#something something subtletly is kind of supposed to go over your head sometimes

[the-exiled-comic]

I feel for you man, so much

Like, reading through the comments on DA or otherwise, at some point I have to assume this is peoples first run in with the concept of a story or narrative

yeah im ngl this weird lack of understanding of things seemed to show up when covid started and it got really common for people to be overly online and stopped remembering boundaries. like dont get me wrong it certainly effected me too in a lot of ways, as isolation does to someone, but atleast i didnt go around asking ppl to tell me what i should think about a story

i think it just got really normal for people to rely on others to tell them what to think and it got bad enough that now its extended to stories or something. im not the only author to experience it nor will i be the last but its something that like, i dont like that we have solidarity for it lol it shouldnt be the issue that it is

asking questions and getting clarification is fine but you can tell the difference between "can you remind me? did i miss something?" and the "i cant come to my own conclusion, how was i supposed to feel about this?" and then the worst one "i came to my own conclusion thats factually wrong and im upset that nobody thinks im right"