Hey everyone, my mind has been on something lately and I hope that you guys don’t mind me discussing it. That something is
Please let everyone enjoy their own self expression 💖✨
People’s apprentices are often a very important OC to them, one that’s close to their heart.
Shaming them for personal choices related to their MC is a little out of place for another person to do to someone just because they personally don’t like their apprentice, especially because we’re all just here to have fun and enjoy our content and each other’s content at the end of the day- whether it be art, headcanons, fanfics, written apprentice material etc.
However, I’ve heard that people have been running around telling people not to follow or support others because:
“Their MC is a self insert” (in the arcana, a self insert game)
“Their MC is transgender”
“Their MC looks too masculine or feminine”
“Their MC is of Royal origin”
“I unfollowed this person because their chest is too big”
Most of us aren’t professional artists or authors or character designers or anything like that. We simply just want to create something that we think represents us personally OR just something that we like and can have fun with. The apprentice should reflect YOU
No one should be telling people not to support another person for choosing to express themselves in a way that is not offensive. That’s not right or fair.
In my experience there are actually people that have done this to me for having a non human MC of Royal origin, that was assumed to be a self insert despite not actually being one. (No matter how much I said she was not I was not believed for some reason)
This served as a reason for people to attack me and send others to attack me without even thinking “hey, what even is the problem here? How are we at ALL in the right?”
Simply put, this mindset is one that was not always entirely discouraged within the fandom to the point that people would feel that they were doing the right thing.
I’m pleased to say however that many of the people I know who once did these things have since apologized and changed this mindset to become more accepting, but it’s something I wish nobody was in danger of experiencing.
We are creators and we don’t get paid for this, so we should be creating whatever we want and whatever makes US happy. We should be making our apprentices for us and not to please others, because you can’t please everyone.
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