#rich people are the scourge of the earth ffs

[hermiola]

re: ng

i don't know if i'm being extremely naive or just exposed to the right sort of people in the fandom, and i know that this doesn't make up for the legal consequences he probably (?) won't face, but i truly feel ng is DONE FOR. he's never coming back from this.

i can't think of another situation where such swift action has been taken against an abuser in the absence of a court case/conviction. it feels like everything connected to him has been buried. (i don't know if i have a skewered perspective on this because i'm in a bubble, but still.)

also, with him being a writer, i feel like it's harder for people to come to his books without knowing who he is. and if not, if his work is going to make any kind of impact on you, you're going to find out who he is one way or another. he's not a well established actor who can count on the goodwill of people casually watching his movies and recognising his face (looking at you johnny d*pp).

he's done, his legacy is forever tarnished, i'm not sure any major publisher will ever touch him again, and this gives me some measure of comfort (not that my comfort matters at all in this case, of course).

i felt guilty at the beginning, engaging with go, as i've completely cut out stuff written by other problematic authors before (*problematic* doesn't even begin to cover it...), but i've come to the point where i don't anymore (though i completely understand people who do).

he's never been the sole person behind go, especially so with the tv show. i'm glad there have been consequences (it wouldn't have been/felt right to go ahead as if nothing had happened), but i truly believe that we shouldn't give him the power to ruin any more than he already did. i'm going to steal whatever good has come out of his work from him as though prying something from the hands of a dead man. he can choke. he doesn't get to do this on top of all the heinous things he's already done.

i won't financially engage with his art (which, again, i feel is what really counts here, what is actually going to make a difference) and spread the word about his character, and keep enjoying go, which at this point is more about the community around it than whoever wrote it. even the finale i take as a gift to this community. it is in no way a priority, but he doesn't get to ruin this too.

may his victims get justice and find peace, and may he disappear/his finances crumble so that he won't be able to use them against anyone ever again.