i will do it again
Like I didnât not consider the possibility but I never seemed to give a shit and thatâs concerning
I donât want to do that
anyways the Central Tumblr Experience According To Arete is accidentally ending up in some hyperspecific discourse bubble until youâre incapable of having normal opinions
for absolute clarity this is not about, like, becoming more progressive, which is totally normal and fine/good, this is about, idk, thinking that some 45-year-old trans person deserves to be transphobically harassed because they called themself âtranssexualâ instead of âtransgender,â or suicide baiting someone because they reblogged a piece of Pearlgreg fanart, or deciding that an 18-year-old is a pedophile because they dated a 17-year-old, or whatever
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yeah my life was probably ruined by unrestricted internet access. iâd do it again
this image is always funny to me because kenneths reply is just the most unhinged post
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Anyway yeah I just kind of went on forums and watched Sims videos I didnât get Traumatized by the Internet I was just kindof normal the whole time
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i am surprisingly normal when you take into account that i am not normal
oh I just remembered the Actually Kind Of Fucked Up thing that happened in one of my internet communities but itâs maybe too dark for cookie thread
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On the internet I have always had this reflex that whenever I find myself feeling an emotion/opinion on the internet I imagine myself explaining it from scratch to like a mother or classmate or et cetera and if I canât fully get through that conversation without sounding completely & irreparably ridiculous I probably donât understand what Iâm talking about enough to be mad
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only mildly related but at some point i was gonna do an xcom run where all of the soldiers i had were designed to be forum people (i think this was before you existed in my life, a better time)
anyway im kinda imaginin what the fuck id do for a may soldier like would they have like mind powers and be fragile that feels right many people are saying this
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i donât think there exists an internet community that doesnât have an Actually Kind Of Fucked Up thing if you dig deep enough
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for the record i have launched xcom three times ever and have like 15 hours in it
Like obviously to some degree there are going to be âabnormalâ things that the archetypal Normie you mentally explain to will be intolerant slash judgemental of without good reason. The Normie doesnât have to fully agree with or accept your point for it to be okay for you to have it. But you have to be able to get through the whole explanation of your process
ours could have been intensify dying if he actually died
what
i feel like youâre typing it in as censored of a way as you can and itll somehow come out worse than if you were just like, blunt
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i can think of a handful of moments that could have been The Kinda Fucked Up Thing
such as most of xblades decisions
If you believe there to be harm being done you have to be able to explain what the harm is. From scratch, without any internet based context assumptions. I have had this principle as long as I can remember and therefore I have never really been sucked into any bad discourse bubbles