Impersonation Warning
Bad Actors Are Impersonating Us: FYI
There are individuals who are impersonating my husband and me, sending disturbing e-mails via people's submission forms, aimed at anyone we may have had a recent disagreement with on social media. There are two possible candidates for this. The most likely one was identified by my husband on this thread after a year of gathering evidence. The individual in question is a deeply disturbed transphobe from KiwiFarms who masquerades as a queer-positive YA author with sexualized teen characters.
This individual trailed me and harassed me for months, feeding my art to AI engines to try to get me to freak out. When I didn't, he decided Asher was the better target- largely because his inappropriate actions toward my husband on his main account were what led me to terminate our business relationship and our association at the time (Kerzner had referred him to me as a consultant on the aforementioned novel). It was upon this rupture that his trolling and harassing of both of us under his troll account redoubled (we went over our records and the timelines match up perfectly). He became obsessed with getting my husband featured on KiwiFarms, taking advantage of Asher's proximity to Kerzner (and Kerzner's association with Poppy) to try to gain relevance. His attempts met with little success, eventually resulting in him being chastised by other trolls for trying to divert from the main subject of their thread (Poppy).
We suspect his next step, then, has been to try to cause strife by form-submission impersonation to the aforementioned individuals. We can confirm Kerzner has received multiple e-mails (which she refuses to provide for authentication and tracing), likewise Audrey and/or Saige. None have expressed desire to publish or provide the raw files of these e-mails even at our behest, which would be incredibly helpful in amassing more evidence, but Asher and I both state that none of the parties who received these emails deserve to be subjected to this. It must be frightening and disturbing to receive this content, and we have stated that we will gladly collaborate with authorities if need be in order to bring the individual - or individuals- to light. We already have a considerable amount of evidence which, aside from our own cache, is in the custody of several trusted individuals with instructions on where and how to disseminate it should we find ourselves suddenly incapacitated in one form or another. Evidence also suggests this individual went as far as to try to issue a take-down email to KF, pretending to be Asher, in an effort to get him featured as a 'lolcow claiming harassment' (in their own parlance) unsuccessfully.
Those who have known us for over twenty years on the internet (and there are a lot of people who do) will tell you that we do not skulk in the shadows and do not send nastygrams. We always deal openly and directly- neither one of us is afraid of confrontation and what we have to say, we say it in public and directly to the individual in question. We are not cowards.
So to reiterate: there is no communication that will issue forth from us via email, unless it comes from our own domains and with certification and verification. The details of what that certification looks like and the means by which you can verify you've received an authentic email will follow soon. In the meantime, I urge anyone who has received these emails to contact me on Bluesky so that we can plan a means of delivering the raw files for further evidence, including ways of getting the authorities involved. You do not deserve this, and we do not condone it.

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