An Apology
Dec. 14th, 2020 04:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
failure_artist I was recently kicked off of a Homestuck server because I presented a first draft of a fanfic for critique and sensitivity and the members were uncomfortable with how racist and transphobic the story was. I offered to delete the offended parts, but I also nitpicked their advice on twitter. I should have gotten help with the story in the planning phase so I wouldn't have created those versions Handmaid and Chahut. Even knowing I was going to change it, the members were disturbed I had wrote such things in the first place.
I am now looking back on my body of work and realizing there are uncomfortable racial elements throughout. I have orphaned the worst work. I don't have the heart to get rid of all my works. I should not bring up racism in my work unless I am giving it the serious weight it deserves.
I also think I might just be an unpleasant person to be around. I don't think I won friends in my server. Though I don't remember offending anyone, I think I might have stepped on some people's toes. I am sorry for that.
I hope to do better so another incident like this doesn't occur.
I am now looking back on my body of work and realizing there are uncomfortable racial elements throughout. I have orphaned the worst work. I don't have the heart to get rid of all my works. I should not bring up racism in my work unless I am giving it the serious weight it deserves.
I also think I might just be an unpleasant person to be around. I don't think I won friends in my server. Though I don't remember offending anyone, I think I might have stepped on some people's toes. I am sorry for that.
I hope to do better so another incident like this doesn't occur.
