Dear all CBers,

Chatterbox: Down to Earth

Dear all CBers,

Dear all CBers,

I do not feel we should reboot Kyngdom. If we do, and everybody starts participating again, I may be forced to leave.

No, this is not an April fools joke. For real. I looked at the Kyngdom Academy and the story seemed... too dark. Too gory. And when Kyngdom is alive again, the CB will turn toward Kyngdom, instead of the normal CB. I joined this place because I liked the calmness of it. The peace. The age-appropriate-ness. But Kyngdom is too much for me. If you reboot it, and everyone is back on Kyngdom, I will be forced to leave.

Though, that’s probably some of my stupid non-mainstream-ness. Ignore me. It’s stupid. I’m stupid. It seems like this isn’t the place for me. No place is for me.

-Golden Lion Tamarin  

GLT, we're sorry you feel this way. Kyngdom is only one part of Chatterbox. You can still be an active contributor to all the other sections of Chatterbox as you have been. I don't think people will suddenly drop all other parts of Chatterbox.

Admin

submitted by Golden Lion Tamarin
(April 1, 2023 - 8:53 pm)

Hey GLT!

Like the Admins said, Kyngdom is only one part of the CB (i'm pretty sure it's stored on a different place of the cricketmagkids website) and it doesn't necessarily interfere with the normal CB sections.  

And hey, you're one of the smartest people I can think of (and believe me, I know a lot of brilliant people.) I saw on one thread, i forget which one it is, that you were learning calculus and stuff? I think that's incredible.  Especially because you're nine years old.  I won't be learning calculus until I think my senior year.  So: youre not stupid.

I know intelligence in terms of logic and sort of "book smarts" are not the same as emotional or social intelligence, and I know sometimes it can feel like more of a curse than a blessing, the brain you were born with.  And GLT, the chatterbox is one of the least mainstream places on the internet (and you can find ANYTHING on the internet.). Almost every person here is neurodivergent, as far as i can see.  And a lot of us can really understand what it feels like to not belong, even though the CB attracts all kinds of people.

Neurodivergence is an extremely wide spectrum of people which makes it so so hard to find people that really are like us, because we are the minority so there are less of us out there, but also because one neurodivergent person can be even more different from another than either of them are to a neurotypical person, so believe me I and many others know what it feels like to never ever believe you really belong.

Im kind of rambling here but my point is there are people who understand you and can give you a safe space to be-- some you already know and some you haven't met yet and i believe many people on the CB.  So look, we are here for you if you need support, someone to talk to, anything.

I appreciate you being here.

Tsuki 

submitted by Tsuki the Skywolf
(April 2, 2023 - 11:38 am)

Actually, Tsuki, Kyngdom is on the left side of the normal CB. maybe you haven't noticed it yet. 

But, thanks for the encouragement. I kind of assumed CB was kind of mainstream given all the posts regarding...stuff that I wouldn't really be interested in (that was the reason I left CB the first time). And, definitely, I agree that the CB is definitely a place for people who don't normally feel like they belong to belong. 

So, please disregard the last paragraph of my post. I just said that when I was mad that Kyngdom, which I saw was gory and violent from the backstory, was going to be rebooted. I guess I'm fine with it, as long as we keep the violence down and maybe redo the backstory.

-GLT 

submitted by Golden Lion Tamarin
(April 2, 2023 - 1:54 pm)

Y'know, I kind of agree that Kyngdom is a pretty dark story. All this business of side-affected powers feeding on people's darkness and whatnot... I don't like it myself. And no, it's not stupid to state that you don't feel comfortable with it! It's much more intelligent to do that, than to go along with it just because everyone else does.

