I'm sure by now all of you have have seen or heard about Avid and Marm announcing their retirement, followed immediately by statements from SBK and other affiliated creators coming forward about them having been manipulative and exploitative in personal relationships, and their removal from every space they had been involved in. This blog is and always has been run by a third party, and I deeply condemn the harm that has been caused, so I want to repost some of the relevant statements and put a bookend on everything before locking down this blog.
SBK's collective statement:
A couple of the individual statements that I feel are most important are Rubyco's and Musithical's, hyperlinked here. Please read them, and offer support to the affected parties as you are able.
The SBK community discord can be found via the SBK linktree, but please note that it has been a huge priority of the Skyheads and mods during this ordeal to keep the community a safe space; all are welcome but please be polite and don't join solely to talk about this. Avid and Marm's discord servers have both been locked down into a permanent read-only state.
It is my personal request that during this time (and always) we all treat each other with kindness, and keep in mind that no identity or aspect of someone's life absolves them of the capacity for harm. Queer people can cause harm, people who make good art can cause harm, people who have in your experience never been anything but kind and caring can cause harm. It is my hope that the conversation here can focus not on the people who caused the harm, or whether anyone should have somehow known what was happening, but instead on offering support and reparations to those who have been harmed. Feel free to reblog this post but keep any commentary respectful, and again, if you are able to, please materially support people like Musi who are the most affected by this.
