So I saw a post a few days ago. The gist of it basically was that tumblr culture is fucked because people simply aren’t allowed to sympathize with villains anymore. “Remember all the Loki sympathy?” The post asks. “Whatever happened to that?” So I’ve been thinking two things about said post, both of which are, tbh, a bit contradictory. That’s why I’m venting mostly is just because I wonder if opening this up for discussion might help me reconcile my thoughts a bit.
Content Warning for Mentions of Fascist Ideologies, Anti-Blackness in fandom and Orientalism
Only reblogging this again because I saw a meta post by a Reylo shipper recently that I wanted to interact with but I refrained because I was worried that they’d assume I was doing so from a place of hostility and/or it would open them up to harassment down the reblog chain. This made me think of this post and how the general climate around liking villain characters has changed in fandom, in ways I like and ways I don’t.
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