The original characters from the larger game in that universe I had to put on essentially indefinite hold in my head:

Both elevators at my job have been down for two days, meaning I had to haul myself and my bad leg up and down 4 flights of stairs (4 up, 4 down in one roundtrip, done two round trips that have my entire body aching from distributing weight off my bad leg where possible).

what i the fucking transphobia did I just get in my inbox.

Fucker's been blocked, but as a reminder, my games are very openly queer and diverse on purpose because one of my big mottos is to make a world where anyone of any gender, race, sexuality, and abled-bodied-ness can feel like they could see themselves there. That's quite literally the whole point. Do I get it right 100% of the time? I doubt it, but that's at least my goal.

zoneoftreatys / Elizabeth Kegocha is a documented scammer.

some usernames they had previously used to run this scam are foggybouquetsublime, deafeningpaintercat, generalmilkshakepatrol, qualityengineerfest, timinah9, instantnutshark, radhideoutsublime, lazyangellady, furrybouquetdonut, differentballoonjellyfish, cooldeerruins, perfectlyzanyobject, timinah96, coraltyrant, luckypersonafart, unabashedsuitlover, dutifullylegendarymoon, groovywinnernerd, perfectlyhardfan, happilyjoyfulnut, scarletmanticoregrail, royalgladiatorutopia, and hardenemysalad 

https://www.tumblr.com/kyra45/741259579611136000/hey-theres-a-blog-called-timinah9-thats-sent-me

https://www.tumblr.com/scam-alerts/771416018300108800/perfectlyhardfan

this is an archive of zoneoftreatys’ blog on july 6th when they were using a paypal account under the name Hyvonne Bosibori: https://archive.li/LvwjF

this is an archive of another tumblr account, mysteriousmartyrjinx, running a completely different scam but linking to that same exact Hyvonne Bosibori paypal account: https://archive.li/pYNOL

would you mind deleting their scam from your blog, or clearly labeling it as a scam so it doesn't spread to others? please remember you can use the tumblr search box to search the username/paypal account name/text used by people asking for money to check if they’ve been proven to be a scammer

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Mutual aid/aid request are banned from my inbox moving forward. I do not have the time to vet each and everyone that comes through.

My phone: *buzzes with emails*

Me: ...WAIT KO-FI HAD THOSE TIERS PUBLIC??

Luckily, it was just one person, so I refunded that immediately. I'm not posting anywhere near enough to have a membership thing going on. I was just experimenting with Ko-Fi's level systems. Didn't realize it had made those public.

I've yeetus deletused the tiers (and hopefully disabled the one that still has an active member in it. Which Ko-Fi, if I cancel someone's subscription and refund them, it should take them out of it so I can close up shop entirely =_= wtf dude), refunded the one person who signed up, and sent an apology for the confusion.

Pretty slow to be honest, but I don't want to set the precedent that I answer every ask that comes through because I will not be. Generally assume if your ask is not answered:

1- I found the content inappropriate.

There tends to be waves where people send extremely triggering content related to things like severe mental health disorders.

There are also still some people who misgender characters in asks. Those get auto deleted.

There are also people who send shady asks where I can't parse out the intention. For example, there are still people who send asks trying to get Abusive!MC questions answered. Not only do I find this inappropriate, I've already answered that Abusive!MCs for any of the games won't last long. So it's already been answered.

Another example of a shady one recently is someone trying to imply Vivere having romantic attraction to someone who looks like a child when in fact, looking childlike would not encourage romantic feelings in him at all. I get that it might be a language barrier thing preventing them from just saying 'cute', which is why I haven't blocked them. I'm never going to let those asks see the light of day, and if they keep happening, I am going to block them.

2- I've answered the ask before/felt I had nothing else to add to it.

Since the games go through random spikes of higher downloads, sometimes we get a wave of new people who don't look through the blog before sending in an ask that I've already answered.

It could also be that I didn't answer the ask like directly, but I've done enough similar asks that the content should be assumed. See the above Abusive!MC example. That was a type of question that came up frequently around VV's release when Violo's relationship with Heimos began to be sniffed out. I've already answered it in detail.

3- I'm holding onto it for later.

Biggest example of this is the Yandere Alphabet. I got a lot repeat letters, so I'm waiting to see if they get any non-repeat letters before doing a bulk post.

Sometimes I also save asks because I want to be in the right mood to post them. For example, for a while, I held onto a lot of modern!AU asks and bulk posted them when I felt like talking about AUs

It could also be an ask that discusses a spoiler that I'm saving for when the spoiler is public.

4- Tumblr ate it.

If you send a submission and I don't see it. Chances are tumblr ate it. This happens a lot with fanart.

5- Someone violated the rules and kept sending me the same ask over and over.

So they're blocked. End of story. The anti-spam rule is there for a reason. If I didn't have it, I'd still have that one genshin fan account sending me the exact same Venti ask every day.

So in general, I don't answer every single ask that I get immediately. I may never answer them at all. I may get to them eventually. I think I literally held onto one ask for like half a year to 8 months before.

Recently, I've only been answering simple ones that I can respond to pretty quickly because I've been sick (fuckin COVID) + slammed with the work I do to pay the bills. I'm only answering this one in detail because I know I've had a spike of new followers and want to reiterate the ask box rules again.

i was wondering if you would maybe have any advice for the beginning? i'm extremely socially anxious, and perhaps a tad unaware of how to begin the whole "hi i'm making silly games, feel free to play them if you want" process ^^;;

Honestly, get into some game dev servers that have promo channels (look at what I did adjacent stuff) and post in there.

Then, grab whatever social media you want to use and post updates as they happen. Make sure to use the right tags and pray.

if you want to get technical, you can do consistent devlogs, advertisement materials, trailers, etc, but I'll be honest and admit I am an awful role model for advertisement. The only reason why my stuff got anywhere is because I joined jams.

Which jams can help!!