Griping about fandom culture

[violsva]

I just read a (locked) post about antis and actual psychiatric studies which the writer, for obvious reasons, put here instead of on Tumblr, and a lot of the comments, while acknowledging that she had damn good reasons for not wanting to deal with having it on Tumblr, wished that they could reblog it.

But that's not what struck me.

The thing is, while she made very good arguments, and she has a relevant professional background, posts full of very good arguments against anti tactics or censorship in fandom aren't actually rare. I have seen dozens of brilliant, serious, well-argued posts, by at least a dozen brilliant people (many of whom are subscribed to me!), over the past four years (or more, actually, and it's not like I've specifically sought them out), rebutting that bullshit, and the problem is they will never be enough.

I think it's clear by now that we could all have written or reblogged brilliant posts discussing dark fiction, internet pile-ons, and censorship every damn week for the past four years, and people would still be getting messages calling them pedophiles for drawing adults in the wrong art style.

...I just needed to get that off my chest. It's been so much nicer inside my head since I drifted away from Tumblr.

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[konsectatrix]

Basically. The best schooling would be letting them all turn 40.