TW: Abuse, Trauma, and Mentions of Suicide.
With all that has happened, I did want to come out here and make my stance clear. I will always stand with Shelby (Shubble) and all of the victims who are speaking out against Will Gold (Wilbur Soot). If you still support that bastard, unfollow me and leave my blog and whatever small community I made.
I've already stated this is my Discord channel, but I want to put it here too.
For me, c!Wilbur is so far removed from cc!Wilbur that I don't connect the two. The characters are vessels for my own characterizations and stories. It's a bit like writing Harry Potter, Twilight, or Hazbin Hotel fanfics. I don't support the guy, monetarily or otherwise, he does not interact with fanfics, I have plans to be very vocal that I'm on Shelby's side no matter what/make it clear that what Will did is wrong, and I don't use his real life events as plots in my stories. At least, I certainly don't try to. It's why I typically change traits about the characters. (I.e. Tommy is shorter, Phil is taller, Techno is bulky, and Wilbur always has golden/hazel eyes.)
I'm aware that it's a tad different because it's rp and not something like a full on book or an actor in a movie, but DSMP has also been over for over two years and the characterizations I make for SBI are not at all based on the CCs. Real life Techno isn't a literal terrorist, Phil ain't a father married to a goddess, Tommy is not a traumatized child soldier, and Wilbur isn't suicidal and blowing up countries.
I think I'll likely focus more on Techno, Tommy, and Phil for a while, but I'm not gonna let one dude ruin a fandom and things I've made for myself. Nothing I write is ever made for Wilbur, as I've seen people saying. Additionally, Wilbur was not the only writer. Technoblade, Philza, TommyInnit, and so many others made that story what it was. Not him.
However, if any CCs come forward saying they don't want their old characters interacting with his, I will respect that.
I think there is a tendency to take real life events (i.e. Techno's cancer, LJ's music, Tommy's real life parents, etc.) and put them into fiction about DSMP. I, however, don't try to do that and have stated before that I don't feel comfortable doing so. The truth is that we have not gotten any genuine SBI content outside of DSMP for years. The dynamic in real life is very different from what was presented in the DSMP. Did personalities still bleed over? Yes, I'm not going to deny that, but I'm not going to act like they're exactly the same between character and person either. We've had that conversation like in 2021, it's why we have C! and CC!.
The rather sad truth is, SBI is what got me really into writing and it's a comfort for me that nothing can compare to. Obviously, I don't think it's appropriate to be writing certain types of stories right now and never involving characters outside of the DSMP. I think it's up to everyone else to decide on what they want to do, however, rushing it also isn't the way to go either. Give yourself time to heal and think it over first instead of throwing away something that gives you comfort and has not been associated with by the creators for over two years.
Anyways, fuck Will Gold. Fuck the fact that he hurt so many people, and fuck that he lied and manipulated his way around the damn internet. ESPECIALLY fuck the fact that he tried to diminish what he did and not take proper accountability.
Go and support Shelby so so much, she and everyone who spoke out really deserve it. I'm glad silence on these types of issues is not being normalized.
Here is a list of (American) resources for DV help:
TNLR
RAINN
WOAR
Love is respect
The Trevor project
Futures without violence
National domestic violence hotline
Resource on what DV and abuse looks like
down and out, i've been on the rocks
i've been having some pretty dark thoughts
vulnerability trust betrayal grief isolation relapse death
YES, HI, HELLO AGAIN, SORRY I JUST NEED TO ADD MORE TO THIS BECAUSE REWATCHING TWD MAKES ME TRULY CONTEMPLATE THINGS
ANOTHER THING ID LIKE TO ADD IS IF THEYRE NOT MAKING KILLER A FULL ON SLUT OR NIGHTMARE A FUCKING. HARDCORE DADDY DOM, ITS THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE AND THAT DRIVES ME INSANE.
Like. Ok. It's fine to make the bad guys have a family dynamic I guess, I personally don't really fw it and I don't see it happening. But like, have fun ig. But once again this completely butcherizes Nightmare and killers dynamic AND the perception of them by the fandom.
If killer is not some horny Twink then he's this oh so disturbed character that can't fight back to his boss and he loves cats so much and he's actually an uwu sweetheart or straight up just annoying.
If Nightmare is not being sexualized (weirdly always with him having titties) than he's taking on a "dad" role with the others. And acting almost caring towards his group.
HELL. I'VE SEEN PEOPLE MAKE THE STARS ALL FUCKED UPAND HORRIBLE TO EACH OTHER (Mostly directed towards blue 95% of the time) WHILE THEY MAKE THE BAD GUYS ALL CARING TO EACH OTHER AND SOO LOYAL. AND THAT PISSES ME OFF SO MUCH BECAUSE WHEREEE DID YOU GET THAT. NM DGAF ABOUT THEM!! THE ONLY PERSON HE MIGHT CARE ABOUT WOULD BE KILLER BUT ITD BE FOR HELLA TOXIC REASONS WHICH MAKES IT SO INTERESTING.
I don't mind taking on new in interpretations but at this point it might as well just be swapdreamtale with how they're completely missing the points of each characters.
Anyways back to NIghtkiller, again, the fandom either makes them stray from their original personalitys. And I just. Chat I can't explain how insane it drives me because it's almost irreparable at this point to get people to see them as what they canonically are rather than what fanon turned them to. IDK, maybe it's because I like to make my favorite characters stick close to canon as possible and that's my own fault
Thank you for coming to my Ted talk x2
nightkiller had so much potential but yall had to turn killer into a slutty twink
what about your fav c!clingyduo moment?
this one. x
everyone on r/aita is doing polyamory so wrong and i think they could learn something from tommyinnit. I'm not going to say hes doing it any better but he is being really funny about it
I believe that any alternate realities involving Ink and Error come to them via the dreamscape. By-standing observers, prohibited from participation. True torture….
ink @comyet error @loverofpiggies paperjam @7goodangel gradient @askcomboclub
there is only one person who is allowed to sit on the kitchen counter while you stand at the stove. it smells like spices and the sauce you are stirring, and it sounds like laughing and inside jokes, years old, and neither of you have flinched all day.
c!clingy + healing + food as a love language web weave for @ruffboijuliaburnsides from @pinchhitsfromthevoid!
brooke sager / alai ganuza / soap, the oh hellos / usulua k le guin / my art / eileen myles / laurie lehman / keene wilson / anthony bourdain / christopher citro