Reblogged from robintheburb
Just a reminder that authors owe nothing to anyone. You don’t “deserve” something in their books and they don’t have to represent jack shit. It is their book and if you don’t like it, DONT READ IT. THEY DO NOT HAVE TO PANDER TO YOUR IDEA OF MORALS AND THEY DONT HAVE TO BEND TO YOUR WHIM. If they don’t have queer characters, THAT IS OK. That does not make them homophobic or heterophobic or transphobic or any other phobic. They are allowed to choose whether certain characters are in their stories, and YOU, THE READER, DO NOT GET TO HAVE A SAY IN IT.
This is mainly caused by whatever the fuck warrior cats is but it goes for all books and all authors. To add a side note, after reading everything Vicky said, she was nothing but polite in her answers. Every one of you are over reacting and being terrible and being VERY entitled. I understand most of you are 14-16 so you guys are naturally immature, but death threats? You have so little life experience and you think that an author not putting queer characters in their story MEANS THEY SHOULD DIE. WHAT THE FLYING FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU.
And to the people supporting Vicky, you are more mature than your fellow fans and it shows. Vicky didn’t do a single thing wrong. She answered a fan politely and now all of the immature and hateful bullies in the fandom are coming out of the woodwork. I don’t know a single thing about the books but I respect the fans going and calling out the other immature fans. You guys are awesome and way more mature than the ones currently asking that Vicky be killed.
big ass eye roll at this post.
- vicky doesn’t have to do what we say? did you forget that vicky killed off ferncloud because the fans were complaining about her:
- no it is NOT okay for vicky to refuse to acknowledge that queer characters exist in the series. If she has the power to include them, but refuses to add them anyways and expects the readers to be satisfied that we needed her confirmation that certain characters are queer we have every right to be angry and call her out on it.
- And vicky being ‘polite’? how ‘bout the fact that when a fan asked her about her including queer characters and she passive aggressively responded to them. Multiple fans have spoken to her politely about these issues so don’t act like she was the only one being ‘civil’ here lmao
- NO ONE SENT HER DEATH THREATS HOLY SHIT
- people defending vicky are refusing to admit that she is making some poor and unfair choices.
so maybe you should shut the fuck up and stay out of this discussion since you clearly understand nothing about it
Yay! I am home from spending the night at my girlfriends so i can answer this!
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Ok so first of all, there is 0 proof your provided that she said this. YOu just gave a block of text. Seriously that is so horribly cropped. You could have made that in word for all i know. There is no evidence she said it or what website it was on.
Second of all, even if she did say it, she made it very clear that FANS WANTED THAT CHARACTER TO DO SOMETHING OTHER THAN SIT AROUND. So what does she do? She makes it fight and it dies. HOW THE FUCK IS THAT A BAD THING. SHE DID EXACTLY WHAT HER FANS ASKED, WHICH IS WAY MORE THAN ANY OF YOU DESERVE. And you use ait as proof of her being shit? What the fuck.
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Absolutely it is OK. In fact, it is her RIGHT to do that. SHE OWES NONE OF YOU ANYTHING. Not only that, but she doesn’t have to represent a single thing if she doesn’t want to. If you believe that her series needs gay cast making love, GO WRITE YOUR OWN NOVEL. She does NOT have to include jack shit if she doesn’t want to and NOT ONLY IS THAT OK, BUT IT IS HER RIGHT.
Not only that, but she does NOT have the power to do that. Now, as I pointed out before, you are really fucking young so I don’t expect you to know what I as an adult do, o here is a bit of info. Publishers control what is written in a book they are publishing. It sounds weird, right? Why have your book published if they can say “Hey, remove that from the book.” or “Hey add this in any way” Well, many authors need publishers to get their novels into the lime light. Publishers advertise, create the hard copies of the books, slap their name on it, negotiate with big box stores, and anything else required for a book to do well. Because of this, THEY HAVE A METRIC FUCKTON OF CREATIVE CONTROL. So what does that mean? It means that she cant write about gay cats in any way, because her publisher told her no. SHE HAS NO CONTROL OVER WHETHER GAY CATS ARE IN HER STORY. IF YOU TAKE NOTHING FROM THE POST, TAKE THIS. SHE. HAS. NO. CONTROL. OVER. WHETHER. GAY. CATS. ARE. IN. THE. STORY.
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Are you aware of what passive aggressive means? Passive-aggressive behavior is the indirect expression of hostility, such as through procrastination, sarcasm, stubbornness, sullenness, or deliberate or repeated failure to accomplish requested tasks for which one is (often explicitly) responsible.
Where is there any of that in your linked screenshot? She is NEVER passive aggressive in the link you posted, EVER. AT BEST, she seems not to care very much. And who can blame her? I wouldn’t care if my fans constantly verbally abused me over the internet. You guys treat her like shit, and then cry when she doesn’t bend to your every whim. GROW UP. You may be 15, and the average age of her fans only a year older, but holy fuck it is no excuse to act like whiny babies when something doesn’t go your way.
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I had saved 6 text posts of people saying she deserved to die, all of which have been deleted. Since I no longer have proof anyone said this, this can be completely disregarded as it no longer applies. I no longer have evidence of this so I can’t then go and use it as a point of topic, just as I stated earlier in response to your first point. That being said, I am sure I could go and find some if I wanted to. But I really really don’t, so I will give you this one.
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"Unfair" This is where it really sank in how naive all of you are being. "Unfair" Even though NONE OF THIS SITUATION includes any sort of fairness, let’s pretend it does. So I will humor you for a bit.
First of all, life isn’t fair. Your a young man or woman still trying to figure out life. It is cool and edgy to talk about fighting the cissies and to kill straight men and to make up genders and pronouns. I get it, it gives you purpose and reason at an age where you typically feel you have none. I was just as edgy and angsty at your age, but I luckily didn’t have the internet to broadcast it to billions of people. But here is a lesson you need to learn now. Life is not fair. Shit happens. Even if what Vicky did WAS unfair, it STILL isn’t valid because THAT IS LIFE. You do not get everything you want. Life does not cater to you. When you are at work, you will have a boss that will assign you the worst jobs just because he or she hates you. That is life. The best you can do is show everyone kindness and forgiveness so that they may change as well. But that still isn’t enough and life is still unfair sometimes. Life doesn’t owe you anything, life is what you make of it. Don’t let some Vicky author person decide how you treat others and how you act, let yourself decide that.
Secondly, her not writing about gay cats is not unfair. The fact that you need constant representation means you are probably very fragile when it comes to your self confidence. That is OK, I used to be too, but don’t take that out on Vicky. She doesnt have to represent a single thing and it isn’t your right to “Call her out on it.”
Also, as a side note: Nice racism in the tags. Im not fucking white and I find it pretty offensive that because i disagree with other pocs, I must be white. Make a separate post if you want to talk about it, but I pride myself on being a PoC that doesn’t rely on a victim complex. We aren’t some victim race. We aren’t weak and we sure as hell can be racist to ANY RACE. Don’t go and make us out to be some helpless victim lying on our side, showing our belly to the “evil whiteez”