#raxytatortots

[deathbirby]

it's kind of awful this fandom seems to have been hijacked by fear of raxis and his toadies, to the point I've gotten warned by multiple people not to talk about Edelgard doing shit out loud because he'll show up with his army of alts and harassers. there's got to be something we can do about this besides living in fear of being sea lioned and maybe doxxed, just for having opinions that aren't "waifu good and right" ?

every time I interact with another Edelgard fan I see them parroting the same talking points, too. it's really getting incredibly creepy and insular, like there's just a little cult of people who think they're smart enough to know better than to get sucked in, and because Edelgard bi and girlboss then she can't be wrong, so they're so self righteous too. it's sickening.

Warning others and spreading more awareness helps. Also it's generally just a good idea to point out how weird that shit is. That or you ignore them, but they seem to take ignoring/blocking as an invitation for somer eason.

it does suck tho

[deathbirby]

He never ceases to amaze me fr fr.

Raxis being at his age and going after 18 year olds without feeling even a shred of remorse is fucking pathetic. The fuck are you doing, rax? You're a 35 year old man with the emotional maturity of a seashell! Find something better to do than going after children for having different takes on your Ladle. You would do the world a favor.

How does Raxis's orientation, gender, and skin color matter? And why does yours matter?

Why does me being a queer woman matter when a cishet white man accuses me of being queerphobic and misogynist?

Assuming you're the anon Ezra keeps getting who is complaining about us pointing out his age (since I got this right after I reblogged one of those), you probably read his blog right? Considering Raxis claims to be such a great progressive ally and co-opts all that progressive language, I'd think people who follow him would understand why this is so important?

Okay, I'll be very clear, cut because this got long, I'm not repeating it ad nauseum after this post.

His gender, sexual orientation, and race wouldn't matter if he hadn't made it matter. Raxis is not only a bully, he's a bully who constantly appropriates the language of social justice. My very first direct interaction with him was literally me calling his ass out for using the murder of Roe v. Wade as a bludgeon to win a fandom argument. Which happened, like, right the fuck after that decision came down and most women in America were fucking traumatized from literally having our rights stripped from us. And I wish our relationship ended at that "apology" but he hasn't changed and he keeps doing it.

He is the one who consistently accuses me (and other women) of being misogynistic and having internalized misogyny. He is the one who consistently accuses me (and other queer folk) of being queerphobic. He is the one who accuses BWIIDT (who is mixed race) for being out of line for thinking Cap (another white man!) has written racist elements into his fic (unintentionally or not). He consistently uses our oppression as a justification for why it should be okay for him to bully us.

If you are going to use our identities as part of your justification for harassing us, then we have every right to point out that these are identities that we hold and you don't. We have every right to point out that the opinions of a cishet white man about misogyny, queerphobia, racism, etc. do not matter as much as ours because you have never fucking experienced it like we have.

The role of allies is to amplify voices in spaces where we are not respected (e.g. with other cishet white men), not to lecture marginalized people for being "bad queers" or "bad women" from your throne of privilege.

It's especially fucking slimy because he pretends to be super progressive live and in concert, but when he slinks back to his buddies he laughs at us for being upset about being misgendered:

(Yes because you repeatedly misgendered me for months and only started correcting yourself and your anons when I called your shit out. You are literally "the misgendering type" but it's cute how you tried to act like I was being unreasonable for wanting the basic human respect of being referred to by my proper pronouns)

Accuses us of trying to hide behind "identity politics" when we're talking about the fucking oppression we face:

(Always a great sign when a cishet white man accuses queer women of "trying to use identity politics as a shield" when they're talking about their own fucking oppression. An even better sign when a cishet white man brags about "out identity-politicking" queer women when they're telling you to stop fucking throwing their oppression back in their faces. Whining about "identity politics" whenever marginalized groups try to voice anything is frankly such an alt right dogwhistle in itself at this point and I genuinely hope he's just not aware of it.)

Bullies queer women on his side who disagree with him and try to say basically exactly what I'm saying right now. That straight men can't appropriate the language we use to describe our oppression:

(usernames censored for the privacy of those being harassed and those not participating in harassment. This conversation has so much fucking more btw holy shit.)

