Current Post On Trae’s Blog:
It's hard to tell how vulnerable to be on the internet anymore. How safe it it to be so exposed. Twenty years ago I'd just pour anything I was feeling into this space. While I filtered things for other people's privacy, I never filtered my own feelings.
But I stopped at some point, and this turned into a place where I just promoted my projects and gave generic, general updates. It meant I posted less and less, and I know I'm trying to turn that around. When you make stuff like comics and books and try to talk about them and promote them online, there's a pressure to be positive constantly. Like when you're actively trying to provide paths for escapism for people, a lot of people get unhappy when you drag reality into things.
But things are stressful.
Sometimes we're just holding ourselves together with tape and string, and hoping no one notices. Besides the massively important Wisconsin Supreme Court election on Tuesday (vote Crawford by the way), the outside world isn't the only pressure. My grandmother is going into hospice, and that brings its own set of stuff. I've got a family of people who are all concerned about everyone else's well being, and not enough people taking care of themselves.
And, like, for the record, I am fine. I will be fine. We have a lot of fighting to do, and I have no intention of giving up. But, like, shit is stressful, y'know? And I think it's important to acknowledge that stress. I write these things not because I need support, but to acknowledge that they exist. To say "sometimes things are hard and we're all human."
Because we are.
And me move forward as best we can.
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I’m asking myself what Jim’s game would be if he is attempting to bait Lynn into posting the full e-mail. I wish Admiral Ackbar were here. Traps are his specialty.
The best I can think of is getting Bork Con itself to promote “Bork Con Sucks”, funneling everyone with a grudge to Jim’s group. They would be resources for a propaganda war against Lynn and Bork con. That feels like the Plan B play but not the Plan A.
What sprigs to my mind, if they post the original email… is there any proof that’s the original? Or does it become a ‘he said, she said’ argument?
I suspect the previous posters have pretty much called it. The whole point of the email was to cut ties between Bork Con and Unagi Con By addressing or even acnowleding Jim’s post they’re defeating that. I assume Jim next step if the full email were posted would be a deflection with a complaint about how Bork Con was trying to censor his personal social media.. or something. Likely the best tactic for Lynn is to focus on Bork Con and promote the positive. The sort of crowd drawn in by flame wars probably don’t make for good goers. .
They might not even need to make a defense response. If Lynn sent that e-mail to the whole Unagi Con staff (which I think she did), then everyone on staff has seen it and will know that the version Jim posted is leaving out crucial information.
Maybe a lot of them don’t care or share Jim’s grudge, but I don’t think it’s likely that the entire staff would be fine with it. If that’s the case, there might be a staff member or two who will jump ship and release the original e-mail themselves because it’s gone too far and now the whole con is paying for Jim’s actions since they lost access to Bork-con’s equipment.
Even Garner may be able to post an independent response as a former staff member and highlight why he left, though that could be taken either way since he left to join Bork-con.
I forgot to mention that I can see them looking the other way for a direct attack at Lynn given he railroaded her, but some might have an issue with letting that animosity bleed into harassing a whole con and their staff. Everyone draws their own line.