#it’s also funny they assume I’m some kind of ship puritan because I hate the FL Katara trope

[toph-bi-fong]

Ship Z/tar/a if you want, I don’t care. I’m still allowed to vent about the why the ship makes me genuinely uncomfortable and it’s fandom’s rancid behavior. And it’s not like I’m posting my stuff in the main ship tag.

If you don’t like that, either filter out #antizutara or block this whole blog altogether.

[janiedean]

the way that some ppl promo series/ships/etc. cracks me up. "watch this cute sitcom it has a black female lead, a gay male character, an autistic nb one and it's written by an asian trans woman" "why ship x when you can ship this healthy interracial f/f ship" like they rlly act like diversity is end-all. but what abt the plot of the series? the writing? the acting? etc. and why are you assuming everyone is interested in the same genre or dynamics as you which are often of the vanilla (cont'd)

(cont'd) variety (i'm having a flashback of when someone i follow-a 23 y.o.-got yelled by an anon for only liking toxic ships -not true btw- and not watching wholesome shows with wholesome m/m relationships like sha*dowhunters...a fucking show for teenagers that's also badly written and acted). basically it's such a reflection of the recent obsession with identity politics and substituing your personality with your sexuality/ethnicity etc. also funny how these ppl will scream diversity (cont'd) but the moment they get some and it doesn't fit their puritanical standards then it doesn't count. not to mention the way they think harassing others into liking what they like and renouncing their ~bad~ interests is gonna work and make ppl want to produce content. newflash: it doesn't work it just isolates ppl spreads an hostile climate and makes you look like an asshole who they think they're better bc of their fictional preferences but treats actual ppl like shit

(sorry I was going out when you sent this and I couldn’t reply properly)

^^^^^^^^ tbh thanks I have nothing to add because that’s exactly why I hate these trends and especially this concept that the most relevant part of your personality is your gender or sexuality - because like.... to me it’s not and honestly I understand identity culture but if everything that there is to a show or someone is who the like to bed we have a problem X°D and like, the fun thing is that I’m into a lot of extremely diverse shit that people around here haven’t even heard of but tbqh..... I mean, you’ve probably read my rant re pacrim2 and the likes, but at this point I’m just glad no one watched the movie with idris and richard m°adden so that since I am the only person in that fandom who produces on a somewhat regular schedule (SOMEWHAT) no one can go tell me I’m problematic because I always have idris’s character topping lol

but like... these people are exhausting even if you are into the right thing or ship. I mean, I dropped the st/ormpilot fandom also other the endless top vs bottom disputes because apparently if you’re white and f/inn is a top you’re going with a stereotype so it’s racist, if he’s bottoming *you have a slave fetish* (read with my own two eyes) and if poe is having sex at all but mostly if he’s not topping and/or sleeps around/used to sleep around it’s another stereotype of the latino/a who has sex often (honestly it’s not that deep people it’s that o/scar isaac is the kind of guy who’d make people forget their sexual orientation if they aren’t generally attracted by guys come on xD) and like... if you just want to write them having sex in peace what are you gonna do at this point? use the ITALIANS ARE POC excuse to write porn for a damned ship I like? I mean, I don’t engage because these people make me lose my force of will, and I’m not the only one, and like this... people.... get.... tired.... like I understand addressing issues in fandom but one thing is that and the other is finding everything problematic ffs

tldr: this purity crusade is pushing me to my badwrong limits which are actually very tame in comparison to average but gdi I’m tired