#stop shaming people
Stop shaming people for doing what makes them happy if it doesn’t cause you any harm.
Fall in love with the moon every night, listen to an overrated song on repeat, watch that one average movie with your favourite actor in it and then watch everything else that involves that actor, be obsessed with shitty art, take photos of the sky until your gallery is full, follow the trend everyone else is following, it will be different for you because you are a different person with different experiences and tastes and secrets and pains, follow that famous youtuber, love that stupid new tiktok trend, read cliché fanfictions and love those “for children” movies, play foreign music, get that hairstyle, start a meme page, put an overly used quote as your status, believe in magic, celebrate little victories that only you know about, don’t let them shame you into not living your life. Fuck them.
I will say, the trend to shame people for just liking a simple, trope-heavy story (written for free and for fun) as an escape is shitty as hell.
Why do we have to be shamed for this? Like damn y'all, I’m sorry we’re not making the homemade media we use to decompress from the ridiculous grind of whatever we’re all going through realistic enough or accurate enough??
Sometimes, it’s about the hurt/comfort. And fucking hell, sometimes the person hurting that needs comfortisme.
Yes. I need all the tropes to get me through sometimes. And sometimes I need the toxic, problematic tropes because life sucks, and I really want to read about characters I love hurting and then getting better. I want the hurt to be extreme and the comfort to be extreme. Because I need to be comforted.
