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F!S Anon Meme (the Seventh, and now on DW!)

Secrets, rants, opinions, anything you want to say about your fandom or a fandom or fandom in general, do it here! Anonymously, of course. Get it all off your chest.

Some ground rules:
1. Going anon is encouraged but not absolutely required (for those who struggle with captchas and stuff).
2. No autoplaying/autolooping embeds, or embeds that cover/stretch the screen.
3. No dropping personal info or IRL contact info, etc.

That's about it, though!

I'll be linking some general/general-fandom threads I see so people don't repost new threads with the same stuff.

Unpopular Ships
Obligatory Masturbation Thread
Fandoms you wish existed
How old are you?
What series have you always meant to watch/read/play/etc. but have never?
Time and location
Female-centric works
How do you feel about Tumblr?
Pet thread
Guilty pleasure thread
Favorite old shows
First fandom?

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

My irrational hatred of anime is starting to impact some of my friendships. It's not even that I don't want to watch it--I don't want to talk about it, hear about it, acknowledge its existence.

And yet, many of my friends are huge anime fans. I have to literally leave the room when they watch it/discuss series. I feel like a complete asshole, but otherwise I get irrationally angry.

And, no, there is no series that I will like. My ex (who raped me pretty violently) tried to find the series that I would like, as if it were some kind of challenge. And yes, I realize that the above may be part of my issues (rape/misogyny is kinda linked in my head to anime now), but honestly I hated it even before him.

It makes coming to FS kinda annoying even. I don't want to be "that person," but I totally am.

[(Anonymous)]

Then tell your friends it bothers you and ask them not to talk about it around you.

Or get new friends.

Or just suck it up. Seriously. It's just cartoons from japan it's not a bigger deal than any western piece of animation.

[(Anonymous)]

not ayrt

dude what

anime is legit (not tumblr attention seeking) triggering this person what is wrong with you

[(Anonymous)]

Wait are you saying "suck it up" to a person who has just stated to being raped by a person with a connection to anime? O.o

[(Anonymous)]

you kind of suck fyi

[(Anonymous)]

I hate to bring up what now sounds like clichéd advice, but is there any way for you to find a therapist, psychologist, etc. to talk this over with?

Avoiding anime is your best bet right now, but if there is some way to disassociate all this in your mind, that would be better for you in the long run.

If your friends don't know about your ex, and only if you want to, you could tell them that you associate anime with a relationship that went sour regardless of series and that you would rather not talk about it and that's why you leave the room, without bringing up the more personal details.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

You owe it to yourself, anon.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sorry that you had such a terrible experience with your ex, but I can't imagine why you would have hated anime (or any other medium) even before that. They're CARTOONS.

Well in any case, I would do what the above anon said: tell your friends that anime is linked in your mind to a really bad past incident and that's why you can't stand hearing about it. But if they're your main group of friends and you hang out with them all the time, I'm sorry but you might have to find some new friends.