just heard about what noor did and i’m honestly… stunned?😭😭 i used to see her through EXTREMELY rose-tinted glasses, and now that i’m revisiting her work, i’m realizing how much weird stuff i completely brushed off. i remember being put off by certain things she wrote—some of the hypocrisy too—but i ignored those gut feelings because of the glorified image i had of her as a reader.
what baffles me even more is that she still hasn’t responded to the victim. how can you present yourself as this strong, morally-sound person online—constantly preaching good values—if you can’t even take accountability for your own actions? not even a public apology? and the way she treated other people’s work just for having a similar prompt, claiming it was unoriginal… like, where’s the fairness in that? that’s not integrity, that’s immaturity, hypocrisy, and ignorance.
i’ve been revisiting the iaptbap archives now that the rose-tinted glasses are off, and there’s so much i overlooked. the random s/a scenes, the way the princess mononoke arc was written, and more. i always felt a little creeped out by kano’s behavior too, especially since his movie counterpart was nothing like that. i’d like to revisit jadol and tao if anyone’s managed to save them, though it’s been a while so i barely remember anything.
i also want to say—my heart goes out to the victim. i can’t imagine how heavy and painful it must’ve been to come forward, especially against someone with a huge following and a carefully curated image. thank you for your courage. you are incredibly strong for speaking up, and you deserve nothing but support, healing, and peace. what happened to you should have never been brushed aside.
as someone who used to be a die-hard fan, someone who made fanart for her stories, someone who was genuinely inspired to write because of her—i mean it when i say this: let her works die. there’s no legacy worth preserving if it’s built on harm and silence.