Someone wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets 2018-01-27 10:01 pm (UTC)

Re: What fandom trends do you dislike?

Aggressive head!canons of characters that are drenched in social justice superiority that get tagged around with "you're a bad person if you don't acknowledge Character X is autistic, genderqueer, trans, and asexual" etc. Usually they are based off of minimal evidence, and just are so smug.

I don't care how people interpret characters. Really. I interpret pretty much everyone as gay or bi so I can't judge. In my opinion, if it's something that's capable of reading between the lines for, then it's valid (and hey, even if you want to change canon to support it, fandom is supposed to be about having fun and enjoying the media, so why not). But what's with all the viciousness in trying to force others to support your headcanon? Or the sort of passive-aggressive guilting to get other people to do it? ("Character X is genderqueer JUST LIKE ME and helped me get through a ROUGH PATCH IN MY LIFE so it's hard to see others not acknowledge it") is one recent example I came across.

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