#lol antis

Oh no! I’m so devastated! Whatever shall I do? There are no cliffs at all where I live off of which to jump! Thus is life below sea level at the bottom of a bowl. Not a cliff to be had for love nor money. Our highest elevation is Monkey Hill at 27.5′ and you can only kinda roll down it, not jump.

LMAO, oh, this is fantastic. “SHUT UP YOU ABUSEAPOLOGIST, CAN’T YOU SEE I’M TRYING TO POST SUICIDE BAIT AND WISH DEATH ONPEOPLE IN PEACE?! HOW DARE YOU INTERRUPT SUCH WHOLESOME ACTIVITIES WITH YOURMORALLY REPUGNANT SEARCH FOR ROMANTIC FANFIC!”

Here I was, minding my own damn biz, searching for good ol’fashioned Jedi smut, and up pops your post (when I was prowling specifically inthe ship tag btw) saying people who sail the good ship Obikin should die. Itwas rather jarring, and then kind of hilarious in the whole “overdramatictoddler throwing a temper tantrum in the supermarket checkout line” sortof way, and even funnier when I clicked your blog and discovered you werecouching this particular flavor of virulent asininity in a pretense of I MUSTINFORM THE UNWASHED MASSES THAT COPING ISNT OKAY IF IT MIGHT NEGATIVELY IMPACTOTHER PEOPLE (so let’s just tell them to go die instead, huzzah!)

I mean, let’s get this straight, you made a post statingthat a group of people needed to die, you put the specificname of the group you’re targeting in your post, you didn’t use asterisks OR tag it “anti” (so eventhe people who anticipate this sort of rubbish from antis couldn’t blacklist it), andnow you’re playing innocent, acting like it’s some big surprise it showed up in our tag?And to top it all off, you’re actually trying to claim the moral high groundhere? Come the hell on.

You’re posting death wishes. You’re telling real people togo die because you don’t like their interpretations of fictional ones. So byall means, please enlighten me - I’m truly dying to knowwhere on the "acceptable coping mechanism” scale posting death wishesfalls, and how in the seven blazing hells it’s supposedly a better hobby thanwriting imaginary stories about imaginary people in an imaginary galaxy far faraway doing imaginary things with their imaginary wangs that your Grand RoyalHighness might not personally approve of.

You’re clearly desperate for attention from the Obikincontingent, so here. You got it. ENJOY. I hear it tastes fantastic with asucculent side of your own shameless hypocrisy. In the meantime, feel free tohate whatever ship strikes or doesn’t strike your high’n’mighty fancy, oscruffy looking herder of nerfs, because the rest of theworld’s got zero kriffs to give. But when you start telling people they need tospontaneously perish over their views on Star Wars characters, you might wannago sit in the time-out chair for a while to reflect on the epic amounts ofpure, unadulterated fail emanating from your keyboard.

And to my fellow Obikin shippers (or ANY shippers who’vebeen shamed, harassed, or suicide baited over their taste in karking fanfic) -

@obi-kenobi-wan on this post of flame and doom

They definitely spammed it into the tag on purpose, and it was about as subtle as General Grievous on stage at a rave spinning all four lightsabers to a techno remix of the Imperial March. I reblogged the hate and wrote a bunch of snarky shit like “okay, SURE, we can totally go die, but then we’re gonna come back as Force Ghosts and haunt your salty ass with dramatic readings of Obikin fanfic” and whatnot, and like two seconds later, I got inbox hate from them cursing me out while trying to play innocent. Which was hilarious in its own right, like, OH SORRY, let me guess, you were just minding your own damn business, frolicking through a daisy field on your way to go volunteer at the shelter for homeless puppies, when a BIG SCARY OBIKIN SHIPPER leaped out of the underbrush, yelled ooga booga, and your poor li’l self tripped, fell on your phone keyboard, and some suicide bait just magically came out. Right?

@laventadorn 

YEAH, Anakin is 19 in AotC, and every fic I’ve ever seen that’s got Padawan Anakin hooking up with Obi-Wan = AotC age Anakin. The same age he was when he ran off and married Padme - who was also older than he was, had known him since he was a kid, and was in a position of power. Yet I don’t see a whole lot of OMGWTFBBQ PADME IS A COUGAR blogs. (I’m almost tempted to start one just for shits and giggles, but nah.)

You can argue unhealthy relationship dynamic all you want - which, considering it’s Anakin and Obi-Wan, isn’t “IT IS NOT” so much as “NO SHIT SHERLOCK” because those two are dysfunction personified. Put calling it pedophilia is just plain absurd.

The post I linked to that had all the awesome sourcing was written by tenaflyviper, so I can’t claim any credit for it. It’s a fucking phenomenal post though, so I’m gonna link to it again and encourage anyone who finds themselves faced with a virulent anti to pass the link along. (Or just ignore the anti. That works too. Nobody’s under any obligation to engage these bozos or spend time defending themselves or their ships against ridiculous BS. I’m just a glutton for punishment and enjoy arguing on the intarwebz.)

Alas, I do not know of any blogs off the top of my head that are dedicated to refuting and debunking anti rhetoric in the SW fandom. I’ve seen a few floating around that are anti-anti in general, but they’re cross-fandom rather than fandom-specific, and I don’t recall the URLs off the top of my head. 

I, too, love meta and discussion of themes in fiction. Star Wars is SO rich in symbolism and has tons of wonderfully multidimensional characters. I was active in the Harry Potter fandom for years before I got into the SW fandom, and there was tons of fun stuff to analyze and go all meta about there too. And holy hell, we had some crazy ship wars, but they were almost always in the context of “you’re crazy if you think [character x] is gonna hook up with [character y], they clearly only have eyes for [character z]” and sometimes even “that ship is gross and horrible and I can’t believe you wrote that, you icky nasty poopy head” but I don’t remember anyone being so ridiculous as to accuse someone of being an IRL abuser or abuse enabler for writing fanfic. They would have been laughed out of the fandom.