#(goodbye...)

First of all, let me start off by saying that I truly love and appreciate each and every one of you. The support you've given me over the past year has been incredible. We have such an amazing community here and I'm grateful for that each and every day <3

But I can't do this anymore.

I write because I love to write, and it's becoming less of a hobby and more of a stress. I'm always worried that I'm not getting your requests out quick enough or that what I'm writing (imo) is awful. You all have such amazing ideas, and I'm not able to pump out fic after fic really quickly.

Plus I'm pretty sure recently I'm getting shadowbanned.

Mental health is something I've always struggled with, something I've struggled really badly with and I think it's important that we talk about it, because I know I'm not alone in dealing with poor mental health. However posting everyday, pushing through my feelings to try and write is getting increasingly difficult. Having the motivation to eat/drink is hard let alone write fics and proofread them.

Will I come back? Possibly. Maybe in a few weeks/months I may come back. This isn't a decision I've made lightly, and I'm sat here crying about the fact that if I leave, when I come back will anyone still care or am I going to lose this amazing support you've so graciously given me.

I'll still be on tumblr and reading all your fics and supporting you guys, I just don't think I can keep doing what I'm doing right now. I hope you all understand and forgive me.

This isn't really a good bye, it's a see you later <3

~ Pink 💕

RULES:

you cannot directly affect the world outside curly’s mind. that means you can’t manifest yourself into a physical form, physically interact with curly, physically alter the environment, or change fate outside of encouraging curly to act.

you can send curly audial and visual material through links, description, embeds, etc. you cannot manifest physical sensations, taste, or smell (although you can briefly give him a headache through enough caps usage). you cannot affect curly’s real world senses.

curly can tell the difference between what you send him and what’s physically going on around him.

curly typically cannot interact with what you send him. if you send him a video, it will play until the end or until another video starts; he can’t pause it or rewind, can’t click website links, can’t scroll, etc.

curly is not allowed to have definitive proof that he is fictional. if you simply tell him “you’re a video game character” he’ll still respond but he won’t believe you. EDIT: someone found a loophole. curly is now allowed to know that we perceive him as a video game character provided you present it as “we’re from an alternate dimension and in our dimension there’s a game about you” and not as “we’re real and you’re not.”

sex jokes are fine, but i won’t respond in character to anything that i find too explicit, graphic, or otherwise uncomfortable.

try not to send asks concerning historical events that are happening Right Now.

if i think of anything else i’ll add that!

now onto CURLY’S BOUNDARIES. you do not have to abide by these. EDIT: curly is now standing up for his boundaries again :) be proud of him

don’t compare him to food, especially meat, or talk about wanting to eat him.

don’t show him anything depicting meat.

don’t ask him whether he and jimmy were/would ever have been in a relationship.

you can lightly flirt with him, but he will not reciprocate. if you flirt with him in a more overt or sexual manner, or compliment his current appearance, he will not respond well.

don’t send him things depicting fire or explosions, especially without warning him first.

you can bring it up, but he doesn’t like to think too much about the crash or about the pills.

don’t describe ways that the pain could be worse or call his attention to the pain, as this causes him to fixate on these scenarios / struggle to ignore the existing pain.

if you say you are going to touch him in an aggressive or romantic/sexual way he will react badly. at this point he’s so desperate for a hug / any platonic affection that he won’t mind that at all, even if realistically he knows it will hurt.

don’t use all caps at him. it hurts.

if curly thinks of anything else, which will probably happen since many of you enjoy upsetting him, it will be added.

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FAQ:

Does Curly have a favorite color?

No, but he used to pretend it was green so people wouldn’t think he was weird. He stole it from Jimmy.

Does Curly like Chappell Roan?

Maybe a little too much.

How is Curly typing?

He isn’t. He’s thinking. You’re voices in his head.

What are Curly’s favorite books / movies / shows / songs?

Favorite books are the Oz, Tom Sawyer, and Narnia books. Favorite movies are the Back to the Future movies and Brokeback Mountain. He doesn’t watch a lot of shows because it’s hard to keep up with them when he’s in space so often. His favorite songs are inconsistent.

Will Curly feed the Curlings?

No.