I’ve come to notice people are scared to even place pyro and Scott’s characters together, there use to be a lot of art all the time, but now only if there is a third character there, Fic’s have been taken down. Even a friend of mine who doesn’t even POST. They use to draw Pyro a lot, both shipping and non-shipping, they barely draw him now, much less with another character.
Yeah, the once excitement to make works of Pyro's characters has died down a whole lot.
Being scared of being harassed and or shunned from a big part of the fandom is one reason on why a lot of people now avoid drawing Pyro's characters.
But another is also the fact that what Pyro and Maddy have shown is entitlement over fanworks, because if all fanworks made of their characters, no matter how self indulgent, are thought as "gifts" to them or something they have the right to revoke from being made, then I can see why a lot of people would rather not draw their characters at all.
If artists are never allowed the freedom to create what they want, and their works can be made "illegal" the next day, then why would artists want to create works of a character when you know ccs and their mods are keeping their watchful eye over you?
I know a lot of Pyro's defenders and mods hate the word "policing" being used, but it is exactly that, a lawless place such as fandom where people create works on characters in their own free time, sometimes taking hours is now governed by someone with a larger following, using their influence to decide what you can and cannot make total.
It's mostly why I draw ship art of Pyro's characters only, I want people in this fandom to post what they want for themselves and not grown ass adults, and I don't want to show support for creators who want to throw their following around because people are playing with dolls, frame those people shipping characters as "perpetrators" and those on their side as the "good guys", like a black and white scenario which is so incredibly manipulative even if the intention may not be manipulative as I hope is the case.
Make things for yourself, not for two adults which in the end of the day have full control over what they want and don't want to see on the internet by filtering tags like the rest of us.
Ccs especially have full control on canon and the true intentions behind their characters, but they cannot sit there and act hurt because someone put their characters in a romantic relationship in another story or headcanon.
If we allow censorship of what we find problematic such as "shipping", then it's not only going to stop at what people find problematic, and could very well branch out into ccs then banning their characters being drawn disabled, or plenty of other things, in which case would that be okay?
Its a shitty situation to be in the fandom at this time, but I encourage everyone to make things for themselves because while there are a lot of loud voices defending Pyro and Maddy, there are also a lot who have shown to still want to see more works created by the fandom, for the fandom, despite a cc making it "illegal" now, that won't change people thinking that those characters could still be cute together romantically, it will only affect how safe people will feel to talk and create in these spaces.
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