Season of Endings
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Apparently, tis the season for endings, and mine is drawing near. I feel much like Cicero did when Augustus came to power, watching the names of friends and colleagues be posted to the forum door in the latest round of proscriptions. Bearing witness to a once-great thing becoming torrid and abused.
So, I feel it only sensible to leave before I'm sent naked to join my colleagues in exile. Lord knows that my mouth will get me into trouble one of these days, and I'd like to retain a little dignity as I vacate this once great home of free thought and expression. I find I barely recognise it now. It may simply be that I am old and tired, and what I thought this place should be is something best left to the ashcan of history. Or perhaps it never actually existed as I imagine, and my mind is tainted with the rose-coloured glass of reminiscing and mourning the past.
I have been a member of this and related communities for many years. We've laughed, cried, mourned, and celebrated together. From whence we started many of us have started families, gained academic or professional acclaim, or simply just gotten older. Though I pride myself on my ability to emotionally distance myself and to regard this place as simply A Thing and not anything important, I find myself sad at the state of affairs with which we have been presented.
I could articulate why I feel as I do, and indeed so many of us do, but that has been done dozens of times by those now gone and my analysis would not add anything of merit; I shall simply say that I disagree with many policies, some new and some old, and that disagreement has reached a point making my remaining here untenable.
I have found friends here, for which I thank you. I have found foes, for which I curse you. And I have found myself, for which you all owe me an apology and a refund.
Much love and respect, to those that deserve it,
TinuvielHe/Him
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@tinuviel Good day
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@tinuviel said in Season of Endings:
Apparently, tis the season for endings, and mine is drawing near. I feel much like Cicero did when Augustus came to power, watching the names of friends and colleagues be posted to the forum door in the latest round of proscriptions. Bearing witness to a once-great thing becoming torrid and abused.
So, I feel it only sensible to leave before I'm sent naked to join my colleagues in exile. Lord knows that my mouth will get me into trouble one of these days, and I'd like to retain a little dignity as I vacate this once great home of free thought and expression. I find I barely recognise it now. It may simply be that I am old and tired, and what I thought this place should be is something best left to the ashcan of history. Or perhaps it never actually existed as I imagine, and my mind is tainted with the rose-coloured glass of reminiscing and mourning the past.
I have been a member of this and related communities for many years. We've laughed, cried, mourned, and celebrated together. From whence we started many of us have started families, gained academic or professional acclaim, or simply just gotten older. Though I pride myself on my ability to emotionally distance myself and to regard this place as simply A Thing and not anything important, I find myself sad at the state of affairs with which we have been presented.
I could articulate why I feel as I do, and indeed so many of us do, but that has been done dozens of times by those now gone and my analysis would not add anything of merit; I shall simply say that I disagree with many policies, some new and some old, and that disagreement has reached a point making my remaining here untenable.
I have found friends here, for which I thank you. I have found foes, for which I curse you. And I have found myself, for which you all owe me an apology and a refund.
Much love and respect, to those that deserve it,
TinuvielFrom the void, cries of : +1
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@ganymede said in Season of Endings:
You are, and always will be, a gentleman of the finest distinction.
Vale, magister.
Out of touch and creepy.
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@tinuviel May your road be sunny and straight.
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Will miss @Tinuviel's presence. He had the sarcastic humour which I, as a Brit, enjoyed.
Long live the red pen and the bboard corrections.
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@enoch Almost as much as Tin thinking he's mostly overcome his reputation rather than started playing with people who don't know it and/or like Flying Monkeys.
"... you'll find the story doesn’t end how you think, and the most important characters aren’t who you expect.” - Penny 40 to Derek, The Magicians S04E07 ‘The Side Effect’
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I am missing the reference.
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@ganymede Wizard of Oz. He's saying Tinuviel plays with ignorant witches. I don't know why, except that he really needed to get a shot in.
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That's ... like a particularly odd reference, though, right? I mean -- witches? Really?
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@ganymede This is my take:
He is saying that Tinuvial had a history that gave him a bad reputation, and if he perceives that he has overcome that reputation it may be because people he interacts with either do not know it, or think those sorts of actions are fine and good.
Tin man thinks he can be given a heart, the Wicked Witch uses flying monkeys, a term used here sometimes to denote the image of popular folks or staffers sending proxies to defend or attack for them, here or on games or elsewhere.
All of that may be in response to whatstheirname commenting on Ganymede posting, and making assumptions about the G<-->T history and relationship and what is meaningful communication between them.
Or its about something else.
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It's because Tinuviel was one part of Spider's crew of sycophants. He did some pretty terrible things as staff at her behest, then spent time trying to backtrack and cover for himself. In the end, he admitted his culpability and basically left MUSHing but for staying around MSB. In this case, Spider was the Wicked Witch of the West and Tinuviel was one of her many 'Flying Monkeys' on staff at... TR? I think it was still The Reach.
This was also many moons ago, and I for one, have long since stopped viewing him as some sort of mustache-twirling Snidely Whiplash caricature. I'll miss the guy.
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So like...
Is @il-volpe trying to avoid getting moderated for personal attacks by just making their personal attacks so inexplicable no one can understand them? Lol.
Tinuviel left. Leave him be.
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I was there, he hurt me, and he's one of my favorite people in the hobby these days. That is an absolutely untrue statement.
