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so like... i know that tumblr is famously the home of piss on the poor reading comprehension and that there will always be people who use their inability/refusal to read tone as license to act however they want online but it's still a little incredible to me that people saw THIS post of mine and took it as not only a serious statement of fact, but a malicious attempt to misinform the public and an open invitation for earnest discourse, hostility, mockery, accusation, and condescension.
(note the muted notifications lol)
like....i would have thought that my use of the term "spoon brain" would be enough for most people to understand that this is me playfully dunking on the people around me and myself in a facetious aside about my jaded REACTION to a sensational piece of (now debunked yet widely reported and still unretracted) mainstream news about human brains...but apparently not! i posted this off the cuff in two seconds, without tags, for the maximum intended audience of my mutuals and followers who were online at the time, and all of them easily understood my tone and intent and gave the handful of notes i expected. about a week later a bunch of tonedeaf strangers found it, took it literally, and blew it up into tens of thousands of notes of bad faith discourse and acted in ways i'm still cringing about, but that really has nothing to do with me. the absurdity of this reaction is clear to anyone who knows me, has followed me for more than two seconds, or has even a passing familiarity with the concept of sarcasm, so there's nothing really here for me to defend or apologise for. i'm mainly writing this for anyone who comes to my blog because the contrived discourse has them feeling feisty. before you act up in the notes or send me another snide or combative anon please let me remind you that i am a human being with feelings and there is only so much second hand embarrassment i can take lmfao