You're welcome! This has been building since my earliest days in SW fandom, pretty much, but tumblr pretty much pushed me over the edge. Sometimes the child really is the father of the man! (Or at least the uncle.)
Oh, it's that I'm spending more time there atm, even though I don't much like it (I go where my fandoms go!). Because of the whole reblogging/tag-following structure, it's a bit easier to follow and participate in more than one fandom at a time, and I end up following lots of discussions that I'm not participating in, that are happening outside my own fannish circle. End result is that I see a lot of anti-woobie rants and "well, it's okay if you like him as long as you do it the way I think you should" and "why do fans of the character just talk about the things they like about him???" across all of my fandoms, even Shakespeare and Austen.
The particular conversation was about Tarrlok and Amon from LOK, and how their horrific childhood didn't make them who they are as adults, which ... uh, yes, it did? (It's made worse because it's quasi-canon that the particular form their abuse took opens people up to homicidal madness, and it began when they were around nine and six.) But that was really the last straw.
Yeah, because God forbid people who are fans of the character/pity the character/both act like they...y'know, are fans of the character/pity the character/both. And God forbid they actually acknowledge that Yakone's desire for vengeance and training his sons to use bloodbending might have actually influenced them for the negative. /sarcasm.
Seriously, that's just...ugh. I feel for you. :( *Hugs*
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The particular conversation was about Tarrlok and Amon from LOK, and how their horrific childhood didn't make them who they are as adults, which ... uh, yes, it did? (It's made worse because it's quasi-canon that the particular form their abuse took opens people up to homicidal madness, and it began when they were around nine and six.) But that was really the last straw.
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Seriously, that's just...ugh. I feel for you. :( *Hugs*
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