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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-12-18 06:35 pm

[ SECRET POST #2177 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2177 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2012-12-19 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
I've run across this a few times. DA2, mentioned up thread is a good example. The Elder Scrolls fandom is prone to this, especially Skyrim with the civil war questline. The conflict in universe is pretty nuanced and neither side is wholly good or bad (there are bigots on both sides, both sides have committed atrocities, and both choices are probably equally good/bad for the world in the long run). But dumbasses tend to reduce it down to Empire = Manifest Destiny vs. Stormcloaks = Nazis. Or (missing the point even more), Empire = Good Guys vs. Stormcloaks = Bad Guys. And everyone who plays a character on the "wrong" side of the war is automatically as bigoted as the worst people on that side.

which ignores the fact that TES:Skryim is a ROLEPLAYING game, in which you might play a character who's a murderous asshole, or a racist, or any number of other things, without believing or endorsing those things yourself.

I've also dealt with this personally with a pair of SPN fans. They are basically convinced that all of the supernatural things in the show are real, to the point where they've started making charms and putting lines of salt around their windows and shit. I'm a skeptical atheist, I don't even believe in souls, and they started harassing me because I didn't subscribe to their particular brand of crazy. (Hence why I'm anon, because jfc.)