The Toxic Merging of Fiction and Reality
An Anti gr///via Post
Warning: Picture Depicts Triggering Language
Hidden beneath the "keep reading" button is a screenshot of a conversation my good tumblr friend @graylu-heartbuster sent me. She gave me permission to post this and @ her. She frequently has discussions with Fairy Tail fans online, and as such, she often meets more than unsavory individuals.
This particular one is a Pro gr///vian who was so angered by my friend shipping differently than them that they dared to tell her to harm herself. (In very graphic language too, so please be safe and don't continue to read if that triggers you).
This is an example of an actually despicable human being. Some people have fragile mental states. For those people, seeing someone tell you to do this to yourself and call you all of these slurs could very well be the tipping point, all over defending an anime ship??????
And of course the person receiving this hate doesn’t need to be in a bad place mentally in order for this act to be absolutely despicable. It’s disgusting no matter whom this is said to.
Honestly, I'm appalled by this person.
The purpose of this post isn't to shame all Pros because most of them are not like this, and there are these types in every part of every fandom.
But this does show that some people cannot distinguish fiction from reality, which is what I've been warning against almost since the beginning of my blog.
The line is so blurred for this person that they reacted to my friend's aversion to gr///via with the same venom as if they were juvia, and as if my friend had besmirched her honor in the most horrific way.
It only helps prove my theory that some of the Pros are just as delusional as juvia which is why they worship her, using her as a self-insert.
Because who in their right mind would tell someone to end themselves because they don't ship what you do and ship something else?
This is why I hate it when people (in particular, I've heard it a lot from Pros in defense of gr///via) say "oh, fiction isn't reality, and fiction doesn't affect reality at all, so you can do whatever you want in fiction with no consequences!", because guess what, fiction does affect reality.
Fiction is a major driving force in culture. It is often used as a vehicle for pushing agendas and belief systems, and the way fictional characters react to things being preached to them and how the story unfolds because of it are very telling. Fiction also clearly entrances people so much they're willing to go to such extremes in its defense. Some people can parse out that they like juvia and gr///via because they're separating fiction from reality, but clearly some people are wholly unable to do so.
It would be very easy to see how juvia's insanity and detachment from reality (i.e. how she is deluded into believing that Gray loves her and that her ignoring Gray's consent and wishes is okay) could have bled into this awful individual's life, reinforcing their idea that what they're doing is praiseworthy, that they can attack others like juvia does and still be the hero and still be rewarded in the end just as juvia is when she finally sinks her claws into Gray's manipulated heart.
These are not the lessons this sick person needs. What they need is a wake-up call, the cold hard truth, that the way they're acting is unacceptable and that they are not the hero. The fiction of gr///via and juvia's selfish and downright nasty behavior within Fairy Tail is just fortifying their belief that they're in the right.
I wouldn't go as far as to say that juvia's actions are the only reason this person is being so disgusting, but it certainly doesn't help. When you praise and promote delusion in fiction like Fairy Tail does with juvia, you can't be surprised when people adopt that delusion in real life.
My heart goes out to my friend, as well as any person out there who has to deal with this type of cyber bullying. I just hope this serves as a reminder that gr///via can definitely negatively impact others in real ways in real life, and that juvia's behavior isn't excused just because it's fantasy.
I pray the person who sent this dm gets a rude awakening that they cannot treat people this way in reality and be rewarded for it.
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The post:
Notice how it says nothing about Juvia at all.
Graylu Heartbuster/Graylunation replies on twitter:
Like this person is truly demented and sick in the head. How hard is it to stay out of Juvia and Gruvia positive spaces for them?
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I love Gray and Juvia as individuals but I also love them together hence my username. I respect other ships but I don’t support haters and hypocrites @graylu-heartbuster
For you to post this and then have the AUDACITY 🥴 to post this
Is utterly hilarious 💀 we all know what the real artwork looks like❤️ practice what you preach 💞
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GrayLu Heartbuster/Graylunation reminds me of Chris/Ether-Gearhead but for Gruvia and Juvia. The things this person believes about Juvia is wild. I wonder what they experienced in life that they equate Juvia to those things. I hope they heal and realize Juvia isn’t real.
Gray loves Juvia because his creator said he does. Juvia loves Gray because her creator said she does. Juvia isn’t manipulating Gray. Gray isn’t an ice clone just because he shows his love for Juvia now. Juvia will not SA their son if he looked like Gray. (Weird thing to say). Gruvia is canon whether you like it or not. Leave us Gruvia fans alone. Going into our spaces on twitter to trash Juvia is not cool. We don’t bother you about a ship that never sailed so don’t bother us about our canon ship.
I hope you heal truly though.
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