So, about the OTW, then...

This is the hardest thing I’ve written in ages, if you can believe it. It took multiple drafts and a long, long time. It’s also the first post I’ve written about the OTW in over a decade. For the record, I was a volunteer, but quit due to them not making any progress on the issues I had joined for. I promised to re-join once progress had been made – which you can tell never happened, because I never did rejoin. I also used to be a mod on an archive (ff.de), way back when (and got fired in a very spectacular fashion for being friends with the wrong person, a locked tweet and a mildly critical post I had posted before becoming a mod, that was fun). I never had to deal with anything even close to what azarias had to deal with, but I feel for them – especially the dysfunction around their firing.

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