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So, listen up.

This post appeared on my dash today. Now, this, to me, is obviously partially joking. The creator discovered this wildly popular ship that is definitely a bit shocking if you don't already know about it. But they told tumblr users to eat vegetables and watch sports. Obviously, not serious hate or criticism (and fandom queers love hockey rpf anyway).

What was shocking was some of the replies.

First we have replies that are like the ones as follows:

Jokes with a kinda off vibe to them. Almost certainly not serious, but if it is, wildly misses the point.

Then you have ones like this:

These replies that despite some phrasing problems (gagging at the use of "yaoislop" and its implications) are pointing out valid problems. But, as others reply to these commenters, there are so many people who do it, and you can, in fact, just block it and only get mad at people who tag their shit poorly (which is very reasonable).

Then there is this reply:

Which has a great point. If you don't like it, don't look at it problem solved. However,

This was a response to that reply. Someone who doesn't understand 1. How fandom works or 2. How aromanticism or asexuality work, apparently. And the original replier gets a bit too apologetic about something they don't need to apologise for. They are being frankly way too nice and reasonable to someone who is obviously being very aggressive in their phrasing.

Then, of course, you have people like this

Which is the kind of person I just want to pick up, feed a tasty yet healthy meal, water, and tuck into bed because clearly they need it. And also they need to take a heavy dose of chill tf out my guy you're on tumblr. And you know they're so wound up because someone replies with "who cares" and they reply:

Like jeez man, you need to take several deep breaths. This isn't the first reply to this reply though

A breath of fresh air who the original replies does not respond to because it's a good argument they can't just get mad at. And this person has a very good point. A reason many are shipping this is because of the remarkable number of parallels between the two.

OP has rightfully turned off reblogs and limited replies before this gets too out of hand.

Anyway

Moral of the story:

Block or mute if you don't like it.

Understand the platform you are on.

You don't need to reply to someone who isn't going to listen to a word you have to say.

And fucking take a deep breath and chill

Stay hydrated, make sure you've eaten, and get some sleep.

Imma wax poetic for a moment.

Idk how to feel about posts like this (the first one, not any of the reblogs)

Pretty much everyone in your circle on tumblr is going to be of a similar mindset to you, no? Unless you're on one of the weird conservative parts of tumblr, you're almost certainly not going to be mutals with someone who doesn't support people being people.

So why would someone be posting something like this? Surely there would be people who won't reblog it not because they hate non binary people but because they're simply too lazy to, it doesn't fit their blog's theme, etc.

If this were any other platform, I'd assume that maybe this is a ploy to get reblogs. But it's fucking tumblr. We generally don't do that here.

So I'm just left with questions I can't answer.

Are people actually blocking or unfollowing people who don't reblog this?

Why was the original post made?

Is there something about this and this style of post I don't get as someone not fully native to tumblr?

I'd love your insight if you have any.

My boy was a puppet!!!!!

Fuck yeah!!!!

At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.

Progress.

And The Martian was my favourite book before Project Hail Mary, and I even read his far less popular book Artemis. The synopsis alludes to there being a second alien on top of basically telling the reader about the first one. Astrophage is an alien, and if you pretend that when you have one alien, you can't have another one, you're lying to yourself. Weir did Rocky in the most Weir way possible. I think anyone who read the synopsis and read the book in ernest wouldn't think that the alien is the twist. I DO THINK, however, that readers knew this was a twist, and out of respect for those who didn't know the story in advance, they managed to largely keep the twist a secret.

As a reader-to-movie-watcher, I'm glad you didn't know about the real twist in advance.