User blog:RanRan111/Happy Pride 2023

Happy Pride Month! Greetings from the Cookie Run Wiki to you! This is Owner RanRan111 here- but you can just call me Ran. In a few months, it's gonna be one year since I've taken onwership of this wiki! Wow, a year already... this wiki has changed so much! But lets save that for when the anniversary comes. For now, let's talk about Pride Month- since the month of June is Pride Month! And to celebrate the first ever Pride Month under my ownership, I wanted to make this celebration special! Apologies for the delay on this all, truth be told it has been me simply drawing everything for this celebration.

 What Pride Month Means to the Wiki
Cookie Run as a franchise is home to a community of diverse individuals that come from multiple backgrounds. The staff and users of this wiki are no different to this background. Most of the staff on this wiki, and our sister wiki [The Cookie Run Kingdom Wiki], are individuals that are a part of the LGBTQ+ community. Talking on myself here, I personally identify as bisexual. I, as someone who is a part of the LGBTQ+ community, strive to create a safe and comfortable space to anyone browsing on this wiki. Throughout my year of ownership on the wiki, I have ensured that the way my wiki handles characters- such as their pronouns- are handled with care and accuracy. One of the first major changes found within my ownership, and one that I have noted has been the most apparent, was the shift from having a "Gender" category to a "Pronouns" category on the infoboxes of Cookies, Pets, and otherwise applicable characters within the franchise. With the help of our Content Moderator Jackieboi66, the Gender category has practically been wiped off of all character profiles. Even though some remnants on some infoboxes still have the "Gender = X" section... it has been wiped from the code of infoboxes themselves and cannot be visibly seen. The "Gender" category has been a troublesome node of the wiki in its past ownership- primarily in characters such as Cream Unicorn Cookie as for a long while their infobox listed them as "Male" due to a Devsisters interview put into bad faith. Cookie Run is a franchise with characters of varying pronouns and identities for its characters, and listing pronouns instead of a gender covers this far better. Sloppy management of this, such as what occurred with Cream Unicorn Cookie, left a sour taste in those who used this wiki. I, and the others, are forever grateful that these changes can be seen and felt across the community.

 The Importance of Canon Representation within Cookie Run
Written with the help of Thread Moderator Ariel from Ariels With the increase of acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community amongst the world, there has been an usurp of characters within multiple pieces of media that identify as an LGBTQ+ identity or more. Cookie Run is such a franchise in which diverse characters are in the spotlight and whose identities are as unique as their designs. Characters like these are something that players can find themselves relating to and can find comfort in for the world of Cookie Run is an accepting one- the inhabitants of Earthbread are ones that accept each other being from different cultures and identities that can vary from Dragon Slaying Knights to Hyper Futuristic Cities with all the in-betweens in the same world. Themes of Cookie Run speak to how the identities of those are something to be proud of and love being part of- such signifies an opportunity for self-reflection, self-acceptance, and an understanding of one's place within the LGBTQ+ community with an enjoyable game about baked cookies. Many players, especially lesbian or otherwise sapphic players, primarily find solace in the relationship between Sea Fairy Cookie and  Moonlight Cookie for their heavy implications of a romantic relationship. While direct content to support this was previously sparse and mostly found within external media, the introduction of Moonlight Cookie into Cookie Run: Kingdom has near canonized their bond through the means of matching costumes and a literal bond. Lesbian and otherwise sapphic players relate heavily to the experiences between these two Cookies, and the confirmation of their close bond was received very positively by many. Players can relate to the feeling of longing and the warmth of love via the heartwarming tale of these two characters, and this notion can be felt for other Cookies too. From multiple Cookies using various pronouns to the bisexual flag pattern shirt of DJ Cookie, representation matters in Cookie Run for its existence brings a sense of welcome to thousands of players within the community.

 Fun Wiki Mini Events for Pride Month
So, what does the wiki plan for the rest of the month of pride? We primarily plan to host small activities on our Twitter for the rest of this month! Due to- uh- technical difficulties. Thank you Firefox. We primarily plan to post extra doodles on our Twitter, @crworld_wiki, as well as host a raffle for three winners for three drawings of their Cookie headcanons! All will be posted on the Twitter this upcoming week. We might add more to this blog, and plan extra surprises though... so look forward to it!

And that's all for now! Thank you for your continued support of the Cookie Run Wiki. Happy Pride!