#fandom aroacemisia

[rjalker]

Allos-cubed are like "Aroaces can still date and have sex!" as an excuse to erase the identity of aroace characters who explicitly do not want to do those things, but then the second an aroace or character *does* do those things, the allos-cubed insist it proves they cannot possibly be aroace.

And then meanwhile Not Hikaru hasn't even done any of those things but the allos-cubed are *still* insisting that their headcanons "prove" that Not Hikaru can't possibly be aroace.

[rjalker]

lieserli for your free "actually if you think the character explicitly stated as being aroace is aroace, I'm going to imply you just hate gay people!" blocklist.

[rjalker]

"We have to let bigoted allos ship aroace explicitly everything-repulsed character! We can't tell them they're bigoted! Just let them do whatever they want without criticism!"

Nope :)

If you ship Murderbot you're a bad person. If you erase the canon Queer representation of marginalized people to replace it with something more palatable to you you're a bad person.

If you literally cannot be normal and not ship exactly one (1) fictional character that is explicitly, cannonically repulsed by romance, sex, queerplatonicness, and touch, you are a bad person.

This is not up for a debate.

If you erase everything that makes a cannonically Queer, disabled character who it is, you're a bad person and you should, in fact, feel bad about it.

Just because you're doing the bigotry in fandom doesn't make it magically harmless. You people literally just hate aroace people, nonbinary people, and touch averse people.

[rjalker]

"I feel ashamed for being aromantic in this fandom because you call out aroacemisia and I don't, so now everyone thinks I'm attacking them when I write aromantic things for this canonically aroace character :(((((((((( therefore the solution is you need to stop calling out aroacemisia. Not that I need to learn to fight back against aromisia."

wow that sounds like a personal problem. "I'm aro and still manage to be aromisic to people who actually stand up for aro rights" lofl.

"I'm not nonbinary but you need to stop harassing people by politely correcting them when they misgender the nonbinary protagonist"

yeah that sounds exactly like the sort of thing a binary person would say.

[rjalker]

The sad fact that for the most part, these fans are largely just moving from one white dude slash ship to another. Migratory Slash Fandom is, for all intents and purposes, only capable of migrating to fandoms where the dominant slash ship is a white one. 

Or, in the event of characters of color being prominent in a piece of media and serving as one or both parts of a popular slash ship, one of three things happen:

White prioritization: Fandom decides that actually, a minor crackship between two white characters with zero meaningful interactions or chemistry is more interesting and worth playing with than a ship involving even one character of color. (The overwhelming popularity of Kylo Ren/Hux over Finn/Poe in the supremely racist Star Wars fandom.) Racist Stereotypes: One or both members of the slash ship are written in stereotypically racist ways (Latino characters as Lusty Lotharios, Black male characters with giant genitals, Asian characters as submissive flowers) and meaningful characterization tends to take a backseat to any white or, in the case of an interracial pairing involving a Black character, non-Black character present (see any Black male character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that’s part of or adjacent to a white dude slash ship).  Whitewashing: Characters of color are culturally whitewashed across the content that becomes popular in the fandom (see BTS real person slash fic where the Korean members of the group are often stripped of their Korean-ness even in stories set in Korea). 

https://web.archive.org/web/20230118135018/https://stitchmediamix.com/2020/03/28/migratory-slash-fandoms-focus/

[rjalker]

I have been informed I have a "pattern of behavior" in The Murderbot Diaries fandom, of *checks notes* let's see...

Calling out exorsexism

Calling out racism

Calling out aroacemisia

Calling out ableism

Politely correcting misgendering

[ID: A screenshot from a video clip of a person frowning at the camera, saying, "Yeah, I sure hope it does!". End ID.]

[rjalker]

Like, nonbinary autistic aroace with complex relationship with touch here? Go be a semi-an/ti somewhere else.

"complex relationship with touch" is a weird way of saying "I hate touch averse people who do not ever want to be touched and I especially hate the ones who call out athiktomisia that portrays touch averse people as being broken and in need of fixing"

I'm literally aroace but oh my fucking gods, stop trying to police fandom.

Yep, that tracks!

Damn, how many aroacemisic aroace people can fit in this fandom anyways?!?

[rjalker]

[ID: one of the Penguins from the movie Madagascar first leaning forward and saying, "You call out aroacemisia in this incredibly aspec-hostile fandom. So doesn't that mean that the aromisia I, an aro person who refuses to stand up for myself or others, am subjected to by these same people you are calling out…doesn't that mean that aromisia that I face…"

Then screaming in all caps, "Is your fault?!".

End ID.]

IDK what to tell you. If you see someone calling out bigotry that also oppresses you, and you decide to blame that person for the bigotry you are subjected to...

you've got some serious problems you need to work out. Lol.