#tinydemondragon

(and I put problematic in quotation marks because.... its fictional media. the only thing I will label as problematic are people who are affecting real life people. so.... the moral purists in this case)

the idea that out faves MUST be good is poisoning fandom in two ways. the first is that people start avoiding/bashing content for a certain character. in this case, we'll say philza and techno. I constantly see bad takes for their characters and those that don't have bad takes generally don't watch these people anymore because fandom has ruined those characters for them, regardless of whether these takes are true or not.

(newsflash, they're not lol)

the second way is that people want to continue to enjoy those characters, so they ignore certain traits of a character or push the blame on someone else. for this fandom this means, generally, the minors of the server (esp since people are now seeing purpled in the rp). all of their shitty behavior is being either ignored (tubbos expirementation on ranboo anyone? who manipulated him into doin that??) or blamed on dream (oh, its okay, the dream voice is dream because he's manipulating ranboo)

so, to the fandom, its okay to like a character that's "problematic." you're not a bad person, you don't need to jump through hoops to justify a characters actions. because these people aren't real. you're not supporting blowing up houses, or being toxic, or slaughtering a country. dark fiction (which the dsmp honestly barely overlaps with, these things are NOTHING in the grand scheme of fiction) has always existed for a reason.

your favorite character is not perfect and that's okay. they're supposed to be that way, it's what makes them feel real. because people aren't perfect either. and if we can't accept that our fiction doesn't have to be pure, how can you accept that people aren't either?

the rot of all fandom is here as mold as well which is kinda sad, honestly been in denial about it while still recognizing that the same beast just keeps rearing its dumb fucking head over and over again, cancel culture isnt dead, just dormant, and its influenced the way we consume media still, tragically

and on the one hand, go off queen, canon is a sandbox and I am a God, I shall build the castles and dig trenches as I see fit but also like..... bro..... bro you can't change canon. if ur analysis literally changes canon like.... thats not analysis babe that's fanfic. tag it as canon divergence so I can filter your dumb shit out ya?

literally like going ‘my canon now’ and creating fan content according to what You wanted to see happen is fucking grand go off. but instead people are taking what They want and They assume to happen and trying to ‘analyze’ canon n say what Is Canon according to that

:000 i have seen mentions of it, yes

look sometimes an eccentric old dude hires you to be a live-in ghost because he wants people to think his house is haunted and you look like the lady who died and you’re bad with people in general and also don’t have any other prospects so you say sure, fuckit, i like being alone for extended periods of time and you’ll put a roof over my head and feed me, sure, what the fuck ever,

except the only person besides Mister Eccentric who knows that you’re actually a living person is the cook who needs to use the secret passage to deliver you meals in addition to her normal duties and also she fhfhfhffucking hates your guts because you’re massively inconvenient to her life and definitely not because you look way too much like her dead lover and are actively pretending to be her