#but we've had Bad Apples invade our server before

[takaraphoenix]

Oh, I have been in worse fandoms, but very few of them had the thing I genuinely hated with all my being be so. Inevitable.

Curating my fandom experience is almost impossible with pjo because it feels like the entire fandom is a hivemind created to kiss the ground Riordan walks upon and build shrines to the glory and genius of percabeth and solangelo.

I can't even FIND fanfictions that I like, because everything I'd be interested in is burried under 18 feet of boring clichés and unappealing, bland and empty romance shoved down my throat as "revolutionary" and "actually very cute and definitely not abusive!".

I HAVE been in PLENTY of fandoms where my fav was absolutely HATED by the fandom at large, but even THEN, it was easy to find my people but here? Everyone claims to love Percy or Nico while also stripping them of everything interesting, tangible and appealing in them to fit them better in questionable ships that you're not allowed to even dislike, and so it is basically impossible to find the people that actually DO like them and not the caricatures created for the shipping.

And I can't even go to GEN, plot heavy adventures, because even THEN I have those two fucking ships presented as a matter of fact and it being very heavy. Even when the plot is not about them, they still are everywhere.

It is hell.

In those other fandoms, there still seemed to be a place for the people not interested in shipping, here for the world and the characters, but here it's not the case.

Riordan seems to think that every characters needs to be in a couple and for that to be their entire personality to be good writing, even when the world is at stakes, and the fandom is just way too happy to follow along.

I'm sorry you're having trouble finding the right people. If you'd like, you could come off anon and DM me and I could offer you an invite to my Nicercy Server, because there's no ass-kissing there. We also have well-organized channels so you can mute the conversation topics you're not interested in.

This ask does tell me you're in dire need of some venting space, and we do have our critical channels where there's regular lengthy discussions about plot-points that bother us, as well as fandom behaviors.

Basically, we're kind of a self-help group sitting in a circle, sharing lol

(Also you might be able to get some fic recommendations out of someone in the server)