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12-21-2023, 08:44 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-21-2023, 08:45 PM by skinstealer.)
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![[Image: honey.png]](http://homebrewdeviants.com/static/story/ff/honey.png)
[image description: a fur type TCP with gray body fur and a very, very subtle lighter spot pattern. its face is dark, black as if hidden by shadow- with its eyespots a bright yellow for contrast. it has claws emerging from its furry hands in the same shade of yellow.]
Honey dries itself off as best as it can, wrapped up in multiple warm towels- they had spent some good money out of the splurge jar after the first time it needed a big shower like this, but it was totally worth it. Settling into its hammock like this with its holo screen after getting cleaned up was a feeling like no other, and it would easily work for the price of those towels again if it had to.
Speaking of the holo screen...time to check FF.
A couple more bans to do, mostly users using slurs again. How many times did it have to tell people not to use dirty language? Swears were fine, but cmon, really? You don’t have to get that nasty about it…
Banned, banned, banned.
Another harassment case. Banned.
It had gotten a track record of being the disciplinarian admin of the forums, being the most ban happy of the trio- but that didn’t stop it from being well liked all the same. It was friendly with people any time it wasn’t swatting them for breaking the rules, and was genuinely happy to have users interacting with each other and using the forums...how could it not be? The impressions of the other admins varied...Mabel was seen as the scary mod, which killed Honey and Courtney a bit, considering how shy she was in real life. Talking formally and with a flat affect over text would do that… Courtney on the other hand was busy and heavily involved with everything, and was seen as everything from the “mom” of the forums to a busybody, with the meaner members of the site claiming that she “tried too hard”.
Honey takes particular spiteful pleasure in warning and banning those jerks.
The fur type opens up its DMs, sifting through and deleting spam messages, banning the bots along the way. Just using that ban hammer with wild abandon, the life of an admin is never a dull moment. Ah, but wait- a legitimate message!
Its eyes skim over at first, but then it slows down- it’s a thank you message from a user who had their abuser banned the other day...huh. It had taken that as just a standard harassment case, your everyday average bullying deal...but apparently, it had been a severe instance of abuse, one that had been going on for years prior to joining the site.
Yeesh.
Honey lets it sink in, nodding to itself. This part of the job always made it feel some kind of pain in its chest, but at least it did some good for the world, even if it was on a small scale...one less scumbag out there on its forum. People slinging slurs around were small potatoes compared to people like this, and thankfully it didn’t have to deal with them frequently at all- but it happened, and it never got easier.
There’s a lot of sick people out there…
Before it can get too melancholic over it, a MessiRoom DM request pops up, scaring the hell out of it- it doesn’t usually turn those on, and only one person could have known they were even available...and thankfully, it is who it hoped it’d be.
Speaking of the holo screen...time to check FF.
A couple more bans to do, mostly users using slurs again. How many times did it have to tell people not to use dirty language? Swears were fine, but cmon, really? You don’t have to get that nasty about it…
Banned, banned, banned.
Another harassment case. Banned.
It had gotten a track record of being the disciplinarian admin of the forums, being the most ban happy of the trio- but that didn’t stop it from being well liked all the same. It was friendly with people any time it wasn’t swatting them for breaking the rules, and was genuinely happy to have users interacting with each other and using the forums...how could it not be? The impressions of the other admins varied...Mabel was seen as the scary mod, which killed Honey and Courtney a bit, considering how shy she was in real life. Talking formally and with a flat affect over text would do that… Courtney on the other hand was busy and heavily involved with everything, and was seen as everything from the “mom” of the forums to a busybody, with the meaner members of the site claiming that she “tried too hard”.
Honey takes particular spiteful pleasure in warning and banning those jerks.
The fur type opens up its DMs, sifting through and deleting spam messages, banning the bots along the way. Just using that ban hammer with wild abandon, the life of an admin is never a dull moment. Ah, but wait- a legitimate message!
Its eyes skim over at first, but then it slows down- it’s a thank you message from a user who had their abuser banned the other day...huh. It had taken that as just a standard harassment case, your everyday average bullying deal...but apparently, it had been a severe instance of abuse, one that had been going on for years prior to joining the site.
Yeesh.
Honey lets it sink in, nodding to itself. This part of the job always made it feel some kind of pain in its chest, but at least it did some good for the world, even if it was on a small scale...one less scumbag out there on its forum. People slinging slurs around were small potatoes compared to people like this, and thankfully it didn’t have to deal with them frequently at all- but it happened, and it never got easier.
There’s a lot of sick people out there…
Before it can get too melancholic over it, a MessiRoom DM request pops up, scaring the hell out of it- it doesn’t usually turn those on, and only one person could have known they were even available...and thankfully, it is who it hoped it’d be.
[HEAD_SPILL] has requested a direct message conversation!
[SLUMBER] accepts the request!
[SLUMBER] accepts the request!
[SLUMBER]: Hello!
