#it's just an echo chamber of Nothing

[buggachat]

I know I've said this and many variations countless times before, but just a reminder:

responding to fandom analysis posts of a show with "haha or it's just bad writing 🤣", "wow the writers must have written this by accident because they're bad 😛", or "wow one interesting thing managed to happen despite how bad the writing is 😆" is... grating.

I get it. You don't like the show, and no matter what happens in it, you'll never change your opinion of that. So why are you even interacting with analysis posts? What do you get out of it if you think literally everything in this show is written by accident? Why do you think the OPs of these posts want to hear about how much you don't care and don't want to even try to engage with it at all?

Make your own post. And tag it with the appropriate salt tags so I can blacklist.

#''it's bad writing'' as a knee-jerk reaction reply to literally any post ever discussing literally anything that happens in the show at all #is just...... i don't get it. do you think you sound analytical? that it makes you sound smart to be so negative? #that by completely refusing to analyze or engage w the text at all it makes you better than it? #it's nothing. you're saying nothing. you're making no points at all. just watch something else. engage in a different fandom. #get Fs on your lit essays. leave me out of it. lol #ml fandom salt #like you can criticize the writing all you want on your OWN POST but... c'mon... this isn't even criticism... #it's just an echo chamber of Nothing

[godblooded]

just an fyi, and it feels like it needs to be said here: your blog is your own space and you should be able to say whatever the fuck you want. if you’re sad? vent. get sad. maybe put it under a cut, definitely tag it, but get sad. if you feel like you need someone to talk to? drop a freaking message about how you’re feeling like you could use a buddy, or anything randomly engaging. if you’re having a hard time, you should feel safe and okay to talk about it in your own space. we’re writers and we’re people and while there’s a lot to be said for how engagement outside of oneself is necessary in rp (and really really needs to improve), i think there’s a lot that must be said about people reaching out to others. it’s become so solitary here — the whole ‘reblog from source’ thing when it comes to shit like about and musings is absurd. the whole refusing to like things is ridiculous. yes, curate your space, that’s important, but curating your space into a studio apartment only you live in doesn’t make this a community anymore, it makes it a studio apartment you live in.

just be yourself here. do whatever you want. but i’m always saying: remember you’re not alone, and don’t let yourself feel that way.

#ooc. o kaptain. #[this is illogically worded and after an argument I’m already upset but I just felt like this has to be put here. it’s been sitting on my #brain for so long and it’s something i just wanted to discuss. the way the rpc has become not even an echo chamber just… a shitty ny #apartment only one person lives in that can fit your fridge and your bedroom in the same room. the way literal fandoms have divided each #other through nothing but massive senses of entitlement and so much gatekeepy fucking language. it’s exhausting to watch this happen #literally all because i have no idea where interaction went and yes I’ve been virtually inactive for months now but. it absolutely isn’t for #lack of trying to come back. it’s hugely due to a lack of interaction whenever I reach out and then the feeling like I’m being either #entertained or dismissed. this is a social space and we’re people and everybody just needs to recognize that. like. last week my introverted #broski started discussing how as he’s older he feels loneliness more tangibly but he hates people and i looked right at him and said …yeah #dude. that’s natural. we’re humans. we need each other to live. we need spaces we create and communities we make. but like. there need to be #interactive people in those spaces. we’re social creatures. i love you guys and this is a ramble but… it’s been on my mind awhile. and #frankly? feels kinda good to finally speak my mind.]

[iwanttobepersephone]

Rant about Harry Potter and JK Rowling, stick with me here

Ok, so, I hate JK Rowling. I feel like that's a given, right? Like, she's a transphobic homophobic bigot who hides behind feminism and routinely denies massive parts of the holocaust, and I despise her in ways that I don't think words can even express. I can't stand her, but y'know what I also can't stand?

When someone implies that my mother, who is one of the most supportive people I know, and a massive part of the founding, organization, and actions of a local group made specifically to fight Moms for Liberty and school boards in our area trying to harm trans and queer people, is transphobic because she likes Harry Potter

Wanna know why my mom likes Harry Potter? Because when she discovered the series at 12 years old, she quite literally lived in a cupboard under the stairs and was in an abusive household. The magic of the wizarding world or whatever was her escape, it's the reason she's still alive, and by extension, the reason I was ever alive.

