Harry Osborn from the Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon! Who… I guess I can see some similarities with Spinel… Hmmm ..
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I see this kind of thing a lot from various groups that are controlling of other people.
DNI if you like x. DNI if you’re attracted to x. DNI if you have x as a kintype. DNI if x is your hyperfixation.
These type of people treat things that are completely involuntary internal experiences as if they are
A) something voluntary you can turn off at will
B) something external that will affect them merely by being near you.
Back in the alterhuman community 5-7 years ago during the early rise of anti culture we saw some loud voices who were telling people that they were morally obligated to “drop” kintypes and fictives that were villains, or that were characters of another race than the person’s body.
It was extremely destructive and reductive behavior that refuses to acknowledge that the experience they were trying to control was involuntary.
Just like attraction.
I’m of two minds when antis interact with the fandom content I put out. (No I don’t check my fandom posts to find proshippers n neutrals in the same fandom to follow! Don’t worry about it!)
On one hand, I understand the pressure to hate proshippers in anti-heavy fandoms. DNIs and the expectation of checking every blog is ridiculous.
But also, you created those expectations. How many of these people don’t actually care as much as they let on, and how much of them are just hypocrites? How many of them are a danger to me?
I don’t know the answers.
