#but seeing people just be absolutely feral and stupid using fandom shit as a moral crusade will never not tire me out

[jessiesjaded]

i shouldnt be shocked by peoples naivete and yet I am.

[himboskywalker]

Tag, cause you’re kinda the big sister in the obikin fandom, I felt it’d be appropriate to come to you. I got on tumblr just now and was shocked to find a dinluke blog I follow, posted a “i wish every obikin shipper a great fuck off” meme with the tags being very aggressive towards obikin shippers like “block me bitch” and the like. I proceeded to go to their blog to do just that after unfollowing them. And saw that their most recent reblog (from shocker: another aggressive anti obikin blog replying to a polite anon asking why they hate obikin) and their tags on the reblog said they want to study us on why we ship a 9 year old with a 25 year old? Like already your view on why we ship them is skewed so obviously you won’t get it. Anyway, I unfollowed and blocked them. But I just felt disappointed with their hostility and wanted to talk to you about it :(

It is extremely frustrating and I’ve been through the exact same thing and while we know they’re full of shit it’s still such a frustration. Not just blatant ship hate,but also purposeful misinformation over dynamics are things I don’t have any patience for. You can absolutely not ship things and not wish to see that content without being an anti and there’s just no reason for some high and mighty moral pedistal for liking only uwu “pure” ships and then shitting all over ones you believe make a person morally abhorant for liking just because you have no critical thinking skills nor can tell fact from fiction. I have also unfollowed several dinluke blogs for the same problem,and several well known “big” Star Wars blogs on here for the same reason.

A person has absolutely every right to not like Obikin for any number of reasons,but the moment a person gets all morally righteous over it is the moment I block without hesitation. It’s the exact same brand os moral right wing policing just by teenagers who love to brandish the word pedophilia and have no actual conception of what that is. So sure anyone can hate obikin but the moment someone goes on a foaming mouthed rampage about obikin shippers being pedophiles because we “ship a 9 year old with a 25 year old” is purposefully being a fucking moron and combative with zero brain cells processing behind it. It takes zero critical thinking to make the connection that it’s an adult ship and nobody is fucking shipping child Anakin with people. It’s the same problem in other fandoms when characters have an age jump in the canon and people lose their minds over shippers...as if people and characters don’t grow up and people can’t ship the character only as an adult????

But chin up dear it’s just a special brand of feral stupidity that there’s no stopping and will never go away. People just love a moral high ground and love to use zero critical thinking skills. You just block and move on with your life because those aren’t the kinds of individuals you can have an open dialogue with. They’ve already made up their minds and their extreme hatred to brandish so the best weapon to deal with that sort is blatant indifference to them. I don’t care about antis,their opinions mean absolutely nothing to me and I literally couldn’t care less. Once you adopt that opinion they’re a lot easier to deal with and they make fun to roll your eyes at. Don’t let random people on the internet make you feel like a bad person for liking a ship. What is shitty is when you threaten in real life people over wanting fictional characters to kiss and for whatever reason that bit is the part they think they have justification for. Unfortunately this is a part of fandom we will always have to deal with,and I think it’s become more pervasive with the modern internet movement of moral policing culture and “wokeness.” I see it on TikTok all the time,young people just blindly finding everything problematic without stopping for two seconds to actually find nuance or depth to topics that they would prefer to just label as black or white because saying I’m a good person for saying you’re a bad person makes you feel good and is a lot easier than seeking understanding and aiming to learn.