#if I were less lazy I'd go and track down and personally source everyone's claims in all of the threads but like

[savrenim]

Hello hello if you want more info about the rusty quill stuff here's the other side

a good breakdown: https://fataldrum.tumblr.com/post/703490177324220416/whos-afraid-of-bad-attempts-at-journalism

from an rq affiliate: https://www.tumblr.com/malevolentcast/703493906802868224/you-probably-already-know-about-this-but-an

more on reactions from others: https://eliias-bouchard.tumblr.com/post/703479494816743424/real-quick-summary-of-all-this-fay-fable

focusing on a misquote: https://dadhuddle.tumblr.com/post/703488191401984000/journalistic-integrity-re-newt-schottelkottes-rq

arc has a lot of solid posts but especially this one: https://callmearcturus.tumblr.com/post/703483865829949440/since-you-and-others-in-your-inbox-have-been

I'm not say rusty quill is 100% squeaky clean but it's more a business with growing pains during a pandemic and living cost crisis than some horrific "no ethical consumption under capitalism" corporation

oooh fascinating, fun to hear the other side of the story, I.... expected that it was probably not quite as one-sided as the medium article would make it appear, mostly because I have a fair number of friends in indie ttrpg design and between designers and writers and artists and editors and people who run gaming communities I have Seen Things Go So Messy So Many Times always in the splashiest ways

funny but not surprising to have nice evidence gathered for me that podcasting is the same, and also that Rusty Quill is not necessarily Pure Evil as the article would imply, I enjoyed tma and had a lot of mutuals who enjoyed their actual play stuff and while at this point I'm jaded enough by internet callout of Problematic Authorship being sensationalist and one-sided enough that it takes, like, JKR levels of The Author Is That Bad for me to decide to Drop A Fandom Over It, nice to know that I should categorize this in my head as 'petty small community infighting' and not 'large organized problematic institution'