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[anghraine]

I keep forgetting that antis are still chugging along, just that it's mostly not in places where I see them, so when I saw comments about how a professional YA/MG author is a "proshipper freak" and that's probably why they (the author) were influenced by anime, it's just like ... wow, y'all still haven't found a better hobby?

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[sathari]

...do I want to know? (Icon is relevant to my question.)

[lizbee]

I absolutely want to know!

[anghraine]

I glanced at the notes on a post about Xiran Jay Zhao (who is actually on Tumblr) and they were full of antis clutching their pearls about Zhao's dastardly proshipper ways and how this freakishness explains why their(Zhao's) debut novel is partly inspired by anime (...........). It was batshit and nearly all the notes were like that, which I was genuinely surprised by at this point in Tumblr's life-cycle. I just don't see a lot of them there these days. But apparently they're clinging on to relevance in some quarters.

[lizbee]

Ohhhh yes, it does make sense that they'd go after a non-binary Asian person writing a queer romance.

[anghraine]

Yepppp.

[dragoness_e]

As far as I can tell, they are just annoying the adults on Tumblr. The only people who take them seriously are each other, and some innocent children who get sucked into their cliques.