"He Hasn't Cared To Share That With Us" Your Point Is Right, But That Phrase Is Literally Just Such A

"He hasn't cared to share that with us" your point is right, but that phrase is literally just such a common excuse for cancel culture and you could have explained your point better. For all we know a video about it is coming and still being prepared since it's a really serious thing, and stuff like that already happened. I'm already thinking for example of projared, who was completely destroyed on the internet for not apologizing for what people thought he did that he was canceled, while he was taking the time to seriously respond to accusations. Just...people need time to reply about stuff this serious, that's really not the excuse to use when theres proof and shit y'know?

Okay, I hear your point, and I get where you’re coming from. It is true that we wouldn’t want him to dash off an apology in three seconds. This is definitely a serious subject that should be discussed with seriousness. And I don’t think you’re entirely wrong to raise this point.

However. I’m going to give you a timeline. The Storytime video was posted on October 24th. Prince Alex’s video was posted on December 12th. He had held off on posting it, partly because of the contract, and partly through anxiety about the whole situation. That’s already a gap of more than a month. And during this time, animators were reaching out to Thomas and Co, and getting no response.

The information began to spread around December 16th. The @storytimediscourse blog was formed on December 17th. This was five days past Alex’s video. Since then, Thomas and Co have communicated with the animators, and the animators received an explanation about the low pay. A week ago, Prince Alex made his video public again, saying that explanations had been given but there was no public apology.

It is currently February 4th. It has been almost two months since Prince Alex’s video. It has been more than three months since the original video.

Yes, maybe Thomas is making a long, extended video about the subject. Maybe the editing situation has held him up. I suppose it’s reasonable to speculate. First of all, I’m not sure I’d like that--such an “apology video” could easily go downhill. I definitely wouldn’t prefer a long-winded video like that. But that’s irrelevant.

The real point is that we’ve seen no evidence of that occurring. Thomas has not mentioned filming such a video. He’s been occupied with Patreon livestreams, the editing issue, and other things--which doesn’t mean he’s too busy to remember, and that we should leave him alone, just that it’s doubtful he’s squeezing in another project on the side.

Furthermore, if he is doing that, that’s still wrong. I’m not trying to make a blanket statement about every situation, but in this case, he needs to handle it better. A long video is fine, I suppose, but it shouldn’t be the first acknowledgment of this in two months. He hasn’t even tweeted about it. He hasn’t apologized to the animators directly. He hasn’t done anything.

Maybe Thomas and Co need time. But this has been a lot of time with no results. How long do you think it takes to make a small video? How long does it take to contact a team of animators? How long does it take to write an apology statement, even a short one, and admit to his mistakes?

All he needs to say is I’m sorry. Look, I’ll even write him a little apology, if he wants to copy-paste it: “Thank you for speaking out about the animator abuse that occurred. I deeply apologize for myself and on behalf of my team. Our budget issues were not an excuse for the way we treated the animators, and we will endeavor to compensate them and apologize to them directly. We will learn from this, and thank you for holding us accountable. A longer video is forthcoming.”

That took me two minutes to write. And it’s probably not the best apology, especially if it’s not backed up by any real change, but it’s a start. And I wrote it in two minutes. And Thomas has an entire team.

“He hasn’t apologized yet” can be an excuse for cancel culture, I’ll give you that. But it’s been two months. It’s been silent. Animators are still left without answers, support, or acknowledgment. We’ve given him time. We’ve gotten nothing. And if we continue to wait, instead of pushing him into action, we’re gonna end up with nothing.

Some of the animators were forced to finish the project in two weeks. If inexperienced animators can finish their work in less than two weeks, Thomas can write an apology in less than two months.

I’m going to say this again, adding shitty warnings that don’t even serve their purpose as warnings after the fact is not praiseworthy, and only adding somewhat proper warnings after someone has straight up said they had a seizure because of it is even less praiseworthy. Stop telling Thomas how amazing he is for adding warnings when we’ve been begging him to warn properly for almost a year now at least. This mentality of Thomas is trying his best and therefore can do no wrong needs to stop because a) even if he was trying his best he would still be capable of fucking up in ways that deserve criticism and that we should be allowed to expect apologies for and b) I find it hard to believe he’s trying his best when he consistently forgets to warn for flashing but consistently remembers to warn for cursing or spoilers. I will be reblogging a post of mine soon that reminds people of just how dangerous seizures can be, even if they don’t require a trip to the hospital, and I might even link it in the reblogs here for good measure because apparently the fandom needs the reminder since so many people are acting like he’s godly for finally adding a somewhat decent warnings when he did.

The events that unfolded over the past 24 hours in Atlanta were not isolated incidents. Hate crimes against Asian Americans have increased nearly 150% in the US in the last year. 

Last June, in the wake up of yet another uprising in hate crimes committed by white supremacists, we released the following statement:

White supremacists, Nazis, and other purveyors of hate can fully fuck off. They are not welcome here.

These words are as true today as they were then. We stand with the Asian American community. If you see hate speech on Tumblr, please report it. That shit is not tolerated here. 

To help the survivors and families of yesterday’s hate crimes, please consider donating to a nonprofit like the Atlanta branch of Asian Americans Advancing Justice if you can. If you can’t, consider spreading the word. We’ll list more resources and reblogs over on @action as we find them.

