So this is bizarre...
For context: A couple months ago, this person was upset because they'd been misgendered by simmers in various comments and such around the internets. I wrote a very polite and sympathetic comment on their post about it, trying to be helpful, in which I basically said, "Being misgendered sucks, but given that Sims fandom seems to be majority-female, it's not surprising that people would innocently make an assumption, given that not everyone looks at profiles before they comment on something, blah blah." (I don't remember exactly what I said and can't look because they deleted the comment, but that is the gist.) And then I ran a poll to see if my impression that Sims fandom is majority-female was correct because I was curious. (And it is majority-female by a wide margin, at least according to my unscientific and not-at-all-statistically-significant poll. LOL )
Apparently this person was mightily offended by my claim that Sims fandom is majority-female and even more offended that I dared to take a poll, because then I got a whole entire shitload of xenophobic and misogynistic nonsense from the person, in both multiple mentions (that I couldn't reply to) and private messages, which is yet another reason (of many) why I now pretty much ignore the latter because I don't need that nonsense in my face. They'd also blocked me from commenting on their posts and, as I said, deleted the first comment I made to them. Which is fine. Anyone's free to block someone else in any way for whatever reason, and they're free to block/moderate comments as they see fit. I had no intention of commenting on their posts in the future, so it didn't matter.
But then today, many weeks later, out of nowhere, not having said a word to or about this person since the initial...thing...I get notifications about these mentions:
So I guess the first flood of nonsense wasn't enough? I don't know if this will be it or if this is just the start of another flood or if there will be another gap in time and then another thing. All I know is that I apparently live rent-free in the mind of this one person on the other side of the planet, which is fucking hilarious. This is the best laugh I've had in a while, seriously. Which probably says something about the lack of WTFery in my life at the moment.
PS: If you know who this person is - and I suspect that many of you will, from things some of you have shared -- please please please do NOT go and say stuff to them. I mean that very sincerely. Not only would it accomplish nothing, but that's not what this is about at all. This is all about the WTF kind of lulz.
Anyway, I'mma go build something now, I think.
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I will never understand people who think it's cringe to go through someone's whole blog and like old posts. This isn't Instagram. It's not a faux pas to do that here. I personally really like it. I see someone liking my old stuff and I just imagine walking around with them showing off my posts. Notification. "Oh you like that one? I like that one too." Notification. "Haha oh you found that one. I remember that." Notification. "Oooh good choice! That's probably the best one on here." For me, it's a fun way to relive my old content from someone else's perspective and it makes me really happy to see someone enjoying my stuff. Never feel bad about doing that! Be free, my friends!
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