Martin Blackwood hate on Tumblr is so crazy to me man. Of course he’s screwed up, and so is Jon. The whole point is that he is a nuanced character who has been through hell and back. There is no need to actively mess with Martin fans. It just makes you come off like a stereotypical bully in an 80s movies.
I’m very biased (I don’t like martin myself) but I believe its perfectly fine to hate on a character, I think there’s plenty of ways to hate a character while understanding their depth and nuance, but I also agree that nobody should be attacking, harrasing, or messing with fans of the character either. Super uncool.
sorry to hijack your tags, but,
yeah everything said here, and also I think its okay in most cases to like ships in TMA because every canon (or canon leaning) ship usually has a lot of negative traits to them, I’d argue Jmart is mutually abusive, considering how Jon literally came from practically bullying martin as an ‘abusive boss’, Daisy and basira? I think its pretty clear the issues there, Tim and Sasha also had a normal dispute of them simply not communicating, there is no perfect relationship in TMA but its okay to write things about them being okay, however literally constantly being in fairytale land and excusing ANYONE’s actions in tma is so sucky/nm
and yeah, side tangent: if Jon was a woman, things would be way different (a lot would be worse in the fandom I think) and maybe, people would actually take what happened with him seriously? Rather than “haha this guy got kidnapped three times and is trapped in a world with a partner he never intended to be with” it would be “this is a story about a woman being constantly harrassed and targetted, stalked by her superior, assaulted and mocked (etc etc.” like maybe everything wouldn’t just be for jokes?? AND IM FINE WITH JOKES!! But it feels like nobody EVER takes anything seriously but the few, and the fanfic writers