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@mcytbuildsmonth day three— chest monsters; it haunts your every step, a little ghost (there is no getting rid of it)

Because feeling a craving and pretending you don't isn't a recipe for staying strong against it. It's a recipe for catastrophically failing to resist it, and then pretending you didn't.

Anyway. Post-canon where Shelby and Drift occasionally mess up and eat people, and Scott, who is trying to convince Abolish he's not up to his old tricks, has to juggle convincing Abolish that no, he didn't kill this guy, really, I promise, and keeping Shelby and Drift calm about it.

It's fun if he's not really interested in changing and is mostly just biding his time, because he still needs to do that.

But it's really fun if he is trying to Be Better. Because how is someone who is better supposed to manage this? What would Shelby say doesn't work if Shelby is freaking out / deep in denial. What would the doctor do? Well the guy is pretty solidly dead dead, so presumably not much...

Imagine: She's a vampire! a creature of the night! She's immortal, and so she no longer has to be afraid of the worst of humanity. So, as penance for running away from the Orchid Killer, she starts getting involved in solving homicide cases.

And then she picks up on the trail of a serial killer.

And then the serial killer has a distinctly vampiric MO.

Many v!Apo portraits

Step 2: Announce your intent to utilize a network of fandom secret police to tattle to you when people tell stories you don't like (such as ones that engage materially with the story YOU told) so they can be harassed until they stop creating

Step 3: ?????

To be crystal clear on why the reaction to these 'boundaries' is so strong:

Other people caring enough about the art you make to make more things inspired by it is one of the highest honors that can be awarded & most beautiful things about creation and generally being a person.

Trying to control what people make from that inspiration, or making the asinine assumption that the things they make are owed to you, are things you have control over or ownership of, is entitled and offensive– but a common enough mistake.