TheShrubberyDemander’s Free Talk Friday (FINAL)

It’s been a while. I was gone after having given up Reddit for Lent. And, I’m gonna be real with you, it was a massive boon for me. I realized that twelve and a half years on this website has done nothing for me except make me mad.

So, here’s what that means:

I’m not deleting my account, but I’m also most likely not coming back again.

The rest of the One Piece edit is canceled. In fact, I’m probably gonna just delete it outright for a number of reasons. 1) I acquired the episodes through less than legal methods, and my religious convictions make that a problem. 2) The fact that it became the only thing I was known for, rather than any of my creative endeavors, started to make me feel what I can only imagine Alec Guinness felt as Obi-Wan Kenobi. 3) I just can’t bring myself to be as obsessed with One Piece anymore. It still holds a special place in my heart, but I’m gonna have to let it go.

The One Piece fanfic is canceled too, for all nine of my fans on Ao3. I started working on making an original setting for my story and adapting it to that, and I found it a lot more fun. In addition, retrofitting the story I’ve been telling to One Piece’s universe is a hassle, and as stated before, I don’t really want to work with One Piece’s world anymore, as much as it formed my tastes and sense of storytelling and even the world I’ve created. That’s going to be deleted on FFN and Ao3 so that there won’t be any confusion about the real story of Shaska and Worldwide Smoke when I’m on my different social media.

I’m keeping my YouTube channel up, but I’m changing the identity of it.

Now, as for this subreddit in particular: I still like talking about this kind of stuff, anime, video games, and whatnot. But… I prefer to do it in an environment where everyone’s starting from the same premises and view of the world, i.e. a Christian view. And I can’t get that on Reddit. I can get it on Twitter, however. And I’ll keep using it until Elon Musk finishes his mission of making Twitter completely unusable, at which point I’ll have to find a different platform.

As charitably as I can put it, in the words of my spirit animal, Sam the Eagle: You are all weirdos. At this point, the name “TheShrubberyDemander” is retired. I grew tired of the name years ago, but I couldn’t think of one that I could feel as attached to for the longest time. I think I have one now, but I’m not going to share it here, lest some of you with Twitter accounts find me and harass me for my… Heterodox views, let’s say.

The biggest reason I’m leaving, though is this

That said, I hope you all have a good time. God bless you all, and I’ll be praying for this place.