i am writing this because i heard boo submitted stuff to an anti flora blog or something (i didnt read it directly, i just heard apparently boo felt i had hurt them badly)
i feel sad about it, since i feel sad to have hurt them but also to hear about it since i heard about it through someone hurting my friend about this, and wanted to say my piece
i was originally going to message them, because i feel like they stress out about public discussion since they've had callouts before or something? but they've got it so either only server members can message them or they have me blocked
that's fine
i didn't ask to hear about the thing where they apparently submitted stuff about me and others, and they don't have to see this so i request people not force this on boo if somehow someone knows them and feels the urge to send them this
(keyword is "force", if boo does not want to see this, do not put this on them, they don't have to engage at all. please respect that.)
it is my space and i have thoughts over this so i want to write... i guess, a bit like a "goodbye" sort of feeling
no one has to read this, as usual
i am putting it in a thing to click
i wont really write about boo anymore unless they express a direct urge to engage
the below is written as if addressing boo because that was my original intent, to write to them
click here for the message
hello boo
i understand you were hurt by the end of your engagement in the server
i feel sad you were in enough pain that you felt the need to go submit something like that
but i wish you had genuinely taken time to think over this instead of contributing to hatred
i cared about you and still care
i remember trying to work with you when you were venting about the server you used to be a moderator in and how no one listened to you or seemed to care, i remember caring about you when you were talking about your mom and how horrible she was, and kept being, to you
i remember multiple people trying to engage with you and support you
that care doesn't go away because i felt pain and tried to express it, especially because you were trying to engage with my pain? i'm sorry if it felt like it did go away
feeling a lack of care can hurt a lot, and it makes me sad for you
i remember when i thought ash didn't care about me because marl told me ash didn't care and moved on, i ended up in a deep pain and lashing out a lot... i am trying to still hold onto the care i felt, and trying to understand the actions you've taken because i feel that i would rather care, than not
part of why it was so painful near the end of the server was because people were trying to care and you were hurting us
i don't think it was on purpose, but pain is still pain
it hurts to feel currently like we listened to you a lot, and then tried to explain how we were getting hurt, and you left and decided we were bad
it ends up feeling like we listened to you, but you couldn't listen to us, and instead of trying to understand, you decided to go somewhere you knew you'd get validation
it feels a bit like being used, really
i remember trying to ask if you were okay with me talking about stuff, and it feels like you're not taking that seriously, or even remembering it, which makes me sad because that IS part of how care is shown
like me putting this in spoilers for you to choose to read or not...
that is care
thats giving you a choice
i wish you registered that
i hope you can feel that your choices matter
i know it can't be easy from how your mom acts, and how other family acts and things you've been through
but your choices do matter and have impact
if you felt/feel like you didn't have a choice, then that's, important to note
but it wasn't coming from me directly in what i've seen
i can understand if i accidentally made you feel that way, and i'm sorry if i did
i wish if you had felt that way, that you had had the tools to express it
i wish i could have respected you needing space in that way if you needed it, but it... felt more like you kept trying to latch onto me?
you expressed caring a lot about me and almost like panicking about not being able to engage well with me? it felt like you wanted me to keep engaging
you drew a comic where you felt like everything was on fire and you couldn't extinguish it with your tears and i was confused, and you expressed this is how you felt about engaging with me
it really hurt and still does, especially because you assumed a lot of things about my emotional state (as if i had not struggled with lack of emotions)
as if i was just "better" at emotions than you naturally, when struggling with feeling at all is something i was really really used to for most of my life
i dont think im better than you
it feels like that comic erased all the times i had cared about you, had been patient and tried to ask about your feelings and listen
it feels like you reduced me and others to a fire that doesn't listen to you and that you can't extinguish with your tears
why do you want to extinguish me?
