i dont know if you’re the right person to vent to but i will anyway. respond or don’t, ig, this is about wilbur
you are genuinely one of my favorite fic writers of all time, and what drew me in was my (ongoing) obsession with crimeboys. i dont follow dsmp, i stopped somewhere in the middle of egg i think, but ive always been obsessed with crimeboys fics.
in all of them wilbur is one of my favorite characters, he’s unhinged as fuck but also protective and kind. it’s hard to know that wilbur was a shitty person but i don’t want to brush that off. im going to keep recognizing it, but it’s still so hard.
i loved wilbur’s character in dsmp canon and i loved his online persona, and i kinda vibed with how actually mentally insane he acts sometimes. that led to him hurting others, and so i can’t feel like it was a totally good thing, but i can’t stop loving the character.
if you have criticisms or reasoning im okay to hear that, but i already know that wilbur did shitty things.
- 🕸 (idk what people have used to sign their anons to you, i haven’t talked to you before in case someone else has already used spiderweb)
hey sorry for the late reply to this, I really haven't had the energy to talk much about this whole mess these past few days. I think I've kind of just hit my limit on stuff
(that's not to say you're at fault for sending this ofc not, I really do want my askbox to feel like a safe place for you guys to put your thoughts and feelings about this whole mess. just know sometimes I might not ending up responding if I don't feel up to it)
I think it's perfectly okay to continue enjoying his dsmp character. I mean, hell, I'm most likely going to continue writing my ongoing fic about his character because that's who it's about—the character. just make sure to recognize that the creator himself is a horrible person and stop giving him any kind of platform.
his online persona was exactly that—a persona. it was designed for entertainment. it was carefully crafted to garner him the audience he wanted. the persona was meant to be likeable so you don't have to feel guilty for having enjoyed the content from that persona in the past. it's just that it was never a representation of who he actually was.
(also technically someone has used that emoji before but I referred to them as cobweb anon, and they haven't popped up here since august so I'll just call you spiderweb anon)