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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'.

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.

C/W: Biphobia, misogyny, transphobic language, lesbophobia, entitlement

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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)

im invested with where we are going next with the lizards :0

also a solid handful of panels that are so pretty and so full of detail and whoa, ynow?

Full apology to the OP of this post because I know you want to uplift creators and I am derailing this but frankly I can't stay silent especially during pride month. Block me if you disagree, that's fine.

See here for why his Emet-Selch comment was biphobic at worst and misguided at best.

Let's start with the laundry list of all the bad behaviour he's expressed through the YEARS:

And 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?

Jay once more just straight up saying women and people who play women characters are inferior:

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:

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.

this post is not here to promote the self-centred-doesnt-support another creator webcomic artist @starlighttraveler-archive (said behviour mentioned ⤴️)

im invested with where we are going next with the lizards :0

also a solid handful of panels that are so pretty and so full of detail and whoa, ynow?

Full apology to the OP of this post because I know you want to uplift creators and I am derailing this but frankly I can't stay silent especially during pride month. Block me if you disagree, that's fine.

See here for why his Emet-Selch comment was biphobic at worst and misguided at best.

Let's start with the laundry list of all the bad behaviour he's expressed through the YEARS:

And 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?

Jay once more just straight up saying women and people who play women characters are inferior:

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:

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.

im invested with where we are going next with the lizards :0

also a solid handful of panels that are so pretty and so full of detail and whoa, ynow?

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