People like to talk a lot of shit about them on Plurk but visibly distance themselves from anyone speaking up about them because "what if people think I'm a pedo"
but tldr would be people who think that fiction has a far greater effect on reality than it does, and so the only good media (fanmade or not) is 'pure'
but that shit gets twisted quick, from calling any rival ship something just 'fujoshi' make popular/like (experienced that, lmao) to lots of sexism, homphobia, and transphobia
Like I've literally had someone I met on DWRP, who rped smut with my 16 yo in canon character, who was crying about antis targetting her incest stories, say she couldn't be seen publicly with me because I ship ZackRay
bc "i'm a csa survivor and think antis beliefs and methods are absolutely vile and also cause more harm to csa survivors than any noncon fic" doesn't roll off the tongue
AoD fandom is basically solely dedicated to shipping a nasty 20 yo ace serial killer with either a 13 yo or yourself, so we basically formed a barrier against antis.
rape, abuse, and incest are also regular targets in the "if you write or enjoy fic with this, You Are Satan". things are regularly twisted, in a variety of ways, to fit any of these definitions.
I've tried to have reasonable conversations with people who trip into that line of thinking, because, like.... man i can't just leave people falling to that cult ass shit
I'm sorry they're in the hannibal fandom? the fandom whose most pervasive joke is that them being cannibals is the least offensive thing about the hannigram murderhusband ship. that fandom
Yeah, Tox and the other Fanexus mods have laid out that they're gonna do everything in their power to prevent minor contact with MAPs, but like... they aren't psychic
This reminds me of a post I'd read just recently where someone was frustrated because fandomentalists (my favorite term, because it gets to the heart of the matter) were destroying the distinction between words like "romanticizing", "normalizing", "perpetrating", etc
agreed. it's one of the reasons i constantly flick through the ao3 tag on tumblr - or did before it's absolute garbage update where pageification is trashed
i did get the kid and their friends who spammed my inbox once, but i also got someone to consider that writing darkfic is not always a sign of Being Satan
> "man i wonder if i should be more outspoken about how much antis are fucking trash" > remembers that i posted this plurk literally this week > "nevermind i never shut up"
the sorta ppl that say they care about survivors, people that aren't cishet, media crit, and POC. But also condescend to survivors, say that certain reclaimed words don't mean shit, they support hot-take media criticism that frankly turns people off thinking about what they consume, and they call POC slurs for supporting the wrong thing.
the type of people that scream about pedos and fetishization and important stuff like that but aside from tormenting people like them, they don't have actual answers.
these people don't have answers for grooming, pedophila, racism, fetishization, sexism, transphobia or any of the problems in fandom. What they have is the 4chan playbook, which should throw up some red, vermillion ass flags.
Some RPer: /runs a pro-shipper discourse twitter
DWRP: No, don't actually do anything about the antis!
Never forget when teenagers were demanding to have their own space in the Dramatical Murder fandom. FREAKING DRAMATICAL MUDER, dammit.
i mean, if you go to certain anon pages on DW, some of them are anti's on the low, soI mean it's not as bad as tumblr or twitter, but with some people there's an... undercurrent.> remembers that i posted this plurk literally this week
> "nevermind i never shut up"
also one day, and probably soon tumblr gonna go kaput and we are gonna get some of their RP folk, so WE MUST KEEP ON PATROL.