Oh this again, oh no.

This is the goddamned tip of the iceberg, and everybody knows it. When it comes to Dain and character-bashing, it isn’t just this one instance, or even a handful. It is of epidemic proportions. There are easily ten times as many Villain!Dain fics as Good!Dain fics. Easily. 

I do not intend to approach the artist, and I wish them well. I can want Dain-positivity and be sad about the flood of Dain-bashing without inspiring wank, and would be 9000% ready to shut that shit down if it occurred in my name, because I do not and never will condone it.

I am upset about the message (inadvertent or not – though I can’t see how, after that dismissive answer to the anon) in a piece of fanwork. After an avalanche of this stuff over the last few days. And I assume that, from the above, you are telling me it’s preferable for me to be silently miserable about what upsets me. That it’s not okay for me to be upset on my own blog…?

I have hashed this out before. I am not a corporation, I am a person, singular. A human. And this is my personal blog.  I have tags. I have warned for those tags. I do not tag names, nor do I tag ships or characters in order to spread it around. People can choose to blacklist my clearly-warned-for tags.

I am also tired of defending my goddamned right to be upset on my blog bc people don’t want to hear that I am, in fact, not seventeen omnipotent, deliriously happy puppies chained to a keyboard.

Anon, I know you mean well. But telling me to be quiet when I’m sad and tearing my hair out isn’t very nice.