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Patron Livestream shenanigans. This tweet crossed my radar and the chat collectively decided - it’s a Mordecai face. Thanks to @nogoldenapples, for the unintentional prompt. —————————————

Commission- Showdown

Spreading the rhetoric that fans of MLP or Anthros are inherently a sexual thing isnt just incorrect, its dangerous.

Shipping has always been about exploring themes outside the canon works so that fans can enjoy the original in different ways and express their love for it through creativity and hard work. Shipping also has always been about uplifting and supporting the media you ship from. And in the last few years I’ve seen the opposite:

Shippers have fought to make their ships canon

Shippers have attacked and sometimes even threatened the livelihood of the creators of the media they claim to like

Shippers have even said they hate the media their ships come from

Shippers have shown a complete disconnect from the original media they ship from and opt to just pretend the canon doesn’t exist at all

Other notable things I’ve seen shippers do, which I can’t believe a human person could even sanely do: get staff members fired in the name of making their ship canon, steal charity money to buy merch, pressure creators into shifting the media so much that it gets warped and holds very little passion in it anymore (and then later shit on the creators for how ‘bad’ it is and how much they messed up their precious favorite media), doxx creators and voice actors and threaten their families (sometimes because they play a “problematic” character, sometimes because they express that they like a ship), bully small fan creators off platforms/into attempting su***de, and much more.

Sometimes I think we forget that we don’t own the media we consume. And I think we also forget that just because we don’t like something or it makes us uncomfortable, it doesn’t mean that it’s morally or legally a crime. You are not the police. It is not your duty to uphold some fake internet laws. And honestly, if you can’t find anything you can appreciate about a piece of media aside from the two characters you ship together, I think it’s best that you examine why you’re putting yourself through this, and if this is a healthy form of escapism.

Another thing I’d like to mention too: “fandom activism” is not activism. If you put forth all this energy for fictional characters but do nothing to support real people of those demographics, you’re not being helpful. And most of the time, you’ll find that you’re actually gatekeeping what the people of those communities can do. I know it can be hard when you’re so emotionally attached to something, especially if it helps you cope with some underlying issues, but that isn’t an excuse for thinking you are the ruler of all things fandom in those communities and that it is your job to dictate what goes on and how. You’re on the same level as every other fan. You’re a consumer and a fan.

But here’s the thing: that’s probably not true at all.

Pretending it is discounts the harsher, scarier truth: that even decent, well-meaning people can be radicalised by dangerous, hateful, predatory groups, and given enough time they can become truly hideous versions of their former selves.

It can happen to me. It can happen to you. It can happen to any of us, given the right mix of circumstances. And over the past few years, we’ve seen it happen to one of the most famous children’s authors of our age.

This isn’t to apologise for her behaviour or rehabilitate her into some former activist who is still worthy of saving; it’s to contextualise her recent descent into TERFdom compared to her previous political stances she’s openly held. She was probably never going to be a staunch ally for equality and diversity, and yes, a lot of the HP series were very problematic in retrospect, but she could very easily have gone the other way and at the very least turned out to be less of a bigoted shitbag she is now. The fact that her politics in late 2000′s/early 2010′s were similar to so many people who are now activists and organisers for queer, BIPOC and vulnerable communities should tell us to be all the more careful about radfem ideology and transphobia in progressive spaces. 

It’s comforting to say “we should have known in hindsight that she was always going to become a TERF, the early signs were all there!” but that’s also not true. We have to recognise that the toxic ideology, the active harm she chooses to participate in, was a deliberate choice; this was a path she chose to go down, not one that was pre-determined for her. It’s also an easy way to separate ourselves from being critical of radfem influence; “JKR was always a right-wing bigot and that’s why she became indoctrinated with radfem bullshit. I’m not a right-wing bigot, therefore unlike her, I will never fall for radfem bullshit.” 

Star Wars AU: Jedi Finn.

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OP included people with vitiligo!