Part of me wants to be nowhere near this powderkeg when it blows up and inevitably someone gets hurt, but it’d be a little hypocritical of me to urge rational thinking without providing some mediation. Okay, so. Hi. I’m Marco, and to some of you, I’m fictional. I thought I’d offer a few suggestions, purely my own opinions really, and you guys can choose to take them or leave them, call them touchy-feely-hippie-crap, whatever. First, I’d like to cover a few points.
1.) Listen. Some people here have discovered that their entire lives are, for some people, fiction. That’s not an easy thing to deal with. I know I’ve done some things that I’m not exactly proud of, and for a kicker, the fiction describing my life is told first person, so people not only know what I did but what I was thinking at the time. There are more than a few things that I’ve done and that I’ve thought that I’m not proud of. Just knowing that is bad enough, but people bringing it up publicly? Yeah, that makes it even worse. It’s all fine and well to say “grow up” but, well, it really isn’t that simple.
2.) At the same time, it’s not exactly fair to expect new people, especially people who aren’t used to the supernatural/sci-fi crap/whatever being real, to immediately get that. To them, all this stuff is fictional, and some of it they’ve found really fun and enjoyable. So naturally, they may be a little starstruck, and even if they do get how tough it is for us fictional types, they might slip up until they get a little more used to all this. That’s understandable, isn’t it? They’re overwhelmed, they’re seeing people they may have looked at as idols, and sometimes they just don’t think. We’ve all had moments like that, right?
Now I’m not saying anybody gets a free pass. If someone’s been asked to stop and they don’t, fuck them, they’re not the people I’m making this post for and they reap what they sew. I’m just saying, to keep any powderkegs to a minimum, that maybe we should all try and be conscious of each other. If someone slips up, don’t freak out, just ask them not to do it again. If someone asks you not to quote them or mention something from their life, don’t be difficult, just do as you’re asked. And that’s it! If the majority of people are okay with keeping these things in mind, it should avoid any future disagreements. Or everyone can just keep yelling at each other. Whichever.