Accuses me, specifically, of being "desperate to be a victim". I'll remind you I quite literally tried to give him grace despite him consistently using my oppression as a bludgeon to win stupid fucking fandom arguments and harass people (see also, the link above about me calling him out for the Roe v. Wade thing):

(Yes, Raxis, I fucking loved pouring my heart out about how my dad would kick me out for being queer and how I've faced sexual harassment. Tee hee. I'm having soooooo much fun "being a victim". I don't 'argue', I tell you, because your horrible treatment of people and my feelings about it are not up for debate.)

And engages in racist behavior like calling being black a "multiplier" to deflect from criticism and mocking a WoC when she posts about how racism upsets her.

(Yes Raxis, WoC tend to get "big mad" and "suffer" when they encounter racism, you ghoul. Before you ask, the blacked out part just wasn't relevant to the conversation.)

And this is just the stuff I got out of a quick keyword search because I don't want to expend that much energy on this. God only knows what else is buried in there.

This tells me you aren't actually an ally. You're an "ally" when it's convenient for you or when you think it'll make you look good, but your allyship is conditional, and the second you're "crossed" by someone you claim to champion you throw their trauma back in their faces. Not even your supposed friends are safe from it, so what chance did we have of not getting harassed by you?

"But there's queer women in the Edelgard fandom who like him!" Okay? So he can't be engaging in harmful shit just because he has a queer friend? When has "I have a [blank] friend" EVER been an actual good faith defense against criticism? News flash, we're not a monolith, and just because some women and queer folk might like you or even agree with you doesn't mean you get to tell me how I should respond to my own fucking oppression. It is not your place to accuse me, a fucking queer woman, of having "internalized misogyny" or "internalized homophobia" every time I say something you don't personally like.

Frankly, from what I've seen of their server, it's less "queer women like him" and more like "queer women are too afraid to say anything against him" because whenever they try he cries to his pro-genocide mod buddy (THAT is a whole fucking story) who threatens to ban them.

And I'm not going to add these screenshots because I feel icky airing her personal business like that so explicitly, but I do have them. The woman involved in the censored screenshots above posted, in the server, about how unsafe she felt because she'd been threatened and silenced by cishet men for trying to talk about queerphobia. She left the server entirely after that.

And let's not forget what started this: he's thirty five years old and in many cases he's pulling this shit on people who are significantly younger than him. Exceeding a decade his junior in some cases. I point that out primarily for the power dynamic inherent to that. Not only is he privileged on the basis of race, gender, and orientation, he's fully developed and he knows what he's doing. He has the privilege of age and experience.

Fuck dude, he started going after some folks on Tumblr when they were still like? 18? 19? Not children, but fucking close.

I'll be very explicit because I know he's going to take this and try to accuse me of ageism, because that's what he always does when he gets called out for appropriating the language of social justice: you are a fucking adult. You have been an adult the entire time you have been in this fandom. As an adult, it's your job to be a fucking adult in these situations. Not to verbally abuse and harass inexperienced teens and early 20 somethings because they don't agree with your video game opinions. You are a grown ass 35 year old man man who thinks he's cool because he can "beat up", "cow", and "bitch slap" teenagers and early 20 somethings who are still developing, figuring themselves out, and learning how to express themselves in an articulate manner. Many of whom are already dealing with varying levels of actual trauma based on their upbringings (abusive, hateful, uncaring, or just generally unpleasant environments) or how they've been treated because of their identity (race, class, gender, sexual orientation, mental health, disability, sometimes multiple all at once) or both. That is why I keep bringing up your age.

It is quite possibly the single most embarrassing thing I have seen someone in fandom brag about. Not even just because you did it, Raxis, but because you're proud of it and you genuinely think it makes you look cool. It's embarrassing. You're embarrassing yourself.

[deathbirby]

Raxiiiis! I am SO glad I live in your head rent free uwu

[deathbirby]

"This person got an ask that was WROOOOONNNGGGG ABOUT 3H" raxis there are racists in the server you are in can you maybe talk about that for once

I don't get why it's so difficult for him to talk about it. Like you can block evade and make an entire tv tropes page about a fic that isn't even yours, but you can't talk about the bullshit going on in the Edelgard discord server? Okay then

[deathbirby]

Raxis stop block evading and screenshotting my posts challenge: IMPOSSIBLE

[deathbirby]

It's like his life mission is to bully the "Edelcrits" out of the fandom.

