WIBTA for interacting with a very proship fandom?🐰 for search purposesSo I got MUCH invested in a VERY problematic media some of you may have heard of. And despite it being generally concidered a bad art piece that promotes illegal problematic and disgusting actions, I found a lot of value in this piece and a hella lot of different meanings that do not read the characters as others do. Read as: others romanticise what’s happening, I, on the other hand, don’t.I wish to express my feelings towards this piece of media and subjects it explores here, on tumblr, through fanart and posts with opinions on certain parts of the plot. Damn, I even happened to have a blorbo here! But I am very scared that it will ruin my online presence forever. I don’t want to be concidered proship, nor am I really one, and I’m scared of both proshipper and anti-proshipper backlash. Before that I have never interacted with those communities and all this discourse was somewhere far, far away. My tumblr blog is not that big or popular but it’s OLD, and I cherish it and fear it will be attacked or hatemailed.So will people around concider me an asshole?
Yeah, actually, if you go into a fandom claiming that you’re the only one doing it ~right~, you will definitely piss people off. And your fellow antis probably will turn on you, no matter how sanctimonious you are about it and how little you romanticize things.
So, will people around you consider you an asshole? Almost certainly.
YTA– not for joining a “problematic” fandom, but for looking down on and disrespecting all the other fans that enjoy the same media.
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