#it catches some innocent comments but it managed to filter out a lot of queerphobic messages

[lonelyslutavatar]

I've met a lot of nice people from this fandom and I'm glad I decided to explore my own identity through Jon and Martin instead of following whatever was fanon but I think the greater fandom as a whole has made me colder and more cynical. For a fandom that seems to desperately want to be seen as open and inclusive, it's ironic that I encountered the worst kind of acephobic ("you're depicting ace people wrong. Ace people should never experience sexual feelings."), racist ("Your Jon is the wrong race./You're drawing pocs wrong. His skin is not dark enough."), and transphobic ("you're not giving Martin dysphoria. All trans people should feel dysphoric or else they're not really trans.") policing just for drawing fanart. I mean, any fandom has its weirdos but I think tma has (or at least had) a high concentration of them.

Anyway, I'm glad I'm used to it now because people on youtube are 100x worse (though I think I can withstand outright bigotry than whatever the hell I experienced in this fandom)