There is a lot coming out of Paizo right now, some of I witnessed first hand and/or happened to my partner. Trauma is a thing and you build it up no matter where you work, sometimes by your own hand, but things were ever complicated there.
I was one of the lucky ones until I wasn't. I had good managers until I didn't. And the manager made all of the difference. He left shortly after I did and that was the best thing that could have happened at the time to the technology team.
But I saw a lot of amazing people sustain a job that was actively hurting them to have the chance to bring something that meant a lot to them to you. Things like this are complicated.
I want you all to know that Paizo was shit to some people and lot of those people fought long and hard to bring something amazing to the game; a piece of themselves.
Paizo had the good sense to mostly let people do that and make an inclusive product even though there were a lot of regressive things happening to individuals behind the scenes. And they should applauded for that insight. But...
There was a price and that price often came with Trauma. So love your paizo people today. Look in the front of your paizo books and see all the people that were involved in making that book, some of them are unsung heroes fighting the good fight.
I really hope the management takes these things to heart, learns, grows and gets counseling, because there are far too few companies with as big a voice as paizo that are willing to do those things.
I don't hold a lot of hope, they've had more than a decade to fix things and I'm not sure most of management is up to the task. Introspection is hard. Change is harder. Few know that as much as trans people who have been through the ringer often by their own hand for some time.
But maybe the time has come. Time will tell.
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