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Disappointed to discover that “rainbow sharks” aren’t even sharks. They’re more related to carps and minnows.

Terrible idea: take those posts about disability and mobility, and how you can’t act as someone’s legs unless you’re willing to take them wherever they want to go, and apply them to conjoinment fetish.

Like 5% tempted to create a gimmick blog called That’s a New Sentence.

A: “You’re treating trans women the way people used to treat black women.”

B: “Stop saying black women are like men.”

Me: “They didn’t say black women are like men. That’s a new sentence.”

I would get burned out and angry so fast if I actually did

I talk a lot about these online arguments where people respond in ways that don’t follow from the original statement, but I think this is a bigger part of life than just online. I think it’s a major issue that would make life easier in a great many ways if it could be solved.

As an example, I’ve been getting in a lot of trouble at work because my flux comments aren’t good enough. I told my coworker today that project managers keep not giving me the information I need to write flux comments. I asked her for an example of the sort of email she sends that PMs respond to. (I wanted to see if there was a more polite phrasing that made PMs want to be helpful.)

She responded with an example of the kind of flux comment she writes, so I could mimic that format to write better comments. I asked how she got the information in the comment. She said the PMs send it to her.

Person 1: When people call something “tradition,” it’s usually newer than what people call “modernity.”

Person 2: I don’t get it. Are you saying the word “tradition” is newer than the word “modernity”?

People 3 through 1 gazillion: *Point and laugh at Person 2*

Person 2: I still don’t get it. Would someone please explain the post instead of insulting me?

People 3 through 1 gazillion: *Still laughing*

You’re all jerks.

“Humanities degrees prevent you from becoming a fascist” is classist against people who can’t afford humanities degrees.

Less pithily, it feels like an individual-level variant of the idea that “barbarian” societies commit atrocities and “cultured” societies don’t. That died an ugly death when a “cultured” country elected Hitler.

I just saw a Happy Tree Friends fic that warned for less violence than canon, because that’s still a lot of violence.

Setting aside anything about knowledge or research time, some of why I don’t have much worldbuilding about why my stories have purple dye or gay marriage or whatever the fuck is that I don’t have room. That stuff fits better in a thousand-page epic than in my short stories.

On Tumblr specifically, a lot of dumb takes are like “this evil conspiracy wants to change society to make it less like my aesthetics. That’s bad because humans need my aesthetics to feel happy, and the people who don’t like my aesthetics aren’t really human.”