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androgynousblackbox · 5 years ago

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“Rebecca Sugar is a nazi apologist because she wanted to redeem the diamonds”

Okay, honesty hour. I am fucking sick of that shitty as fuck argument, and you want to know why? The people who use it pretend to tell me that Sugar makes nazi apoligism every time she “cuddle up” the diamonds (meaning, not killing them and forcing them to repair part of their many fucks ups, so then we can bring war and even more genocide over the gems who want to keep the order of the diamonds and the ones who don’t, instead of letting them live their lives in peace) and makes them more than one dimensional baddies who are perpetually bad all the time. There is no malice in that, apparently, it’s just ignorance, but is still very bad, you see, because. My problem with that is the following:

THAT IS NOT WHAT APOLOGISM IS, YOU DISINGENOUS MOTHERFUCKERS. HAVE ANY OF YOU EVEN SO MUCH KNOWS THE MEANING OF THE WORDS YOU SAY.

An apologist, according to dictionary, is “a person who argues in favor of something unpopular. ... The word apologist comes from the Greek word apologia, meaning "speaking in defense." Not all apologists are bad news; some just defend an unpopular idea.” The Webster dictionary say “one who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something.” Pretend to say that Sugar is speaking in favour of the Diamonds’s way of doing things is a bold faced lie and a disgusting one at that, that when told by people who were told by others this is the case and never bothered to make any research to see if it was true makes them look lazy, but when comes from people who have seen at least one season from finish to end? It’s downright incredible how much you completely missed the fucking point. And this is a children’s cartoon, it’s not that subtle at all. The entire show relies on the premise that the Diamonds’s order was fucked up, not only for the gems that were lower class (like Ruby), not even just for the ones who were higher class (like Sapphire), not even just for the servants (all the Pearls), but even for the Diamonds themselves (Pink’s abuse). Almost every single conflict on the show (the corruption of gems, Pink’s abusive tendencies, Spinel, Steven’s poor mental health, Pearl’s trauma, the hiding of the Off Colors, Lar’s death, Bismuth’s poofing, the entire gem war, etc, etc) is there to tell just how fucked up the gem system really is and how is not working to make the gems happy. Since day one the show is beating you over the head with how all of this is bad and how our good guys rebel against that. Literally the only thing they didn’t do was have Steven turn to the camera and say on a Sonic fashion: remember, kids! Fascist regimes are bad for you! If you see someone promoting fascism, that is no bueno! You would have to put a big effort into not seeing that. A lot of effort. And when the entire series ended, what they did? They destroyed that entire system from the top to the bottom. They changed everything so now gems are free to do what they please without being scared of being shattered. They forced the Diamonds to bring back the gems they harmed. They brought peace to the entire universe so now no one has to fight to be themselves, where they can be themselves, even if that themselves is not the same person they were expected to be their entire lives. This show looked at what the Diamonds were doing and spat all over that, said “this is bullshit” and, not content with that, they did everything they could so no one would have to live that way anymore. What part of any of that is meant to be fascist apologism again? You want to know what an actual fascit apology would have looked like? It would have started with our protagonist being dissastified with the way things are done in Earth and finding it all kinds of wrong because it lacked order, discipline, a clear authority. There would be this lingering longing for such a thing until we finally meet personally the Diamonds and everything looks perfect on every single way: all the gems are just oh so happy to serve, the Diamonds are oh so wise, never making a single mistake ever and everyone is glad to have find them, to be under them and offer themselves up for whatever they want, because this is how were meant to be from the start. That would have been fascist apologism because this system would have been presented as perfect, the Diamonds would have been these perfects beings who are just so magnifique, so benevolent and totally worthy to rule over everyone ever. A narrative where we would have to accept that everything is better when the Diamonds are put above everyone, where the creator is really doing their damnest to defend fascism, like an actual apologist. That show? That show doesn’t fucking exist. That is not at all what happens in Steven Universe. I don’t why that was the specific way in which many people have just decided to slap on it and call it “criticism”, but I hope someone else sees this and realize just how full of shit that claim is. Words have meanings. You can’t just ignore that just because it sounds bad enough for you. Do not go accusing people of defending fascism when they like a show where they actually tear fascism appart. Do not go lying about a story you didn’t like or don’t even know just to make it seem like some moral achievement you alone reached. There are problems on the show and unfortunate implications, like in any piece of media, that we could maybe talk about, but nazi/fascist apologism isn’t one of them and you all look ridiculous pushing it so hard.

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weaselbeaselpants · 4 years ago

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I have a lot to say and not enough time to say it. It hurts, but ya’ll know what this is about so if you want my full fandom retrospective opinion thing guys, here.

