Don't waste your time or mine

I understand the pain, but:

1 - Being born neurotypical doesn't save you from potentially becoming disabled later on in life because of an accident or illness. The same kind of backwards logic that makes people not get "not all autistic people have the same needs" also makes them not get that are levels of blindness or deafness. The same kind of people that think you're a burden for being "inconvenient" due to autism are gonna think you're a burden for being bed-bound.

2 - Being born neurotypical doesn't save you from potentially having your life wrecked by some traumatic event that leaves you an anxious, depressed mess that shitty people think shouldn't get support because "it's all in your head" and "you're just being dramatic."

3 - Being born neurotypical doesn't save you from being considered "weird" over banal stuff by shitty people who think your "weirdness" is a person attack against them.

Autism isn't the easiest thing in the world to live with, but 9 times out of 10 the situation could be made much better if people helped you out, or at least didn't get in your way - see people that think a stranger wearing noise cancelling headphones is "rude" and get on their case about it instead of just leaving said stranger alone because HOW DARE this person not just put up with it like everyone else?

At the same time, critics should chill on the extreme moral accusations. “I find it gross” is enough. Calling everyone who ships it a pedophile just makes you look unhinged.

Avatar fandom has always been like this: intense ships that become part of people’s identity, and fans treating fiction like a moral battlefield.

Anon, if you don't wanna see the Devil, stop showing up at his house. Vai com Deus.

You really think I somehow didn't know incest makes people uncomfortable and grossed out? I was and still am well aware of it, hence me doing people the courtesy of tagging stuff properly instead of shoving it down everyone's throat by forcing them to see it and going "It’s not incest, actually" (like some corners of the fandom do by trying to pass off their "sex slave Katara" fics as tooootally consensual).

But I'm also aware YOUR distaste for it doesn't mean I'm obligated to stop liking it. Thus I don't owe you a repeated "I know the ship that has CEST in the name is incestuous" just because you think I'm somehow too stupid to notice what the CEST part means - and you pretending that's not me "acknowledging" it already is proof that you don't want me to be "aware" of anything, you want me to be APOLOGETIC, which is not gonna happen.

I don't owe you "I know it's not canon" when it comes to my fics because, again, I assume we both know what FAN MADE CONTENT means. Of course I know Zuko and Azula are not canonically married and making incest Fire Babies just because I put that in a fic and its weird that you think otherwise.

And when it comes to the actual show, I have every right to bring up the behind the scenes fact that Azula's voice actress was, by her own admission, deliberately going for incest vibes in moments like The Bedroom Scene, aka stuff that is right there in canon for anyone to see, potentially pick up on her intentions, and then interpret it as they want. You interpret it as having no meaning, I interpret as inspiration for fics that I'm not forcing anyone to read.

I don't you owe it to you to never, ever make wholesome Zucest stuff and instead pretend it's always angst, dark or even horror on the basis that the characters I wrote having a cute cuddle and makeout session while watching a movie on a Sunday afternoon in a slice of life fic are siblings.

Making fan content is like playing with dolls. I can make the dolls do whatever I want. Is it fun to show the entire progression of HOW they went from the toxic canon dynamic to a wholesome one? Sure, I like the ship BECAUSE of the canon dynamic after all, it needs to tie back to it somehow.

But I'm also allowed to just tell people "Imagine it in your head" and do whatever I want - fluff, smut, humor, whatever. It is as morally neutral as turning up the toxicity up to eleven.

Why do you expect me, a random person online, to constantly placate you and other people I don't know and are not my target audience on MY own blogs and fics? Why do you want my performative guilt? Why do you expect ME to pretend I feel bad for liking incest ships on the grounds that this is what would make YOU less uncomfortable checking out my stuff, out of you own free will no less? Can't you just block me and the ship tag?

You're not a school teacher or a mom being reasonable and breaking up a fight between two kids who are gonna be stuck in the same place for years and thus are obligated to get along. We're all adults here and we have all the means of avoiding each other.

Zucest Week, Day 3 - First Baby