#sorry for getting into tumblr-pilled discourse i can't help myself

[vampire-mina]

Just going to throw out -JKR was objectively not an especially good writer. My thesis in 2007 was on that so that isn't new. Grabbing a zeitgeist isn't the same as being talented. Absolutely not defending either writer in any case but just noting, JKR being catchy and tropey doesn't mean she's a good wordsmith, because she isn't.

i think this is interesting because it raises the question of what a good writer is, which in my opinion is not solely to do whether or not someone is a wordsmith (although that can be a large part of it & is used in a lot of 'objective' models of good writing). i also think its different from a kids perspective vs from an adult perspective. I remember reading the chamber of secrets as a kid and being genuinely hooked by the mystery. is it the kind of thing i'd pick up now? no, but i don't think an adult audience was ever really intended and i would say her writing is about on par with other middle grade fiction. i've only read one book from gaiman and it was neverafter which wasn't middle grade but seemed YA adjacent and didn't think he was necessarily a great wordsmith either. anyways tl;dr everyone has their own opinion on what is good writing i was more just commenting on reaction of people within fandom spaces (i'm also totally willing to acknowledge that there have been people who have thought rowling was bad for years! i just don't think it was as much in the cultural forefront until everything went down.)

[sunfoxfic]

So.um. I know you have answered a lot of asks before about the subs Vs dubs thing and feel free to squip this. But.

I had been following this person and one day I just saw dash fill up with French dub supremacy stuff which I didn't really appreciate since I think every dub is different and amazing on it's own.(I don't like comparing dubs in sense saying one dub is "SuPeRIor". I don't understand any language other than eng and I can't connect well with the characters in other languages BUT I digress)

And this person was low-key being so pretentious and obnoxious about it?? So I unfollowed them. But now...I don't want to miss out on anything, you know? I checked their blog after a few days just because of curiosity and they seemed to really push the French dub agenda and so I just. BLOCKED THEM.

Now, I wanted to know whether I am overreacting?? I just find this person's tone of speaking in general to be really kinda annoying even though they did say it was light-hearted:/

And also this is quite unrelated but this is actually something I need some opinions on but there are one or two REALY popular analysis and content creating blogs who I blocked and I kind of feel really...idk man I just feel like I want to make content too! Like I like their content but the fact that it is THEIR content and I don't want to come across them ever again and I just. wish I could make cool stuff like others do too:(

I tried taking breaks from the fandom and though they helped, I still want to be awesome like the others in this fandom...

Anyway, sorry my thoughts are all over the place lol

Look. Tumblr, in recent times, has become very fond of the idea of cultivating your own internet experience and blocking gratuitously. But so many people are programmed to other parts of the internet where this is a huge taboo and blocking is A Big Deal. So I'm here to say it:

You want to block someone for some reason but it feels unnecessary or unkind? You think that this block is the exception because it's too mean or too superficial?

No. This is not the exception. That block is justified because you don't need to justify anything.

Now, I am well acquainted with blocking someone but still seeing them come up on my dash and feeling... somehow, angry that they're on my dash at all. Like it's the people I'm following's fault for reblogging from them (which it isn't, though I did make a meme-y post about that earlier this week because I saw a mutual reblogging from someone I blocked on Not Good Terms after some Discourse occurred). (Also, that mutual saw the post and is blissfully unaware, which I plan to keep it that way because it's not my job to tell them who to block.)

I've blocked for petty reasons before. Normally, I don't do that; normally, I just unfollow. But you really need to remember that people are allowed to be wrong about some things and right about other things, and being wrong about one thing doesn't make them any less right about the others. It's a hard pill to swallow, Jesus I am struggling to choke it down myself, but at some point, you need to make peace with the fact that some people are wrong sometimes and that doesn't mean you should let that ruin when they're right.

Which is to say: I'm really trying hard to not get angry when I see mutuals reblogging (correct) analyses from people who are wrong. In particular, there's a really big analysis blog who had some pretty nasty opinions back when Mega Leech rehashed sentiAdrien, and I blocked them. All the way back in what, July? August? When was Mega Leech released?

They're mostly a good analysis blog. I don't want their blog on my dash because I think they've got some shitty opinions and spread quite a bit of negativity. But mutuals reblogging their posts isn't a sin, especially because my mutuals are currently cultivated so that their posts which make it to my dash are things I agree with. Because being wrong didn't make them right.

At some point, you have to resist the temptation to hit "View this Tumblr" when Tumblr says, "You have this Tumblr blocked, so we've hidden it from your view." I'm not saying I succeed every time. But at some point, you have to be angry at what they said (in one specific instance of time) and not what they're saying (right now, currently).

There's so many great ML positive blogs out there. There's a lot of analysis blogs that hold opinions I disagree with but hold them in reasonable ways where they aren't obnoxious about it and it doesn't ruin my experience to have them on my dash.

Do not feel about about unfollowing and blocking. If you need to, don't feel bad about putting their URL into the "filter content" option in settings. You aren't overreacting. But at the same time, your behavior will exemplify your mindset, and behaving in line with the anger that you feel will only make it worse.

People are allowed to be wrong, but when they're right, they're no less right for it. It's not a sin to reblog a post where they're somewhere in the reblog chain if you agree with that post. And being mindful of that has made it a lot easier to make my dash not make me hate myself because you cannot control who the people you're following have blocked.