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Hello, and welcome to another installment in the ongoing series Tris Explains Why Something That Has Bugged Her For Six Years Has Bugged Her For Six Years, or, as I like to tag it, "eat all of our shirts." And our sponsor, Bender Bending Rodriguez.
I will start out reasonable before I get to the swearing: life is short and difficult, and if you're me, that's all she wrote. So I absolutely agree that love should be prioritized over hatred, that dwelling on the negative is generally an unfun way to be, and that life, liberty, and the pursuit of awesome should be cherished.
I also agree, as I think most reasonable people would, that I am not the goddamn boss of anybody but myself and I don't get to decide what other people do with their time for their own entertainment, nor does it generally affect me one way or another, nor am I actually worried about their well-being insofar as it relates to watching TV.
And yet, from one generation of "reasonable" fans from another is passed down this immortally infuriating "question" (which is never posed from curiosity so much as appalled, righteous injury):
WHY DON'T YOU JUST STOP WATCHING IT, IF YOU HATE IT SO MUCH???
Never mind that this could all be explained through Moff's Law. I will tell you why. I will tell you all sorts of reasons that could be a person's reasons why, out of many more that I'm not privy to! So just... stand there in your getting-told-why and get told why! (Note: I'm using "you" and "I" as the opposing parties here for simplicity's sake; I don't mean to imply that the reader is automatically That Fan and in a strange twist I haven't actually been in the "I" position for quite some time! But I still remember what it feels like. So I'm going to answer the question anyway, from ~memory.)
( because you're not the goddamn boss of me. )
This is not about people who go out of their way to harsh another's buzz or stir shit. The question isn't "why are you such a dick," (which would be another thing entirely) it's just "why do you keep watching?" I don't know, why do you fucking care? Because it makes you sad to know I exist? I'm... probably gonna keep existing anyway, sry2say. What will you do for me if I do this for you? Will you stop concern trolling about all the better things I could be doing with my life than having an opinion contrary to yours? Okay, then, let's talk trade.
Hello, and welcome to another installment in the ongoing series Tris Explains Why Something That Has Bugged Her For Six Years Has Bugged Her For Six Years, or, as I like to tag it, "eat all of our shirts." And our sponsor, Bender Bending Rodriguez.
I will start out reasonable before I get to the swearing: life is short and difficult, and if you're me, that's all she wrote. So I absolutely agree that love should be prioritized over hatred, that dwelling on the negative is generally an unfun way to be, and that life, liberty, and the pursuit of awesome should be cherished.
I also agree, as I think most reasonable people would, that I am not the goddamn boss of anybody but myself and I don't get to decide what other people do with their time for their own entertainment, nor does it generally affect me one way or another, nor am I actually worried about their well-being insofar as it relates to watching TV.
And yet, from one generation of "reasonable" fans from another is passed down this immortally infuriating "question" (which is never posed from curiosity so much as appalled, righteous injury):
WHY DON'T YOU JUST STOP WATCHING IT, IF YOU HATE IT SO MUCH???
Never mind that this could all be explained through Moff's Law. I will tell you why. I will tell you all sorts of reasons that could be a person's reasons why, out of many more that I'm not privy to! So just... stand there in your getting-told-why and get told why! (Note: I'm using "you" and "I" as the opposing parties here for simplicity's sake; I don't mean to imply that the reader is automatically That Fan and in a strange twist I haven't actually been in the "I" position for quite some time! But I still remember what it feels like. So I'm going to answer the question anyway, from ~memory.)
( because you're not the goddamn boss of me. )
This is not about people who go out of their way to harsh another's buzz or stir shit. The question isn't "why are you such a dick," (which would be another thing entirely) it's just "why do you keep watching?" I don't know, why do you fucking care? Because it makes you sad to know I exist? I'm... probably gonna keep existing anyway, sry2say. What will you do for me if I do this for you? Will you stop concern trolling about all the better things I could be doing with my life than having an opinion contrary to yours? Okay, then, let's talk trade.