Hey, DT fans, you wanna know how nasty people can be?
Here’s a little timeline of events for you (yes, once again this is about horrible people harassing Delpad fans... I know it’s boring, but unfortunately it’s still happening). These bullies went quiet for a while but it’s Delpad Week so now they are back to their vile behaviour again.
First, ringleader Riss (that’s @magicadespell, @rissmoduck, and a whole host of other blogs so she has plenty of places to hide) stole the Delpad Week prompt list (yes Riss, that is art theft, however much you want to have a conniption about it, you took something that another person created without permission - just like your pal @gasgun did when they stole an artist’s work to create their ‘anti Delpad’ banner) and doctored it, editing over their prompts with horribly aimed ‘joke’ prompts.
(Also worth noting that apparently ‘polyamory’ is considered a joke to them. So we should add that to the list of things we’re not allowed to engage with according to the intolerant fandom police 🙄)
Oh, but it’s JUST A JOKE I hear you cry. It’s on Twitter, why are you even looking at that? You don’t even follow me! Well, it’s of interest to me to see how these attacks are coordinated when I see my friends being targeted and bullied by a group of idiots. So I’m gonna look. Perhaps if you don’t like people seeing what a nasty piece of work you are, you shouldn’t post that evidence on a public platform. And WOW there is soooooo much evidence.
Anyhoo, it continues. Riss and her cronies have spent weeks building up to Delpad Week, planning the ways they can disrupt it, trying desperately to find the best way to hurt people. Because yep - that’s their main goal. HURT as many Delpad fans as possible. And hurt them in the week when they are just trying to enjoy their perfectly innocent, unproblematic ship.
Their first plan was to ‘go really gay on main’ and post as much Drakepad and Dellumbra content in the main Ducktales tag as possible... only they eventually realised (it took them a while, they are... not all that bright) that this would do very little to actually hurt anyone, because Delpad fans are generally not intolerant assholes, plenty are LGBT, and plenty of them ship Drakepad and Dellumbra as much as they ship Delpad. More Drakepad content? Cool! Dellumbra? You go Penny! Let’s have some Penpad too! It’s all good over here. And that just wouldn’t do, would it? So they decided they needed their campaign to be a little more cruel.
So here we are, back to their ‘joke’ prompt list, and now the first bit of art has been posted, in the main Ducktales tag, ready to hurt Delpad fans. And I am sure there will be more.
(EDIT: originally this post had a screenshot of art by @pixiesizedsiren, who drew art of Della and Launchpad burning a pride flag per Riss’s ‘joke’ prompt list and posted it in the Ducktales tag as part of this ongoing campaign to harass and antagonise members of the fandom. Since then, Frank Angones has direct messaged the artist asking them to remove their extremely insensitive art, and they have done so and apologised to the Ducktales fandom and Delpad fans specifically, and promised not to behave in this way again. In respect, I have removed the screenshot - but that doesn’t erase it from existence. I hope the artist truly has learnt from this experience.)
Why Delpad fans, you ask? Well, who knows. It could be because it’s a heterosexual ship in their eyes (despite the fact that it features Launchpad, who is canonically pan or at the very least bisexual... but that’s a whole other post), or it could be because one or two of that fandom’s creators are people that Riss just DOES NOT LIKE. She’s tried to target them before, just like she’s done with other fans before. And BOY has she done this before. Sometimes successfully, like the time she bullied a teenager out of the fandom for daring to ship Webby with a triplet (because of course in her eyes shipping is ONLY sexual and never innocent, and she gets to decide what is and isn’t acceptable) and sometimes unsuccessfully, like the time she tried this with the Weblena fandom, targeting, once again, a particular fan who she did not like, and doing her best to label them as inappropriate, as supporting pedophilia, and other vile accusations that she loves to throw out there because she knows those words have weight.
I’ve had enough of seeing nice people, who are just trying to enjoy a thing that they love, be bullied by intolerant assholes who think they own a fandom for some insane reason. And when it reaches the point that the series creator has to step in to remind you not to be an asshole, well, that’s just embarrassing. For shame, guys.
The Ducktales fandom is wonderful, aside from a very small but unfortunately very loud group of really horrible people. Folks have tried their best to rise above and ignore them for the past few years, but it’s wearing thin, and lately their targets have been getting younger and that is just not on. So the time has come to speak up and stop this behaviour - and I’ve noticed a lot of people are similarly reaching the end of their tether.
And you can feel free to try to come for me if you like, Anti Assholes. I’m a grown ass woman and my ask box is always open for hate I’ll happily delete without responding too.
