vietbluefic:

pradavenus:

pradavenus:

like it literally isnt even funny anymore people on this site go out of their fucking way to sexualise jimin and completely ignore anything else he says or does like he did a whole 40 min vlive where he talked about his health, how much he loves armys, how hes been feeling lately, his dynamics w some of the other members etc but no you freaks just tune all of that out and focus exclusively on him leaning his head back and licking his tongue because you guys dont know how to treat jimin like a fucking human being and respect his words and actions instead of sexualising and infantilising him like a little baby doll or toy constantly and it really fucking shows like he could fucking breathe and there’d be 473974 posts (mostly by white stans but not all) immediately saying “omg hes such a tease” “what the fuck did he just do” “he has no respect” like you guys are always going on about how people disrespect and mistreat x member but when it comes to jimin it’s like it’s the fucking norm to just decontextualise and objectify every single action of his and honestly it’s so fucking disgusting and gross and awful you guys don’t fucking deserve park jimin

you know it’d be real nice if you guys could like actually reblog this instead of just liking it and pretending as if you care because that really just goes to prove my point that none of you freaks actually give a shit about park jimin as a person and or calling out anything about how hes treated.

I’m going to speak primarily as a fanfic writer for this fandom, but one of the most important things that has happened to me in this fandom is a certain review I received on Butterfly Kisses and Narcissus, where a Jimin stan told me they loved my portrayal of him. Mind you, BK&N was my first-ever attempt at a long, serious BTS fic – so at the time, I was very nervous and still quite uncertain about how I was writing the boys’ personalities. Jimin, as it was, ended up being very sassy and a tad sardonic, even if a caring and sweet person at heart, because up until then that was the vibe I’d gotten from him IRL. And the Jimin stan loved it!! They explained to me that Jimin tends to get either hypersexualized or hyperinfantilized, both in fic portrayals and in person, and that just…stuck with me. Especially once I really started delving into the fandom and saw how just true that is.

Listen. Jimin is one of the most interesting people I can ever base a character off of. He’s so multifaceted; he’s fiercely passionate yet so very thoughtful, kind and caring yet pretty freaking temperamental. (Don’t believe me on that? The other members have rated Jimin no. 1 as “Most Terrifying When Angry.” That speaks for itself.) And there are sooo many fics/AUs/people out there who present him as just this thing to protect, to coo over or to screw. It’s insulting, it’s dehumanizing, and worse, it turns the real-life Jimin – a breathing, thinking person who, you know, has autonomy to his own actions and body – into a literal object so that stuff like what OP describes is outright normalized within our fandom. If you fantasize about him like that, sure. Whatever. But you know, Jimin is a wonderful human being, a fascinating personality to put on paper, and I’m tired of people turning into just some sort of doll to baby over. At some point, I think you have to realize that sending him lewd comments or squealing about how cute he is when this guy’s trying to connect with us about his health, feelings, and dreams is a little bit much.

EDIT: And just to put this out there, because this also needs to be said: you can say he’s sexy/cute/etc. Jimin knows he’s a sexy dude and the effect he has on ARMY. That’s a given, like of course. But there IS a point where you should actually consider about reining it back, especially when certain fans start taking this flanderization of Jimin being nothing more than a Sexual Being seriously. Fantasizing about him is one thing. Objectifying him until he becomes your mental sex toy, where all you see when you look at Jimin is a doll, is…quite another matter entirely.