Honestly I Feel Like My Bad Experience With Fandom Steps Into A Larger Problem.

Honestly I feel like my bad experience with fandom steps into a larger problem.

Society has become a d-measuring rat race and we get punished for doing what makes us happy no matter what it is or why That’s been the case for for conceptualizing reimagined RWBY AU and niche writing in the past.

It’s made for “the wrong people” when I should be writing for “the right people”

I don’t mean to sound like a hippy, but society seems to have become so egocentric, all to the benefit to an elite who has hijack the concept of the greater good to work to their benefit.

There's no respect for anyone and their limits and boundaries and tastes from the broad things to nitty gritty details or walks of live regardless if they are moral or not

Everything it pit against each other, majority or minority, niche or mass, objective or subjective, individual or collective.

It's no longer "I'm different than you."

It's now "I'm these things and like these things and dislike these things because I'm a better person than you."

It's not just politics, its pop-culture, hobbies, jobs, everything.

The more I look up CS Lewis and remember GK Chesterton, the more I realize how screwed up everything is.

If you're planning to make the Schnees much less wealthy (as in no longer billionaires) then making Jacques a good guy could be interesting, but if he's a billionaire he by definition cannot be a good guy

The Schnees in this AU along the 3 other top companies in Atlas even back in their heyday wouldn’t be what I would call “Billionaires”, I’m not sue what level of wealthy I would call them. Definitely enough that they made their fame during the Northern equivalent of America’s Gilded Age and last for a good long 75 years

The Billionaire spot would go to Watts with GigaWatts Incorporated

The SDC drew limits, Jack knew when it was enough, and he kept afloat much of the time until Watts came in and exploited the anti-Faunus Sentiment of the North along with his “miraculous” development in technology, along with the attacks from The Rats now the SDC is starting to run on fumes, Jack’s begun selling his stuff too. It’s not fun.

Speaking as a Catholic, doing the right thing will put you at odds with the world

If there’s any suggestions, I’d gladly listen

I think the proper concern is how you go about these things, and how you treat people who don’t like it

For a personal example for the latter, I don’t like certain dark shows because they were too much for me, but a friend of mine related to my sentiment and explained why it works for a lot of people and how it’s a means to an end for something good

His kindness helped me understand while I don’t like it, it’s ultimately from a place of goodness and my friend liked these show out of virtue

These characters are not real, but people who are unhappy with how their stories turned out are real, and how you treat them may affect their understanding. Now if their just acting outright self-entitled and disrespectful then that’s another story.

As for the former, when it’s done out of shock value or anything that seems off, it can send a bad message, but even that may not have been the intent.

I really think everyone needs to truly internalize this:

Fictional characters are objects.

They are not people. You cannot "objectify" them, because they have no personhood to be deprived of. They have no humanity to be erased. You cannot "disrespect" them, because they are not real.

fuck it. shout out to "high functioning" neurodivergents

the ones who can mask easily, the ones who can get social cues, the ones who have managed to go most of their life not even knowing they were ND because they didn't present as the stereotypical ND person.

the ones who can pay attention in class, understand social etiquette, who understand societial expectations

the ones who don't feel neurodivergent enough bc they don't struggle in the same ways/areas a lot of NDs do, or they can't relate to other NDs' experiences because they always understood these things easily

the ones with high empathy, the ones who DO get the joke, the ones who are constantly told that they can't possibly be neurodivergent because they don't act like what you'd expect a neurodivergent person to act like.

you are neurodivergent enough. you are valid, and so are your experiences. not struggling as much as others do in some places doesn't mean you dont struggle at all. your condition and diagnosis is valid. your symptoms are valid. YOU ARE VALID. not checking all the supposed boxes doesn't mean you aren't neurodivergent. you are enough. you are valid. you are loved. you are valued. you matter. you belong in neurodivergent spaces, you deserve to use whatever resources are available to you, you are allowed to take up space in these communities. and i am so, so proud of you.

feel free to, and actually, i encourage you to reblog this with your experiences. we belong in this community as much as anyone else. please also tag this w/ any neurodivergent conditions i may have forgotten 💙

since this is getting lots of notes I'd like to add, even if you're undiagnosed or maybe self diagnosed, for whatever reason, (i.e. can't get access to a diagnosis, not being taken seriously, or just not wanting an official diagnosis, etc.) this still applies to you. actually especially to you folks. don't think for a second you're not valid just bc you don't have the paperwork or whatever to say it

Six heroes. One destiny. (January 2021)

Ayyy a new RWBY Evermorrow AU design - this time it's Glynda! Please never let me draw silk /and/ leather at once jeez