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As anyone who still follows this blog knows (if there is still anyone from my active days), this blog is pretty much in perma-hiatus. I’m not really into Gotham anymore, and I hadn’t been for a while prior to my leaving, either. Mostly, I stuck around for my friends, and the people I really enjoyed talking to, and who I knew well.
Many of those people, though, eventually left the community for various reasons. Whether it was discomfort and discontent with the show writing itself, real life situations causing problems, or the general toxicity of the platform as a whole- I, and a lot of other people, couldn’t find the time or desire to be here anymore. That said, I do have a lot of those people on other social media sites like Discord, and I keep in touch with a handful of my good friends as best I can with the way my life has been going.
So, I still find out when crazy shit happens. And some crazy shit is happening, currently- enough to bring me out of my goblin cave to type up a long post on a blog for a community I don’t write for anymore.
I will not address the various callouts going around- I haven’t been an active participant in anything in this sphere in over two years. I also no longer have screenshots, messages, or access to my old accounts that would have those types of references in their history. Any information I have about anything or anyone would be years old, and even if it is accurate or ‘helpful’ to one group or the other, it seems wrong to dredge it all up for the sake of proving someone right or wrong- especially since it’s stuff that no longer personally bothers me. It did, immensely, at the time. But I’m older and wiser now, and I didn’t make this post to hop into the drama pot, so to speak.
I made this post to talk about @misskringle and I.
Let’s rewind to when I first joined the community.
Joining a new RPC is not easy for me ever- and the fact that I had chosen to make a blog for someone who, at the time, was a minor side character did not make this any easier for me. I was torn between being excited that there was only one other Kristen blog (more threads!) and simultaneously worrying that this was some sort of evidence of her unpopularity as a character. It was a weird headspace to be in, and, because I was new, I was trying my absolute very best to come off as a friendly, passive person to everyone I talked to.
I followed almost everyone back, talked to anyone who would message me. I made a lot of friends in that first week, some of whom I still speak to, and many who I have lost contact with over the years but think back on fondly.
I was followed almost immediately by the other Kristen, though we didn’t speak for several days. Soon, the owner of this blog was posting worrying ooc posts- and even though we’d never formally had a conversation, I felt a kinship with her simply over the mutual appreciation for the character we wrote for.
At the time, I had been adopted into a group chat with a few other RPers in the community- something I was very excited about, as it seemed I had successfully integrated into the platform and at least some people liked me. These people had been around for a while and knew pretty much everyone in the community that had been there before I joined. I trusted them to show me the ropes, link me with other blogs that were active, and all that you would expect. These people will remain unnamed, because again, I am here to talk about myself and misskringle- not to contribute to anything else that is going around. In addition, last I heard, one of them has already apologized for their part in the situation I am about to detail, and that apology has long since been accepted.
That said, I do think the situation has been brought up several times in some of the other posts going around (which is partially why I came back to post this- I don’t really like the idea of people using me as a victim of something without my knowledge or input), so the information is already out there if you look, but I’m not going to start naming people and tagging their blogs.
I had asked the people in this chat if they knew, simply, whether the person who ran the other (formerly only) Kristen blog was alright. I didn’t know if they spoke to her, I was just concerned about the things that popped up on my dash and wanted to know if anyone was helping or supporting her through it. I was told, more or less, that the reason she was upset was because a new Kristen blog (see: me) had shown up, and that she was very possessive of her title as Reigning Kristen and that she probably did not like that I was around, but to not worry about it because I had this group to write with.
I felt, as you may anticipate, like literal human garbage.
I stopped posting, avoided writing with people I associated as being “her” partners, and debated several times on the merits of sending her a message to apologize for my existence and assure her that I was not out to steal her partners.
And then she reblogged my promo post. Not only that, she left a ton of genuinely sweet, supportive, and excited notes in the tags of said post, including a suggestion that we write a twin-verse together. For obvious reasons, this confused me. I messaged a neutral third party, also unnamed, who was friends with both of us but separated from that original chat I was in- and asked them to please let her know that I appreciated her comments and would love to write with her, and also that I apologized if my being around the past week had stepped on any toes or contributed to her mood.
I was then told, by this person, that they had absolutely no idea where I got this information that I was disliked- and that, in fact, this other Kristen had been raving to them excitedly about seeing another blog for her character floating about but simply hadn’t gotten around to sending me a message about it yet.
Again, kind of a shock, considering the initial information I was given- but I was thrilled!
We started talking, I apologized (again) and she assured me that she had literally never once been upset about my presence, and her posts had been due to a very stressful and tragic IRL situation. We did start writing that twin verse- several, to be precise. We did group threads with other people. She introduced me to some of her friends in the RPC who I hadn’t yet met. We made memes, made each other graphics, added each other on Skype when that was still the primary method of outside communication.
We talked OOC constantly- shared our other interests, played video games together, even found out we shared a birthday! When I made other blogs, she wrote on those with me as well, and promo’d them constantly, and I did the same. Discord became a thing, and we moved over to there from Skype but continued talking on a regular basis- text, voice, video.
I gave her my IRL phone number, and we texted there.
I have spent several entire weekends with misskringle, IN PERSON, hanging out and spending time together. Both of us have introduced the other to our IRL friends, both online and in person. Here are some photos of us together at various conventions:
We have cosplayed Kristen together at the same cons and helped each other with our costumes, and we have planned other (non-Gotham) matching cosplays and events for the future.
To this day, we still regularly talk, write together on other platforms, and stay up until ungodly hours on discord calls making horrible memes. I have never once in my life even been SLIGHTLY upset with or angry at her.
And she certainly did not bully me off my blog, jesus christ.
I left the fandom because the show writing disappointed me constantly, and most of the characters I liked were changed, killed, or written inconsistently to the point of being unenjoyable to watch. And because of how cliquey, dramatic, and overall toxic this community became- the effects of which apparently are finally coming to light in this crazy call-out post dumpster fire that’s been happening over the past couple of days.
TLDR; @misskringle and I have always been friends- very close friends at that! The only time we weren’t living it up with each other was when I was told, incorrectly, by others who apparently had an existing issue with her, that she didn’t like me. And ever since that was resolved, literally within week 2 of my arrival on this website three years ago, we’ve been buddies with literally 0 arguments or issues between us.
I’m so tired of this narrative going around that she is a bad person and that I was just an innocent victim bullied off my blog- because she is a fantastic friend to me, and because literally no one could bully me off a blog if they tried, I can deal with my shit.
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