feathersmoons:

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startrek-marysues:

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I really fucking wish hate blogs like mary-sues and ew-fnaf-ocs and startrek-marysues would STOP showing up in my recommended blogs.

Or just stop existing as blogs altogether.

Because I am sick and tired of these pissbaby bullies and their perpetuation of an out-of-date fad that represents what’s worst in fandom.

You sound like a fun person. 🙂 Please explain how we are a hate blog.

(Counterproductive because the only way to get you to disappear from my dash is to stop talking about Mary Sue shaming, which is something I feel strongly about)

But oh my goodness I beg your pardon!  Me calling you a “hate blog” when all you do is highlight the works of vulnerable and immature creators as part of a decades-long fandom culture of mockery, ridicule and bullying.  That would be like calling you a misogynist for engaging you in a practice that mainly serves to silence and discourage girls and women from writing about girls of women because they’re afraid of the social backlash from exceeding your definition of “acceptable” character-building.  And would I ever do that?

No wait, I would.  You’re a hate blog, a bully, a misogynist, and a blight on the face of fandom.  I hope you figure it out sooner rather than later and cut it the fuck out.

Adding:

The thing is, most of the time these days, while there’s the bit of me that is angry for the kids and baby-writers who are being mocked and attacked at their vulnerable places (and yes, that can in fact include “the really egregious cases” where it’s “really deserved”), the rest of me is just … embarrassed.

Embarrassed at the mean-spiritedness, embarrassed at the arrogance behind setting oneself up as the arbiter of what’s good-vs-bad, embarrassed at the sheer pettiness of hunting out stories to point and laugh at.

And no, it’s not innocently helpful. Yes, it is mean spirited and petty. Mocking fandom stuff put up for free is no better than mocking someone’s clothes and then defending yourself by saying “but we’re helping them and giving them advice. If you weren’t asked, it’s not your business: you didn’t pay that author, you didn’t pay to read it (or look at it), it’s not really your business, any more than their clothing is. Even if they’re really, really annoying.

The reality is, of course, that nobody engaged in doing it is going to give a damn about what I say. Much like they did fifteen years ago, they are going to find excellent (to them) reasons why their work is not only harmless fun, but even good for fandom! No really! Because that’s what people who like to tease and belittle other people do. It’s what they’ve always done, and always will, and surprisingly otherwise decent people will come up with astonishing reasons why, in this case, meanness and pettiness is totally okay. (Those writers put their stuff on the internet, after all! That’s totally asking for it!)

Which is in turn to say: this isn’t really about an argument. This post, as with any other reblogs and so on, is because I know I’ve got followers that those kinds of sites and blogs and tumblrs upset and intimidate, and back when they were messing me up I never had anyone to say “hey: ignore’em. Their opinions are meaningless and they’re kind of being jerks, and everything they complain about applies to Batman. Write what you want; if writing what you want isn’t getting the response you want, then go looking for some advice or some help, but do it from people who seem kind and thoughtful. But if what you’re writing is making you and your bffs happy, please, write more, practice more, have fun, and ignore the mean girls.”

And you never know: your thirteen year old semi-misfit aggressive Latina girl who does parkour, lost her father at a young age, and then became one of the recovering Winter Soldier’s first human contacts and the one to give him a kitten might turn out to be close to your most popular character. (I’m still pleased but utterly weirded out by this. Mostly because of the Mary Sue blogs of my adolescence.)