Hi, I'm Vel your local writer and gposer!
My main ship is Cora/Seiryu/Kunzite (The Tyrant), Cora/Alerot and also Sanson/Guydelot from the bard quest. I'm obsessed with the Arcadion.
She/Her 🐨 Velnica Swiftmane @ Sophia.
My partner was fired and I've missed a lot of work lately due to chronic health issues; things are scary. If you like my blog or just want to help me out, we could really use a helping hand.
one of the funniest conversations I ever had with my ex was when they were still getting used to Celsius and asked me "what's 20 degrees?" and instead of converting it, I said "it's the highest your dad will ever let you set the thermostat and when you say you're cold he tells you to put on another sweater, we're not made of money" and they went "oh, 68"
the fact that this reference was that fucking precise was something they went on to tell people about for years.
We do not want you here not because you're gay, fragments, it's because you're a misogynist.
Since this is pretty much yet another flimsy, revisionist and self-centred defence from @nights-at-crystarium, I have to address it. You cannot slide around here being a misogynist and we should demand better from people who share this fandom space.
➡️ Read Fragments/Jay's post here.
➡️ Read my masterpost of Jay's horrible behaviour here, with added context from other community members.
CW: biphobia, misogyny, mention of racism
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Deflection
You did NOT say that Jay. You "signed under every word" that Emet-Selch could only be gay and agreeing that he can't possibly like women. This is patently false as Emet-Selch behaves the same way whether your WoL is using male or female model. Bisexual people won't have any issue if you'd just stop at "I HC Emet as gay", but when the wording bleeds into insulting players for shipping him with a femme wol, calling m/f Emet artists "hetslop" and wishing femme players a "happy transition" to male, then it does become biphobia AND transphobia as you're now referring to real actual players.
And suppose you're also glossing over the xenophobic/racist take that Japanese people don't understand queercoding? When Emet-Selch was specifically written by a Japanese woman to be sexually ambiguous for the players to decide on their own?
Hate speech, death threats and unwanted porn in your inbox is never okay and idk who sent them, but you're deflecting from the fact that this does not invalidate your initial behaviour. You cannot use this as a cudgel to run away.
And no, the amount of gay works have not gone down, you just refuse to see anything but your specific flavour of gay as valid and cutting yourself off from seeing the rest of it.
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Biphobia (again) & Deflection(again)
Excuse me? Are you serious? Bisexual people aren't here self-victimising because of... what? Because we wanna feel important? Because we hate gay people? No, we are here criticising you specifically, because you've expressed biphobic and misogynist comments. The majority of gay people are good people, you are not one of them. In fact you're making them look bad!!!
Gay people, and in fact anyone, shouldn't be scared of being silence by bisexuals if they hadn't expressed biphobic & misogynistic sentiment.
This is pride month and you're digging deeper into your misogyny and biphobia. Stop it.
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Deflection (again) & Misogyny (again)
We can in fact fight both at the same time. We can fight the bigots trying to take away our rights and we can also kick out bad actors in our own community. This isn't a zero sum game. In fact we should do both.
You don't have to explicitly mention the word bisexual to be biphobic. You made a public statement in your discord (this is important) with biphobia and trans-exclusionary languages then it's our right to bring that to attention. And your wording is not "Caring":
THIS ESPECIALLY is wishing people would change from femme to masc WoL. That is wishing for less women in the space. There is no other way this can be interpreted!!!
And newsflash, bisexual players have advocated for more queer rep for fucking ever, but you would not know that because your head is firmly stuck up your ass and you would not talk to anyone except people who stroke your ego!!! How could you say there aren't many active queer creators??? Even in your extremely narrow preference of gay cis male, there's tons and tons if you'd only look.
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When does it slide into ACTUAL harm?
Let me reiterate something again. We would not care if you had stopped at just stating your headcanon. By extending that headcanon and applying your visible disdain to the players and other artists, you have jumped into actually treating real people terribly. This isn't just about ships or fictional character anymore, this is you trying to push the misogynist narrative that women are stupid and cannot see someone is gay, that they should be transitioning to men in order to enjoy 'a gay dating sim', that there should be less of them around, that artists with m/f ships should not be supported because they make 'hetslop'.
This is compounding on real world harm that women and bisexual people experience. Do not try to lie and say it isn't. Take accountability for your words, stop saying it's everyone's fault but yours. We do not call you out for being gay, we call you out for your rancid behaviour.
there will never be anything as funny as the mutual disbelief between long form and short form fic writers about each other's style.
short form writers look at people writing 100k+ fics as though this is some sort of talent given as part of a fae bargain, that the commitment required shows some sort of ungodly mental fortitude.
meanwhile long form writers look at people writing 1000 word one shots like god I would cut off my left nipple to be able to say anything concisely. i would love to play with multiple ideas. free me from the shackles of this child I have birthed. i love them but I now must take them to t-ball and doctor's appointments and they're going to destroy everything I own.
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.
throwback to when on new years day he misappropriated the "merry yaoimas and a happy new yuri" and said "happy new yaoi" and tried to tell him not to overwrite lesbianism day
TL;DR: in his livetweet of ARR, Jay dismissed the Ala Mhigans in Little Ala Mhigo as "politically angry men" and I argued that while it can certainly be rooted in racism, his "personal dislike" of them stemmed more from his unwillingness to engage with things that do not affect/involve him directly (who cares about a bunch of refugees when you're preventing primal summonings, amirite?), and that sort of attitude carries into everything else in his life including his (lack of) engagement with other queer communities that are not exclusively gay.
Jay very clearly wants to live in his bubble where he only wants to engage with things that matter to him, as exemplified by the "literally just having fun in my own corner" comment. He feels "invaded" when he's politely asked to take other people into account even when it takes nothing away from his ability to enjoy and make gay fancontent. He doesn't want to acknowledge happy new yuri. He doesn't want to consider queer M/F ships. He says gay ships used to be the default. He doesn't want to have anything to do with anything that's not male homosexuality, and that includes having the barest modicum of decency and respect for other queer identities. You can play with headcanons and make fancontent however you like, but when you're on the internet and making yourself publicly available as a content creator, you no longer function in an exclusively gay little bubble. You do not get to demand other people engage with you and get upset when they call you out for being exclusionary, but unfortunately he seems a little too self-absorbed to really understand that.
In conclusion:
Making exclusively gay fancontent because you're gay and that's what you want to see and how you want to play with your fave NPCs? ✅
Getting mad that other people do not headcanon your fave NPCs as gay and calling them homophobic for doing so while refusing to engage with or be mindful of other queer identities? ❌
when the zepla thing happened this guy apparently took the opportunity of everyone dunking on her to be misogynistic and express anti-ukrainian sentiment. no wonder he doesn’t want to deal with war refugees lmao
