But I refuse to be your personal straw man. Good day

Minucius Rufus-Today at 11:51 AM

Don't fucking present obvious false flags as real. You're the one who's lying here.

Zucca Xerfantes-Today at 11:51 AM

I said good day.

Quintus Fabius Maximus-Today at 11:52 AM

Come on, I'm sure nobody here is like, literally evil, come on

Minucius Rufus-Today at 11:52 AM

Supporting the fascist in charge at this point is close enough.

Quintus Fabius Maximus-Today at 11:53 AM

That's a really strong statement considering more or less half of the country voted for him

Minucius Rufus-Today at 11:53 AM

I'm sorry, I'm not going to tolerate someone who legitimately thinks the man who refers to neo-nazis as "fine people" or who equates pushback against them to "violence from all sides" is a good person.

I don't care. Half of Germany also voted for Hitler in 1933, did that make him a good person?(edited)

Quintus Fabius Maximus-Today at 11:54 AM

Well, Germany was in a really bad financial spot allowing Hitler's rise to power, do you really think half of Germany wanted to kill Jews?

Minucius Rufus-Today at 11:55 AM

Read that sentence again with your own damn eyes.

Quintus Fabius Maximus-Today at 11:56 AM

Seriously, come on. You're just assuming a lot about people.

Minucius Rufus-Today at 11:57 AM

Of course he didn't get elected on a platform of "let's literally murder all Jewish people," but what he did get elected on was scapegoating them for Germany's economic trouble (gee, sound familiar), and not to mention? It's been half a year since that orange fuck has been in power, three quarters of one since the election. People have seen what he stands for, and while not every single person who voted for him is terrible perhaps, if you still support him at this point?(edited)

Yeah, no. Stay the fuck away from me.

Truth is not a democracy, and neither is what's morally the right thing to do. Never was, never will be.

Quintus Fabius Maximus-Today at 12:00 PM

Well on the bright side, maybe Civil War 2 will resolve things.

Minucius Rufus-Today at 12:07 PM

Like, fuck. Don't even ask me, ask a goddamn Holocaust survivor about this shit if they're willing to share.

Quintus Fabius Maximus-Today at 12:08 PM

At this point I just think most people are getting tired of being compared to literal Nazis and we'll actually get a civil war 2. :c

Minucius Rufus-Today at 12:09 PM

It's the same shit we've seen before, the same desire to cull "undesirables" for the sake of maximizing productivity, the same valuing wealth over people's lives, the same equating people fighting for equal rights with terror groups ("BLM is just like the KKK!")

People are being compared to nazis because they support the same shit the nazis did.

It's that simple.

And that’s how I spent part of my lunch break. >_>

Again I urge, and again Rufus will claim I’m siccing people on them because I’m not conforming to their fantasy situation of being the heroic non-Nazi vs. The Nazi, NOT to go after them in any capacity.

You don’t win battles of ideas with bullying.

[arvoze]

man, this was sent like, nearly 2 weeks ago or w/e, and i completely ignored it bc i didnt have the energy/ability to care (you literally sent these when it was between 1 - 2am my time) but, it was recently brought to my attn that you put both me + lal in your byf (because i.... banned you from a server i guess, and that means lals at fault too?) so.

i guess it’s high time i answer this lmao. maybe you wont even see this. maybe youll vague abt me for the next few weeks and try and make me out to be a bad person, but i dont care lol. anyways this is under a cut bc its pointless drama i guess. ask 2 tag

additionally: this isnt rly meant to act as a callout post. but since u asked on anon (and im pretty sure we’re mutually blocked) i cant really talk about this privately. this is mostly just.. well. answering your question. ive written this little paragraph after i’ve written everything below, so like, idk dude, it happens sometimes, i get rly heated abt shit and then cool down after a while. so this is wild.

