So here is a thing I say with reasonable frequency: don't yuck other people's yum. And apparently, some people don't know what this means.

It does not mean "you are not allowed to dislike things." It does not mean "you are not allowed to tweet or talk about how you dislike things." It means "please do not SPECIFICALLY DIRECT that dislike at someone you know likes those things."

I hate--like, gagging, spitting, might throw up on your table, HATE--bell peppers. It's cool if you love them! I do not judge. But I hate them. The flavor, the smell, the texture. I hate them so much I don't even like to look at them.

If I want to start every day by tweeting "September 17, 2020: Still hate bell peppers," that is both my prerogative and not yucking anyone's yum. I am not forcing you to follow my Twitter. I am not a legal requirement. I am a human with an opinion.

If I want to start every day by @-ing someone random to say "I hate bell peppers," I need a new hobby, and also I'm an asshole, because I'm going to hit people who love them and don't need to have their tastes insulted.

I know it can feel very personal when someone expresses a dislike for things you love. There was a period where @vixy had to regularly stop me from trying to fight the entire Brony community because of their casual nastiness toward G1 My Little Ponies.

It felt VERY VERY PERSONAL to me! And so I'd get snarly, and people wouldn't understand why! I did (and do) fight individual Bronys who made those statements directly to me, because once they did that, they were yucking my yum and hence fair game.

And there is a huge, huge difference between "I do not like your opinion about plastic horses, who have no feelings or rights" and "I do not like your opinion about actual human beings."

If someone's yum is being a bigoted shitbag, please, yuck away. I'm talking about people liking things, not people being assholes.

Sometimes people will like, or dislike, things that seem ridiculous to you. It happens to me all the time.

I am: non-Christian, a fan of Halloween, and grew up poor in America.

I don't like Christmas.

This is incomprehensible to some people, much as people who don't like Halloween are incomprehensible to me. As a Halloween girl, being told my holiday has already been canceled, and seeing Christmas stuff pushed into the stores by capitalists desperate to make up...

...the perceived loss of all those in-person shopping days, well. I don't like Christmas in a normal year. I REALLY don't like Christmas in 2020.

If seeing someone non-specifically dislike Christmas is gonna yuck your tum, maybe my timeline is not a safe place for you.

I am not going to start @-ing people to go CHRISTMAS SUCKS SANTA IS A TOOL OF THE OLIGARCHY!! unless they tweet me first to tell me how Halloween really deserved to lose those shopping days. But the sentiment will be here.

Your timeline is your space. I don't get to tell you what to put there. Not even if what you choose to put there is about how much my choices suck.