Cass Oakdown/Panopticon Dump Thread

[lb_lee]

Okay, this has happened enough times that I feel like it might prove useful.

Since I finished the Cultiples series, ex-followers of Panopticon's groups have been coming forward to speak to me.  There's been a decent few of them, and I thought it might be best for them to have a centralized place to share their stories, link-dump, and otherwise talk with each other, if they so desire.  Anon comments are turned on, and also screened, so that none will appear unless I specifically say so; if you want your words unscreened, just say so, otherwise they will remain hidden.  I will keep the comments moderated.

Panopticon has my blog staked out, and they may retaliate.  Be aware.

I will also use this as a centralized post to note those folks who have already come forward and stated they're okay with being public:

• Pigeon, Panopticon's former roommate's testimony. (And here's the thread where they said they were okay with it being public.) (EDIT: tumblr purged the post, so here is the archived version.)

Comments

Re: Pigeon

[lb_lee]

Actually, I wasn't certain and couldn't remember whether it was one or many, so I just guessed on the worst plausible case.

their entire group panicked and begged me for advice and weren’t shy about their desire that I foot the bill for legal action.

Yeah, I saw the posts about trying to get me legally silenced. Fortunately, I had prepped for that years prior, and so it wasn't much of a concern. I had already planned to release the entire series for free and let the Internet spiderbots do the legwork; Internet files barely exist, but they never stop barely existing.

Re: Pigeon

[(Anonymous)]

Well again. Thank you for your work. I know it was scary and stressful and difficult and often thankless, but you saved my life and my marriage with it, and I’ll never be able to repay you for that. I wish you everything good, everything you need, and everything you love. I’m going to move on as much as I can, but I’m not afraid to revisit this if doing so down the line would help anyone. These kinds of people deserve no quarter. As much as their escalation has been horrifying, it’s also made it a lot harder for them to keep up their facade. As my father once said, sometimes after a while you just gotta sit back and let people screw themselves over, cause they’re usually way better at it than you.

Pidge.