if you expressed you needed time, we would have listened
we tried to express pain because you seemed to want to understand
but... i guess that's changed
it's okay if it's changed
it just hurts
it hurts to feel like i tried to understand and care, but me trying to express pain was treated like a fire you couldnt extinguish with your tears
boo, i never wanted you to cry
you cant "extinguish" my feelings by crying enough
someone i knew used to hurt me until i hated myself
she didn't accept my apologies until she bullied me enough and hurt me and called me names and i felt hatred for myself
i don't want people to feel like they have to cry to sate my pain
i don't want to do what was done to me
i did do that in the past, like with the callout i wrote against ash
i wanted him to know he hurt me, and i felt the only way i could get understanding was if i hurt him in the same way
and that really, very much backfired
i don't know
i'm genuine when i say i did not want to hurt you
i don't want you to feel pain
i just wanted to feel understood
i just wanted to feel like when you say you care about me, that i could trust that
that when you said you wanted to listen to my pain, that you meant it and i could share with you
it hurts me, the way you've treated me but also others i care about like japhet
so i tried to share
i understand if it hurts to hear how you've hurt others but... i don't know
my care for you didn't disappear
me sharing was never with intent to hurt you or corner you or something
i wish i had known you couldn't handle it
i tried to care, i tried to ask if you were okay for harder convos, i tried to express for a long time how i felt in ways that tried to consider you, asking your feelings and so on
if you felt pressure here, i can't... work with that, unless you tell me
when you DID tell me, like when i didn't see you mentioned you were in pain and overwhelmed, i acknowledged that and apologized because you were right, that was painful for me to do to you!
i tried to acknowledge when you did express things
I don't know what more i could have done, because i am not an endless well of patience nor a mind-reader
i can't look out for you if i do not know you are forcing yourself to engage when you don't want to
i can't look out for you if you are abusing yourself to try to please me when i never wanted that
i can't look out for you if i try to express how the fire comic felt to me, and how it didn't feel like treating me like a person, and you seem to not grasp that
it really feels like that comic, you were crying but you were also the fire
you don't have to pressure yourself to do anything you don't want to do
i wish you hadn't been hurt in ways (from your mom, from stalkers, from whoever else) that make you feel that's how you have to act
i wish no one would be hurt or pressured in that way
i tried to work with you because i did care and i was willing to put effort to care and i believed you cared
i wish i could have found ways to express my pain to you that did not hurt you how it did
genuinely, i wish for this
i wish i could have shared in ways that helped you more and hurt you less
i grasp it might sound weird for me to say that, but it's something i feel as true
i try to engage without friction, and i did for many months with you, try to express my pain more kindly even when things were really painful
i believed you were trying to listen and grow, and i tried to work with this
even when things happened that really affected me, like chrosocolla trying to express she cares about myandery via saying he makes her want to kill herself and then giving him a gift saying she loves him or something, and you ooc joking about her doing this
that really hurt for personal reasons, but i understood you had gone through a lot and i believed there would be time to talk about it later hopefully
but... your behavior didn't really change, and at the very end you started to express in ways that scared me ... saying you cared a lot about me but also the comic with the fire
i wish i had just expressed that i couldn't talk to you in the moment, that i had taken time to back off
i think i did back off for a bit, but i wish i had done so earlier
but... its... hard when it felt like you latched onto me? and latched onto flora?
it's hard when it felt like you wanted to be very close to everyone, so us backing off would hurt you, but ... you were hurting many of us
to my understanding, we weren't against caring about you at all, but... if you want to be close, if you can't acknowledge how you're hurting someone, then you're going to keep hurting the person you want to be close with
so... eventually people tried to seek acknowledgement
i tried to trust you with how i felt, and why, but... i get the feeling maybe you tried to bite off more than you could chew? that you trying to listen to me was not actually something you could do in the moment? and i wish i had been able to register that more
if you had expressed that you needed time, then i would have wanted to respect that
i'm sorry it's turned out this way
it's a painful cycle, boo
i say this from knowing the callout cycle personally, and from engaging with KF and hateblogs and others in that sphere in the past personally
i'm sorry you got hurt enough that this is where you turned to
i hope you can get out of it and will be well <-- i mean this extremely genuinely, i do not mean anything i have said in any sort of passive aggressive way
you don't have to believe me, or anything i've written, but it's true
