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new rule if you say shit like ‘i don’t care about ace discourse either way’ and then do weird shit like, reblogging both positivity for ace people but also those “lol, look this ace said something cringey” posts, i unfollow you. i don’t like playing this guessing game of ‘yeah they just reblogged something gross from someone who thinks aces are fucking “invaders”, except they haven’t explicitly shared the same sentiment yet, so maybe they’re still ok to follow?”. or like, “sure it’s a punchline about aces being homophobic/transphobic/incels (fucking what?) but maybe they meant this person specifically and not as a group?” it’s a huge source of anxiety feeling like i’m just waiting for you to share the same sentiment.

i definitely Get You that Discourse Tumblr is a garbage fire and an endless source of anxiety and i do a lot to distance itself from it now. but like. if you don’t want to have a “discourse stance” then like… those cringey ace memes are a discourse stance. it means ace people who read your blog get to be subjected to this same guessing game

like I have drunk coffee everyday since i hit, 16 so take this with a grain of salt but. i feel it’s just started getting, addiction-y this over last month. ive started feeling like, Fuck, I need a coffee Right Now, or i’ll explode. it was just a thing i did before without feeling like I Needed to. and I don’t like it it’s just making me more tense. idk what’s different, I’ve been roughly this stressed for ages, ive been this prone to addiction for ages, have my other ways of coping gotten worse or worn out or, what, idk

i was writing this whole thing about. listening to all the d&d segments of harmontown. and how it’s such a mess. how often the joke is just, jeff davis mentioning aids. and the audience cheering at that? ‘i fuck the giant fish so the fish gets aids and then it’ll die’ like god can u imagine having paid to be in the audience of that its such a low fucking bar? this was after, really early on, there’s this interlude about how like. Dan Harmon can’t tell jokes. so jeff gives him some jokes. one the punchilne is just aids again. the other is child rape. presumably the remainder of the show that isn’t d&d is like that, i guess. and like. uh. listening to it i’m so aware of how much i’m having to make myself forgive the show just to get to the next episode. but i got up to them dropping the t slur and i just can’t anymore. i don’t think i can even hatelisten past this point. liking spencer’s style of DMing, and, you know, erin mcgathy being a ray of sunshine, it’s, sadly not enough to motivate me to get deeper into this trainwreck. especially knowing that they always run with these jokes, but that’s arguably harmon’s on stage presence, and it seems like if you stopped and said, hey that’s not funny, let’s not joke about that, it could fucking kill him. like that, consent joke moment in harmonquest. can u imagine stepping on that ego it’s like a baby chick

i think. the biggest difference between harmonquest and harmontown is that, harmonquest had a network. it presumably had someone tapping everyone on the shoulder and saying, hey keep it clean, keep it at least tolerable. keep it something that a Real Life Human Being can sit down for a half hour to watch without wincing. and the jokes are pretty limited to, uhh, the running gag that dan’s character is coming to terms with being gay. i guess. so it was still a mess from the beginning and i’m, a fucking idiot for finding media i think i like. but now seeso’s fucking dead and buried, if it ever gets a third season i’m sure it’s going to end up being the same fucking, edgy lolrandom humour that harmontown ends up as. that rick and morty is. i think my main problem is thinking dan harmon that wrote community is like, still alive and kicking somewhere, and i’m looking for that painfully aware optimistic metahumour in some painfully unaware, bitter shell of a writer

alright lads gatekeeping as a term is worn the fuck out i propose we swap it out for bridgetrolling

  • no more cowards going ‘well of course i’m a gatekeeper bc who else will defend the precious (insert label here)’
  • more reflective of the ugliness they’re carrying around
  • there isn’t a gate. there was never a gate. you’re just actively getting in the way of other people finding themselves