MORDECAI !!!!

hey so uh, a little note to fanpol: you do not own fandom. you do not own the main tags, you do not own the characters, and you can't just "decide" who is and isn't welcome here.

you can't just gatekeep an entire fandom. fandom is — and should — be for everybody. i don't like antis. i don't like lots of different types of fans. you won't see me trying to kick them out of fandom though, because everyone is welcome here.

the block or mute button is always there for you to use of course, if you really don't want to see somebody anymore. that's fine. curate your experience. but don't tell them "actually no, fuck off, you're not welcome here" because that's not for you to decide.

No. Just no. The clock app was a mistake

If you feel uncomfortable with dark content then just block it and move on.

And remember that harassing people even if you think they deserve it, is still wrong

Just because you think what they like in fiction is bad and that they are a "horrible" person, it doesnt excuse you to hate on them and harrass them.

Some people need to learn how to treat others like human beings.

“Fiction doesn’t affect reality” means that fiction doesn’t have any impact on reality, which a lot of antis try to refute to prove proshippers wrong, but in reality, most of us acknowledge that fiction does have an impact on reality; however, we tend to believe that fiction doesn’t affect reality on a 1:1 ratio, meaning that even though fiction affects reality, it isn’t the end-all-be-all so to speak. If you’d like to know more about it I think this person worded it nicely! So yes, Jaws did change people’s perspective on sharks, but fiction doesn’t always have that big of an affect, especially if you learn the difference between fiction and reality.

Which brings me to my next point. “Fiction ≠ reality” simply means that fiction and reality are not the same, a belief more common among proshippers. Despite the panic that Jaws caused, there were inevitably people who knew more about sharks or became more knowledgeable on them and realized how much false information was in the movie and didn’t panic. They learned to tell the difference between fiction and reality. That’s what proshippers do. We realize that fiction is just that: fiction, and because of this, we can enjoy it through a more free lense. Just because someone enjoys watching Hannibal, doesn’t mean they condone murder and cannibalism. The same thing is true with proshippers. Just because some may ship age gaps, doesn’t mean they support pedophiles. In fact, I ship some adult/child ships to cope with trauma, but as a CSA survivor, I would never support pedophilia. That’s because there is a massive difference between fiction and reality.