[ SECRET POST #5288 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5288 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Seconding this so hard.

To be honest, I tend to feel a little stifled by the current, unspoken but prominent "positivity only" attitude in fandom. I mean, obviously fandom has antis, and it also has social justice discourse, which are both largely negativity-based, but if your negative opinions/feelings about a thing aren't anti-ish or political--if you just don't like something and you kind of want to talk about it--there isn't much of a place for that in current-day fandom. Sure, you can post about it on tumblr, but even if you "tag your hate," and take care to express your opinions thoughtfully, and say "IMO" a lot, and only express negativity about things not people, and basically do everything right, just the simple fact that you're expressing negativity about something is often kind of frowned upon.

It's all very "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all," and I just personally find that so exhausting and, for me, it doesn't feel emotionally healthy.

I definitely DO feel like if you spend all or even a majority of your time being negative about things, that's going to be unpleasant for the people around you, and it's also probably not healthy for you either. It's cliché, but the whole "be defined by what you love, not what you hate" advice is, for the most part, really good advice, IMO. That said, feeling negatively about some things, and thinking critically about those things and why I don't like them, is also a part of me, and I really don't like it when expressing oneself is treated as invalid, or met with hostility, unless one's self-expression is positive.

[(Anonymous)]

It really depends on what fandom you are in. Some, like Star Wars and Doctor Who, are massively filled with negativity and in fact these days are more negative than positive, with people who want to be positive being the ones who get told they are wrong and should be quiet.

[(Anonymous)]

This. So much. -Thank you-.