Yep. This. Oh so much, this. There’s only so many times that you can hear, “He/She is awful, and your opinion is wrong, and here’s all the reasons why you suck, and why this character you like is the Actual Worst,” before you start to feel somewhat attacked, despite all determination to keep out of the fray. Especially when you’ve actually made attempts to curate your fandom activity to stay in character-positive spaces. Double especially when the reasoning behind this character being the Actual Worst is that he/she is not the random commenter’s favourite character and/or was once in conflict (combat or otherwise) with the random commenter’s favourite character.
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