#its just. huh! some of our criticisms of the fandom may genuinely be obsolete and thats fucking wild to think about | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

mantisgodsdomain · 8 months

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Coming to Fun Realizations here as we scroll the BF Ao3 tag. The Bug Fables fandom on here... has genuinely gotten a whole lot less hostile since we first joined up? Like, it might just be that we're either blocked or been blocked by everyone who's started shit, but it's genuinely gotten a LOT nicer to be here in the years since we've joined.

We look at the Archive, and we see stuff that would've sparked up a whole shitshow and a bunch of vagueposts over nothing only a year or so ago just... passing without comment.

It's one of those things where we have to sit for a moment and wonder, like... some of our usual patterns of behavior to try and avoid discourse might be unnecessary. We've said shit we're accustomed to getting us at least one person getting mad in our comments or replies and it's passed with nothing. We haven't seen a bad faith take in the tag for months! It's a bit weird to realize!

#we speak #we are used to having to be a cockroach who simply doesnt leave and this makes it a bit weird to like #be here and realize that wow! we won't get people actively harassing us for trying to say we don't like treating vi like a child!#we feel like we have been in the meat grinder for years and now someones telling us “yeah they actually took out the meat grinding”#“yeah you can walk in this place without dying now”#its just. huh! some of our criticisms of the fandom may genuinely be obsolete and thats fucking wild to think about #we have outlived many of the parts of the fandom that shaped us! huh!#bizarre

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