What some people think Rhea's thought process was during the Holy Tomb

What Rhea's actual thought process was during the Holy Tomb

[deathbirby]

I decided to read a bit of Raxis' essay response to you out of curiosity - see what the points are and all - and uh.

So he says Edelgard isn't JUST trying to unify Fodlan, it's only "a step on the path" so.... she is trying to unify Fodlan. It's just not ALL she's trying to do. How is that a defense?

And then "Dimitri goes full Rufus" by refusing Edelgard's attempt at allowing him to surrender the Church and return to Faerghus peacefully because he believed she'd still try to kill him anyway... making him irrational, but. Hm. In GW, wasn't Dimitri eventually forced to do exactly that due to being unable to protect the Church and Faerghus against the Empire and the Alliance...

If I recall, CLAUDE went to go kill Rhea, and Edelgard and her army followed Dimitri back to Faerghus. So much for allowing him to return to Faerghus peacefully. I dunno, maybe Dimitri can just read the room. Better than Raxis can, at that. I also seem to recall Edelgard rejecting DIMITRI'S attempts to reach out to her/get her to surrender in AM (twice).... she had a really good reason for doing that though, I'm sure. Unlike Dimitri.

Anyway, how does "unifying is just step 1 of making Fodlan better because she JUST wants her reforms" square away with "allowing Dimitri to remove himself from the conflict and return peacefully to his Kingdom?" Those two points are in complete contradiction to each other and are yet thrown out so confidently as rebuttal. Almost like he didn't stop to think about how those two facts didn't actually add up.

I didn't read the rest. I kinda don't feel like I need to. I wonder who he thought the "Lady of Deceit" in the CF chapter that involves Edelgard lying about the church doing something reprehensible was, anyway. Cornelia didn't do anything deceitful in CF's storyline besides sabotage the Kingdom as usual but hey, you'd think Edelgard would love that. Must've been Cornelia. Or maybe it was Rhea. Yeah. Got to have been Rhea.

Definitely Rhea. When in doubt, the green lady is to blame. She didn't share her stash of weed with Edelgard.

But yeah his arguments are shit. Kudos to you for being able to make an actual response to it and not falling asleep halfway through!

Lol who cares about Edelgard not JUST wanting to do some imperialism, she still does it. That's such a stupid fucking argument did he really think that sounds okay??

[deathbirby]

The irony is that Raxis actually makes Reyna MORE popular with his obsession. Since he keeps talking about her work on different platforms, he introduces new people to it and they’re not always the kind that leave nasty comments. Some people he has introduced to her work, especially on TVTropes, ended up genuinely liking her writing (as proven by the fact that Raxis essentially complained about it in the editor notes).

Lmaoo man's shooting himself in the foot

Go Reyna go!

[deathbirby]

I'll say it before and I'll say it again, people like Raxis, and the rest of the Edelstans ruined 3H for a lot of people. There's a reason why nobody looks back at the Fodlan universe fondly anymore, besides the fact that people are noticing the flaws more (which hey, no game is perfect). And considering how it's the most popular game in the FE series so far, yeah not a good look if there's a vocal bunch who'll go out of their way to sealion, harass, send borderline death threats, and spread disgusting rhetoric just cause someone doesn't like the female red emperor or sees her as the antagonist (which the devs see her as).

The fandom is just a cesspool of negativity because a certain group of people see anything negative about their fav as a personal attack. But they'll insist it's a both-sides problem to avoid taking responsibility.

Fucking hell I miss being able to just shitpost without edelgard discourse popping up every 5 seconds, or being told youre sexist for not liking a female character (???)

[deathbirby]

and the thing is he went through all that effort to screencap that person's post and he's STILL clearly wrong like it LITERALLY makes no sense for Rhea to both actually think Byleth is their own person who isn't Sothis AND expect them to "remember" memories that DON'T BELONG TO THEM or for her to say that she's been acting as a proxy for as long as she's been archbishop in BYLETH'S place and not SOTHIS' 😭😭😭

It's RIGHT there as well! Did he just not read the text or does he have the reading comprehension of a rock?

