(a reflection on events that occurred 6 years ago and the time since then)

in recent months, there's been a resurgance in discussion around an old colleague i briefly worked with going into the 2020s, and some suggest that i should poke my head out and give my own thoughts about it. i don't really plan on talking too much about this mostly because i don't necessarily consider it worth my time. at the same time i also don't want to stay silent about it either, so i guess here goes:

despite what the person i'm referring to did, (i'm not excusing the guy for his actions; fuck that) i also don't want the happenings of that to consume me any further. i haven't really thought that seriously about it since the year it happened and various occurances from around 2024 or so. the shit that happened during those days still haunt me, even when i try to forget, at some point something's going to trigger them to come crawling back into the front of my subconsciousness. it blows...

anything that happens with him beyond this point is out of my (and by association the rest of the former crew's) control. if he has changed his ways for the better, then i wish him and his current crew the best. i'm sorry for all of the people involved and especially to those who were affected. sometimes i do wish none of this ever happened (or in the way that it did.) i guess if a lot of the others who were involved have seemingly moved then i probably can too. i don't know. 

thank you for reading this
- sam (march 23, 2026)

(p.s. despite the recently-released pilot being mostly cliche animation gags and all that, i personally thought that certain aspects of it were "okay." i did have a lot of criticisms, but elaborating wouldn't be adding anything new to the table. :v)