For the record, I’d say that any non-fluffy violence should be limited. Dinosaurs may not be alive anymore, but abusing them sets a bad precedent since they’re animals too. Same for vampires and werewolves, who aren’t real but closely resemble creatures that are real; people aren’t gonna think twice about how that one human quadriplegic has little fangs and a cape. And if we can torture extinct species, then aren’t there a ton of obscure dead species? Aren’t rhinos like, nearly extinct? We can’t go around killing some specific parrot or dog species just because it’s no longer around.
That aside, it is good to have this rule clarified! However, I have one concern…
What does this mean? At first I read it as “means to an end”, which worried me as there was a story some time ago that killed a rat as a means to an end and got urged to change it into a stuffed toy. But “means rather than an end” doesn’t make much sense as a sentence to me, so can you elaborate on it?
Just a quick question. Does that include a ban on “Fluffies eating live animals”? Just I’ve seen posts of people wanting their sub-species fluffies to eat real, live animals and I was wondering if that’s covered by the ban.
“Means rather than end” means that violence could be okay as means (so, part of narrative leading to something further down the story) rather than ends (so, a comic about torturing an abuser because you’re a hugboxer who can’t stand imaginary hamster horses being killed but somehow are okay portraying human beings being tortured).
@NobodyAtAll , we realize that you have voluminous amounts of text to get saved and/or moved to a new platform (I suggest WordPress)
So we’re giving you the remainder of the month to get that move completed.
24 days
No we have no intention of banning you
and yes you are allowed to post a link to the place where your work is moved to, on your profile.
And yes, if you decide to write fluffy stories, you’ll be able to post them here.
If you don’t get your work moved in 24 days, we will not have a backup of it.
Non-fluffy will still exist for tangentially-related things. Art of human characters from stories, locations from stories, other such things. The category as a whole isn’t going away. We’re just realigning the category with what it was meant to be rather than what it’s become.
For everyone’s future reference, I suggest keeping your stories and art IN THE CLOUD because if you can’t trust your own hard drive, you shouldn’t trust some random website on the internet that is about abusing hamster horses.
Google Drive is decent for storing files. So is One Drive. If you’re fucked up in the head about privacy, Protonmail also has some cloud storage.
You can keep your writings in any of the above or use a notetaking app. I personally use Notion a lot. You can always use Obsidian and set it up to synchronize with a Git repository of your choice, just make sure to keep the repository private.
You should never expect this or any website to be permanent storage.
You should never expect this or any website to be safe from critical failure that will get all your submissions destroyed.
Even if the website keeps backups. The admin might get struck by an asteroid and die. The admin might get fed up with your demands to bring back your lost content under the threat of deliberate self harm because YOU failed to back up YOUR stuff.
I keep all of my stories backed up to my phone, my PC, and a MEGA archive. You can never be too careful.
I also suggest a strong naming system for your files. Keep folders, number your chapters, etc.
For instance, I’ve got folders for each story. For the Derpy Daycare folder, text files themselves labeled Derpy1, Derpy2, Derpy3, and so on for chapters. Easy to keep track of, easy to find what you need, etc.
What about stories that exist already and have those?
Also, more specifically, what about stories that show human abuse but don’t justify or glorify it, but instead play it for drama/horror.
I’ve read a couple decent stories that had that and I’d hate to see them deleted.
What about my non-fluffy posts? As worldbuilding posts, they’re still very closely tied to fluffies to the point where they couldn’t exist without fluffies.