#hopefully I articulated everything correctly. I don't expect to edit this but

[redsandtemple]

do not support the good times zine

hi, this is not the post I expected to be making. this thing spiralled wildly out from what i originally anticipated, so i’m putting this out there to warn the normal people left on hermitblr.

content warnings: hermitshipping, ableism. everything is captioned

so I feel the need to organize my posts in numbered lists for clarity sake. here we go

1: context

the good times zine is a for charity zine cenetered on goodtimeswithscar, run by 2(?) mods, the main mod is on twitter here. I contacted the other mod(who i will refer to as mod B) becauseeee

2: art theft

this is how this whole situation started, really. I contacted the mod because @/ethoslab ‘s art was used as part of the promotional image for the zine, found (here)

so I took the liberty of messaging ethoslab and got this response

[yeah ive never heard about this zine before in my life and i absolutely wasnt contact for my art to be used in the promotion of it :/

its a little scummy to do a zine as a present and invite artists when you don't even ask permission for the art u use on the website lol]

when I asked mod b about it, they said that the art was “heavily credited” but as stated above, it’s in poor taste to use art for promotion of something like this without express permission from the artist

now, this next part is concerning the main moderator, rhayne. 

part 3: oh lord theyre a shipper

rhayne is 18, also! why does this part matter? bc 1 it’s public and free to see on their twitter, and 2 because in the rules for the zine they expressly state “no ship art allowed” which shows they know how uncomfortable scar would b by seeing this LOL. don't wanna put words in mouth but I doubt scar actually checked before (allegedly) approving the zine’s promotion

proof of them being in charge of this zine:

[Actually- I think I have a cool present for Scar!! I thought about it a lot, and wouldn’t it be REALLY cool if we did an (unofficial) charity zine to a charity of Scar’s choice ??? I would absolutely LOVE that!]

(source here)

Here’s the official zine page saying no ship art allowed:

[5. Can we include other ships in our pieces?

No! Posting ship art to your own blog is one thing, but this is a gift for Scar, and we’d like to keep it as PG and comfortable for him as possible!]

(source here)

misc offerings of them being shipper-y and headcanons

(just... look at the replies to this tweet)

main attraction though, is this specifically:

(context: the 1st reply is asking for headcanons about scar)

[-bi and ace!

-scardoc

-cub and scar!

-scar does, in fact, have many scars. he tells people they’re from jellie and his other cats, but they’re actually from his history of being a bandit criminal.

-AAA another one of my favorites!!]

note the first? specifically headcanoning scar as ace. This is extremely ableist LOL it’s infantilizing and takes away the agency to headcanon as ace, premise of projecting it onto a real person adding to the layer of disturbing this all has.

part 4: TLDR

this zine is being run mostly by a whole 18 year old who is a hermitshipper, and is ableist. I acknowledge that rhayne’s twitter description says theyre disabled/disability activist, but that doesn’t make them immune to ableism/internalized ableism manifested in harmful presentations such as headcanons like the ones presented previously.

do not support this zine, do not harass anyone, fuck hermit shippers, goodbye.