#and that doesn't mean i'm entitled to anything pf course

[butchdomesticwhore]

me: i really like this girl but i know if i were to pursue her the anxiety would kick in and i'd be miserable because i wouldn't be able to calm down and just enjoy myself, so it's in my best interests and hers to just Not and maybe hopefully get to a point where i'm stable and calm enough that i feel okay while flirting

the girl: starts seeing someone

me weeping, crying, sliding down the wall: how could this HAPPEN

[kari-izumi]

To be entirely fair to VLD fandom in general, I'm already starting to see a whole bunch of them moving on to new things rather than to piss on and be salty about what didn't happen. Even antis have seemed to cool their jets somewhat as the big name blogs rebrand their usernames to be She-Ra* themed.

But Bleach fandom? Dear God. For a frame of reference for how long they've been shitting about this, VLD premiered 2 months before that manga ended. You can still see IRs banging on about "Origos" in tags.

Of course it doesn't help that IR fandom has had a full decade to build up their entitlement crap, going all the way back to the LJ Bleachness comm and the mod who became our fandom's equivalent to Cassandra Clare. They were harrassing Kubo Tite on Twitter back before VLD fandom turned it into an art form, to the point that he deactivated ages before the series ended. He got so sick of that entitlement that he apparently expressly forbid Warner Bros from putting anything remotely shippy about the two of them in the live action movie (like what Studio Perriot been doing)

Even for the public L's VLD has had, nothing Sheith fandom has done comes close to the entitlement howling that continues to this day from IRs. 🤣

That being said, I agree that the best thing to do at this point is to create what you want to read. By all means vent about trends you don't care for away from fandom (DW even has a comm for fanfic rants called, very cleverly, Fanfic Rants (and bonus: you can make the posts viewable to the comm only!) along with the one on PF), but yelling at people to quit the cheating fics and Incel Fedora-Wearing Keith is at best a waste of time. There's still a lot of us who want in character angst that even if Shiro or Keith choose other people, their bond is still there.

*I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop there, what with the storyboard team that was publically courting these fucknuts and the discourse over whether Catradora is problematic for incest and/or abuse reasons.Because I'm sure the Klantis have learned absolutely nothing and the VLD clusterfuck ending has probably only justified their bad behavior even more.

ATTENTION RWBY FANS

DONT DROP THE SHOW IF YOUR SHIPS DONT BECOME CANON!!!!

Honestly, people always saying that they’ll drop a show for many reasons. But the one I loathe the most is “BECAUSE MY SHIP ISNT CANON!!” Honestly, if you drop a show cause of that, you were never a real fan in the first place.