I need to rant about something. Something that irritates me to no end about crossovers. Sometimes crossovers are WONDERFUL. Like seriously, they're amazing at times. However, I have some pet peeves about crossovers. Some things should NEVER get crossovers. I've been reading in the 13 Reasons Why fandom for over a month, since I watched that series. The stories I read are about the recovery of the individuals, coming to terms with what their actions caused. Or I read ones where someone did something different, and Hannah Baker never died. Or she did, but she survived to recover and make people take responsibility in person. Their execution of the idea decides for me if they're romanticizing it or not. To me, the show didn't romanticize it, but a lot of fanfiction does. I avoid the ones that do. But the one thing that pisses me off the most is when I see an entry tagged with another fandom. "____ committed suicide. ____ receives tapes _ months later." The most recent offender is a One Direction Fandom crossover. It's bad enough when it's done with completely fictional characters. I don't even read those. But when it's done in a Real Person Fandom, that's where I draw my line of tolerance. Depression and suicide are HORRIBLE things to go through. To wish that pain, suffering, and misery on others, fictional or not, is just plain cruel. So when this author wrote their fic where Louis killed himself, and Harry received the tapes, THAT is romanticizing the show. THAT is romanticizing suicide. This show's goal was to focus on the actions people do that drive someone to that edge. That it's NOT "just kids being kids". A lot of the people on the tapes broke laws, against her and others. They broke her reputation and her spirit and made school a living hell. She couldn't even go to the convenience store without getting groped. But when you take that powerful lesson, and you plug other people into it, you completely ruin what Jay Asher and the producers and Selena Gomez were trying to accomplish.
