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When creators say, "Real people with feelings," they only mean other creators. Fans are not real people, and they don't have feelings.

Honestly, my kid's feelings seem more reasonable than Pyro and Maddie's. The reasonable thing to do in Maddie's case is to find a therapist, or for both of them to quit content creation. It is not to try to dictate the actions of hundreds of fans that they don't actually have any authority over in the first place.

if people don't want their characters who are:

byproducts of themselves

being played by the content creator (unlike a character from a novel or videogame that is completely detached from a real person)

to be romantically shipped, then that is a reasonable request. This fandom likes to imagine that every cc is completely detached from their characters.

When you are acting that character, a little part of you goes into it. Especially when YOU specifically designed that character. If you find that it makes your skin crawl to have someone else randomly on the internet shipping what you might consider as a part of yourself with someone who you're friends with, then its your right to tell them to stop.

I get being bummed or upset. I get feeling like you have to attatch to something new or start somewhere else. That's fine. If you created work that means that much to you, then just rename the characters and remodel your work to OCs. I promise you, the internet is not a void hole where you work floats in the ether and no consequences stem from it.

That's explicitly not what Pyroscythe and Milkberry are demanding. They are demanding that all shipping content stop everywhere, including abandoning WIPs - on pain of harassment.

They don't have the authority to demand that, and it's overall a dick move. And yes I'm extra mad because it disrespected my kid. There's no justification for telling a teenager to throw out a novel she's been working on for months, months during which her content was endorsed by the creator of the character involved. None.

first image: a screenshot of a tumblr post

"@ greelin: being alive is great because there are so many different vegetables you can sauté. but then there are also the horrors

@ yves-and-scessernee: with faith and perseverance, one day we will sauté the horrors"

second image: screenshots of tags: "#the simple fact is that everything in life is more bearable when your blood sugar isnt flatlining every 10 minutes #everyone else is doing the equivalent of 2 iced coffees on an empty stomach and thats why they keep dying badly #dunmeshi"

"Save the Forest, Destroy AI Data Centers"

The mirror replied "To whom?"

"The miller who made the flour for my bread," the queen would say, or "Whoever spun the thread my shawl was made of".

The second time, she says "To the King," and she is pleased to see herself once more.

The third time, she says "To the Royal Advisor," and is once more satisfied to see herself.

The fourth time, she says "To the scribe who takes the King's letters." She is shown the man's wife. And she seethes, but quiets herself, for it is only right that a man loves his wife.

The fifth time, she says "To the Court Wizard," and is shown the man's departed mother as he remembers her from his youth, radiant and smiling and warm and larger than life.

The tenth time, she says "To the Stable Master," and is shown the fastest horse in the stable, majestic and free as the wind even in captivity

"To the baker," she is shown the man's daughter, young and adorable and full of joy and laughter.

"To the artist who did my portrait," she is shown a painting of a woman done by the man's teacher, who he still looks up to now that he is well established himself.

"To the Royal Knight," she is surprised but not displeased to see the castle's entire guard force in the middle of doing drills.

The one hundredth time she asks the mirror, and it asks her "to whom?" she once again says, "To me." And she does the same the one hundred and second, and again and again and again.