Ive Seen This Happen So Much In The Asoiaf Fandoms - Tumblr Posts

This drives me crazy. These characters are not real. As much as they’re relatable, and can feel real at times; they’re not living, breathing people. They can’t feel pain, trauma, happiness or guilt. Showing that character in pain, or suffering trauma is not harming them. They’re NOT real.

But you know who is? That person who has the “wrong opinion.” That artist who didn’t make the character to your liking. That writer who made a fic that you didn’t like. I’ve seen individuals and cliques in fandoms shrug off harassment, sending death threats, doxxing, and life ruination because said person expressed a dislike for a character or a pairing.

What’s worse is when the group enables that behavior and try to hand wave it away as someone “expressing their trauma” or they attempt to find dirt on the victim to justify it no matter how flimsy. Those people are culpable but if you’re an enabler you’re not different than the perpetrators.

It's really fucked up when you treat characters like people and people like characters.