Remember there is/was more to your life than canon shows on screen/page.
When people write fiction, it’s common to leave out what the author feels is boring, and to concentrate on the more exciting, dangerous, stressful, and terrifying moments.
There is more to your life than that. Even if canon never shows your downtime. Even if it only shows your worst moments.
There are good moments. There was rest. There is tenderness. Even if no one else gets to see it.
and i dont mean “worrying they’ll attack me”, though that is a fear, always
i mean, the way they live is so unhealthy, i really really worry for antis (especially the kids) and it drives me crazy that i cant do anything to stop this movement from sucking up more vulnerable kids (often minorities too!)
when i was a kid, i had a sort of “anti phase” and while i didnt care what others did, i tried to stop myself from creating or consuming any problematic or dark media because i thought it would make me a bad person and was told that engaging with the fiction that i liked (which helped me cope in the direct aftermath of being abused) was wrong. it seriously fucked me up. during that time, i hurt myself, a lot. im thankfully healing nicely from my self-harm, but i still get cravings and suspect i always will. that time in my life left permanent marks, not just in the scars on my arms but in the immense shame complex i have, which my therapist has pointed out frequently.
it might feel like you’re doing the right thing at the time, but i promise, heavily policing your own thoughts and artistic expression will only harm you. it’s not a healthy way to live at all.
Kind of hating that because of that whole fiasco, I’m kind of terrified to reblog any hollow knight art ever again because I never want to go through that shit again.
HEY HOLLOW KNIGHT ANTIS STOP BEING LITERALLY THE WORST literally stop being the fucking worst and maybe we won’t have a dead fandom, fuckers. We gotta get this place looking nice before silksong comes out and you guys just bully everyone until they leave.
Antis are fandom terrorists, plain and simple.
They want to terrorize us enough that we’re afraid to post the content we’re interested or even interact in fandom at all.
That’s not me projecting, that’s their stated goal when harassing people.
