The month of Febrouxlary has come to a close and we would like to thank every single one of you who participated and had fun. There were SO many great and imaginative works for every shipping week, and we, who planned this event, were so happy that it turned out to be the fun and enjoyable event we had in mind when planning this.
Well, at least for most of the time. Unfortunately a call-out post, two days before Febrouxlary ended, turned this fun into something else; with how much it has snowballed we feel like we should address this issue and get the facts right:
1. Yes, the owner of this blog is indigo-nobility, this is true and they ship Lancerkaard.
2. There were also several other people who helped Indigo planning it. We helped making the prompts for every day, deciding how to tag stuff and flesh out the graphics to advertise the different shipping weeks.
3. Febrouxlary was planned as an event around Rouxls Kaard to bring fun and joy to participants and followers alike. The idea for it came during a time when ship wars already started erupting, with tags being spammed and hurtful accusations thrown around. We wanted to boost positivity and include as many Rouxls shippers as possible because we believe everybody should feel they have a place.
4. Unlike the call-out post made it sound, we never planned this event to trick people and then shock them, promote Lancerkaard especially or even - it's hard to believe that this really was said - promote pedophilia!
The thoughts of revealing who runs this blog came from different members after Febrouxlary was explicitly asked to not allow certain ships or tumblr blogs. Some of the users wanted to really shock antis; others also mused, if we should reveal it and just show people that indigo-nobility is not an evil boogeyman, but someone who managed to create something every Rouxls shipper could enjoy in their own way.
5. We as a team still strongly believe that fiction is a safe environment to explore various themes, ships or kinks. That doesn't mean we condone them in real life, just as it doesn't mean that a writer of murder mystery novels is a serial killer. Real, actual pedophilia is a serious and terrible issue and everybody who consumes child porn staring real children, molests children or hurts them in any other way is a criminal and needs to get reported to the authorities.
Calling indigo-nobility and their whole server, where Febrouxlary was planned, MAPs or pedos is defamation and undermining the seriousness of the crimes you accuse us of. What people draw/look at, write/read and enjoy in fiction does not equal what they do like irl.
6. It's sad to see some of the participants believe those defamations - or be too afraid to get dragged into this - and distance themselves from this event. We can understand that you feel like you were tricked and we want to apologize if we made you feel this way, despite it never being our intention. We also think you should be able to participate an event centered around Rouxls Kaard and all the possible ships without getting/feeling associated with one problematic ship, the owner of this blog or any accusations that were made against us.
In the end we want to offer a special thank you to all people who made this month special and not let themselves get down by the defaming that happened 2 days before the finish line.
Thank you for all your support and the lovely work you sent in!
Also thank you to the pro-shipper blogs and anti-antis blogs, who tried to fight the defamation.
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