We did apologize for our behavior (https://twitter.com/TheCrisses/status/1297603291598278661?s=20), publicly, directly to Owls, several times over (https://twitter.com/TheCrisses/status/1297605635538903042?s=20).
We are as plural as anyone else around here, and we take responsibility for what we do/did regardless of who in here did or said it. We explained during the thread way towards the beginning that it was a culmination of various things (https://twitter.com/TheCrisses/status/1297481352166739968?s=20). We also apologized for not taking Owls out of the derivative threads sooner.
You can choose to be upset about our behavior — and you can ghost us for it or whatever you'd like. We respect what you're doing and would prefer to collaborate across more of the community.
Owls didn't do anything wrong. And we were being insensitive and should have written our own (entirely) separate rant about the issues at hand (https://twitter.com/TheCrisses/status/1297723188504416256?s=20). It was an emerging discussion internally (about an issue [factioning] that's been happening repeatedly in the community over a long period of time), and it was the wrong way to air it. We don't regret the results of it (as in the discussion within itself; the attempt to put words to a mess of feelings and convey it in a way that could be understood); we regret the technicalities of where and how it evolved and already attempted to make peace with Owls.
Not an excuse, but by way of explanation, someone very sensitive in here was fronting and distressed, not angry, at the rifts in the community. We had dusted off a deeper discussion of inclusion/isolation/outcasting for a radio program a week earlier and just listened to the replay of it, and it brought old baggage about community fails to the fore. This definitely created an awkward discussion, but not an angry one as far as our end was concerned. She (the person fronting) was aghast (feeling like she was watching the community being pushed farther apart) and upset and had several meltdowns. Places like this is where autism and DID don't mix well, and we did apologize even if in the mess of tangled threads it got lost in there. But Owls did see it and we thought we had made it clear it was not intended towards them, and apologized.
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We are as plural as anyone else around here, and we take responsibility for what we do/did regardless of who in here did or said it. We explained during the thread way towards the beginning that it was a culmination of various things (https://twitter.com/TheCrisses/status/1297481352166739968?s=20). We also apologized for not taking Owls out of the derivative threads sooner.
You can choose to be upset about our behavior — and you can ghost us for it or whatever you'd like. We respect what you're doing and would prefer to collaborate across more of the community.
Owls didn't do anything wrong. And we were being insensitive and should have written our own (entirely) separate rant about the issues at hand (https://twitter.com/TheCrisses/status/1297723188504416256?s=20). It was an emerging discussion internally (about an issue [factioning] that's been happening repeatedly in the community over a long period of time), and it was the wrong way to air it. We don't regret the results of it (as in the discussion within itself; the attempt to put words to a mess of feelings and convey it in a way that could be understood); we regret the technicalities of where and how it evolved and already attempted to make peace with Owls.
Not an excuse, but by way of explanation, someone very sensitive in here was fronting and distressed, not angry, at the rifts in the community. We had dusted off a deeper discussion of inclusion/isolation/outcasting for a radio program a week earlier and just listened to the replay of it, and it brought old baggage about community fails to the fore. This definitely created an awkward discussion, but not an angry one as far as our end was concerned. She (the person fronting) was aghast (feeling like she was watching the community being pushed farther apart) and upset and had several meltdowns. Places like this is where autism and DID don't mix well, and we did apologize even if in the mess of tangled threads it got lost in there. But Owls did see it and we thought we had made it clear it was not intended towards them, and apologized.