I think it's okay if we reboot Kyngdom, though. I hope that we can make it less gory and violent - after all, it doesn't have to continue being that way just because of how it started out. It should be extremely fun if we all remember to keep it age-appropriate! It offers so many opportunities for new storylines and characters, and I for one am pretty excited about it. Also, you can rest assured that I'm not going to post anything dark or violent, so you are hereby invited to join any roleplay I may start on Kyngdom!! :)

If, though, other CBers feel differently, it's still okay. Like the admin said, you can hang out on the other sections of the CB and just ignore Kyngdom :) Hope this helps!

submitted by Poinsettia
(April 2, 2023 - 11:52 am)

OK. In that case, could we come up with a new backstory? I am fine with the start of the story with the charries, like the letter from BIG. I really hope we can come to an agreement to keep Kyngdom kind of normal, but just throw all the gory and violent stuff in the trashcan.

submitted by Golden Lion Tamarin
(April 2, 2023 - 1:48 pm)

@Admins, what I mean is that, it is a bit like when a new clique forms, then all your former friends join, and the clique talks about something you are not comfortable with. Also, I think that sometimes Kyngdom stuff is posted on the other parts of Chatterbox, then moved to Kyngdom as well. Also, Kyngdom is a bit like a dark RP. When people join RPs they are expected to commit. Same with ski lodges. Once, the person I was paired with on a Make-a-Friend thread wasn't on our group thread for a while because they were checking all the ski lodges they had joined. I'm afraid that will be the case with Kyngdom too.

submitted by Golden Lion Tamarin
(April 2, 2023 - 12:11 pm)

Dear GLT,

First of all, don't call yourself stupid! You're one of the smartest people I know! You know WAAAAY more about physics than I do, and I'm older than you! Ya know, when you made a physics thread on DtE a while back and nobody really commented, it wasn't because nobody liked you or nobody liked physics or anything, it was because nobody except for you knew as much about it as you! I'm not going to learn physics for another two years, but you already know all about it! And there's nothing dumb about not being "mainstream." Everyone is different! Personally, I find the whole concept of mainstream to be stupid. Who cares what other people are doing? You should never be afraid to be yourself.

One thing we've decided on on the Kyngdom reboot threads is that we aren't going to erase Kyngdom's history, because that would be rude and disrespectful to all the Old Kyngdomers who put thousands of words into it.

However, I hope that with New Kyngdom, we can modify it to work for everyone! Most of this will be left up to the individual CBers to not involve anything too gory in their roleplay. So if you would like to be involved in Kyngdom, you may just have to pick and choose your roleplays, because we can't control what anyone else does.

Also, I don't think Kyngdom will affect CB all that much. Sure, theres a link to it on Inkwell and the main CB page, but it isn't really part of CB. You'll notice that on the CB home page, it isn't formatted like one of the sections of CB. It doesn't have a list of top threads or a cute little logo, it's just a button. I think if you don't want to be involved in Kyngdom, you don't have to be. Kyngdom is basically just a big roleplay, and roleplays don't really affect CB a whole lot, even big ones.

submitted by Scuttles
(April 3, 2023 - 8:43 am)

Ok. Sorry if how I put it made anyone feel uncomfortable. Maybe we could put that during the time skip, all the gory stuff had disappeared, after all CB isn’t supposed to include too much gory stuff anyway (and I am thankful for that rule). So maybe the power of Fang somehow morphs into the power of Scales or something? (Though Scales might already be a power). Also, I think the name Claaws is an insult to one of the older CBers of the same name. And Jaaws dissapeared after being defeated by the FaFA. Also, NO ONE MUST FORGET THE POWER OF THE CYPHER!!! That is an INTEGRAL part of Kyngdom. I like its take on the Pigpen cipher, but it is super easy to convert in your head because there is only one diagram. Also, is it like that animals can understand plain English when written in Cypher? 

Also, I think Kyngdom is one big story. You get the letter from BIG, etc, etc. etc. so it is basically one BIG RP.  

submitted by Golden Lion Tamarin
(April 3, 2023 - 9:38 am)

Claaws isn't actually name theft--the character Claaws was created by the CBer Claaws.

