So the retired game Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade let our lovely Instructor dress down a little bit đ Thanks to @aurenareâ for letting me know about the costume and giving me the encouragement to make this picture happen.
Theyâre also insisting that he HAS to be Indian because heâs dark but like not dark like Hunk or Allura, (since thatâs how ethnicities work!) + (not that they ever bothered considering Hunk being black before~) & therefore ALSO a Muslim.
So now theyâre ranting that Adamâs death is not only homophobic & racist, but itâs also ISLAMOPHOBIC.
The default reaction whenever a sheither & an anti cross paths.
Why do so many people think South Asians only come in this one particular shade of brown? Aaaaaaaand they do know that Hinduism exists, right? And that skin color doesn’t equal religion anyway? Lil Anti here sounds like kind of stereotype-believing twit that would call us Paki in a heartbeat.
Thank Mr. Will James for the article he wrote on Toxic Shipping, Antis, and the Voltron fandom. It is wonderful to see adults in places of power and with voices speak about how terrible certain parts of our fandom are.
Iâm gunna quote a few of my favorite things. (bold is my emphasis)
âThis kind of performative outrage enables anti-shippers to harass others by providing a moral shield for their attacks. Antis justify sending death threats to fellow fans and creators because they claim people who support âbadâ ships promote those broadly objectionable things. Therefore, antis claim they are simply trying to protect their community from creating, engaging, and spreading inappropriate content (regardless if the content is actually inappropriate).â
and
âThough the majority of Voltron fans who ship Klance arenât antis, the majority of antis gravitate to Klance. Antis in the Voltron fandom began adopting the language of the social justice movement on Tumblr to justify their dislike for Sheith and other âshaladinâ ships (Shiro/Paladin), and vehemently argue creators shouldnât write or draw it. âSheith is problematic, and you shouldnât support itâ replaces the simpler âthis squicks meâ from LiveJournal. The term âfan wankâ is replaced with the more loaded term âfandom discourse.â As Tumblr user owl-song defined the term: âdonât call it wank, I am wanking about Very Serious Issues, you guys!â
In almost all cases, the reason a pairing is problematic is usually contrived â antis claim anyone who likes Sheith is supporting pedophilia (even though Shiro and Keith are both over 18), and incest (even though the characters are not related â a fact the show staff have repeatedly said).â
and
âAntis will also try to reach outside of the fandom to poison other people to the ship, which is ultimately what drove me to write this article. I saw a tweet saying âI hope the Dragon Prince fandom doesnât become Voltron 2.0.â I expected them to discuss the rampant death threats to fans and voice actors on Voltron, and how they were concerned the new Netflix animated show might suffer the same fate. Instead, they followed up with, âVoltron fandom is really toxic, there are all these people who like this pedo contentâŚâ This is a common anti-strategy â the goal is to convince people who donât have fandom context to think a pairing (or the people that support it) is harmful. This effectively gives the antis proxy fighters on Twitter and Tumblr â users who donât watch the show but will write call-out posts when they see people ship the target pairing.â
It is so good to finally have news sites calling out this bullshit for what it isâbullshit.Â
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