I have no problem with you supporting reylo, but I wish you’d been more clear about your stance. Many of your followers are antis because of how uncomfortable they feel about this excuse for a ship. They’re allowed to be angry, and conversely you’re allowed to express your opinions freely. Obviously your stance is complicated and that’s fine, but you have to understand why the anti community feels so let down. I’m not here to judge, but please be more understanding.

I have been as clear as humanly possible. Both pieces of content have been on my blog for over a year; the video even got some (positive) asks. When I realized people did not know about this content after I alluded to it, I fully discussed the issue and answered questions about my shipping preference multiple times precisely because I want people to make their own informed decisions about whether to keep following/interacting or not.

What I can’t stand is the insinuation that I’ve been lying to or misleading people. I have said from literally my first anti-reylo post (link) that I don’t judge people for what they ship, only for how they go about it. My issue is that reylos go about it horribly. That post has 462 notes, hardly something that slipped under the radar unnoticed. If people took my criticism of shippers’ bad behavior as saying that depiction is automatically endorsement and no one should ship it ever, nor would I ever create ship-related content ever–well, that speaks more to the simplistic nature of fandom rhetoric than anything I actually said. Once I realized there was a misunderstanding I worked to correct it and to inform everyone, as seen above.

It would have been the easiest thing in the world to quietly delete a post that was sitting there with 4 notes and to pretend that I do adhere to the party line that shipping equals morality. That would have been misleading. People are angry with me not because I’ve deceived them but because I have been honest.

i honestly feel like writing/exploring r3yl0 while recognizing it’s bad, that the fans are racist, that k7lo is a bad person and coded as being a nazi… like, i tried to write a fic where, post-episode nine, rey visits k7lo in prison and he develops (unrequited) feelings for her over the course of a few years because she’s interesting, the one /woman/ able to best him (because, of course, finn exists.) there’s a difference between romanticizing the content + accepting their dynamic is (cont.)

(cont from previous ask) + accepting their dynamic is pretty
horrible. kyl0 is a space nazi, he invaded r3y, etc. and while
acknowledging that, if you want to explore the dynamic offered in canon,
i think there’s nothing stopping you (plural.) it doesn’t mean you ship
r3yl0 as reylows ship it, which is romanticized, even fetishizied,
ignoring how r3y canonly hates kilo + all that. sorry, this got a bit
lengthy.


Yeah like… since when is depiction automatically endorsement? A major problem is that  that reylow fandom itself is a trash fire and ship-critical content, I’m pretty sure, is considered ship-bashing and unwelcome in the tag. So basically neither the most vocal antis nor reylows have it through their heads that depiction=/=endorsement, for all the latter might protest to the contrary.

Hey i just wanted to say that I’ve always super liked your blog and meta. I think fandom in general has a issue with nuance and is unable to understand that interpretations apart from their own can be valid. Which led me to kinda distance myself from most anti blogs because they seem more interested in shitting on problematic things and less on embracing anything positive. And insist that ships express way more than they actually about a person which just seems toxic

I think it’s a people thing. What was Mark Twain’s formula for mob intelligence, take the lowest IQ and divide by the number of people? Pretty much that. I’ve been feeling pretty uncomfortable with anti culture for a while and should have said something sooner instead of keeping quiet about mindsets I didn’t agree with, telling myself I was on the right side. I’ve tried to make it clear that I don’t think shipping by itself doesn’t determine morality, but I guess that got lost in the noise.

Recent asks roundup

blacklavellan:

lj-writes:

Since there’s no need to clutter up this blog with even more of the same I’ll put recent asks in this post under the cut. If you want to be answered in a separate post fucking work for it.

Keep reading

You just ramping up with the condescending tone with people, especially with the black fans who sent you ask – honestly you would have been better just shutting the fuck up and none of this would have happened if you werent so fucking vague with your answers

Your being unable to comprehend =/= me being vague. And nah, this is my blog and you don’t get to tell me to shut up. You’re free to stay the hell away if you don’t want to see me talk, yet here you are anyway. Here, let me help you out with that.

PSA

lj-writes:

Some of you may be aware of the utter shitfire that my blog has become for the last day or so. You can read the post that first made the issue visible (link), and/or the one where I tried to clarify my stance (link) followed by a cliff notes version (link). There are also a bunch of other tiresome back-and-forths that have consumed this blog, if you have the time and fucks to give.

Given that some people are calling me a reylow now and have expressed discomfort at interacting with me, while others have given their support, at this point I’m a little uncertain who is comfortable with me following or reblogging from them and I don’t want to unwittingly cross anyone’s boundaries. So if you no longer want me interacting with you, please block me so there will be no misunderstanding or discomfort. Thank you.

On the same note, if you want posts and art of yours removed from my blog before you block, let me know. I generally won’t count posts where you are not the op (that is, posts where you are part of the reblog chain) as “yours,” so if you want those removed as well you’ll have to specify. I will decide on a case-by-case basis whether I will honor that request, depending on the size of your contribution to the thread.

I will delete everything I can find but due to the spotty nature of Tumblr search there may be things I miss, so it would be prudent to do your own search as well after I have given you the delete notice. And of course, if there are any previous URLs you’ll need to specify those as well.

If and when this whole “are you or are you not a Reylo” thing blows over, do you plan to excuse it all as a “social experiment” or a call-out of your own? Or will you stick by your “Reylo but not quite” stance?

My stance has been consistent from the start, and everything I have said is true and certainly not intended as trolling or an experiment. I guess it did inadvertently end up being something of a social experiment on the nature of Tumblr and the internet, though.

Recent asks roundup

Since there’s no need to clutter up this blog with even more of the same I’ll put recent asks in this post under the cut. If you want to be answered in a separate post fucking work for it.

@igbaddiejohnboyega Demanding a yes/no answer while willfully ignoring the fact that the word has usage and associations that I am emphatically against? Ignoring the answers that have already been given? Just another day on Tumblr, I guess.

@lunaaltare Ah yes, because after years of fandom blogging I do not know basic canon facts. What part of my saying that I don’t endorse this pairing, and that my one attempt to envision something like an endgame for them was OOC and a failure in retrospect, don’t you understand? Right, you never read the posts I linked because you’d rather jump to conclusions based on distorted hearsay from your friends.

@strongwilltm I’m still failing to see how yelling at someone and calling them names for curating their own inbox is not bitchy behavior. I didn’t apologize for calling her a bitch lmaoooo basic reading comprehension fail. I corrected my own mistake that I made when I answered her, but she still acted like a bitch and a bully when she called me a coward for saying I will delete repeat asks. Get that distinction? It’s interesting that she gets to call me a coward and a bitch with impunity but when I call her a bitch back, it’s racism.

Not only does your reading comprehension fail but you fail basic timeline, too. The two pieces of content I produced are both over a year old, it’s not “ALL OF A SUDDEN.” I mentioned them in passing, someone asked about it, and in the interest of full disclosure I linked and discussed them. The two posts didn’t get 20 notes between them (though the video prompted a couple of positive asks) and would not be an issue to this day if I hadn’t been honest and open about them. What betrayal?

@imagine-mystrade See above, I misled no one and it’s the exact opposite of misleading that started this mess. I removed the two pieces of your Finnrey art from my blog, plus one text post of yours I reblogged. I’m keeping a couple of posts where you happen to be in the reblog chain, plus your earlier ask since it’s a matter of record about this whole shitstorm. Let me know if there’s any art I missed, since Tumblr search can be a mess.

@rebelspies I was up front, that’s exactly what you’re mad at me about 😂😂😂