Squidlogic

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You may have wondered why I started posting on the failblog and how I was exposed to Ryuu. Even if you haven't, I'm going to cover all that today.

I had an acquaintance mention an artist he really liked called Lady-Zelda-of-Hyrule on deviantArt over messenger around... 2007 or 2008, I think. It's been a few years and my memory of dates has never been the greatest anyway.

Regardless, I took his suggestion and checked LZ out. I thought she was reasonably talented and seemed like a good person.

Then I started noticing the million anatomy errors in the pictures she was inking. Jesus christ, some of them were bad. It didn't take a genius to realize the sketch artist (one Ryuu-Atrineas) was the issue. Ryuu-Atrineas also seemed to be LZ's significant other. As I was out of the loop, I asked my acquaintance what was going on there.

I was told Ryuu had a huge fanbase, but he was extremely homophobic and tended to treat his friends like garbage unless they massively kissed his ass. I was also told he brushed off anything remotely like criticism and that only happened when it was coated in asspats. If it wasn't, it was ignored.

Due to disapproving of using one's friends to stroke one's own ego (to say nothing of the homophobia), I decided to see what this jackass was up to from time to time when I was not otherwise occupied.

While I lurked, I was treated to displays of Ryuu's amazing anatomy skills. Pieces like Glamor Shot Rebe:

Thoughts at the time: "... That's not how a spine works. Ouch."

And Cordelia of Great Bay:

Though now I look at it, that other foot's FUBAR too.

And the always super-sexy Gerudo Glamor!

I don't think I've ever told anyone quite how much I hate this fucking picture.

In short, what I saw sketch-wise was fairly poor, and I couldn't understand why this guy was getting all the praise he did. But as bad as that was, what I saw as far as his behavior was so much worse.

It was a downward spiral of art theft, hypocrisy, ego, melodrama, and treating people like shit. I also lurked enough to see the actual demonstrations of his homophobia on ZEJ and him proclaiming to be PROUD of being uncomfortable around gay people.

I'm not going to lie: I hoped it was a matter of time before it all caught up to him.

And on July 18, 2010, I realized it had when Ryuu posted a certain journal. By this point I realized that he tended to blow shit out of proportion something fierce.

I wanted to see what was going on but Ryuu hadn't linked to the blog. Bah.

But a Google search for the good Doctor's name, Ryuu-Atrineas and Blogspot did the trick.

I ended up here and I read the entire blog. And I wasn't entirely surprised everyone was sane and respectful (unless, of course, someone was disrespectful first), because I was kind of expecting Ryuu to lie all over the damn place.

So I left a comment on the blog with a couple bits of hastily created contact information and an old email a friend gave me. The She-Elf responded quickly via the old email account and shortly before she left the blog I became an official contributor.

The rest is history. All this because he bawwed about people on the internet not liking him.

So why did I decide on Ryuu? Because he was a bigot I was aware of, and frankly I find his "STRANGERS ON THE INTERNET DON'T LIKE ME, NOOOO" schtick to be really fucking annoying.

People have real problems, and as I realized after my very first read-through, this blog does not fall into that category.

And why did I take the (comparatively) drastic step of joining? There's several reasons:

• He's called being queer "GROSS, STRANGE and JUST PLAIN WRONG", and he has stated that he is PROUD of being a bigoted homophobe. I see no reason why I should let that slide, especially not when he's a racist, xenophobic, sexist dicklizard with (according to several anonymous sources) the same set of social skills he had in 2005.  
  

• Put plainly and simply, I hold grudges. He's offended me by calling the LGBT community gross. He's offended me with his sermons. He's offended me by being a racist fuckstick, whether or not it was directed at me. I've been offended by his shitty writing and humongous ego. The worst part of everything is that no one is really able to call him on it on his page because he brushes everything off.
  

• I don't like pathological liars. He lies about everything to try and make himself look good because he can't admit he's wrong. I'm not okay with that shit.
  

• His entitlement complex is fucking disgusting and completely unacceptable on a guy in his early 20s. Actually, it'd reached the "completely unacceptable" point as a teenager, based on some of his older journals. Regardless, if your response to something like our blog is "YOU PEOPLE ON THE BLOG NEED TO CONTACT ME TO STOP EVERYTHING, EVEN THOUGH I WANT IT STOPPED NOT YOU", you're too entitled to be allowed out in public unsupervised, because the real world is going to break you to pieces.
  

• His writing is an affront to everything I've read. As Itinimac has also said, it's Twilight quality. But he gets praised constantly for it for reasons I don't understand. As Yiazmat said in passing while talking about some of Ryuu's really sketchy word choices, my choices are to laugh at his writing and post critiques and MSTs... or discard my sense of self-worth and kiss his ass thoroughly, only to have him make excuses in response to valid criticisms. I'll pass on the latter, thanks.
  

• I don't like people who treat their friends like crap, as already stated. They're friends, not minions. Friends DO treat each other like equals. Friends DON'T expect unconditional asspats while the asspatted treats the asspatter like shit.

The moral of the story is that if you publicly say shit like he has on the internet, treat people like shit, and expect no one to call you on it, odds are that you will be proven horribly wrong. Maybe not immediately, but it will happen sooner or later.

You've probably noticed by now but everything we've used as evidence was posted publicly. And you can't get rid of public posts on the internet very easily. Even if you delete fucking everything, it's probably never going to go away. And that, Ryuu, is why they say the internet never forgets.