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It’s sad that toxic game culture is so prevalent cuz like. As someone who has ended up in random matches with kids before, I can attest to how fucking easy it is to reverse and un-teach shitty attitudes in kids.

Example: I downloaded Friday the 13th because it’s free on psn. I dunno how to play, so I just enter quick play and I’m matched with 3-4 kids on mic. Immediately on mic they’re shitty and disparaging to each other. They laugh at each others deaths, they actively work against team mates and self sabotage, they call each other “fags”, etc. From the sounds of the voices they cannot be older than 13-14.

I put on my mic and just decide I ain’t havin it. I am nice. I thank them for barricading doors or leaving me items. When they break free from Jason’s grasp I say “good job!” or I try to help them. One kid survived for most of the match by himself. When he dies, I tell him he did a fantastic job.

The mood shift is practically INSTANT. These kids almost immediately stop being dick heads. They start encouraging each other and being kind. After the match all of them try to friend request me. Which should tell you a couple of things:

A) kids want to be kind, and they want to have a nice time playing games. But encounters with adults like me or so rare that they’ve trained themselves to instantly put on a toxic, shitty, defensive veneer when encountering any new person online. It’s literally just THAT EASY to not groom a horrible gaming community, it’s just that NO ONE does it.

B) the speed of which they all tried to friend me was cute, but paints for me such a sad picture? Like these kids are SO desperate to find people to play with who aren’t crappy jerks. They played with me for 10 minutes TOPS and all instantly tried to reach out to me.

tl;dr: The kids are alright. Adults are shit heads.

my commissions are almost always open! my pricing is pinned on here and also on my carrd under commission info!

in totally unrelated news, i happen to be an artist with my commissions open

if you're an artist, drop your commission info in a reblog! now's no time to panic; we've got to help each other more than ever!

this is the first full piece i’ve drawn in literal months: featured in the drawing is a cat named Lichen, who is an enby cat! [belongs to Overlord Tofu]

I’m the Peasant Artist willow, and this is my first post here! if you found it, I’m happy you’re here!

This account will be co-managed by two mods! Me, referred to as PAW when I’m the one posting in the tags, and Overlord Tofu [Just referred to as Overlord Tofu in tags lol]

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Do you know anything i can donate to for palestine that's not the gofundmes because the idea of having to choose who needs my money more is just. scary to me they all need it 3: maybe there's a thing that splits/distributes money evenly???? idk but help would be appreciated

Gazafunds actually deals with this anxiety and makes a decision for you if you want. Their home page has a spotlighted fundraiser and the code consider things like how close the gfm is to finishing, when the most recent donation is, etc. So it's randomized to help as many people as possible.

There's also @helpgazachildren which if you donate, you can help multiple people at once since it's a whole mutual aid fund, or at least close to it. Hussam distributes money to people who need it when he's asked.

I literally block like 5 bots a day at the LEAST and we're not that active yet lmao. PLEASE have something in your bio, at least!

- Peasant Artist Willow

 HEY! If you’re new to tumblr, get a pfp right away, and throw something in your bio. With the bot problem right now, anyone without one is likely to get blocked just out of reflex. Make it obvious that you’re not a bot!

That post about death note being "everyone's first anime" (untrue statement) made me curious and now I want to gather data for science

Can you reblog this and tell me where are you from and what was your starter anime?

that is strange! i don't think she's a point then, i think she probably just has some cool tinted white spotting, though i'm not sure it can actually blend like that?? lol

made these studying cat genetics over the past 2 weeks!

i felt like there weren't enough visual guides of cat genetics so i went ahead and made some simple ones, my main references were Sparrow's Garden the website, Sparrow's Garden the blog, Messybeast, and The Little Carnivore.

You want to call your House rep now and tell them Trump needs to be impeached immediately for defying a Supreme Court order (re: Kilmar Abrego Garcia), which functionally voids our constitution and means no one in America has rights anymore.

I am not exaggerating.

As of now, anybody can be disappeared, no due process, no recourse. Trump is openly disregarding a Supreme Court order and says he’ll send US citizens to El Salvador.

This is not a drill.

Call your House rep and tell them they must impeach. Tell them if they cannot bring themselves to impeach, they must resign. A more open and shut case to impeach is not possible. Trump and his administration are saying openly, in public, that anybody can be kidnapped by ICE, even in error, and disappeared permanently.

Call your senators, too, and tell them to support impeachment (it goes to them once it passes a majority House vote).

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they gay allos!! mine is wallflower, and tofu’s is paintbrush! i love them so much i stayed up until 8am finishing that drawing it was for a context in a server we play in for pride month, and i’m pretty happy with it despite it being rushed

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Tofu and i have been playing a bunch of Rain world lately! i'm the banana slugcat, she's the white one. The lizard's name is Frills!

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