That's it. I've had enough. From now on, if I follow you, and you post UNTAGGED FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S OR ANIMATRONICS (such as: salem the cat from sabrina, Labrynth, or anything of the sort.) I am unfollowing you. This is my last warning. It's in my rules.
Alright, if anyone needs me, I'm gonna be MIA for a bit.
In all honesty, spread through more than one fandom I'm seeing too many things that just infuriate me and I know that's when it's time for me to step back.
I don't know how long it'll be. It may be a day or two, it may be a few weeks. I probably won't be active at all in the fandoms I was previously and keep this as more of a general/reblog thing. I don't know. I'm pretty fed up with things, though. I'm turning off my ask box until then, as well.
If you want to know why, you can hit the read more.
I don't like that everything is treated like it has to have a safety on it. I don't like that you can't point out the flaws in an argument without being told your attacking someone opinion. I don't really like that intelligent conversation actually gets shoved aside in favor of these things. In all honestly, while I was using this as a platform to have fun and interesting fandom discussions, those are fewer and further between -- fun debate has been replaced with things that aren't of the sort.
For me, it's not a healthy fandom environment at all (not just for one specific fandom, this is something that runs rampant in a lot of them, even if I am only vocal in a couple). Truthfully, at 25 years old, it's hard to even argue with people who are quite literally like, a decade younger than me. It's kind of an unfair fight and hardly worth it.
The idea that just because someone has an opinion means they can't be wrong is, quite honestly, bullshit -- especially if an opinion is based on selective fact. There's a mentality that everyone needs to, or deserves to be coddled that I don't agree with.
But further, the fact that I get attacked for using my blog as I please -- be that reblogging things, enjoying the ships I like, or providing counter arguments (which I have always tried to keep away from personal attacks or anything aside from looking at things from an objective scale). It's still my blog, it's still mine to use however I damn well please. And yes, there's a difference between pointing something out and anonymously being an asshole in someone's askbox. Sorry, I don't have time for that kind of shit. Not happening. If you don't like the things I have to say, you can unfollow me. I've never done anything as a ploy to gain followers, and while I appreciate the ones I do have, I am not holding a gun to anyone's head. Nobody is forcing you to be here or read my posts, so if it's so problematic
I've always maintained that if you make your opinion public (especially via fandom tags), you leave yourself open to ridicule. I'm not exempt from this, though it's all about approach.
So for now, I'm done. I know my limits, and I know when I'm getting too annoyed by things that ultimately have no bearing whatsoever on my life.
To this point, I've done my best to be patient, but I'm not really a very patient person at all. I need a break.
I'll be back eventually. I'll throw some stuff in my queue and be scarce until then. I know my blog is no longer what I set out to use it for when I came back to tumblr, and I know the atmosphere in my primary fandoms has changed in a way I feel is for the worse. Until I feel better, consider me MIA.
For those who are interested, since I've gotten a couple of messages.
Things will probably remain pretty scarce with me for the foreseeable future.
The fact of the matter is that tumblr is somewhere I need to spend less time. I'm not a terribly busy person, but the few things I need to do, including some of my more time-intensive hobbies that make me happy, aren't getting done because tumblr is really good at fueling my procrastination habits.
Certain situations have kind of gotten under my skin (which was probably obvious from the angry posts). Losing my ability to curb my frustration always means I need to step back and not be near things for a while. Time to refresh, y'know?
So I'll be taking care of my other stuff. I'm just under two months away from a major vacation, and I'm pretty much the one planning it since the fiance is a very busy man who is busting his ass to ensure we'll have a good amount of "fun money" on hand for the trip. And because I am particular about things, a looot of planning is going into it.
I'm not going to disappear completely. Admittedly, I thought about letting my queue empty and just leaving tumblr like I usually do, but I've made too many good friends and acquaintances to just jump ship.
I'll keep queuing up posts, and when I have time/energy, I'll probably write up longer posts, continue my 30 days meme and just let it roll on my queue. Same with asks. I'll try to get to them, but they'll probably also get thrown there, so if you don't get a response, it's probably just because of that. So I'll be checking stuff once or twice a day, but not terribly active for a while. I'm not sure for how long. Maybe a couple of weeks, maybe not until after my vacation. Depends on how I feel!
Untracking the Hakuouki tags until everyone stops spamming it with dub thoughts.
Everyone is entitled to their thoughts but it's the same repetitive thing over and over and honestly the sort of thing I feel is better left off the tags, as it really adds nothing.
It means unless something crops up on my dash or I write my own posts, Haku reblogs will probably be sparse for a while. I'm getting entirely too frustrated between that, unsourced art, and people posting things that are literally just blatant spoilers, personal posts that also add nothing of value, or opinions that add to rude thoughts I'm not looking for when I want to find fun things for my fandom, it's best I step away.
I'm pretty fed up and frustrated right now, and this is a fandom I come from loving dearly and NOT feeling this way about, so I'm pretty disappointed it's coming to this.
HIJIKATA TOSHIZOU = HISTORY, HAKUOUKI, PMK, ANY OTHER SHINSENGUMI THING EVER
OKITA SOUGO = GINTAMA
OKITA SOUJI = HISTORY, HAKUOUKI, PMK, ANY OTHER SHINSENGUMI THING EVER
KONDOU ISAO = GINTAMA
KONDOU ISAMI = HISTORY, HAKUOUKI, PMK, ANY OTHER SHINSENGUMI THING EVER
YAMAZAKI SAGURU = GINTAMA
YAMAZAKI SUSUMU = HISTORY, HAKUOUKI, PMK, ANY OTHER SHINSENGUMI THING EVER
Please keep this in mind when you are tagging posts with any of these characters in it, thank you. They are not the same (unless Souji is not a bazooka-wielding lunatic and Toshizou has an obsession with mayo that I missed somewhere).