Feeling very, very Tired is pretty much my standard mode of operation these days in a lot of fandom spaces. I'm not at all surprised that this nonsense got extended to everything from anthropomorphic cookies all the way to bloody Transformers. It's the reason why I view the whole thing as a complete farce and just mute / block anyone who even remotely starts howling about some random character's MinorTM status.
"this female character is LESBIAN, they're EXCLUSIVELY A LESBIAN, they're THE BIGGEST DYKE" in the fandom, which... like, I'm old enough where that no longer feels transgressive, y'know?
Exactly this. And it doesn't feel even remotely transgressive because it almost always relies to two asinine things. Shitting all over what headcanons are actually supposed to mean (a personal interpretation of a character or event in canon, that's not necessarily supported by canon and that no one else in fandom is automatically obligated to accept) and also shitting over the ability of other queer people (bi, pan, ace, aro, etc) to headcanon characters in any way they wish. It's another hallmnark of radical feminism's encroachment into transformative fandom, this notion that only Exclusive-Same-Gender-Attraction matters and everyone else had better make do with table-scraps.
Crossing my fingers for you and hoping the further lore developments are delicious and the fandom-policers easy to ignore. 'Trope-riddles insanity' and 'Very Anime' both sound right up my alley, but unfortunately, I don't really get along well with mobile games. Partly because phone screens are too small for my legal blindness, partly because my phone itself is so old and janky that it can't run much of anything. ^^;
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Date: 21/10/19 13:53 (UTC)"this female character is LESBIAN, they're EXCLUSIVELY A LESBIAN, they're THE BIGGEST DYKE" in the fandom, which... like, I'm old enough where that no longer feels transgressive, y'know?
Exactly this. And it doesn't feel even remotely transgressive because it almost always relies to two asinine things. Shitting all over what headcanons are actually supposed to mean (a personal interpretation of a character or event in canon, that's not necessarily supported by canon and that no one else in fandom is automatically obligated to accept) and also shitting over the ability of other queer people (bi, pan, ace, aro, etc) to headcanon characters in any way they wish. It's another hallmnark of radical feminism's encroachment into transformative fandom, this notion that only Exclusive-Same-Gender-Attraction matters and everyone else had better make do with table-scraps.
Crossing my fingers for you and hoping the further lore developments are delicious and the fandom-policers easy to ignore. 'Trope-riddles insanity' and 'Very Anime' both sound right up my alley, but unfortunately, I don't really get along well with mobile games. Partly because phone screens are too small for my legal blindness, partly because my phone itself is so old and janky that it can't run much of anything. ^^;