About that long piece I said yesterday
I can’t reblog it now because the shitstain who started it is deleting responses that they don’t agree with, but if you want to go read everything then just click here to do so. It’s the version that someone else responded to, but mu comment is on there as well. In fact, go read that first, and then come back here.
I gave them a chance to show that they actually wanted to change and apologize to the people that they hurt, but instead they are deleting all responses to their tumblr post that are even remotely negative or close to pointing out the real truth of what happened. I am taking this as a sign that no, they do not want to change, and that they will keep coming back to the other website involved and dredging up hurt feelings. I was going to leave them alone, but if they’re not going to give the same courtesy, then all bets are off. They won’t be able to delete a post if someone else makes the first post.
Before I begin, I will be using the name ‘Nova’ to describe this person, and I will be using they/them pronouns. Because the last time I heard (two days ago, as of the writing of this post), those were their preferred name and pronouns. If that changes in the future, then okay, but please do not go off on a tangent about misgendering and dead names. Nova has used this tactic to successfully derail criticism about them in the past, and I have no doubt in my mind that they will do it again.
Also, this entire post carries a content warning for talk of suicide. Because that is the main way Nova manipulates people.
Nova used to roleplay on a website called Dreamwidth. It’s a journaling website, and one of the bigger groups of roleplayers out there. Nova was a mod at a game called Cosmographia and also played in a couple other games.
In November of 2015, there was a huuuuuge incident at Cosmographia, which resulted in a player being banned, several mods quitting, and the game being deleted entirely. Explaining everything that happened would take ages, but you can read the relevant information at this post here. (as a note, Nova was going by ‘Tora’ back then. Look for the name Tora in the posts and comments.) Get yourself a drink, it’ll take a while to read all of that.
During that incident, it finally came to light that Nova was bullying people into doing what she wanted them to do. They usually did this over private messages, and would often outright lie to get what they wanted. This happened to over a dozen people, some of which knew Nova in real life. The original post where everyone started talking about the stuff Nova was saying in private can be found here, and of particular note is the thread here where it shows that Nova is willing to use someone else’s suicide threat to manipulate people into not arguing with her. Also read this thread, where once again Nova uses suicide threats to bully someone into doing what they want. In the latter’s case, they were trying to bully their co-mods into not banning a problem player. This is a common tactic for them: if they are not getting their way, they will threaten suicide or say something like ‘I bet you wish I had killed myself when [bringing up previous incident’.
So Tora was kicked out of the Dreamwidth RP community and banned from several games.
A month later in December of 2015, Nova tried to sneak back in to DWRP under a fake name. They got caught and banned again, of course. But one of the other players involved in both this and the original incident in November knew Nova in real life, and they tried to get him kicked out of college. Thankfully Nova got banned once again.
I cannot for the life of me find the links to it, but Nova came back again in April of 2016, trying to ‘make amends’. Of course, they didn’t actually apologize for anything and was trying to make it all about themselves. Once again, they were told to go away.
Which brings us to a couple days ago. Once again Nova came back, this time making anon comments that vaguely talked about being run out of DWRP. Eventually they admitted to who they were, and everyone pretty much just said ‘GO AWAY’. Because, once again, Nova made it painfully clear they wanted buttpats, not to actually apologize.
There are others out there who can say it better than I can (I played in a game with Nova, and we did end up in a situation where we had to plot out an event together, but I was never a target of theirs), and I invite them to respond here and say everything they have to say about Nova. Because if Nova is going to keep coming back to our playground and stir up shit every time they want someone to say ‘no honey it’s okay, you’re fine’, then okay. We’ll bring this shit back to THEIR playground. And I wouldn’t be surprised if they were pulling the same stunts here, and nobody felt like they could speak up because Nova was doing it in private.
TL;DR: if you did a bad thing in the past and want to change, then okay. But if you did a bad thing in the past and try to use half-truths about it to garner sympathy from people who have no idea what you really did, then fuck you.
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