#this is about fandom

[allisondraste]

Acknowledging that “critical thinking” means “thinking about things in a thorough way from different perspectives” and not “finding every flaw in a thing and fixating on it until all the joy is gone” is so liberating.

It’s supposed to be about intellectual curiosity, not about finding ways to devalue things that aren’t perfect or that we personally dislike.

[ace-spadespoken]

It feels like a lot of people forgot about the "write your own stories no matter how far it runs from what inspires you" message from chapter 4 very quickly

[creatrixarcanum]

Ok everyone. In light of a dozen different things going on I need you all to repeat after me.

"I just don't like it. It's not my thing."

"But its Bad!" Nope

"But its evil!" Nope

"It should be..." Nope nope nope

When it comes to entertainment stop trying to justify your tastes. You can just not like things.

Even trying to say something is "objectively bad" is just a short skip in mindset away from it should be banned.

[mephist0phallus]

“I believe X” is a coherent and defensible rhetorical position. No matter how good it feels to tack on “because Y is dumb,” you are undermining your rhetorical position. Y-believers are not going to listen to you, and may retreat further into Y-defense not for any deep belief but because people don’t like being called morons. You can say that you’re not trying to reach skeptical audiences - that an inside-post is not a formal argument. However, one has to wonder how even sympathetic audiences feel about having their performance of X-belief measured, or their thoughts/work only brought up in reference to how stupid Y-belief is. And then people wonder why creation feels same-y and any measured view is invariably split into two increasingly disparate camps.

[pensbridge]

Congrats, your special interest is getting hated on 4-300 months past it's release. This is a compliment. Means you've been inducted into fandom heaven

[highlordofkrypton]

i'm not gonna make it 😭

[gothluke]

video essayists are either the creators of some of the most rich, niche content. or?? they are twitter demons reiterating mainstream, chronically online “hot takes”. there is no in-between.