i’m gonna say this as plainly as possible because i’m tired of watching people bend themselves into pretzels to sound polite about it:
some of you treat fandom like a moral purity contest and it’s fucking exhausting.
like genuinely when did “i don’t like this” turn into “this is evil and anyone who engages with it is a bad person”? those are not the same thing. they have never been the same thing. they will never be the same thing.
you just decided your discomfort is a universal law and now everyone else has to abide by it or get dogpiled.
and the whole “depiction = endorsement” thing is such a bad-faith take i can’t even pretend to respect it. by that logic, no one should ever write conflict, toxicity, violence, obsession, anything messy, because god forbid fiction actually explores something complicated instead of being a sanitized little after-school special.
it’s fiction. people are allowed to poke at weird dynamics, dark themes, unhealthy relationships, whatever, without it being a fucking manifesto for real life behavior. engaging with something does not mean co-signing it. reading it, writing it, analyzing it, none of that means “i think this is good in reality.” it means “i find this interesting to explore.” that’s it.
and what really pisses me off is how this shit kills actual discussion. no one wants to say anything nuanced anymore because the second you do, someone’s ready to twist it into “so you support [insert worst possible interpretation here].” like congratulations, you’ve created an environment where the only safe opinion is the most boring, surface-level one imaginable.
that’s not protecting anyone. that’s just making fandom dull as hell.
also this constant need to moralize everything? it’s performative. i’m sorry, it is. half the time it feels less like people actually care about harm and more like they care about being seen as the most correct person in the room. you don’t have to think, you don’t have to analyze, you just have to say “this is bad” loud enough and suddenly you’re winning.
cool. great. love that for you.
meanwhile everyone else is either shutting up or getting pushed out because they don’t want to deal with the harassment over liking or even just talking about something you’ve decided is off-limits.
idk. block what you hate. curate your space. no one is forcing you to engage with anything. but stop acting like your personal line in the sand is some objective moral boundary the rest of us are obligated to respect.
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