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a lot of the hypocricy of tumblr’s “love” of weird things vs the backlash against actually weird people is actually pretty easy to understand. people care more about the aesthetic of “weird” in whatever form it takes more than “weird” in practice. it’s cool to make posts about quirky weird girls who aren’t actually real, but the second someone has an odd fetish likevore or inflation, or, like stuff i can’t even think of, it breaks that fantasy and forces it into reality
#people who refer to an abstract class of ‘freaks’ (adulatory) but then call actual people ‘freaks’ (derogatory) (c. hurricanelolita)
I just can’t get used to people using freak and weirdo as insults. It always reads like a joke at first because surely in the year 2023 no one could seriously think that being weird is bad? Right? In a world where basic is derogatory.
And on Tumblr no less! It’s like coming to ComicCon and shouting NERD! at random people. All you’re demonstrating is that you don’t belong. Your presence in fandom is transient. After all, you’ve got normal things to do. You aren’t the kind of weirdo who sticks around. Honestly, you seem kinda lost. The door is over there.
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