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"we want more mental illness rep!" usually means "i want my favorite woobified characters to wax poetic about their trauma". If they made a character have ocd, bpd, or a non-glorified version of ptsd (underdogs) most of y'all would hate those characters for being 'mean', 'morally corrupt', 'abusive', or 'whiny'. the larger fandom despises most characters who mildly resonate with mentally ill folk, there's no way y'all could handle an accurately written depiction of stigmatized conditions lol (1)

I'm getting tired of the sly remarks to Cinderpelt becoming a medicine cat instead of a warrior. Fifth book in and I'm still getting the usual line, Fireheart couldn't shake off how Cinderpelt could no longer be a warrior or have a mate or have kits. SHE CLEARLY IS A GREAT MEDICINE CAT. So yea, maybe she was a fail queen two books ago when she had to learn to live with this disability, but she did learn! Yellowfang was a mean ol' granny, but clearly understood how well she adapted to the new role. It's not the worst depiction of becoming disabled, since you know in warrior cats society every able cat aspires to be a warrior and to lose that is everything and to find a new role that aids the entire clan in more ways than one is a great success story. Fireheart stays whiny for too long about Cinderpelt, imo.

When someone says Clara Oswald is a perfect Mary Sue manic pixie dream girl with no flaws

well now that The Thing has happened in USAmerica I am once again gripping your shoulders very tightly and practically begging you to remember that now is not the time to accuse fanwriters and fanartists and shippers of being degenerates because they made some icky fan works you don’t like.

It is also not the time to wish for censorship to strike down the works you personally don’t like because things don’t work that way, they won’t just go after the things you don’t like, they will also go after the fan works you like.

please, please, I am begging you guys, don’t do it. do not make these next four (or maybe more) years harder for yourselves and others.