#ooc psa

this is semi in response to a recent ask sent to @/nightsarge but also just based on things i've seen since joining the pittblr rp community. i sorta made an in character post about it a while back but feel the need to say it again.

please be mindful of what you send to us. sending asks hating on the ships we choose to portray (many of which are headcanons, involve ocs, or straight up just because we feel like it) or the ways our characters ask, or, god forbid, telling us to kill ourselves. even if its directed to the characters and not the people behind the blogs, those things can hurt. a lot of us, especially those with ocs, are portraying characters similar to our real life personalities or the people we want to be like. i know i do. and when someone shared a screenshot of an ask they received that said all the pedes nurses were really annoying? that honestly genuinely upset me. (for context i am also the person behind @baldysbasicbitch, who is a pedes nurse) because fiadh, and even dylan (who atp is basically an oc) are based on aspects of my own personality.

also some of the asks yall send are straight up weird and bordering on creepy. stop thirsting for @/robinavitch-rx unless you are @/nightsarge or @/farmer-turned-doctor. i dont want to see whole ass thirst messages when i come onto tumblr for fun. thats weird. im genuinely concerned for you whoever talked about bathing with @/sammyvitch.

please remember that we are real people with real feelings.

Hi there, it's me, BackSet, your favorite gender-fluid sorta lesbian with too many characters. I come to you today with a message: please read people's pinned posts. Like, for real, this is super important. Not only is it polite and serves as an introduction to the character you're interacting with, it's also essential for a safe and healthy rp environment.

While this isn't always the case, pinned posts will often include vital information about not just the character, but the person playing them as well. This can include their personal rules for their blog, whether they're okay with suggestive or nsfw content, whether they're a minor or an adult, and other information that should be taken into account while Roleplaying. And it's not just about respecting the other person's boundaries (though that is super important), this goes both ways. Reading someone's pinned post can help you figure out if you want to interact with them. Oftentimes pinned posts will include a list of potentially triggering subjects that might crop up in rp with them.

The government is actually trying to require age verification for you to use literally ANY OPERATING SYSTEM. That means Linux too.

They want you to give them your date of birth to use your computer.

Keep an eye on the bills. Start yelling at your local representatives. If this goes through, another massive vulnerability will be created for your information.

It is shockingly likely that this is so we have to give them our whole ID.

This isn't about protecting kids. This is about mass surveillance.

Hey, y'all! Give this post a like if you're okay with Lucas here:

Riding piggyback on your (mostly girl) muses, either of my choice or your suggestion.

Hugging your muse in a cuddle

Maybe ask for a little spar.

Delivering a little quip.

In addition, you have my permission to:

Barge into your inbox for the reasons above.

Jump into your DMs for potential plotting.

Tagging you in starters or ask games.

Mention you in IC posts.

Sketching your muse with mine.

I'll try not to be too much of a pest to y'all.

Here's some info:

Muse

Rules (Remember to Read First)

AUs

I’ve have had my fair share of thoughts about this whole entire situation and I guess it’s my turn to show my side I suppose that I have chosen on this whole thing. If you do not agree with me on my view point on this, do not send hate to me or my other accounts.

Anyway im sure you know of the whole situation that has been brought up again now that the band is now on tour. To recap, a user had brought up that Justin Taylor had supposedly groped their backside while at a meet of Drag Talk. There was only one picture (that I am aware of) and I had looked closely at it. I did not see any sort of indication that Taylor had his hand raised while on the person in the picture. But I would like to think hypothetically.

What if Taylor did touch the victim? There were other people who would have seen it happen and called him out immediately. Especially with now his name open in the cast of the nameless ghouls and being in the drag community. With my understanding of the drag community…they are extremely protective of minors. If word go out of this, then they would tear him up. I’m not saying that they have or they asked him. But with his name being a largely known figure for the band Ghost, surely Tobias Forge would have been notified and he would of not of been in the music videos or on the first three concerts of the tour. Forge knows that young people, even minors, show up at his concerts. He wouldn’t want to risk someone who actually touched a minor.

Second, I believe the instances are innocent until proven guilty. From my knowledge that a few other people have brought up, there are a lot of holes in this case. I have heard from a few posts that the picture was not as recent as we thought or the whole situation happened way after the night it did happen and it’s so conveniently timed. I get that if something like this does happen to a person, they will hide it until they are ready. I’ve been sexually abused online before and I still haven’t been fully recovered or out with what happened. I also have seen the minor was not actually a minor but someone who was 18, or the people wanting to stop Taylor are 18.

In the eyes of consent, 18 is the lowest age that a people can have sex legally, sell explicit pictures legally, preform in strip clubs legally and much more. Does it make it any better that Taylor (someone who is more than half their age) touched an 18 year old? No but it’s legal in the eyes of the law. While it is gross, it’s still legal.

Here is what I thought that happened. I think the user felt his arm or wrist brush against their backside. Having them feel that would make anyone startle and make their brain kick into over drive. Maybe there was actually a lot of people at the event and someone bumped into them?

But these are my thoughts on this whole situation. People sending out death threats to Taylor, Cos, Olivia, Per, Mad or Forge are probably the most foul. They know Taylor better than we do. For us, he is just a guy. But to them, he is their friend. People who say they are fans of Ghost and then do this…honestly it rubs me the wrong way.

Just a reminder not to send NSFW / inappropriate asks to this blog (or any of the other RP blogs unless it’s specifically stated by the person that they’re ok with it). I’ve seen this happen twice now — with another player in this group & now with myself. We are just fans of the show having fun with exploring our favorite characters and interacting with the “Ghosts” fandom community.

While I am an adult, there are many readers of these blogs that are underage; so please keep everything TV-14 at most, as that’s the rating of the show.