@HoldingTwoPens@diaakore I get it. I’ve been in fandom spaces since I was like 10 when I shouldn’t have been so I suppose I’m used to it. I want to be sympathetic but at the same we aren’t just saying we don’t like x thing, we are harassing people about it. So that’s uncool 👎
@HoldingTwoPens@diaakore Baby’s first fandom and it’s something like RE or MGS where the topics of the games itself and characters filled with dubious morality. 😭
@HoldingTwoPens@diaakore Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but I think in general the internet and fandom spaces as a whole has unfortunately succumbed to the recent purists culture as well when it used to be not like that. Older fans aren’t like this from what I’ve seen.
@HoldingTwoPens@diaakore Very much so. Tumblr my beloved. It’s hard to even like some characters, like Volgin but people can like characters like Huey. (I like Huey don’t get me wrong.) But, I also know these guys are BAD GUYS. It’s the whole point.
@HoldingTwoPens@diaakore Yeah that’s so WEIRD. Guh. I haven’t seen it myself, but I have some moots who have told me horror stories about how the fandom basically infantilizes Raikov and makes him out to be some helpless victim to Volgin. Which is the exact opposite??
@diaakore@HoldingTwoPens Or Kaz and Ocelot ship. No character in the series are exactly good people or have a great relationship. Unless it’s the new gen chars like Raiden, Otacon, Snavid.
@HoldingTwoPens@diaakore Sorry if my replies are weird I lowk don’t know how to navigate Twitter. I get not liking the ship but why are we harassing other people for that? I’ve seen a lot of actually interesting fics with them that’s an interesting character study between them.