#izzy drama

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

I just want to recap this whole situation from my POV actually because I think it would be useful at this point. And I actually want to start in 2014 on instagram during the spam ig era. I was a homestuck cosplayer on spam insta when I was 13 and dealt with the 4 chan raids, if anyone remembers those. So that's my background, just so you know. I got called a retarded dyke by proto gamergaters during my formative years, and it effected the way I engage online.

Anyway, hard cut to when I watched OFMD in April. I deeply related to Ed as a character. Most of my fan engagement for the first month or so was on tiktok, but I got off of it and went back to my social media of choice, Tumblr. I saw a lot of fucking Takes TM that I hated from a certain contingent of the fandom and I was critical of them, and so I started posting my own reading. Here's where the situation starts

I start posting my own reading of the show and I tag the characters that are in the show, hoping to find people who agree with my reading so I could follow them. I got yelled at for """maintagging""" which is an issue I've only run into before once, and the people who got mad at me about the """maintagging""" I received some agressive anons which I promptly deleted. I posted my Ed is Izzy's abuser post (tagged Izzy critical), got more aggressive anons, which I deleted for the most part. Had to tell some people how to block the Izzy critical tag. Cemented myself firmly in the izzy critical camp. I continued to see Shit Takes, in fact since the Izzy is Ed's abuser meta I've only ever made my Izzy metas in response to Shit Takes. I got on Calico Jack twitter, which I don't go on twitter all that often, and there's a lot of overlap between Izzy twitter and CJ twitter unfortunately, so that made me less likely to use twitter at all. I was mostly on there for the porn, so it's cool. I didn't interact with discourse hardly at all so twitter didn't feed me anything related to this.

Now over this period of time the situation on tumblr was getting completely unhinged actually. You couldn't post anything at all in the Izzy tag without someone crawling out of the woodwork to tell you that you were terrible for it. People did slowly learn to block the Izzy critical tag, but jesus christ it was a slow learning process for yall. Every day I'd get on here and post silly little posts, and then one of mine or my mutuals posts would be a little bit too mean to Izzy, and by a little bit too mean it would be something objectively true. And then people would just descend on it and there would be another fucking drama. And it's impossible to predict what's gonna set you off.

Now one drama was completely unrelated to Izzy at all. Stede Anon as we've been calling them, L as they've been referred to in that document showed up in june, left a few nasty anons, and then fucked off because the people that they were bothering turned off anon. Then they came back in October to bother me I played with Stede Anon until I got tired. I wished them a Karkalicious 2009 and sent them on their way.

Another drama I want to recap, which I hesitate to call a drama because of the racist under ... well... overtones is the "documenting of the Izzy haters" a couple of people made a whole sideblog dedicated to documenting the worst of the "Izzy haters". Except they didn't start out with the twitter doxing, or L/Stede Anon. They started out with a mutual of mine who is a black woman and who talks about racism in fandom. She has never harassed anyone to my knowledge and has had quite a bit of nastiness directed at her. I had heard some whisperings of potential harassment being directed at Izzy stans, and I had remained firmly out of it. This blog was too much for me. If they were dedicated to documenting the nastiness they were receiving in fandom, and their third post was about someone who posts metas and minds their own business, then there must not be real problems, especially since I'm catching all this fucking flack for simply posting things that aren't even mean. It may just be that I grew up on the internet but I can be real fucking mean, and I haven't been.

One instance of this is the Izzy isn't canonically queer drama. A mutual of mine posted that Izzy isn't technically confirmed as queer, his queerness is all subtext, that might be an interesting thing to analyze. Things got heated on my dash for a while. Since may there's been a problem in the OFMD community where people get yelled at for posting Izzy critical. And after a long argument with a certain Izzy stan in regards to the post in question I posted this because I was genuinely curious. Basically the argument consisted of us talking past each other, where I said "No one is calling Izzy straight we're just trying to analyze another facet of his character" and they said "You're doing harm to x y z group of Izzy enjoyers by saying that he's straight, and you're doing harassment." On that post that I linked I got told by one person that that post was "Doing harm" and that "hurt people hurt people" which is frankly the most absurd application of that phrase I have seen to date. I got told by a different person that I shouldn't have posted that because "izzy stans are receiving a targeted harassment campaign, worse than anyone else in the fandom" This was the final straw for me. If they think that that post is doing harm, they cannot identify harm. I made a passive aggressive post about curating your experience, blocked anyone who got mad about it, and my tumblr experience has been a lot nicer since I did that, because people blocked me and I blocked them. Everybody's happy.

So anyway then Stede Anon returned with a vengeance. My working theory is that this person is in school and they're on winter break and have more time to be a huge bitch. They accused me of being an Izzy stan I said "nice try you fucking idiot" in a way that was sort of dry, and I said Izzy stans have paper thin skin, and I refuse to loose sleep over them getting mean anons, but you still shouldn't harass them. That response got screen shot and lied about. Because of course it did. I was an idiot for thinking it wouldn't. I stand by what I said but if I could go back I would have been nicer I guess just because it would have caused me less drama. Some Anons came into my inbox and said hey you're a fake ally and you don't care about harassment and I was confused where they were coming from but essentially I said. "Girl, it's an anon" and then someone directed me to uselessheretics blog. And so I go check out the anon harassment that's got yall so worked up. And do you know what I see there? It's fucking Stede Anon!

