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This rule does not just affect scientists or universities. It affects the programs that millions of Americans depend on every day, including Medicaid, Head Start, school lunches, housing assistance, food banks, and community health centers. In FY2024, the federal government sent $1.1 trillion in grants to states and communities. Every dollar of it would be subject to these new rules.

The proposed rule would:

• Allow political appointees to cancel active grants at any time, with no meaningful appeal

• Require grant programs to align with the President’s policy priorities, not scientific merit or community need

• Embed prohibitions on DEI activities as material breach conditions in all federal awards

• Ban research into health and economic disparities

• Allow denial of grants based on an organization’s affiliations or views deemed ‘un-American’

• Restrict science communication and public health outreach as ‘issue advocacy’

Public comments close July 13, 2026.

SURVEY LINK

During my time in mcyt fandom, I've watched as the fandom's perception of creator boundaries has grown and shifted into a cornerstone of our fandom, and yet we don't actually have any good data on how the fandom as a whole perceives them outside of discourse posts.

The goal of this unofficial study NOT to make a value judgement on whether creator boundaries should be respected - it is to understand how the fandom currently perceives and interacts with them.* Is respecting creator boundaries important to you? Has your favorite creator made a boundary list or spoken about it on stream? Do you find some boundaries acceptable and others not? Have you ever been the target of hate for engaging with boundary-breaking content? Whether you think boundaries should always be respected or you think they're being used as tools of censorship, I want to hear from you. What are boundaries, and why do they matter so much to us?

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This survey is a mix of multiple choice and optional long-response questions. It should take about 15 minutes if you’re only doing the required questions, and much longer if you choose to answer the optional questions.**

If you are able, please reblog and share this survey link around. Feel free to post it on any platform, as I am currently only on Tumblr, which is not representative of the fandom as a whole. In fact, I’d love it if it reached Twitter. The more responses, the more accurate the results will be for the whole of mcyt.*** Anyone in mcyt spaces, including creators, are welcome to take the survey to share their thoughts. However, I ask that for the comfort of content creators and the spirit of good fandom etiquete, please do not directly share the survey with any creator or post the link in any creators’ official communities. Thoughtful discussion is always valued over reactionary comments.

The survey is set to close at 11:59pm EST on August 1, 2026 - I may extend this date if there is still a high volume of responses coming in, or if there aren’t enough responses yet for meaningful data. I will aim to publish the results within a month of the survey’s close, and keep you updated on the timeline if that’s not feasible for any reason.

A huge thank you to everyone who helped beta this survey- you all gave such wonderful suggestions! I wish I could’ve kept every question, but in the end a lot needed to be cut to make this manageable. Please know that I appreciate every one of you, as this survey would not exist today without you.

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* Why I think this data is important to collect: The idea for this survey came to me almost a year ago, and I started developing it around February of this year. I’ve spoken with dozens of people about this topic with diverse opinions, read and catalogued hundreds of tumblr posts, rewatched streams and videos by creators and fans, and watched as opinions have shifted across fandoms in real time. I feel extremely confident in saying that every person on every side cares deeply about respecting others and creating safe, welcoming communities in all mcyt spaces. Where they differ is on how to show that respect, which kinds of expectations they think are reasonable in different spaces, and beliefs on how those in power should be using their influence. I don’t expect this survey’s results to fundamentally change anything - this debate has been going on longer than mcyt has existed. But I think it’s still important to analyze the actual arguments people are making and how they affect our communities, instead of focusing on expected behavior from others based on our own values, so we can see the varying expressions of humanity in each other and work towards a better future for our fandom. I don’t think we’re as different as the discourse may have us believe.

** This survey is designed to encourage all participants to think critically about their position and the effects it has. I am aware that I have my own personal biases, so I have taken steps to ensure that the survey is as bipartisan as possible and also gives participants the opportunity to explain their answers for every question if they feel the need. Because of this, there may be questions that make some participants uncomfortable. While I would appreciate knowing why a question has made someone uncomfortable, participants are always free to skip such long-response questions.

Each winner of the life series must clearly be a superior player so the watchers take pieces of them for their new creation.

Grian won by taking action, using his red ally to eliminate the competition early. They distill his bloodlust into life but it is not enough to become a player, it becomes a curse. They clone it, keep one for further experimentation and send the other into the next game.

Scott won trough control and alliances, gave so many lives by his ally and able to charm and convince others until the end. The watchers take that charisma and manipulation and add it to their life. It is not enough to become a player, it becomess a corrupting egg who promises sweet lies. They copy it and send one to a noble's house.

Pearl can't be separated from longing and envy and loss and hatred and betrayal, they swirl together in unison and the watchers must take a bit of each of them all. It becomes a corruption spreading trough the land and feeding on magic. They copy and send one to a land of dragons.

Martyn... him. He won they suppose, there must be something there to take. Subterfuge. Or determination. Integrity and dishonesty. They infuse it into their creation. It forms the shape of a player but it is unstable, the watchers copy it and merge one with a purple haired prince of Rivendell.

Scar. Another pit of emotion. Swirling violently like a storm. Win secret Life. Loneliness. Win secret Life. Obsession. Win secret Life. Desperation. Win secret Life. Despair. It takes a form, a true one, a player emerges but it's not enough. The watchers keep it in stasis.

Cleo wins a fools game yes but it is a game nonetheless. She laughs as she jumps onto a creeper and the undead welcomes death with open arms. Their laughter is stored and instilled onto the forming player.

Then, Joel has much the others winner already had. But family...the watchers do not understand family...but he spoke of it so often during this gane, perhaps a real player ought to know. Yes, the watcher shall give this new life that concept of family as well, trough the lines Joel so often likes to repeat...

And so It's done.

For who comes out...

I really like RQG I've gotten so attached to his character it's not funny, he's sad pathetic and a bit suicidal AND he's Egyptian he's literally just like me fr