I’ve been following Vivienne’s art and career since I found her on dA in 2009. I’ve basically grown up with her and have a wide range of opinions up and down her collective work. I must stress that I do not know her as a person and no matter how critical I get in my personal time if I somehow met her in real life or converse with her online again (like, back in the day we went back and forth. She was pretty nice to me), I’d be humble and congratulate her for her success.

Critique does not, EVER equate to attacking people.

But

the reason I don’t call myself a VivziePopVivzmind-fan is the exact same as to why I don’t like the proud use of ‘anti’. Let me try and explain -

The vast majority of Viv fans are just that: fans. Viv’s one of their favorite artists and they’re happy for her and obviously defensive when some mouth breather pops into their fan discussion calling her and all of them trash. Quite a lot of the Hazbin fans I know in my circle of friends are all pretty accepting and agree on the problematic notions and implications of her work.

HOWEVER, there’s a vocal minority in the VivziePop fandom that were and still are toxic. Their specific interest in Viv back in the day was toxic...and now that she’s moved on into a successful career I doubt they’ve gone away, considering the things I’ve heard. These people - they’d flood Viv’s comments sections and stuff with messages like they were talking to her when they weren’t and they’d unironically call her a god in a way that feels like gaslighting, ex: “I’ll NEVER be as good as you Viv! My art is just sooooo unpopular oh god you are incredible no one will ever like you as much as meeeee”. It made me uncomfortable. It made me not want to be around her because these people took Viv’s role in their lives so seriously and their demand for her attention...it struck a nerve.

These same fans have been around long enough to see actual shitlords - the likes of Kiwifarms and tapatalk wikis - come in and actually harass Viv. Viv’s been sent revenge porn by sick freaks who think they’re funny and believe she deserves it. No. In my non-name fan bystander opinion, Viv’s got some shit to work on, but no one deserves raperevenge porn. EVER. It was genuinely bad and yes Viv and her base have every reason to NOT TRUST these communities. Unfortunately, when these incidents happened, these particular fans took it upon themselves to gatekeep the fandom and act like Viv’s unofficial guard against any kind of decenting opinion of her, all without her say so.

((to the critics who will be all “but Viv or Faust said THIS to their fans-”, like I said, Viv’s far from perfect but regardless of how much she prolly wanted people to side with her I’m gonna guess that she didn’t want people sending transphobic death threats to DollCreep. Again, and this is coming from a bystander here, I have a feeling Viv knows about some of the toxicity but doesn’t know how/want to address it - which is a conversation all it’s own.))

This particular breed of VivziePop “fan” holds so much toxicity in her fandom(s). They aren’t the only cause, but they’re there. They feel entitled to her attention and her approval. They creep me out. Having spoken to other much-less critical admitted fans of Viv around me, these fans appear to creep everyone else out and put the rest of the fandom on edge. They’re gatekeepers. They’re creeps. Like the bronies and SU fans of yestertodayyears, they know harassment exists and that people have crossed the line - so they think any means is necessary to prevent that is automatically good. I could pile together all the incidents and folks who’ve had bad runs ins with this aftershock of Viv-obsession, but I do have a life of my own and this post is already stupid long so I’ll just list out the biggest examples and provide receipts when asked.

Critical blogs have gotten RAPE and death threats because they don’t like Viv’s art. HonestZoophobiaCriticisms, a blog I interracted with back in the day, def got one. Now Viv’s opinion of crit-blogs is that they’re “bad takes” but I can assure you she doesn’t want that shit being said on her behalf.

I’ve seen young artists get blacklisted from sites and forums cause they so much as post a redesign. Viv and co get told through the grapevine that someone’s making hatespeech and so preemptively block said person (prolly cause they’re in the middle of WORKING and can’t deal right now) only to find out after the fact that no, it was just a kid drawing their version of her characters. There’s serious miscommunication issues within the fandom about who’s ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and once you get the actual staff involved in this game of telephone you’re begging for trouble. The problem acknowledged, however, it’s souly from the “Viv never did anything wrong camp”. No word is said about how ugly the fandom is under the surface it’s all one type of person’s fault and not complicated’. Blah

I’ve only ever had ONE obsessive ‘fan’ who’d stalk me, mock me, and then redraw my art just to get attention from me. That shit fucked with my head. As a follower hundreds of miles away from Viv who’s agreed/disagreed with her through the years - I absolutely believe her when she says she hates ‘creeps’ and that she doesn’t want anyone in her fandom spreading hate on her behalf. It’s the one thing about her I’m POSITIVELY sure of. Whether she believes that said underlying harassment exists and/or is even a problem within her fandoms is anyone’s guess. That’s not what I’m here for. I’m here to write stupid blog entries like this, talk about fandoms and media and how they and the real world affect one another, and rb fan art I like. I’m cautiously optimistic fan with a side of salt.

