I'm not even kidding SoR was supposed to be 1/4 of the story.
When I started plotting it out I went

...Ah yes. This is definitely going to need to be broken up. Several times. Because oof

Most people in this community are amazing! But that's how communities work tbh, there's great people and asshats in all of them.

Besides. I can't leave now.

I'll be mad for the rest of forever if I don't finish at LEAST shadows of recognition.

There's also like. Idk 4 half cooked fics in my docs

It's particularly frustrating because I can fully understand why some people have ended up jaded or defensive. And I see similar traits appearing in myself.

So I empathise with people who get snappy. It's just all so messy sometimes.

I lied there's more.

I'm in a few radiobelle communities right now If you this might be about you, you could be right. It's targeted at all of them. And also *myself*

Because hanging out in these spaces has made me a more negative person.

Hence why I'm angsting on main right now 🙃

Anyway. Just annoyed.

Sometimes just opening my drafts or a WIP drawing makes me tense up now. I want to get back to enjoying drawing.

The whole point is to have fun isn't it?
(Rant End)

But the justification for me being lashed out at was that they don't think I "understand something important to them" And it felt insulting.

FOR THE RECORD I started as a radioapple shipper. I am still a radioapple shipper.

You directly insult things that are important to me 8 times a week (5/6)

The negativity problem isn't with the other ships.

The call is coming from inside the house.

As a multi-shipper I sit around every day listening to people make passive aggressive Snipes at some of my favourite pairings. And I have yet to crash out about it. (4/6)

It wasn't the bullies.
It wasn't random strangers online telling me I hate lesbians. It wasn't weirdos telling me I'm being acephobic. Wasn't the antis. The trolls.

It was people I considered friends lashing out at me *again* because they were mad about some pedantic complaint about Viv. (3/6)

This space is full of people who consistently complain about the negativity in this fandom driving away great artists.
They talk about how radioapple fans and chaggie fans bully us. How it sucks that ship bullying drives so many people away from 🌈🦌.(2/6)