Mar 22
the way people in bandom are ostracized and called out for writing fiction and even leaving kudos on fics that some people don't like is so disappointing and making me sad for the rise of puritanism and surveillance in online fandoms and just in general
#block and mute exist for a reason there's no issue with being grossed out by certain things#but the amount of hate trains being run mostly by new people and younger people in the fandom is indicative of a larger issue in society#and it's really disappointing to see and grating on me lately#the most popular writers in this fandom would write incest/underage/rape or would participate in events with people who did#and now the events don't allow it#and now you can worry about people potentially making posts telling others to boycott your fics if you write both fics digestible#for a larger audience AND fics with darker subjects#that basically threatens others to unfollow and to not consume your content (all of this goes for art too) or otherwise be ostracized too#even if you just like that content and don't produce it too!#GET ME OUT OF THE PANOPTICON#txt#*#we are devolving#this is mostly on platforms like x and tiktok but that's what a lot of younger people use and why i say it's indicative#of a larger change in fandom and in society as a whole#those young people will grow up and this will unfortunately become the standard#and tumblr just isn't mainstream anymore like those sites are#and i mean there's the whole proshipper thing but really anti-censorship should be the standard view#and the classifications just further serve to divide people#anyway#sorry been weighing on me
