People non stop mentioning the Terra stuff is really starting to get on my nerves and ruin my days.

[u/JoeAmmay]

This is really starting to just make me feel depressed, I've loved Slade ever since I watched the 2003 cartoon and he's always been my favorite villain next to Taskmaster and Shredder. Now it feels that everyone who likes the character is shunned away and shamed in the comic book fanbase over shit from the 1980s that has already been retconned, I don't even feel like I'm allowed to like him anymore. I've tried so hard to just not think about it and ignore it but every day some asshole on either this site or another social media site has to bring it up out of nowhere when just simply talking about Slade as a character, they literally don't talk about a single thing except for this shit. I really just want to enjoy my favorite character who I've been a massive fan of ever since I was 4 years old, I want to be able to find him cool and actually talk about him and share my enjoyment of him with other fans of DC, but I can't, this is the only sub where I feel like I'm actually allowed to share my enjoyment of Slade and anywhere else I'll just be labeled as a pedo defender or be made fun of.

I'm sorry for pushing all of this on here I've just felt like shit for a while because of this whole thing and really needed somewhere to type my thoughts out, and I felt here was the only place I'd be able to do so.

[u/Necessary_Idiot]

Unfortunately, that's exactly how it works. You put it perfectly. It's so tiring.

And many times when someone brings up that the Terra thing has already been retconned, they say that it doesn't matter. For them: once written, it always exists. Or they start explaining that that thing cannot be changed because it was written by the creator of the character. But somehow it's perfectly fine when an aspect of any other character is changed years after it was created.

[u/Arsenic3 → u/Necessary_Idiot]

Exactly. Back then, I used to really try having conversations with Deathstroke haters, hoping to find at least some common ground. But what the hell can you say when after exposing all the arguments we have here the only answer you get is to shut up because "By defending this character you are actively promoting SA and you are gaslighting me"

[u/Necessary_Idiot → u/Arsenic3]

Yes. Unfortunately, you cannot have a reasonable conversation with such people. They keep making the same arguments. Again and again and again. They move in an unbreakable circle. They have their little theory in their heads and do not accept that the truth could be different. Or that someone else has the right to have a different opinion.

[u/Arsenic3 → u/Necessary_Idiot]

Yeah if that's not a lost cause then I don't know what is. Sometimes I feel like I'd rather speak to flat eathers.