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I just find the "fujoshi are the REAL fans of any piece of weebshit media you could care to name because they monetarily support the franchise" talking point going around on xitter deeply repellent on like every single level.

Like, yeah, I understand it started out as a lazy clapback against the kind of shonen fan dipshit who likes to go around complaining that shippers aren't REAL fans, but like. I just find the ideology behind this disgusting, because it implicitly seems to be connecting Being A Fan to your willingness to pay for Product, and I just hate it. It's awful, even though I'm the Type of Guy they're defending! Like, I am the Professional Fujoshi who Works Job and like, specifically budgets for Collecting Anime Merch and aspires to make character shrines and itabags some day, and like, I don't think I'm any better of a fan than someone who's never bought a piece of merch or gone to a concept cafe or an exhibition in their life! It's just Something I Do Because I Enjoy Doing It And It Sparks Joy! Fuck you!

I hate that the people who are promoting this lazy clapback are just accepting the logic of the people they're clapping back against, that there's a group of fans who are Better Fans than another group. If no one's hurting anyone, there's no such thing as "better fans" or "worse fans"! Stop implicitly accepting the logic of your enemies!

(also this doesn't matter but i'm an autistic pedant so: all those jpn women monetarily supporting the franchise aren't fujoshi. some of them are yumejoshi.)

"representation matters" mfs when they see a sexual assault survivor or a non-passing trans person in media

i need You People (general you) to realize that sexual assault/harassment isn’t some uniquely depraved horrifying disgusting Thing that you need to be uniquely fucked up to even think about happening but rather just a Bad Thing That Happens To People Sometimes (yes, real people! who exist!) and as such it is not unusual or a perverted indulgence to depict it in fiction or hypothesize about it happening on the edges of canon

my favorite (sarcastic) thing is when you get people obviously trying to pull in real-world stereotypes to justify why certain fan content is Terrible and Deserves To Be Eliminated Off Of The Face Of The Planet except when the stereotype they're pulling in doesn't...actually exist

the thing about the whole Is Autistic Masking* Unique To Women is that i’m pretty sure my father masks harder than i do.


*and also UUGGGHHHH GOD GOD I HATE THAT WORD. it’s rapidly becoming yet another piece of jargon with a not-immediately obvious meaning, the phrase “faking allistic/nonautistic/neurotypical” obfuscates less about what it is. i may just be being petty because it’s part of the vocabulary of #ActuallyAutistic twitter and i hold a variety of petty personal grudges against them

thesis statement: cookie fandom discourse is not inherently stupider or worse or more ridiculous than normal fandom discourse. it simply looks that way because all of the characters being literal actual cookies with names like "pomegranate cookie" rips the mask off to show how much of a farce this whole thing is.

another day, another post about m not getting why people loose their minds at first year/third year ships. like the absolute LARGEST possible age gap here is a 15yo dating an 18yo, which is kind of ehhhh but like not the WORST thing in the world

is it one of those things where fandom culture nowadays is really hyperfocused on ages in a way that’s bonkers to me? like i don’t really think about ages when it comes to characters, i’m like “okay, they’re all, like, teenagers. these ones are vaguely younger teenagers, these ones are vaguely older teenagers, okay moving on” but it seems like people really care about this kind of stuff in a way that makes no sense to me.


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sometimes i look at moronic kink-related takes on tumblr dot com and think. the nature of kink discourse is just that every so often someone invents rolequeer again.

the good news is that i think i found a way to explain the really hardcore t/b dynamics people to people who aren’t that

the bad news is that it involves homestuck quadrants

anyone else terrified to make a 3am bitchpost about some kind of fandom-based microaggression that pissed them off out of fear that some deeply deranged Internet Person is going to use it as an excuse to start a harassment campaign against some poor bastard, who yeah, sure, you may have wanted them to shut up and go away so you wouldn't have to see them anymore but you didn't want them to be harassed

or am i a deeply neurotic weirdo?