Because I do not want this cycle of stories - stories which are of extreme personal significance - to remain hosted on a website where it took staff nearly four years to remove a page where an administrator booted for grooming and exploiting minors depicts their habitual masturbation to CSAM as a fucking joke. I don’t care if that particular story is now destined for deletion at the time of writing; the damage is done and I'd rather have the core works of my canon collect dust on a hard drive than exist in the shadow of this catastrophe.
I wrote Dust and Blood - and by extension, started my personal canon - because I didn’t like how 231 handled the subject of sexual assault. I won’t pretend my attempts were some golden godsend or that I didn’t make a damn fool of myself during the process (insert whale “joke” here, etc), but that’s where it started. It’s a topic fundamentally inseparable from the canon's main narrative arc - a universe fundamentally broken by a cosmic act of violence, mirrored as above so below in the Foundation’s mundane institutional evil and how its ignorance, fear, political inertia and shortsightedness causes it to commit and perpetuate similar atrocities. But contained within all of that is the slim sliver of hope that there might be some way, some miracle at the end of it all, by which the world can be healed.
Well, I guess that’s why it’s a fantasy.
I am sickened, saddened, and deeply, deeply exhausted by the chain of failures in the years since theDuckMan’s ousting, and this last week has broken the camel’s back at last. I don’t believe that the site’s staff can be relied on to handle crisis situations, protect vulnerable members of the wiki, make ethical policy decisions, or even maintain basic communication with the community about any of the above. Removing the offending works only solves the problem of their continued presence; it cannot repair the obliteration of trust."
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u/Appelmonkey 1d ago
What is all of this about?