Just chiming in to point out that the main reason why is because none of us can decide on what those guidelines should be to the point where everyone agrees. And because it’s very exhausting to argue the point, and none of us are getting paid for this bullshit, quite literally the opposite in my case.
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Can we just lock this thread and move on? If the mod team sees enough divergent content, then maybe we get some content rules. In the meantime, this thread is going to be a giant circular argument and we’re already looking at some banhammers coming down.
that is why you and the mods make them no need for a consensuses hell an official list of stories to read would be helpful not just go figure it out for yourself
why lock it if it is of no interest to you just don’t click on it
Y’all really went at this for five hours though.
Gotta make it last a week to claim the biggest fucking waste of life this community has ever known though.
Imo there’s a difference between, say, making different types of fluffies and, say, making fanfiction about the COVID virus that pretends to be about fluffies. But, it’s a matter of opinion, and all.
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Same, which is why we do have the non-fluffy section.
If people get too creative, it’s made clear that they’ve veered off course.
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If only those people would use it. =(
Their most recent post is in non-fluffy.
And unless I’m mistaken, as are all the posts involving the…I do not recall their names that do not also have fluffies within them.
“Bestest-sickie-friends”?
those, yes.
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Yeah. I kind of liked the initial idea, but it quickly became clear the stories would be about them, fluffies being accessories.
Then, in my opinion, the artist FUBAR’d it by dragging said viruses on for too long, what with plot armor for human characters, the viruses being able to get inside a fluffy from their mouth (while being as big as the fluffy itself) then get back out with fluffies forgetting about it until they blew up.
I know very little about them tbh.
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I mean, this isn’t the first time this has come up.
As scathing as some of this commentary has been, if there was an official “only this is a fluffy” list this thread would be like a polite cup of tea compared to the utter tire-fire that would be.
Past discussions have made folks just leave.
It just does not work for this community.
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True, but that’s far easier said than done.
Or at least in a fair and satisfying way.
Rather than codifying stringent clauses on what can be counted as content, why not add "let people do what they want within reason and community review’ as a rule.
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There all ready exists a this not a fluffy list it is just at mods discretion and unknown to us
With in reason is just more vague platitudes. Community flagging has already been abused it would just be worse if the community could just out right ban content
What annoys me honestly is that I see something labeled with tags I like and go to read it, only to siscover that it’s not about fluffies at all but rather these sickie-friend things. The sickie-friends act nothing like fluffies, and the topic of fluffies serves only as a vehicle to present them. Like at this point just go write love letters to Wuhan or something. One story, two, ten, or even a labeled series, would be fine; but these sickie-friend stories are presented as though they’re average offerings and not a weird autistic deviation from this already weird autistic interest. I don’t know, it just irritates the fuck out of me.
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I am inclined to agree.
I myself was curious early on, as I could see a story/saga about how these “fluffy viruses” could be used as bait/exterminator specialistic equipment against ferals, maybe with the story being shown from both the humans deploying them and clarifying what they are and how they work, and the fluffies’, with the herd gradually devolving from their usual carefree, happy frolicking to paranoia of fluffies being actually sickie-munstahs in disguise/not answering calls for help from lost ‘splorin’ babbehs for fear of running into a hidden virus mimicking a foal’s voice.
I honestly would have settled for a more scientific experiment-esque narrative, with fluffies being introduced to test them in a controlled environment.
The series started sinking (in my eyes) when:
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Such talking fluffy-killer viruses were admitted in a fluffy daycare. To add injury to insult, said virus used scissors to skin a fluffy alive.
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Despite this and many other incidents, these living viruses seemingly overshadow fluffies as pets.
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After the scissoring, the scientist/owner of the virus faced legal consequences, but after 1 day of her mother (who later got transformed into one of those viruses, I might add) actually being miffed at the virus trying to kill her pet fluffy, she went on her way as if nothing had happened.
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This is a personal one, so take it with a massive grain of salt. Too much fanservice.
I get it, BFM101’s Josef Mongola is popular.
But he is not the only goddamn abuser doctor character out there. I already heavily dislike when characters who have died, thus fulfilling their character arc, come back to life for specials/parallel universes/afterlife shenanigans, because I feel like they should be left buried. They did their part, served their role for the in-universe continuity (it was also my main gripe with Crimson’s daughter literally being a genderbent copypaste of her father without the abusive experiments backstory, which just felt like an attempt to bring Crimson back because people like him). Excessive resurrection leads to infamous cases such as WILLIAM FUCKING AFTON. (Again, this is far more personal than the previous points, it’s not meant to be hateful towards anyone, not BFM, not FluffySomething. Just A-S being a crotchety old asshat.)
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