Mixed opinions and critique within a fandom CAN and SHOULD exist. Hazbin Hotel has been greenlit by a studio! It has a product line of merchandise you buy. Helluva Boss is getting eight more episodes this coming year (yeeee:3yeeee). Two of Viv’s properties are now products. Nothing is immune from critique. And in critique you will find a lot of people who are not ‘nice’. Critique or analysis doesn’t have to be nice. There will be, in Viv’s words’ ‘bad takes’ on her writing. Maybe they will be actual CinemaSins-styled bad takes or maybe Viv is just mad that people don’t love and feel inspired by her characters the way she wants them to - it’s a fact she’s going to have to get used to.

((TBH, I’m pretty sure she’s already realized that criticism of all types need to exist. It’s just that, again, her and the SpindleHorse staff are kind of overwhelmed by all matter of takes and opinions coming their way they kinda can’t deal weeding out the fair ones from the assholes, so she lumps them all together.))

Shitposters, ironic fans, unironic fans, critical fans, just critics of Hazbin and Helluva CAN and WILL exist. They should exist and not feel threatened by the megafandom. There are people out there who are one step further and rightfully bothered by Hazbin/Helluva’s use of incorrect symbols, portrayal of certain topics, and the response by creators. These people have strong opinions and are actually disgusted by Viv. They deserve to exist too and should not be vilified because, like me, they’re commentary doesn’t consist of anything personal towards the people at Spindlehorse or the fans of her works. They can rant, they can be professional, they can be petty and they can be fair. But they will exist. You have to deal with it.

I am an ADD/OCD ridden autistic woman with serious anxiety issues who has no one to talk to half the time and so only HAS my fandom to communicate with. But that’s just it - it’s a fandom. A community. You have to learn to not think souly of yourself and of others in a community. A fandom doesn’t exist just for you or any one person. You have the right to be angry and defend or be offended. And it’s in the spirit of that that I ask, prrraaaaaay even, that I please

NOT BE CALLED AN “ANTI-ANTI” for not liking the moniker?!

I DON’T TO BE AN “ANTI”. Not ironically, not unironically. ‘Anti’ should be for politics and shit like pedophiles, necrophiles, nazis, serial killer stans, Trump, racists, antisemites, terfs, animal abusers, rapists, and antivaxxers. Anti should only come into critical media analysis when these ethical issues follow suit IN TO fandom discussion. ((EX: Anime and MLP proudly waving their cp and non-con into the public eye; Hazbin appropriating cultural symbols which are not satanic; Basically anything that concerns John K or Butch Hartman.))

If your DNI list unironically consists of the entirety of one fandom: CONGLATURATIONS! You have done the exact same thing these particular creepy Viv fans have done: monopolize the conversation. And yes, people I’m referring to, IT’S STILL A PROBLEM EVEN IF YOU’RE FIGHTING RACISM/SEXISM/HOMOTRANSPHOBIA.

There are hundreds of Vivziefans who ARE more critical, accepting of faults, interested in discussion and especially rewrite and redesign stuff who would LOVE to engage with you and give you a follow. There’s hundreds of people who no doubt agree with you!

But the thing I’ve seen these very proud AntiHazbinVivzieHelluvaWhatever blogs do is lash out at fans for continuing to like Viv and consume Viv’s art in a healthy way. What the actual fuck is your problem?

I get it. Say a crazy Hazbin fan gets on your case for even SUGGESTING Viv could be homophobic ((”SHE’SBIANDWORKSWITHGAYPPLblahablahblah”)). They get in your face, make some callouts, try to rile up support against you, leave disgusting harassment throughout your social media? Absolutely ban worthy. After that it’s perfectly understandable why you don’t want to engage with anything HHHBZPVivzierelated because you’re so fucking tired of being labeled an abuser or “just jealous” for having an opinion on a show you don’t like. I’m with you!

But,

A fan agrees that something in the canon is bad or that Viv did something they don’t like?

A fan likes your silly shitpost meme?

A fan asks if they can like Hazbin and follow you at the same time?

A fan does fan art of something you don’t like?

If your response to any of these ^^^ things is to get LOUD and accusatory, Vivsplain them about how they’re an absolutely awful person to ever question YOUR opinion, or just block them without a second thought? You’re a petty, vendictive shit and you also need to learn to let things go. I’m sorry but you do. As I already said, Viv’s work is a brand at this point, not just the work of a singular person. As such, there are gonna be mixed opinions and you can’t judge every single one of these people by what they like. You’re a shitty critic with a shitty attitude and yes that will demean the value of what you’re saying. This is bad because, if you’re trying to point out how Angel Dust’s abuse IS handled terribly; gay rep in Viv’s work is weak and terrible; the show appropriates closed practices; the fandom makes excuses for predatory artists and creepy behavior and individuals who have sketchy pasts - I’M WITH YOU. WE NEED TO BE TALKING ABOUT THIS SHIT. JUST BECAUSE THESE ARE ADULT CARTOONS SET IN HELL MEANS THERE SHOULD BE ANYTHING CLOSE TO 2013 PONY-TUMBLR. <<<---- this shit is as important to me as it is to you and I really don’t like being called an abuser or apologist for saying “hey maybe blowing up at ppl for the shows they like ISN’T the way to go about this”.

