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🌻 @hexcrystals.bsky.social · Aug 15

this feels fucking horrible and i'm really embarrassed to ask but i've found out my job is at significant risk. i'm the main earner for my household and i don't know what we'd do without my wage. we have no savings to fall back on. thank you for any support you can give.
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fox 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @asneakyfox.bsky.social · Jun 26

if people are like "your tone is really rude and it makes any attempt to talk to you deeply unpleasant." and you're like "that's only valid feedback if you're willing to have an extended direct conversation about it with me off anon." you are setting up a very obvious catch-22

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🌻 @hexcrystals.bsky.social · Jun 26

occam’s razor innit. if you catch yourself thinking ‘nobody can be that oblivious after being told so many times’, the simpler explanation is ‘they know they piss folks off & drive them away. they don’t care. they get off on it. they’re contrarian on purpose bc their only hobby is proselytising’

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🌻 @hexcrystals.bsky.social · Jun 25

i think more because they don’t know/care what doxxing is, they just wanted a Big Bad Word to throw around

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🌻 @hexcrystals.bsky.social · Jun 25

don’t worry so are they

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🌻 @hexcrystals.bsky.social · Jun 25

i have been informed that by posting this screenshot without even including the username of who posted it, i am ‘doxxing’, if you needed any further info about the relationship between these folks and reality x

🌻 @hexcrystals.bsky.social · Jun 24

thank you so much to this unnamed tumblr user for proving my exact point.

this isn't about racism. the people mentioned in my post are not being anti-racist, they're just being shitty. there are poc who've been ran out of this fandom by these white people insisting their perspectives are invalid.

a screenshot showing my statement, 'many many people have tried to politely tell these folks that they're being rude and they're acting like the fandom cops and so on. nothing works.' followed by 'translation: you're ruining my racism waaaaaaaaaaaah'

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ida 🐭 bizarrelittlemew @bizarrelittlemew.bsky.social · Jun 25

and when they finally push someone to their fucking limit and get a tiny taste of what they’ve been dishing out, they drop to the floor and scream that they’re being bullied

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ida 🐭 bizarrelittlemew @bizarrelittlemew.bsky.social · Jun 25

you know those kids who’d take your toys, destroy your sandcastles, knock you over on your bike, change the rules of games so they’d win, and generally make the playground miserable, and then when no one wants to play with them anymore they’d run crying to the teacher

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🌻 @hexcrystals.bsky.social · Jun 25

their accusation that lovelyletters is just for sending letters to the blog runner’s friends is 1. demonstrably untrue and 2. irrelevant? like what would the problem even be if it was just the blog runner’s friends? why are they so insistent that it’s toxic/unfair to have friends?

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🌻 @hexcrystals.bsky.social · Jun 25

it’s normal to see posts praising others and think ‘i wish someone would praise me’. but jfc you have got to think ‘maybe i’ll do something nice so it’ll get posted about’ and not jump straight to ‘well nobody is talking about me so this blog is shit and should shut up about everyone else too’

unpopular culture 🏴‍☠️ @unpopularculture.bsky.social · Jun 25

also imagine having beef with the lovelyletters blog. bye.

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🌻 @hexcrystals.bsky.social · Jun 25

it’s so validating to have all of my points proven by the booting off that is occurring as a result 💛 thanks folks

unpopular culture 🏴‍☠️ @unpopularculture.bsky.social · Jun 25

i just think it's funny that people who would have full scale public meltdowns (complete with wild accusations) whenever anyone blocked them are now saying "just block us if you don't want to see our posts!" people WERE blocking you and you called it bullying and ostracisation lmao! we can't win.

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🌻 @hexcrystals.bsky.social · Jun 25

the speech bubbles made me laugh out loud, congrats

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danny ⚔️ @soupbtch.bsky.social · Jun 25

I don’t really want to speak about this more than I have because again, I don’t come to fandom for any of this, I come here to escape the horrors of my real life, but here is the post I made at the time in the face of all this with more of my thoughts, if you want em 💖 www.tumblr.com/soupbtch/783...

