An Open Letter to Fandom
Dec. 6th, 2018 03:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kari_izumi Hi, folks.
This is my first comm post in....gosh, I can't even remember how long. Probably well before I joined the Navy and that was before iPad was a thing.
But wow, it's sure cool to be back on an LJ-like place again...one whose culture of inclusion, and particularly that of the original FFR, I didn't appreciate nearly as much as I should have:
( Because boy, was i not only woefulli ignorant, but arrogant as fuck )
Here's what I'm coming to in all this, and I need to say it because it's been at least ten years overdue:
Thank you to all those who fought for everyone to be included in fandom.
Thank you to all those who set me and other useful idiots straight, and tried to educate us. You guys are the reason I did exactly that when I created my discourse sideblog.
Thank you for those who, when I tried justifying nasty behavior I'd received, because I didn't believe in being a hypocrite, told me I didn't deserve bashing like that over a stupid error (even one that I or one of my four betas should've picked up on before chapter 15, but...)
Thank you to the mod Theo_Harrison in particular. We had a bit of a dust-up at the FFRR once where you assumed I was being a bigot for enabling bad behavior. We eventually resolved it but it's a post I come back to and I show anytime anyone speaks over minorities (especially trans people like yourself IIRC) as an example of what not to do (ie, what I did, lol) and that we aren't done growing our minds until we're six feet under.
Thank you to every person who every single fanfic writer. Every last one of you, from the drabble writers to those who been 300k epics; from canon-compliant works to crack fics that turn characters into ducks for no reason other than the author could; from those who plot to those who writing off the cuff; for those who who wrote slash lemons in secret so that kids today can write their mlm G-rated domestic AUs in the open--and to actually have it be labeled G-rated and not bumped up for virture of being queer
And just know that if and when the Great Tumblr Migration wanders over here once that place shuts down for good and the antis try to come in here to pull the same ill informed bullshit I did, I will be here to defend every single last one of you and your right to write your stories in peace.
With all of the love,
One Grumpy Old Fandom Mom ( 😉)
This is my first comm post in....gosh, I can't even remember how long. Probably well before I joined the Navy and that was before iPad was a thing.
But wow, it's sure cool to be back on an LJ-like place again...one whose culture of inclusion, and particularly that of the original FFR, I didn't appreciate nearly as much as I should have:
( Because boy, was i not only woefulli ignorant, but arrogant as fuck )
Here's what I'm coming to in all this, and I need to say it because it's been at least ten years overdue:
Thank you to all those who fought for everyone to be included in fandom.
Thank you to all those who set me and other useful idiots straight, and tried to educate us. You guys are the reason I did exactly that when I created my discourse sideblog.
Thank you for those who, when I tried justifying nasty behavior I'd received, because I didn't believe in being a hypocrite, told me I didn't deserve bashing like that over a stupid error (even one that I or one of my four betas should've picked up on before chapter 15, but...)
Thank you to the mod Theo_Harrison in particular. We had a bit of a dust-up at the FFRR once where you assumed I was being a bigot for enabling bad behavior. We eventually resolved it but it's a post I come back to and I show anytime anyone speaks over minorities (especially trans people like yourself IIRC) as an example of what not to do (ie, what I did, lol) and that we aren't done growing our minds until we're six feet under.
Thank you to every person who every single fanfic writer. Every last one of you, from the drabble writers to those who been 300k epics; from canon-compliant works to crack fics that turn characters into ducks for no reason other than the author could; from those who plot to those who writing off the cuff; for those who who wrote slash lemons in secret so that kids today can write their mlm G-rated domestic AUs in the open--and to actually have it be labeled G-rated and not bumped up for virture of being queer
And just know that if and when the Great Tumblr Migration wanders over here once that place shuts down for good and the antis try to come in here to pull the same ill informed bullshit I did, I will be here to defend every single last one of you and your right to write your stories in peace.
With all of the love,
One Grumpy Old Fandom Mom ( 😉)