#on antis

Fanpol do not make fandom a better place. They are not a community service that keep the "freaks and nasties" away from your favorite video games and TV shows.

Art can’t be irresponsible. It speaks to all aspects of the human experience.

There are sides of ourselves that aren’t welcome in polite society, thoughts and feelings too dark to share. When we recognize them expressed in art, we feel less alone.

More real, more human.

This is the therapeutic power of making and consuming art.

Art is above and beyond judgment. It either speaks to you or it doesn’t.

The artist’s only responsibility is to the work itself. There are no other requirements. You’re free to create what you will.

You don’t have to stand for your work, nor does your work have to stand for anything but itself. You are not a symbol of it. Nor is it necessarily symbolic of you. It will be interpreted and reinterpreted in the eyes and ears of those who know almost nothing about you.

I've literally never met a billy fan who said anything bad about Argyle. I mean... I love both characters. This narrative is getting old fast.

I don't know where they got these ideas from, honestly.

So if you like... a fictional character... who happens to be a teenage ab*se victim... then you're automatically racist and/or homophobic?

If you want to really get into this, I think you mean IT character Henry Bowers, and he and Billy are not the same. The Duffers wanted them to be, but fortunately Dacre made sure that didn't happen.

one of the big ones “think of the children” people were upset about was a little book called annie on my mind. the girls were in love, no doubt, but there was no sexual content***. they held hands and might have kissed (it’s been a long time since i read it), but absolutely nothing more than that.

and that was the greatest fear of adults. that kids might recognize themselves in girls who called themselves best friends but were also in love.

antis don’t remember how an attempt to “think of the children” led to just another generation who didn’t know anything about gay people other than the super flamboyant dudes you saw on queer eye for the straight guy and will & grace. that’s where we were my entire childhood. tom hanks was allowed to be smart and capable in philadelphia, but he also had aids, the “gay cancer.”

please don’t misunderstand me - i’m not equating queer content with underage or non-con content. but censorship bleeds, just like all forms of authoritarianism does. today we’re censoring content we find abhorrent, like underage stories including romance or sex. and then they ban content about disability and/or mental illness, because children should be protected from uncomfortable content. and then they ban content that discusses racism or other types of oppression. and then they ban content about queer characters of any stripe because, well, queer people are all perverts. fahrenheit 451, which teaches that censorship is wrong, is still banned in many places. they continue to ban books like judy blume’s forever... which depicts teenagers discovering their sexuality. 

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Why stick around? You're telling me you have nothing better to do than to harass people just because they support a ship you don't? And if you hate a character, why are you tagging them? You tag a character or ship just to trash them. Let it rest. You are not ending ab*se or anything by attacking harringrove shippers.

Especially Steddie shippers. I love Eddie, and Steddie is a cute ship, but why are y'all tagging Billy, or harringrove? He (and harringrove) have nothing to do with Steddie. At this point, you want to start a fight.

Telling people to k!ll themselves because they support a character or a ship doesn't make you a good person. In fact it's cowardly, especially knowing y'all would never actually have the balls to say this shit in real life.

It is 2022. Why are we policing fans of "controversial" characters? Unless the character is based off of a horrible person, and it's a true story, then take off the chronically online badge and abandon the soap box.

It's pathetic. Completely unprovoked.

That being said... their stupidity is not only blood-boiling- it gives me a good cackle lmao

It's like they're coming out- not as gay, but as dumbasses.

For real though, I'm becoming anti byler by the second. The ship itself is cute but the fans... it's always the fucking fans 🙄