3:18pm August 19, 2014

➸ I don't actually have any obligation to post anything right now.

youneedacat:

I just realized that while running around the house trying to deal with the lung infection and the antibiotic-induced explosive diarrhea and the nausea and everything else going on.

I have no actual obligation to write any post for any person for any reason right now.

I can write things if I…

I’m glad you noticed that. I’ve been wanting to tell you in regard to your promises to answer asks that you don’t actually have to answer asks.

Yeah I actually got an ask recently that said “Have you apologized yet for saying [widgetish misinterpretation of something I said ages ago]?” And I really do want to answer that question, but it’s going to be a really long post, and I can’t do it today. And just the presumption that an apology would be forthcoming has got me a bit pissed off, because what I actually said didn’t mean what the person thought I meant, and I’m not going to apologize for the opinions I do actually hold. But I am going to explain them. Someday. Not today.

The person in question apparently really likes everything I have to say, except I said one thing that really offended them and they had to stop reading me or recommending my work because I said that one really offensive thing. Which, I mean, that’s their choice. But it’s a mentality that pisses me off, because I don’t care who you are, you have shitty opinions about something. Everyone has wrongheaded shitty opinions about something. So even if I were as wrongheaded and shitty as the person assumes my opinion was, I don’t think that should mean that the rest of my writing is useless or something. Because by those standards, nobody can live up to those standards. And it’s a crappy way to treat people. It demands a level of perfection that’s impossible.

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