#like I’m a multishipper I mainly ship JayVik and MelJayVik

[dizzyrobinsims]

Whooo boy I’m kinda sad. I’m having to block the MelJay tag on multiple social media sites now because 90% of what crosses my dash gets hateful to JayVik. It’s WILD.

Like I’ve been an early complainer about how people treat Mel in JayVik spaces but I can most of the time enjoy JayVik works without Mel slander or MelJay or MelJayVik slander being present.

If the MelJay art or edit or something isn’t flat out wild about Viktor (in ways that I’ve seen get wildly homophobic, ableist, and even some that are racist regarding the use of anti-eastern-European/slavic imagery- and in a way that even I, someone who is just marginally aware of that stuff due to paying attention to WWII propaganda imagies in history, *reeled back from in shock* because wtf???? I gotta admit I did not predict that, like, we really reaching for some out of left field ways to be bigoted here), then it gets wild in the comments with bashing the JayVik ship.

Meanwhile I really do have to go searching for comments bashing MelJay in JayVik posts. Usually the issues I find are more subtle in some comics or characterization of Mel in some fics. Outside of the occasional really bad take demonizing her but that’s like… 1/20 fics I’ve read and less in terms of takes I’ve seen. It happens, but in low enough frequency I can block the individual and still enjoy the tag.

Like the fact I am now needing to block an entire tag of a ship I enjoy and would love to see stuff of because it gets toxic enough of another ship I enjoy is insane, ngl. This has never happened before.