edit: i havent read this thru nor do i care about reading it through. are there a bunch of typos? probably. dont care though

i dont rly have the energy to pull up Everything esp because that lke.... requires going thru so many discord messages adn i really just. dont care enough to sift through everything

“but if u dont care why are you writing this” shut up u wanted answers didnt u lol

nyways heres just . some shit lmao

man firstly let’s deal w your post abt my server

+ dont worry! ive got it archived in case u delete it bc who knows what ud do lol. nyways

lets just do some breakin apart on this:

i was lterally shaking at the time and having my OWN panic issues but i guess you dont rly take that into consideration lol?

this is one of the biggest exaggerations like ... you made it sound like the server was some big special place jdfghdkj theres literally 4 mods and 2 of them didnt even talk to you. the other 2 were me and lal

like half of the server isnt even fucken active on the server and the majority of the other half dont even care about unfollowing/blocking u. what a wild assumption. thts the funniest shit 2 me

please you literally sent me 3 asks when it was way too early in the morning 4 me expecting me to reply as if it was possible for me to give u all the reasons in like 10 minutes jesus christ

ths is one of the ugliest posts ive ever seen + this was posted before you were banned frm the server. several ppl in the server have bpd + i was absolutely not willing to have smeone who says this sht abt their illnesses around (re: the whole “not actively in therapy” and shit. fuck off lol)

here’s some other stuff on my list that you might remember:

(kin stuff) being fully aware that my brother wasn’t - and still isn’t - okay with doubles with a specific character, and that you were specifically warned whilst he was offline, and you knew this was the case, yet decided that your best way of explaining something was..... fuck dude, whats the wording you used? “i’d say but some people here aren’t ok with doubles” or some shit which is! literally just as bad! and tht shit has fucked my bro up so severely tht he still fuckn..... thinks abt + the shit uve said In General (shrugging emoji)

heres a fucken wild ride for u: ur the reason he left th server anyways and why the second i banned u i was immediately happy because holy shit i can talk to my bro again bc i could invite him back! to a chat where he doesnt have to deal w someone who causes him constant panic attacks! wowee

lets not forget me expressing my extreme distaste of lying [person] + r.idged.og + ridg.epho.s but u completely ignoring that shit (+ wowie remember when u said lying was yr friend and that you didnt like me venting negatively abt them bc my nasty experiences r somehow less important than ?? tht shit??? lol anyways)

god the entire fucking drama w the lying shit . i cant believe i was on yr side for a while jdfghkj. that whole fiasco was so shitty. nyways thts nothing to do w me its just something that made so many ppl uncomfy

remember when you left the lying chat and then vented to us about shit but then rejoined the lying chat unbeknownst to us + caused shit again (surprise, i know about that)

you, generally, made several people uncomfortable (myself included), and as the owner of the server, i’d much rather kick one person from the server than have several people being uncomfortable. but if that’s an unreasonable thing to do then please, inform me, because that’s news to me.

whilst i dont support alex or alex’s partner in any way, shape or form (before u try and call me a fucken apologist/supporter/whatever lol), the blatant deliberate misgendering of alex’s partner on your byf was extremely shitty of you (which has since been fixed, but yikes).

(kin stuff) pretending to not be a double around lal, knowing he’s not comfortable with doubles (which, maybe you’re not! but given you’re kin w mc.ree + got that in your byf, and don’t have anything abt not follwing if ur x.phos in ur byf...... boyo)

god theres more but im not willing to dig up all the shit + also dont want to ask other ppl about their personal problems bc thats exposing them to a past/experience they probably want to forget about/never revisit

if u found this? congratulations. you got your answers.

if ur gonna vague abt me? go ahead. i dont really see what ive done wrong lmao.

also, re: why i didn’t tell you anything at all,

i was having a panic attack and almost throwing up

i kept trying to find reasons to keep you in the server, because i didn’t want problems to arise

i will literally never talk to ppl abt this kinda shit privately bc i dont want people to feel bad but 2 late