Late 20s tgirl. Elf ear pervert. Some say hemipenis girl. Writing mostly original F/F. Stories will frequently be horny so if you're under 18 you're getting blocked.
Nah I getcha some of those names it was like "hey so whomst?" I may not have been front-row for the HDG escalation, but that sure felt like how it starts.
Okay so 1) do you know about Human Domestication Guide and 2) do you want to know an approximate history of how it became so big it got banned from a major hypno smut writing hub
i think one of my tumblr mutuals writes that
and sure i guess?
Lol, short version then. HDG is a sci-fi smutfic about sexy alien plant communists keeping humans as pets. The setting activated enough people's brains that the author made a Discord for it, intended to spitball ideas for writing fic together. Enough fics got enough fans (who may or may not have been writing stories themselves) that 1) the Discord became less "community of writers" and more "setting fandom" (up to and including arguments about authors writing their kinnies wrong) and 2) there were so many people writing fics (often slowburns that never got anywhere because they were all modeling off One Fic In Particular but didn't have the stamina to do the writing) that over 50% of works posted on ReadOnlyMind (a fic site dedicated to hypno & mind control) were HDG fics until they finally went "please get your own site this is absurd." Now AFAIK they're all on AO3.
Anyways the parallel here is that from what I understand things started taking a downturn when the writing community circle expanded to include fan-first participants rather than friends who were all operating independently-but-in-community.
idk about the rest of that but i think if someone told me that i was writing my own character wrong i would have to kill them in real life
No idea where exactly I sit on your "otter and friends" to "never seen before" scale, but I get you, and if it ends up being more than basically a large group chat of the few dozen people I've seen regularly posting/commenting, I'll melt away and let it join the forever unread pile of basically-every-discord-i've-joined, Big servers are Too Much.
yeah, I get that. like, I feel like my brain has room for "a chill little group chat" and "literally cohost", and anything in between would kinda slide off
I am very much the same way, if a discord has more than like 5-10 people in it I am simply unable to participate
I definitely get you on this. As delta said, not sure where I fall on the scale (especially since I haven't posted in far too long (the bad brain has got me down bad)), but the vibe I was expecting was definitely closer to medium-to-large group chat, not something that requires dedicated mods.
Yeah, it feels a little like there's been a lot of wistful "wouldn't it be nice to have essentially a virtual cosy café table for [specifically the handful of writers chattering to each other] to chill around" and at this point readers are coming out the woodwork going "sweet, can I run admissions on the parasocial author exhibit"
Discord, the company that brought us "this public-facing institution with custom graphics, a suite of bespoke bot commands, and a dedicated admin-and-PR team could have been a group chat"
cohost's "no dms just use discord" policy perhaps facing problems that could have been solved by dms
wait there’s a thread?
also I get you, literally all I wanted was like… a chill way to chat with fellow writers on here, not A Structure
I swear to god my brain tunes into Oops! All Static for 2 weeks and the world just goes and does things behind my back