u/AKA_6

I find it to be the strangest thing ever. I was online so I replied, why is that so weird to you?? Do I have to wait a certain amount of time in order to answer your question? I had someone say that I replied too fast when I replied to them 17 minutes after they sent me something, Idk but I would not consider that ‘scarily fast’ at all. I’m usually very slow to respond so this doesn’t happen too often but when it does it really annoys me.

Idk if this take is hot or not but I want to talk about it regardless.

Like, writing about serial killers doesn’t make someone a serial killer. Obviously. And that goes for every dark topic out there. I write darkfic myself so it would make me quite the hypocrite to claim otherwise. But writing can also sometimes be a reflection of people’s biases.

For example, writing a bigoted character is no issue, that’s just a flaw and could make for an interesting character exploration. But when every character regardless of personality is throwing out casual sexism/racism/transphobia/etc and it’s not explained by the setting or otherwise, if every minority in the story is a stereotype and/or bashed by the narrative, I do start to wonder how the author views those groups irl, whether they’re doing this consciously or not. I’ve also seen cases of people writing about abusive relationships and tagging them as healthy, then getting confused when commenters pointed out the mis-tagging. Turns out some of these folks were trapped in abusive relationships in real life and didn’t see anything wrong with them until someone pointed it out.

Much lighter example; I once read a story where, no joke, three different scenes had separate characters mention how abhorrent they thought pineapple on pizza was. Like it would be brought up and everybody in the room would cringe. Idk I found it safe to assume the author didn’t fw pineapple on pizza.

This is of course a very case by case thing and I would never encourage people to accuse anyone of anything, because if does turn out to be a reflection of the author, it is that author’s job to figure themselves out. But when reading fic, it can sometimes really feel like the characters are being mouthpieces for the author and I don’t think it’s ridiculous to click off a fic about it.

For example, I have a friend who hates musicals. She doesn’t actively disparage them, but makes it a point to have that known whenever they come up. I love them and have plenty of theatre songs my playlists. More than once, one will auto play and she’ll say ‘oh this is a good song!’ And upon finding out it was from a musical she’ll go ‘never mind, it does sound kind of repetitive and cliché anyway’

You JUST said you liked the song?? Is not liking musicals such a point of pride for you that you can’t even let yourself be perceived as having liked one?

Another one I see often are those pranks where people are given like a regular burger and then lied to and told it’s vegan afterward. SO many people go from singing its praises to hating it when they think it’s vegan, as if it doesn’t taste the exact same as when they didn’t think it was. Its annoying in all its forms.

Edit: accidentally implied the prank was giving someone a vegan burger and revealing the truth afterwards, when I meant giving someone a regular beef burger and saying its vegan afterwards as the prank. Fixed that

This is gonna sound like a fever dream but I swear on god I watched this as a kid, if anyone else did too I’d love to know any info!

Okay, I don’t remember if this was a movie or a short, but here’s everything I do remember:

I watched this in elementary school, somewhere between 2009-2012, but it looked like an older film.

It was 2d animated.

There was like a medieval fantasy kingdom based around cleanliness, and the princess was an anthropomorphic racoon lady in a pink dress.

The villains were personified plaque, and they were trying to trick the protagonists (a group of kids) to stray from their cleanliness.

At one point, they’re transporting a cart of some sort and get lured off path by a bunch of candy and get plaque from it.

I remember one scene where an adult character (in a panic) opens one of the kids’ mouth and theres a bunch of dancing plaque monsters in there?

I don’t smoke cigarettes, never even tried it, but I kinda love the smell. It’s in the same category as gasoline in my mind in which it smells good but in a really weird way. I’d even say it’s a bit nostalgic to me though I don’t associate it with anything particularly pleasant.

In contrast, I despise the smell of vape. It’s so intense and artificial it makes me gag.

Of course, there are situations where this criticism is valid. For example, if an established doctor gets hurt and immediately commits a medical mistake, that’s bad writing because it goes against what was already said about the character. There are also plenty of movies where the decision is so baffling, even if it is “realistic”, it takes me out of the movie.

However, I see this criticism a lot for things like “why would this group of teenagers go into an abandoned building alone?” Or “why did this already emotionally distant father not believe his kid when she said she saw a monster?” And as someone who not only went into abandoned buildings as a teenager, but has not believed people I knew when they said they saw supernatural shit, I don’t think that sort of criticism is right.

The characters do not know they are in a horror movie. For most non-believing people, you don’t hear a sound and immediately think ‘ghost’. Even if seeing something straight up, most folks would cling to what they already believe in and just chalk it up to hallucinations or drugs or whatnot. Many people also wouldn’t immediately take someone seriously, even if they’re someone they trust, when they start yelling about ghosts or phenomena.

Teenagers/kids being stupid is par for the course. As a teenager one of my friends had a ouija board and we messed with that thing all the time. If how I acted back then was any indication, I would’ve died first. Plus, perfectly intelligent adults make stupid mistakes all the time, especially when panicking, stressed, or out of their element like horror movies often put on them.

I will say that yea, it’s frustrating to watch people being stupid, and not wanting to watch a film because the characters are stupid is totally fine. But as a criticism I find that it only works in certain situations. (Again, not saying there is never a situation where this criticism applies)

“if you don’t love evil murder death 3 you’re just sensitive” “anyone who likes evil murder death 3 is a real life psychopath or trying to be edgy” can we all just shut the fuck up and let people have their own opinions on things.

Not liking horror movies is fine, liking horror movies is fine. I’m sick of hearing both of these opinions out in the wild all the time.

For example, I see a lot of “this show is disgusting and all its fans are cringe losers, this is pretty fanart though!” Or under animal videos, “I kill every rat I see and think they’re gross, but your pet rat is cute!” Like idk man I doubt that person is going to feel very complimented after you just insulted their interests.

I don’t mind things like “normally don’t like xyz but this is nice” but I hate it when it’s said with such vitriol.

“If you block me, you lost/you’re trying to silence me/you’re x and y and z” oh my god it is not that serious.

I’ve blocked every single asmr account I’ve come across because the mouth noises make me want to bang my head against the wall and I got sick of being jumpscared with them every time I go to scroll, that doesn’t mean I’m trying to silence them or be intolerant or whatever else, it’s me curating my own online experience to avoid something that bothers me.

That being said there are definitely situations where blocking can be a dick move, but I’m not talking about those.