[Poruku]

I don't really care about the fetish aspect of it.

I think monstrous races are really cool as long as they're well made. The main problem is the normalization of monsters as common people. It's a problem with the community, they want all monsters to be friends, which makes them not monsters. If everyone is cute and friendly, then it's meaningless. If literally nobody is racist, or even shows racial differences, then it renders everything meaningless. I believe whitelisting can fix that to an extent.

Often, people want to play very unique characters at any cost because it feels special, without realizing that the more we do this, the less special everything becomes. At this point, pretty much nothing is special. We can see a literal monster walking around a city and you're supposed to just accept it. If you don't, you are the monster. Hell, you're an antagonist, and people can disregard anything you say because you're the evil guy.

The obvious solution is to introduce actual monsters that are actually monstrous and actually give people a reason to not like them or significant differences in psyche or society. We enforce this through applications and whitelisting so it doesn't become yet another human with a different coat of paint. Once we establish that sort of dynamic I think we can slowly improve on that as a community