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So ive been getting these asks over and over in my inbox so, thank you to @nortsauce and @flygutzz for helping me work this question out!

Tommy would be similar to og quest, devastated. Even more so considering he has two brothers with the blot now. He helps out where he can but hes just a kid at the end of the day

Boris and bendy are the new ones. At first when they reunite, they have no idea sinny has the blot. I imagine sinny tried to hide it considering he did the same in quest with felix. But he cant hide it forever.

Boris is of course devastated finding this out. He was already wracked with guilt leaving tommy and sinny to fend for themselves (will get more into this in another post) but now with sinny’s development of the blot he feels just awful having left them alone for so long. He tries to make it up to him but ultimately just comes off has him babying. Which of course sinny doesnt like. He’s got good intentions but sinny has his pride.

Bendy is a different story on the other hand. He wouldn’t baby sinny, he wouldn’t dote on sinny, in fact.

He avoids him. He knows how the blot is, he’s known people with the blot and he knows how little can be done about it. He knows the fatality of this curse he knows they are on a time limit. He’s focused on getting the map, hes focused on living. He loves his little brother but sinny doesnt have the same mentality bendy has. And it gets exhausting to hear.. well let me just show you.

Bendy leaves the table.

“Bendy is. A complicated man.” -nort

Poseidon art is by @neal-illustrator

I am once again begging people to realize that AI checker doesn’t work. it’s never worked. it’s notoriously known to have flagged human-made works as AI and AI-generated works as human-made. and by feeding it people’s works, you are feeding more works to AI, because apparently the machine itself is AI.

I am once again begging people to realize that AI checker doesn’t work. it’s never worked. it’s notoriously known to have flagged human-made works as AI and AI-generated works as human-made. and by feeding it people’s works, you are feeding more works to AI, because apparently the machine itself is AI.

Earlier today, I served as the “young woman’s voice” in a panel of local experts at a Girl Scouts speaking event. One question for the panel was something to the effect of, “Should parents read their daughter’s texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?”

I was surprised when the first panelist answered the question as if it were about cyberbullying. The adult audience nodded sagely as she spoke about the importance of protecting children online.

I reached for the microphone next. I said, “As far as reading your child’s texts or logging into their social media profiles, I would say 99.9% of the time, do not do that.”

Looks of total shock answered me. I actually saw heads jerk back in surprise. Even some of my fellow panelists blinked.

Everyone stared as I explained that going behind a child’s back in such a way severs the bond of trust with the parent. When I said, “This is the most effective way to ensure that your child never tells you anything,” it was like I’d delivered a revelation.

It’s easy to talk about the disconnect between the old and the young, but I don’t think I’d ever been so slapped in the face by the reality of it. It was clear that for most of the parents I spoke to, the idea of such actions as a violation had never occurred to them at all.

Around age 13, I tried to express to my mother that I thought I might have clinical depression, and she snapped at me “not to joke about things like that.” I stopped telling my mother when I felt depressed.

Around age 15, I caught my mother reading my diary. She confessed that any time she saw me write in my diary, she would sneak into my room and read it, because I only wrote when I was upset. I stopped keeping a diary.

Around age 18, I had an emotional breakdown while on vacation because I didn’t want to go to college. I ended up seeing a therapist for - surprise surprise - depression.

Around age 21, I spoke on this panel with my mother in the audience, and afterwards I mentioned the diary incident to her with respect to this particular Q&A. Her eyes welled up, and she said, “You know I read those because I was worried you were depressed and going to hurt yourself, right?”

TL;DR: When you invade your child’s privacy, you communicate three things:

You do not respect their rights as an individual.

You do not trust them to navigate problems or seek help on their own.

You probably haven’t been listening to them.

We already know that he would “shrink” under the gaze of the elders of heaven, who’s to say that he wouldn’t run and hide too?