cope-maxvid:

2018 is the year I want people to start realising that the horrid things they say over fictional characters affect real people.

2018 is the year we will remember all the innocent lives taken at the hands of suicide from the horrid things said because some want to ‘protect’ fictional characters.

2018 we accept that you aren’t going to like every coping method because no one is the same and just pretending it never happened or that you can so easily forget and move on. It takes time.

2018 we realise that value a real, living breathing human has over that over a bunch of lines and colours on a screen or words on a page.

death-limes:

coelasquid:

This whole “trust Tumblr blindly” thing is eventually going to kill someone, as I became pointedly aware of on one occasion I was making fun of how poorly a particular bleach-based drain declogger was working on my sink and got a chorus of really dangerously misinformed people telling me to pour vinegar in after it because all cute little cool kid diy home care blogs they’re following talk about vinegar like it it’s the big secret the cleaning companies don’t want you to know.

And I cringed knowing that someday, some Well Actually expert who read a blog article once is going to give that advice to someone who unfortunately didn’t take high school chemistry and isn’t aware that MIXING VINEGAR AND BLEACH MAKES CHLORINE GAS.

holy fucking jesus tits reblog to save a life

shipping-isnt-morality:

read-a-fucking-book:

One of the things that annoys me about antis is the idea that their opinions and feelings are objective facts.

I see this a lot. They’ll say things like if you think Adam Driver is prettier than John Boyega that you’re wrong, blind, stupid, racist. But attractiveness is an opinion. There is no way to say that one person is more beautiful than another because there will always be at least one person who disagrees with you. And that doesn’t make either of you wrong because there is no such thing as objective beauty. 

But a lot of antis will say that their opinion on what beauty is is a fact. And that’s just not true. If you would be grossed out by shipping a 13 year old with a 30 year old that doesn’t make it morally wrong. Disgust is a feeling not a fact. Just because you feel something doesn’t mean that anyone who feels differently is wrong or stupid or just doesn’t know better. 

Antis often say that if you ship a problematic ship that you need to look at yourself and find out why you’re comfortable with that. But what they really mean is that “i have the right answer on what a feeling around this should be, and if you don’t agree its because you haven’t thought about it enough”. Because they don’t want you to actually figure out how you feel. They want you to figure out the “right” answer to emotions and opinions. 

For people who talk about representation and sensitivity so much, antis have an incredibly hard time imagining anyone being different from them. They aren’t able to put themselves in someone else’s shoes or try to look at something from a different angle because in their mind, their is a right answer to feelings.

This is very true.

A lot of the time antis just have an assumption about the TRUE thoughts and feelings of the person they’re arguing with, and any attempt at explaining otherwise is at best a naive misunderstanding of their own feelings and at worst malicious deception.

(The people who will probably appear in the comments of this post saying “if you’re not disgusted by a 13 and a 30 year old you’re a pedophile!” are a good example of this.)

One of the most baffling things about the anti movement is the assumption that every depiction is literal. Did none of these people ever take a lit class? Murder, rape, torture, cannibalism, incest, all of these have been used metaphorically, for a variety of reasons. But suddenly they’re only allowed in hand-wringing morality plays? What do these people imagine literature is actually about?

shipping-isnt-morality:

i think about this CONSTANTLY. like, you can think a metaphor is in bad taste, but that doesn’t make it less of a metaphor. 

there’s also the cases almost on the exact opposite end of the spectrum where the source material is already clearly so vile and parodied that i cannot comprehend how antis think anyone is drawing serious moral conclusions from the source content, let alone the fandom. Like, I think one of the earliest fandoms I saw antis in was South Park, where people were being accused of pedophilia for doing… nothing nearly as bad as the show itself. 

this frustrating take antis have where all fiction, regardless of context, tone, or audience, is all monkey-see-monkey-do moral works that have to be sure not to teach the audience Bad Things is…. yeah, baffling. baffling is a good word.