But, sometimes, not even often, when I try to express even the most minimal amount of appreciation of that, someone says to me "but isn't JK Rowling transphobic? Why would you support someone like that? Are you transphobic?"

Which pisses me off beyond belief, as one might imagine

In this situation, "separate the art from the artist" isn't exactly a good phrase to use, given the fact that the goblins or whatever run the bank are Jewish stereotypes and the house elves generally being happy to work under their masters being a straight rip from the whole happy slave myth, and those are very very important things to recognize and understand, among others

I feel like it's a lot closer to "separate the hundreds if not thousands of lives she's helped from the hundreds if not thousands of lives she's ruined", or even better, understand that the good she's indirectly done for people makes all the bad that much more horrid

My mother is the closest thing to a hero in this entire world and I will not stand to hear one more person accuse her of being transphobic purely because she thinks fondly of a book series that saved her life. I will not stand for people saying she's just as bad as a holocaust denier because she owns every book in the series. I will not stand for anyone going entirely against their point of not judging a group as if it's monolithic by saying all Harry Potter fans are bad people, including my mother. And, once again, it's not often at all that this happens, but it happens and I'm pissed about it and needed to rant

Anyways rant over JK Rowling sucks don't believe a single thing she says and don't support her unless you wanna support someone actively trying to make the existence of queer people illegal

#jk rowling #harry potter #screw jkr #screw jk rowling #rants #yeah so I saw one too many “if you like Harry Potter please kill yourself posts” (literal direct f+cking quote from one) and wrote this #like #in what world would saying stuff like that ever be ok #what kind of bubble do you live in where you think that's an actual productive thing to say #like have you never interacted with anyone who has slightly problematic opinions or behaviors in a positive manner.... ever?????? #do you just live in an echo chamber of people who agree with every thought you have to a T???? #difference in opinion and civil disagreements are the things that human understanding and kindness are built on #and saying things like “if you like Harty Potter you should kys” just says that you don't know how to handle that #that's not a good thing #and I know that more than a couple mutuals/followers of mine reblog similar things a lot and I don't wanna give the wrong message #JK Rowling is a horrid horrid person and nothing else could ever be argued #but my for you page is filled to the brim with posts like the ones I've referenced and I'm so mad I feel like crying #angry #angry rant #serious #AGH I just I am so so mad rn #I hate being this mad like outwardly and stuff but like #c'mon guys basic human f+cking understanding and decency can we try and learn that before telling people to kill themselves please

[analogconstruct]

how much i hate seeing the same misconceptions appear in syscourse over and over again

#syscourse #🌱 #pro endo #thats it that the post. i dont feel like wasting my energy correcting people on the same shit over and over again #i respect people who can keep educating people and changing their minds even when theres another person saying the same misinformed bullshi #in the syscourse tags like. every week. and most of the time theyre too deep in their echo chamber to even read the other sides argument #i think sometimes theyre just too afraid to have their beliefs challenged and discover they were in the wrong all along #or they arent actually interested in discussion and debate and just want to throw insults at people #i want to know how these people's minds work. how theyre so confident when they have nothing backing them up #anyway most of this post went into the tags... kind of ranted here

[wurm-food]

ok returning to my cave of solitude now ✌️ kiss kiss

#wurm.txt #ngl my mental health has been very shitty recently #and sometimes I come on here and just yell into my personal echo chamber until I feel and believe all the worst things about myself #I have today off work so I’m just fucking off for the day #I’m very excited for my vacation soon too cause I need it…. #anyway idk why I felt the need to explain literally nothing. I love you all I’ll probably be back tomorrow honestly 💕

[noxiatoxia]

it is so hard being smarter than everyone else

#/hj but literally i look at discourse and political discussions from two different sides and go man if people just realized #that there is a pretty competent solution that lies in the middle. none of this would be happening #obviously this doesnt apply to literally everything ever. but shock shock not everything has to be ''all or nothing'' all the time #maybe im just not stuck in a circlejerk echo chamber who knows #;noxiatalksia

