I see a lot of folks defending their vitriolic repugnance towards toddlers with cries of "but my sensory needs!" as if children are not also in possession of sensory needs. As if you, an adult here on Tumblr.com, do not have the capability and resources to learn the skills or acquire aids for coping with competing access needs. Or, y'know, just the option to leave, the way children most often do not.
You're holding an actual child to higher standards than you hold yourself, but it's the child that should be removed from public and community spaces. For your comfort.
So this is a callout post. If you want to stop reading there that's cool, but I cannot let a raging misogynist, biphobe, transphobe, lesbophobe person parading as an upstanding queer artist keep getting platformed when he's said some heinous things, behaved terribly and begs for likes as if life is a popularity contest. Block me if you disagree but I'm writing this here as Tumblr is less ephemeral than other channels. Part of this post was originally posted here as a reply.
fragments/nights-at-crystarium/Jay have been posting misogynistic, biphobic, transphobic, lesbophobic, entitled comments and then claiming people are homophobic when they criticise him back. Please rethink if you want to keep supporting him.
A/N: warning this is a LONG POST and I have truncated it under the break. I have also added the most recent misogynistic rant at the top just below the biphobia.
Context: an anon send him a message about how Emet can only be gay, Japanese people don't understand queercoding and that people who ship femme character with him are delusional.
See here for why his Emet-Selch comment was biphobic at worst and misguided at best. (thank you @birues for bringing this to everyone's attention)
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Misogyny and Trans-exclusionary language
Jay HATES the idea that women want to share this space too. In addition to the Tumblr post above he posted this to his Patreon discord, which is not private as his patrons can access it. He laments that people make fem characters because it's default and he wishes they all would transition to men. He also jumps in to insult two artists with m/f Emet ships @nipuni and @ja-ck-du and calling their art hetslop:
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(continued with more of his terrible behaviour after the break)
Pattern of rancid behaviour over the years
Let's start with the laundry list of all the bad behaviour he's expressed through the YEARS. You can read this better on my reddit comment here which I posted in reply to a shill thread made by what most people agree as Jay's sockpuppet account on the ffxiv subreddit. All of these I had the displeasure of witnessing myself or have been corroborated by multiple people:
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Self-aggrandising behaviour
Here is Jay claiming that there aren't many queer creators in xiv which is INSANE because this is the queerest fandom I have ever seen. You can't sneeze without hitting a queer artist. He also calls himself a pillar of the community, which is HILARIOUS because I have never seen him uplift other creators. You can't be a pillar of the community if you don't engage with the community. Your sycophants don't count.
How can you victimise yourself to such a degree?
He also claimed that if he was a lesbian, all of these callout of his rancid behaviour won't happen, which is laughable because you ask any lesbian in this space what being femme entails, they'd tell you straight up that they have experienced misogyny, no less from people like you Jay.
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Entitlement
Jay being ungrateful that ONLY 25 people have shared his post, and then saying you deserve to not be helped when you need it unless you share his post because he's a poor comic artist earning $1.2k from patreon every month. Because not sharing a post from a popular artist is obviously equivalent to not helping someone in dire straits. If you have been around, you'd know that times are hard, especially when you're queer. He's wishing you ill for the offence of not pressing that repost button.
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Being ungrateful with a sprinkling of misogyny
Jay straight up insulting anon's wife because how dare she reads his comic when she hasn't played ShB because her mind would not comprehend the complexity of his plot. And this is AFTER he begs for followers, as he does with every single one of his goddamn post.
So which is it, are you going to appreciate people who read your comic or are you going to put up so many qualifiers you only deem them worthy of following you when they've ticked all of them?
Hey Jay, maybe you should connect to your readers in a genuine manner and not in bad faith where all you want is for them to stroke your ego whilst giving a facade of appreciation.
And maybe, just maybe, you should start uplifting your fellow queer creators before demanding everyone support you.
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If you've read this far, thank you. I hope if you have ever supported him in the past that you rethink if you want to still support him after this. I do not care how big his following is; I do care that mask off misogyny is being let loose in our space. It doesn't matter if you're queer or a woman, we should not sweep this under the rug especially during Pride Month.
You're accused of killing the sultana of Ul'dah, so you flee to Ishgard and get caught up in their politics, which culminates in you killing their de facto head of state, Archbishop Thordan. People have been quibbling over whether this is a proper regicide, to which I reply: if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, you can regicide it. Also, the name tag says King Thordan during the fight.
The level 70 raid series deals with the alien robot Omega wanting to learn about humanity and what makes you so powerful, so it pits you against a series of increasingly more powerful enemies from across the multiverse.
The Crystal Exarch, who is secretly your past ally G'raha Tia, needs a hero, so in an attempt to summon you to his dimension, he repeatedly misses and instead yoinks the other Scions. Oops!
There is no problem Y'shtola won't solve with Flow, a forbidden and dangerous spell that allows the user to travel directly through the lifestream and runs the risk of being lost there. She's used it twice so far: once after the Bloody Banquet, and once when escaping from the Children of the Everlasting Dark.
Mount Rokkon, the second variant dungeon, sees your past ally Hancock solicit your help with a Hingan lord's demon problem: in an unprecedented move, foreign adventurers are being allowed into Hingashi itself to exorcise the extremely haunted estate.
The Ishgardian Halonic church wasn't too happy about Saint Shiva and her relationship with Hraesvelgr the dragon. You know the post, we've all seen it.
In the Dark Knight questline, your job trainer is the veiled knight Fray, who you slowly realize is not a living human but the manifestation of your doubts, frustrations, and fears as the Warrior of Light. You must process and master them to become a fully realized dark knight.
One of the trials you undertake with Wuk Lamat in Dawntrail is discovering and cooking the recipe for xibruq pibil, a local dish with a very specific preparation. The party that fails the test will essentially be locked out of the competition to be Dawnservant, so it's essential to get it right!
This is the one that didn't happen! The ascian Fandaniel wants to watch the world burn, and he wants to burn with it. If he bears you any specific ill will, it's only because his host body, the late Asahi sas Brutus, hated you with a vengeful passion for killing the crown prince Zenos, for whom Asahi held great affection and respect. You can steal his clone's hat in the Crystal Tower raid series, and it is a really great hat, but he does not acknowledge you having it.
This could actually refer to two men: Estinien, who was possessed by the dragon Nidhogg after using the power of his eyes, and Zenos, who took on the power of the dragon god Shinryu to face you in a fight to fully sate his lust for battle. Two nickels.
Endwalker's MSQ has you travel into the past to find the cause of the Final Days, a world-ending catastrophe that's causing people's fears to turn them into terrible monsters. In the end, you discover the cause is a much younger Fandaniel's creation, a flock of empathic birds he sent out into the universe to find out why people want to live. Every world they found was either dead, dying, or wished to die, so they made a nest at the furthest end of the universe, singing a song of doom to usher worlds to a quicker end.
In the Myths of the Realm alliance raid series, you fight the Eorzean gods as they test humankind's mettle. During Llymlaen's battle, you can target her with the /blowkiss emote, and if she's not otherwise occupied doing mechanics she'll go "Oi! Cut it out, you!" and throw a Navigator's Dagger at you for a truly huge amount of damage. Note: I have seen people disagree and say that the weapon in question is a fish, not a knife, but the fish's flavortext does mention it was named after her knife-throwing habit. I haven't seen if the model clarifies either way, but you can reasonably debate it I think--unlike the hat one, which is objectively incorrect.