[deathbirby]

The person they're likely talking about "getting harassed" by "you and your friends" is that guy who wrote that ass Edel/eth fic with all the sexism and racism and shit. Someone on Tumblr went through his fic and critiqued it (a lot of calling out the sexism and racism and etc.), him and his friends got offended by someone DARING to critique this MASTERPIECE of literature, and Raxis and pals have been using this as an excuse to genuinely harass anyone remotely critical of Edelgard for the past 2-3 years.

That person who critiqued that fic hasn't talked about it in around a year now, by the way.

oh god not that fic.

wouldnt raxis's own logic of "its public meaning i can interact with it" apply here as well? its a public fic so you can critique it? or is it rules for you nor for me

[deathbirby]

Y'all ever heard of DARVO?

It stands for deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender. I wonder when we've seen that sort of stuff before in this fandom...

I'm talking about Raxis's treatment of Moonlitboar. He harassed this person off the platform because of... differing opinions. Yeah. And he's in his 30's. What a man.

Fucked around and found out? Are you fucking insane? Do you know what empathy is? You block evade constantly, that's targeted abuse you fucking dimwit.

BUT WAIT, he cannot be critiqued! No, that would be the end of the world! And that is where step one comes in: Denial.

"I didn't do it! I was at work."

Following up with attack;

"They deserve to get mocked for the things they said online!"

Ending with reverse victim and offender;

"Moonlitboar fucked around and found out, they were bad all along. Ignore my part in this uwu"

People started to rip him a new one after he said this because what the fuck is wrong with you??

DARVO is a common manipulation strategy. That means that dear old Raxypoo is using manipulation tactics (often used by abusers) to avoid accountability. He knew exactly what he was doing.

That is who you guys look up to? Ew.

[deathbirby]

Raxis really is a weirdo. Like he takes PRIDE in nannying a TVTropes page for a fanfiction he clearly hates, but then turns around and claims that criticizing Edelgard in any way could be (and should be) considered a personal attack on those that "actually" like her (read: erases all of her flaws and blames her victims for her actions). Like, by that dumbass logic isn't he personally attacking that fanfiction author and all of the people who like her work?

Double standards. It's okay if he does it, but BAD if you do it.

[deathbirby]

Raxy boy literally says that he takes pride in constantly editing some woman's fanfic on TVTropes (that he's been doing since Sept 2022), and he and his friends are trying to paint YOU as the clown?

If I'm a clown, they're the entire circus.

Also, when a Edelstan's fanfic is criticized, he loses his shit. BUUT when he patrols TVtropes and makes constant edits, it's okay!

Makes sense.

[deathbirby]

Guess block evader caveman fell for the hook line and sinker. Seriously though, engaging with the cycle of hate and abuse must be doing really bad for his well being. He needs to get therapy.

Man really sees an ask that says "inb4 an edelstan gets triggered" AND HE GETS TRIGGERED??

Honestly the dude just thrives off of being an asshole to other so I feel nothing for him but disdain.

[deathbirby]

Raxy's obsession with you is appalling. Also Bernadetta is a noble under Rhea's system? That's not her system, again going back to the whole crests enable nobles fallacy. There were nobles before Rhea was the archbishop and before she defeated Nemesis. But what do I know. I'm a stinkin' misogynist mooner who supports the status quo cause apparently saying imperialism bad, revanchist nationalism bad, and genocide bad means you support the status quo or whatever tankie talking point they like to spew.

He unblocked me to start an argument when he could've kept me blocked. You know, to set an example for his friends who like to spam people's inbox.

But nope. He has paper-thin skin and admits that anything negative said about M'Ladle is a personal attack. Holyyy shit. This grown man in his thirties can't handle it when people don't like a character the way he wants them to.

Raxis, I am not responsible for hurting your goddamn feelings. You could've kept me blocked and not have to look at my messages, but I guess the sheer concept of someone hating Edelgard is just inconceivable for you.