But I have, just like the good old days of 2015 Zoophobia of yore, been blocked because I admit to being tired of ‘Anti’ being equated to ‘critical’. Same with hater.

Critical DOES NOT = Anti+Hater. I’m fucking tired of people saying it does and I’m tired of people taking up the term as some weird form of fandom reappropriation. It’s stupid.

Tl;dr: Once upon a time, I was in a budding fandom for something I liked made by an indie artist I watched on dA. I wanted to be a bigger fan than I was already, but was told by toxic people within said fandom that I couldn’t be part of it for reasons they’d made up in their head about my ‘motives’ against Viv. My admiration for Viv or what I liked about Zoophobia didn’t matter because I thought the story was really rushed and people weren’t being truthful with how they really felt about it - ergo, I HAD TO GO.

Flash forward 8 years later- My opinion of Viv’s body of work has changed but I still find myself in love with her style and some of her characters. I want to be on a forum or service that gives a healthy look at the problems there are with this series and fandom...and I’m met repeatedly by petty bs where people are again at each other’s throats. And yes, I do think it’s causing more harm than good especially when you insist there’s a “x person shouldn’t be trusted” mentality when fighting actual fucking racist, xenophobic, predatory bullshit.

#vivziepop #vivziepop critical #vivziepop drama #hazbin hotel #hazbin critical #hazbin hotel critical #critical hazbin hotel #anti anti #antis #anti hazbin hotel #cause I want both sides of this debaucle to see this and I'm tired #K?

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too-much-tanuki · 5 years ago

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A bunch of cutie Steven icons! I couldnt help myself

Reblogs > Likes

Credit appreciated <3

Transmeds/Su Crits DNI, please and thanks

#steven universe #steven universe movie #su unaired #su icons #su movie trailer #my icons

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criticallyalexandrite · 5 years ago

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You know you don’t have to actually blindly agree with me to this extent especially if your heart is really not in it. I know lots of SU stans ]assume I want them to 100% agree with me on SU. But that’s not actually the case believe it or not. What I really want out of this is for SU stans to just stop acting like Becky is this flawless progressive hero and to stop accusing people of discriminating against her cuz just they criticize SU. It’s frustrating to see SU stans go “I can like the show while realizing it’s not perfect” but then try to downplay these flaws they’re supposedly aware of everytime. At this point all I want out of the discourse is for SU stans to stop demonizing us so much. You can still like the show I don’t care about that. What bothers me is again what I mentioned of SU stans acting super rude to SU crits for not tolerating the bigoted aspects of the show’s writing and the crewniverse’s beliefs. I even still like some aspects of the show despite how often I hyperbolically say I hate the plot. The main reason I have a Diamond Authority stans DNI nowadays is they tend to be the worst most racist and abrasive stans in the whole fandom and less so for simply liking the Diamonds as villains. (Especially evidenced by how they are the most likely to act like the human zoo episode was perfectly ok.) I’m really not looking for SU stans to become my rabid stans after seeing my rebuttals where I firmly restate how I feel about the show’s issues. I don’t want a standom. I just want people to stop generalizing the SU crit community because they blatantly misunderstand what we’re saying. That’s literally all I want as a result of this debate.. Be more open minded and stop acting like SU crits as a whole have done worse than what they’ve actually done in the fandom. (Seriously I’m tired of people blaming SU crits for the Zamii incident when SU crits weren’t a thing back then and blaming us for what happened with Zuke. Zuke left the show cuz of creative disagreements with Becky.) It’s really hypocritical to do otherwise while also complaining about callout culture on the side. I’ve seen some SU stans perpetuate callout culture against SU crits before. I’ve had it happen to me before. I’m just so baffled as to why THIS particular fandom space is aggressively lashes out at criticism so much. I’ve honestly never seen an anti criticism mindset this bad in any other fandom.Just tone it down is all I ask instead of trying to make the issue seem much worse than it is by acting like SU crits are on par with radfems or acting like we’re enabling fascism for hating the Diamonds redemption arc. I’m too tired to bother making every previous SU stan become a full on SU crit and again that was never my intent to begin with. If you choose to become a full SU crit after debating with me great. if not, it’s whatever man.

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