#a personal post

So, you may have noticed the lack of anything new to my TWST fandorm showcase series or anything related to the welcoming of 2026. Well, there are a lot of reasons as to why I didn't update anything ever since October last year.

A lot of things have happened for the past few months before 2026, mainly things that are related to my Discord server.

It happened in around October, when a discord user who is always inactive there DMed me in private, regarding a concerning matter that I (one of the server mods) should be wary of. A user (by the name of Dasper aka Sprite) in my server was suspected as an online pedophile and manipulator, who not only lied about their age to date underaged online users, support incest of TWST characters (mainly the Shroud bros), and manipulated people emotionally so they all side with them. So as the responsible mod who values the satisfaction of other users, I decided to look into the matter myself, even getting information from the person who made the claim, who is one of the affected victims (the user who reached out to me got this info from said person). After providing screenshot proofs of Dasper's interactions with others, I DMed them to confront them regarding the claim. Like most toxic users online, they used the emotional manipulation tactic on me, because they have been in the friend group for almost a few years ever since I started getting into TWST.

I was...very emotionally conflicted at the time, so I went back to the person who accused Dasper (or in this case, knows the truth) and told them what Dasper claimed, and that is where things go horribly wrong...for emotional reasons. I had to choose whether or not I trust the people who had suffered the indignity of such toxic behaviour in a safe discord space, or trust someone who I have known for a long time who has NEVER shown any sort of behaviour.

Now I came from a very harsh beginning on Discord when I first used it as my main platform for making friends who like the same stuff as me, and I used to have a friend group who I am very close to back then. But due to misunderstandings and toxic behaviours, I was kicked out because of one thing they accuse me of...me trying to pacify people with genuine kindness so I can leech off their trust.

So, in the end, I sought help from a fellow mod of the server (@sharkybean) to verify if the claims of the toxic behaviour are true, and after asking around, she verified that it is in fact true...Dasper is indeed an online p*dophile who has dated, lied and emotional manipulated underaged users to make them look bad. The conundrum came as to whether or not we kick and ban Dasper after learning this, and this...hits me deeply. Not for the reasons people would think...

I'm a very open-minded person, anyone who I befriend, I would always trust them and treat them with mutual respect. I'm not saying I'm going to defend a p*dophile because of my long-term friendship with them, but I'm hurt emotionally because of me being manipulated and blind to the problems in front of me for a long time. Eventually, I chose to kick and ban Dasper for the sake of the people who had suffered the toxic behaviour.

It really affected my emotional state badly after the ban, and not in a good way either. Because of this, a lot of the server's roleplay and plotlines needed to be retconned due to Dasper's inclusion and involvements in the development.

So for the next few days, I will be fully retconning the existing fandorm showcase posts (not delete them, as in fully redo the contents of it), as well as putting up the redesigned versions once I complete a full season of it.

The lineups would still be the same, but the cast will be changed permanently this time to not have any involvement with Dasper's ideas.

I sincerely apologize if I did not update or have any new content to share, I have been on an emotional recovery break until now. Rest assured, the contents will resume as usual once everything is settled.

To those out there, if you are an avid online platform user like me, please be wary of toxic users such as Dasper. We create online spaces so people can talk about their favourite fandoms and make friends, not making people uncomfortable and negative.