#it’s human decency not to call someone the r slur over a ship

[tea-and-la]

i *love* that some people’s idea of atla being adding onto Netflix being a ‘mistake’ is bc of people “bashing” (in parenthesis bc some critiques do not equal bashing and most of the time, those critiques are of Bryke) aang.

instead of, you know, the fact that countless people in fandom have made an agenda of invalidating people’s LGBTQ+ identities j bc they don’t ship a certain ship, sending death and r*** threats to real human people, called bipoc “animals and implied that they were mentally ill. not to mention the groupchat of people on Twitter who banded together to make a “hit list” of zks to stalk and subsequently had plans to doxx and reveal their personal information.

and i’m not saying that this situation is unique to zks because I’ve heard that Zukkas also were unfortunately subjected to death threats, and hate etc. no one deserves that. and imo, THAT’S why putting atla on Netflix was a mistake. Bc some weirdos can’t handle that someone else likes a ship that’s different from theirs so they resort to violence. It’s never that serious.

#atla #atla fandom crit #what would your fave characters think of your actions towards other people? #i don’t like seeing extremely inaccurate takes of Aang either bc i like him #but when someone is just pointing out why they think a certain ship is incompatible without being extreme about it leave them alone #and at the end of the day these are CHARACTERS #critiques of them will NEVER hold the same weight as the people who think it’s ok to violent hate any fanbase #whether it’s Zutara or zukka #theres no reason to attack real people #that’s actually the reason ATLA fandom got bad #and so many people had to leave bc of their mental health and/or for their safety #we gotta start prioritizing being kind to real people #regardless of if they like our ship #it’s human decency not to call someone the r slur over a ship #or to imply that they’re faking their LGBTQ+ identity so they don’t seem het #there needs to be more inter fanbase kindness #literally why do some of the ppl in this fandom care enough to be so violent? #I personally don’t care if ppl like my ships but I care when people make whole assumptions about entire fanbases #i think ppl should ship what makes them happy #within reason ofc