This fandom is so toxic. I don’t care how downvoted I’ll be for saying it, but it deserves to be said!
I said it! The book purists are actually vile. VILE. Julia Quinn has turned her comments off because ya’ll are dogpiling her calling her a sellout and all sorts of names for ‘letting the showrunners ruin the characters’ fuck you guys. You’re disgusting bullies.
EVERY. DAMN. SEASON. You bitch and moan about SOMETHING when a marginalised person is cast - first it was #NotMyDuke when Simon was black, then it was having a meltdown when Kate Sheffield became Kate Sharma..and now you’re mad because your boring Eloise ships aren’t canon and Michaela was introduced instead - I don’t know how many people I’ve seen squealing about book accuracy and historical accuracy (PU-LEASE this show has mechanical swan wigs, acrylics and Pitbull string quarters - do NOT make me laugh) but you were willing to throw Eloise at the first random white lady who was available and some other side-character who had like five minutes of screentime but looking forward to Francesca and Michaela is where you draw the line and call it ‘disrespectful’ to the source material? I am genuinely fearful for the well-being of whoever gets cast as Sophie.
I have seen the most disgusting, back-handed comments made about ‘forced diversity’ and the lgbt community and how gay rep is ‘ruining’ everything - you’re sounding like those fucking Star Wars incels! You’re that bad and miserable sounding. If you don’t like any of these changes, STOP. WATCHING. Every season I see people insisting they ‘won’t be watching’, but like the Star Wars incels, the viewing numbers and constant complaining say otherwise, frankly and you just come crawling back anyway
Also, how DARE you expect Regé to come back to this cesspit of screeching Karens, I’m glad he’s gone. The fandom has done nothing but mock him and call him ‘ungrateful’. As if he’d go back for any of YOU.
You are genuine children. It’s pathetic. No wonder booktok is being mocked when you people are the ones behind it, you deserve all those lashings for these horrific over-reactions and for harassing the author and cast members. 🙏 I am actually begging you get your heads checked.
Also- if you think it’s a gotcha to say I’m ’just as toxic’ as the actual bigots flooding Masali and the cast and writers’ social media (which is different to sharing valid critique mind you) please sit down with your civility politics. Gotten that all my life. Don’t speak up. Don’t hit back. Don’t react - I’m done letting people like this walk all over marginalised people. Stfu.
UPDATE: Hannah Dodd has made her Twitter go private. So to anyone saying I was ‘over-reacting’ and being ‘unfair’ about the fandom - you have your answer on the truth now 🤷🏻♀️