[xamaxenta]

Its so hard reminding myself its ok to take a day here and there to do absolutely nothing im so used to the concept of productivity that i feel guilty when im not doing something

But im trying to force myself to take one day every two or three weeks where i do nothing idk if it will help me at all or if itll make me feel bad or smth but i hear people doing stuff like this and im like whoa wish that could be me

#so today this can be me for the day wow!!! #im just gonna lay here and watch pokemon challenge videos #completely useless information but it makes me happy so why shouldnt i #ive been thinking trying to force myself to draw is not beneficial at all especially if i try and nothing looks good thats such a waste #right? i mean depends #but self care day :0 i dont want to play games either thats effort in itself #i mean i got rly drunk last night so maybe thats contributing to my lazy motivation today #xam scream #xams echo chamber

[eebie]

we are deconstructing gender on Google docs tonight boys

#this is stupid LMAO im annotating stuff from a guy from liek the 1400s who prolly didnt even give a shit #when he wrote that In the spirit realm the concept of gender is nebulous at BEST #if not just totally absent #he was like.. ya spirit beings change their genders all the time They switch tey can be combinations they can be nothing #reading that like Hemm…. well 1 big belief Thats held in christianity is that people are spirit beings underneath all the flesh #so what does that mean for the people who are dead set on Sex Organs determining peoples personalities ? idk. makes you think #gender means jack shit basically. #a lot of people raised male tend to behave in certain ways Not because of their sex but because of expectations And norms #and same with people raised female #and that shit goes alll the way back 2 the stone age #obligatory Nothing wrong w falling into gender stereotypes if its stuff u genuinely like!!^_^ #anyways i rambled #i would have rambled more if tumblr wasnt trying to kill itself as i was typing #my rambles #my little peewee brain is sometimes capable of coherent thought But calling this coherent migjt be a stretch #bc im hardly in any mind 2 decide if im making sense . its like a fuckin echo chamber up in my brain N every echo becomes more n more warpd #until it eventually sounds normal 2 me ^_^ but when i voice it. the. suddenly i realize Wow thats fucked! #which is why. i usually keep my mouth shut !!! #but thats also bad .real bad If ur opinions always go unchallenged you may as well not even have them #should alwayd know Why you think what u do

[psychopomping]

music was so much more fun when we weren't hounding artists about who they wrote it about actually

#echo chamber #sometimes they give us a new perspective #but most of the time especially for women it is truly just #which man did you write this about and why #and nothing else #it's boring it's annoying and I don't care!!!

[anthareblog]

No way I just saw someone on tiktok call Creek enemies to lovers, while saying Kyman is toxic and that there’s “nothing cute about it”. Honey the POINT of enemies to lovers is that they’re ENEMIES... it’s gonna be toxic. It’s not gonna be cute! Hence why creek is not enemies to lovers because they’ve never been enemies... They fought in one episode, remained casual friends after and then got together. They didn’t even want to fight in the first place!

#Nothing against them ofc #they seemed nice but it feels like tiktok is just an echo chamber of bad opinions #bad in my opinion #kyman #creek #south park #ship discourse #anti

[vellz2]

Idk if anyones gonna see this bcs i havent been here in 8 months but 😭😭 I got bored of qsmp and decided it just wasnt for me, its a great concept ofc and lots of hardwork went into it but its just not my thing. Im more into music related stuff now and draw mostly ocs and shit </3

#explaining myself to an echo chamber #sorry to any old moot thats gonna see this #i had lots of fun while it lasted but i wasnt feeling it even before i stopped posting #so like almost a year now #nothing against the qsmp or quackity ofc #its wonderful #just not my thing #and i cant force myself to like it anymore #stil hoping for juanaflippa revival though! jk

[ashmp3]

I just remembered how zaynab said gif makers quote my tags and i suddenly feel like court jester for jjongjjongie nation

#and trust. i was much funnier in 2022 on here bc it was like an echo chamber no followers no nothing just me my phone and jeonghan induced #psychosis 🥹🥳 that’s why i see some of the posts bc people still like them for some reason and i’m like awww i miss that. i should step my #my game im so tame and normal now #tt

