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But honestly I wish I could just browse the tag in peace without seeing new people bash joongdok (and specifically joongdok, never dokjoong) every now and then. Blocking only helps to the degree where new people will not suddenly feel the desire to join the bashing because it's "cool". Like is this fun to you? I mean it certainly must be but is this even productive? As a whole?

Because I know for a fact that a lot of JDer who felt positively towards other ships, even reverse, have soured a lot on them. All because of the treatment of JDer by the ""rival"" ships' fans. Even if you go "oh it's not all JDers obv" you lot still generalise JD fans into the cringe cishet women fujo, so it's actually okay to bash it. Which honestly? Kinda misogynistic of you guys. Even the simple assumption that JDer must be primarily (cishet) women is misogynistic at its core.

And more often than not, rather than be actually thoughtful criticism of the fandom it, quite bluntly, boils down to this:

Even in ORV itself, Uriel, the stand in for fujos, isn't an important ally despite being a fujo, but being a fujo is part of her and her love for KDJ's story isn't portrayed as any lesser. In fact there are several times in the novel where KDJ will comment how he wished more constellations were more like Uriel; her love for the story is so genuine and fierce and it's never negative that she does so due to shipping.

And generally KDJ also thinks very highly of her, which you can read as SnS doing so too. So acting like Uriel is there to ridicule fujo is just textually wrong.

Even when dudebros harrased SnS with death threats, claimign ORV was false advertisment because its secretly a BL, SnS only spoke of BL in the highest of tones, saying its an insult to use BL as derogatory term to describe media.

井底之龙

A dance that never ends

Epilogue....