@alhazredshound replied to your post:
When I fan(girled?) over Alhazad and Verg of BS6 people called me fucked up. No one ever wondered what the fuck happened to me- as a teen struggling with my shit-to make me empathize and love those two so much.
It gets more disturbing when not only do they not want to try to understand your reasons, but try to dismiss them by turning shit like trauma and mental illness into some kind of competition. “I went through x, y, z and have a,b, c and I like GOOD characters and NICE stories so you have no excuse.” or some shit. Which I’ve seen.
@phoenixdownerd reblogged your post:
People seem to automatically think that if you like evil characters or villains, or even characters that are very flawed but otherwise good at heart, at all that you must agree with what those characters do. If anything, it just brings to light just how extreme and unnecessarily aggressive and toxic people on this site can be. Just check out the marvel and bvs tags, and god forbid Supergirl. And you absolutely cannot reason with these people either. They don’t understand the concept of healthy debate or even the right to have an opinion. It’s their way or the highway, as if they’re your mother or something. You like what you like. You know the difference between right and wrong; you’ll be just fine. Fiction is not going to corrupt you like so many on this site believe.
Somehow “fiction effects reality” got twisted so badly that people turned it into “fiction is reality” where they completely ignore the actual connections between the two. We’ve warped back around to “violent video games and rock and rap music turn kids into rapists and murderers” basically.
