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frumfrumfroo · 5 years

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I just saw a puritanical Reylo hating rant by a C/aptainS/wan anti (and Neal stan ofc) from the OUAT fandom, omg. It's like these people run around trying to find ships to hate

Ranting on your own blog is a civil right, anon. (Jk, but just hating a ship is an opinion and that’s fine, if people have terrible opinions but aren’t harassing anyone, shit-stirring, or declaring others persona non grata for disagreeing with them, they may be wrong but they aren’t an asshole.)

#I hate CS with the fire of a thousand suns personally #I didn't need to go around looking for reasons the reasons I don't like it were right up front #this person lumping it in with Reylo does suggest a very shallow purity take #where your problem is with enemies-to-lovers or redemption rather than the actual character dynamics #because they're not similiar #CS is more akin to an (imo terrible) attempt at HanLeia than it is like Reylo #the real hypocrites from OUaT fandom are Rumbelle shippers who hate Reylo #THOSE two ships ARE the same energy #the EXACT same #I witnessed some EPIC clownery on that front #absolutely jaw dropping hot takes #but OUaT was probably the worst fandom I've ever been in so who's shocked #I peaced out when it became obvious they were going to do CS #which was an excellent call on my part because that's right around when the entire garbage heap burst into flames #what little direction it had was flushed and the whole thing was completely off the rails within one season #and they eventually ruined all of the characters #A L L of them #the terrible writing was too much for me in season two if I'd stuck around through 4 or 6 I would have ruptured something #back in ouat fandom the anti[thing] tag just meant [thing]critical or [thing]negative #so fans who wanted only positivity could block it #whereas now it means 'I've built my entire identity around hating a fictional character and I think this makes me a crusader for good'#'even though I am actively making the world a worse place and treating real people like shit'#tumblr's stance that indulging in escapism of any kind makes you a bad person is at the root of the hellscape that is this site #it's genuinely a very damaging attitude to have and to enforce on others #where am I going with this shut up

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