#i'm starting to understand monty python's argument services

[roxannepolice]

Unpopular opinion, but haters (of texts! not performers or creators) actually fulfill an important role in the fandom ecosystem. They're the headsmen of medieval villages. Shunned, understandably but hypocritically, by society (really, headsmen usually lived outside of the walls, the job was passed within the family because no one would willingly take it, and the only shot at marriage were sentenced criminals) but every now and then called up to perform the dirty job no one else would while the crowd pours out all of their darkest instincts at the person about to die so they can feel the social structure reinforced and go back to their lives in blissful hypocrisy while the headsman goes back to running a brothel.

Of course, in a medieval society the enlightened me would be a plucky townsgirl posing as a boy so she can join the university and above such vulgar crowdthink. So it stands to reason watching a man scream and curse about an episode I believe deserves more criticism genuinely lightened the pressure on my chest and I can now go back to enjoying the stuff I like.

It's possible no one will ever tell you that, haters, but so long as your rants are about the text not the people and you tag them appropriately - you are recognised.