On December 30, 2023, it came to my attention - which I had to find out from someone else rather than anyone on the mod team bothering to e-mail me and let me know, which was cowardly as fuck - that I'd been removed from the Snowflake mods team.
I was extremely uncomfortable with the potential for discourse-drama and lack of consideration for inclusiveness on one of the Snowflake 2024 topics, and tried to politely express my concerns about it on the mod comm [A - B]. With the latter thread, the thread was frozen the minute I brought up being Jewish, as you will see on the screenshot.
I was bothered enough that I decided I didn't feel comfortable either modding comments OR participating in the questions this year, but I didn't tell them that [you know, because ~off-topic~] and had planned on holding my peace and not making any kind of public statement about it until the end of January when the challenge was over and there was a mod thread for feedback, and whether or not my polite concern was listened to on that feedback thread would determine how I proceeded from there [I had hoped constructive criticism would help them do better future years].
But now, without further discussion, I'd been removed from the mod comm, and between that and the frozen thread, you can make of it what you will. At first, I assumed it was antisemitism [further context in comments on original post.]
Then I found out that, while it may still have been that, it also had to do with Seleneheart being friends with Spiced Wine, according to @misbegotten. This is the original PDF and this is my backup copy.
To the mods who spoke up against this nonsense, especially @misbegotten and my friend @flamingsword: thank you.
To the mods who participated in the dogpiling: eat shit and live.
Even though Seleneheart and the others who thought this was hunky-dory are no longer modding the challenge, I no longer feel comfortable participating in Snowflake. You see, Snowflake celebrates fandom. Some people on my old DW used to say "fandom is love", but my repeat, painful experience has been that no actually, fandom is hate; I'm just here to quietly share my works and otherwise want to be left alone apart from the small handful of friends I've made over the years.
[Also, I quit blogging altogether in September 2024 and deleted my original Dreamwidth in November 2024.]
