starkwest: Congratulations tumblr/twitter users you have...

starkwest:

Congratulations tumblr/twitter users you have managed in one day to do what fifty plus years of retconning/events/rotating writers and illustrators have never managed to accomplished. Today you managed to extinguish the flame of a fandom.

Do you know who owns Iron Man/Captain America/Black Widow et al?

Marvel.

Not you.

You have zero creative say over their characters. Marvel has been more than generous with their property rights. How many of you write fan fiction? Create art/gifs/videos using their characters? Now how many of you have received cease and desist orders to stop using said characters? Marvel is absolutely within their rights to issue them and yet they don’t.

Now let’s take that a little further. How many of you have created non mainstream character ships in your chosen art form? Paired Hawkeye with Thor or Tony with Natasha? How many of you have received death threats because of it? Thought not. How many of you have posted on this site and had anon’s come at you for a portion of text that was misrepresented because said anon didn’t read through and process, just took it at face value? I know for a fact it happens, I see it all the time. How did it make you feel to have people you have never met attacking you for your art? Pretty damn awful right? Now imagine how you would feel if the same anon’s said they wanted you to die because of your representation of your art.

No. Sit and think about it. Want. You. To. Die.  

I have issues with representations of Tony in both the comics and the movies. Iron Man 3? Dear, God, Christ, Iron Man 3. Superior who? That’s not my Tony on those pages. But to go after a man. A man you have never met. And to threaten his life?!  Or to berate and harangue the actors who are simply portraying the characters? This fandom has been slowly falling into a morass of idiocy and fervent hate since before the first Avengers movie and today it reached it’s zenith.

I have raised two boys who are now men. Not an easy task. Both are highly creative and high spirited. Both were raised to form their own opinions. Both to question the world around them. But never, ever, not once, have either of them bullied anyone. If you don’t agree with something and cannot find a solution, walk away and find a niche that works for you. Screaming at a problem with all the hate in your voice does nothing but make you a larger problem than the issue at the center of it all.  

I grew up through the latter part of the initial ‘feminist movement’. I saw the marches. I walked along with them. I lived the damn movement. And not once did I feel the need to threaten someone’s life to achieve a goal.

All you people have done is shine a negative light on us all. If you don’t like the movie: don’t go see it. If you don’t like how a character is portrayed: write a letter to the company. Or better yet, write your own damn screenplay with an original female/male/whatever character.

I see so many posts go over my dash decrying bullying. And yet, apparently this is a site of do as I say not as I do. Those of you who sent hate to this man, you are not a solution to anything, not this fandom, not your generation, not your future. You are merely the problem.

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