Fandom PSA:
Some of you have already become aware of this, but I wanted to alert the wider Reylo and Rings of Power Adariel shipping communities that the manip artist known as o0-SnowDrop-0o on tumblr/twitter has been posting some truly heinous racism on their twitter for months
Please share this so that more people are made aware and can unfollow/block/protect themselves
Below is a screen recording of their activity on twitter (It starts from when the disturbing tweets began in January, so you can see how some are mixed in with fandom tweets):
TW for extreme racism
Since I infrequently check twitter and typically don't look at RT's, I unfortunately only noticed their awful behavior recently when I saw their latest horrible quote tweet:
Background Info:
They posted about star wars and reylo mostly on tumblr at the height of when TLJ and TRoS were out, then went basically dormant a few years ago from what I can tell
Then when Season 2 of The Rings of Power came out last fall, they joined that fandom, started making adariel manips, and became more active on twitter
Here are some screenshots of their more famous reylo and adariel manips for reference/memory jog:
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Now, I did dm them on tumblr to ask if they'd been hacked because, initially, I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt, but I haven't received a response yet
HOWEVER, I have been informed by a former mod of a reylo forum who recognized their username from years ago that they had a history of making racist remarks about John Boyega一the mod pushed for them to be banned at the time
So, given that they retweeted racist posts in-between fandom posts AND have a past history of this behavior, I do not believe they were hacked and have unfollowed/blocked
I don't know if they thought they were posting on a priv account or what, but this behavior is absolutely disgusting and cannot be tolerated
From my experience as a member of both the Reylo and Adariel fandoms I know they are incredibly diverse and inclusive (and have kicked out bigots before), so I have every confidence y'all will make sure this person and their bigotry are not welcome in our fandoms going forward
disclaimer, if you're thinking of using the awful behavior of this person as an opportunity to dunk on reylos or adariels or adjacent fandoms/shippers, please just don't (check your priorities and either share the info or move on)
