You Don't Have To Accept An Entire Fandom To Enjoy It. Fandom Can Be Your 3 Friends And A Corn Chip And

you don't have to accept an entire fandom to enjoy it. fandom can be your 3 friends and a corn chip and honestly that's gonna make you much happier in the long run.

So I stumbled on this tik tok today and tried my best to only include the text bc I’m not trying to attack anyone or bring to much attention to it since im only using it as an example.

this is something that I’m very tired of seeing in fandom spaces, especially on the internet and especially in the pjo fandom. I myself LOVE Percabeth and I hate perachel, (I think that’s the first time I’ve typed “perachel” lol) But what I’ve learned to do growing up in this fandom is that yes, I CAN BLOCK ANYONE WHO POSTS ABOUT PERACHEL. AND SO CAN YOU. I CAN BLCOK THE PERACHEL TAG. AND SO CAN YOU. I DONT HAVE TO INTERACT WITH OTHER PEOPLE WHO SHIP PERACHEL. AND NEITHER DO YOU. Bc what ends up happening when you get into an unwarranted debate with someone over fictional characters over the internet is that you end up insulting REAL PEOPLE. PEOPLE THAT EVEN OF YOU BELIEVE TO BE “STUPID” OR “WEIRD” OR WHATEVER, AT THE END OF THE DAY. YOU DONT KNOW THAT.

DONT BE MEAN TO REAL PEOPLE OVER FICTIONAL CHARACTERS.

and it’s not just with the Percabeth vs perachel debate you can use the “out of sight out of mind” mentality with any other topic in any other fandom. Nerdy fandom things are supposed to be fun, and there is nothing wrong with blocking or ignoring people who don’t share the same opinions as u. With so many other things in the real world that actually do need to be debated on and thought hard about, fictional stories doesn’t have to be one of them. Not if it’s gonna cause harm to real people.

They just don’t assassinate politicians like they used to anymore

Annabeth is like Jesus in the way she was given to a virgin (Frederick) by a god (Athena) and then had to sacrifice herself ( look for the Athena Parthenon) to have the sins of the damned forgiven (camp halfblood and camp Jupiter)

my birthday wish for percy jackson is that rick riordan stops writing him ❤️🫶🏻 happy birthday king

the thing about annabeth is that if you just don't like her personality it's fine. if you just don't vibe with her it's literally fine. no one is valid for coming at you if you just say "tbh she just annoys me" because everyone has pet peeves and personality types that they find grating and honestly people are way too sensitive on here about people making benign comments like "I don't like X character/ship" when it like doesn't affect them at all

but I am confused by how annabeth haters always seem to cling to the strangest events/actions in her life as objectively logical, justifiable reasons to hate on her like specifically the scene in tartarus with her and percy and akhlys? what do you mean you hold disdain towards a child for not having a perfectly sane and pleasant reaction to an extremely traumatic life or death situation? like do you Hear yourself. you sound like a parent who yells at their kid for crying. it's wild

she obviously loves percy and would die for him as evidenced in canon countless times and the feeling is mutual, so the twisting of that specific situation into some moral failing on her part or a crime against percy (as well as prioritizing percy's feelings and not allowing any validity to hers in the slightest) just tells me that these people have never been able to grasp the complexity of a morally ambiguous scene with a single degree of nuance or fairness in their lives and they should probably never attempt to read a book above middle schooler-grade level tbqh