One of my most defining self shipping moments happened when I was in senior year of high school in 2004.
I had picture of Alfred Molina as Doc Ock from the then-upcoming Spider-Man 2 movie pasted on the front of my school planner. (Students at my school often displayed their celebrity crushes this way.)
A girl in my class looked at the picture and asked me why he was ‘so old and ugly’.
Anyway, Otto and my 20 year anniversary is coming up next year.
People love to be like “I’m anti-harassment because I don’t believe in harassing people over fiction!” then readily harass people for other things and it’s just… no actually you aren’t anti-harassment, you just have different parameters as to who “deserves it” than antis. Anti-harassment means anti-harassment and if you aren’t ready to unlearn punitive “justice” and still think you can bring about healing through hatred you aren’t actually anti-harassment.
