So people have been asking me a bit about the situation with Peaches and Lio.
I've held back on saying anything seeing as I don't really have things terribly relevant to recent situations to say. And yet this is going to be a rather long thread so guess there’s still a bit to say.
First and most important to note: I'm not like the people that have been severely negatively impacted by the actions of Lio, Peaches or the Senate.
That is to say I was not victimised in any capacity, so please direct your attention to those that were harmed by all this.
Nor do I possess any particularly useful insight about previous events and even less insight on what’s been coming out more recently.
I’ve been sitting back and watching everything come out like most other people.
There’s still things supposedly brewing behind the scenes, responses mostly from what I understand. If there’s more bombshells coming I couldn't begin to guess what they are. So I didn’t speak up because me chatting shit would just take away from the people that actually have important stories to tell. Now it seems most of those people have spoken so I’ll say what little I do have to say.
This sucks for lots of reasons but for me personally there’s nothing fun watching people I once held in at least fond regard collapse under the weight of their own bad decisions or showing their true colours.
Lio was always good to me, he assured me he’d help me if my rl creeper popped up again, he respected my personal boundaries and triggers when talking to me and I trusted that he meant it when he said he cared. I still believe that.
I don't know if I was an exception of some kind or if it was a product of the self improvement Lio was attempting the past year but he always treated me kindly.
However, despite that when I became aware that Lio wasn’t being honest with me, I cut him off. Nothing serious, nothing worth “exposing” and nothing directly connected to anything happening around Lio recently, just actions that to me proved he didn’t uphold the honesty and straightforwardness he purported to stand for. I understand that a lot of this was likely due to Peach's influence, but even knowing that and feeling for the guy’s current position, that doesn’t repair my trust or override my disappointment, so the friendship ended.
As for Peaches, I cut them off back in November. I can’t say that the way Peaches conducted themselves behind the scenes (sometimes in public too actually) and behind my back haven’t left me feeling particularly slighted. But again, those slights were personal and not the sort of thing I intended to talk about puqblicly. Because boo-hoo, they tried to get my friends to drop me while acting like we were friends to my face, like I said, personal drama. Not the subject of serious discussion.
The only notable part of Peach's behaviour in regards to me is the effect they had on Lio. Urging Lio to consistently encourage me for the better part of a year to drop certain friends that Peaches didn’t like and painting those close to me as inherently bad people with lies. Just as I know Peaches has been doing with others behind the scenes as well. I’m glad with me at the very least it never worked, but knowing how many friends I would have lost if it had makes me almost unreasonably pissed.
Regardless of that, it’s a pattern of a consistent, childish, vindictive effort to ruin friendships and hurt people that Peaches has decided had wronged them, which is why I dropped them last year. Although it has only been in the past month that people have finally started coming to me to confirm what I suspected and share some of the things Peaches was saying behind the scenes.
Peaches to me is a malicious idiot. They were handed a clean slate, friends that were willing to support and care for them, and they chose to throw it all away for petty mean-girl nonsense and unreasonable grudges. I wished them well when I cut them off originally and I still wish them well now - so long as that well takes place offline and far, far away from me.
As for the Senate, I don't have much of anything to say about that. I was in Senate up until sometime in October (lord knows I didn’t keep track of when I joined or left) and spent most of my stay in the Rancour Pit. I didn’t care about their play rules and drawing punishments or whatever, I wasn’t interested in engaging so into the pit I went. I asked to get put back in there when I was let out because I didn’t want to see the rest of the discord. I was there on Lio’s request and left because it was not the right space for me.
I will add that I’ve heard about this ‘Supreme Court’ discord and I want to state right now that it's a dog shit idea if it’s anything like the Senate with the same people from the Senate. If the Supreme Court is anything like Senate you’ve solved nothing. I don't know what the Court is actually like so maybe this warning is unnecessary, but if it shares any of the same culture as the Senate it’s doomed to fail.
At the end of the day does it suck watching someone I once thought highly of fall? Sure.
Does it suck that someone I once believed was close to me, someone I trusted, gave my energy and friendship to and genuinely believed was a better person than they were? Fuck yes.
But is any of that important enough to speak up publicly unprompted? Not really.
I’ve always said friendship drama doesn’t belong on a public stage, so for months I said nothing. I don’t regret that.
I dont think there’s any reasonable, mature reason to get up on a podium and shout ‘this fucker hurt my feelings and was a snakey fake friend’ so I didn’t.
Maybe this counts as doing that now, I don't know. I just know people keep asking me about Peaches and Lio like I have anything helpful to tell them and I don’t.
I know some people seem to believe that if it were anyone besides Peaches they’d be put on blast by now, maybe that’s true under Lio, Peach’s or Senate’s values but I’ve never held those values. Dogpilling is a mistake, not a standard.
So I took a step back and kept my trap shut until it felt appropriate to write this. And I think that’s now with things seemingly slowing down.
There might be more that comes out after this point, but I’m just going to be watching like anyone else would. Lord knows I warned people about the writing on the wall and they didn’t listen, I’m not helping anyone get out of the holes they willfully dug.
Anyway I think that’s everything.
And to force a final optimistic endnote, thanks to the friends that didn’t drop me because of the things being said by Peaches behind closed doors. I appreciate the trust in my character and honesty from you guys.
