yep. only out-done by Contaminate liking the charity familiar for the wrong reasons (they're glad it's retiring because they're a huge proponent of retired items and they hope this means more of them) and sticking their ass into every suggestion thread about it.
both of them missing the point in the most selfish way possible.
The only reason it's retiring is they don't want to profit off it. And when everyone knows an item available this long is retiring, everyone will hoard it.
the words "absolutely not" as the first part of their response saying we shouldn't have a spot for our dragons' pronouns sure was something I had to see with my own eyes
Am I missing something? They're just against the limited time nature of the familiar, not the charity itself. And the pronouns thing seems valid given all the points other people brought out. This person seems prickly and maybe a bit awkward rather than bigoted.
"Absolutely not unless it’s default was blank. I don’t want to be forced into this."
"Having ‘no pronouns’ implies something. Having anything at all in that box implies something. I don’t want anything implied. Pronouns is a uniquely human thing, often personal, with social expectations. Artwork positioning and clothes don’t carry social expectations."
no i think they're just being weird about pronouns
Possibly they have a lot of dragons whose poses don't match their pronouns and aren't interested in getting smacked in the face with dysphoria every time they have to go through and change them?
I think you're seeing what you want to see (that the poster is "bad", therefore "antiwoke" too) - I have over two hundred fully finished and totally perfect for me dragons that have no deeper meaning than 'this is a pretty PNG' and if suddenly there was a box in their profiles that shows something I did not choose to do yet I am forced to make up (say, pick a pronoun for what amounts to a wallpaper for me), I'd be very unhappy too.
Were you also "very unhappy" when we got the ability to name familiars and the game put a gun to your head and forced you to make sure each dragon had a familiar with a name? Or are you irrationally irritated about anything adjacent to pronouns?
No one would be "forcing" you to "make up" anything. You could, in fact, leave it alone.
Adding or not a familiar is optional, and if you do not add a familiar, that box is fully empty - and that's why I do not add familiars to my dragons: the familiars appear pasted into the dragon/scene combination and that looks ugly to me. Pronouns in profiles or summary boxes as the suggestion mentions (because I, unlike apparently you, read the suggestion instead of reacting to a random quote) are your headcanons which my dragons do not have because they are pretty PNGs and not living human beings. Hence being against specific pronoun boxes in a dragon PNG profile has nothing to do with pronouns themselves. All of this you could have read yourself as most of the replies both for and against in that suggestion thread mention multiple visual/technical points, but you decided to irrationally stick to the "evil antiwoke" image you created. What's next on the menu, exalting is killing?
You want to be progressive so much that you are inventing enemies from your allies.
Yea, call it as it really is guys. This person is just selfish and inconsiderate of others. Pronouns spots are at worst a mild inconvenience to you(as it will most likely default to nothing and be optional) and would make others happy.
People can already do that in the bio or broadcast or wherever they can type words. And they can be reported for it, and I’m certain staff would remove it, and warn or even ban them if it’s repeated behavior. The same would obviously apply here.
Staff: we are running a fundraiser, historically an event with an end date, and have an item as a thank you for donating, a very common thing for fundraisers to do Gryphire: this is manipulative and in bad faith and staff should never do this again and my primary concern is not that staff is donating to an asian-american charity after years of increasingly violent sinophobia in the world but that i think fundraiser rewards are bad faith and wrong
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(Anonymous) 2025-05-14 01:03 am (UTC)(link)both of them missing the point in the most selfish way possible.
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(Anonymous) 2025-05-14 04:39 am (UTC)(link)Definitely added to my block list.
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(Anonymous) 2025-05-14 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)"Having ‘no pronouns’ implies something. Having anything at all in that box implies something. I don’t want anything implied. Pronouns is a uniquely human thing, often personal, with social expectations. Artwork positioning and clothes don’t carry social expectations."
no i think they're just being weird about pronouns
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(Anonymous) 2025-05-16 10:04 am (UTC)(link)No one would be "forcing" you to "make up" anything. You could, in fact, leave it alone.
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(Anonymous) 2025-05-16 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)ur also being weird about this nonny 😬
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(Anonymous) 2025-05-16 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)this was even pointed out In The Thread and acknowledged by the OP there.
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(Anonymous) 2025-05-15 02:33 am (UTC)(link)Gryphire: this is manipulative and in bad faith and staff should never do this again and my primary concern is not that staff is donating to an asian-american charity after years of increasingly violent sinophobia in the world but that i think fundraiser rewards are bad faith and wrong
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