thurstonfluff:

The sad, sad cry of the turdwaffle 😿

itunkala-okicita:

*minor inconvenience happens*

Character: *falls ill for some reason and almost fucking dies*

freedom-of-fanfic:

freedom-of-fanfic:

freedom-of-fanfic:

freedom-of-fanfic:

Like 93% of the self-contradictory behavior of fandom antis clicks into place when you realize the majority of them are victims of right wing authoritarian training from birth

Here, ‘right wing’ means ‘hates social change & prefers the established order/traditional way of doing things’, not ‘republican’. (Though in America it’s Republicans who have been taken over by right wing authoritarians. (Specifically Christian fundamentalist authoritarians.))

Authoritarianism can also be ‘left wing’, meaning ‘wants to overthrow the established order/traditional way of doing things’. people who supported Stalin when he overthrew Russia’s rulers would have been left-wing authoritarians.

All it takes to be an eager follower of authoritarian rule of any kind is

• being very, very afraid
• pretending you’re not afraid by being self-righteous

And reacting with

• dogmatic loyalty to your ingroup – anyone who agrees with you – and your chosen leader to the point of defying logic, reason, and truth
• burning resentment towards people who make you aware of your fear – and taking it out on a scapegoat (someone who you can pretend is scary, but you know can’t hurt you back)
• deciding that you and your group is so afraid of something Right about everything that it’s your duty to wipe out the thing you’re afraid of the Evil you oppose – and make everybody else agree (or pretend to agree) with you along the way.

like @curlicuecal said: authoritarianism can be found anywhere, and authoritarians can walk all kinds of life paths. it takes root wherever a would-be despot finds enough scared, hyper-submissive people they can rally to their cause and start crusading with.

I mean, fandom antis aren’t political right-wingers, but they’re doing just fine at this, aren’t they?

someone said:

• People who dont like pedophilia are radical right wingers now huh?

first of all, a fun fact: most people who call literally everyone who they don’t like ‘pedophiles’ actually are radically right-wing – both politically and in the ‘everything that isn’t traditional is bad’ sense. like: antis literally lifted this tactic from fundamentalist Christians who say all gay people are pedophiles.

‘people who disagree with me are sexual perverts!!!’ is the most right-wing propaganda tactic there is.

that aside: please read more closely.

I don’t think fandom antis are right wing authoritarians: I think a whole bunch of them are the kids of right wing authoritarians.

I think their parents instilled all their own fear and anger and hatred and rigidity into their kid’s brain from day one. and after stuffing their kid with all this fear and alarm about the chaotic world out there … what should we expect their kids to feel when they realize they’re LGBT+/queer, or have a mental illness, or don’t believe in the same God as their parents do, or whatever else puts them on the ‘wrong’ side of order vs chaos?

If they don’t outright oppress & bury their own self-awareness – if they tentatively venture out and look for their own people – is it reasonable to expect adolescents who grew up trained for an authoritarian lifestyle to not fall facefirst into politically leftist spaces that promise authoritarian safety, rigidity, aggression and leadership? is it a surprise that many of them settle into spaces that keeps the things that might still scare them (their sexuality and their awareness of it, their gender, their sex drive or lack thereof) strictly off-limits? that lets them blow off their anger in familiar patterns of aggression towards outsiders? that lets them keep feeling like a Good Person despite their fear otherwise?

my point is this:

are all fandom antis from homes like this? of course not. anti-shipping isn’t a monolith, though the authoritarian part of it is by far the most organized.

Do all people who grew up in authoritarian homes react this way when they realize they don’t fit the proper mold? Heck no: a lot of people break out of authoritarian thinking as a whole when ejected from the fold like this.

but when I look at fandom anti-shipping as a movement that is primarily authoritarian in operation & design, a lot of the things I couldn’t understand before begin to make sense. (which I’ll elaborate on someday, I’m sure.)

re: this part of my argument above:

Authoritarianism can also be ‘left wing’, meaning ‘wants to overthrow the established order/traditional way of doing things’. people who supported Stalin LENIN when he overthrew Russia’s rulers would have been left-wing authoritarians.

1) I totally meant to say ‘Lenin’ there. this is what happens when I add a sentence at the last minute before hitting ‘post’. 

2) @korrasera​ says I’m wrong about left-wing authoritarianism being a thing in this reblog and as I think I get lost easily in right wing vs left wing semantics, she’s probably right. please check out what she has to say.

ikarimonster:

//EDIT: THE SCULPTURE HAS BEEN FOUND!♥

Lost sculpture needed back – please share!

I’m helping out a fellow Finnish artist who had a very unfortunate thing happen to her. A design shop called the Arctic Design Shop in Rovaniemi Finland sold her thesis work by accident and she needs it back!

The work was sold to an American girl who can have the sculpture back right after the maker has finished her thesis! She only needs it for the exhibition. The maker has asked if the shop has the buyers information but they don’t.

Please spread this and contact the email if you have any information about the whereabouts of the statue!