ErinPrimette

Because you keep policing people's headcanons, making fun of them and calling them horrible things, and on top of that, you're somehow claiming to be a safe space for people to express their creativity, yet turning around and harassing them anyways because you've made a billion exceptions to the "don't police people" rule and you think, like everyone else who's made their own exceptions, that your exceptions justify harassment.

So you're making fandom into a field of rat traps where nobody even dares interact with anyone, or shares art anymore, because you still might just attack them for it because they did something as simple as writing a canonically soft character as... a softie.

People reblogging this post with this kinda nonsense in their DNI are literally part of the problem I'm talking about.

The reason we're literal is to prevent miscommunications. We're misinterpreted frequently, and being literal is an attempt to prevent that.

But sometimes, struggling to explain something could cause us to misphrase it and therefore say something we don't mean literally.

if you truly want fandom to start feeling fun again and not like stepping into a field of a bunch of hidden explosive mines, your going to have to accept that fandom is going to be full of fanart, fanfiction, ships, and people that you fucking hate.

you cannot say that people should allowed to make whatever fanart or fanfiction or like whatever ships they want to and then exclude certain ships or fanfiction or fanart. Because that’s how we got to the point of people not liking fandoms because of people’s strict definitions on fanart, fanfiction, and ships that are ok and those that are not.

i’m not saying you should just simply stop being uncomfortable with ships/fanfiction/fanart that does make you feel squicked out or uncomfortable. There’s a lot of fanfiction/fanart/ships out there that squick me out. But that’s where it’s important to remember the saying “don’t like; don’t read”. You found the fanfiction you hate; don’t read it. You found this fanart that squicks you out; don’t look at. You found this ship you hate; block/don’t look at the ship’s tag.

Some people like to be canon compliant with their muses. Some people like to take a canon divergent approach. Both are completely valid. Everyone has a different view on things and that’s the beauty of art whether it be a book, a tv show, a movie, a video game etc. Fandom should be a place where people come together and appreciate the series (or pick apart canon, whatever float your boat.)

The wrong thing to do is tell someone you don’t agree with their headcanons or interpretation, especially if you write that muse yourself. It gives off a message of not liking duplicates and comes off as a bit snooty.

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