WHY ARE PURELILY FANS LIKE THIS???
(English is not my first language so i probably made some mistakes here and there. Also just because YOU never encountered users like these doesn't mean they don't exist)
I used to ignore purelily fans. I could scroll past them. I could see the comments, see someone talking about how PureLily is canon, and move on with my life. I had no reason to care. But then came the Tartarus update. And GODS, apparently that was the moment i was sentenced to spend the rest of my natural life watching the same argument crawl out from underneath EVERY SINGLE PIECE of shadowvanilla art I find.
I open Pinterest. Wowie wawas, cool shadowvanilla art!
Wonderful!
Two FICTIONAL COOKIES standing next to each other. Maybe they are holding hands. Maybe theyre kissing. Maybe theyre EXISTING in the same fucking image.
'I wonder what the comments have to say' i think, then i look at the comments.
"PureLily is canon!" I scroll. "PureLily is canon!" I scroll again. "PURELILY IS CANON."
YES. I KNOW. YOU KNOW. WE KNOW. I HAVE EYES. WE HAVE EYES. I WATCHED THE STORY TOO, SO DID EVERYONE ELSE. WE ALL KNOW THEY'RE CANON.
But somehow, SOMEWAY, seeing two different fictional cookies together causes something inside some of you to rupture, break, implode, i dont know.
Hell, i posted shadowvanilla ONCE on Instagram ONCE and suddenly I have three fucking death threats sitting in my dms because I posted two fictional cookies together and honestly i don't even care about the death threats themselves but MAN how absolutely TOXİC and pathetic do you HAVE TO BE to get mad over a pairing art of two FICTIONAL COOKIES. You see shadowvanilla you're angry for some reason and instead of doing the revolutionary act of scrolling you write a whole fucking essay underneath it about how Pure Vanilla and Lily are canon, AND AGAIN, WE KNOW, BUT GUESS WHAT? "what?" PEOPLE CAN STILL SHIP DIFFERENT COOKIES! And I genuinely do not understand the anger your ship is canon anyway. Almost no one is saying purelily isn't canon. You can literally just keep scrolling. That is an option. It has existed since the invention of the fucking touchscreen.
And the best part is that this shit happens under completely unrelated posts too. Someone posts ShadowVanilla fanart and suddenly they turn into the united fucking nations of “UMMM ACTUALLY PURELILY IS CANON ☝️”. THIS IS AN ARTWORK OF TWO COOKIES STANDING NEXT TO EACH OTHER. WHO ARE YOU DEBATING??
And again, I genuinely do not care if you ship PureLily. Ship it. Make art of it. Write 400k words about them staring lovingly into each other's eyes. Have fun PLEASE DO. I literally do not care. I get why it's shipped, just not my cup of tea. But if your response to seeing a ship you hate is to harass the artist, spam the comments, or send fucking death threats, maybe stop and ask yourself what the fuck you are doing. Because imagine being so FURİOUS over two fictional cookies that you type out a death threat to an actual person who drew them kissing. Like please go outside. Touch a tree. Drink some water. Look at the sky. I just want to look at shadowvanilla art without having to enter the fucking Great Shipping War every five minutes. And yes, im aware, not every shipper is like that.