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Mauve Silver Flitter
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You assert that Tippler chose to abandon his idea. This is true. He gave up on it when he asked for advice, and two posters responded with hate instead. If you take this to mean he's happier with the new quest, let's look at what he personally said about his feelings and ideas.
>Why not run a quest about some of the less palatable kinks (primarily ryona and what it overlaps like peril, master/slave, rape, etc.)?
>I haven't seen much of that on modern, post-edge questden, apart from Lascivious Labyrinth by Kaktus, which still doesn't lean into what I consider dark or cruel.
>A controlled fictional story where you get to explore the platonic ideal of a bastard.
>"Ryona" from what I understand is a fetish for physical and/or psychological torment. The appeal of this quest would be mostly the psychological aspect with some physical on the side. I like exploring the human capacity for violence in fiction.
>it appears slightly too violent for questden. The tippler struggle.
>I can't continue with the Henry/Jess paradigm without either limiting suggests to be nice (which I would find boring since I've already done that in This isn't working), or allowing anything and pretty much ending up in the same place as the original premise since I've primed everyone's brains.
Tippler specifically said that he didn't want to run the quest in a certain way because he had already done a quest that way.
The posters who hate the thread told him to do the exact thing he had just said he didn't want to do.
And now he's doing it.
This does not look like a fair compromise to me
Does any of the original stated concept, the original appeal of the thread, remain in the new quest? Two characters retained their names, and nothing else. What happened here is outright disrespectful towards the author's intent, and the justification of "it was his own choice to give in to peer pressure" is not one I find compelling.
You also speculate that a quest that was more faithful to Tippler's own idea would not have as many posters, and that you yourself didn't (and likely wouldn't) post in the thread because his interests didn't align with yours. Regrettably, we'll never know how popular it might get, because some other posters didn't treat it with that level of courtesy. Instead of simply moving on like Tippler asked them to, they entered the thread to post "I hate this quest and it should not be made", treating the mere existence of a thread outside their preferences to be an awful affront in need of "correction". Now instead of a niche quest with a slightly smaller number of posters, we have no such quest because a few people called it "bad".
Confusingly, you also decided to point out that Tippler's content warning was a good idea, when no one had said anything against content warnings. None of us had even implied any antipathy towards content warnings. Of course it's a good thing that Tippler gave everyone a fair warning about what they were going to find in his thread. More to the point, that's all he needed to do. He gave any potential readers all the means they needed to avoid his story if it was too disturbing or otherwise outside of their comfort zone. And despite that, some people objected to such a quest being written at all.
The bottom line is that Tippler wanted to run a dark-themed quest that appealed to certain niche interests, and it was hated out of existence before it started. What happened here is not only a disservice to the thread, but a bad precedent to set for the community as a whole.
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