the-gentleman-chronicler:

In the future can we please just agree as a fandom to keep issues that could be easily handled privately private?

There was an issue with this recently that caused someone to leave the community.  Calling another writer out in a public display of personal unhappiness doesn’t strengthen this fandom – it weakens it and causes those writers already at their limit to question whether the Tumblr community is even worth continuing with.  No one deserves to be made a public spectacle.  

If you have issues, take it to that individual in their askbox.  That’s what they are there for.  Resolving issues on a one on one basis seems a far better solution than throwing anyone else under the bus for everyone else to see.  That makes things highly uncomfortable for those of us not involved in the situations.

This has become a disconcerting habit in this fandom lately and I am only speaking up to make an appeal that it please stop.  Everyone is free to have a differing opinion, of course.  I normally tend to be quiet about these things but this trend is maddening to see and uncomfortable to be exposed to.

Thanks.

^This so very much.