Ah well, the baby is kicking his toys out of the pram.

I'm not really sure what's happening all over the place, but it's time for everybody to cool their jets. We didn't go through all this effort of joining the two sites and putting forth a combined movement in reviving the FC and other projects just to forsake ourselves and all that work. Everybody has their own opinions, their own way of doing things, but the point of a sitewide project is not to give in to someone else's ideas or even to make everybody else follow your own, it's a dance of sorts between writers; one in which compromise is established and mutual respect reigns supreme. And it doesn't just go for the FC, it goes for all relationships on our site. We can't forget that, we can't ever forget that, or else what was the point of it all? We're here because we enjoy writing and we enjoy the world of Bleach. That mutual aspect is in all of us from the moment we stepped proverbial foot onto this site, and born from all those shared experiences, we have the community we have now.

I don't want to see this kind of conflict anymore, from anybody. Everybody here is mature enough to voice their discontent or their disagreements, and everybody should be mature enough to receive those dissenting thoughts. So enough of this, and let's get back on track, shall we?

Agreed! 

There's only one person that evidently isn't calm here, Sei.

A rather odd idea was proposed and then rejected, in both cases in a slightly caustic manner. If Blank feels he absolutely has to leave because of a bit of banter, then I agree with his decision.

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.

Calm in the "not yelling" sense, but there's some passive and active hostility on a lot of sides here. That is something I want us to avoid.

Fair enough, I'll honestly try to restrain myself in that regard.

I asked this on Discord but I realized it would be better to ask here. Would anyone mind me making a fanon-ized version of Suì-Fēng for the FC?

I don't mind, go for it.