Re: Diamonds

(Anonymous) 2019-12-29 08:37 am (UTC)(link)
DA

I don't want actual Nazis in fandom (or, like, anywhere, ideally). That doesn't mean I have a problem with canons and fanfic featuring Nazis.

Re: Diamonds

(Anonymous) 2019-12-29 08:41 am (UTC)(link)
Does meme wankers’ insistence that of course the real thing is bad but all of our instincts, experiences, and boundaries about the real thing are wrong count as gaslighting? Because this feels like gaslighting.

Re: Diamonds

(Anonymous) 2019-12-29 08:46 am (UTC)(link)
CYRT

I don't even understand what you're saying.

I also want any actual rapists in fandom, but I want all the noncon fic to stay. That's exactly the same principle for me.

Re: Diamonds

(Anonymous) 2019-12-29 08:48 am (UTC)(link)
Real ass-show of a typo there, huh.

Re: Diamonds

(Anonymous) 2019-12-29 08:49 am (UTC)(link)
*rolls eyes* You understood my point, didn't you?

Re: Diamonds

(Anonymous) 2019-12-29 08:53 am (UTC)(link)
If you see red flags and don’t want to mess with her, that is really easy for you to do. You don’t share fandoms, you let the mod know not to let her match to you in case she offers yours, and you are golden. Not a single person is saying for you not to engage with them if you think they are a full on white supremacist with Nazi ideology.

That doesn’t mean you get to make that decision for other people who see it as a normal small fandom behavior for someone trying to make their fandom happen when it never will. They are free to not care a wink and ignore them once they decide the fandom is/isn’t for them.

Dog whistling so much that people see anti red flags from you while you insist that you are the one person who does all this anti behavior yet isn’t a big wanky mess is gaslighting too, by that standard.

Re: Diamonds

(Anonymous) 2019-12-29 08:55 am (UTC)(link)
+1

(Except I don't think either is gaslighting.)

Re: Diamonds

(Anonymous) 2019-12-29 08:56 am (UTC)(link)
ayrt

(I don’t either.)

Re: Diamonds

(Anonymous) 2019-12-29 09:53 am (UTC)(link)
+1 Pretty much this.

Re: Diamonds

(Anonymous) 2019-12-29 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Dog whistling

Oh, the irony.

Re: Diamonds

(Anonymous) 2019-12-29 08:45 am (UTC)(link)
I have both written and enjoyed fanfic for fandoms like, let's say, Hogan's Heroes where the whole point of the show was making fun of Nazis. Most of the Nazi characters were actually played by Jewish men who had to be convinced to do it. And the stories I have written have shown some of the German characters as sekritly anti-Nazi and working toward that end. The stories I've enjoyed are the same.

I'm genuinely curious if this makes me an asshole in some people's eyes, given the whole Desert Peach discussion. I would hope not, but if so, I'd love to discuss it.