#and really

I like the idea that before Danny died, he was a horrible singer. Like, nails on chalkboard or the yawling of an allycat that sounds like it's smoked 5 packs every day for the past 4 years.

But then he did die, and it's just suddenly without any warning like a siren trying to lure a boat load of sailors to their watery demise.

꒰ঌ ⋮ ⌗ ┆ MY ZANKA NIJIKU ITA BAG ! ! !

It all came out so nicely ( I think ) for my first attempt at something like this? GAHHH everybody needs a bag they’re obsessed with once in their life—truly. I really can’t stop staring wowoww

Guess what my favorite color is. . . Oh, and Labubu jumpscare. I'm sorry guys—still kinda wish I got sea salt coconut since it'd go with my color palette more, but toffee is pretty cool too ( I always love a good beige ).

Because there's a pretty common tendency to assume things are done in bad faith. Tendency not to give the benefit of doubt.

And a belief, that people's preferences on how to draw or how to write or how to ship fictional characters is a 100% reflection of their entire worldview.

And I'm not saying it never is. Than nobody dislikes a ship or character design because of their racism or ableism or other flaw of their own. But it can't ALWAYS be the case.

We're just people on internet posting a fraction of what we believe in, just a fraction of our worldview. We don't really know each other. We don't really know each other's motifs and beliefs. Not truly.

Example:

"I love all people who actually draw clones with maori features!" vs "All who whitewash clones are morally evil, I'll go after you if you make their skintone to light and their hair straight!"

This two kinds of posts both support drawing clones with maori features, but have a vastly different tone. The first is encouraging and the second is hostile. And doesn't really give anyone benefit of a doubt. Just assumes people deliberately whitewash characters and deliberately erase race and ethnicity in media. Which might, but doesn't have to be the case.

This is only something I believe, but policing ithers like that can actually have pretty negative consequences.

People who actually do something in bad faith can play martyrs and pretend they are "the real good guys" if met with open hostility.

Worse, people who make decisions that for them weren't supposed to be anything political (dislike a specific character who also happens to be a minority) or just mistakes (lack of skill in drawing, misuse of words or simply even lack of knowledge) are immediately labelled as morally evil.

Sometimes, they can't even explain or rectify their mistake because they will be met with answers like "no excuses" or "don't embarrass yourself."

Doesn't a person who just dislikes a character have a right to their own opinion? Does everything have to be political? Do we really have a right to police a way in which others draw and write fictional characters?

I mean, there is a reason of a rule "innocent until proven guilty in court".