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"We need to talk about how X character is being written in fic!"
Do we, though, do we really? Babygirl it's all made up. They're just stories. Sometimes these stories are really close to the source material. Sometimes the characters are really ooc and the only thing relevant to the source material is names and vague circumstances. You can want to not read the latter and in that case you can back out of a fic. Heck you can block the author so you never accidentally read their stuff again.
But policing the way people write? That's not it babes. Just because something isn't written to your taste doesn't mean it's wrong. Don't like, don't read. That's all there is to it.
#fandom#fanfiction#fanfic#'at the point why not just make ocs?'#i mean I'd wager bc even if you can't see it in the fic the source material still provided the scaffolding or spark of idea#just...why do you care so much what other people are doing?#absolute puritanical garbage frankly#'he would never do x' 'she would never say y'#maybe in the source material but you aren't consuming the source material are you? you're reading a fic#you're in someone else's playground entirely#you've wandered into THEIR backyard and are insulting their swingset even though there's a park across the street you could play at
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oh, can we not do the "adults in fandom spaces need to grow up and get adult interests" thing, today or ever?
because yeah, on one hand, there are a lot of these folks who are emotionally immature and march out the supremacy-oppression playbook for very silly things, and that deserves to be pointed out.
on the other hand, using childishness as an insult is tired. i'm personally tired of it.
children and teens are worthy of respect. their interests are not lesser than so-called 'adult' interests - which, frankly, i don't even know where the line should be drawn? (like am i still a cringe overgrown child cuz i like a cartoon specifically made for adults? or is it all cartoons? what if my interest in sailor moon has nothing to do with my adult life and everything to do with connecting with the traumatized little girl inside my psyche? does growing up involve shutting her away and never acknowledging her ever again? what if i carry on my grandma's obsession with snoopy, out of remembrance? tell me where the line is without moving the goalposts. i'll wait.)
does the adult with a stan account spouting racist shit deserve to be insulted? sure, absolutely! yes. but insult their choice of blorbo or the fact that they think reverse racism is real or just anonymously send them a goatse.
"grow up" is enforcing the same patriarchal puritanical white supremacy colonialism garbage you think ur fighting against in the first place.
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