[SLUMBER]: Thank you for getting back to me!
[HEAD_SPILL]: oh that was fast
[SLUMBER]: Haha, yeah
[SLUMBER]: You caught me online
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[SLUMBER]: Just before I rest for the night, but I have time!
[HEAD_SPILL]: got it
[HEAD_SPILL]: i’ll try not to take up too much of your time, then
[SLUMBER]: It’s no trouble at all, I messaged you on the forums in the first place because I want to connect and start getting things together here.
[SLUMBER]: Take up my time! Talk to me!
[SLUMBER]: Let’s make things happen!
[HEAD_SPILL]: if you’re sure…
[SLUMBER]: I assure you.
[HEAD_SPILL]: well...okay
[HEAD_SPILL]: i guess we can start with going over what you’re looking for here, exactly
[SLUMBER]: It’s straightforward enough.
[SLUMBER]: Savoring is looking to start up more events soon, and we need prizes to incentivize people to come on down and participate- and she was going to handle it, but she’s been so busy with everything, I thought I’d look around and put some feelers out.
[SLUMBER]: And my feelers found you and your work!
[SLUMBER]: Everybody loves portraits, and the stuff you do is just...wow!
[SLUMBER]: You do people, you do their pets, you do their friends, their families! Their characters!
[SLUMBER]: Nothing stops you!
[SLUMBER]: And when it’s a TCP, oh, you work in the typing so well- but without losing the personality…
[SLUMBER]: It really embodies the philosophies of Felid Factor, the spirit of being a TCP, without boiling us down to just what people see us as!
[SLUMBER]: It’s amazing! It’s perfect!
[SLUMBER]: That’s the kind of stuff we need!
[HEAD_SPILL]: haha, thanks...
[SLUMBER]: Oh, and it’ll be paid, of course.
[SLUMBER]: I wouldn’t ask for free art- I don’t know if you’ve seen my own stuff on the forums, but I’m a physical crafter, and so is Savoring.
[SLUMBER]: We totally know what it’s like to work with commissions.
[HEAD_SPILL]: well, that’s good
[HEAD_SPILL]: i was kind of scared this was going to be a volunteer deal and i would have to turn you down
[SLUMBER]: Nope, totally paid.
[HEAD_SPILL]: i still need to know the rates though
[SLUMBER]: 25 cash an hour, no less. You tell me how long it takes me to make a painting, and I’ll work with that.
[HEAD_SPILL]: that’s...not bad at all.
[HEAD_SPILL]: can you afford that?
[HEAD_SPILL]: no offense meant, just...i’ve seen you ask for donations for the site before.
[HEAD_SPILL]: i know that you want something nice for the forum events, but i, uh
[HEAD_SPILL]: don’t want to contribute to it going potentially bankrupt if those funds are misplaced?
Honey hesitates, not sure what to say. It was definitely taking a gamble on this, for sure. It had the money- not a lot of money, but enough for...some things. It had been putting away its own earnings bit by bit, taking on extra work on the sly in order to build up some funds for stuff like this. You never knew, and lo and behold, something like this came up.
[SLUMBER]: Admittedly, I won’t be able to get a whole /lot/ of paintings from you. Probably just a couple.
[SLUMBER]: So they’ll be like, really really hard to get prizes.
[SLUMBER]: But your work is top tier. I have no doubt that people will work for it, and I also have no doubt that it’s worth that much- hell, if I could pay more, I would in a heartbeat.
[SLUMBER]: I refuse to go any lower.
[SLUMBER]: Like I said, I’m a crafter, I do commissions, I get it.
[SLUMBER]: I wouldn’t ask you to lower your prices for me, /especially/ not when I’m in a figure of authority, being the admin of the forums.
[SLUMBER]: That’d be an abuse of power, haha! I’m not about that.
[MIND_SPILL]: i appreciate that
[MIND_SPILL]: so...i’d basically be doing commissions for prize winners, and you’d be paying me for it?
[SLUMBER]: Yes!
[SLUMBER]: That’s the long and short of it.
[MIND_SPILL]: i can work with that...though i’m going to charge extra if they make me do something ridiculous, and i’m only doing headshots
[SLUMBER]: Easy peasy!
[SLUMBER]: You have yourself a deal, payment upfront when the event is settled on and we know how many we’re doing- we’ll confirm with you just to make sure before then, and if you need to back out, no hard feelings.
Honey sighs in relief, flopping back in its hammock. That actually went well...it was so scared that its offer wasn’t going to go through, and with any luck Courtney won’t take offense to the fact that it moved ahead without her say-so. It was for the good of the site, and it was meant to help her out in the first place...it’d tell her in the morning. For now, rest.
[MIND_SPILL]: i look forward to working together, then
[SLUMBER]: Me too- I should get to bed, then!
[MIND_SPILL]: oh, got it
[MIND_SPILL]: goodnight
[SLUMBER]: Gnight!
Another day, another win for Honey.
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