Midori Kuroba 
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[Rubs eyes in three/four years later.] Do I have to go back and read comments to regain context? [Starts to but scrunches up face uncomfortably.] Okay, let me see if I can do this without full context.
Spanking isn't always just "excuse to spank" in fact "excuse" isn't a good word. It implies that there isn't a reason, or that one was made up. A lot of times there's a consensual nature behind the spankings, meant for the enjoyment of both parties involved, and the discipline/bullying aspect is just foreplay. This is my personal preference. Sometimes it IS bullies making up excuses, and a lot of times it's just a piece of art for the sake of it. Sore Loser became a series of increasing levels of non-con which made me increasingly uncomfortable, and made it increasingly hard to deal with the large amount of negativity it drew in, especially from non spankos who didn't have a first hand understanding of spanking as a fetish overall. Not the best first exposure to it for these chaps if it was, by the by. EastStern and everything around her is significantly worse. I despise EastStern as a character, and just last week went on a rather sizable rant to Mina on everything wrong with the character when she assumed I had a crush on her, so :SPOILER:[spoiler]||her inclusion and actions in part 3 of this story only further added to my distaste for that character.[/spoiler]|| :END SPOILER:
Back at the time this was posted it received a lot of angry comments that weren't constructive criticism, just white knights calling for Circe's head on a pike for harming their beloved Rarity. As the poster and a close friend of Circe, I couldn't help but feel like some of it was directed at me at the time, and I probably took it a bit too personally. I believe I worked at avoiding such conflicts a bit better in the second and third parts. But you need to understand that before this, and even since, I've dealt with a particular kind of confrontational internet goblin that I experience enough for it to become a trope for me at this point, and as such it was easy to lump someone into that category when I saw "the signs."
I appreciate you trying to help me understand (or however one wishes to phrase it, I don't want to inadvertently offend you, you seem like a nice enough person), but this matter was three/four years ago and I'd like to think that I've grown and matured a bit since then. Though it is hard to be forgiving of someone who is being rude and unreasonable when there's enough people on the internet for one to interact with in a positive capacity, and a single button can keep one from having to deal with such negativity from that single person ever again (in theory). There's a lot more to everything I've said than just that, but this is getting three paragraphs long and I just woke up. If you want to discuss this in any further capacity, please message me directly. I don't think said conversation would need to be public any further beyond this point. (Please)
Sphinx In Disguise
[Rubs eyes in three/four years later.] Do I have to go back and read comments to regain context? [Starts to but scrunches up face uncomfortably.] Okay, let me see if I can do this without full context.
Spanking isn't always just "excuse to spank" in fact "excuse" isn't a good word. It implies that there isn't a reason, or that one was made up. A lot of times there's a consensual nature behind the spankings, meant for the enjoyment of both parties involved, and the discipline/bullying aspect is just foreplay. This is my personal preference. Sometimes it IS bullies making up excuses, and a lot of times it's just a piece of art for the sake of it. Sore Loser became a series of increasing levels of non-con which made me increasingly uncomfortable, and made it increasingly hard to deal with the large amount of negativity it drew in, especially from non spankos who didn't have a first hand understanding of spanking as a fetish overall. Not the best first exposure to it for these chaps if it was, by the by. EastStern and everything around her is significantly worse. I despise EastStern as a character, and just last week went on a rather sizable rant to Mina on everything wrong with the character when she assumed I had a crush on her, so :SPOILER:
Back at the time this was posted it received a lot of angry comments that weren't constructive criticism, just white knights calling for Circe's head on a pike for harming their beloved Rarity. As the poster and a close friend of Circe, I couldn't help but feel like some of it was directed at me at the time, and I probably took it a bit too personally. I believe I worked at avoiding such conflicts a bit better in the second and third parts. But you need to understand that before this, and even since, I've dealt with a particular kind of confrontational internet goblin that I experience enough for it to become a trope for me at this point, and as such it was easy to lump someone into that category when I saw "the signs."
I appreciate you trying to help me understand (or however one wishes to phrase it, I don't want to inadvertently offend you, you seem like a nice enough person), but this matter was three/four years ago and I'd like to think that I've grown and matured a bit since then. Though it is hard to be forgiving of someone who is being rude and unreasonable when there's enough people on the internet for one to interact with in a positive capacity, and a single button can keep one from having to deal with such negativity from that single person ever again (in theory). There's a lot more to everything I've said than just that, but this is getting three paragraphs long and I just woke up. If you want to discuss this in any further capacity, please message me directly. I don't think said conversation would need to be public any further beyond this point. (Please)