And, I've played a lot with dragon builders and creators, and after creating another dragon in the great and awesome Dragon Builder by MonsterDungeonSoup, I finally had enough inspiration to cobble together... This!

Older Versions and Improvements

How do you put lipstick on a dragon's mouth? Well I followed this awesome drawing searched for “dragon” and “lipstick” then clicked the sexiest dragon I first saw :3c

I'm dragon, rawwwr

The last one was named Jenny, this one will be named, emm Juliane! Juliane comes from Julius which has an origin to Jule, Jupiter, god of the whatever. I like Jupiter, cool planet. So I made a couple of stickers:

And here are Jenny's stickers. As you can see, they are variations form the dragon builder I mentioned above. I also tweaked it a bit in GIMP to add mouths.

and these were before the ones above, made in Dragon Creator on itch.io by dragonita and tweaked heavily in GIMP:

In Conclusion

My point is, do whatever you have to do to express yourself! Roleplay as characters, steal OCs (but never claim their art as your own lol), crop images, smish smash them in an unholy frankestein-eqsue sticker creation! Until you get bored enough and make your own stickers! Or get really good at character creation and image manipulation!

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The key thing about content/trigger warnings I think is “Readiness”. Yes, sure, it is to protect some folks from being triggered by the content due to having bad past experiences with it. But I also think that it's there to give users a choice, do you want to read something that might upset you or not? Like you might not have any bad past experiences with X, Y, and Z, but what if you just woke up, and the first thing you were greeted with was a bad case of X, Y, or Z? Or if you expected to see a wholesome chat room with kitty cuddles and meows only to see unspoilered sensitive content. That surprise, that shock, I don't like that.

Here's a post on how to spoiler things on Matrix chatting clients, and the last two sections cover the internet in general.

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For spoilering you could use the following format:

Double Pipes

If your client support this syntax ||spoilered text|| you should write like this: CW/TW: Description Of The Warning ||Actual Content||

The /spoiler Command

If your client does not support that syntax, check if your client provides a /spoiler command: in that case you should send a message that details the CW/TW then reply to it using the /spoiler command

Long Text and Other Forms of Media

An excellent way would be to use https://trggr.link/ you could write CW/TWs for any kind of media: images, videos, large text, etc.

Although keep in mind that trggr isn't a file hosting service, it only supports text. To send sensitive media, upload to an external file host, like https://catbox.moe or other file hosting services.

Stickers

I am known as the sticker girl, I've been mostly collecting images on the internet, cropping them, sometimes editing them slightly to fit my needs. I even drew some stickers. So here's what I learned:

[This section is under construction]

Matrix Blocking With /ignore

PSA: The /ignore command exists and yall may use it liberally.

• If a user is toxic and no mods are around, feel free to use it after notifying a mod.

• If yall dislike the content, words, or language of a certain person, yall should first ask them to accomedate yall. If they don’t, ignore them. Common examples are users who don’t use content warnings for sensitive content, even after being told to do so.

• Temporary ignores are a thing too, if need arises.

On fluffy, yall may also use “Set as low priority” to make a room go to the bottom of yall’s room list, like if a difficult conversation is happening.

The /ignore command doesn’t make the conversation as fragmented as yall would think so, it’s not like the person who yall have blocked has anything meaningful to contribute, and yall would still be able to see their read reciepts and know that they’re talking.

For Appie, after she left the modding team, she blocked a couple of users, and finally feels safe enoguh to be in some rooms. She couldn’t do this previously because as a mod, she thought she had to be able to interact with all users.

Stay safe out there, and protect yall’s minds ❤️

#matrix, #matrixchat, #contentWarning, #contentWarnings, #spoilers, #psa

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All writing is licensed under CC-BY-ND with attribution to REILYH!. The FSF recommends this license for opinion pieces.

All writing is licensed under CC-BY-ND with attribution to REILYH!. The FSF recommends this license for opinion pieces.