#I will not post the artwork nor artist this is regarding because it is unnecessary

[gale-gaze]

y'all ever have such a bad year-long commission experience that you feel disgusted looking at or thinking about your own character, so you almost feel obligated to scrap your character completely so both you and your character are finally out of this bitter misery the commission has made you feel towards your own character, just so you can finally enjoy the media that you made that character for in the first place again?

[lostinwords18]

A Problem That Needs To Be Adressed In The BNHA Fandom.

I follow this series on social media a lot, yet I've mostly remained silent without contributing my opinions because God knows any kind of opinion in this fandom is always made into unnecessary controversy. Today however, I came across a post that was only slightly provocative regarding ships, but the comment section however, (which most of us can probably agree is a dark place) was so full of hate and negativity. And this isn't the only post I've seen this happen. I can barely go for 5 minutes on instagram without seing a comment section or a post that's just.. ugh no. But like I mentioned, I've remained silent because I didn't want to get involved and all I wanted was to see some damn memes and art. At this point though, I'm just sick of being quiet and decided to go here, on tumblr, where I never EVER post, to address this situation.

So here's the tea;

People just need to freaking chill. And I mean everyone, I'm not picking sides here. How I see it, people who are too obsessive over ships to the point where they shit on other people who don't ship the same pairing (a lot of these are usually regarding gay ships, although the same still happens with every other ship) and the people that condemn anyone for shipping anything gay (aka the peeps that feel obligated to insult/complain about a gay ship in every damn post i see) are two sides of the same coin. They're equally as toxic and are equally as hateful. Most of yall that complain about the toxic fandom don't even realise that you yourself are toxic. (And yeah yeah be a smartass about the irony that I'm the one complaining right now as if I don't notice it already but hear me out )

I've seen beautiful artwork made by talented artists get shit on by both of these sides. Either it's "this gay shit again bad ship" or "it's not gay enough bad ship" or "i dont like this ship i prefer the other one bad ship" so yall can't tell me im wrong. There's nothing wrong about having an opinion, but there's a way to go about it. Commenting hateful shit on every post that opposes your opinion isn't the fucking way— and this goes for BOTH SIDES.

Me? I'm on a whole different coin where most people should be to create a non-toxic environment. The coin of "I don't ship that, but it's fine if others do, and it's fine if others don't ship what i ship. I'll just keep on scrolling." In the end what's important is the story and plot, and even then everything is still FICTIONAL. Don't hate and insult real life breathing human beings because they don't have the same opinion about something that isn't even real. You don't have to be on either extremes. Just be fucking chill.

I personally do ship Kiribaku, but I'm cool with Kirimina and Bakudeku even if i personally don't ship it and am not a fan of it. And I LOVE IZUOCHA AND KAMIJIROU but it's fine if people ship differently. (i dont have a preference for todomomo though, but i think it's super cute, my sister adores it). No, I don't ship Kiribaku "oNLy bECauSe It'S gAY". I just genuinely enjoy their interaction and relationship— platonically OR romantically. And No, i don't ship Izuocha because I'm a "hETeRosExuAL homophobE" either. It's simply because again, I like their interaction and i don't really see much reason to ship Tododeku— BUT IF YOU DO GOOD ON YOU. You keep doing you, boo. If you don't ship anything, well that's alright you're not in any way obligated to. These are all simply MY personal interests, it doesn't concern nor does it effect yours. Y'all can ship whatever you want or don't, like I'm out here shipping All Might x Happiness and if you don't, (well on second thought that actually makes you kind of a dick who the hell doesn't love All Might—) .

But what we all have in common is we enjoy the fucking story. Let's focus on that instead of the differences we have. Literally all it takes to not make a fandom toxic and create a positive community is to not be a hateful dick and be cool with things people like even if you disagree with them. Like it isn't rocket science, y'all. Just be respectful. If you cant find it in yourself to not go one day without hating on another fan for liking something that you don't like, then you're the toxic one. (Also this doesn't mean that you shouldn't comment on things that are derogatory or something like that, but commenting does not mean hating or telling said person shit like "kill yourself" or something. I shouldn't have to clarify this, it's common sense.) Horikoshi didn't put all his time and energy into this series for people to argue about whether a ship is right or wrong.

In conclusion, don't be a dick. Be respectful, be cool with other fans' interests and be freaking chill. Just agree to disagree on things and move on, scroll down, all it takes is literally for you to swipe your finger across the screen or move your finger on a mouse or trackpad. I too don't enjoy ranting about this, which is why I held this off for as long as possible thinking I could just pass it by but in the end I cant. I can't believe I actually have to write a full on essay just to tell people to not be a dick. So from here on out let's spread some love and positivity in the community instead uwu

That's it from me, peace out.