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I thought about putting my views on shipping discourse at last in the post but when your thoughts are "I legitimately do not care what other people are doing so long as they are not going off to me personally about something I do not like" it doesn't make for a very exciting post.

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If you reblog this post I will fucking block you.

We got four takers and a coward which is actually kinda amusing to me so anyways let's go.

One: I am more likely to trust an ally (i.e. a straight ally) than a person in the same demographic as myself (a "heterophobic gay" who focuses exclusively on hating the oppressor.

This experience is very much shaped by being Jewish and ace, two minorities that do not get acknowledged by love, but instead by other's hate towards them, and it's pretty simple in concept.

Because hating the oppressor does not mean they actually support me. It never has. It's how you get communities like the exclusionist community forming. Where you have a gay person determining (without your consultation on your identity) that you are straight because you don't experience (sometimes exclusive) attraction to the same gender. You talking about how much you hate the person who hates me means jack shit in regards to where you are when I actually need defense.

The person who punches a Nazi is not my ally when they talk about how the Jews own the world. The people who hate JKR for her transphobia and only talked about her antisemitism after she'd already fucked up with every single other race are not my ally when I'm only another tic mark and not a reason to be upset to begin with. The people who use my identity to slander a fandom but then ignore the fact that there was antisemitic propaganda being thrown in the streets of the US and has been for decades are not my ally.

The queer person who kicks out all straight people at pride and never considers that that person might be queer is not my ally. The person who starts shit talking cis people and then disregards all people who are trans who do not fit their specific umbrella of trans are not my ally.

If your beliefs and actions are based in hate and not care, then you're not my ally. I don't care how you identify or who you are.

Two: No callout post has ever been made out of "care" or "protection" for a community. They have only ever been made out of hate.

A lot of people probably remember the Valk saga from 2020. So fun fact for y'all: I do not actually think I was in the right for that callout. I mean, she was a homophobe, it was literally in her following page, and it took twenty seconds of research to find this information, but that's factually irrelevant when it comes down to the true reason I made the callout.

I made the callout because Valk had hurt my friends months ago, and was trying to get them blacklisted in the KH community for crimes she was also guilty of. And I was upset because of how she was acting and how she treated my friends. I made it because I hated her, and when she tried to clout grab in the KH community, I refused to let her. Everything else was just how I tried to justify it to myself.

And I think that's something really important just to consider in general. I don't think any callout has ever actually been right or justifiable when it's against somebody who isn't a huge content creator, even if it is filled with true information.

(I also think callouts focus on the wrong information because the amount of callouts that will go "Person y killed my uncle and then spend the next ten paragraphs going off about how they called you a slur in middle school." is just absurd but ya know. I also, while I'm going off about callouts, want to add that unless a callout has screenshots with actual evidence it should literally be ignored because anybody can say anything they want but that's not my business. And also I think a lot of abusers will make callouts to isolate their victims further and not because they want to warn people about their victims. But honestly all of this is just way more than I need to go into.)

Three: People should focus on what they love in media, not what they hate.

I've talked about this on my fandom tumblr a few times before, where I go off about how running anti-x blogs is a waste of time and mental health (Anti-Anakin fuck you in particular) but I think this honestly goes a step further in that I think if all you think about is what you hate in a fandom, you're not doing anything worth your time.

Focusing on the things that make you miserable in something doesn't spark joy. Letting that be the only focus on something that does make you happy makes it worse. If you spend your entire time whenever you talk about a fandom in particular shitting on it, then perhaps consider that it isn't right for you, that this isn't actually a thing you enjoy, and it's just better to focus on other things that you do like.

Four: There is a point to when your content engagement is no longer at an acceptable level.

I don't know how else to phrase it than there is this huge group of fans who, when a series disappoints them in some way (making a rival ship canon, ending with an unsatisfying narrative, not living up to the narrative expectation set off) who decide that the canon that we are presented with is an incorrect version and there's a real version that is correct.

They are all fucking insane and when it gets to the point that there are petitions, harassment of content creators, and/or an outright refusal of canon that I think is a sign you need to step back away from the computer or otherwise leave the fandom.

Some notable examples are Sherlock secret episode, Team Purple Lion, and the Sleeping Realms Theory. Yes even Team Purple Lion, who's version of the VLD ending they wrote is way more to my taste than what we got, get under my skin. Because at the end of the day rather than accepting that the fandom is no longer giving them joy and moving on, they continue to insist that their fanfiction is canon and they have to be right and it's just really, really fucking annoying.

(It's not harmful, technically. It's just very annoying and I do not stan. It's why I ask SRT fans not to fucking interact.)

Oh my god I have polls on this tumblr oh my god that's dangerous.

Hey everybody vote tell me whether I should continue being a coward or if I should just post all my worst takes on this blog.

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I was going to answer the bad take poll tonight but by the time it ends I'll be asleep so I guess that's a problem for me tomorrow for how many people said "post your worst".

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Oh my god I have polls on this tumblr oh my god that's dangerous.

Hey everybody vote tell me whether I should continue being a coward or if I should just post all my worst takes on this blog.

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Oh right, this is a thing lol.

I completely forgot I made this ngl. Uh...something something Hadestown. Yeah that's where my brain's been.

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Going feral thinking about the Minnie Christmas fireworks again people just hate it because they don't like the Beetles Christmas song this is a hill I will die on.

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New Pokemon game is requiring me to have memory lmao I do not have that.

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I need help naming them. ;w;

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*looking for theme for about page*

Theme maker: Cryptocurrency advertisement.

Me: ...time to edit my password.

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Tumblr evidently starts on default with so many things I don't want so just killing those immediately. Do not need people seeing my following list. Do not need people seeing my likes. I hate that people can on twitter I don't need it on tumblr too.

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"Remember the night, remember the feeling, remember the magic in our lives. You opened up my eyes to a new world reveling, so remember the magic, just remember the magic one more time~"

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