I think that Jaaws will be around for a while, as the Powers and Sideaffected Powers are an integral part of Kyngdom and important to the plot. I also think that the Power of Fang is probably going to stay the way it is, but people are talking about adding more Powers like Power of Antler/Horn or Power of Flame or something. Power of Scale doesn't exist yet and could certainly be added if nessecary.

There will certainly always be some bloodshed on Kyngdom just because of the way the world is built, and we can't tell everyone what to do. If you're less comfortable with that than some people, you may just need to find different threads. Kyngdom is one big roleplay, but it's made up of hundreds, if not thousands, of smaller roleplays and most of them don't involve any sort of gore.

I think that the Cypher definetely shouldn't be forgotten. Also, I don't think Cypher is a literal cipher, I think it's a device-gizmo-tech thing that translates human speech to animal speech and vice versa. But people are kinda forgetting about the Cypher, so I think we should make sure to remember that animals and humans can't just talk normally without it.

submitted by Scuttles
(April 3, 2023 - 12:12 pm)

Scuttles:

The CB is not supposed to be too violent for the youngest in the reading range of Cricket, namely 9 years old. The Admins probably didn’t realize how gory Kyngdom was back then because there were no CBers as young as myself (at least I think so). So you can’t say that there will certainly always be bloodshed in Kyngdom, and if the bloodshed is too gory the Admins should not accept it. Also, about SAPs: See the beginning of Ponsettia’s comment.

submitted by Golden Lion Tamari
(April 3, 2023 - 5:23 pm)

Is the Cypher the same as the code introduced in ttp://www.cricketmagkids.com/chatterbox/kyngdom/cypher-decoder Because otherwise why would the code be there?

submitted by Golden Lion Tamarin
(April 3, 2023 - 5:55 pm)

Ah, I think that's true. I think the Cypher is both a language and a device? I'm not sure... I'm planning to ask the admins about that on the Q+A thread on Kyngdom.

submitted by Scuttles
(April 4, 2023 - 7:38 am)

GLT, you. Are. Not. Stupid. Scuttles is right in that you know a lot about physics. You probably know more than my science teacher, no offense to him. You know stuff about physics that I, as an honor student probably won't learn until I'm well into high school. And your only nine years old.

 

Also, the CB is one of the least mainstream websites I know. And there is a place for you, but it may take some time to find it. That last thing might sound cheesy, but I know from experience that it's true. Please don't leave the CB. You are an important and creative member of the CB. I also agree that Kyngdom is kind of gory. But I don't think that everyone will be on Kyngdom. I plan on joining Kyngdom, and I will do my best to keep the violence details to a minimum. 

 

On mainstream: Scuttles said that the idea of mainstream is stupid. I agree. What's mainstream these days? Snapchat? Youtube? What do those have to offer? I'm fairly sure that everyone here is not mainstream. 

 

I hope this helped.  

submitted by Avara, she/her
(April 3, 2023 - 12:42 pm)

Kyngdom isn't meant for the youngest members of the CB, which it says on its FAQ page. (I can provide a screenshot of this if needed.) If Kyngdom's violence and gore isn't something you like, you don't have to go on Kyngdom. There's nobody forcing you to be on it. But things like the SAPs and the war were created by generations of CBers. It's disrespectful to erase all of that and claim it's not appropriate for the CB.

submitted by Sgt. Pepper, he/him
(April 4, 2023 - 11:18 am)

Actually, it says that Kyngdom could be too much for readers of Spider magazine, not Cricket. Spider is for a younger age range, though I don’t know the exact range off the top of my head.

Spider  is  aimed  at  ages  6  to  9 .

Admin   

submitted by Golden Lion Tamarin
(April 4, 2023 - 7:41 pm)

My point exactly. The youngest readers of Cricket are older than the oldest readers of Spider. 

 

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submitted by Golden Lion Tamarin
(April 4, 2023 - 8:41 pm)