#ss discourse

Look, I just saw a pretty bad take. So I’m gonna remind everyone that Thomas is, in fact, a grown adult, as are his friends, and that obviously they all swear from time to time. It’s okay if you’re not cool with that, that’s why he censors them. But don’t be entitled and act like a parent and tell him to stop like you have any authority to do so. If it gets you too uncomfortable, just stop watching! Simple! But don’t rain on our collective parade. We’re all here to have a good time.

EDIT: This goes as to the content itself as well. I don’t understand why people say that the amount of people in the TS Team is hurting the quality. I mean, if not for Talyn, we wouldn’t have the awesome Virgil eyeshadow that’s integral to his image now. Or Joan, who is basically the second in command at the series. And without the help of everyone else, Quil, Adri, Cam, etc., we’d not only probably miss out on some of the parts that require higher coordination, like booking the Selfishness vs Selflessness courtroom or the green screen for the Duke’s song, but also a lot of the funniest content on the TS&F channel (Stress to Impress, anyone?). So yeah, don’t try it. I will probably go down trying to defend Thomas and his team till the day I die lol

If you cannot be civil while voicing your disagreement with one another please just end the conversation. I'm getting tired of seeing posts that are just people bickering and getting hateful when there's really no need for it at all.

I think the way softestvirgil acts around people making deceit sympathetic and shipping him is entirely inappropriate. 

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. And there will always be people who say “I don’t like that ship”. Hell, I know someone who doesn’t like Logicality.

But do they go out of their way to ruin the fun of Logicality shippers? No. They keep it to themselves and avoid Logicality content.

Now, don’t misunderstand, I totally get that Virgil likes to see Deceit as he is canonically; the villain. I get they don’t ship him with anyone. That’s fine, I don’t care about that. They can do what they want. 

But they’re a big blog. One of the biggest in the fandom if I recall, and they have a lot of influence. 

As someone who likes to see Deceit in every light, and someone who likes to ship him with the others, when I see posts that started out as harmless fun turn into “Gross, no, I don’t ship Deceit so stop it” I feel like that’s saying “Anyone who ships the villain with the others is wrong and disgusting”. 

As I said, Virgil has a really popular blog. It’s inevitable that people are going to comment things they don’t agree with. Does that mean they have to read those things and reply? Of course not. Even I get comments/reblogs I don’t like, but I don’t respond unless it has something to do with an exclusionist or a (insert identity)phobe. It’s a lot easier to just keep scrolling than it is to take the time to write a comment, not to mention less stressful because idk about y’all but that kind of thing always gives me anxiety. 

If they were genuinely triggered by Deceit, that would definitely warrant this behavior. No one deserves to have their triggers brought up in their posts without their consent. But this isn’t a trigger, this is a preference, maybe a squick (in the sympathetic Deceit sense). If we all just started threatening to delete posts and telling people not to add things to our posts just because we didn’t like it, half the posts that have gained infamy on this site for their content wouldn’t exist. 

Someone (I’m not going to say who. I don’t even remember their url) said to Virgil “I’ll just keep my ships to myself”. I’m sorry, but does no one else see the problem here? Virgil’s comments have made Deceit stans and shippers so uncomfortable, they feel like they have to keep it to themselves! That is not the kind of fandom we should be, people. There is nothing unhealthy or dangerous about making Deceit sympathetic or shipping him, so there is absolutely no excuse for making those who do feel like they need to keep their behavior a secret, or make them feel like it’s bad. 

When I hear Noah I think of a little kid and it’s creepy so it’s just gotta be John.