why are people acting like you're just sitting around stalking arya/gendry blogs or something wtf
Like, okay, honesty hour: Unless it's on my dash, in one of my tracked tags, or linked to me, I don't see it. And even then, I have a blacklist over 200 terms long, so there's a damn good chance I won't see it anyways. The #gotfic tag is generally very blue for me, you know?
I don't ship Arya/Gendry and have it blacklisted. I mean, I don't bear it any ill will or anything, I'm just like "eh" and don't want to see it. Which means - that's right, you guessed it! - I had no idea about Arya/Gendry Week. Like, if I had, why in the world would I put SansaWillasWeek on at the same time?
There seems to be a belief that the two are somehow in competition which... No? No. A) they're two completely independent pairings with no shared characters, meaning they can inhabit the same world without there needing to be a battle (dude, I've written fic where they're ongoing at the same time), B) what would the point even be, considering Arya/Gendry is either the most or second-most popular ship in the fandom, going on AO3? and C) I am not that stupid.
Seriously, I'm not. Had I known Arya/Gendry Week was going on at the same time, I probably would have pushed SansaWillasWeek back a week or so, just in case some people wanted to do both and would feel pressured, because contrary to an apparently popular belief, I am not a shithead.
But hey, every time I do anything that could be considered a contribution to fandom, I get called an asshole, so whatever. I'm two rude anons away from just bowing out altogether, tbh.
