easchechter:

eliciadonze:

99thpercentile:

thought experiment:

a fanartist shares her work online. it’s good. astonishingly good, so good that even people outside of fandom can appreciate it.

is it okay to send this artist death threats?

this artist is a bit arrogant maybe? like she sometimes responds to compliments on her artwork with agreement. she believes she’s extremely talented and doesn’t act humble about it or downplay it.

how about now? are death threats okay? what about rape threats?

you think her artwork might be fake, actually. most people’s first response to seeing her art is “this isn’t a photo???” and now you’re looking at it and…maybe it IS a photo and she’s just put a filter over it/done some clever editing in photoshop. you feel duped.

is it okay to send her death threats now? or rape threats? or maybe a message telling her to kill herself? she’s faking art for popularity, after all.

even if her art isn’t fake, she seems to produce a lot of fandom wank and drama. she constantly whines about the hate she gets, probably just to get sympathy points. maybe she’s also faking the supposed hate she gets for attention.

hell, if she wants to be pitied for getting hate, why not give her some? is it okay to send death threats, rape threats, suicide baiting at this point?

people say nice things to her and she bites their head off. she posts the anon hate she gets, including some of the graphic rape threats, without trigger warnings. she ignores advice to turn off anonymous messages and block/report the people who send her hate. she seems mean. she seems utterly unwilling to accept help.

how about now?

considering all of that, is it okay to send her death threats? rape threats? suicide baiting?

I sincerely fucking hope you already know the answer is no, no, no, no, no, it is never fucking okay to send those things to someone. not even if they seem like an obstinate asshole who gets way more credit than they deserve.

and you’ve probably already guessed that this is about a real person. if you’ve been in fandom spaces for any length of time, you’ve almost certainly seen art by @eliciadonze (also known as euclase). that art you saw and went “I’m sorry did you say this was a drawing?!?” was probably hers. she’s amazing. and she’s been getting hate, death threats, rape threats, suicide baiting, every single day, primarily from the Supernatural fandom,

for 10+ years

it’s not fucking okay. even if you believe every rumor you’ve heard about her or you’ve personally seen how she handles the hate she gets and you disapprove. if you’ve ever sent Elicia a hateful message, you are cordially invited to fucking unfollow me.

for the record,

1. she really is that talented
2. she worked hard for that talent and how much pride she takes in it is not up to you
3. she gets hate when anon is off, and she turns it on so she can post the hate, because posting non-anon hate is dangerous for her
4. she posts the hate because sometimes she just doesn’t fucking want to be alone with it anymore, which is completely understandable
5. it’s not suspicious that she later deletes the hate. she’s allowed to not want to keep their vitriol up on her blog, for any reason
6. blocking and reporting people who send her hate is dangerous for her
7. she gets hate on every platform and through her email. she cannot turn this off if she just, like, really tried
8. she does not know who to trust because the same people who send nice messages send anon hate. she’s discovered people she thought were her friends had sent anon hate upon blocking the anon. I personally witnessed someone make a pretense of running a blog archiving her Supernatural fanart for her, only to reveal themselves as a hater doing this just to insult her at the end of it, for no reason other than to undermine her trust in people. you do not understand the extent to which people hate her.
9. traumatized people are not obligated to be unfailingly nice to people before they deserve kindness, before they deserve a life without abuse
10. she’s trying to tag trigger warnings, but if you’re more outraged over her neglecting to tag triggering messages directed at her because someone else might be affected by it than over someone sending her the triggering message in the first place…your outrage is performative and you fail at being compassionate towards people in situations with any kind of nuance
11. she did not do anything to deserve this. she does not deserve this. no one deserves this.

TL;DR: if you’ve ever sent @eliciadonze a hateful message, you aren’t welcome on my blog. she doesn’t deserve the daily abuse she gets.

(if you want to support Elicia her ko-fi is here and she appreciates reblogs of her artwork.)

Hi please reblog the shit out of this amazing coherent message from a kind person who understands why victim blaming is bad for all of us

I absolutely love Euclase’s art. I cheered so damned hard when she was up for the Hugo for best fanartist, and was honestly disappointed when she didn’t win.

And the way Supernatural fandom treats her pretty much guarantees that I will never want anything to do with that show or it’s fandom. Because why would I want to be involved in something so toxic?