Alright, I’m done. I’m not going to discuss who is doing this or why, because I have no idea why, but I’d like to reference back to this tweet.

I said it for a very specific reason, and that’s because whenever I, or anyone else posts an opinion about a character, things happen.
And nearly every single time I do this, I get screenshots (and it’s not just me, it’s happened to other people as well) of certain accounts vague tweeting, not about their OWN ideas about the character, but about why mine are wrong, or not properly thought through.
I have ZERO problem with disagreements. I don’t expect anyone to be obligated to feel the same way I do, because it’s a fictional story. Absolutely everything about it is subjective.
But there is a polite way to discuss, or to disagree. I do it with my friends all the time. I’m a fucking law student for god’s sake, I LOVE a good argument.

But I don’t respect someone that puts their opinion above others or qualifies themselves as a “better fan” than others.
No one knows the characters or the show better than the other. If someone had only watched season one of the anime and came up to me and said, “oh, I dunno, I think Akutagawa is a cutie pie” I would gag a little, but their. Opinion. Is still. Worthy. Of. My. Respect.
And it’s vague, and it’s catty, and I always have multiple people running to me to let me know, because they’re upset on my behalf or they’re angry said person.

And if you’re wondering, “Emily, why don’t you have these people blocked?”

The hilarious part is that I do.
And the first time this happened, I was hurt really badly. Because it wasn’t just vague tweeting about my analysis, it was vague tweeting about a story I’ve worked so hard on, one that means a lot to me personally, and saying it was over hyped.

And I was a smaller account then.
This was a person I followed, and a person I really admired.

It stung, and when it’s your own writing, something you put so much of your time to, you take it personally.

But I didn’t say anything. I was polite when I got multiple curious cats about it, and unfollowed.
Then I kept on seeing QRTs of them and it made me remember it, and I kept getting sad, so I muted them. Eventually when I kept seeing them anyway, I blocked.

And this person is still very talented. I respect them as a creator.
Their opinions and HCs used to really intrigue me when I saw them on my TL. I’m sure that hasn’t changed.

But we all need to act like adults. Don’t like my analysis? Post your own. Think my stories are over hyped? Write your own, see if it gets as much hype.
I say that, aware of the fact that these people already do. And you know what?

Even though I am genuinely pissed off, I would never publicly criticize someone else’s work. Because that’s a fucked up thing to do.
This isn’t intended to be anything other than me pointing out a behavior I dislike. I don’t want any discourse with the people involved, but apparently they still see my tweets, so if they do come across this, they just leave me alone. Yell about me in your DMs instead.
Because I promise, there are plenty of other people who don’t like me or agree with me, I’m sure you guys can have lots of fun—maybe you can even make a GC about it.

I just want to stop getting screenshots that make me upset and hurt all over again.
To all of the people who have been making me aware of this behavior, thank you for caring about me and being upset on my behalf, I love you all. In the future, I just don’t want to know anymore, because I doubt this is going to make it stop.
I have no intention of speaking on this again, because I don’t want to be seen as a negative, angry person. I’m upset that I even made this thread, and I’ll be deleting it.

I genuinely don’t have issues with 95% of the people on here, and I Twitter has been a positive—
Experience for me. And I don’t want to be seen as “mean” or as someone who’s always involved in a fight, I fucking hate this.

I’m just tired of silently swallowing up the anger and moving on.
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