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If I had to translate the first line of "The Stranger" for some reason, despite not knowing any French, I would render it as, "Yep, my mommy died lol today or maybe yesterday idk"

Oh, you're not going to tell me about all that boring David Copperfield kind of crap, huh? Gonna cut to the chase, huh? Well, thank you, you oh wait you're actually going to tell me all this other extraneous detail about your day frick damn it

The opening line to "The Catcher in the Rye" is low-key hilarious. Yes, I really do want to hear about it, smartass, that's why I'm reading this book.

@wigglytuffitout That's amazing.

@wigglytuffitout Tbh I had multiple instances of Tumblr trolls screeching at me that I was a superfan of things I either had a mild interest in, or didn't even care about, and most of the times it was completely irrelevant to the conversation anyway.

Especially anime avatars screaming at me that I loved anime too much & wasn't really trans

They could only understand passionate opinions as being something attached to video games and cartoons and things like that. Not, idk, nonfictional things?

@wigglytuffitout They were just adamant that this person needed to be punished by being fired, even though they had very little to do with the scam, and got duped by the scammer as well.

Obviously, the only reason I would defend this person was because I was...obsessed with a cartoon that I'm not even sure was out yet?

@wigglytuffitout At some point, a bunch of people were trying to get a 19 year old fired from a show because they had been "hired" at 14 by Kickstarter scammers Tumblr threw money at (the officer and bear cub thing).

When I expressed concern, I got a bunch of nerd-raging trolls screaming at me that I cared too much about cartoons at my age and needed to shut up.

Meanwhile, they're out there trying to ruin a teenager's career before it even got started. They see everything as about fandom.

@wigglytuffitout Omg. The shipping wars.

I used to enjoy seeing lots of people talk about trashy pop culture from a political perspective, but somewhere along the line it something like the 1980s Satanic Panic over D&D.

@wigglytuffitout Reasons why I haven't been back to Tumblr since last winter. People will get absolutely vicious about the most petty things, then pretend it's about a political cause when it transparently is them just nerd-raging.

Like idk what you *think* a Puerto Rican or a trans person should look like, but based on the TV I watched growing up, I could hazard a few guesses.

People have told me I don't "look" this or that, and it's like, that's because you have fucking stereotypes in your head about what I should look like, Sharon.

They were in this damn school and didn't know a poor kid despite being surrounded by poor kids.

And wanted to take up the mission of being the voice for folks they weren't even fucking in community with.

Conversations with rich white queers often feel like the time a student club hosted a hunger banquet at my old CUNY.

The folks who thought this was a great idea were surrounded by first gen college students, poor kids on financial aid, immigrants, more than a few people who were homeless and attending class out of desperation, and they wanted to haughtily lecture us on what it meant to go hungry.

I also had a very nice art teacher running the club who told her to go fuck herself.

They're not even my worst art teacher, because in high school I had one who tried to sell a mural the art club I was in made.

Lmao, I open up my old email account, and the first thing I see is a RECENT email from my least favorite art professor, the one who taught "advanced drawing" as a conceptual class because they were more interested in videography

They forced everyone in the class to sign up to their mailing list, way way back in 2010

So it's about their new art show and ends it with "Love, Firstname Lastname" like this mass email is to their closest personal friends and family.

I fucking can't.

Too much of my life has been wasted taking care of racist dumbass older people.

Every time I've been able to get away and tell them to eat shit, my life has improved.