first of all thank you to buckaroos @headspace-hotel @dduane and @tkingfisher for their kindness and standing up for my way. LOVE IS REAL and your words have proven this to me today. i genuinely appreciate it very much.
i noticed this post float by and thought i should trot on over to say a QUICK SOMETHING so here goes
it is true i have addressed this many times and the BASIC POINT is that i do not like this comparison because i have had encounters with those who make something called HIVESWAP (which is connected to HOMESTUCK in some way and honestly i still do not really understand what EITHER of these things are just that they are some of the same folks). what i DO know is that these encounters have not been good.
usually when i talk about this i delete post because i do not want to start gossip or have a CALL OUT POST WAY. it is not my intent to make this into some big public battle, but it keeps coming up so i will say what i can and try to leave this one up
FOR THE RECORD i have never met andrew hussie but from my understanding his connection to way of hiveswap is tangental. i do not know if he is a kind buckaroo or a scoundrel. i really have no idea but since we have not met i will say that i have no ill will in this way
the folks of hiveswap are another story (i should also say there that i am only comfortable reposting these screenshots because they are all public. i am not leaking some private conversation these posts are just sitting around online still)
hiveswap folks have said terrible things to and about chuck. they have been ableist and they have been biphobic. they have been gatekeepers who said my autism was fake and that me saying ‘bi is valid’ is a joke.
this second one is saying that buckaroos need to know the history of every person in each gif they repost? i guess? i do not even understand this trot but i do understand the darkness of equating THAT with saying 'bi is valid’
long ago these folks asked to make a video game with the tingleverse and i said okay, then they pretty much disappeared. over time i have realized my first clue that something was amiss should have been the fact that i am a professional writer and SOMEONE ELSE (one of the folks above) was brought in to write this game. what this says to me is that while intentions might have been good at the time, subconsciously i was absolutely not taken seriously as an artist and seen as a joke or a meme or some member of whatever internet forums they trot around on. imagine asking stephen king to make a game and then not at least ASKING him to write it, or jordan peele, or junji ito.
i make real, important, valid art worthy of consideration. i am sincere. i put my whole heart into everything i create. i am not a meme or a character or a joke.
so every time this andrew hussie connection comes up online and i see it i am faced with all of these feelings about how these people treated me. i think about the way they invalidated my neurodivergence and queerness. but what is most troubling is that i am faced with questions of WHETHER OR NOT TO EVEN ADDRESS IT.
i did not want to write this post this morning. i did not want to consider whether or not i should defend myself and stand up to gatekeepers or just let it trot on because i really really really am not trying to start a dang fight with these folks. i have better trots to trot and i am sure they do to.
so hopefully for the last time (unless i feel dang strange and delete) i would appreciate if buckaroos could retire this little andrew hussie theory
