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rawliverandcigarettes · 4 months ago

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Speaking of my last reblog, sometimes I still think about how I was once publically dragged through the mud unprompted for daring to tag that I thought the Citadel was less than stellar, and then, after pointing out that this universe's economy was interconnected and that the Citadel benefited from a lot of good publicity while hiding its deeply corrupted innards to "justify myself", I received back a wild collection of ad hominems and name-calling accusing me to want to be sad on purpose, not understand how money worked, and also of "projecting my feelings about Brazil" on the franchise (it was during the elections where Bolsonaro won), which was inherently inappropriate to do apparently.

And a bunch of people unfollowed me over that! :D

So yeah hard to me not to think the fandom has kind of a bias towards one given so-called "neutral" perspective, even if I feel like it has overall gotten a little better (as in: I now see posts like the one I just reblogged).

#thoughts #mass effect #personal #fandom critical #the person who dragged me was a USamerican who was like a good decade older than me btw #I feel like that's relevant :)#the event seriously discouraged me from discussing my thoughts on certain stuff too which is unfortunate #sorry if it feels like I'm reheating extremely old and overall unimportant drama but I feel like it's kind of a relevant example #there is a USamerican bias in how the world is interpreted --and one that doesn't always love to be criticized #it makes sense since it's a story that mostly comes from this perspective #and it is choke-full of exceptionalist sentiment #but still!! still.#I have seen making it people acting ugly more than once. less so on tumblr #but the fandom can have this hostile edge sometimes even on here

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