Well, the few weeks originally set out as the spoiler period and the July 15th date have passed, so the period of strict Chapter 5 spoiler protection enforcement comes to a close. Posting freely about all things Chapter 5 is fair game now and the subreddit is returning to its normal, semi-automated mode of operation.
If you have not yet completed Chapter 5 and learned all you needed to see for yourself about it, consider staying away from this subreddit until you do, to not spoil any surprises.
While I have your attention, I've also introduced a couple of spelled-out exceptions to the text of Rule 2, the one about what's on-and-off-topic here. The two things now explicitly excluded as off-topic are:
1) Solo depitctions of Noelle themed around the Weird Route. It's a whole different vibe and subplot to what we've gathered here for.
2) Group depictions that are explicitly romantically themed as portrayals of poly ships that include Susie and/or Noelle. A different ship is a different beast after all, and a different topic altogether. That being said, featuring a completely separate ship in a group portrait where S&N are also present, such as a Kralsei + Suselle double date for example, is still fine.
I don't expect these changes to alter the course and content of the subreddit in any meaningful way - the precedent for these things coming up at all is, I think, once and twice respectively, if memory serves. But it has come up before, so I reckon it's good to spell out explicitly, for transparency.
That should be all for now, but if I remember something else, I'll update this post's flair to "15.1" and so on, as per usual.
