... You do you, I guess

[yvannairie]

Went to reblog a funny post about the lack of staying power Siege had in the fandom to find out that I've been blocked by the OP. Went to check and I've reblogged exactly a single thing from them where I agreed on their assessment that the plot required a far defter approach than what the writers of the show were capable of.

I mean I don't... mind? But every time I'm blocked and can't immediately locate an answer (like disagreements over big swathers of fandom wank or ace/bi discourse) my brain jumps to "whisper networks" and "you're not popular b/c the popular people are talking shit about you behind your back".

Like @ my brain: buddy we're not even well-known enough for them to do that.

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[cimorene]

I usually block people on Tumblr because they call my angora bunnies lionheads (or tag them with kink or kin-related tags)... or because they said something homophobic about Poirot. Or, of course, because they're a bot or one of my Fandom Nemeses (these are all people who afaik don't know I exist whose names or styles are like fingernails on a blackboard for me).

But I had a friend who used to advocate blocking more liberally than you need to as a form of stress release and she would definitely say "Block them!!" every time I dropped "Wow, look at this dumb comment I saw on a community post!" in the chat. Maybe you ran into one of her school of thought.

[yvannairie]

Okay but that doesn't make me feel better because now I'm wondering what about my comment was the part that had them like "nope, this person is never gonna be worth my time" D:

[cimorene]

You know it doesn't have to be anything bad you said, though! All that's required is for them to hold the opposite view. Maybe they're wrong about something extremely minor and inconsequential that you were right about!

[yvannairie]

aaaaaaaaaaaaa you're totally right, though, and I'd rather be blocked by this person than be talked shit about behind my back b/c they have a reflexive negative response to me any time they see my screen name. Guess I gotta slap their url in my blacklist and forget about their existence as well.