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lithophiles ([personal profile] lithophiles) wrote in [personal profile] lb_lee 2025-05-10 10:02 am (UTC)

Good grief, I haven't the faintest idea where crediting "fronting" to Shaytar came from. We remember being under the impression that it came from "When Rabbit Howls" too, and... well, I'm embarrassed to say we were involved in Pavilion, at least to the extent that we were allowed to be (the people unofficially officially in charge seemed to deeply resent us for reasons we were never fully clear about, though it was one of those "You KNOW what you did." "...no, I still don't know what I did"-type situations, and so we were prevented from editing and rewriting the webpages as much as possible.) We were still very, VERY new to being multiple at that point, though; we'd only been selves-aware for about a year when the Pavilion pages were being written and were in (very misplaced) awe of Astraea at that point. So we bit back a lot of our questions and criticisms, especially once it became clear that anything other than unwavering support would be met with hostility.

...which is to say, I guess, it's been a long time, but we still intensely regret having had a role in the misinformation spread by Pavilion and the misinformed view it promoted of itself. (It was very good at making people think it was this important, elite organization that almost no one met the criteria to join, but very bad at doing actual activism.)

-Julian & Amaranthus

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