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show this blog to someone from amrev and they’d probably cry

#cabbages

hey cabbages who's still here

#i still go by cabbages on the internet lol

Idk if you're still active on here but I just wanted to say 2 things

1) I love you you

&

2) Washingdad? More like Washingdaddy. He can ~speak to me alone~ whenever he wants.

aw ily2 bestie

I hope you and washingdaddy have a good time speaking in private ;)

Hi there! I see that your blog has been inactive for some time after the mishap on instagram. I hope that this little mistake hasn't changed your mind about running this blog! I, along with many others, really enjoy your content. I can always be sure that this blog will make me smile! Thank you for all of your work. I hope that you are doing well and that your new year is filled with cabbage. :) 💖

hey! I appreciate you checking in (even though this is obviously an old message haha). I can assure you that last year's group chat incident had nothing to do with my disappearance. in all honesty, my interest in this blog started to decline more than a year before I became inactive. I kept up with it from time to time for a little while because I love editing so much, but the topic is just not something I enjoy focusing on anymore. Turn is a great show (I'll always love it), and the community is one of my favorite little corners on the internet, but I just don't have the momentum from my interest to keep me going anymore.

honestly, the thing that made me completely disappear after trying to hang on to something that I just wasn't enjoying any more was a new fandom I found and started to make content for. it felt really good to be able to keep editing and making things that make me laugh, but for it to also involve something that I was/am genuinely interested in. I don't expect any of my Turn audience to be interested in my other content, though, so I never really promoted it here.

and the group chat -- it fizzled out after the mishap last year, but I'm not really upset that it did. if it hadn't, I probably would have deleted it soon after anyway because I definitely did not have time to monitor it between my 21 credits I was taking that semester.

anywayyyyy... I just wanted to respond and let you know that I appreciate you and everyone else who still enjoys this blog. I will probably get on here every now and then just to go through my inbox, but other than that, don't expect anything new from me. I will leave my old content up for as long as this website exists.

- cabbages

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@colonel-alexander-hamilton currently runs a Turn: Washington’s Spies Instagram that has decided they’d allow jokes like this to be considered appropriate within the fandom:

I cannot stress enough how disturbing and problematic it is. Comparing a real life mass shooters to a fictional and dramatized version of a solider is beyond wild to me.

To think that a dramatized version of a british officer made for television is the same as a real life person who committed mass murder with no regret really kind of shows the disconnect people have today with fictitious events and real life ones. It diminishes the argument of gun control in the US. It diminishes the conversations about home grown terrorism the minute it becomes a meme. Because memes are jokes that can’t hurt you. Except for when they do.

The Aurora movie theatre shooting was one of the worst mass shootings in US history. That was, of course, until it wasn’t. Mass shootings got worse and became more common place. But that doesn’t mean we can take a real life mass shooter and meme-ify him for a joke. It’s in poor taste and is really just a damn shame.

Turn is a good show. It’s not a show that should have people thinking it’s okay to make memes about real life actual gunmen who killed people in a movie theatre and then allow the people to continue posting in it.

I’m absolutely saddened to see that there are people like this in the fandom and I hope discussion can be brought about as to why it’s not okay to do this kind of thing.

mizmarymack

@ragtags No, you’re totally right. This is deeply disturbing and disrespectful. There is nothing funny about mass murder. Ever. People suffered, and are still suffering the consequences of that psycho.

I commend you on holding your ground and making this public. It shows integrity and strength to do what you did, which is really what this fandom is all about, and why we ultimately love the show — people standing up for what’s right, so I sincerely respect you for this.

And yeah. I unfollowed that fool.

bloodbindingg

oh me too.

it’s horrible what this person was and is doing. the fact that they thought this was funny is really disgusting, and the other people in that group chat as well. hopefully someone in that chat begins to realize it’s wrong and report that group chat and that account right away.

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I should clarify that col. Hamilton is merely the owner and mod and did not post that meme. They allowed it to sit unchecked.

The poster of the meme HAS been talked to; col. Hamilton and I are talking this all through. The poster of the meme is called: OCHeavenOfCourse. In case you follow them on Instagram. I don’t know if they have a tumblr handle but I’m sure they do.

I want this post to serve not as a callout for col.hamilton but I want to open the discussion with the whole fandom on holding each other accountable especially with this sort of show where it can be easily mistaken as RPF romanticism for a show that was based off of real life but dramatized enough to be fictional.

And I think it’s time we do open this discussion. We can be and do better as a whole and it’s important that we do. My discord server and I are discussing this as well so we can continue to improve ourselves. I’ll be untagging col. Hamilton in the original but please understand we MUST be and do better and hold every one of us accountable in our small fandom.

colonel-alexander-hamilton

I have addressed this issue with the chat and in private with the person who sent the meme. It is entirely my fault for not seeing what was sent, and for that I apologize. Yes, it is a small, usually light hearted chat, but there is no excuse for letting something like this sit. I am new to moderating a chat and I appreciate all of your criticism that will help me better myself. I have made it clear to all of those involved that such jokes will not be tolerated and have opened the discussion for those who are ill-informed and would like to learn. I am willing to learn from my mistakes and would be happy to personally apologize to any of you I have hurt by letting this horrible joke slip under my radar!