So for a couple weeks I've been getting these vague messages about harassment and when I finally get directed to the harassment I see an anon that I have been fighting with and have blocked because of how fucking annoying they were. This, Stede Anon of Stede Anon Gate fame, is the unique threat facing the Izzy stan community. So of course I had a fucking field day with it. All of our fandom problems originate with this one shithead and I am going to hold hands with T*zzy*zzy and sing Kumbaya as we all collectively banish Stede Anon to the shadow realm. Hit that block button babes

And then today someone posted the link to the google doc receipts. And I realize now that there's actually been some harassment unrelated to Stede anon happening on twitter, and Stede Anon has been a real terror on IG. So perhaps I jumped the gun on casting doubt, but I maintain that I would not have said anything if not for certain people behaving completely out of pocket and crying about harassment on posts that are not harassment.

And I do want to address that actually. The reason for this whole thing, is because certain people are dragging up the harassment to try to get us to stop criticizing them. The undertone to all of this is very clearly "we're being harassed so you have no right to criticize us or talk about our blorbo in a way we don't like," which doesn't feel related, does it. I've seen the arguments that "they're using your rhetoric" but the thing is you're pointing me to a couple deeply mentally unwell people who I have no control over and you're saying "you should feel bad about this because you made a meta post about your reading of fictional characters that I didn't like" and getting mad when I'm confused that has to do with anything

So basically i retract my assertion that you're not being harassed, but you can clearly see how I got here, and also you keep bringing this harassment up to me in situations that have nothing to do with the harassment. And if you had fewer shitty takes I would make fewer metas.

I also do maintain that L/Stede anon is the source of most of our problems and we should be using the block button prodigiously

Here's how:

[scary-flag]

Jesus all the recent OFMD-related (not saying Izzy but mainly Izzy) drama is incomprehensible to me???

I mean, on one hand I am all about analyzing media and shit, and though YES, some people are reading too much into a silly comedy show that's not a reason to hate on them though?

I'm not really into meta posts trying to explain how Stede is wrong and you should not like him because he's based on a real person who owned slaves and liking him means you support slavery??? How Izzy is apparently racist because someone thought he is more rude to PoC characters than to others even though Lucius was the one getting the most shit? Or the opposite actually, that Izzy is some kind of a working class hero defending the workers from the evils of high society leeches? That Ed is basically a saint because he did *not* kill anyone himself and just gave the orders?

Ffs, they're *fictional* characters and I literally see people basically saying liking Izzy means you're a potential murderer and shit and also people saying you liking Stede means you're a capitalist asshole???? That not being a fan of Jim means you're nb-phobic???

what the actual fuck???

Can't you just stick to Twitter with that shit mates? Tumblr was so peaceful before...

[kimpuntoexe]

Here, my interpretation of my girls

[froznwater]

noah inherits a farm from his grandpa au!! (stardew valley)

i've been playing with some friends because of the new update!!

this was also an excuse to draw them in diff outfits :)

[kika-ila]

Just realized that I didn't upload all of them in their fantasy version.

[tooblindtizzy]

this fuckass show is so fun to draw and recreate even, look at them alls (got a few more parts to this)

[chuuowos]

just a group of friends bonding

[same-name-supremacy]

I’ve been on a genderswap role for the past few days! DAMN. I’m glad I finished them! They took awhile to finish

I hope you like the designs and the names, some names where obvious, some needed some extra thought

Click here to see the hosts

[laniidae-passerine]

Our Flag Means Death Season 2 Episodes 6 + 7 Reductress Headlines

[islandfailure]

team chris is really really really really hot everyone

[mssoapart]

Team Chris as frogs

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

In retrospect I gave that response more credit than it deserved. I was like “You can’t explain this specific event that happened in the show without one of these two explanations” and then they just pulled out all of the standard Izzy apologist talking points without even bothering to cater them towards debunking my argument and they actively failed to explain why Izzy would call in a swat on Stede if he wasn’t homophobic or abusive, they just told me that they believed the abuser reading, they just didn’t think that it was abusive somehow??? I went out of my way to debunk all the talking points like there wasn’t a gaping fucking hole in their response and they didn’t just copy paste a T*zzy*zzy post from July or some shit. Like that person truly skipped the whole first paragraph, read the first sentance of the second paragraph, and then said all the talking points that they’ve all been regurgitating this whole time like I haven’t shit on them before, and didn’t even bother to read the rest of the post, they just dusted off their hands and went on their way.

[theopantz]

HIII

Here's a huge tdi art dump because i have no idea what to post. :') Most of these are sketches because I've been busy with school stuff..(jhelp)🦭 Anyways hope you have a great day!!!:D

[lydiajoypalmer]

"I've got one more song"

shop update this weekend with prints of this <3 / process here

[froznwater]

even in a crowded room my eyes find yours

[doobledabbadoo]

noah doodles bc hes fun to draw 💔💔💔 hope he gets hit by a meteorite /pos