heyo! izuku's here as of writing this. i'll mention me specifically, then my collective i'm a fictive of izuku midoriya! i'm a gay, nonbinary bear who is also aegosexual and fictifideromantic. i use they/might/he pronouns. also, i'm an ageslider, but typically on the older side of my headmates. i specifically have been a member of gaehive for over a year! we're the lusus naturae collective, aka lusii naturae or idiom. ian is okay too? we collectively use he/it/they. we've been on the hive since 2023 or so? not fully sure, but i think january 2023. we're bodily 16 but have headmates of varying ages. we live in est timezones, although our exact state depends on the time of the year i think we'd make a good manager due to our vast experience with studio chatrooms, having been members of multiple outside of gaehive, and managing lohas (land of homestuck and silliness) and fictionfort. we're typically very open to chat, love answering questions, and do our best to support the studio's general well-being sometimes we can be prone to lashing out or getting upset easily, and favoring familiarity over reaching out to new people. i'm not sure how well we'd react to criticism as we often don't face it. some of our headmates come off more rude and blunt, or generally mean. other than rudeness, we can be very self centered as well i think i'm unhappy with a lot of things about the hive currently, and i hope that by becoming a manager i could help transform it into a more safe and fun place for lgbtq+ teens, including the managers i'm not sure! i haven't really looked into who else is applying. outside of our experiences with other studios, fictive heavy plurality, and firsthand experience to the hive being an unsafe space for me and my friends in the past due to said fictive heavy plurality, i think i am very plain amongst other members i'd want to promote community activities, although i'm not sure how i'd achieve that yet. i know we have the exchange, and things like that, but i think i remember being really happy when we had the untitled bracket games, pixel art games, or the thing where the hive would get randomly turned into a studio from any random hivian's profile. that felt like a safe space for kids, and i would want us to have fun like that again. only issue is, i suck at coding most things outside of animation memes ^_^ being a manager means taking responsibility for the hivians. it unfortunately means you'd have to be blamed for things you didn't do, or have any control over, but that is it. it means representing the studio in a way. the managers are expected to both entertain and control, but not be too controlling or they're "toxic". a major point is communication, i think there was a point where we though the managers were "dictators", or that they hated us, iirc, so i do understand where a lot of people who think that way are coming from, and communication without blame is probably the only way to diffuse that sentiment. has helped resolve multiple arguments if i remember correctly, and taph's daily (minecraft) facts he was doing for a while boosted some whimsy in the hive, in my opinion while i'm not sure how long comet has been active in the hive, they're very helpful within the discussion studio is pretty active and helpful in the discussion studio, plus squirt also manages the gaehive wiki, which i think is overlooked often but very useful for community documentation purposes i think! so far has left a positive impact that i've seen, although my memory is NOT being helpful with this one sighs. she'd make a good manager in my opinion i just cannot remember why i feel that way
image is just lycandeku eating toothpaste because i didn't know what to set it as,,,
