#which is partly due to my own experiences but that doesn't excuse it yk

[luxuriainash]

tbf the first time i saw the "anya is getting in the way of a homoerotic situationship" take it was from a twitter user who was actually a lesbian trying to comment on that exact trend via satire? but sadly people don't read the fucking rest of the thread or the profile when they see discourse parody tweets

that said though; there's definitely people who mean it seriously and may have even been parroting the thread for "support" of their opinion, and as much as i'm all for fandom culture doing as it wishes as it always has, i think these people need to like. at least analyze why they care more about the "situationship" than anya's experiences. especially when they're the type always advocating for "appropriate" depictions of SA victims and putting down actual irl victims who don't fit the "role" they created while uplifting characters who do.

I gotta be real the Mouthwashing fandom is emblematic of pretty much everything I dislike about fandom culture as a whole. Misunderstanding the themes and narrative of canon to fit their own idea of what it should be. Infantalization. Misogyny. Shipping for the sake of it and at the expense of narrative coherence. Racism. Ableism. Dumbing down the narrative. Treating meaningful and complex characters like basic archetypes. Flanderization in general. Crank it up to eleven though because tbh Mouthwashing is the type of game where honestly seeing fandomification bothers me a lot more based on its subject matter and how the game portrays itself