[alarrylarrie]

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#literally nothing I love more in this fandom than reading someone eloquently state something I had a different view of #because it makes me examine my view #and either double down #or change my opinion #listening to other people’s perspectives and then evaluating my own thoughts is really good practice #and I just love love love doing it here with all of you #this isn’t sarcasm either I’m genuinely thrilled when I read a counterpoint to an argument I was making that has me stop short #and I think it’s SO important to use our critical thinking skills #and be able to defend our points OR change our minds #it’s nice to not be in an echo chamber you know? #so thank you all #for bringing your views about… well everything really #and helping me look at mine #love y’all

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

The fact that it's a trend now to say it's a red flag that someone does or does not like a particular fictional character is proof that media literacy is completely dead.

#DCB Comments #also one time I saw someone compare my other series son to Edelgard and I was like BUDDY what #they're nothing alike and their circumstances are nothing alike. but evidently it's a red flag if #you like either of them. and ofc you can't just explain to someone why it's not a red flag to enjoy a fictional character or dislike one #or they'll get super butthurt and whine and cry bc how dare you not be part of their echo chamber!!! #oh noooo how dare someone hate a portrayal of a character bc they exist to make fun of a real phobia! #how dare someone like a character who did something deemed ''bad''! there's no WAY there's more to the story! #idk how Ashnard hasn't gotten canceled by purists yet so good for him I'm rooting for you Ashy! #(fun fact: you can enjoy fictional characters. it's not a red flag about a person's entire morality or personality #saying that is saying it's a red flag to you about who that person is irl as a human being #because they enjoy a piece of fictional media or do not enjoy a piece of fictional media #if you judge someone for what they do and don't like in fictional media and think they're a ''red flag'' #that's a pretty good ironic indication that YOU are the problem and the red flag #for judging a human being based on media they consume and assuming it reflects on who they are irl)

[succyobsessions]

sometimes I forget that not everyone is as hot and intellectual and perceptive of nuance as I am when it comes to Billy and the importance of his character and why people might be disappointed and disgusted with how he as a character was treated by both the duffers and the fandom.

#tell me you don’t have complex thinking skills without telling me #this is why I do not interact with ANYTHING strangers things related off of tumblr too many of y’all just be saying things #you can pry this pro-billy echo chamber from my cold dead hands #billy antis dni i don’t care about your opinions I promise you it is nothing I have not heard before #billy hargrove #stranger things

[katyspersonal]

I've been trying to draw these days but I really can't. After hearing "You do not have a talent though, and it is cringe of you to say you do and boast about skills you don't have, it is fine if you don't want to improve but your art is clearly only liked by people who can't draw" not only nothing I draw looks right, but also seeing other people's (beautiful) art works makes me feel more inferior and incapable. I just look and feel like 'This is what ACTUAL art looks like, I am not like this, everyone who told me I did not have it in me and should have quit and find another hobby were right'.

It just feels more like another creative crisis I have to recover from, now that my self-confidence has been scattered. It is harder than the time when someone whose opinion I valued completely trashed the way I draw Mico, because this is actually true. I know that some things ARE wrong with my art, and there must be a good reason why for years I have not been able to sell commissions for 30 USD per full height full color (robbery, basically). But it feels like it goes beyond just 'you have some issues you need to fix'. Art is basically my crutch and I am only able to recover from bad things that happen to me because "yeah this hurts but I have WIPs to finish, so I must go on", so when it is taken from me upon saying I have no talent I feel like an empty husk. Now even looking at good art feels like I am just sullying the fanarts pool in general with my ugly images.

I think maybe taking a break from WIPs to pick myself together would do. If I was able to improve backgrounds, details and colors - sure I will improve faces and anatomy eventually. I just can't now, those words hurt like broken bone.

#/vent #personal #creativity #also please do not console me in comments or asks that my art is not that bad #you will just prove that person's point that i sit in echo-chamber of hearing nothing but praises #i mean if you have some *objective* feedback then sure... freedom of speech and all #but yeah at this point i second-guess if people only compliment my art because they like ME