Please where is the banquet table you mentioned. I would like a taste.
OH come join us please!!! Feel free to drop in and get a sample, or pull up a seat!
I got....way too into this.
I've been running around madly trying to find mensahbot places and when I couldn't find them, welp, I started building tables and seats. Then started cooking (the slowburns are still in the oven i'm sorry! they will be out soon)
There's lots of variety though so here's the places I've collected to fulfill my passionate need for everything about THEM:
New Tideland: This is my main home for them, because it has the most people and also it as a dedicated mensahbot general channel and then a dedicated mensahbot nsfw channel. These were only made a few months ago when I asked but they're super super active now, especially with the event going on and new people coming in and joining the channels. Lots of fun tropes for them have come out of there like the spussy jokes, BDSM, evil Mensah, the human trafficking AUs...
(Before the channels were made I had a thread for them, which resulted in a super fun Mensah-focused TV Marathon where I had 15 people join at once! I should hold another one with a bingo game. Maybe for Platform Decay pre-release night?)
TMBD 2.0: This is second home! (It's where the March event is from). It's another big discord so questions get lots of answers! I've kind of taken over the shipping channel with Mensahbot because, well, nobody else was using it :P it is a small but mighty channel - with a pleasantly dark slant at times! It's a bit quieter than the others but has fun fresh takes and ideas.
Moistbot: This is the spicy discord and so it has all the spicy channels, of which I enjoy a huge variety of tossing ideas back and forth. Also there is a New Years Event exchange and I was gifted the most beautiful mensahbot fanart of some praise kink. I can't lie, I'm in this discord for very shallow reasons. Like yes yes I love how close they are emotionally and the bond and the trust and the codependency and the mitigated power dynamics and the toxic potential but also, I think they're hot af together (both TV and book). (Especially book).
Murderserver: This is the fun chill laidback quiet server. The others can all move quite fast you know, and I'm left doing delightful backread! This one is a bit more sedate, with a different crowd of people, including some really passionate mensahbot people who are helping me workshop my slowburn fic (okay all the discords are, but this one is the main place? just has the right vibe). They are so enthusiastic and encouraging and also drop mensahbot inspired tunes to enjoy.
Reddit: I've had to work hard at building up a space here! My very first post immediately got a negative comment and even to this day I still tend to get anti comments. They're slowing down though, as I just block and report. People are also beginning to engage more with my posts about them and having lots of fun lovely back and forth conversations together! Primarily in the "weird unlabelled third thing" category which is great because that's my favourite version of them. What are they? Nobody knows! Nobody needs to know! It's not their business!
The tumblr community: At first it was only a handful of people from the NT discord, and now there's so many! I made this community for the selfish purpose of having somewhere that is just content about them that's easier to browse than the tags because it's all verified THEM and no accidental clutter. Ahhh it is so much more successful than I expected.
Oddly wholesome facebook group: This place just be so sweet and wholesome. It's super quiet too, but there's a few regulars and you can have some nice conversations about favourite scenes. They don't really go into a lot of meta or depth over there, but its nice tbh? Just some nice simple enjoyment of them.
And obviously there is the gen AO3 tag and the shippy AO3 tag, for all the reading needs! I've read all the shippy fics. The gen fics is a bit harder because a lot of them are background tags and not the focus of the fic. But that's the joy of this month, fics where they are genuinely the feature and focus!
There have been 49 fics uploaded so far and we aren't even two weeks into the month! They're all so good and on fire, and sooooo much variety. Short ones, long ones, one shots, multi shots, first part of a whole series!!!
And having so many places = so many people to talk to about them = so many different ideas and versions and takes!!! I am. Flourishing. My skin is clear. My sleep is good. My energy is spinning.
