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Hatter's Cabaret

25 days ago
Commended by Mizal on 8/19/2025 9:20:43 PM
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Come one, come all - this Sunday at 3pm EST in Discord. I will be hosting a drawing/entertainment cabaret!

This cabaret will include live drawing of up to two $25.00 commissions - if you are interested sign up for a comm slot in reply to this post. Also you can send me $5.00 during the stream for a live small drawing of your choice on the spot!

You all chose Sunday afternoon for me to get drunk but alright, I'll be drinking too. I beckon you to join me! BYOB!

I also am looking for intermission entertainment. Whether that might be a live short story reading, a song or performance, or even a mildly humorous Sent Rant (a Sant?) Let me know!

See you there!

Hatter's Cabaret

25 days ago

Sure if you'll have me I'd love to join.

When you say entertainment, do you mean you telling the stories or audience participation? Cause a reading of some of EndMaster's short stories would be funny. 

And yeah I got beer.

Hatter's Cabaret

25 days ago
Yes, a dramatic reading would be great!

Hatter's Cabaret

25 days ago

Oh phew, was wondering where this post went.

I LOVE HATTER'S CABARET!

Hatter's Cabaret

25 days ago
I would buy a commission, but I'm not in the discord, so I don't think I could. Would love to commission you sometime in the future though

Hatter's Cabaret

25 days ago
I had it ages ago but lost it. Now it's a well kept secret.

Hatter's Cabaret

25 days ago
I will be setting up VC access from the long disused noob cage, just for Hatter. Though it pains me to think of the amount of cleanup this will require afterwards. Every inch needing to be fumigated and disinfected.

Hatter's Cabaret

24 days ago
Well in that case, assuming one is left, I'd like a 25 dollar commission then!

Hatter's Cabaret

24 days ago
This is the issue with democracy. Alright, send the details before the stream! Thank you!

Hatter's Cabaret

25 days ago
I would love to get a $5 doodle, but I'm also not in the Discord (I had no idea CYS even had one tbh).

Hatter's Cabaret

25 days ago
It's kind of an invite only place for the chosen. No idea what you actually need to do to get in though.

Hatter's Cabaret

25 days ago
Commended by MadHattersDaughter on 8/20/2025 1:23:06 PM

contribute and be likable

Hatter's Cabaret

25 days ago
i mean fair

Hatter's Cabaret

25 days ago
Well, it's kind of closed off a bit more than that by now. It's been around 6 years and at this point is a carefully balanced ecosystem of core members, along with some past ones who don't use the site so much but still like to keep up.

And in this environment personal info has been shared (IRL stuff about work or pictures of people's kids and such) so it's made me kind of reluctant to bring in new people, and some of them we thought were cool turned out not to be a good fit. (And then of course it's a pain in the ass to remove them without hurt feelings or leaving the site altogether.)

To tell the truth there's just too many autists in this community who don't know how to act. But also, it's nice to keep the forum alive and not distract the rest of you from wholesome productivity with Discord's brainrot.

Hatter's Cabaret

25 days ago
That feels like a smarter idea than having an open-invite chat, especially if there's more sensitive details about members involved.

Hatter's Cabaret

24 days ago
Yeah and doubly so considering how drama-prone open discords tend to be. Can't remember when was the last time I've seen a server where some shit didn't go down for usually the dumbest of reasons.

Hatter's Cabaret

24 days ago
Oh yeah I stay away from public Discords because they tend to be cesspools of the worst. I just stick to gaming chats with my friends and that's it. No patience for 500 lb pedos.

Hatter's Cabaret

24 days ago

We did have it completely open for awhile, but not even counting people here, we started getting folks from other IF/writing communities joining only to get offended and go run and tell everyone how horrible we all were. It's like you could've just looked at the forums and saved a trip.

There were a few folks that tried to troll, but that never really worked out for them.

Finally we started getting weird folks just wandering in from wherever. Which pretty much resulted in kicking out the degenerates and the open doors experiment was shut down.

Probably the most entertaining of that lot was some nurse that wandered in bragging about being into erotic roleplay and was generally a dumb whore. She'd sometimes go on about how we weren't "hardcore" enough. It's like "Ma'am this is not that sort of writing community. You took a wrong turn somewhere."

Might have kept her around for lols a little longer, but she fucked up someone's Minecraft server so she got kicked for that.

Hatter's Cabaret

24 days ago

Ah, I see. It has been like two years since I was on there, and when I was it wasn't very exclusive. 

Hatter's Cabaret

25 days ago

I would like to sign up for a $25 comm slot.

Is Paypal ok?

Hatter's Cabaret

25 days ago
Yay! Yes Paypal is preferred! Send me the deets before the stream! Thank you Tim!

Hatter's Cabaret

25 days ago

No problem, MHD. I'll give you the details in the next day or two.

Hatter's Cabaret

24 days ago
I'm pre-gaming right now to ensure I'm ready by Sunday

Hatter's Cabaret

24 days ago

Shit I gotta catch up

Hatter's Cabaret

24 days ago
The event sounds really fun! I'd love to attend just to watch the livestream, hopefully me and other people not in the discord can join, maybe from that noob cage Mizal was talking about. Would that be ok? I'm assuming the noob cage is a kind of restricted channel, so we could still check out the livestream without formally being in the discord.

Hatter's Cabaret

24 days ago

I would love a 5 dollar doodle! Yahoo!

Hatter's Cabaret

24 days ago
What's the timezone on that 3pm so that those of us living on the better side of the pond can make sure they make it?

Hatter's Cabaret

24 days ago

The post says it's EST. Looks like it's a very early morning for me, then. 

