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I miss the fandom days of olde, where people could ship what they wanted and no one batted an eye.
Incest squicks me out, but I totally get why people ship Wincest. Between ATG and J2's natural chemistry, that was always going to exist. And the existence of it doesn't bother me.
What does bother me is gatekeeping. Ship and let ship. Your Kink Is Not My Kink And That's Okay. Leave other people alone and mind your own damn business. Fandom has always been a place for people to safely explore aspects of their sexuality, and it was supposed to be fairly judgement free. At least, it was when I was younger. I don't recognize it anymore.
I love that Supernatural fandom is one of the last safe spaces for kinky kinks. But I see the puritans gathering armor and they wear masks like they're on my side, but I don't want them on my side. I don't care if people ship Wincest. I don't care if they ship Weecest. It's not hurting anybody. Leave them alone.
There are certain people on Twitter who have decided that they get to be fandom police, and I disagree with that notion completely. Bring back the chaos days where it was fun to admit to your fantasies and have people encourage them. I didn't vote for a fandom sheriff, and those people don't represent me. I don't particularly like the cruelty of certain other people either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to go screencap their shit and harass them over it. And I'm certainly not going to be a party to harassing innocent people who ship something I don't like either.
I don't like new fandom. But I'm glad that, at least, most of the people my age, the people I hang out with, see things the way I do. At least I can ignore the fandom police if I so choose.
Anyway. I'm working on a post discussing my currently unwritten fics. It's taking longer than I thought it would, lol.
Incest squicks me out, but I totally get why people ship Wincest. Between ATG and J2's natural chemistry, that was always going to exist. And the existence of it doesn't bother me.
What does bother me is gatekeeping. Ship and let ship. Your Kink Is Not My Kink And That's Okay. Leave other people alone and mind your own damn business. Fandom has always been a place for people to safely explore aspects of their sexuality, and it was supposed to be fairly judgement free. At least, it was when I was younger. I don't recognize it anymore.
I love that Supernatural fandom is one of the last safe spaces for kinky kinks. But I see the puritans gathering armor and they wear masks like they're on my side, but I don't want them on my side. I don't care if people ship Wincest. I don't care if they ship Weecest. It's not hurting anybody. Leave them alone.
There are certain people on Twitter who have decided that they get to be fandom police, and I disagree with that notion completely. Bring back the chaos days where it was fun to admit to your fantasies and have people encourage them. I didn't vote for a fandom sheriff, and those people don't represent me. I don't particularly like the cruelty of certain other people either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to go screencap their shit and harass them over it. And I'm certainly not going to be a party to harassing innocent people who ship something I don't like either.
I don't like new fandom. But I'm glad that, at least, most of the people my age, the people I hang out with, see things the way I do. At least I can ignore the fandom police if I so choose.
Anyway. I'm working on a post discussing my currently unwritten fics. It's taking longer than I thought it would, lol.