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Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your people.

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danny ⚔️ @soupbtch.bsky.social · Jun 25

this group accused me of ‘white fragility’ because when they were having disingenuous, circular conversations about fandom racism without listening to the poc (me and others!!!) around them, I blocked them and reiterated that fandom is supposed to be fun and isn’t supposed to make me feel this way

🌻 @hexcrystals.bsky.social · Jun 24

oh fuck it, i've had enough.

ofmd tumblr is incredibly unfun for me and many others at the moment bc of the behaviour of celluloidbroomcloset, iamadequate1, and others who share their views and posting habits.

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✨ Rowan 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈🍉🔞 RD Portland 🍿 OFMD in theaters @littlefingies.bsky.social · Jun 25

In my experience when people get to the "naming names" stage they have tried everything else. Safe to assume this is like.... step 20. Not step 1.

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fox 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @asneakyfox.bsky.social · Jun 25

the bulk of the behavior that's running people off tumblr, also, is not even ostensibly about racism; it's stuff like constantly showing up to scold anyone who writes crackships, or who affectionately dunks on stede, or who mentions jack without pausing to specify that he's pure evil.

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🌻 @hexcrystals.bsky.social · Jun 25

anyway goodnight folks. i will leave you with the following questions to Ponder: is it a clique or is it a group of people who chat and interact bc they’re friends who are nice to each other? and are they excluding you bc they’re mean or are they just not friends w you bc you make them feel unhappy?

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🌻 @hexcrystals.bsky.social · Jun 24

but this is what happens whenever you say anything they disagree with. it's never just 'i see it differently but okay!' it's 'i see it differently because i am objectively right, which makes me Correct and Good, and you are Wrong and Bad and i wish you'd stop acting in this problematic way'

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🌻 @hexcrystals.bsky.social · Jun 24

thank you so much to this unnamed tumblr user for proving my exact point.

this isn't about racism. the people mentioned in my post are not being anti-racist, they're just being shitty. there are poc who've been ran out of this fandom by these white people insisting their perspectives are invalid.

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unpopular culture 🏴‍☠️ @unpopularculture.bsky.social · Jun 24

a very merry fuck it tuesday to all involved

Ed eating icing off his sword with text reading Fuck It Tuesday

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🌻 @hexcrystals.bsky.social · Jun 24

just to add to this: i am absolutely not one to name drop in callouts. but many many people have tried to politely tell these folks that they’re being rude and they’re acting like the fandom cops and so on. nothing works. the fandom is going to die if everybody just quietly leaves.

🌻 @hexcrystals.bsky.social · Jun 24

oh fuck it, i've had enough.

ofmd tumblr is incredibly unfun for me and many others at the moment bc of the behaviour of celluloidbroomcloset, iamadequate1, and others who share their views and posting habits.

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🌻 @hexcrystals.bsky.social · Jun 24

(also if i just unfollowed you and refollowed you it’s bc i was trying to unfollow all the arcane accounts that i now follow from my other bsky lmao sorry) (also if i de-mutualed you it’s again bc we are mutuals elsewhere now)

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🌻 @hexcrystals.bsky.social · Jun 24

so if you're sat thinking 'oh shit i thought i was the only one', please know you are absolutely not alone in being sad and tired.

anyway! as you were have a lovely evening x

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🌻 @hexcrystals.bsky.social · Jun 24

playing in a space where my friends have already packed up and left or they're quiet bc they daren't post anything bc they can't be arsed with the inevitable puritanical vagueposting that results.

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🌻 @hexcrystals.bsky.social · Jun 24

yes i've blocked them (and earned some vagueposts about how blocking is akin to ostracising and bullying people in the process). but they're all over the place, adding paragraphs of self righteous chastisement to every post they disagree with multiple times a day, and i don't want to keep

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