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I said it to another blog months ago but. Why are there SO MANY ANTIS in the w*rriors fandom bro 😭🙏 (censoring slightly in case they get me) ... so many puritans complaining about people shipping siblings or cats with a huge age gap when THE BOOKS THEMSELVES have that.

The books have racism and xenophobia between Clans and cats in general, abusive relationships, ableism, a WHOLE novella around grooming, implicit and explicit misogyny, murder (including child murder), depictions of birth, incest, the list can go on... Hell isn't there a cat who the writing team decided to make his parents be siblings?

I know things like incest and age gaps are because the writing team forgot to give the main cats parents until later but, it doesn't excuse later sagas. One of the main protagonists from the recent arc has her parents be cousins (possibly distant but still related). Yet the fans think someone shipping two cats together is horrible. Lol.

Mfs read the "abusive incestous cat murderers with significant age gaps" book saga and then complain that some fans draw and ship abusive incestous cat murderers with significant age gaps together 🫩

"Oh, no! This child doesn't believe in harassment! I sure hope they get beaten thoroughly by their parents!"

"I understand you have trauma, but that doesn't mean you can write [taboo topic]."

Yes, you absolutely can write a taboo topic. In fact, a lot of therapists suggest using fiction to cope with trauma and many encourage writing/reading dark things if it makes you feel better because its fictional

It makes me sad that so many trauma survivors who've already lost their personal autonomy are being told they're not allowed to have it again in a completely safe way

Here's the thing that people have been trying to say and people get pissed off about it: fandom is not activism. Fandom is just for fun.

Listen: FANDOM DOES NOT DICTATE WHETHER SOMEONE IS BIGOTED OR NOT.

If you're offended by someone "misrepresenting" a fictional character it is your job to block or just to scroll or move on. People seem to forget that they curate their own damn online experience.

For example: let's say someone is shipping an aroace character and you don't like that because you believe its "erasure". Your job is not to attack someone over what they're enjoying in fiction. (Also let's not forget by your own logic you're implying aroace people can't have any relationship ever but that's a can of worms for a different time.)

Or if someone ships a dynamic you aren't comfortable with because it's "morally wrong"? Block and move on

If anything ever in fandom makes you uncomfortable then just block that thing and move the fuck on with your life.

this is a dumbass comment for two (2) reasons, which i will now tell you.

1: no one is arguing that fiction doesn't affect reality. no one. in fact, the only people i've seen argue that "fiction doesn't affect reality" are proship bait blogs (blogs made by antis to "bait" proship people), so maybe you want to redirect this energy towards your fellow antis.

fiction does affect reality, but not to the extent that most antis argue. fiction can make you happy, sad, angry, etc. if you're not careful with what you're consuming, it can potentially trigger you, but it can also help you heal from trauma(s). what fiction cannot do is make you abuse or assault someone on a whim. if you have a good grasp on fiction and reality, if you know the difference between the two (which most people do), you don't have to worry about fiction turning you into an abuser. if fiction somehow makes you do things you'd never consider doing, then clearly your moral backbone is comprised entirely of wet spaghetti, which is a problem with you, not the fiction you're consuming.

2: if you're aware that certain things in fiction may have a negative impact on you (such as causing psychosis, as the comment claims), then it is your responsibility to safely manage what you consume in fiction to avoid being negatively affected. no one else's. you being stupid enough to consume fictional content that you know negatively affects you (multiple times, apparently!) does not suddenly make fiction bad and dangerous, it just makes you irresponsible.

"fiction caused x negative affect on me" will never mean "fiction is inherently harmful".

Me: Oh cool! Let's see their blog!

*watches their dni list*

"DNI PROFIC DNI PROSHIP DNI PROKINK IF YOU ARE ANY OF THESE YOU'RE A DISGUSTING AND PERVERTED SOUL AND I HOPE YOU DIE AND YOU DESERVE TO BE SKINNED ALIVE"