I'm thinking of using the journal for fandom stuff in the future. Just gotta get used to DW and figure out what I want to do. :D
But yeah. I made the "I should probably pretend this fandom doesn't exist" realization the moment I started hating Dabi for being a victim. It was a very foreign and unpleasant feeling. People acted like giving Endeavour the benefit of the doubt (like, early on in the series) was somehow erasing his bad actions like??? No?
It's like people couldn't grasp the idea that if I think someone could do better, I'm admitting, by default, that they're not doing good enough. I can't say "X can do better" and also deny they were doing bad things. That's just impossible.
Part of my fandom enjoyment is reading meta posts, because my own brain is usually too distracted to arrange my thoughts into something I could share with people, and that joy was taken away because most of my mutuals had these Black and White views, and I just started filtering and blocking people all the time and it was just so tiring. Even my headcanons blog is gone.
To sum it up, I have never cared about the morality of characters (my OCs tend to be problematic and aware of it, so expecting others' characters to be saints would be a huge hypocrite move). If something happens in canon that I don't like, I just shrug and accept it as it is, with the idea that it isn't my own story in the first place. I can always make mine, original or fanfic. The idea that I need to publicly criticize every little thing I don't like in a piece of fiction because I have to 'think critically' is just...a lot of work going into stuff that I don't care about.
Oops, I rambled again; it's very difficult to talk about that stuff on tumblr 'cause you just know it's gonna attract trouble.
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Re: Ramble-y Thoughts
Date: 2021-06-24 01:04 pm (UTC)But yeah. I made the "I should probably pretend this fandom doesn't exist" realization the moment I started hating Dabi for being a victim. It was a very foreign and unpleasant feeling. People acted like giving Endeavour the benefit of the doubt (like, early on in the series) was somehow erasing his bad actions like??? No?
It's like people couldn't grasp the idea that if I think someone could do better, I'm admitting, by default, that they're not doing good enough. I can't say "X can do better" and also deny they were doing bad things. That's just impossible.
Part of my fandom enjoyment is reading meta posts, because my own brain is usually too distracted to arrange my thoughts into something I could share with people, and that joy was taken away because most of my mutuals had these Black and White views, and I just started filtering and blocking people all the time and it was just so tiring. Even my headcanons blog is gone.
To sum it up, I have never cared about the morality of characters (my OCs tend to be problematic and aware of it, so expecting others' characters to be saints would be a huge hypocrite move). If something happens in canon that I don't like, I just shrug and accept it as it is, with the idea that it isn't my own story in the first place. I can always make mine, original or fanfic. The idea that I need to publicly criticize every little thing I don't like in a piece of fiction because I have to 'think critically' is just...a lot of work going into stuff that I don't care about.
Oops, I rambled again; it's very difficult to talk about that stuff on tumblr 'cause you just know it's gonna attract trouble.