Feel free to skip this entire post. I just need to let it out.
One of most vulnerable projects – trilogy of NeoTwiny 2024 entries, let the lights bleed, leave the lights on, and turn the lights off – have been delisted. The entire series is now available only through direct links or through going on my profile. I wasn’t hit as hard as those who had their games deleted straight up but you need to understand that most people who read through the Primary Lights trilogy aren’t people who regularly follow me. If it wasn’t for browsing the adult section on itch, they’d never come across it.
Why am I talking about it? Because this series is all about going through sexual trauma and complicated feelings that come with it. Because those strangers that weren’t following my work before came across it randomly on God’s green internet, and they found a place where their pain was understood. They found a place where they could admit that they’ve been hurt. They found a piece of art that they could point at and say “this is how I felt”. I’m not just saying that, this is what I was told in comments, reviews, DMs.
How many other projects which present the perspective of a victim/survivor were also hit? How many people who processed what happened to them in their art were struck as acceptable collateral damage? How many people who need to feel understood, who need to know they’re not alone in horrid things that happened to them, who need courage and words to tell the world yes, it happened to me – how many people will stay in silence that was enforced upon them to “protect them”?
I’m just angry and heartbroken.