#johnsonandcoulson

You are the one who just called us “bullies”. I don’t know what the fuck you’ve been doing in your spare time, but @becketted hasn’t ONCE invaded tags (not even the Skyeward tag), or hijacked a post, or gone to another person’s inbox to be an asshole to them. So what the fuck is she doing to “bully” people, then? Post her untagged opinions in her personal blog? Call people out when they’re being problematic, not even mentioning them by name most of the time? Reply to people who jumped on one of her posts in the first place? Is that bullying? You fucking tell me.

The general fandom has been awful to us from the start, we didn’t have to do anything. The moment they found out us Daisy/Coulson shippers existed, they decided we shouldn’t, and invaded our tags, hijacked our posts, stalked us and sent us hideous asks. And that was done to us by pretty much every other “side” of fandom. There are plenty of receipts for this.

If tumblr hadn’t pulled their shit together with the blocking, we probably wouldn’t be here anymore. We’ve said this before. We stay in our lane so much, that I bet a lot of people don’t even know we exist. And that’s fine.

So the audacity required to call her, or a bunch of us in this shipping fandom, “bullies” for having strong opinions and caring about social issues within fandom, and expressing that in our own blogs… is truly uncanny.

And how can we not call out our own, when we’ve always call out everybody else? That would be hypocritical. And where are you, for example, when a silly post by @becketted that was made just to shower Daisy with love, is hijacked by a Cousy shipper telling us to tone it down, or that we’re praising her too much? That’s just ok behavior, I guess.

Calling out is also not public shaming. It’s ok to be called out. We’ve been called out about things we did wrong, and we try to deal with it as humbly and graciously as possible. Of course no one enjoys being called out, but you can learn from it. Or you can act like an asshole.

I’m of the opinion that any fandom (with a substantial amount of people in it) that appears/claims to be always happy and harmonious, must be because it’s shoving its crap under the rug and hanging vulnerable fans out to dry. It’s the bitter tired fandoms that I trust, mostly.

And also, a tiny fandom has its perks — I like knowing people by name and having ridiculous inside jokes. But in a way it’s a bit of a nightmare, because you will inevitably not like someone and it may be hard to avoid them. Or you will feel left out. Or you won’t agree with something most people agree with. Or some other really personal issue that can turn to drama. If it were a bigger fandom, you just need to look for your kind in it, but you can’t do that in a tiny fandom. What you see is what you get. And I get that this is a problem, and puts pressure on people — it puts pressure on us, definitely — but it really is unavoidable.

And, yes, we’re (as in @becketted and I) well-known in this fandom because of @johnsonandcoulson and some people may not like that. But it’s not like we can help it, we didn’t set out to run the only Cousy blog in existence (if that’s what it is idk), we just made a blog to fill it with content because we loved the ship and there wasn’t any place like that. And we’re still clinging to it because we still love our ship and love the people we’ve met thanks to it.

Sorry if you think we have too much “power” over this shipping fandom, we’re certainly not here because of that. But holy shit, if you really think we have the power to “manipulate” (just shy of brainwashing, huh) people to agree with us and/or do our bidding… you really think little of the people we interact with. I guess only you are special enough to see through us.