Viora

If I follow you back I want to rp with you.

If I post an open starter I want to rp with you.

If I am in the mood for one-liners I want to rp with you.

If I reblog a random meme I want to rp with you.

If I have 5,000 and a half threads with you, I want 5,000 more. I want to rp with you.

If you’re a gender bend, crossover, or any other version of a muse and I follow you, guess what, I want to rp with you.

You’re all wonderful people. And you shouldn’t be nervous about approaching me, ever. We all have enough struggles in real life and shit gets difficult, this is our chance to escape and interact and just have fun. No stress. So, let’s have some fuckin’ fun.

You can never have enough threads.

Because unless I’ve specifically told you otherwise, I want to rp with you,

If you wish to take part in any fandom, you need to accept and respect these three laws.

If you aren’t able to do that, then you need to realise that your actions are making fandom unsafe for creators. That you are stifling creativity.

Like vaccination, fandom only works if everyone respects these rules. Creators need to be free to make their fanart, fanfics and all other content without fear of being harassed or concern-trolled for their creative choices, no matter whether you happen to like that content or not.

The First Law of Fandom

Don’t Like; Don’t Read (DL;DR)

It is up to you what you see online. It is not anyone else’s place to tell you what you should or should not consume in terms of content; it is not up to anyone else to police the internet so that you do not see things you do not like. At the same time, it is not up to YOU to police fandom to protect yourself or anyone else, real or hypothetical.

There are tools out there to help protect you if you have triggers or squicks. Learn to use them, and to take care of your own mental health. If you are consuming fan-made content and you find that you are disliking it - STOP.

The Second Law of Fandom

Your Kink Is Not My Kink (YKINMK)

Simply put, this means that everyone likes different things. It’s not up to you to determine what creators are allowed to create. It’s not up to you to police fandom. 

If you don’t like something, you can post meta about it or create contrarian content yourself, seek to convert other fans to your way of thinking.  

But you have no right to say to any creator “I do not like this, therefore you should not create it. Nobody should like this. It should not exist.”

It’s not up to you to decide what other people are allowed to like or not like, to create or not to create. That’s censorship. Don’t do it.

The Third Law of Fandom

Ship And Let Ship (SALS)

Much (though not all) fandom is about shipping. There are as many possible ships as there are fans, maybe more. You may have an OTP (One True Pairing), you may have a NOTP, that pairing that makes you want to barf at the very thought of its existence.

It’s not up to you to police ships or to determine what other people are allowed to ship. Just because you find that one particular ship problematic or disgusting, does not mean that other people are not allowed to explore its possibilities in their fanworks.

You are free to create contrarian content, to write meta about why a particular ship is repulsive, to discuss it endlessly on your private blog with like-minded persons.

It is not appropriate to harass creators about their ships, it is not appropriate to demand they do not create any more fanworks about those ships, or that they create fanwork only in a manner that you deem appropriate.

These three laws add up to the following:

You are not paying for fanworks content, and you have no rights to it other than to choose to consume it, or not consume it. If you do choose to consume it, do not then attack the creator if it wasn’t to your taste. That’s the height of bad manners.

Underrated Hero(?):

Black Alice

So much more than a bargain bin power mimic/ leech (Rogue, Hope, Omega, Amazo),

Thor & Loki: Double Trouble #4 (2021)

* Because they provide a safe outlet to explore what motivates people to behave badly.

* Because a powerful, angry character can be cathartic to someone who is traumatized.

* Because they often have traits that neurodivergent and LGBTQ people can relate to because those traits have been used as shorthand for evil in media for years.

* Because they add stakes, depth and excitement to a story.

* Because they’re not real.

       Writing a character with questionable morals ≠ apologism for their actions.

       Your muse is free to treat a villain muse like shit. The great thing about RP is that there's a lot of freedom of choice when it comes to how you write your muse. What ISN'T okay is getting mad at the other mun for having the villain muse snap back, or just writing a villain muse in general.

       It's like, when they get the villain muse to snap, they're automatically a bad person who broke into your house, pissed on your bed as you went to lay in it, stole all your cans of chicken noodle soup, egged your house, and ran away laughing. If they don't make their muse snap, they're suddenly writing a villain as "too kind" and their portrayal is automatically bad in some people's eyes. It is LITERALLY walking on eggshells and it's terrible.

Reblog to tell all the anxious RPer’s that

IT’S OKAY TO APPROACH IF YOU WANT TOO!

You don’t have to hide away and imagine asking me to RP. Just HOP INTO MY INBOX, MY MESSAGES, REBLOG AN IC POST, i will be happy to interact with you!!