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The idea that blocking someone is some kind of punishment to be reserved for the abhorrent or ideologically impure is a fascinating and awful development.
Likewise the ‘name and shame’ culture that has turned into simple bullying and targeted harassment.
You laugh or you cry.
Drabble in a technical sense only refers to fiction that is exactly 100 words long. Likewise a double drabble is exactly 200 words long.
However, ‘drabble’ has often been used colloquially to refer to any very, very short piece of fanfiction.
If you, like we, prefer precise terminology, and don’t want to cut your work down to exactly 100 words, some other common terms to refer to fics that short are “flash fic” and “ficlet”.
Toko (😼🔪) finds part of the joy of writing drabbles is the precision of making sure it’s exactly 100 words. But he also loves writing sonnets and iambic pentameter and other rigid formats.
Anyway it’s fine if you want to call it a drabble too. It’s your fic.
“One time I was peeing in a public restroom” Oh so you were nonconsensually subjecting strangers to your bodily functions. I see how it is.
People who respond to posts like this with some variation on “if you knock on enough doors asking to see the devil” never seem to realize that I’m writing them in part to inoculate people against a specific kind of had argument cloaked in progressive language. I don’t need to ask for the devil, I’ve seen him many times over.
sorry, same anon that sent the ask about ableism— to clarify there’s obviously a ton of ableism that antis do, i was referring specifically to the harassment and the encouragement to harass. things like “autistic people shouldn’t have sex” and “if your partner is less than x feet tall you’re a creep” or what have you are of course also very ableist and awful takes
You’re absolutely right to say that an element of fancops ableism is apparent in the mandate to harass and threaten proshippers.
Antishipping is inherently performative, and inherently normative and ableist/eugenicist. Those who can’t keep up with the group are easily discarded.
Additionally, with regard specifically to antis encouragement to harass; please consider this passage from the Wikipedia article on the “two minutes hate” from 1984.
In the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four the Two Minutes Hate is the daily, public period during which members of the Outer Party of Oceania must watch a film depicting the enemies of the state (…)
The political purpose of the Two Minutes Hate is to allow the citizens of Oceania to vent their existential anguish and personal hatreds towards politically expedient enemies (…) In re-directing the members’ subconscious feelings away from the Party’s government of Oceania, and towards non-existent external enemies, the Party minimises thoughtcrime and the consequent, subversive behaviours of thoughtcriminals.