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onewonderfulbug:

tarajenkins:

Spreading misinformation is something I’ve come to expect from posters who harass character and ship tags in this fandom. But since Alone At Sea aired, there’s been a new one floating around that disturbs me as an abuse survivor: claiming that the episode was based on a “bad relationship”/“abusive relationship” Rebecca Sugar had. They cite this interview from the MoCCa Arts Festival this year as “evidence”, in which she talks about Margo In Bed, an unfinished comic of hers from 2010-2011 which featured a “proto-Lapis”.

As expected, the interview wasn’t exactly at all what they were saying it was.

Her actual words were that she was coming through a “bad breakup” at the time that Margo In Bed was being created, which isn’t nearly the same as saying “abusive relationship” or “bad relationship”. No further details were given. I’m not saying that an abusive relationship wasn’t a possibility, but SHE did not want to talk about it in those terms, and for people to twist her words to further their narrative about a cartoon character pisses me off, to say the least. It smacks of the same survivor-outing “does not apply to coping survivors! uwu uwu~” disclaimer that all the dedicated harassment blogs have.

The only link she gave between the character Margo and the character Lapis Lazuli, besides visually, was one we’ve heard before:

“It’s a story about emotional manipulation, which ended up being a huge part of Lapis’ character.”

She further went on to laugh about how “I don’t even remember what the words were going to be” on the unfinished Margo pages. I wasn’t able to find the complete work, if it even exists, only the random pages she’s posted here and there. None of them are given context. Yet I’m seeing claims that the Sonic lookalike character was a proto-Jasper, etc. etc.–more projection being passed along as fact. The creator herself doesn’t remember the dialogue, but somehow these folks know EXACTLY what she REALLY wanted to say!

Hate a character, hate a ship, be that person who tags harassment, whatever. But if you have to misrepresent and flat-out lie to try making your opinion seem more legitimate than others’–well, you’re gonna have to work harder to fool others the way you’ve managed to fool yourselves. And it’s frankly fucking creepy how you try to do just that. :T

I did a little digging and it turns out that the origin of the abusive/bad relationship twisting is from one or two people who claim that they totally have sources but, “out of respect” for Rebecca, were not going to reveal them and you should PM them if you want the sources.

If they had any respect for Rebecca, they wouldn’t be twisting her words and using her personal life to bully and harass fans of her show.

And, uh, one other thing - she’s even added Jasper/Lapis nsfw to her likes right here on tumblr dot com. (pic in question, nsfw)  Problem?

Yeah, there’s a problem, all right, and it’s these self-righteous bullies. AGAIN.