#boundary discourse

[girllegundo]

interesting phenomenon

[grithogirl]

"average mcrp fandom can survive multiple shipping bans and fandom overreach attempts from creators" factoid actualy just statistical error. average mcrp fandom collapses and dies from one (1) shipping ban and creator overreach. DSMP, which somehow survived nearly every creator banning shipping and most popular tropes like it was on some kind of fandom steroids, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[salemoleander]

If you can't bear anyone else playing with the toys you make in ways you don't specifically approve of, don't be a toymaker. Once they're out in the world, in other people's hands and governed by their imaginations, they will do things you didn't intend. They will bury the toy in sand, or they will make the toys kiss, or they will draw all over the toy in permanent marker.

If someone is mailing you pictures of the assorted ways they've destroyed your toys, that's weird and you can and should ban them from doing so. If you're collaborating with other toymakers professionally, it would be perfectly reasonable to ask them to interact with your toys publicly in proscribed ways- that is both a professional business arrangement and a genuine one-on-one relationship.

But the toys themselves aren't yours anymore.

Everyone who sees a performance or movie or stream has a sliver of the idea of that character in their head, and you don't get to tell them what to do with it once it's there. That isn't how telling stories works; it's never been a right anyone could claim.

[aphleos]

mcyts will talk about boundaries and call that specific subsection of their fans weirdos for creating that kind of content like brother why were you at the devil’s sacrament as well

[daily-cup-of-t]

A recent update and clarification on the boundary situation because not all fans are in the pyroscythe discord.

(Original askers cropped out for safety/privacy)

Different question by a different asker

(along with some not happy reacts to the above message)

Different asker

Response from the second asker

Later announcement

[poppitron360]

It feels like everyone’s freaking out over boundaries and I’m just laughing because Nom’s fine with pretty much everything

People need to do more with the fact that the bed in the blacksmith is canonically just a mattress on the floor

[navyavianspeaks]

i'm sorry if this is in bad taste, but i literally cannot sum it up for myself better than this.

[24smallcats]

ill say it: expecting everyone who enjoys your fictional roleplay character to know that you dont want certain kinds of fanworks about that character to exist, and assuming they're acting in bad faith if they do something with said fictional character that you arent comfortable with, is parasocial af in a BAD way