Board Thread:Fanon Canon/@comment-136273-20180516103400/@comment-18812574-20180522205256

And to reinforce what Sei said, the FC is not coercing anyone to do anything. It is a voluntary involvement in a site-wide collaboration, and because it is a collaboration it involves compromise.

I want to take this opportunity to personally and publicly apologize to Ash. About two weeks ago he proposed an idea for what he thought Bleach would look like if all the realms were merged together, and we had a disagreement (mainly I had a disagreement with another user) that ended up causing that other user to leave BFF. Later it turns out that in the LN the worlds were originally one, so I was wrong and Ash was mostly (heh) right.

Anyway, canon is always my standard, but the way we interpret some of the hazy details of canon often leads to conflict. Because it turns out that canon was something different than what I was expecting. So I've realized that I need to set aside some of my interpretations of canon aside as well in order for others to enjoy the FC more.

You give up something in order to obtain something of greater value. You meet in the middle, and you enjoy yourselves. That's really why we're RPing together, isn't it? Exploring cool new ideas is cool and fun, but in the end of the day if we're not using them, they'll sit there and stagnate. Plus collaboration and feedback is one of the surest ways to improve. If we aren't here to improve ourselves and enjoy ourselves (and I'm not saying the only way to improve/enjoy oneself is to FC, but from an RP-standpoing it is one of the better ways) then why FC at all?

But yes. I'm sorry for being a stickler for details. And for being obnoxious to many at times. For anyone else I've offended on that regard as well, I apologize.