Hello! It's been a while since we've had any contact, whoever you are. I've been out of the community for about a year and a half, give or take a few days. I suppose it'd be easy to look up exactly what date I last favorited something, but even after I leave I occasionally get linked something, or at least I used to, when I still knew people.

I was not informed of your identity (or even if it's just one person, what I was told could have been singular or plural.) And I've no intention of asking. I do have several suspects, but that's only because there are very few who would even remember I exist, let alone be able to identify me. Not that I think it is very hard to do, I'm not trying to hide. If I was you'd likely not have had such an easy time of it. I'd have been something other than a gryphon (And not used an image from an artist connected with people I knew in the past, I'd probably have pretended to be bi with female preference. I'd probably have lied about a location/timezone and just said I had odd work hours.

But I didn't do any of that. While I didn't flat out state who I used to be known as in public, The couple people that i've interacted with more than just a random comment or two were informed in private shortly after I was aware of them. I would feel awkward trying to pretend, and I've always believed in trying to be honest. Yes, I do fail there sometimes, but so do we all. My biggest 'lies' are usually through omission. If I can't say something or I shouldn't I'll stay quiet.

Maybe your motivation was purely altruistic. You didn't want a friend to be taken advantage of. I can respect that, however you should have approached me, whether through an identity I knew or a new one and asked me what was going on. I'd have told you the truth, which I'd quite frankly have expected you to confirm.

The thing is, whatever is being alleged is just a smear in the context it has been used. I could actually be someone different (However cosmically unlikely that is), and to show respect for someone in that position would have been to ask.

I don't even know the allegations, just that I'm supposed to expect hateful comments, coming from someone I trust completely. Someone whom I avoided for the last year and more out of respect for their decision, and to honor a promise I had made.

I don't believe posting updated contact information on my older accounts was a violation of that promise. There may well be others who actually miss me and wanted to talk to me again. (There were at least 3 others, possibly a 4th) I also knew that the one I mostly wrote it for was not using the watch feature. And with how many people they watch, one or two random journals would have fallen through the cracks anyway even if they had.

I was invited to resume communication with them, which you would have found if you'd asked me first.

I don't know where I'll go from here. Should I shut this account down, do the things I suggested above? Should I just ignore you and whatever hateful comments I should be expecting?

I don't believe I've done ANYTHING wrong enough to feel this treatment of me is warrented. Yes, i've made some mistakes in my past, and I've hurt people on accident. But some of those people have also hurt me in other ways.

So please, respond here (since you obviously know this account) and lets air all of our dirty laundry, get this settled so that you don't have to stalk me from the shadows. Something I've not done and would never do.

And if you knew me well enough to identify me, you'd also know that I'd never do anything to actively try and hurt my best friend. I'd literally have let myself vanish and never return if I'd have truly thought that was what they wanted of me.