kids nowadays are so indoctrinated by politics and virtue signaling that they never got into the fandom naturally like we did
they don’t even respect the source material, they don’t respect the decades of culture we built because they think it’s “problematic”
we just have to gatekeep more
Hate content all you want, but you cannot persecute people for fiction. If we did, you’d have to arrest half of all AO3 writers, horror directors, anyone who likes GoT, players of CoD, and song writers for offensive lyrics. Fictional crimes are not real. There is no victim.
If you're pro censoring the fiction you personally find reprehensible, and believe that someone isn't going to come along and censor the things YOU like because THEY find them reprehensible, then you're in for a big surprise when your stuff is gone and you were complicit in it.
“You can’t write about [insert disturbing topic]! It’s a real life problem! That’s not fiction!!” So handmaids tale shouldn’t exist? Stephen king? Slasher films? Any story about rape or homophobia? Dark topics can be explored in fiction and that doesn’t mean you want to act on it
nobody should be made to go to jail or endure public humiliation, especially not legally mandated humiliation, for fictional content. absolutely period. if you are on the side of such an oppressive force you may want to have a really deep think about what you are on the side of
Its fiction, it doesnt have to always have a moral lesson or a perfect happy ending. Fictional characters can have flaws and make bad decisions that fuck up their life even after their greatest moments are over. The most unrealistic part about Toph was her becoming a fucking cop
It's disgusting and intentionally demoralizing. The hero's journey, and Toph is a HERO, is one of difficulties and hardship but results in triumph. Only people with deep personal insecurities and inferiority complexes feel the need to tell children that their heros turned into washed up "complicated" losers like they imagine themselves to be. Grey is not interesting by virtue of it being grey. Toph and Sokka deserved happy endings befitting of the morals the original story espoused.
"but that's not realistic" no shit. That's the fucking point. It's aspirational. Something to STRIVE for and attain. "Actually even if you are a hero you can end up sad broken and alone" is a stupid fucking moral to put in media for children and a stupid fucking self masturbatory "look how complicated I think I am" idea for 99% of the time it's done. Grow up, let endings be happy.