can people who love tros and are vocally defensive of it just not do the "i don& #39;t even care what the haters think! here& #39;s me subtweeting the hate about tros and talking about why it totally doesn& #39;t bother me, i don& #39;t give af" thing, it comes off really disingenuous

because if you& #39;re talking about how something doesn& #39;t totally bother you and you don& #39;t care...it indicates that it does bother you, in some way, otherwise it wouldn& #39;t be something you tweeted about. it gets a little obviously defensive after a while

and i know it might feel better to seem unaffected and like you& #39;re just blissfully enjoying your sw and flouncing on the haters, but it& #39;s ok to sincerely like something and be open that you don& #39;t like criticism of it or that it touches you personally. that& #39;s fine?

i still tweet about tros or talk about tros because it was something that affected me and i still have strong feelings about it, and i think about how i grew up on sw and leia my hero and compare that to my current thoughts all the time. it& #39;s just ok to admit that imo?

"look haters at how much i don& #39;t give a shit" just calls attention to how much you *do* give a shit. and it& #39;s ok to have an emotional reaction to criticism of something that you love or enjoy, even if it& #39;s just for a sec. i just don& #39;t get the "performatively not caring" thing ig.

(and yeah, this thread shows that i do care about what people say/do in sw fandom particularly wrt tros, because people being hypocritical and aggressive over others not liking a sw movie and comparing good faith criticism to reactionary harassment *seriously* bothers me.)