Lady, EVOLVED 
apparently an organizational relic of a racist corner of late ’00s internet had a board meeting tonight and for that reason i am still not asleep
i really can’t be bothered to care that an organization which was explicitly established to provide safe harbour for hate speech also thinks genocide is okay and running meetings is hard
it is mildly distressing however that fans see people approaching their art with a mentality that all criticism and interrogation is suspect, that analysing the human costs and effects of a work is misguided and wrong, and that every form of speech, no matter how vile, is equally valuable and worthy of preservation—that fans see these takes brought out again and again and yet expect something other than the same old fascism from the people who make them
what do you think? that someone writing critical, compassionate fanfic can thrive here? that they will be taken seriously and able to make a difference? this system cares nothing for them and everything for the fanworks they hate
this is not hyperbole; if you care more about the preservation of a mythical fan identity, always figured as constantly under threat, than you do about actual human beings or, dare i say, the interrogation and advancement of the artform—into something more compassionate, more responsible, and more capable of enacting good in the world—then you have lost sight of your own humanity and certainly that of the people around you, and this ⁜is⁜ the founding and driving mythos of the organization of which i speak