#anon discourse

I don’t think that’s ever happened on Absentia— at least that I can remember— but it has happened to me before. At that point, I couldn’t bother to actually respond to the message, however used to it I was, so I simply blocked the account and saved the ask for later (my girlfriend finds them interesting to look at and discuss).

Most of the time, unless I’ve truly reached the end of my rope, I try not to be too harsh or mean when responding to Anon Discourse, because I don’t know what life is like on the other side of their screen. Not that it excuses some of the things that have been said to, or about, me, but it makes it a bit more understandable (in my mind anyway). Plus, I’ve gotten some apologies too, which weren’t needed but appreciated all the same.

and if you’re like “well that’s not what i said” or “okay i didn’t mean it like that tho” then congrats! the same thing goes for my posts where i was skeptical! i didn’t mean that i thought all the anon hate was fake and that all izzy fans were sending it to themselves, but when you come into my blog and see a post where i’m skeptical about the origins of anon hate and you’ve been experiencing a lot of this hate firsthand, you naturally interpreted my posts defensively. and that’s fine! i get it! it makes sense!

but the reason i made those skeptical posts in the first place is because from my perspective, izzy fans were coming onto unrelated izzy critical posts (many of which were written by poc) and acting like those posts were personal attacks on them. and then those izzy fans were claiming that izzy fans have been getting anon hate, anon hate that i had not seen yet, and that these unrelated izzy critical posts were contributing to that harassment, and yeah! press X to doubt! from my point of view, it looked like there were a lot of izzy fans who didn’t want to see anything even slightly mean said about their favorite character, and they had a persecution complex because they got some run-of-the-mill anon hate.

anyway, i’m only here to say that it’s mind blowing how entitled people can be just because of the anon feature. they’re out here thinking writers owe them shit, and then they are the ones who act all offended?! nah, it doesn’t work like that…

it’s a shame they didn’t take the time to read the rest of your work, but it’s for the best! disrespectful people don’t deserve the honor of reading number nine!

yeah as i said to the previous anon, i think it’s fine to enjoy/like his character. i just specifically have a problem with some of his aggro ass stans who want to deny the fact he likely was racist simply because they wanna coddle him. newsflash, billy is a white boy from the 80s living in a small town in the midwest during the reagan era. he had abusive tendencies and goes beyond just being “morally grey” imo so disliking him shouldn’t be shocking to his die hard shooters. so, i don’t rlly need some condescending chronically online anons (not you, others) trying to tell me i don’t have nuance or understand complex characters.

unpopular opinion: those jokes were funny and other lesbians were making them??? so i cant joke with my gay friends anymore in case their fragile ego shatters into a million pieces? None of my friends can make my day a little better by making ace jokes with me? If you cant take a little joke, honestly, get off the internet. There is no way to please everybody and the sooner we accept that, the better off everyone will be.

And i want to also make it clear that if people were legitimately upset with those jokes, that's fine. You're allowed to feel what you feel. But cancelling Ranboo or throwing a huge fit is not the solution! Just block and move on. That's all that needs to be done. You are in control of the media you consume, not some minor in america. If you want to see a change in the world, look inwards. God i hate the internet.