Guess I'll Be the Terrible Person Then

[unspeakablehorror]

"If you don't reblog this you're a terrible person!"

"you need to update this fic now!"

"fandom is dying because not enough people comment/kudos/reblog"

Hmmmm, maybe trying to shame people you don't know anything about isn't the best way to foster community. And maybe trying to shame people you *do* know something about isn't the best way to say you respect and care about them. Maybe this kind of thing makes me angry because I've seen the damage it can do to certain kinds of people, and also because it says something about how you, the person saying this, view the purpose and place of other people (not as your equals, not as people who may have many other things going on, but as people who exist only for whatever purposes *you* deem worthwhile, on whatever terms *you* deem acceptable).

ramble tags: about me, fandom, though the first one isn't limited to fandom, and not okay when others do it either