A Very Important Announcement

Some of you may have noticed I've been absent recently. There has been a lot of conjecture as to why I took down the vast majority of my videos, and while I'm still not able to publicly explain why, I can set the record straight here on Patreon to you, my loyal patrons.

I work in a school and, as such, nowhere online are there any social media with my real name on. Since 2001 I've gone by the online handle Scribbler and I kept it up even when Facebook, Twitter and the long-passed Myspace became a thing. When I chose my career this became especially important as I wanted a separation between my working life and private life.

Unfortunately, while I was still grieving over Suki, some students at the school I work in made the connection between 'ObabScribbler' and my real world identity through a combination of looking over my shoulder at a screen I was using and at least one of them being a brony who identified me by my voice. Even more unfortunately, they took their discovery to management, who called me into the big cheese office of the school to rip me a new one for letting the school down and tarnishing their reputation by swearing and making veiled sex jokes on the internet on a channel where at least one video showed my face. The headteacher launched an official investigation into my online activities for breaking the Staff Code of Conduct and. during the course of that, I was basically told that if I wanted to keep my job I had to take down my videos, at least temporarily. 

I say temporarily because even though it was supposed to end on May 16th, I am waiting to hear the outcome of this investigation and learn whether this is the end of it or if I am going to be formally disciplined for being ObabScribbler in my spare time. Either way, I am making plans to leave my current post if I have to, even though I don't actually have another job to go to, in order to preserve my reputation and avoid a  disciplinary charge that would follow me into my next post.

To that end, I'll still be uploading content but it will be unlisted and only available on Patreon and (much later) on Twitter until I know what's going on IRL. I'm repurposing this Patreon for the time being into the colloquially termed 'Rent and Bills Fund For If Scribbler Loses Her Job Because People IRL Suck'. 

I hope this clears up a few things and dispels some of the rumours going around about me at the moment. Obviously I would ask that my patrons not publicly spread around what is really going on, as it could have dire consequences for me, but I felt you deserved t know what was going on since I'm having to start this employment contingency plan. Thank you and I hope you all have a wonderful day.