Decision to leave Discord

In the early days of a new intellectual property like this, it's a smart move to encourage feedback in the form of fan art. It generates good will among fans and is often a healthy, creative outlet. Providing resources for that art is my aim with this site.

I've also made an effort in choosing the Blåhaj Lemmy instance for it's mission statement:

Blåhaj Lemmy is a space where everyone should feel able to participate safely, and to that end, our community is built on the guiding philosophies of empathy, inclusion and acceptance.

Empathy

We want our community members to be guided by compassion and empathy for others.
Examples of behaviour that are contrary to this philosophy are personal attacks, insults, doxing etc. If your comment is designed to hurt someone, this isn’t the space for it.

Inclusion and Acceptance

Embracing inclusion and acceptance means listening when people tell you who they are and what their needs are. It means not telling people that you know their experiences better than they do. It means not gatekeeping experiences of identities of others. It means no bigotry such as racism, sexism, anti LGBT commentary, ableism etc. It means doing your best to ensure that you don’t over-talk the voices of folk who don’t share your privileges.

My recent interaction with a moderator in the fan art chat in discord has successfully discouraged me to continue my efforts as I have been. Until this point, I was under the impression that the response to my work was positive.

Marked in red at the top is the YouTube link in the post I made.

There was little effort made in identifying the content, as shown by referring to it simply as a "YouTube video" and then proceeding to complain about not following her personal etiquette for responding. What's more is that it is not "My YouTube link" but rather the one for Natural Six's channel.

I tried to give the benefit of the doubt saying the title is the only part with a YouTube link and the rest is a transcript, which took time and effort to punctuate and format.

I would argue that there is a little art to what I do, but it's clearly not appreciated by this person.

I understand the argument that formatted transcripts are not fan art and this was not intended to be a regular posting, simply to establish a resource to give artists fuel to create.

Given that the first official episode has yet to even air and I have had such a toxic interaction (blatant lie about not missing the body of the post), I have chosen to leave the Discord. There is little to prevent further diminishment of my efforts by sticking around. You get to a point in life where you can recognize an uphill battle started by ignorance.

It was lovely chatting with the rest of you and I hope someone will take up the lead on the Castlevania thread in video-games for me. I shall trouble you with my "YouTube links" no longer.

Sorry folks. I'm simply too old for this shit.

Cheers,
Gramps

P.S. I would consider returning with equal rank to this moderator, even though I don't want it. Sometimes a good candidate for a position of authority is the one who isn't actively seeking it.