Thread:DJay32/@comment-9340689-20141013214121/@comment-1988716-20141014113910

Everything Pyro has said is right, LilPotato. You didn't express an opinion, you told her how to write her stuff. An opinion would be something like "I think that Fears should be written this way" (and even then, considering the subject, that's not an opinion but a belief, and beliefs can be wrong, but at least it's heaploads more polite to express a belief).

And as I put in the comment thread, you got it backwards anyway. Fears aren't just B-movie monsters, they don't have to be written like the boogie man. Have you ever heard of gods? The majestic terrifying beings who have very human squabbles as a way of getting the audience to relate to them and better grasp the point of the story? Fears can be gods. Hell, I predominantly write Fears as gods.

I gave the slender man a hat, scarf, mouth, and personality, and I had him lose at Guitar Hero to me (twice) and commit suicide. But The Beast was still a lot of people's favourite part of Rapture because he was a character, and he was damn noble.

I made The Archangel pretty petty and insecure about his "Fear" title-- all to balance out his more badass traits so when he finally beats the shit out of people and laughs at an entire country on fire, he seems more understandable and more terrifying.

I did this kind of thing with lots of Fears in Rapture, because I know that the incomprehensible is not scary. It's cool, but it's not scary. What's scary is what's real. Because it's freaking real, it reminds us that these kinds of people really exist. But even that's beside the point. There's another thing I'm very passionate about insisting on in this mythos, and that's that there is no canonical way to write the Fears. Every writer is entitled to her or his own canon and list of Fears and interpretations of all the Fears. You can write the Fears however you want and it won't be called fanfiction or dismissed or anything, it will be taken as seriously as every other story we have.

Also yes, if the pages are for Pyro's own creations and characters, she gets the final say on edits to her page, including pictures. That's on the Rules page.

I will not ban you. That's not how I roll. But do consider my words to be final.