Leaving the Eltingville fandom was for the best.
This is not a great example of “Do not beat the dead horse.” I have to get this off my chest.
The drama with being mostly a witness from either in or outside chats or posts and almost a butt in suddenly over a misunderstanding from March of 2025, Discord being an obvious setting where stuff went down, they were young adults (Not teens) having that responsibility and having it go downhill at the time, and something the club would try or would do, even if it's not real, it's fictional, the thing about the comic was Evan having a story over his younger self put into his characters. Hell, even I'm thinking of doing that with my characters that used to be a part of the Eltingville club, and they aren't anymore, as I still love them and don't want to trash them or forget about them, they have put too much effort and story into them.
With the negative experience with the servers and outside the servers, being on trash fire Twitter one time, I'm only in two calmer ones now and keeping it that way, and only indulge sometimes when I can, but I just won't be in that much in the fandom that closely again, or at least the old groups that is.
I had gained really good close friends being in the fandom back then during April 2025-2026, which I still talk to often, and that care for me, and helped me during the times that were not great.
I did like indulging in different characters that were made and pieces other creators made, and even ships, some didn't last long but they're looked back on fondly, those people are super talented and I loved seeing art being made, I was told by two friends that I gave light to other artists that did deserve to be seen, I guess it's been a while since that chat, I did cry happy tears, I didn't know I was thought of that way. Some days I do miss chatting with most people back then but I used my freedom of choice to leave for my own valid reasons, and others have moved onto different interests/fandoms which is fine too, it's nice memories that outweigh the negative experiences. It feels bittersweet as well.
I will keep up my Eltingville club art on my socials, as drawing in the style back then had nice shape language and had me draw almost everyday, which is great.
But with how the fandom was, or still is going on with high school type of drama I don't know I don't seek it out too often, it was draining, tiring and very much nothing to get so pissed off about, but shit had to come back from the dead horse those months ago and just have me less than calm and neutral. I cannot do that again. It's stupid.
So I'm just gonna be doing my own thing, and be in different fandoms, and not beat the dead horse again, and can actually move on with no repeats, but I already did with this rant. This is probably not a good idea to rant about it like months after with no activity of TEC.
Also if this is seen, do not (user)name drop anyone, even if you're either a witness or heard from someone else, or curious, this is not fuel to a fire, even in a public post I kept it vague for privacy reasons, and not trying to start anything up, I'm not comfortable with that, and it's also useless, and not that serious, I blocked people to move on.