So I'm not sure if anybody has noticed but i've also been keeping silent since the whole Maddy and Pyro Boundarys thing started. I personally have had to delete 90% of my posts on here and basically give up all credit on all of my fanfictions i have made. All of the work I put my heart and soul into to help me through my own horrible mental health and trauma issues. The MCYT community and fanbase has always been my safe space for me to be myself and finally be creative and have passion in my writings. I initially started to distance myself from a few of my fics because i was afraid and terrified of being unable to follow and watch Scott anymore, my safe space, my comfort streamer who I have followed for a long time. Terrified of being hated or ostracised for my writings once i realized his boundaries I started distancing myself from Home is Where the Nest is, which meant distancing myself from every connecting fic as well in my au. after awhile though when no hate came and i started seeing how most writers followed the tag things appropriately and people that dont like it just wont read it. aka dont bring attention to it and you should be fine and i started to feel safe.
Then Flight Smp started and my love for Scott and Pyro's dynamic brought back my creative drive, and i started watching Pyro more and seeing his boundaries at the time i was excited that he was very lenient. Excited and finally able to have the creative drive and comfort outlet to write again a started a new fic to focus on them and ap ossible budding relationship that could grow into more no matter what ended up happening in the actual smp.
but then the Avid situation Happened which made me question if i could ever have the heart to even attempt to pick up my vsmp fics again. and shortly after Pyro and Maddy came out with changing their boundaries. which initially while it saddened me i understood. but then then relistening and reading pyros statement terrified me all over. the implication that I might be hunted down for anything i had written or even attempt to write that involved his character in anyway hurt. and now i'm hearing rumors of people receiving hate, death threats for content that has already been up for awhile despite pyro saying he had no beef with previous content and just wanted no new content made.
now pyro is also encouraging anonymous snitching of any boundary breaking so that he can police and make sure people are following what he deems as appropriate fandom content.
while he has made a response saying he doesnt want people sending hate to people
he has only kept his responses and such in his discord and has made no attempt to change his shipping boundaries on his tumblr page nor speak out anywhere else.
I've honestly gotten to the point where while yes i still understand their initial need for their boundaries to change, with all the discourse and witch hunts that this has started up in the fandom community this MCYt fandom, this community that was my safe space, that was the place that helped me through my darkest days has now become a place of fear where im afraid to breath wrong and induce hate from anyone or be ostracized from any of the creator communities that i adore and look up to. though We've only seen one negative side of a CC, ive come to have terrors of being attacked from other CC's that dont even have anything to do with this, even of really kind and understanding CC's like Graecie or Sausage. and all i can hope is maybe one day i'll feel safe in this community again but right now i just feel like i've been pulled back into my horrible traumas and cant escape.