Hatter's Cabaret

24 days ago
Oh yeah didn't notice. That means 9pm for me which thankfully works since I have monday off.

Hatter's Cabaret

24 days ago
Anyone who intends to show up make sure to post in this thread. Your ticket will arrive in the mail.

Hatter's Cabaret

24 days ago
I'll make sure to remove a server so that I can join.

Hatter's Cabaret

24 days ago
How many are you on?

Never heard of an actual limit.

Hatter's Cabaret

24 days ago
100 which is the limit unless you have full Nitro which ups that to 200. I'm not active in any of them except for maybe 5, but some of those I keep for updates on games or other stuff.

Hatter's Cabaret

24 days ago

I wish I could, but I neither have money, alcohol, or availability in the chosen time. :(

Hatter's Cabaret

23 days ago

I do. I'm bringing beer lol

Hatter's Cabaret

23 days ago
I would like to see how the magic is made so please send me a ticket to my vacation home just north of the Pit of SHAME.

Hatter's Cabaret

23 days ago
I would like an invite too, please! 1 ticket to the Cabaret, wow that sounds really fancy and French lol.

Hatter's Cabaret

22 days ago
Assuming I'm still free the day of, I would like a ticket!

Hatter's Cabaret

23 days ago

I would love to be there, but as I'm sadly not part of the Discord community, all I can say is that it's an awesome idea and I hope you'll share your art pieces after the event.

Hatter's Cabaret

23 days ago
Hey Cat,
I'm not in the discord either. You can still come! Mizal set up the invites so that if you're not part of the discord community, you can still attend. I think you missed the message above, where she said that she'll message everyone here who's not part of the discord with an invite to the event as long as you post in this thread that you're interested in attending. All you have to do is just reply to the original message saying that you're not in the discord but you would like to attend.

Hatter's Cabaret

23 days ago

Since the 25$ commission slots were already filled up, if there are free slots for the 5$ commissions, I'd like to attend as well.

Hatter's Cabaret

23 days ago
There will be a Cashapp link during the stream for the five dollars drawings :~)

Hatter's Cabaret

21 days ago

So fucking glad this guy is back

Hatter's Cabaret

22 days ago

I do not have Discord access, but would like to attend this event anyway, please.

Hatter's Cabaret

21 days ago

hb

TOMORROW! Make sure you REPLY WITH INTEREST to get your ticket to Discord!

At the end of the stream, there will be a commemorative profile badge for everyone who attended. :~)

Hatter's Cabaret

21 days ago

I am interested in attending!

(I don't know if you meant reply to this post or your original one. I'm doing both just to be safe).

Hatter's Cabaret

21 days ago
How I wish I were available… :/

Hatter's Cabaret

21 days ago
Same, it sounds fantastic! But it's 3am here and I won't be able to get on Discord... I hope everyone has a great time :D

Hatter's Cabaret

21 days ago
Tickets are going out in the morning, last call here, forum schlubs.

Hatter's Cabaret

21 days ago
If you're someone who expressed intent to join and I missed giving you a ticket somehow, let me know. If you never posted in here and you still do want to visit, well better speak up soon!

Hatter's Cabaret

20 days ago
This was fun. All you plebs who didn't show up, expect a visit from ICE soon.

Hatter's Cabaret

20 days ago

Got a text for a job interview at the last minute.

Hatter's Cabaret

19 days ago
I hope you got the job.

Hatter's Cabaret

19 days ago

Hope the interview went well and you were offered the job.

Hatter's Cabaret

19 days ago
Hopefully you got the job and the interview wasn't a disaster. If you did get the job, hopefully they won't fire you or pay you insanely low wages (or otherwise treat you badly), although I can't guarantee it would never happen.

Hatter's Cabaret

19 days ago
I was beginning to think there was far too much positivity in this thread. Fortunately you managed to tip the scales a little bit back to the norm. Not very much, mind you, but perhaps pointing out that the interview could gave gone horribly wrong will get the ball rolling.

Hatter's Cabaret

19 days ago
I'm truly sorry for missing it. A friend had an emergency and I needed to step in. I will surely be present at the next cabaret. Sent from Alligator Alcatraz

Hatter's Cabaret

19 days ago
Hope your friend is okay.

Hatter's Cabaret

19 days ago
Sorry to hear that Mousecore. I hope things work out.

Hatter's Cabaret

19 days ago
Sorry about your friend. I hope they're doing ok.

Hatter's Cabaret

19 days ago

Sorry to hear. Hope all is okay for your friend.

Hatter's Cabaret

20 days ago
Commended by Mystic_Warrior on 8/24/2025 7:02:50 PM
Gosh I haven't been this drunk in awhile. THANK YOU all for hanging with me and thank you for the comms!

I will have the various doodles + comms uploaded when I can see straight!

Hatter's Cabaret

20 days ago
Hope you don't have a hangover, but drawing that well while drunk is impressive. Though perhaps it is possession by the spirits themselves that truly draws out your talent.

Hatter's Cabaret

20 days ago
Hope we can do this again soon, and that I don't miss most of it next time! Although even hanging out in the text chat was pretty fun, Sent was on a roll and really helping me envision the magic, even when the magic was a human butt.

Hatter's Cabaret

20 days ago
Yes it was lots of fun. It was the hardest I've laughed all week!

Mark my words I will also host a Halloween stream sometime in October :~)

Hatter's Cabaret

20 days ago
Whoops.

I think I just wet 'em

Hatter's Cabaret

20 days ago

Thank you for sharing your amazing talent! I hope you don't suffer too much at work.

Hatter's Cabaret

20 days ago
That was indeed very fun, hopefully we'll get a chance to do something like that again at some point. And hopefully your hangover isn't too bad.