My Fandom Approach

Things I’m 100% okay with in fandoms:

-Gender bend/swap/slide whatever you want to call it

-Sexual/romantic orientation headcanons

-Disability headcanons

-Race/Ethnicity bending/changing/swapping

-Body type swaps and changes!

-Time Period AUs

-Setting AUs

-AUs in general

-Aging up characters!

-All ships.

-Yes, all ships, even the ones I don’t like. ENJOY THEM. SHIPPING IS FUN!

-POLY SHIPS! MULTISHIPPING!

-Canon/oc ships

-Canon/oc babies

-Crossovers!

-Porn/Smut/Sex

-Yes, even the weird kinky porn/smut/sex

-Incest ships (even if there’s some I don’t care for myself)

-Dub-con/Non-con/Rape (Not my cup of tea but some people like it.)

-Knowing the difference between fantasy and reality.

-Blocking, unfollowing, and blacklisting things you don’t want to see.

Things I’m 100% against in fandoms:

-Being a dick to people about anything in the above list

-Harassing people

-Telling people they shouldn’t draw or write things because it makes you uncomfortable. Especially if the subject matter is avoidable.

-”I said this character is this gender/race/disability/etc so it’s CANON” No. No it’s not. Please do not confuse canon and headcanon. These are two very different things.

-Hyping a piece of fanon to people til they think it’s canon and they’re disappointed when they actually find out it’s not in the show. (The Lars is Trans fanon for example)

-Telling people they don’t get it when half the time they literally have a background in what they’re discussing/drawing/writing (like queer folks, folks of varying race or ethnicity, csa survivors, rape survivors, etc.)

-Telling people to kill themselves (illegal. STOP.)

-Being super rude to polite folks.

-Actually supporting rape/pedophilia/etc.

-False reporting artwork as child porn/questionable content to get it removed.

-Blogs that trash OCs.

-Being a general dick to people who like a thing “Ugh why do you like that, it’s gross.” “Wow you ship THAT? I don’t think we can be friends anymore.” etc.

-Kinkshaming, lord have mercy, kinkshaming.

-”Ugh, this fandom is so bad it’s becoming the new [insert supposedly bad fandom here]”

-”I saw one whole penis and therefore this fandom is ruined for me. :(”

-“I tried to be polite but people keep drawing things I hate.” Please understand…for just a moment…that the world…does not revolve around you. And neither does your fandom.

-Literally harassing people into stopping drawing, writing, etc.

-Running people out of a fandom

-Harassing people at home (also illegal??? STOP???)

-Doxxing people (AGAIN. ILLEGAL? STOP?)

-Making videos/posts/etc on other sites encouraging people to harass, stalk, or attack someone making content you don’t like. (I L L E G A L. S T O P.)

-Stalking, harassing, sharing porn with, and generally being creepy towards staff/actors/etc of the thing you’re a fan of.

-Stalking, harassing, sharing porn with, and generally being creepy towards artists/writers that you like or hate in the fandom.