Modern fandom went awry when people stopped learning how to avoid content that upsets them and instead starting actively seeking it out.
I mean this in the kindest, most loving way possible, but babes you'll be so much happy when you stop focusing on what other people are doing and instead focus on what you like.
You'll never be able to stop people from liking what you hate, and the best way you'll find any peace of mind is properly utilizing blocking, blacklisting, and muting tools. Take it from someone who used to run a shipping discourse blog, fandom is supposed to be what you enjoy, stop focusing on things that upset you.
You want more minority representation in media but if they have flaws its problematic and if theyre perfect theyre a patronizing mary sue. If they crack under the pressure of the conflict the author thinks that minority is weak and if they overcome the adversity they must be a neoliberal bootlicker who thinks real world bigotry is a matter of personal attitude. You want minority characters but if theyre a villain its violently problematic and if theyre the protagonist then we circle back to the very first sentence. If theyre a side character theyre being sidelined and the author is once again bigoted, and don't you know that every single minority character death is unilaterally bigoted, without exception? You want more minority characters but if their identity is a big part of their personality or struggles then they're problematic and if their identity has nothing to do with their personality or struggles then the author is tokenizing that identity for clout. You want more minority characters but every time theres a minority character who doesnt have every single experience that you have then you tell the author to kill themselves on twitter. You wonder why not even minority authors will write minority characters.
I would ask you to read Catch-22, but you'd just call the military base problematic.
We're entering this strange era of fannish existence where we are simultaneously trying to censor everything into oblivion and also be as invasive as we possibly can to celebrities and people of interest.
Like god forbid someone writes smut fic about Henry Cavill on their silly little Tumblr account, but its considered normal that "insider sources" are selling telling you all about his private relationships and paparazzi are photographing him buying groceries.
I can't say 'sex' on TikTok but Daily Mail can take photographs of female celebrities half-naked in their own backyards and talk about their weight and their breasts and how appealing they are or aren't.
We are obsessed with consuming real life, often invasive content about real people, but god forbid we start creating our own so we don't rely on exploiting them and their privacy.
(which I have no recollection of why I wrote btw haha)
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This one was frustrating at some points but mostly it was just a good time. If you'd like to try it out, I've posted the code (and instructions for how to implement a skin on your AO3 account) here.
yes! i do like [problematic thing]! and unfortunately i am under no obligation to defend my interests to strangers on the internet. good day and thank you for your time
Nobody better ever fucking tell me the fight for rights is over.
Back at it again with another site skin. You can find the code on AO3 here.
Hey... I got some stuff to talk about and it might cause some drama and some consequences that i might regret but im doing for my brother in arms @isnezzed there was a person i used to like & follow i even commission this person but i found out who she really was a self centered person who probably doesn't give a damm and takes of advantage of other people she & her boyfriend has threatened @isnezzed if he goes to the hospital to take care of his illness and cut off all contacts that Snezz has and took away his dog azor and has hurt him especially his boyfriend Chris even though he is a "Dog trainer " That some bullshit right there she sits her ass off all day and @isnezzed works really hard at his job without A CAR TO DRIVE THERE i might add while all she does is play beta games to test on bravo! I say, my ass what she has done is unforgivable and illegal i might add i tried Messagging her and get her side of the side of the story but she didn't answer only making her more guilty this person is @pugakern the same person that i thought was a kind and forgiving awesome artist she proved me wrong... If you are still reading this repost & spread this through not only tumblr but Twitter Snapchat Instagram etc. Puga injustice needs to stop i am sick and tired of keeping my mouth shut about this @pugakern if you are reading this plz message me why are you doing this and give me your side of the story if you don't your only gonna make it worse for yourself