Mori: Wait, FIVE?! Where the hell did they get the member roster of "thirty" then?! Surely not all these folks are sock puppets! (Are they?) Though I guess you said a lot of folks joined and then didn't do anything...
OH. I didn't make that clear enough, sorry. The five systems were the ones listed as "Standard Bearers" in the Lancers member list-- Astraea, us, Blackbirds, Hondas, and Phoenix.
I think it's an indicator of how little we were listened to that we were listed there as "Azusa," even though we had begun to use "Amorpha" as a system name. We vaguely remember the Blackbirds asking if we would rather sign up as a median, because "people need to see more medians" and because of their obsession with "reaching out to soulbonders" (which turned into a can of worms later).
And like we mentioned before, "Azusa" wasn't even one person! They were a mess of me, Amaranth, Sophie, and various other people mashed together and it shifted over time! The fact that some people kept referring to us as "Azusa" even after we had picked a system name was a mindfuck, and made us think that maybe we might not be multiple after all and everyone could completely see through us. We kept asking Astraea to change our name on the Lancers page, but it stayed as Azusa until the Codex got shitcanned, I think.
Anyway, the "Standard Bearer" members were the only ones who were involved in the meetings or asked to do any kind of activism. The Pavilion list was just... a list of people who had agreed to sign up to do activism, mostly friends of the Standard Bearers members. They were all real people, except Jessamy and whichever Astraea's sockpuppet median was, but they were never invited to meetings and never asked to work on any of the projects. (We thought that they should, but that got shot down for some reason, maybe just because it came from us.) Most of them didn't even know each other. If any of them ever emailed the site to say "Hey, I want to participate in Project Bananarama" or whatever, we never heard about it and they never actually ended up doing anything.
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Date: 2019-03-15 08:57 am (UTC)OH. I didn't make that clear enough, sorry. The five systems were the ones listed as "Standard Bearers" in the Lancers member list-- Astraea, us, Blackbirds, Hondas, and Phoenix.
I think it's an indicator of how little we were listened to that we were listed there as "Azusa," even though we had begun to use "Amorpha" as a system name. We vaguely remember the Blackbirds asking if we would rather sign up as a median, because "people need to see more medians" and because of their obsession with "reaching out to soulbonders" (which turned into a can of worms later).
And like we mentioned before, "Azusa" wasn't even one person! They were a mess of me, Amaranth, Sophie, and various other people mashed together and it shifted over time! The fact that some people kept referring to us as "Azusa" even after we had picked a system name was a mindfuck, and made us think that maybe we might not be multiple after all and everyone could completely see through us. We kept asking Astraea to change our name on the Lancers page, but it stayed as Azusa until the Codex got shitcanned, I think.
Anyway, the "Standard Bearer" members were the only ones who were involved in the meetings or asked to do any kind of activism. The Pavilion list was just... a list of people who had agreed to sign up to do activism, mostly friends of the Standard Bearers members. They were all real people, except Jessamy and whichever Astraea's sockpuppet median was, but they were never invited to meetings and never asked to work on any of the projects. (We thought that they should, but that got shot down for some reason, maybe just because it came from us.) Most of them didn't even know each other. If any of them ever emailed the site to say "Hey, I want to participate in Project Bananarama" or whatever, we never heard about it and they never actually ended up doing anything.
-Riel