newsflash: if a character keeps on repeatedly doing things in canon that you think are ooc, you probably have the wrong idea about how the character is
If your argument against gun control goes like this “what if a bad guy has a gun I need one to defend myself” then you’re already stating that a gun is a threat to the safety of those nearby. You’re tickling your ego by thinking you with your gun will be faster and smarter than the bad guy and frankly my life is not worth testing out your bullshit attitude. You already know guns are bad, you just think you with a gun is better. If they shoot you or you shoot them that’s the same number of people killed. You still believe guns are dangerous you just wanna feel cool idk what to tell you champ just stop sniffing the glue.
You put this into words way better than I could have
if a teenager is at your door and they are wearing a costume!! please give them candy!! they are still in it for the halloween spirit and it honestly no different from a little kid in a costume. they are just as excited and happy as all the other lil tykes and dont you dare tell them they are “too old for trick-or-treating” because that will literally break their hearts and that’s not cool.
Its getting close to Halloween again so I just thought I’d reblog this again
And if “don’t be rude to teenagers over a stupid jawbreaker” isn’t enough for you, consider
You can’t tell how old a kid is just by looking. I’ve known multiple 5th graders who were taller than I am, and I’m 25 years old. With their faces hidden by masks, you won’t be able to tell they’re elementary schoolers, but they still are.
Lots of older siblings are expected to take their younger siblings trick-or-treating, and they only get paid in candy.
You don’t know if that teenager is developmentally disabled.
You don’t know if that teenager spent most of their childhood in a hospital or sick and has never had the traditional trick-or-treat experience before.
You don’t know if this is that teenager’s first Halloween in America, and they just want to experience a piece of American culture.
You don’t know if that teenager ever gets candy any other day of the year.
You don’t know if that teenager has eaten anything at all today.
And those are just things I can think of off the top of my head.
Teenagers trick or treating are probably those not getting into trouble drinking
I legitimately don’t understand anon hate like you are literally just….giving them the last word? Like you’re setting up for them to have time to think of a great comeback and then post it publicly for everyone to see and laugh at your asinine comment. Not to mention that you’re limited to 500 characters while the other person can write eight paragraphs dragging your ass and all you can do is watch in horror or write yet another anonymous message which again gives them the last word. You’re literally setting yourself up for failure. What is the plan. I don’t understand.
From my knowledge, here’s the very basics of what I think more people need to be aware of when it comes to shipping. Thanks.
No.
Your (and my) safe space is the dashboard,our blog, our choices of fiction. Not what the others do. You don’t get to impose your rules to someone else, just like you refuse someone else’s rules on what you can stand.
Fiction is not reality. Depiction is not endorsement. You can ship something you won’t accept in real life, the same way you can like murder stories and not be cool with murder. Because there is a difference between fiction and reality, no matter how many people refuse to learn that.
You seriously think a fic will have more weight than the regular media? You greatly overestimate fandom. You also greatly underestimate the importance of exploring dark stuff safely. Safe, because fiction =/= reality.
The only shipping courtesy people can do is tagging their stuff, so people who don’t like it, who are squicked by it, who are triggered by it, can avoid it. That’s all.
“You can only use it as a coping method”? Do you realise the implication of this rule? Are you going to go after every dark fic’s readers and writers and ask about their past, their trauma? Are you going to ask them to reveal them, decribe it to be sure it’s okay, that it’s bad enough to make their choice okay? Is it your definition of safe? Me first?
Because I won’t. I won’t tell. Because fuck you, stranger on internet, for telling me how to be a good girl, and put the blame on stories, readers and writers, for abusers’ choices and actions.
“But how kids will now it’s bad?!?” By their parents. Their friends. The tv. The news. The books. People at school, at work. No-one’s life is restricted to tumblr and ao3.
“Stop shipping this or you’re a bad person” is bullshit. Just like stop/start watching a show, or reading a book or you’re a bad person. Kids, your morality is not determined by your fic/ship preference.
Tag your stuff, put the nsfw (aka porn/gore) behind a cut or a read more, don’t harass people who don’t like the same thing than you, don’t act like you’re morally superior for shipping one thing instead of the other, block and ignore anyone who want to make you responsible for someone’s else actions, don’t click on stuff you know you won’t like based on the pairing, the tags or the summary, don’t click and read if you’re not sure, have a friend try first if you still want to read it, and accept that fandom is too big to be appreciated and done the same way by everyone.
I’m sure there’s a movie, a book, a book series, or a tv show you can’t stand, and yet, you know how to deal with its existence. It’s the same thing, on a smaller scale. Because trust me, avoiding incest, abuse and rape in fandom is 1000% easier to do than in the rest of the media.
At least, fandom warns. And no, making the bad stuff disappear in stories won’t make it disappear in real life.
One more time, for those on the back of the room: fiction =/= reality. Learn that. Teach that. Because those who don’t know that are the people who thinks something bad is okay because a story said it so. The rest of us can watch something like Fast and Furious and know it’s not okay to repeat the car chases IRL, as one example amongst many.
All of this. Beautifully said.
Also, anyone who labels themselves a fandom “mom,” “dad,” or the like is someone who should raise a big red flag for others. Random strangers on the internet aren’t your parents. For them to call themselves such is grossly presumptuous. If you need a “mom” or “dad” to watch you on the internet, your actualfacts parents should install a nanny filter.
What she says: I’m fine.
What she means: In Mystic Messenger, Yoosung says something like, “We haven’t even heard your voice!” But by that point, each member, including Yoosung, has called MC on the phone. He’s even made multiple comments like, “I just wanted to hear your voice!” Also, in another chat, there is a choice for MC to say something to the effect of, “I don’t even know what Rika looks like,” despite the fact that there were multiple photos of Rika shared in the chat. Speaking of Rika, MC is staying in her apartment, right? What is she eating? Is Rika’s fridge inexplicably filled with food? Is MC sleeping in a dead girl’s bed? What about MC’s personal life? Where are her family and friends? Is she missing work or class? She disappears for eleven days to live in the apartment of a dead stranger, and no one in her life notices? What does she do when there isn’t a chat or phone call happening? Is she watching Rika’s TV? Playing games on her computer? Reading her books? Are Rika’s utilities still turned on? If yes, why? If no, is MC just siting in the dark, dirty and shivering as she waits for phone calls? How is she charging her phone? Where does she get the outfit she wears to the party? Someone help me understand.
If you don’t care as long as the child is happy and healthy, when does that change? Why do parents say they don’t care one second and then shun you for not fitting into the box they put you in because your anatomy is one way and your mind another (or any other variation of this within the LGBTQIA+ community )?
When does a parent’s “unconditional” love become conditional?
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