#Posts that aren't intended to have a high unrelatable reader comprehension success rate.

[actually-eldritch]

Sometimes someone will type a comment that sends me in to a bit of a rage.

Ultimately whatever violence they committed was in passing: they didn't realise how fucking obtuse they were being by parroting 2D social analysis and mental health advice they don't fully comprehend on someone's cope post. They were treating it like the world stage in a fantasy AU where inconsequential tumblr user #4848594848263 vent blogging is a catalyst of unfortunate normalisation instead of a consequence of it, and offering unsolicited advisory that over-all sucks shit despite it's well meaning as people on Tumblr and The Internet At Large and also The Great Outdoors are prone to do.

That's not unusual, it's frankly a pretty comprehensible web of human tendency, at least to me.

It's borne of the fact that they don't actually comprehend the sociological analysis they're regurgitating—so much important information about a situation gets lost this way, when people keep just kind of forcibly clicking together puzzle pieces that are definitely nearby in the picture but also not quite adjacent, creating a low-res version nobody asked for and the OP has almost definitely seen before in order for them to be in interaction proximity in the first place.

Anyway.

So I'll come across this obtuse comment and instead of sending an ask I'll type my long-winded response, getting it out of my system, because historically I know people have a tendency to jump through hoops in order to believe what I have to say is incoherent or in bad faith.

This may be subconscious and totally beyond their control at least within the moment, but the point is that they probably won't be listening anyway, because they don't even see the ecosystem of behaviour they're a part of and I don't have the sanity to spend to be the one trying to tell them.

Do you know what I am in control of though?

Deleting that essay after my typing-it-at-all catharsis and blocking them since they annoyed me so fucking bad.

If the arguments were good, they'll remain rattling somewhere in my head whenever relevant discussions come up. And if it's REALLY good I can change it over the course of a few drafts to be a nice little essay that's competent instead of blind and frothing with rage. And when it's not so fucking accusatory anymore it'll actually have a chance of helping someone grasp something they couldn't comprehend and may be somewhat averse to learning, which was my real desire when I was nearly compelled to reprimand someone for their shitty fucking comment.

Isn't that just nifty?