I have apologized for the harm caused by my words. The issue is not the behavior which has been apologized for and has not continued. It is the perception that that apology wa insufficient and the subsequent public political campaign that has followed.

I will continue to behave as a good citizen despite this campaign.

No-one is suggesting that Breneir has committed any crime under Talossan or other law. If he had, we would have taken him to Cort. I think Glüc explained it perfectly in grown-up terms. But if you want it explained in ten-year-old terms: he said something creepy that upset our friend. Our friend's still upset about that. We don't see why we have to play nice with him if he doesn't make it right with our friend.

One of the problems with dealing with vesneir behaviour (and I should explain here, "vesneir" is the Talossan word for asshole) is that it can be very upsetting and annoying and deserve sanction, but not be a crime. The threshold for criminalizing behaviour should be very high. The proper response to criminal behaviour is the Law. The proper response to non-criminal vesneir behaviour is informal social responses such as social pressure, shunning, etc.

These are necessary and healthy ways of keeping a community safe. You've got to confront bad behaviour even if it's not a crime. And can I just give @Baron Alexandreu Davinescu deserved credit, here because I think it was his idea to put up a non-binding resolution to the Ziu that we could simply point at to indicate why Breneir is a nuisance and should be excluded from polite company until he changes his ways.

I believe Breneir can change his ways. All he has to do is to apologize to Lüc in a way that Lüc accepts, and this ends.

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be on April 18, 2026, 02:16:33 PM

Quote from: King Txec on April 17, 2026, 03:00:02 PMI have the grant mostly written and it looks like the request from Moinul Moin  is complete but I'm not sure if Tåltind Furxheir (Ethan Smith) ever actually accepted his final product. Also, the image generated by Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be looks to be too small (it may be cropped).

-Txec R/REH

For the College's reference, S:reu Furxheir and I had a conversation over Discord prior to my posting the proposal, he said he liked the arms as they were.

Is the image not coming through correctly for Your Majesty? It's 1000 x 1198, I would hope that would be large enough...

- Foxmouth

Thank you Foxmouth for clarifying. As for the image, it came through perfectly. I saw the word "cropped" in the file name and thought maybe it would be small.

@Baron Alexandreu Davinescu thanks for the help in making sure I didn't miss any future armigers. I also wonder if it might be time to consider reassigning S:reu Barclamiu's project as the Squirrel King of Arms seems to not be around much.

-Txec R/REH

FT is still planning a combined March-April edition soon. Due to the past week being rather newsy we will be postponing the Moin special program until the May edition of the Digest.

Hopefully the March-April edition of the Digest will be out tomorrow (Sunday) or Monday.

Someone explain Brenier's crime to me like I was ten years old. He said he thought Lüc was cute? Is there more that I happened to miss?

Quote from: Glüc on April 18, 2026, 07:49:29 PMFwiw, I am sorry to see you go. I enjoyed your contributions to Talossan culture and fantasy sports and your independent approach to Talossan politics.

Tric'hard, I echo this particular part of Gluc's comments and hope that you will one day return to the Kingdom.

Fwiw, I am sorry to see you go. I enjoyed your contributions to Talossan culture and fantasy sports and your independent approach to Talossan politics.

As for Breneir, I don't hate him, because I don't know him well enough for that, but I do wish he'd just leave at this point. He's clearly incapable of reflecting on his own actions. The "apology" is really just more evidence of that, because his "compliments" were clearly not given in good faith to begin with (which should be pretty obvious from the context to anyone who saw the original remarks. My own intepretation is that he was being very condescending) and because he doubled down repeatedly many times after knowing it made Lüc uncomfortable. To then explicitly deny any malicious intent and only apologise for how his comments were received is entirely unserious.

It really isn't just some vendetta by AD and Miestră. I haven't been particularly active lately, but I'm pretty sure a majority of active Talossans would be happy to see Breneir gone at this point. Clearly this isnt going away any time soon, which makes me wonder why he is still here just to argue with people that don't want anything to do with him.