I am seriously considering picking up my whole operation and moving it to a different server. Crickhollow was widely considered one of the nicest servers when I started, but I'm starting to realize more and more that isn't the case anymore, at least not when it comes to PUGs and raiding.
On Crickhollow there's a cabal of about 20 big-shot raiders who rule the roost, and they decide who is or isn't good enough to do t2 and above raids. Even if you try to start your own group that has nothing to do with them, they'll clog up LFF with constant insistence that you're not good enough and you're going to get wiped, and if you tell them to shut up they'll claim they were "just trying to help." And if someone starts their own group, manages to persevere through all that, and makes the mistake of inviting one of this lot to their raid? They'll actually try to get themselves set as leader and then kick people they don't think are good enough. I've seen this attempted, with varying degrees of success, eight or nine times, and usually if they don't succeed they'll then drop out in a huff, because they never wanted to run the instance, they just wanted to stop other people from doing it. Once someone pretended like they were going to tank, aggroed all the trash, and then sent "this group sucks good luck" to fellowship chat and left the fellowship, which booted them out of the instance and left the rest of us high and dry. (Joke's on them, we finished the instance anyway with 5 of us and me tanking, because even a blue-line hunter can tank t2 Stairs. And yes, I reported that behavior but obviously nothing happened.)
SSG has been attempting to mitigate this through various means; delvings, for instance, grant high level gear so these people can no longer use gear as an excuse to keep people out of their private party, and this did help a little bit, but the most assholish of this group will now refuse to raid with people wearing delving gear, because, in their words, "gear is an indication of what you've managed to accomplish, and you could have gotten that from doing nothing but t1 delvings."
I have tried joining kinships that raid, but that experience has been even worse because as someone who is (I don't mind saying) pretty good at the game and usually geared out pretty well, I immediately got catapulted into the raiding "in-group" in these kins, where people expected me to help them put down members of the same kinship with exactly the same vindictiveness. (There was also a general intolerance in these kins for people who weren't in a financial position to preorder every new expansion the second it was available, which didn't sit well with me when I could afford to do that, who even knows where I'd have been when I couldn't.) And when I specifically look for kinships that are not like that, they were always way too casual to attempt t3+ instances -- most likely because picking up extra people to fill out the raid results in harassment from The Cabal.
Not to mention that although I said a few days ago that I thought the vitriol against DPS had died down a bit since it's been so hard for them to get DPS for months and months, I had apparently just luckily happened across a very reasonable group, because last night I was looking for (t1!) Carn Dum instances in LFF and someone saw that I was a Hunter and said I obviously couldn't handle it because I "probably didn't even know what mits are," like that's an appropriate thing to say to someone who's just looking for a t1.
Anyway. I'm really tired of the whole raiding scene being held hostage by like 20 people and their exclusive little club. I really want to go to a server with a more active raiding scene, since if more people are raiding, I figure there will be enough people that one group can't get that kind of a chokehold on it. I just need to do some recon and figure out where to go.
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Said some controversial things on twitter and now im getting hate💀, like it wasn’t even bad, said “steddies and hellcheers shut up and kiss already” like damn, i know BOTH communities say nasty things to eachother but ffs. Twitter shippers are a different breed
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Hate when people put like "basic dni" on their posts because as much as I'm trying to respect peoples wishes out here, I!! Literally can't know if I'm allowed to interact if your banner deliberately obfuscates who your comfortable with reblogging your stim board or whatever!
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I hate being disabled. I know the place needs to be clean but I have no energy and everything hurts. I blame the cold and rainy weather.
I had no spoons to do anything but had to force myself to cook dinner and now, barely 1pm, I am utterly exhausted.
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ive had to step away from all the analysis of the finale because thinking about it for too long it fills me with such a [rage? bitterness? frustration? all of the above?] the likes of which ive genuinely never felt for a show before
ive cared about media before. ive been disappointed by media before, but i think the difference is i haven't put my faith in media like i did ofmd- and the more time passes the more i feel fucking stupid for putting that faith in the show in the first place, when so many of the things coming to light now were already there
i cant think about it too long else it makes me so fucking sad, and im tired of analysing it to bits because its not going to change anything, theres no way to fix any of this, no way to find a spark of light in it, no way to come back, to resurrect the show i fucking loved.
im sure everything everyone is saying is well thought out and nuanced things but for the sake of my own enjoyment of this fucking show i have to just not engage with it anymore.
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Getting close to spring break testing.
Latin sucks, finding citations is torture, and still there's more to go.
I'm doing my best.
Doing. My. Best.
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There's a drawing post about wheelchairs going around where the OP basically rips into artists for drawing people in hospital wheelchairs because they were "outdated in the 70s" and "nobody uses them" and "it's impossible to get around in them without someone to push you" and...
That's the kind my sister uses.
My sister has to use that kind because of her condition, the newer models don't really help with her needs, but that's not the point. The point is that I have to question the world OP lives in, where you never have to settle for a cheaper option because insurance doesn't cover the whole cost and something is better than nothing, where your only option maybe was a secondhand wheelchair someone got for free after a sports injury that they're now reselling for $15 because they have no concept of what it's worth, or where your needs are maybe a little different from the generally accepted demographic of people who use something. It's such a disgustingly privileged perspective, coming from someone who's clearly been lucky enough to always get more or less exactly what they need and takes it as a personal attack that not everyone is.
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just wanted to throw it out here cuz i just yap a lot lmao -- i dont want anyone to think that like. my fandom opinions are abt morality and shit. fandom isnt activism, whatever you ship and what you think about the minecraft roleplay has zero bearings abt how you are as a human being, whatever you like in fanwork whether that be coffeeshop AUs or c!sbi hero/villain or darkfic ship AUs and how close it sticks to canon and shit really is up to you.
do i have my personal preferences and will i air them out on my blog? yes . do some things in this fandom admittedly make me roll my eyes or confuse me or squick me out or what have you? lmao, yeah. but at the end of the day im just one person and my opinions on people's fanworks starts and ends at "do whatever the hell you want." how people treat real people is always gonna be infinitely more important than roleplay or fiction opinions
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