#i'd love to pin this just so that everybody's painfully aware of what my stance is on this

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The fact that you think that I think you should be “scared” of anything I’m saying says infinitely more about you than it ever will me

Let’s go over some facts, shall we? I don’t tag my debunk posts with anything that would put them in any of the normal search results. I make sure that they’re all reblogs on a chain so that if anything does show up, it’ll be the first post only (and any answered asks. I can’t really help those). This means that the only real ways you would ever see anything I write about the theory would be to either actively search out my blog, see a reblog of one part of it, or have been an old follower who’s continuing to stick around

If you’ve read enough of it to know that my points are “pulled from my ass,” then you’re a hypocrite who’s actively sought me out and hate-read my debunks the same way that you’re getting on my case for. If you only saw a reblog and decided to come onto my blog and leave these messages, then you’re not only a hypocrite who’s “weirdly obsessed” with proving me wrong despite the fact that “a normal person would just like, leave it where it is” but you also have no grounds to claim that anything’s pulled out of my ass because you didn’t read it. And if you’re a follower, then you’re still a hypocrite and weirdly obsessed with continuing to follow despite the fact that I’ve given no indication that I intend to stop

But what should it even matter to you what a complete stranger does completely out of the tags on their personal blog? You tell me, why does that make you feel so threatened in your stance that you had to come into my inbox and try to desperately justify that you aren’t? Why does one dissenting person voicing why they don’t like something and providing evidence for their reasoning in their own little corner annoy you so much that you bothered to take the time out to write these? It’s not like I have that many followers or that all of the ones that I do have care about the series. Why go out of your way?

I don’t go out of my way to send anything negative to the writers because I think it would be rude. I do go out of my way to remind my followers not to as well. So if there’s nothing to my arguments and I’m not making a big deal out of it, why even bother to leave messages? In your own words: “a normal person would just like, leave it where it is”

And I don’t hate the SRT. I get snarky and frustrated in the debunks, but it’s played up. It’d be an extremely boring read for everyone, myself included, if I didn’t. I’m not, like, literally screaming behind my computer screen. This doc’s lucky it even gets physical sighs sometimes

Surprisingly enough, some people actually like research, analysis and debate. And there is a part of me that’s grateful to the theory for giving me the opportunity and motivation to go back and re-analyze some scenes from one of my favorite series. I would’ve written DDD off entirely if the theory hadn’t motivated me to rewatch the cutscenes and look at the details. Just because I find their evidence to be flimsy and disingenuous and their conclusions to be absurd stretches and extremely contradictory doesn’t mean that I haven’t found some merit in the project. But I’m not the one who published a document, made it public, and encouraged everyone to read it. You publish anything, you open yourself up to critique. You ever hear of peer-reviewed material? Consider this the peer-review

Maybe it’s people like me who make you wish for the theory to be true, but it’s people like you who let me know that I’m doing the right thing by continuing. I went into this project knowing that people who disagreed with the theory tended to get talked over or shouted down. The very fact that you’re coming in here and leaving these messages proves that. And I’m not the only person in this fandom with the stance that I have. I’m a lot of things. I have little self-confidence offline, but I am stubborn, and loud, and I don’t back down easily if I know I’m right. Which, I do believe I am. If you bothered to read anything I wrote, I provide evidence

Some people aren’t like me, though. They’re quiet, and shy, and they’d take messages like this personally. Those people deserve to have their side heard, too. Nobody deserves to be talked over in a fandom discussion. I’m doing this as much because I legitimately find it fun to play lore detective as I am for the people who don’t have the time, or words, or confidence to get their side of the conversation out

If you thought my points were wrong, you had every opportunity to go onto one of my posts and tell me why. You had every opportunity to come in and have a reasonable, respectful discussion about the topic. We could’ve talked about this like equals if you had. But you didn’t

And until you want to, you can take your condescending false pleasantries and shove ‘em. Because I’m not the one who’s “weirdly obsessed” enough to send anon hate