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[katsigian]

There are some things that I truly love and appreciate that I found within fandom spaces. I found some amazing friends that I hold dear to me (you know who you are and if you think I don't mean you, I most certainly do). I found my best friend, I found my life partner. For a while, I found a community that I felt safe within. There's nothing like bonding over OCs with friends - sharing headcanons and ideas, sharing your art and VP. I am truly grateful that I have my people I can do that with and I am so grateful for my wonderful mutuals. I'm excited to share things with all of you and I'm excited to see all of your ideas and creations

But, at the same time, fandom can be a slippery slope and being too involved with it means that you're putting yourself at risk of being a target for when things go bad. Not always, but it does happen, and good people end up being hurt for no good reason. And because of my experience with that, I've made the decision that I'm not going to tie myself down to one fandom anymore. I am now effectively both fandom-less and multifandom

Meaning that I will take part wherever I feel comfortable to, but I won't let myself be tied down and hurt again. I have all of my mutuals that I'm going to happily share from and I'll share fandom related things, but there will be a certain level of detachment from the bigger fandom as a whole. I just want to exist in such a way that allows me to interact with the people who also are here just to create and share things and to enjoy other's creations. That's all I really want - to exist and to create and to talk about all of my silly little guys with my mutuals and friends that make me happy. In any fandom, for/about any piece of media and about any characters, both canon and OC

What does this mean? It basically means that I'll be careful about how I interact and who I interact with. I'm not interested in being a part of discourse or drama within any fandom and if it happens that someone wants to pull me in, I'll be removing myself. The only time that I will pick a side is when something is blatantly harmful to people - bigoted behavior, racism, terfs, hate-speech, bullying, etc. I will not interact with it and will be blocking people taking part. Otherwise, I like to operate on a live and let live basis - the way I see it is we're all interacting on the same playground and sometimes we'll share the same swingset, other times not. And if you're on the swings when I'm not, I won't go push you off of them, etc etc

I'll keep everything on my blog clearly tagged so others can filter what they'd rather not see, in the same way that I filter out what I don't want to see. If I don't share something or if I don't follow someone, it's never mean-spirited, targeted, or personal. If I see something I don't like or don't agree with, I'll simply scroll past (live and let live). I hope I'm given the same treatment and understanding. I just want to exist and create, I've had my fill of being dragged into things when I didn't want to be and I'm done with that

Again, none of this is mean spirited, and I'm not targeting apecifically anything or anyone. I just needed to explain what's been on my mind for a while now and my decisions going forward with this blog <3