LRT: it's such an awful feeling to have something that makes you happy cos of childlike joy and wonder, and then get your feelings totally deflated by something as stupid as being accused of being a damn sex pervert for like... Hugging plushies?? Or liking videogames??

And then of course there's the assumption that no-one could ever like a "gross" scary monster character for any reason other than a fetish.. sigh...
For me it's such an utterly non sexual thing that I never even THOUGHT anyone would see it as sexual, it's like a sudden gutpunch

I just tend to feel sorry for the characters that are treated as the villain just for looking weird, and I wonder what if they were just a normal nice pleasant friend and everybody misjudged them, and they're sad and lonely and I could be the one who helps them...

And then of course there's characters like Dr Snapped which actually ARE canonically a cute and nice guy! Who's literally the villain only because he's SO cute and nice he does bad stuff from his innocent idealism, not understanding that he's the villain at all...

Not that I have anything against people who actually do have a sexual fascination with any of the stuff that I like for platonic reasons, of course! It just hurts to be emotionally invested in something and be accused of lying about why I like it. It's weird.

I imagine it'd probably feel the same to a sexual fan if someone came along like "he's not REALLY your big videogame villain crush, you only like him cos you're an eeeevil violent person who loves suffering!"

Well that'd probably feel way worse, honestly. It's hard to make a comparison cos I don't know much about the discourse in sex fandom since I'm not a part of it. But I've seen rude people saying "finding a villain sexy makes you a dangerous person" and that's so dumb....