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fernsnouveau · 6 months

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Feels like I only reblog criticism in this fandom these days, and that's not really what I wanted to do. The problem is, the unchallenged toxic messages and the Gabrielcore ideology of late-stage S5 were just so intertwined with the central events and... really everything that now defines post-S5 canon... that I often don't feel comfortable just browsing the fandom for fun stuff anymore because it's a minefield of That.

A lot of people in the fandom are significantly hostile towards those of us who were hurt by the canonized abuse apologia, too, as if we're just too stupid to understand [insert justification used by countless IRL abusers], or we're just being difficult and "salty" for the heck of it.

I kinda just wish that we might eventually get a sub-fandom that just divorced canon after it turned sour, and will focus on the earlier canon and divergence AUs that we actually enjoyed.

#idk why I didn't just abandon this fandom entirely #I still miss the stuff that I actually LIKED about this #yeah it was mediocre fanficcy dorkiness but it was FUN (sometimes with potential for decent emotional exploration!)#ml writing criticism #ml s5 criticism #ml critical #audience reactions #ml fandom criticism #seriously those of us who were hurt by the extremely prominentpro-abuse themes didn't just decide to turn negative-#-for the heck of it to rain on everyone else's parade.#it was mostly people who WANTED TO LIKE the show but then the show nuked too many things they COULD like.#'just turn your brain off and enjoy it!' enjoy what? it's... not enjoyable anymore?!#it's a pity. this show had a LOT of fandom potential. it was VERY blorbos in situations. I miss that.

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