I'm sorry, I had a snarky little post lined up about Lou's racist attitude toward big cat cross-breeding per
@Plastic Inevitable, but I had to junk it when I saw this, because I feel like we become so inured to Lou's shitty behavior that it's easy to miss when something exceptionally shitty comes along.
HallionI has been one of Lou's biggest defenders and enablers. Time after time, they're there to offer hUuUuGs when Lou whines about his abusive family going to McDonald's and bringing him back a medium fries instead of a large fries. HallionI is always
so, so angry about us dastardly KF terrorists and how we literally murder Lou every day by keeping records of the things he says and highlighting his lies and inconsistencies. I'd show you the receipts, but HallionI is in the midst of some sort of personal crisis such as troons go through every week or so, and they've locked down their twitter.
So Lou reaches out to HallionI in the wake of said crisis and,
while explicitly saying HallionI can block him if they want to, asks how they're doing. They politely thank Lou and decline his offer of assistance. At some indeterminate time later, they block him. Is it temporary or permanent? Did they block anyone else? No way to know.
So Lou is hurt by this, which is understandable. There are several possible ways to deal with this. One way, which I favor, would be to suck it up and move on. Maybe they'll come back, and maybe they won't. By the time I was Lou's age I'd learned that it's best not to dwell on regrets, especially as regards people on a damn computer screen whom I will never meet. Another way would be to low-key reach out to mutual friends and ask if they have any information about what's going on, so as to smooth things out without airing any dirty laundry in public. There are also variations on both of these approaches that one might pursue.
A third option, which is the one Lou chose, is to
put the other person on blast while passive-aggressively saying "they'll blame it on psychotic breaks or something."
Now, I'm an old fart and I'll be the first one to admit that I don't really keep up with the DM etiquette and all that, but one principle I learned in my youth that I hope still applies is that
something said to you in confidence stays that way barring exceptional circumstances. That's not what happened here. Lou violated the privacy of a DM conversation with someone in a fragile emotional state for the capital crime of blocking him for a day or less.
I've spilled many a word in anger at Lou, but not until now have I thought that he might literally be a sociopath. And I find myself fantasizing about watching him die in a fire.
