just heard about what noor did and iām honestly⦠stunned?šš i used to see her through EXTREMELY rose-tinted glasses, and now that iām revisiting her work, iām realizing how much weird stuff i completely brushed off. i remember being put off by certain things she wroteāsome of the hypocrisy tooābut i ignored those gut feelings because of the glorified image i had of her as a reader.
what baffles me even more is that she still hasnāt responded to the victim. how can you present yourself as this strong, morally-sound person onlineāconstantly preaching good valuesāif you canāt even take accountability for your own actions? not even a public apology? and the way she treated other peopleās work just for having a similar prompt, claiming it was unoriginal⦠like, whereās the fairness in that? thatās not integrity, thatās immaturity, hypocrisy, and ignorance.
iāve been revisiting the iaptbap archives now that the rose-tinted glasses are off, and thereās so much i overlooked. the random s/a scenes, the way the princess mononoke arc was written, and more. i always felt a little creeped out by kanoās behavior too, especially since his movie counterpart was nothing like that. iād like to revisit jadol and tao if anyoneās managed to save them, though itās been a while so i barely remember anything.
i also want to sayāmy heart goes out to the victim. i canāt imagine how heavy and painful it mustāve been to come forward, especially against someone with a huge following and a carefully curated image. thank you for your courage. you are incredibly strong for speaking up, and you deserve nothing but support, healing, and peace. what happened to you should have never been brushed aside.
as someone who used to be a die-hard fan, someone who made fanart for her stories, someone who was genuinely inspired to write because of herāi mean it when i say this: let her works die. thereās no legacy worth preserving if itās built on harm and silence.