May be itâs because Iâm old, but I am becoming increasingly inconfortable with seeing people on twitter @ -ing Neil Gaiman to require him to specifically say that Aziraphale and Crowley are gay men, then when he doesnât, saying again and again that yes it is a love story and you could see it that way but you could also see it as them being trans, asexual, nonbinary, and that it is a love story but the specifics are up to us, the same people use Terry Pratchett death as a blunt object to hit him with. Is that how fandom engage with content creators now? Iâm not saying we shouldnât talk about this things at all, but why being so vicious about it?
Because fans are awful.Â
Maybe Iâm just a fandom crone, but I desperately miss the days when most people kept their fandom opinions/headcanons/wank intra-fandom as opposed to entitledly making it the creatorâs problem. Iâm not sure where this changed, but I am Not A Fan. Stop crossing the streams, children. You can critique it all day long in our spaces, but stop abusing this actual, living human person with a job and family and a creative life separate from yours because they wonât validate your headcanons. Itâs an ugly, ugly look.
Letâs make 2019 the year of taking fandom back underground, respecting creators and performers, and acting like normal humans who understand boundaries.
