To the brainless, chronically online puritans of Tumblr and AO3: Pull the sticks out of your asses or get the fuck off the internet. 🖕🔥
Dear residents of the ether, fragile citizens of Tumblr, and endless wanderers of AO3: I am honestly, completely, thoroughly fucking done.
I am so incredibly sick of this pathetic, coddled generation. Instead of actually doing a single productive thing to fix the real world, you barricade yourselves inside your little digital fortresses of privilege and weaponized "special needs," expecting the entire universe to bend over backwards, censor itself, and cater to your specific, fragile triggers.
Well, wake the fuck up. The world was never tailored to your needs, and it never will be.
And before you start sharpening your pathetic little pitchforks and coming for my throat: I am autistic and I have OCD. Clinically. Fucking. Diagnosed. So yeah, by your miserable standards, I’m a "special snowflake" too. The difference? I don't use my brain chemistry as a shield to act like a fascist dictator over fictional characters.
Do you want to know why we are here today? Because if you touch me, I don't care. But touch someone I love, and I will fucking slash your throat.
My best friend @gem-wildee recently wrote a fanfic based on the show The Pitt. I’ll be honest, she actually made me want to watch it—mostly because I’ve had a massive, un-killable crush on Noah Wyle since his ER days. But she went a step further and crossed The Pitt over with Stranger Things.
And do you know what happened? The absolute scum of the internet crawled out of the woodwork.
Anons—because of course it’s always anonymous, spineless, cowardly little shits who probably still need their mothers to wipe their noses—started flooding her inbox with literal death threats. Telling her she should die of cancer. Boycotting her story. Harassing her.
And why? Not because it was badly written, mind you. But because her fictional story didn’t bow down to their precious, holy headcanons.
Because you've labeled her "racist" just for including Billy Hargrove in the story. Because you've labeled her "homophobic" simply because Eddie isn't riding off into the sunset with Steve. Are you people fucking insane?! It is FICTION. If you hate Billy so much, I hope to God you meet someone exactly like Billy in your real life, so you finally learn the difference between a flawed, complex fictional antagonist and actual, real-world malice. Let's see how your online activism holds up then.
"But Eddie isn’t with Steve?!" "But Billy is a monster?!" "But... but... but..."
You know what? You want a story where everyone holds hands and bakes rainbow cupcakes? Write it your-fucking-selves. 😑
What happened to Don't Like, Don't Read? Did that golden rule die along with your collective ability to function in society? If a fic offends your hyper-sensitive, sanitized worldview, close the fucking tab. It costs exactly zero to scroll past. But no, you’d rather play the internet martyr and hurl death threats because you lack the basic emotional maturity to handle pixels on a screen.
The tags were right there. You walked past the warning signs, opened the door, and now you’re crying because you don't like what's inside? If you ignore the tags just to have an excuse to get offended, you are the architect of your own misery. Don't blame the author for your own illiteracy.
@gem-wildee is a lady, so she chooses to ignore this absolute, toxic garbage. But I am not a lady. I don't give a single, solitary shit. I usually reserve my sarcasm for the absolute moron who called me a pedophile just because I wrote an age-gap fic, but today? Today I am past sarcasm. This is pure, unadulterated, scorching rage. Seth Cohen, step the fuck aside. It’s time to bring out Xena and start swinging. 😑
I am so sick and tired of the fact that you people have completely lost the ability to use a single shred of critical thinking. You don't look past the words, you don't look past the tags—honestly, I’m convinced most of you illiterate prudes don’t even read the fucking stories. You just scan for keywords to trigger your next dopamine hit of righteous outrage.
You actually convinced yourselves that harassing fanfic authors is "activism." You think you're fighting racism and homophobia by bullying a writer on AO3? You are not social justice warriors; you are just bored, miserable bullies hiding behind a keyboard, looking for a socially acceptable target to unleash your real-world malice upon. You don't care about real-world issues—you just care about the high you get from feeling morally superior.
I am utterly exhausted by this performative, fake-woke puritanism. The moment you encounter a theme, a character, or a ship that offends your delicate, sanitized sensibilities, you start screaming, "Censorship! Fascism! Won't somebody please think of the children?!"
There are no children to think about here, you absolute clowns! This is an archive for fanfiction, not a playground. There are only bigoted, lazy, hypocritical bullies for whom rubbing two brain cells together is just too hard, too complicated. You'd rather whip out a self-diagnosed TikTok certification of ADHD, Autism, or whatever other neurological label you can weaponize as an excuse to avoid doing any actual thinking, reading, or growing up.
So, if you feel targeted by this? If your ass is burning bright red right now because these words hit too close to home? Come at me. Report me. Block me. Send your little anon hate. I’m right here, sitting in 30-degree weather, eating spicy chips, and having a great fucking laugh at your expense. I am waiting.
@gem-wildee, this might not be a traditional fanfic, but happy birthday anyway. You are a phenomenal writer, and these losers could never touch your talent. ❤️