the root of all discourse is someone wanting to make their preferences look objectively correct and their rival/thing they hate look morally wrong. It was that way back then and it's that way now. There are also people who feel like they were harmed by early porn exposure too, and they were calling that "grooming" back then (as in, if you made nsfw of a cartoon network show you were a groomer) which thankfully isn't as common anymore but people still do it. These types that are displacing blame from their abuser onto fanart/fanfiction have always been weaponized by people that don't actually care they just want ammo against whatever they hate.

Moral attack is always the go-to angle now in fandom. It wasn't always like that, it used to just be a petty "my ship is better than your ship" playground argument that no one felt deeply troubled by. Now it's always attacking your moral character. "Oh you like lightcannon? It's because you're a racist."

Be patient with yourself, allow yourself to transition instead of stopping abruptly - start by simply eating less animal products and planning more meatless meals/snacks, understand veganism isn't a diet but about doing the best you can to lessen your participation/impact, remember this means you are still vegan if you have certain conditions or circumstances that prevent you from following it perfectly (ignore militant vegans), know that but don't use it as an excuse, buy second hand and products not tested on or made with animal products as frequently as possible, follow animal sanctuaries/rescues to familiarize yourself with farm animals and recognize them as living beings with as much personality as any pet you've had, watch documentaries (Earthlings if you can stomach it, it's on youtube), look into the food industry in general and learn that most meat, especially cheap meat, isn't good for you anyways, learn about ocean pollution/radiation and seafloor scraping, learn about leather industry pollution, learn about fur farms, learn about how humans working in animal agriculture are treated and the high rates of injury and depression, learn about how poor (often black in America) communities are impacted by adjacent factory farms, change your relationship with not just food but your consumption in general (a plant product, for example, made in an extremely unethical way - such as most palm oils - is not vegan), reject the lazy defeatism that there's no ethical consumption under capitalism, reject the idea that because resistance is imperfect it's not worth resisting at all, reject veganism based in bigotry and delusion (ie animals eating each other in nature is bad), advocate veganism based in it being wrong to subjugate and exploit living beings and destroy the environment/oppress marginalized people for profit instead of the reductive idea that it's wrong to kill for food, be gentle with human animals too, feel very cool because veganism is one of the most punk anti-capitalist things you can do so much so that no one wants to accept this because they'll never be that punk!!! :P GOOD LUCK!!!

I was worried about exposure to it bc i thought it might be similar to iogw (game about toxic siblings) but i gave in and watched a bit of the early gameplay and actually it seems very different haha. I uh, didn't expect some kind of post apocalyptic setting, from all the fanart I've seen - so definitely different from iogw. So I'm less afraid to play it now and probably will at some point.

STILL, THOUGH, PSA THAT IOGW WAS CONCEIVED BEFORE THIS GAME AND WILL NOT BE INFLUENCED BY IT WRITING-WISE, AT MOST MB I WILL GET GAMEPLAY IDEAS📣📣📣

and its not that. i care about being original or something haha. i just yknow, when people name what they think my influences are i would be annoyed if it were things that weren't actually influences. Jen is another dark haired smug girl so I know people would be tempted to think she was inspired by her or something. I'd rather people know she was once an AU Jinx lol.

...actually I don't want people to know that either, at this point, since I hate arcane now, but what can ya do it's her evil origin story.