#hatefucking isn't a crime or a threat to your fandom if you don't like it don't read it

[thelunastusco]

We saw a take that was “if people become fans of an adaptation, then they aren’t REAL fans of the creator’s work” and “they probably won’t like the source material”...

That’s kinda crap, lol.

1. It’s like saying if someone like a cover of a song, they’re not going to like the original song, or the artist’s other works.

2. So what if they don’t? Sometimes the original isn’t all that great. Sometimes the original works are racist, or otherwise bigoted. Sometimes the creator was an asshole. Sometimes the original just wasn’t all that good.

3. People are perfectly capable of liking the original for what it was, and liking the adaptation for what it is, as two separate and unique things.

People are allowed to like adaptations-- just as much, or even more than the originals. People are allowed to be fans of an adaptation, and not the original. It doesn’t mean they’re not real fans. Someone enjoying an adaptation doesn’t mean anything besides someone likes the adaptation. People are allowed to like both. People are allowed to not even get into the original series. Let people like things! Even if you think the adaptation is shittier!

No, we don’t need to gatekeep fandoms from adaptations. The only gatekeeping we need to do, in fandoms, is against racists, queerphobes, alt right shitfucks, and others such people.