#how to behave in fandom spaces you mongooses

[craetor]

How to behave in fandom spaces

I will now take it out of the comments of a certain post (don't harass them by the way) and onto my main because it seems like some higher-than-thou puritans think appreciating a dynamic between two characters means not letting it 'escalate' to something romanic or sexual and fighting some artificial battle of, quite frankly irrelevant, morality about never noticable age gaps and incest(???) after characters have grown up in the close proximity, however with a constant air of academic worry and rivalry between them...

As a self-proclaimed support pillar of at least one shipping community I want to put out here that if you don't like a ship and its shippers I advise you, for the sake of preventing a fandom war that'll (especially in an ancient community) scare away people who seek tranquil, stress free enjoyment, to treat it like a you-problem and do what's right: not involving yourself with it further. On Tumblr in particular, where everything is tagged, it should be easy to just block and avoid its tag and not let yourself be triggered into making some form of call-out post that claims to contain important, let alone objective views when all you're saying is your opinion. Hating on other communities is unwelcome here.

Remember people, the most basic of philosophy for literary analysis: media interpretation is NEVER objective.

If the original poster or some hog wild, feat-seeking critter finds this post to argue, I'm not saying this because OP is right and I'm somehow in denial about how depraved I am or some shit. I am saying that their 'analysis' of Mello and Near's dynamic is based on a blatant headcanon which they haven't used a single bit of canon material to substantiate, and it's pissing me off just a little bit how much this 'literary argument' resembles a Twitter comment section, with reasoning resembling "no actually I'm right because my emotions tell me so".