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Because the internet is vast and people talk...
Early yesterday and also today I was goofing around on Twitter (as ya do). Somebody (a couple somebody's actually) were basically doing a big ol' silly teasing thread. There's 4 people I can see involved and I'm mutuals with 3 of 'em.
"I'm not a baby", this.
"Yes you are", that.
Silly, brainless, goofy stuff. Happens all the time on Twitter.
Then in my scrolling I see "Maturosis".
Oh hell yeah! Somebody invoked my made up vocabulary word. Now I GOTTA pop my head in and say hi!
It's all over the top and very tongue and cheek. And I more or less stay "in character" while asking if I can join in on the silliness too. Permission is given, I go in, pop guns ablazin'. I'm not a switch, but I do a mean Amazon impression. So it's just circular logic teasing and the name of the game is "the person who has been designated as 'immature' cannot win". There is no such thing as a correct answer and everyone playing knows.
It was fun. GIFs and Frustration Emoji's abounded.
Then out of nowhere, this stranger pops into the thread and @'s the person who has consistently identified themselves as a Mommy-type. And they post up a picture of what is allegedly their very full diaper and declaring that they are a big boy cuz they used it, tee-hee. Tee-hee. I've never seen this person's face but that was definitely an unsolicited loaded diaper pic.
Sidebar: I'm married and in a monogamous relationship. My wife is my Mommy. She isn't active AT ALL in the online scene, in part because every time she pokes her head out some rando will ask her to change his diaper for him (It's always he/him). We've gone to cons and dungeon scenes and men have decided that because I call her "Mommy", they can call her "Mommy" too.
And I don't mean innocent like they don't know her name and so they call her "Mommy" as a substitute. (The English language has words like "Miss" and "Ma'am" for that.) I don't mean like they know I'm Pers and they don't know that she's Daisy so they accidentally call her "Pers's Mommy" or whatever. Most people don't know who I am or what I look like. They just see a woman carrying around a diaper bag who doesn't flinch at my crinkling self calling her "Mommy", and seem to think to themselves, "There's a lady who likes wipin' ass all over the place. Time to make my move!"
My wife is my best friend. My best friend doesn't like being objectified by complete strangers.
So yeah. I don't like it when Mommies and Daddies and Caregivers get treated less like people and more like kink dispensers.
It's something of a pet peeve of mine.
Back to the Action: I check profiles, and DM with the @'d person, just in case. This silly RP might just have gotten waaaaay too heavy for what I was prepared for. Nope. @'d person doesn't know this dude from Adam's housecat as the old saying goes.
So with permission from the @'d I speak up, break pretense, and tell them that this is highly inappropriate.
I get a frowny crying cat emoji and a second reply saying "Sowwy..."
Nope. That ain't gonna do it. I saw a group of people that I knew from twitter laughing it up, and I asked if I could join in before I did. This person whom nobody knows shows up and makes a bee-line for the one CG and shows off the ABDL equivalent of an unsolicited dick pic.
Not cool, and going to the trouble of typing in a lisp when someone is telling you that you're misbehaving isn't cute. Quite the opposite, actually.
So naw. That ain't cool and I say something to that effect.
Suddenly they're saying how it hurts so much that their "favorite writer" is yelling at them and how alone they are and how they were only trying to share and just guilty of "trying too hard."
Oooof.
Oooooooooooooooof.
I really appreciate y'all for your support and your comments week after week, month after month, and year after year. In so many ways y'all have made me a better writer than when I started on this platform.
But don't ever expect "you're my favorite writer" to have a good effect when I'm telling you that something you're doing is bothering me or my friends.
"I love your work," is a great opener if we meet in person or if you want to start a friendly conversation with me. But it's not gonna work as a counter argument when I tell you that you're acting like a jerk. ESPECIALLY if this is our first direct interaction.
I tell them that they've got a lot to learn, nobody owes them the time to teach them, and they're not gonna learn with that attitude.
It's a cheap manipulation tactic what they're doing: Playing the victim.
They double down and make excuses. Say "You have your reasons, I have mine. You can just be mad at me". Insist that I'm yelling at them.
I post a reminder about what the A stands for in ABDL. Then block them.
If it ended there, we would not be having this fireside chat, y'all.
Within half an hour I've got two separate PM's from people I'm pretty sure don't know each other. This fella is going around on discord and whining to anybody who will listen to him about how I was mean to him and yelled at him on Twitter. Conveniently he shuts up and gets sparse on details and now there are people who don't know me that are thinking that this is some kind of commissioner/artist tiff.
Guys?
Guys?
Am I ever sparse on details when it comes to describing a series of events? Like...this is kind of my THING, right?
Ugh. If I'm gonna make enemies or have people talk about me behind my back, I'd rather it be for any number of things that I actually did or said. I've got plenty of unflattering qualities to choose from. So I felt a desire to clear up the record.
I'm not telling you how to feel or react or what to do. I'm just telling you what happened.
Anyways, if you wanna go on twitter and dig through my tweets and replies @personalias84 you can probably find the whole exchange for yourself. The only thing that's been deleted is the original dip pic. The entire exchange is still there as far as I know at the time of this writing.
Warmest Regards,
Personalias