I'm sorry but I'm gonna have to call bullshit on this one.
I was on a call with Nellie, Lily and Mikaila when Lily snapped and cut ties with Nellie, so I know exactly what happened. I'm pretty sure Nellie never said Lily was toxic or abusive to her ever, especially on her blog. In fact, she lied about why Lily decided she didn't want to be friends anymore because she did not want Lily to think she was just another "vulture". That was always Nellie's main concern. Even when I told her the vile things Lily had said about me, her attitude was still "I can't help but try to see the good side in Lily".
I do remember Nellie briefly talking about why they stopped being friends on her blog, but I have no memory of the posts being negative towards Lily. If there were any then I completely missed them.
she was finally free from Lily’s control
I can confidently say this is 100% bullshit because Nellie never wanted to be free from Lily's control in the first place. For the longest time she harboured the hope of being accepted back into Lily's friend circle if she "was good" and was "behaving well". Lost track of how many times I and other friends have tried to tell her to let the fuck go!
Lily hated that Nellie was further along/more successful in her transition that Lily was
This is probably half-true? Lily was jealous of Nellie's voice. She banned Nellie from appearing in her streams because she was uncomfortable by how feminine Nellie's voice sounded compared to hers.
this eventually culminated in Lily completely ghosting Nellie and banning/blocking her from her Tumblr blog and Discord Server
Lily didn't ghost Nellie. Nellie was probably one of the few people Lily bothered to say anything to before blocking tbh. I debated for a long time on whether or not I should tell this story but you know what? Fuck it. Here it goes.
Remember that time Lily had a breakdown on the Dark Lady server over no one being available at a moment's notice to raid on Warcraft with her? Nellie and I felt bad for her, so we both started to level up and gear up our characters to join her. For that effect, one day we got together to do dungeons and asked Lily if she wanted to join us. Lily agreed and brought Mikaila to play too. But Lily being Lily said she despised the dungeons from the new expansion (which were the ones we needed to do in order to actually raid with her...). So us, being the doormats we were, let her pick what dungeons we should run. She picked one from WotLK where Sylvanas appears.
So we're on a Discord call together and Lily asks Nellie to be the tank because she was playing a warrior. But Nellie was pretty new to playing a warrior and was only familiar with the DPS spec, so she was trying to figure out how tanking worked on the go.
We go in, kill like 2 mobs. Then Lily suddenly says "I really don't wanna do this", leaves the call and logs out of the game. Mikaila sighs, apologizes for her and leaves too. A couple of minutes later Nellie says Lily messaged her saying "I don't want to be around you anymore" and has a breakdown over losing her Val'kyr title on the Dark Lady server and being removed from the Friends & Family chat in Lily's patreon server.
I remained on a call with Nellie until she cried herself to sleep. I went to bed after 8am.
Later, this is what Lily had to say about it when I asked:
Which, you know, is fine. It's valid. No one should be forced to socialize with someone they don't like. I just feel like there was a better way and time to handle the issue... The way she did it was just cruel.
The blocking didn't come until later, actually. One day when Lily was having some sort of breakdown and posting about her suicidal ideation on her blog, Nellie reblogged her post from me with a possitive message. That's when Lily blocked her.
I am no longer friends with Nellie. But recently I reached out to ask for help/information regarding Lily's behaviour when they were friends and she said she didn't want to talk about Lily. She says she's still receiving messages on her blog about Lily, most of them hate. Which is weird because my fallout with Lily was way uglier and I can count on the fingers of one hand the amount of hate messages I got but that's beside the point.
The point is Nellie wants to be left out of the conversation, but I still think it's important for everyone to know this wasn't the the positive experience they both want us to believe it was. It wasn't "amicable" as Lily put it, and it wasn't something Nellie did, like she originally said.
So we not wrong to say being friends with Lily is like...walking on fucking glass cause you never know when the fuck she'll decide your not friends anymore???
You're not wrong. This is 100% correct. I actually told Mikaila once that I felt like I had to walk on eggshells around Lily all the time because that's exactly what it feels like. The slightest thing can trigger a violent reaction from Lily. She once yelled at Nellie on a call for sighing too much. No, I am not joking. (again, running dungeons on WoW)
Anyway, thank you for coming to my TED talk.
And please, for the love of all you consider holy, don't bother Nellie with this. Gods know she's sicced her hounds on me for far less and I just don't have the mental energy to deal with this nonsense again.