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The artwork is GORGEOUS. And coupled with the wonderfully-written story...🥰🥰🥰

Character sheets and illustrations for @kieraelieson‘s @ts-storytime Big Bang story, Searching For Home! I’m very, very glad that I jumped in to pinchhit for her, because doing all this art has been an absolute blast. 

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Eucatastrophe [Masterpost]

Here are some facts: All forests are connected. Some stories demand sacrifices. Nature has the strangest tendency towards uncanny symmetry. And none of the Sides are really prepared for a musical, magical, high-fantasy rescue mission, but it looks like that’s what they’re going to have to do anyway.

That is to say - Thomas seems to have been kidnapped by fairies.

Someone should really do something about that.

Hello, squamous friends, and welcome to my submission for this year’s @ts-storytime Big Bang! Now, it’s just possible that I may have gone overboard with this, but in my defense: I was left unsupervised.

many, many thanks to @autisticmight​ for being the BEST beta and pedantic detail research name person (i love u), and to my RL friends, who will probably never see this but still endured an incredible amount of fast-paced fae-lore infodumping at inopportune moments. 

Word count: 99089 words 

Characters: Thomas, Virgil, Janus, Roman, Logan, Patton, Remus, and a whole host of OCs. Joan and Talyn make brief appearances. 

Pairing(s): Mostly gen (with intense platonic DRLAMPT). Background OC/OC. (well. sort of. it’s complicated)

Warnings: swearing, descriptions of panic attacks, something more or less adjacent to a binge-eating episode, mind control, altered mental states, existential panic, unreality, body horror, cosmic horror, light implied/referenced noncon, light fantasy violence, poisoning, suicide and suicide discussion (not re: main/canon character).

Read here on AO3!

Wonderful art by @kakutaberry here! And my Spotify playlist is here, with quite a lot of spoilery songs for the story as a whole. 

Other content:

a selection of freshly-picked memes

early sketches of the mirrors/Eldritch Sides

the song from Chapter Seven

"i understand wanting to have a good plot. but also. you can’t have any kind of plot if it’s too complicated to make at all."

This!!!! So much this thank you so much for saying it! I only just got into Sanders sides last january and it became one of my biggest hyperfixation, but whenever people like me- and excuse me for assuming but also like you- who hyperfixate on something that we get inconsistent content for we're left to focus on the fandom. Which is great but theres only so long you can go without fuel for the fire before you completely lose interest in it whatsoever. I love Thomas, I love the team, I love what they're creating. But they are awful at communicating about something that thousands if not millions of people drop everything for just to see a pic of their favorite character in a skirt. I get that they want to make it as good as it can be and milk it a bit because it did become so big, but if you have to rewatch parts if not all of the series everytime an episode comes out just to remember what the plot is so the new one makes sense? Than that's a sign to step back and reevaluate what the series needs rather than what they're trying to make it be. At its core it is small, made by a small team in a small room- but theyre making it as if they shooting a box office production. If they cant even pay animators properly nor apologize for it afterwards then they really have their eyes on the wrong thing.

Sorry for the long rant I just- it was about the creators and message in the beginning it seems and it should be that way now, but it seems like its moved onto something bigger than they can chew and now they're stuck

YUP YUP YUP YUP YUP!!!!!!! Sanders Sides is my main special interest (I’m autistic), and it has been ever since January 2017. The first episode I can remember watching when it came out was Am I Original. and holy. GOD. there’s such a huge difference in how everything is handled now vs then.

we used to get a new episode every other week, and they were short, but they were SOMETHING. they weren’t emotionally draining. it was just a fun little series with the added bonus of learning about mental health stuff. the day that Anxiety vs Logic came out, I had a recital for college, and I watched it in the library like, two hours before my recital, and it did so much for me. that SINGLE recital was the only one where i didn’t have a panic attack before, during, or after. I used to run away at the last second every time, so that’s like. a BIG deal.

and then it just... slowly started getting further and further apart between episodes. and they got longer and longer. at first, it was like “Awesome!! less content, but higher quality? I’ll take it!” and then it became like. an Event.

It almost feels like getting a new episode now is like a new marvel movie coming out (at least how it was when I watched them), instead of a fun, informative webshow.

and you have absolutely nailed it about having to rewatch each episode to fully understand what’s going on!!! there’s SO many plots, and subplots, and new plots being introduced with each vanilla AND asides episode!!

if they could get a full studio to produce it for them, it would help so, so much. but they DON’T. they need to remember their limits.

I keep going back to red vs blue, but when they started off with 5 dudes in a spare bedroom, they didn’t do anything wild. they were doing machinima in halo. they didn’t add any type of additional animation until season 7, when they’d already begun to establish a company and could afford to hire someone who could do it. and by then, they had a full office, at least a couple dozen employees, another branch coming off of the main company (iirc). thomas and crew don’t have that yet. They’ve been pushing their limits, and that’s FINE, but there comes a time when you can’t push any further. like flying a plane too high in GTA5, it’s going to explode.

i don’t WANT sanders sides to fail. i want it to go on as long as it can, with as good a plot as possible. but they’re just. forgetting how small a team they are. and they need to remember that.