“The fact that Athena is opening a new supernatural site alongside Cold Champagne is such a joke. This is the same Athena who has flaked out of every site she’s run in the past 5 years, and who recycles all of her lore, characters, and plots, because she’s still stuck in her Buffy Summers wet dream and doesn’t know how to write anything but fxf smut. Champagne is a recycle of an old LA site that crashed and burned because she’s too inconsistent and cliquey to keep a site going once the initial buzz wears off. It’ll be the same with Champagne, and the same with her new one too. Some people really need to evaluate if they’re cut-out for adminning.”
Hi! I’m Athena, off anon because I have nothing to hide. I am opening Way Down, and I’m really excited about it. I was working on it before I even knew Cold Champagne existed. I joined CC late on the staff side. I actually applied the day the staff search was set to end, and all the lore and such was already done. I helped with mark up and basic code stuff and am skinning for the second skin to come.
As for flaking out of every site I’ve run in the past 5 years, that’s not true. In most cases, I ended up closing sites as the last staffer standing. Real life happens, and people have to step away, and that’s to be respected. It’s why on WD and for CC’s second skin I’ve implemented some measures to make staffing easier.
I do recycle and rewrite and rework lore, because I like what I like. I reuse characters and plots because I love them, as do a lot of roleplayers. I’m not going to apologize for that.
As for Buffy Summers wet dream era, I mean I won’t lie I do love Buffy Summers but you very clearly don’t know much about me if you say I don’t know how to write anything but fxf smut. I only write smut with people I’m close to, otherwise I ask to work up to it for my own comfort. I also write other plot types than fxf, but I won’t lie I do ask for fxf a lot because it is more rare on sites. I still currently have more het ships than sapphic.
As for your final point, again… I joined after all information had been finalized. A friend asked if I could fix a coding issue and as I was fixing it, I got muse, so I stepped in. Additionally, tell me what LA site I’ve ever run… Because I genuinely don’t remember ever running one. Unless you’re meaning when I was staffing on Future Nostalgia? But that wasn’t anything like CC, it was a celebrity site specifically, and I left due to some internal issues.
I can name the sites I’ve done in recent years, if you’d like, and why they closed or why I left. I can tell you what I contributed, and what I did to try to keep them from closing. I can also tell you what the final line was that caused me to throw in the towel. I haven’t run a supernatural site in years. I haven’t opened a real life site in quite a while either.
You can call me flaky if you want, I’m okay with that. You can yell that I do fxf smut, I’m chill with that too. Honestly, I’m coming off anon for one reason and one reason alone: The only part of this that upsets me is that someone out there seems to be upset with me, to the point of this. If you wanna talk, hit me up. My discord is listed on my coding tumblr, or my ask/messages/etc is open on my main blog.
Anyway, I am not the only staff member on either of the sites I am staffing on currently, so please keep that in mind regardless of what you think of me. Overall, whoever you are, I’m sorry that I’ve upset you, especially if it’s enough so to blatantly make things up. Reach out if you wanna talk it through. I very much am team no hard feelings, let’s move on, so hopefully you are too.
Below are some screenshots to prove the bits about CC, if you’re interested.
So this is when Trav first told me about CC, and I said no because I was working on WD. As you can see, information was already set up to go, a week before I was asked to help with things.
Trav asking for some coding help, because the site was basically done and all that was left for some tweaks.
Me asking if the staff search was still going, because I got to see the site info and had the muse required to split my time, which I hadn’t expected.
Anyway, that’s it. The claims against me were completely made up, and that kind of hurts because I honestly can’t think of who you might even be to say something like that about me. Here’s hoping you’ll allow a conversation.