The SPN fandom is trash. Stop ignoring it.
You’ve probably seen some fanarts from @eliciadonze . She’s been getting a lot of hate from this fandom for years. Slurs, death and rape threats, victim blaming, everything you can imagine.
And this every single day, no matter what she did. Because it’s not really about who she is or what she draws. She never did anything wrong. It’s about people being cruel and/or jealous, and especially about people and this fandom in general feeling entitled. Because after all, everyone else does it. After all, she should just shut up about it. After all, you’re just telling her what to do, you know better, it’s not hate but advice.
The entitlement in the so called “spn family” is huge. And the hypocrisy : reblogging Jared’s mental health related stuff, buying “you’re not alone” shirts but not giving a fuck about an artist getting PTSD because of us.
This fandom is attempting to kill her. This is happening right now.
It’s tempting to just leave this fandom which, as Elicia said, cares more about 3 fictional guys than a real person. But it’s the easy way out. Less guilt, but no help.
So, if you’ve ever appreciated Elicia’s art, stand up for her. Spread the word that anyone who has an issue with her isn’t welcome on your blog. That you don’t want them to share what you create or reblog. Write it in brakets underneath your fanarts, your gifs, your fanfics. Message famous blogs, try to make them react. Ask your mutuals about Elicia, block them if they frown. Also go buy her a Ko-Fi if you can’t commission, because the hate is also ruining her career.
And speaking about this is not “ruining the mood of the fandom”. Anyone displeased by seeing people standing up for Elicia shouldn’t be welcome in this fandom anyway.
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This.
Also, I know it’s tempting to knee jerk and go “but I don’t do this!” And if you’re having that reaction, pause and ask: okay, but what are you doing to stop it?
Do you speak up when you see someone being hurtful? Do you listen when Elicia speaks openly about the abuse she deals with? Do you make active efforts to lift her up like we pretend family is supposed to do? Do you try to hear what she actually asks for, what will actually help?
Can you do these things – baseline human compassion – without getting pissed and lashing out at her if you don’t get a cookie like some jackass on a dating site?
I’m the last guy in the world to have warm feelings about the family concept, and SPN fandom is legendarily broken, but if we’re going to hitch our wagons to the concept of having one another’s backs on a human level, it might be good if we could do that for our peers as well as our faves.
Okay so imagine you ask somebody to tell you a riddle.
They turn to you and they say “the south pole.“
You say “what?”
They just repeat “the south pole!“
So you press them for some sort of explanation. They urge you to figure it out on your own, they say it’ll be better that way. They give you an hour to figure it out.
So you set to trying to figure it out, but every five minutes, they say something like “you still haven’t gotten it? It’s going to be great when you do!” or “but what do I mean by that?“ or “don’t forget: the south pole!”
And then, the hour’s up, and you still have no idea what they mean.
“Okay, are you ready for this?” They ask you. You say yes, and they say:
“Where can I build a house with four walls, all facing north?”
And of course, you reply “the south pole.“
Now, I imagine you’re pretty unsatisfied. You feel like, if you had been given the riddle to begin with, you would have had a lot of fun trying to figure it out
But instead, you were given the answer at the beginning, and it just feels like your friend just spent a full hour enjoying watching you squirm while you tried to figure out what the riddle was
And that’s the problem I have with how Steven Moffat constructs his seasons of Doctor Who