Why do I try time and time again to read Wind
Notable posts from wind ISO:
Leafia
WindwardAway:
Ok Leafia town
I skimmed like ten posts in the middle of her iso
So they claim to only skim 10 of Leafiaās post (and corroborates this multiple times through the day), and spit out a townread. Then they keep being very hedgy in both directions, saying this:
But at the same time continuing to defend Leafia with posts like these:
The worst part is they seem to be aware of themselves not being great about their defense of Leafia:
WindwardAway:
I am always self-aware
If you didnāt know that, youāre about to find out lol
and yet they spend a good portion of D1 defending Leafia forā¦ not much of a good reason.
WindwardAway:
@Leafia to answer your question for me, as I said earlier it isnāt that I think youāve posted super towny things but I donāt think youāve posted anything that I would said nails you into your scum meta. At worst, itās NAI, but I donāt see anything from you that makes me think āno way this canāt be townā.
So, yes, itās a bit early for me to jump in and say I think youāre town, since nothing points super clearly in that direction either, but as I have also mentioned, I just think itās funny if I challenge the thread consensus calling you a wolf, because it will always spark some sort of discussion.
This sorta-defense just because they āwanted to go against thread consensusā feels a) performative and 2) somewhat TMI-y. They arenāt really doing anything or broadening their reads based on their semi-read on Leafia (something they said they would do since their Leafia read was to get people talking about them), and just softly defending them the entire time.
Then we get to the āIāll most definitely bus Leafiaā portion:
This kinda chainsaws into why they scumread Marl, for supposedly not being able to catch onto this. Iāll talk about this more in the āMarlā section, but this self-meta is by no means a reason to suddenly jump to Marl.
Marl
Starts with a ālmao they suck at reading Leafiaā
This coy little act calling them towny but not at the same time just feels incredibly hedgy, and if Windward was partnered with Marl would explain their unwillingness to bus a strong teammate D1.
Then they explain their read like this:
In this part they seem to give a couple reasons on Marl, but if you look closely the only point that they actually wolfread Marl on is their interaction with Leafia. And as this as a turning point, they start fixating on this one argument and they start to dig it.
WindwardAway:
I wouldnāt expect him to be correct on any of us that early, but I do know that he tends to see Leafia and Wazza as scummy regardless of their alignments when heās town, and I know he often reads my early posts as scummy when heās town, but that he tends to tunnel Leafia and Wazza but can usually find me as town later on from my posts.
This switch between āidk about marlā to fixating on this one thing feels quite abrupt and unnatural - in some posts they claim there are still some good things about Marl:
But they really donāt talk about the different facets and just keep focusing on that one interaction with Leafia/Marl. This feels way too narrow, and it feels like Windward has the goal of āattack Marlā and is doing things to compensate for it; this would mean that they have a bussing agenda with Marl.
Arsonist talk
This is the one thing that they have good going for them, but I think at this point w!Windward would have been in full bus mode, meaning they would have supported trusting eevee and killing Marl.
Others
This section is included in here for my sake, to look at interactions later
WindwardAway:
Wazza (only for tagging me and then asking why I donāt have a read on her yet, and I know she does that as town, but I also know that she knows I tend to hold off on reading her immediately or even for a day or two - because of the dumb thing where we either rand opposite alignments and the wolf tries to pocket the villa, or we rand town together and tunnel the fuck out of each other. this was a tangent but tl;dr itās complicated lol)
WindwardAway:
The explanation thing is the way this forum tends to handle my slot. If I donāt give reads I get scumread, if I give reads without explanations I get scumread, and if I give explanations when asked I also get scumread. Its more like I am pissed off by the fact that people on this forum always expect me to do work in the game or else I am automatically scum. I have attempted to slank as town because I wanted to dial back my activity and effort level, and got wolfread for it. If I tryhard as town I tend to get correctly towncleared. If I tryhard as wolf I do get wolfread but also survive for longer than if I slank. Itās more like I am hyperaware of how the vast majority FoLers view my meta and I will always attempt to do things that make me townread, regardless of alignment, but I will be much more likely to tryhard when asked regardless of alignment and give all explanations even if it ruins an RT or something, because of that assumption that I will always be scumread if I donāt explain literally everything I am doing.
TL;DR:
Their Leafia read feels performative and TMI-y, they claim itās to make people talk about their slot but they havenāt really expanded their reads on Leafia other than for Marl. End effect is just having soft-defended Leafia.
Their hyperfixation on Marl misreading the Leafia/Windward interaction feels as if there is an external motive behind it, bussing would be an excellent one.
Their reaction to eevee wanting to kill Marl does feel towny, but can also be explained by bussing.
Conclusion:
Or not And Iām just stupid
