#i dont harass them though

[reginamillls]

i love your voice of reason and agree so hard with all of your points 🩵

It's a hard days work, but an honest one

[spearxwind]

Well god damn!! I'M gonna be the one blocking you!! jesus christ!!! Imagine having this heated of a reaction to this image like hello:

its not even remotely about heavy breathing what the fuck are you talking about

i think you seriously need to go outside.

[oceanwithouthermoon]

i think its weird that i have to make this disclaimer but the internet is crazy so wtvr,, anyway,,

if i say i dont like something, that doesnt mean "that thing is bad and nobody should post it.."

i swear literally every time i even mention that i dislike something, people will go "wow does that mean u fucking hate me cuz i post that thing? ur a fucking stupid bitch and all ur opinions r wrong" LIKE ?? er.. no. just because i say i dont like certain characterizations of certain characters (the saiki k fandom is CRAZY about this cuz i can state an opinion on literally any character and a group of people will still go 'well only we're allowed to post our opinions about them because we're always right!1!1!'), or certain ship tropes (mentioned my hatred of toxic yaoi maybe once or twice on here months ago and people STILL get mad at me as if i said toxic yaoi lovers r evil or something), or certain ships, or WHATEVER, does not mean that i HATE the people who are posting them or that i think they shouldnt post them at all, NO, im just posting about my personal tastes on my personal blog and it would be extremely weird and hypocritical if i decided that i was the ONLY person that was allowed to do that,,

i think the only reason people assume that is because there are a lot of other people on here who ARE like that, and a lot of people toe the line between posting that they dont like something and posting that they think everyone who likes that thing is stupid, annoying, and wrong,, so i guess all i can say is, sorry for whatever made you make these assumptions but they arent true about me so plz leave me alone ʘ‿ʘ ur doing the same thing to me that ur accusing me of but i didnt do it in the first place so ur just actively being a dick for no reason

[gibbearish]

its been fun watching the hbomb subreddit try very very hard to stick to the "if anyone harasses james on my behalf they wont see the light of heaven" by imo overcorrecting to "any time anyone mentions somerton ever it's because you're obsessed with him and want to pick on him because he's the villain of the week" bc its like. yknow actually i dont think people keeping an eye on his various attempts to weasel back into the spotlight and keep doing his same old shit over the last /two months/ is the same as harassing him because it's hip and fun. i think maybe those are not the same thing

[sonknuxadow]

overall i think movie sonic being redesigned was a good decision but sometimes i wish they had never done it with how annoying people are about it with the constant spread of misinformation about how/why it happened + this attitude people have gotten from it thinking they can get anything they don't like in a movie or show or game changed if they complain on twitter enough regardless of what exactly they're wanting changed or how close the release date is or what company is making it or whatever

[sixdollarsrimp]

love when I find squipemy art (in 2024 of all years) and I get to go block them and everyone who liked and reblogged it YESSS

[xannerz]

man i was saving this video for a separate salt post but lmfao c'mon. you're not slick and you have me blocked on at least 3 of your alts and for some reason you're trying this again, so i'll take this opportunity to actly make another 🌈PSA🌈 to the fandom: if you're getting multiple asks about weirdly hyper-specific varian HCs, shipping discourse, and art requests, it's the same person -- this! person. they're fishing for engagement and free art. that's it!

[rainingincale]

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[ollyou]

So happy i reached my ko-fi goal overnight :’DDDD I gotta do the commissions now but yay!!! Things are looking up for me and my family

[caseyscraftycorner]

i am going. to scream.

[littlejowo]

Anyway hopefully that weeds some of you abuse supporters out, if you somehow managed to hang around this long and not read my bio or pinned tweet but followed me anyway. I will not be discoursing here again

[dfnkt]

Man I hope a Twitter alternative pops up soon. I don't do social media I just text my friends so that website is my morning paper basically and also professional networking and idgaf what people say, Mastodon doesn't serve the same purpose.

I love Mastodon for *other* applications but as a one for one recreation of the Twitter experience, there's nothing else yet.

[jinxedshapeshifter]

So um. Protip. Please don't do this.

For some context I have a Frankenpup and this person wanted to colorswap with me. I am obnoxiously attached to my Frankenpup. Even after I mentioned this they still begged me for the colorswap. This was the SECOND TIME they opened a trade chat just to ask for my Frankenpup.

If you do this to me I WILL block you, no questions asked. My Frankenpup might be glitched demon hellspawn but I love her and I am not trading her any time soon. Maybe I'll make a masterpiece to tell people if something's not on trade it's not for trade lol

Anyway yeah, DO NOT FUCKING DO THIS.

[sonknuxadow]

sonic fandom having a normal one i see

[liquidstar]

not going to post their url bc i dont wanna send hate anyones way, but shit like this is exactly why the term "gaslight" has lost all meaning as a term to describe a specific kind of emotional abuse. no, someone being shitty to you one time isnt abuse. especially a type of abuse as insidious as gaslighting, which slowly breaks apart a persons psyche. also just because getting blocked is a personal trigger for you doesnt make it a bad thing as a whole! blocking is a useful tool for avoiding harassment! or avoiding harmful people! or just curating your feed because most people dont take the internet that seriously!

i want to try to sympathize here because i understand that there are people who struggle with things like this, where something like their words not appearing where they should be might be triggering... thats not a bad thing on its own. im not doubting that this can be true. and im not doubting that there are people out there that absolutely can use this information about someone to harm them emotionally, if they wanted to.

but what this person was actually talking about an internet stranger who blocked them over pro and anti ship discourse (because of course). thats not abuse! that doesnt make it gaslighting any more than, say, someone accidentally triggering you by bringing up a subject they didn't know was touchy. i understand that its triggering regardless, and im sorry, but that doesnt make it abuse! gaslighting is not just a term you can throw around to make people seem like bigger assholes than they actually are. especially for doing something well within their rights to do online if someone was bothering them...

im sorry, genuinely, but it does come across like people just trying to get the moral high ground on the internet in any way they can. look, i can do it too! ahem, "leaving bad replies to my posts is gaslighting, because youre saying things that i didnt say, which makes me question what i said. youre manipulating your followers into having a different perception of reality about my post than me. so actually youre an evil abusive monster and im a helpless victim." do i win? do i win the internet argument by using the most hyperbolic and outrageous terms i could think of to paint someone in a bad light? have i successfully watered down all meaning of the word to begin with making it a moot point?

i really do want to be generous here, because i dont want to paint people who struggle with things like this in a bad light as a whole, but this specific usage just doesnt seem like its in good faith. it seems like a gacha for pedantic discourse. and gaslighting survivors are the ones who pay for it :/

also its not as if the post stops appearing on your blog anyway. for future reference.

I just saw someone say the words "jokingly gaslight" this might be a good time to reintroduce the internet to the terms "lying" or perhaps "pranking" or even just "joking" on it's own

[mbat]

dude it is way too early for this, someone just told me to kill myself over something i literally dont know anything about