#Anyway. Rant over. Jesus Christ I seriously hate fandom culture | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

callingcxrd · 6 months

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God okay I don't normally complain about petty fandom problems or whatever but I just got a poll from a tag on my dash on if two characters are dating that literally one of them canonically HATES and is outright extremely rude to the other who did nothing and it overwhelmingly voted they were. This is not a cutesy baby and a tsundere one of them is just fucking awful to them for no reason YOU GUYS HAVE TO STOP CARING ABOUT CHARACTERS JUST BECAUSE YOU DECIDED THEY SHOULD BE SHIPPED TOGETHER

CARE ABOUT CHARACTERS OUTSIDE OF BEING A SHIP THEY ALREADY HAVE THEIR OWN STORY AND EVERYTHING STOP CONTRIBUTING TO THE EXTREMELY REDUCTIVE PRACTICE OF TAKING AWAY ALL CHARACTER DEPTH AND STORY BECAUSE TWO CHARACTERS STAND NEXT TO EACH OTHER

#BEFORE ANYONE STARTS YELLING AT ME. I LITERALLY LIKE THE CHARACTER WHO'S RUDE. AS A CHARACTER. BECAUSE HE'S INTERESTING.#The problem isn't ships or AUs or exploring interesting dynamics the problem is it being SO PREVALENT --#THE ENTIRE FANDOM CONSTANTLY ERASES CHARACTER DEPTH FOR A PAIRING THEY MADE UP. WITH NO REPLACEMENT DEPTH.#AT ALL #This is absolutely fucking maddening. I'm sure it sounds like I'm just complaining about nothing but I'm not overstating this #EVERY TAG I ever go into for a character I like is overwhelmingly filled with ship content. Because that's all people care about.#And it is extremely disheartening for someone who just wants to see their favourites WITHOUT them getting reduced to shipping fodder #You guys doing this have literally know self awareness about this do you. For the love of God PLEASE think about what you're doing and why #Obviously shipping at the end of the day is nothing really. But it does very likely reflect poorly on your general critical thinking skills #Depending on how you go about it #Anyway. Rant over. Jesus Christ I seriously hate fandom culture #Bleu.txt #This kind of thing (plus people generally just being weird about him.) is why I don't go into Earl's tag AT ALL he's so important to me if #... I saw something upsetting for me I would literally be physically ill on the spot

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