it’s hard posting on here, because people tend to skim over your sentences and reply to what they thought you said based on how attacked they felt by the 2-3 words they recognized, and then other people will reblog that version and say “hey this second person actually has a point”, and meanwhile you’re just crouched in front of your computer gripping your own head with blood coming out of your ears and nose and mouth and anus
I love descriptions like this because they do describe a very real experience on Tumblr, and yet of all the places I’ve tried to communicate with people in this world, Tumblr has this problem the least. Tumblr is the place where people are the most likely to actually read and understand an entire long piece of text. And on this scale “most likely” doesn’t mean much, but it’s night and day compared to the other end of the reading comprehension spectrum, occupied by (second place) Reddit and (first place) my boss’s email inbox