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1. What would prevent you from following someone?
The following counts for both preventing me from following but also as being a reason for me to unfollow, but blogs that make it obvious that they appreciate reassurance and praise on a relatively common basis. I don’t think that I need to specify frequency more specifically than that, as I think most of us have been familiar with at least one of those blogs, but in essence, ones that make it very apparent that it’s going well beyond reassurance or even constructive criticism. In that light, I’ve also resorted to a tendency of unfollowing and/or avoiding blogs that post about lack of interaction and going even beyond that— man, this takes me back to the TVD days, but make posts with the intention or outcome of guilt tripping people for not interacting with them. I don’t know about others, but while I’m very for helping people out and loving to do so, there’s a line. And honestly, we’ve all been in the situation of having a new blog or muse, even starting in a new fandom, sanity knows that I’ve done it quite a fair bit of times, some very intimidating fandoms and some less so, but if you make an effort, I promise that people, unless they’re less than decent individuals, will interact with you. But yes, seeing either of those will demotivate me immensely. I’m patient, but there are things I simply don’t feel like witnessing any longer than I have to, anymore.
Name any three things about the rpc that bother you.
I’m a very firm believer that the line between fiction and reality is a whole lot thicker than people like to make it out to be. What bugs me, is that people who claim this and similar are the ones being labeled as absolutely mad or crazy? While what I’m doing is essentially stating that, let’s speak for myself here (though would hope many would have a tendency to agree), I believe people to be somewhat decent enough of human beings with at least some common knowledge as to identify that authors authors don’t have some need to indulge in horrible nightmares of fantasies when they walk out of their front door. I like to believe that people understand that fiction is fantasy, because if they don’t— then I think humanity has a lot more problems than we think it does.
This one’s actually very short and incredible simple: public addressment of people’s private problems. Listen, your private problems with someone are your private problems with someone. And any discontent over private concerns do not need any public vendetta or showings of any sort of spite. Tumblr is not Jerry Springer, no matter how much it seems to act as if it wants to be.
This growing occurence to want to take a canon character and ‘change’ them because people don’t believe that they were ‘done justice’ or that the author ‘didn’t write them the right way’. Here’s my thing in regards to this— an author wrote a character a specific way, leave them be. Because here’s a thing, change even the tiniest of details, no matter of major or minor, it will drastically change the character throughout their years of existence. You can’t just take out an event that happened to them or any essence of their being, because a character is, pretty much, a human being on a page; what counts for us in theory, counts for them as well. So everything from their opinions, to their actions and words, have molded them into who they are at the end of the franchise they’re in. And if something drew you to them in the first place, that is because somehow, they touched you or caught your interest. And you know what that means? That you liked the character in the first place. It’s just, in a place that likes to talk of how important things are, major or minor, people sure seem to think that changing aspects of a life is quite the insignificant matter.
I don’t generally share my salt, but when I’m asked to… // @ircnsmile
