#you're misleading people

[kasumingo]

Got blocked by the OP of the diabetes post by saying that sugar IS considered one of the factors in type 2 diabetes 🥴

And it is super important to take it into consideration because eating refined sugar freely and drinking high fructose syrups and syrup-spiced drinks WILL fuck you up and potentially lead to life-threatening conditions in the long run

And that doesn’t mean cutting off sugar completely but be mindful what you put in your body lmao - you *do* need carbohydrates but carbohydrates do not mean white sugar and corn syrup - and your body can convert them from other sources AND healthier sugars

Feed yourself the best quality foods just like you’d your pets and loved ones

[hedwig221b]

hey, so i need some advice on ao3 etiquette, and was hoping for your opinion -

i posted a fic recently and got a bunch of comments (nice problems and so on)

i'm wondering if answering all of them is like, 'in bad taste' ?

on one hand i want to let these 5-8 people know i'm happy they enjoyed the story,

on the other hand it maybe makes the fic look more popular than it is - which is maybe misleading ...

any thoughts?

Hi, anon!

Well, I try to answer every comment I get, because the person took their time to type it down and send it, and the least I can do is show my gratitude.

People sort their fics in all different ways: hits, kudos, comments; they make ridiculous ass formulas to count what's worth reading or not. If you try to fit into everyone's standard, you're gonna loose yourself. Like, so what if there's a lot of comments? What are people going to accuse you of, being kind? Please.

If you want to answer every comment, do so.

[rabbitindisguise]

man I hate that the only options for fashion are

make it yourself

thrift

have lots of money

what if I just want to buy new clothes that fit with minimal effort?? what then

[sirenium]

I hate being loveless. Send post.

[accursedthing]

Tbh I kind of hate those "NOT the same person. ARE the same person" Kingdom Hearts memes, not cause there's no humor to them but because most of the explanations for these things aren't actually that difficult, it's just possession or clones or spiritual connections most of the time, which are pretty common in fantasy stories (some of them like the Nobodies are kind of a can of worms but also not hard to understand in context and ANY fantasy story with multiple installments is going to have stuff like that), and yet people who aren't familiar with the series use these images all the time to support the running idea that Kingdom Hearts is like. Impossible to follow and makes no sense. Which I, of course, don't like because at its core it's just people calling a thing I like stupid. And I WILL take it too seriously because I have the kind of autism that makes you deranged about Kingdom Hearts

[supercantaloupe]

okay i get what you're trying to say but the arab conquest of the levant happened in the seventh century ce

[triplecreature]

Specific beloathed behaviors: people misinterpreting something in the most uncharitable way and responding by immediately getting vitriolic over something you weren't actually saying, then doubling down when it's revealed that they threw a tantrum over nothing. "Well it really SOUNDED LIKE you were saying something horrible! It's your fault for being unclear! I'm really tired/depressed/sick/etc. today! How was I supposed to know that you weren't actually taking a jab at me??"

Guess what! It's actually totally fine that you misunderstood the intended message the first time—maybe it really was a bit misleading—because we can use these game-changing conversational strategies called "giving the benefit of the doubt" "asking for clarification" and my personal favorite "simply not jumping to nasty personal insults or violent threats even if someone really did say something unpleasant" !!! This isn't a criticism of your reading/listening comprehension, this is a criticism of the fact that in your heart you believe that people can deserve to be berated and dehumanized over minor conflicts, and are quick to do so!!!

[thecindercrow]

seeing a post you have some notes on but not wanting to come off like an ass on someone's fun

[sigynsilica]

I'm beginning to think that if you have to google what a social cue is and when reading through the Wikipedia article on social cues you're like...

No. No. People can't actually do this. People can't look at a person and know that much about them. This can't be real. Someone hijacked Wiki again. This is fake.

MAYBE JUST MAYBE YOU DONT UNDERSTAND SOCIAL CUES AND YOU IN FACT ARE THE ONE WHO IS MISTOOKEN AND NOT WIKIPEDIA

[maddy-ferguson]

thinking about how the person who made that post implying that spotify wrapped was released early this year to overshadow the international day of solidarity with the palestinian people was like "why are you so eager to defend a big company with a rich ceo" when people told them it was actually not released early at all...why are you defending the pizzeria owners i've already decided they're trafficking children

[spleen9000]

natgeo called gartersnakes nonvenomous in the year 2020 I am going to yell

[cruelsister-moved2]

actually insane that multiple people felt the need to be like ummm op this doesn't actually prove that no lesbian has ever done anything wrong in their life so my lesbophobia is completely justified😘!!!!!! proves my point exactly if the fact that the largest dataset we currently have says that lesbians are the most likely sexuality to say they support trans people and instead you want to refocus on how lesbians are the problem. like read the room. ask yourself where that urge comes from. ask yourself why it makes you uncomfortable to think that unless you're a lesbian yourself, transphobia in the lesbian community probably isn't the #1 hill you should be dying on. look inside yourself 💜💜💜

[misqnon]

im usually a very pro liberal blocking on the internet for no reason but I get so pissed off when ppl block me lmao. 90% sure I just got blocked for replying to a post that was very obviously AI art with "guys this is ai art" and got blocked + my reply removed. literally everyone who reblogged it was tagging it as fanart 😐

[amerasdreams]

Wounded pride is a very dangerous thing. Whether you're a country or a politician.

A narrative of victimhood when you're actually in a position to do a lot of damage.

[goldenpinof]

it’s all good but update danielhowell dot com challenge

[everymlmhybrid]

ALSO @ anon from a few weeks ago who asked about my fic read that ↓↓↓ bc somehow i explained it way better this time idk what happened to me last time